| 1. |  | Panda Bear | Person Pitch |
| 2. |  | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible |
| 3. |  | The National | Boxer |
| 4. |  | Elliott Smith | New Moon |
| 5. |  | Spoon | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| 6. |  | The White Stripes | Icky Thump |
| 7. |  | LCD Soundsystem | Sound of Silver |
| 8. |  | The Twilight Sad | Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters |
| 9. |  | Peter Bjorn and John | Writer's Block |
| 10. |  | Of Montreal | Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? |
| 11. |  | The New Pornographers | Challengers |
| 12. |  | The Besnard Lakes | The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse |
| 13. |  | Andrew Bird | Armchair Apocrypha |
| 14. |  | Wilco | Sky Blue Sky |
| 15. |  | Bright Eyes | Cassadaga |
| 16. |  | Arctic Monkeys | Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| 17. |  | Patrick Wolf | The Magic Position |
| 18. |  | Elvis Perkins | Ash Wednesday |
| 19. |  | The Shins | Wincing The Night Away |
| 20. |  | The Sea and Cake | Everybody |
| 21. |  | Loney, Dear | Loney, Noir |
| 22. |  | Cloud Cult | The Meaning Of 8 |
| 23. |  | Menomena | Friend And Foe |
| 24. |  | Apostle of Hustle | National Anthem Of Nowhere |
| 25. |  | The Rosebuds | Night Of The Furies |