Here's my hastily assembled list, made without my usual process of review, as well as without having heard as many new albums as in years past.  There are some releases I'm sure would have made my list had I gotten around to them, but what can you do?  So my list has a lot of old reliables.

1 Maximo Park - The National Health
2 The Wedding Present - Valentina
3 Bob Mould - Silver Age
4 Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
5 Hidden Pictures - Rainbow Records
6 Susanna Hoffs - Someday
7 Guided By Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO
8 The What Gives - The What Gives [digital only]
9 Erik Voeks - Free Range EP
10 The Raveonettes - Into the Night EP
11 AC Newman - Shut Down the Streets
12 Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory
13 Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
14 Kelly Hogan - I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
15 Aimee Mann - Charmer
16 The dB's - Falling Off the Sky
17 Cher UK - Little Blue Soldier EP
18 The Primitives - Echoes and Rhymes
19 Bettye LaVette - Thankful 'n Thoughtful
20 Mission of Burma - Unsound