Honorable Mentions:

Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy

Atlas Sound – Logos

The Flaming Lips – Embryonic

10. Camera Obscura – My Maudelin Career

9. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns

8. Mos Def – The Ecstatic

7. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

6. Cass McCombs – Catacombs

5. Real Estate – Real Estate

4. Pheonix – Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix

3. Grizzly Bear – Vecktimeist

2. Girls – Album

1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion