Rank

Artist

Recording

Label

1

RAY LAMONTAGNE

Gossip In The Grain

RCA

2

OF MONTREAL

Skeletal Lamping

Polyvinyl

3

JAY REATARD

Matador Singles '08

Matador

4

ANNUALS

Such Fun

Canvasback

5

GREGORY AND THE HAWK

Moeni And Kitchi

FatCat

6

COLD WAR KIDS

Loyalty To Loyalty

Downtown

7

LITTLE ONES

Morning Tide

Chop Shop

8

MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO'S

Animal/Not Animal

Epic

9

MATT AND KIM

"Daylight" [Single]

Green Label Sound

10

I'M FROM BARCELONA

Who Killed Harry Houdini?

Mute

11

WIRE

Object 47

Pink Flag

12

JENNY LEWIS

Acid Tongue

Warner Bros.

13

ANI DIFRANCO

Red Letter Year

Righteous Babe

14

KINGS OF LEON

Only By The Night

RCA

15

ENEMY UK

We'll Live And Die In These Towns

Warner Bros.

16

TV ON THE RADIO

Dear Science

Interscope

17

DAPHNE WILLIS

Matter Of Time

Self-Released

18

SECRET MACHINES

The Secret Machines

World's Fair

19

OXFORD COLLAPSE

Bits

SUB POP

20

PINBACK

Autumn Of The Seraphs

Touch And Go

21

NOAH AND THE WHALE

Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down

Cherry Tree-Interscope

22

KAKI KING

Dreaming Of Revenge

Velour

23

LOVE AS LAUGHTER

Holy

Epic-Glacial Pace

24

MASON PROPER

Short Hand [EP]

Dovecote

25

ST. VINCENT

Marry Me

Beggars Banquet

26

SUBWAYS

All Or Nothing

Sire-Warner Bros.

27

RACHAEL YAMAGATA

Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart

Warner Bros.

28

CHAD VANGAALEN

Soft Airplane

SUB POP

29

BEN FOLDS

Way To Normal

Epic

30

BLITZEN TRAPPER

Furr

SUB POP