| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label |
| 1 | ST. VINCENT | Strange Mercy | 4AD |
| 2 | GIRLS | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | True Panther |
| 3 | STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS | Mirror Traffic | Matador |
| 4 | TORO Y MOI | Freaking Out [EP] | Carpark |
| 5 | DRUMS | Portamento | Frenchkiss |
| 6 | DUM DUM GIRLS | Only In Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 7 | MALE BONDING | Endless Now | Sub Pop |
| 8 | NEON INDIAN | Era Extrana | Mom And Pop |
| 9 | WU LYF | Go Tell Fire To The Mountain | L Y F |
| 10 | DOM | Family Of Love | Astral Werks |
| 11 | JACUZZI BOYS | Glazin’ | Hardly Art |
| 12 | MISTER HEAVENLY | Out Of Love | Sub Pop |
| 13 | WILD FLAG | Wild Flag | Merge |
| 14 | PEPPER RABBIT | Red Velvet Snowball | Kanine |
| 15 | CSS | La Liberacion | V2-Downtown-Cooperative |
| 16 | YELLOW OSTRICH | The Mistress | Barsuk |
| 17 | CYMBALS EAT GUITARS | Lenses Alien | Barsuk |
| 18 | BLOOD ORANGE | Coastal Grooves | Domino |
| 19 | CANT | Dreams Come True | Terrible |
| 20 | HUSH NOW | Memos | Self-Released |
| 21 | PORTUGAL. THE MAN | In The Mountain In The Cloud | Approaching AIRballoons-Atlantic |
| 22 | ACTIVE CHILD | You Are All I See | Vagrant |
| 23 | WASHED OUT | Within And Without | Sub Pop |
| 24 | PAINTED PALMS | Canopy [EP] | Secretly Canadian |
| 25 | MATES OF STATE | Mountaintops | Barsuk |
| 26 | NURSES | Dracula | Dead Oceans |
| 27 | ETTES | Wicked Will | Krian |
| 28 | HORRORS | Skying | XL |
| 29 | SLEEPER AGENT | Celabrasion | Mom And Pop |
| 30 | CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH | Hysterical | Self-Released |
Osprey Radio Top 30
September 27, 2011
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