Beck - Modern Guilt
Marco Benevento - Invisible Baby
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball
Dr. Dog - Fate
Kathleen Edwards – Asking For Flowers
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Grand Archives - Grand Archives
Jackie Greene - Giving Up The Ghost
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Horse Feathers - House With No Home
Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
B.B. King - One Kind Favor
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Portishead - Third
Santogold - Santogold
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Honorable Mention
Ryan Adams – Cardinology
Backyard Tire Fire - The Places We Lived
Beach House - Devotion
The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Black Mountain - In The Future
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
The Broken West – Now Or Heaven
Bug - London Zoo
Colour Revolt - Plunder, Beg, and Curse
The Dears – Missiles
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Brian Eno + David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Sun Kil Moon – April
Steve Winwood – Nine Lives
Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
