| # | artist | album | year |
| 1 | SIGUR RÓS | ( ) | 2002 |
| 2 | BON IVER | For Emma, Forever Ago | 2007 |
| 3 | SIGUR RÓS | Ágætis Byrjun | 1999 |
| 4 | GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! | 2000 |
| 5 | BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY | I See a Darkness | 1998 |
| 6 | EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 2003 |
| 7 | SUFJAN STEVENS | Illinoise | 2005 |
| 8 | ARCADE FIRE | Funeral | 2004 |
| 9 | FLEET FOXES | Fleet Foxes | 2008 |
| 10 | RADIOHEAD | In Rainbows | 2007 |
| 11 | SIGUR RÓS | Takk | 2005 |
| 12 | THE NATIONAL | Boxer | 2007 |
| 13 | ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS | I Am a Bird Now | 2005 |
| 14 | 65DAYSOFSTATIC | One Time for All Time | 2006 |
| 15 | ELLIOTT SMITH | Either/or | 1997 |
| 16 | BRIGHT EYES | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 2005 |
| 17 | SLINT | Spiderland | 1991 |
| 18 | THE POSTAL SERVICE | Give Up | 2003 |
| 19 | THE NOTWIST | Neon Golden | 2003 |
| 20 | RADIOHEAD | Kid A | 2000 |
| 21 | THE LOW ANTHEM | Oh My God, Charlie Darwin | 2009 |
| 22 | PINBACK | This Is a Pinback CD | 1998 |
| 23 | CAT POWER | You Are Free | 2003 |
| 24 | ISBELLS | Isbells | 2009 |
| 25 | FEVER RAY | Fever Ray | 2009 |
| 26 | SONGS: OHIA | The Lioness | 2000 |
| 27 | WILCO | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 2002 |
| 28 | THE ANTLERS | Hospice | 2009 |
| 29 | SONIC YOUTH | Daydream Nation | 1988 |
| 30 | BAND OF HORSES | Cease to Begin | 2007 |
| 31 | MOGWAI | Come On Die Young | 1999 |
| 32 | LOW | Things We Lost in the Fire | 2002 |
| 33 | NICK DRAKE | Pink Moon | 1972 |
| 34 | GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR | F# A# 8 | 1997 |
| 35 | INTERPOL | Turn On the Bright Lights | 2002 |
| 36 | DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE | Transatlanticism | 2003 |
| 37 | SIGUR RÓS | Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust | 2008 |
| 38 | EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY | All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone | 2007 |
| 39 | RADIOHEAD | OK Computer | 1997 |
| 40 | MOGWAI | Young Team | 1997 |
| 41 | GRANDADDY | The Sophtware Slump | 1999 |
| 42 | SPARKLEHORSE | Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot | 1995 |
| 43 | A SILVER MT. ZION | He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms | 1999 |
| 44 | EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY | Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever | 2001 |
| 45 | EF | Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | 2006 |
| 46 | THE KNIFE | Silent Shout | 2006 |
| 47 | CAT POWER | The Greatest | 2006 |
| 48 | MY BLOODY VALENTINE | Loveless | 1991 |
| 49 | JOANNA NEWSOM | Ys | 2006 |
| 50 | DAMIEN RICE | O | 2000 |
| 51 | MÚM | Finally We Are No One | 2002 |
| 52 | THE BONY KING OF NOWHERE | Alas My Love | 2009 |
| 53 | ALELA DIANE | The Pirate's Gospel | 2006 |
| 54 | SPARKLEHORSE | It's a Wonderful Life | 2001 |
| 55 | FOUR TET | Rounds | 2003 |
| 56 | MIDLAKE | The Trials of Van Occupanther | 2006 |
| 57 | ANIMAL COLLECTIVE | Merriweather Post Pavillion | 2009 |
| 58 | THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO | The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1967 |
| 59 | PHOSPHORESCENT | Pride | 2007 |
| 60 | THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND | Horses in the Sky | 2005 |
| 61 | EMILY JANE WHITE | Victorian America | 2009 |
| 62 | ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS | The Crying Light | 2009 |
| 63 | MONO | You Are There | 2006 |
| 64 | BALMORHEA | All Is Wild, All Is Silent | 2009 |
| 65 | JOANNA NEWSOM | Have One On Me | 2010 |
| 66 | JEFF BUCKLEY | Grace | 1994 |
| 67 | NICK DRAKE | Five Leaves Left | 1969 |
| 68 | SHEARWATER | Rook | 2008 |
| 69 | MOGWAI | Happy Songs for Happy People | 2003 |
| 70 | FANFARLO | Reservoir | 2009 |
| 71 | MARK LANEGAN BAND | Bubblegum | 2004 |
| 72 | BECK | Sea Change | 2002 |
| 73 | GRIZZLY BEAR | Veckatimest | 2009 |
| 74 | SPARKLEHORSE | Good Morning Spider | 1999 |
| 75 | JÓNSI | Go | 2010 |
| 76 | MOGWAI | Mr. Beast | 2006 |
| 77 | ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN | Ballad of the Broken Seas | 2006 |
| 78 | LOCAL NATIVES | Gorilla Manor | 2009 |
| 79 | 65DAYSOFSTATIC | The Fall of Math | 2004 |
| 80 | THE NATIONAL | Alligator | 2005 |
| 81 | RADIOHEAD | Amnesiac | 2001 |
| 82 | BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY | The Letting Go | 2006 |
| 83 | BRIGHT EYES | Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 2002 |
| 84 | MY MORNING JACKET | The Tennessee Fire | 1999 |
| 85 | SLOWDIVE | Souvlaki | 1993 |
| 86 | GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS | Ongiara | 2007 |
| 87 | MONSTERS OF FOLK | Monsters of Folk | 2009 |
| 88 | BELLE & SEBASTIAN | If You're Feeling Sinister | 1996 |
| 89 | MODEST MOUSE | Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 2004 |
| 90 | LOW | Trust | 2002 |
| 91 | YNDI HALDA | Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 2007 |
| 92 | MY MORNING JACKET | Z | 2005 |
| 93 | LOW | The Great Destroyer | 2005 |
| 94 | BAND OF HORSES | Everything All the Time | 2006 |
| 95 | SOPHIA | People Are Like Seasons | 2004 |
| 96 | MONO | Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 2009 |
| 97 | SOAP&SKIN | Lovetune for Vacuum | 2009 |
| 98 | FEIST | The Reminder | 2007 |
| 99 | EELS | Blinking Lights and Other Revelations | 2005 |
| 100 | PINBACK | Blue Screen Life | 2001 |