2011

• Celer – Dying Star (Dragon’s Eye)
• Steve Daubenspeck – Driftin’ With Our Shadows (Magnetic)
• Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits (Cruz Del Sur)
• Odean Pope – Universal Sounds (Porter)
• Hélène Renaut – The Deer Convention (S/R)
• Chris Forsyth – Paranoid Cat (Family Vineyard)
• Vetiver – The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)
• The Wrong Words – S/T (Trouble In Mind)
• Carlos Forster – Family Trees (Hush)
• Glitter Wizard – Solar Hits (Archers’ Guild)

1. Sims – Bad Time Zoo (Doomtree)
2. Qwazaar & Batsauce – Bat Meets Blaine (Galapagos4)
3. Open Mike Eagle – Rappers Will Die of Natural Causes (Hellfyre Club)
4. Gel Roc – Beautiful Tragedy (Abolono)
5. Blueprint – Adventures in Counter-Culture (Rhymesayers)
6. Void Pedal – Omni-Colour (Fieldwerk)
7. Astronautalis – This is Our Science (Fake Four Inc.)
8. One Be Lo – L.A.B.O.R (Subterraneous)
9. Moka Only & Chief – Crickets (Feelin)
10. Candy’s .22 – A Girl And Her Gun (Grimm Image) 

Honorable Mentions

• IAME - Lame (Taxidermy)
• Co$$ – Before I Awoke (Tres)
• Senor Kaos – The Kaos Effect (High Water Music)
• Doomtree – No Kings (Doomtree)
• Sole & the Skyrider Band – Hello Cruel World (Fake Four Inc.)
• Noah23 – Fry Cook on Venus (Fake Four Inc.)
• Knives & Gasoline – Love Songs for Crime Scenes (Grimm Image)

• Beach Fossils – What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
• Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest (Fortuna Pop!)
• Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps – Little Wind (S/R)
• The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze)
• The Drums – Portamento (Moshi Moshi)
• Generationals – Actor-Caster (Park the Van)
• Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
• Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)
• Mike James Kirkland – Don’t Sell Your Soul (Luv N’ Haight)
• Timber Timbre – Creep On Creepin’ On (Full Time Hobby)
• Shannon & The Clams – Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go!)

• tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l (4AD)
• Strange Boys – Live Music (Rough Trade)
• Beach Fossils – What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
• Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
• Shannon and the Clams – Sleep Talk (1-2-3-4 Go!)
• Timber Timbre – Creep on Creepin’ On (Arts & Crafts)
• Smith Westerns – Dye it Blonde (Fat Possum)
• Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)
• Dreamdate – Melody Walk (Tic Tac Totally)

1. Seapony – Go With Me (Hardly Art)
2. Air Waves – Dungeon Dots (Underwater Peoples)
3. Computer Magic – Electronic Fences (White Isis)
4. Xeno & Oaklander – Sets & Lights (Wierd)
5. Wise Blood – These Wings (Dovecote)
6. Still Corners – Creatures Of An Hour (Sub Pop)
7. Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiere (Fat Cat)
8. Tristen – Charlatans At The Garden Gate (American Myth)
9. Beirut – The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
10. Mode Moderne – Undiscovered Country (Light Organ)
11. Austra – Feel It Break (Domino)
12. Starfucker – Reptilians (Polyvinyl)
13. Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
14. Hooray For Earth – True Loves (Dovecote)
15. Tycho – Dive (Ghostly International)
16. Neon Indian – Era Extrana (Static Tongues)
17. Nurses – Dracula (Dead Oceans)
18. Young Galaxy – Shapeshifting (Paper Bag)
19. Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer (Merge)
20. Myrmyr – Firestar (Under The Spire)

• Times New Viking – Dancer Equired (Merge)
• Pete Swanson – I Don’t Rock at All (Three Lobed)
• Higuma – Pacific Fog Dreams (Root Strata)
• War on Drugs – Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
• Young Prisms – Friends for Now (Kanine)
• Milk Music – Beyond Living (Perennial)
• Greg Davis – Eyebright (AOC)
• Lucky Dragons – Shape Tape (Teenage Teardrops)
• Marijata – This is Marijata (Academy)