| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label |
| 1 | WASHED OUT | Within And Without | Sub Pop |
| 2 | BON IVER | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| 3 | CULTS | Cults | Columbia-In The Name Of |
| 4 | UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Fat Possum |
| 5 | LITTLE DRAGON | Ritual Union | Peacefrog |
| 6 | TY SEGALL | Goodbye Bread | Drag City |
| 7 | VACCINES | What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? | Columbia |
| 8 | PURE X | Pleasure | Acephale |
| 9 | BLACK LIPS | Arabia Mountain | Vice |
| 10 | GIVERS | In Light | Glassnote |
| 11 | YACHT | Shangri-La | DFA |
| 12 | HANDSOME FURS | Sound Kapital | Sub Pop |
| 13 | DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. | It’s A Corporate World | Quite Scientific |
| 14 | IS TROPICAL | Native To | Co-Op |
| 15 | MEMORY TAPES | Player Piano | Carpark |
| 16 | BATTLES | Gloss Drop | Warp |
| 17 | PORTUGAL. THE MAN | In The Mountain In The Cloud | Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic |
| 18 | SBTRKT | SBTRKT | XL-Young Turks |
| 19 | POSTELLES | The Postelles | +1 |
| 20 | FRUIT BATS | Tripper | Sub Pop |
| 21 | DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE | Codes And Keys | Atlantic |
| 22 | THEE OH SEES | Castlemania | In The Red |
| 23 | MIDDLE EAST | I Want That You Are Always Happy | Missing Piece |
| 24 | DIRTY MITTENS | Heart Of Town | Magic Marker |
| 25 | FOSTER THE PEOPLE | Torches | Columbia |
| 26 | KICKDRUMS | Meet Your Ghost | Last Gang |
| 27 | JUNIOR BOYS | It’s All True | Domino |
| 28 | FLEET FOXES | Helplessness Blues | Sub Pop |
| 29 | CASSETTES WON’T LISTEN | Evinspacey | Daylight Curfew |
| 30 | ANTLERS | Burst Apart | Frenchkiss |
Osprey Radio Top 30
August 17, 2011
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