| 1 |  | Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) What It Takes To Move Forward | 4.14 28 votes |
| 2 |  | Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.13 36 votes |
| 3 |  | Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.02 561 votes |
| 4 |  | Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing | 4.01 239 votes |
| 5 |  | The Antlers Hospice | 3.98 125 votes |
| 6 |  | As Cities Burn Hell Or High Water | 3.89 195 votes |
| 7 |  | Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.86 111 votes |
| 8 |  | mewithoutYou It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all | 3.86 273 votes |
| 9 |  | The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come | 3.84 19 votes |
| 10 |  | Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.83 207 votes |
| 11 |  | Sholi Sholi | 3.83 46 votes |
| 12 |  | Tiny Vipers Life on Earth | 3.83 20 votes |
| 13 |  | The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love | 3.82 211 votes |
| 14 |  | Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 3.8 33 votes |
| 15 |  | Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 3.75 26 votes |
| 16 |  | The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.72 37 votes |
| 17 |  | Deerhunter Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP | 3.7 15 votes |
| 18 |  | Anchor & Braille Felt | 3.67 30 votes |
| 19 |  | Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 3.66 46 votes |
| 20 |  | Owen New Leaves | 3.65 13 votes |
| 21 |  | Akron/Family Set em Wild, Set em Free | 3.65 13 votes |
| 22 |  | The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.58 57 votes |
| 23 |  | Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 3.57 55 votes |
| 24 |  | Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light | 3.51 42 votes |
| 25 |  | Matt and Kim Grand | 3.5 34 votes |
| 26 |  | Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.48 144 votes |
| 27 |  | Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.44 153 votes |
| 28 |  | Beirut March of the Zapotec EP | 3.42 33 votes |
| 29 |  | Death Cab For Cutie The Open Door EP | 3.33 29 votes |
| 30 |  | The Cribs Ignore The Ignorant | 3.31 16 votes |
| 31 |  | Asobi Seksu Hush | 3.25 22 votes |
| 32 |  | Why? Eskimo Snow | 3.14 25 votes |
| 33 |  | ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead The Century of Self | 3.03 34 votes |