* indicates Canadian artist
1 PEACH PYRAMID* – Bright Blue (Oscar Street)
2 SHOTGUN JIMMIE* – Transistor Sister 2 (You’ve Changed)
3 CHASTITY BELT – Chastity Belt (Hardly Art)
4 THE FAMILY SOUL* – On The Shoulders of… Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
5 BEGONIA* – Fear (Rex Baby)
6 JEREMIE ALBINO* – Hard Time (Sleepless)
7 BRITTANY HOWARD – Jaime (ATO)
8 BRIDAL PARTY* – Too Much (Kingfisher Bluez)
9 BOY SCOUTS – Free Company (Anti-)
10 ALTERED FIVE BLUES BAND – Ten Thousand Watts (Blind Pig)
11 TWIN PEAKS – Lookout Low (Grand Jury)
12 GLASSREEL* – Unalike (Self-Released)
13 LIGHTNING DUST* – Spectre (Western Vinyl)
14 VIVIAN GIRLS – Memory (Polyvinyl)
15 ORIGAMI GHOSTS – Healthy Travel Potions (Self-Released)
16 TITUS ANDRONICUS – An Obelisk (Merge)
17 JULIA SHAPIRO – Perfect Version (Sub Pop)
18 DUDE YORK – Failing (Sub Pop)
19 CLOSE TALKER* – How Do We Stay Here? (Slow Weather)
20 MOKA ONLY* – Patina (Instrumentals) (Urbnet)
21 PAUL DESLAURIERS BAND – Bounce (Bros)
22 ARSEN SHOMAKHOV* – Rain City Blues (Self-Released)
23 BARITONE MADNESS* – Baritone Madness (Chronograph)
24 SHURA – forevher (Secretly Canadian)
25 CHRIS KIRBY* – What Goes Around (Dipole Productions Inc.)
26 MONOLORD – No Comfort (Relapse)
27 PRISM QUARTET – Color Theory (Naxos)
28 MIDNIGHT METRO* – Flamingo (Self-Released)
29 THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS* – In the Morse Code of Brake Lights (Concord)
30 FRANKIE COSMOS – Close It Quietly (Sub Pop)