| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | M83 | Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming | Mute | |
| 2 | BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB | A Different Kind Of Fix | A&M-Octone | |
| 3 | BEIRUT | The Rip Tide | Pompeii | |
| 4 | PETER WOLF CRIER | Garden Of Arms | Jagjaguwar | |
| 5 | MATES OF STATE | Mountaintops | Barsuk | |
| 6 | DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. | It’s A Corporate World | Quite Scientific | |
| 7 | COLDPLAY | Mylo Xyloto | Capitol | |
| 8 | TRAMPLED BY TURTLES | Palomino | Banjodad | |
| 9 | ATMOSPHERE | The Family Sign | Rhymesayers | |
| 10 | DESSA | Castor, The Twin | Doomtree | |
| 11 | KOOKS | Junk Of The Heart | Astralwerks | |
| 12 | DAWES | Nothing Is Wrong | ATO | |
| 13 | GANGSTAGRASS | Lightning On The Strings, Thunder On The Mic | Self-Released | |
| 14 | BLACK KEYS | “Lonely Boy” [single] | Nonesuch | |
| 15 | FOSTER THE PEOPLE | Torches | Columbia | |
| 16 | HALEY BONAR | Golder | Afternoon | |
| 17 | MASON JENNINGS | Minnesota | Thirty Tigers | |
| 18 | KASABIAN | Velociraptor! | RCA | |
| 19 | PACK A.D. | Unpersons | Mint | |
| 20 | PORTUGAL. THE MAN | In The Mountain In The Cloud | Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic | |
| 21 | DUM DUM GIRLS | Only In Dreams | Sub Pop | |
| 22 | BON IVER | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar | |
| 23 | FRUIT BATS | Tripper | Sub Pop | |
| 24 | FEIST | Metals | Interscope | |
| 25 | BLITZEN TRAPPER | American Goldwing | Sub Pop | |
| 26 | EMOT | Make You Electric | Shock and Audio | |
| 27 | WASHED OUT | Within And Without | Sub Pop | |
| 28 | SKI LODGE | Ski Lodge [EP] | Dovecote | |
| 29 | DONORA | Boyfriends, Girlfriends | Rostrum | |
| 30 | KATHLEEN EDWARDS | Voyageur | Rounder |
