| Rank |
Artist |
Album |
Label |
| 1 |
RUN RIVER NORTH |
Drinking From A Salt Pond |
Nettwerk |
| 2 |
DAMIEN JURADO |
Visions Of Us On The Land |
Secretly Canadian |
| 3 |
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE |
Painting With |
Domino |
| 4 |
DIIV |
Is The Is Are |
Captured Tracks |
| 5 |
QUILT |
Plaza |
Mexican Summer |
| 6 |
ESPERANZA SPALDING |
Emily’s D+Evolution |
Concord |
| 7 |
JUNIOR BOYS |
Big Black Coat |
City Slang |
| 8 |
RA RA RIOT |
Need Your Light |
Barsuk |
| 9 |
YUCK |
Stranger Things |
Mame |
| 10 |
CRATER |
Talk To Me So I Can Fall Asleep |
Help Yourself |
| 11 |
HERON OBLIVION |
Heron Oblivion |
SUB POP |
| 12 |
SANTIGOLD |
99cents |
Atlantic |
| 13 |
PORCHES |
Pool |
Domino |
| 14 |
DAUGHTER |
Not To Disappear |
Glassnote |
| 15 |
LILY AND MADELEINE |
Keep It Together |
New West |
| 16 |
PRINCE RAMA |
Xtreme Now |
Carpark |
| 17 |
M. WARD |
More Rain |
Merge |
| 18 |
TEEN |
Love Yes |
Carpark |
| 19 |
THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN |
A Man Alive |
Ribbon |
| 20 |
JEZABELS |
Synthia |
MGM |
| 21 |
DEEP SEA DIVER |
Secrets |
High Beam |
| 22 |
POLICA |
United Crushers |
Mom And Pop |
| 23 |
CEU |
Tropix |
Six Degrees |
| 24 |
BIG PINK |
Empire Underground [EP] |
B3SCI |
| 25 |
EMMY THE GREAT |
Second Love |
Bella Union |
| 26 |
DEEP THROATS |
Good Bad Pretty |
Castle Face-Effeminate |
| 27 |
MARLON WILLIAMS |
Marlon Williams |
Liberation |
| 28 |
MINOTAURS |
Weird Waves |
Self-Released |
| 29 |
TOKIMONSTA |
Fovere |
Young Art |
| 30 |
VANESSA PETERS |
The Burden Of Unshakeable Proof |
Self-Released |
