| Rank |
Artist |
Recording |
Label |
|
| 1 |
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE |
Merriweather Post Pavilion |
Domino |
|
| 2 |
LOS CAMPESINOS! |
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed |
Arts And Crafts |
|
| 3 |
ANDREW BIRD |
Noble Beast |
Fat Possum |
|
| 4 |
DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO |
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today |
Todo Mundo-Todomundo |
|
| 5 |
A.C. NEWMAN |
Get Guilty |
Matador |
|
| 6 |
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS |
The Crying Light |
Secretly Canadian |
|
| 7 |
LONEY, DEAR |
Dear John |
Polyvinyl |
|
| 8 |
J. TILLMAN |
Vacilando Territory Blues |
Western Vinyl |
|
| 9 |
OTHER LIVES |
Other Lives |
TBD |
|
| 10 |
COTTON JONES |
Paranoid Cocoon |
Suicide Squeeze |
|
| 11 |
LOVE LANGUAGE |
The Love Language |
Bladen County |
|
| 12 |
NICKEL EYE |
The Time Of The Assassins |
Rykodisc |
|
| 13 |
SAM ROBERTS |
Love At The End Of The World |
Rounder |
|
| 14 |
PRIMAL STATIC |
Rising In The Bud |
Self-Released |
|
| 15 |
KILLERS |
Day And Age |
Island |
|
| 16 |
FAKE PROBLEMS |
It’s Great To Be Alive |
Side One Dummy |
|
| 17 |
ANATHALLO |
Canopy Glow |
Anticon |
|
| 18 |
THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS |
Animals |
Sargent House |
|
| 19 |
SICK OF SARAH |
Sick Of Sarah |
Adamant |
|
| 20 |
HER SPACE HOLIDAY |
XOXO Panda, And The New Kid Revival |
Mush |
|
| 21 |
GEMMA HAYES |
The Hollow Of Morning |
Second Motion |
|
| 22 |
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS |
You And I |
Frenchkiss |
|
| 23 |
THE SCRIPT |
The Script |
Epic |
|
| 24 |
DECEMBERISTS |
Always The Bridesmaid: A Singles Series |
Capitol |
|
| 25 |
LUCKY FONZ III |
Life Is Short |
MyStreetIsMine |
|
| 26 |
WELCOME WAGON |
Welcome To The Welcome Wagon |
Asthmatic Kitty |
|
| 27 |
CHARLES SPEARIN |
The Happiness Project |
Arts And Crafts |
|
| 28 |
RIVERS CUOMO |
Alone II: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo |
Geffen |
|
| 29 |
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN |
Working On A Dream |
Columbia |
|
| 30 |
BLOC PARTY |
Intimacy |
Atlantic |
