22 The Shins
Port of Morrow (Columbia / Aural Apothecary)
23 Metz
Metz (Sub Pop)
24 Jack White
Blunderbuss (Third Man)
25 Leonard Cohen
Old Ideas (Columbia)
26 the Men
Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
27 Cat Power
Sun (Matador)
28 David Byrne and St. Vincent
Love This Giant (4AD/Todo Mundo)
29 Mumford & Sons
Babel (Island/Glassnote)
30 Of Monsters and Men
My Head Is an Animal (Universal Republic)
31 Hospitality
Hospitality (Merge)
32 The Lumineers
The Lumineers (Dualtone Music Group)
33 Anaïs Mitchell
Young Man in America (Wilderland)
34 Swans
The Seer (Young God)
35 Titus Andronicus
Local Business (XL)
36 Andrew Bird
Break It Yourself (Mom and Pop Music)
37 Bat for Lashes
The Haunted Man (Parlophone)
38 Chromatics
Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better)
39 Dum Dum Girls
End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
40 Grimes
Visions (Arbutus)
41 Dr. Dog
Be the Void (Anti/Epitaph)
42 The Avett Brothers
The Carpenter (Universal Republic)
43 The dB’s
Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None)
44 OFF!
OFF! (Vice)
45 Aesop Rock
Skelethon (Rhymesayers)
46 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra
Theatre Is Evil (Alliance Ent Special)
47 Father John Misty
Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
48 Sleigh Bells
Reign of Terror (Mom and Pop Music)
49 Spiritualized
Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Double Six)
50 Ty Segall Band
Slaughterhouse (In the Red)
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