1. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
2. Caribou: Swim
3. Everything Everything: Man Alive
4. Massive Attack: Heligoland
5. Beach House: Teen Dream
6. Tocotronic: Schall und Wahn
7. Warpaint: The Fool
8. Interpol: Interpol
9. Pantha du Prince: Black Noise
10. Hot Chip: One Life Stand
11. The National: High Violet
12. Gorillaz: Plastic Beach
13. The Drums: Summertime!
14. Aloe Blacc: Good Things
15. Foals: Total Life Forever
16. These New Puritans: Hidden
17. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
18. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
19. Sophie Hunger: 1983
20. Plan B: The Defamation of Strickland Banks
21. Broken Bells: Broken Bells
22. The Hundred in the Hands: The Hundred in the Hands
23. The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards
24. Earl Greyhound: Suspicious Package
25. Console: Herself
26. Ratatat: LP4
27. Johnny Cash: American VI: Ain't No Grave
28. Deftones: Diamond Eyes
29. Mike Patton: Mondo Cane
30. Antony & the Johnsons: Swanlights
