1. East India Youth (UK) ‘End Result’ LP ’Culture of Volume’ (XL) 

2. Heather Woods Broderick (USA) ‘Mama Shelter’ LP ‘Glider’ (Western Vinyl) 

3. Lords (UK) ‘I Shook the Royal Throne’ LP ‘Everyone is People’ (Gringo) 

4. Inna Pivars & the Histriones [bad word]  ‘Don’t Look Back’ LP ‘Interstellar Obnibus’ (Boogeyman/Союз)
 
5. Ismo Alanko Saatio (Finland) ‘Paratiisin Puu’ LP ‘Hallanvaara’ (Poko) 

6. Ilkka Alanko Orchestra (Finland) ‘2011’ LP [bad word]  (Ratas) 

7. Ismo Alanko (Finland) ‘liikemies’ LP ‘Ismo Kullervo Alanko’ (Fullsteam) 

8. Promised Land Sound (USA) ‘Golden Child’ LP ‘For Use and Delight’(Paradise of Bachelors) 

9. Drinks (UK) ‘Hermits on Holiday’ LP ) ‘Hermits on Holiday’ (Heavenly)

10. Titus Andronicus (USA) ‘Into the Void (Filler)’ LP ‘The Most Lamentable Tragedy’ (Merge) 

11. Sylvie Krobova (Czech Republic) ‘Kapky Deste’ LP ‘Let Dymem’ (Polis) 

12. Trader Horne (UK) ‘Morning Way ‘ LP ‘Morning Way’ (Earth) 

13. Johann Johannsson (Iceland) ‘Melancholia’ LP ‘Sicario OST’ (Varese Sarabande)