#10 American Regular – Mcgowan (Mcgowan)

#9 I Told You I Was Freaky – Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)

#8 Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective (Domino)

#7 No One’s First, and You’re Next – Modest Mouse (Sony)

#6 The House That Dirt Built – The Heavy (Counter)

#5 11:11 – Rodrigo y Gabriela (ATO/Red)

#4 Horehound – The Dead Weather (WEA/Reprise)

#3 Wilco (The Album) – Wilco (Nonesuch)

#2 Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! – Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears (Lost Highway)

#1 Keep It Hid – Dan Auerbach (Nonesuch)

Honorable Mention: March of The Zapotec and Realpeople Holland – Beirut, Dark Was the Night – Various Artists, Noble Beast – Andrew Bird, Post-Nothing – Japandroids, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum – Kasabian, Technicolor Health – Harlem Shakes, Actor – St. Vincent, Hold Time – M. Ward, What Will We Be – Devendra Banhart, Strict Joy – The Swell Season, Strange Cousins from the West – Clutch, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Phoenix, Those Darlins – Those Darlins, Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures, Cosmic Egg – Wolfmother, Summer of Fear – Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand