Essential


Spectacular

9.8

Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin

The Go Team! - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

9.7

AFX - Chosen Lords

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

9.6

Madvillain - Madvillainy

9.5

Animal Collective - Feels

Black Dice - Creature Comforts

Guided By Voices - The Best of Guided By Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates

Amazing

9.4

The Blue Van - The Art of Rolling

Interpol - Antics

9.3

Bloc Party - Weekend in the City

Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral

Meshuggah - Catch 33

The One AM Radio - A Name Writ in Water

9.2

Loren Connors - Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004

Dalek - Absence

Explosions in the Sky - Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart

Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

9.1

Cathal Coughlan - The Sky's Awful Blue

Gist - Diesel City

Green Day - American Idiot

H.I.M. - Dark Light

Matisyahu - Live at Stubb's

My Morning Jacket - Z

The Prodigy - Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005

Adam Richman - Patience and Science

Sleater Kinney - The Woods

Spoon - Gimme Fiction

9

Alkaline Trio - Crimson

Alog - Miniatures

Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

Boom Bip - Blue Eyed in the Red Room

Collective Soul - Youth

Daedelus - Daedelus Denies the Day's Demise

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Earlimart - Treble and Tremble

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Jel - Soft Money

The Juliana Theory - A Small Noise

Ted Leo - Shake the Sheets

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

My Latest Novel - Wolves

The Rakes - Ten New Messages

Supergrass - Supergrass is 10, The Best of 94-04

Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs, 1985-2003

Exceptional

8.9

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

The Chris Stamey Experience - A Question of Temperature

Common - Be

The Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South

Engineers - S/T

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it So Much Better

Friends of Dean Martinez - Lost Horizons

I Am Kloot - Gods and Monsters

Keane - Hope and Fears

Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum

Louis XIV - Illegal Tender

Man Man - Six Demon Bag

Menomena - Friend and Foe

Palaxy Tracks - Twelve Rooms

Archer Prewitt - Wilderness

Elliott Smith - From a Basement On a Hill

The Thermals - Fuckin A

TV on the Radio - Young Liars - EP

Various Artists - Gold Leaf Branches

Via Satellite - Cities Are Temples

8.8

American Analog Set - Set Free

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways

The Considerate Builders Scheme - Exit to Riverside

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Fruit Bats - Spelled in Bones

Al Green - Everything's OK

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence

Muse - Absolution

Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers

Spectre Folk - Requiem for Ming Aralia

Swervedriver - Juggernaut Rides '89-'98

8.7

Athlete - Vehicles and Animals

The Chemical Brothers - Push the Button

The Constantines - Tournament of Hearts

Edan - Beauty and the Beat

Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue

Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor

Oneida - Secret Wars

Regina Spektor - Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories

Statistics - Leave Your Name

Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack

Twilight Singers - She Loves You

8.6

Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Brazilian Girls - S/T

Danger Mouse - The Grey Album

The Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Hella - Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat

Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

MF Doom - MM...Food

Mountains - Sewn

Murs - Murs 3:16, the 9th Edition

Richard Swift - The Novelist/Walking Without Effort

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

8.5

Aberdeen - The Boy Has Gone Away EP

... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Government Magic - EP

The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That?s What I?m Not

Autolux - Future Perfect

Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs

Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman to Open Old Wounds

Black Mountain - S/T

David Byrne - Grown Backwards

Colder - Heat

Confidence Man - Miracle of Modern Living

Death By Sexy - Nobody Knows Where You'll Wake Up Tomorrow - EP

Demander - Eponymous - EP

Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History in Rust

Dressy Bessy - Electrified

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat

His Name is Alive - Detrola

Islands - Return to the Sea

Kind of Like Spitting - The Thrill of the Hunt

Kinski - Alpine Static

Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum

Mastodon - Call of the Mastodon

Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me

Mu - Out of Breach (Manchester's Revenge)

The New Pornograhpers - Twin Cinema

Nightmares On Wax - In a Space Outta Sound

Of Montreal - Satantic Panic in the Attic

The Rakes - Capture/Release

Gruff Rhys - Candylion

Saint Etienne - Travel Edition 1990-2005

Saturday Looks Good to Me - Sound on Sound

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses

The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done

Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

System of a Down - Mesmerize

Tunng - This is... Tunng - Mother's Daugther and Other Songs

John Vanderslice - Cellar Door

John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt

The Volebeats - Like Her

Worth the Buzz

8.4

Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney - Superwolf

The Capitol Years - Let Them Drink

The Dark Romantics - Some Midnight Kissin'

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands

The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree

Mission of Burma - ONoffON

The Paddingtons - First Comes First

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

Sparta - Porcelain

Marnie Stern - In Advance of a Broken Arm

Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

8.3

The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place

Argentine - In Other Fictions

Blackalicious - The Craft

Karl Blau - Beneath Waves

Bobby Conn - King for a Day

Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame

Dead Meadow - Feathers

Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow

Morel - Lucky Strike

Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep

Sala-Arhimo - S/T

Soul Position - Things Go Better with RJ and Al

8.2

Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

Galactic Heroes - On Every Sidewalk

John Guilt - By Any Other Name

Richard Hell - SPURTS: The Richard Hell Story

L'altra - Different Days

Low - The Great Destroyer

Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration

New Idea Society - You are Asleep or Awake

Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That Before

The Rapture - Echoes

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway

Chad VanGaalen - Skelliconnection

Various Artists - No thanks! The Seventies Punk Rebellion

Rufus Wainwright - Want One

Xiu Xiu - La Foret

8.1

All Night Radio - Spirit Stereo Frequency

Apparat - Silizium - EP

The Bellrays - The Red, White and Black

Bettie Serveert - Attagirl

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

Califone - Heron King Blues

Cloud Cult - Advice From a Happy Hippopotamus

Dr. Octagon - The Return of Dr. Octagon

EL-P - Collecting the Kid

Elbow - Leaders of the Free World

Tommy Keene - Crashing the Ether

Lali Puna - Faking the Books

The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer

The Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You

Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze

Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love

Sons and Daughters - The Repulsion Box

VHS or Beta - Night on Fire

Lucinda Williams - West

8

Ryan Adams - Love is Hell Pt. 2

Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empires

Brakes - Give Blood

Built to Spill - You in Reverse

Jenny Choi - Postcard Stories

The Concretes - S/T

The Death Set - To - EP

Dreamend - As if by Ghosts

Ex Models - Chrome Panthers

Fennesz - Venice

The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

The Killers - Hot Fuss

LCD Soundsystem - S/T

Lemon Jelly - '64 - '95

Madness - The Dangermen Sessions, Vol. 1

Magic Whispers - Carousels and Music Boxes

Cass McCombs - PREfection

The Moaners - Dark Snack

Monopoli - Monopoli EP

Morrissey - You Are the Quarry

Onelinedrawing - Volunteers

Pedro the Lion - Achilles Heel

Pela - Anytown Graffiti

Pelican - The fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw

Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital

Radiohead - Com Lag (2+2=5)

Ratatat - LP3

The Replacements - Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?

Royksopp - The Understanding

Snow Patrol - Final Straw

Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot

Sons and Daughters - Love the Cup

Straylight Run - S/T

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul

Takka Takka - Migration

Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart

Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell

Very Good

7.9

Anubian Lights - Phantascope

The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl

Bossanova - Hey Sugar

Everything But the Girl - Adapt or Die (Ten Years of Remixes)

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

Jeff Hanson - S/T

Holopaw - Quit +/or fight

Hope of the States - The Lost Riots

The Like - Are You Thinking What i'm Thinking

The Lone Pigeon - Schoozzzmmii

Ian Love - S/T

The Mendoza Line - Fortune

Monolake - polygon_cities

Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbors

The Sights - S/T

Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse

Stereolab - Oscillons From The Anti-Sun

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans

Various Artists - The Marriage Records Compilation: Is Orange Birds

7.8

Arab Strap - The Last Romance

Isobel Campbell - Ballad of the Broken Seas

Citay - S/T

CSS - Donkey

The Descendents - Cool To Be You

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Company

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Starflyer 59 - Talking Voice v. Singing Voice

Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki* Raifu

Thunderbirds Are Now! - Justamustache

Voices and Organs - Orphanage

7.7

Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed

Athlete - Tourist

Richard Buckner - Meadow

Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery

Die! Die! Die! - Die! Die! Die!

The Double - Loose in the Air

Ester Drang - Rocinate

The Fiery Furnaces - EP

Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast

Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther

The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower - Love in the Fascist Brothel

Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll

Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft

Supergrass - Road to Rouen

Tom Waits - Real Gone

Your Team Ring - In the Service of the Villain

7.6

Air - Talkie Walkie

The Apes - Tapestry Majesty - EP

The Apparitions - As This is Futuristic

Boom Boom Satellites - Full of Elevating Pleasures

Envelopes - Demon

The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics

Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album

The Heavenly States - Black Comet

The Knife - Silent Shout

M.I.A. - Arular

Wes McDonald - 1:50 in the Furnace

The National - Cherry Tree EP

The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes

Plat - Compulsion

Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together

Sound Team - Movie Monster

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

The Sun - Blame it on the Youth

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses in the Sky

Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads

TV on the Radio - Desperate youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Neil Young - Prairie Wind

7.5

50 Foot Wave - 50 Foot Wave

Aberfeldy - Young Forever

Beirut - Gulag Orchestra

The Black Keys - Chulahoma

Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly

Jim Boggia - Safe in Sound

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness

The Charlatans UK - Up at the Lake

Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8

Graham Coxon - Love Travels at Illegal Speeds

The Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour

Dilated Peoples - 20/20

Dios (Malos) - S/T

Gram Rabbit - Music to Start a Cult To

The Grey - Asleep at the Wheel

Hot Hot Heat - Elevator

Daniel Johnston - Welcome to My World

Justin Jones & The Driving Rain - ...and I am the Song of the Drunkards

The Juan MacLean - Less Than Human

Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

The Kingbury Manx - The Fast Rise and Fall of the South

Ladytron - Witching Hour

Lambchop - Damaged

The Magnetic Fields - i

Morgenstern and Lippok - Tesri

Bob Mould - Body of Song

Mum - Summer Make Good

Oh Susanna - Oh Susanna

The Orbital - Orbital (Blue Album)

Anna Oxygen - This is an Excercise

The Plastic Constellations - Crusades

Masha Qrella - Unsolved Remained

Josh Ritter - The Animal Years

Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys - Git

Son Volt - A Retrospective: 1995-2000

Us3 - Questions

Chad VanGaalen - Infiniheart

Weezer - Make Believe

Chris Whitley - Soft Dangerous Shores

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

Not Bad

7.4

Lily Allen - Alright, Still

Audible - Sky Signal

The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

The Cloud Room - S/T

The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own

Dandi Wind - Concrete Igloo

Destroyer - Your Blues

Dr. Dog - Fate

El Perro del Mar - S/T

The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun

Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic

Iron and Wine - Woman King - EP

John Wayne Shot Me - The Purple Hearted Youth Club

The Ladies - They Mean Us

Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir

Magnolia Electric Company - What Comes After the Blues

Oxford Collapse - Some Wilderness

David Pajo - Pajo

Pony Up! - S/T

Shivaree - Who's Got Trouble

Alex Smoke - Incommunicado

We Versus the Shark - Ruin Everything!

7.3

Albumen - Lake Desolution

Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - House Arrest

Ani DiFranco - Knuckle Down

Electrelane - The Power Out

Joy Zipper - American Whip

Long-View - Mercury

Matisyahu - Youth

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Ian Moore - Luminaria

New Buffalo - Last Beautiful Day

Peaches - Impeach My Bush

Pearl Jam - S/T

The Peppermints - Jesus Chryst

Placebo - Meds

Quarashi - Guerilla Disco

Ratatat - Ratatat

Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures

Ron Sexsmith - Retriever

Thanksgiving - Cave Days & Moments

Various Artists - Who's not Forgotten: FDR's Tribute to the Who

M. Ward - Transistor Radio

The Wonder Stuff - Suspended by Stars

7.2

Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer - EP

The Black Keys - Magic Potion

The Bravery - S/T

Broken Social Scene - S/T

Castanets - Cathedral

Chicago Undergroud Duo - In Praise of Shadows

The Colour - Between Earth and Sky

Fat Worm of Error - Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies

Grand National - Kicking the National Habit

Grandaddy - Excerpts From the Diary of Todd Zilla

Jet - Shine On

Liars - Drum's Not Dead

The Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary

Now It's Overhead - Fall Back Open

OOIOO - Cococoooioo

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You

Telex - How do you Dance?

Various Artists - One Scene to Another: Tribute to Canadian Indie Rock

Various Artists - Musics in the Margin

The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off

7.1

Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles

Barakus - S/T - EP

Busdriver - Roadkill Overcoat

Laura Cantrell - Humming by the Flowered Vine

Bruce Cockburn - Life Short Call Now

Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask

The Eames Era - Double Dutch

Eyedea & Abilities - E & A

Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike

House of Love - Days Run Away

L.A. Tool and Die - Fashion For the Evil Doer

Lylas - Lessons for Lovers

The Mekons - Punk Rock

Metropolitan - The Lines They Get Broken

Mice Parade - Bem-Vinda Vontade

Monade - A Few Steps More

Nada Surf - The Weight is a Gift

Old Dirty Bastard - Osiris: The Official Mixtape

The Red Thread - Tension Pins

The Robot Ate Me - On Vacation

South - Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars

Stereolab - Fab Four Suture

Zero 7 - When It Falls

7

A Guy Called Gerald - To All Things What They Need

A Thousand Years - A Thousand Years

Ryan Adams - Love is Hell Pt. 1

The Advantage - Elf-Titled

Alabama 3 - Outlaw

Ambulance LTD - LP

Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having

Federico Aubele - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires

Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash

Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels

Ian Brown - Solarized

Cake - Pressure Chief

Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder

Brandi Carlile - S/T

Cat Power - The Greatest

The Charlatans UK - Simpatico

Lloyd Cole - Music in a Foreign Language

The Dead 60s - S/T

Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself

Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal

Jimmy Edgar - Color Strip

The Elected - Me First

The Evens - S/T

The Figurines - Skeleton

Gomez - Split the Difference

Jose Gonzalez - Veneer

Gregor Samsa - 55:12

Heavy Trash - S/T

Hem - No Word From Tom

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

Mary Lord Lord - Baby Blue

The Lucksmiths - Warmer Corners

Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm

Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later

Metal Hearts - Socialize

Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade

People Under the Stairs - Stepfather

Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger

The Robot Ate Me - Carousel Waltz

Josh Rouse - Subtitulo

Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers

South - With the Tides

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers

Sparkwood - Jalopy Pop

Swords - Metropolis

Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made

The Tyde - Three's Co.

Young Love - Too Young to Fight It

OK

6.9

Acid House Kings - Sing Along with the Acid House Kings

American Head Charge - The Feeding

The Autumn Defense - S/T

Hamasaki Ayumi - (miss)understood

De Novo Dahl - Cats and Kittens

The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control

The Isles - Perfumed Lands

Kingsley - S/T

Mclusky - The Difference Between You and Me is That I'm Not On Fire

Miss Violetta Beauregarde - Odi Profanum Vulgas Et Arceo

Mogwai - Mr. Beast

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

Gruff Rhys - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth

Sing Sing - Sing Sing and I

Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

The Undertones - Get What You Need

Various Artists - Mews Too: An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation

X - Live in Los Angeles

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

6.8

Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives

Asobi Seksu - Citrus

James Blackshaw - O True Believers

Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic

Feathers - Absolute Noon

Field Music - Tones of Town

Gift of Gab - 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up

Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People

Ida - Heart Like a River

Kano - Home Sweet Home

Lil' Cap'n Travis - ... In All Their Splendor

The Lovely Feathers - Hind Hind Legs

Madlib - Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes

Pas/Cal - The Handbag Memoirs - EP

Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings

The Soledad Brothers - The Hardest Walk

Tosca - Souvenirs

The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows

Why? - Elephant Eyelash

6.7

All Green Lights - Candida Pax

Alog - Islands of Memory

The Alphabetical Order - The Unimpeachable - EP

Bombay Dub Orchestra - S/T

Essex Green - Cannibal Sea

Ed Harcourt - Strangers

Hockey Night - Keep Guessin'

The Lashes - Get It

Ellie Lawson - The Philosophy Tree

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Sanowan - Tiny Airplanes

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle

6.6

ADULT - D.U.M.E - EP

ADULT - Gimmie Trouble

Devics - Push the Heart

Elefant - The Black Magic Show

Field Music - S/T

Head of Femur - Hysterical Stars

Nikitov - Amulet

Portastatic - Bright Ideas

Reverend Horton Heat - Revival

Turbonegro - Party Animals

6.5

Aceyalone - Magnificent City

Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll

Bellflur - Bellflur

Bjork - Medulla

The Constantines - The Constantines

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia

The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

G.Love and Special Sauce - The Hustler

Laurent Garnier - The Cloud Making Machine

The High Dials - War of Waking Phantoms

The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again

Lambchop - The Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Part I (1993-1999)

Lanterna - Desert Ocean

Local H - Whatever Happened to PJ Soles?

Lucero - Nobody's Darlings

The Marlboro Chorus - Youth Medium

Measles Mumps Rubella - Fountain of Youth

Parker and Lilly - The Low Lows

The Posies - Every Kind of Light

The Research - Breaking Up

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

Starsailor - Silence is Easy

Vietnam - S/T

The Wedding Present - Take Fountain

6.4

Tori Amos - The Beekeeper

Frank Black - Fast Man/Raider Man

Danielson - Ships

Deep Dish - George is On

Mas Rapido! - Pity Party

Montag - Alone, Not Alone

6.3

Asian Dub Foundation - Tank

Natacha Atlas - Mish Maoul

Calexico - Garden Ruin

East River Pipe - What Are You On?

Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

The Good, the Bad and the Queen - S/T

Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA

Poor Luther's Bones - Inside the Outsider

Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust

Shapes and Sizes - Shapes and Sizes

Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower

The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth

Weevil - Drunk on Light

6.2

Elvis Costello - My Flame Burns Blue

Howe Gelb - Sno Angel Like You

Headman - On

Manuok - S/T

The Microphones - Live in Japan, February 19th, 21st and 22nd, 2003

The Minus Five - The Minus Five (The Gun Album)

Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It Again

Screamfeeder - Take You Apart

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

The Velvet Teen - Cum Laude

Victory at Sea - All your Things are Gone

We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor

6.1

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

Blondie - The Curse of Blondie

cLOUDDEAD - Ten

Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You

Abe Duque - American Gigolo II: The Best Of International Deejay Gigolo Records

Amos Lee - S/T

Navies - An Estate

Pearls and Brass - The Indian Tower

Ponies in the Surf - A Demonstration

Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous

Si*Se - More Shine

Sigur Ros - BA BA TI KI DI DO

Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Effortless

Troubled Hubble - Making Beds in a Burning House

Takashi Wada - Araki

6

Action Action - Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion

Ryan Adams - Cold Roses

American Hi-Fi - Hearts on Parade

American Princes - Little Spaces

Lloyd Banks - The Hunger For More

Richard Butler - S/T

Chromeo - She's In Control

Criteria - When We Break

The Datsuns - Outta Sight/Outta Mind

Deerhoof - The Runners Four

Diamond Nights - Popsicle

Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere

Eisley - Room Noises

Fantomas - Suspended Animation

The French Kicks - The Trial of the Century

The Futureheads - The Futureheads

Garbage - Bleed Like Me

Hal - S/T

Half-Handed Cloud - Halos and Lassos

J Dilla - Donuts

Kid606 - Resilience

Lemonface - Freshly Squeezed

Man of the Year - A New and Greater Tokyo

Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat

Mirah - C'mon Miracle

The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

Sinead O'Connor - Collaborations

Old Dirty Bastard - The Definitive Ol' Dirty Bastard Story

Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet

The Shipping News - Flies the Fields

State Radio - Us Against the Crown

Strike Anywhere - To Live in Discontent

Tortoise and Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Brave and the Bold

Various Artists - What We All Want: A Dance To The Radio Compilation

Whitestarr - Luv Machine

Youth Group - Skeleton Jar

The Zutons - Tired of Hanging Around

Mediocre

5.9

Brother Shamus - Any Ole Head Shoppe

The Churchills - The Odds of Winning

Clearlake - Amber

Ray Davies - Other People's Lives

The Delays - You See Colours

Early Day Miners - All Harm Ends Here

Missy Elliott - The Cookbook

Ben Kweller - On My Way

Rhett Miller - The Believer

Alanis Morissette - So-Called Chaos

Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental

Glen Phillips - Winter Pays for Summer

Preston School of Industry - Monsoon

Various Artists - I am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett

5.8

Clutch - Blast Tyrant

Colossal Yes - Acapulco Roughs

Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace

Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur/You're Living All Over Me/Bug

Doves - Some Cities

Husky Rescue - Ghost is Not Real

Love as Laughter - Laughter's Fifth

M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence

Probot - Probot

5.7

Action Action - An Army of Shapes Between Wars

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on Our Side

Meat Beat Manifesto - At the Center

Slideshaker - In the Raw

The Standard - Wire Post to Wire

Various Artists - Liam Prodigy: Back To Mine

5.6

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - We Are the Radio - EP

The Helio Sequence - Love and Distance

The Killers - Sam's Town

Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin, Vol. 1

5.5

Ash - Meltdown

Beck - Guero

The Bigger Lovers - This Affair Never Happened... And Here are Eleven Songs About It

Blue Merle - Burning in the Sun

Carbon Leaf - Indian Summer

Copeland - In Motion

The Eames Era - Second EP

Esthero - We R in Need of a Musical Revolution - EP

Fischerspooner - Odyssey

Adam Green - Gemstones

Guided By Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed

The Honorary Title - Anything Else but the Truth

Howling Hex - All-Night Fox

Isolee - Western Shore

Lucky Day - All My Rainy Days

Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors

My Architects - Grand Designs

The Ponys - Celebration Castle

The Quarter After - S/T

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

Shonen Knife - Genki Shock

Various Artists - Exit Music: Songs for Radio Heads

Rocky Votolato - Makers

5.4

The Academy Is... - Almost Here

The Alarm - Under Attack

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Skye - Mind How You Go

5.3

A Static Lullaby - Faso Latido

Armor for Sleep - What to do When You are Dead

Candy Bars - On Cutting Tigers in Half and Understanding Narravation

Q And Not U - Power

5.2

The Bens - The Bens

Editors - Back Room

Jamie Lidell - Multiply

Patty Hurst Shifter - Too Crowded on the Losing End

5.1

50 Cent - The Massacre

Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World

Embrace - Out of Nothing

Jesu - S/T

Junkboy - Lost Parade

The Kills - No Wow

Supersystem - Always Never Again

UNKLE - Never Never Land

White Rose Movement - Kick

5

13th & God - S/T

63 Crayons - Good People

Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir

Black Dice - Broken Ear Record

Nick Castro and the Young Elders - Come into Our House

CocoRosie - Noah's Ark

Despistado - The People of and Their Verses

Dizzee Rascal - Showtime

East is East - Better Days

The Frausdots - Couture, Couture, Couture

Gomez - Out West

Groundtruther - Longitude

Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub

The Kallikak Family - May 23rd, 2007

Karate - In the Fishtank, Vol.12

Sonya Kitchell - Words Come Back to Me

Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

Magnapop - Mouthfeel

Magnolia Electric Company - Trials and Errors

Matchbox Romance - Voices

Mogwai - Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996-2004)

New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call

The Octopus Project - One Ten Hundred Thousand Million

The Oranges Band - The World and Everything in It

Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye

Team Sleep - S/T

Termanology - Out the Gate

The Thrills - So Much for the City

Viva K - S/T

The Watson Twins - Southern Manners

Not Even Close

4.9

Albert Hammond Jr. - ¿Como Te Llama?

Infadels - We Are Not the Infadels

Jem - Finally Woken

Various Artists - The Killer in You: A Tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins

Neil Young - Living With War

Michael Zapruder - New Ways of Letting Go

4.8

A is Jump - My Ice-Fingered Ghost

Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish that You Would Not Go

The Crystal Method - Community Service, Volume 2

KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

Portugal. The Man - Waiter: You Vultures!

Prince - Musicology

Josh Rouse - Nashville

Wilco - A Ghost is Born

4.7

Doris Henson - Give Me All Your Money

Fatboy Slim - Palookaville

Hundred Hands - Her Accent Was Excellent

OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila

Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game

4.6

Erasure - Nightbird

The High Llamas - Can Cladders

4.5

Clor - S/T

Coldplay - X&Y

The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium or Warloads of Mars

Einsturzende Neubauten - Perpetuum Mobile

Free Diamonds - There Should be More Dancing

Jim Yoshii Pile-up - Picks Us Apart

Lambchop - The Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Part 2: The Woodwind Years

Magnolia Electric Company - Hard to Love a Man

Ming and Ping - MP2

Northstar - Pollyanna

Jason Ringenberg - Empire Builders

Stoley P.T. - Lesson #1

Teitur - Poetry and Airplanes

4.4

AIDS Wolf - The Lovvers LP

By the End of Tonight - Tribute to Tigers - EP

4.3

The Brindley Brothers - Playing With the Light

Death in Vegas - Satan's Circus

Dreamend - Maybe We're Making God Sad and Lonely

xbxrx - Sixth in Sixes

4.2

Tha Alkoholiks - Firewater

The Go-Betweens - Oceans Apart

UHF - All Our Golden Tomorrows

4.1

Richard Bartz - Big

British Sea Power - Open Season

Jennifer Gentle - Valende

Morningwood - S/T

Supersuckers - Devil's Food

4

Audioslave - Out of Exile

Beans - Now, Soon, Someday

Black Heart Procession - The Spell

Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells

The Concretes - In Colour

Decahedron - 2005

The Dipsomaniacs - Whatever Planet

Nicolai Dunger - Here's My Song (You Can Have It... I Don't Want It Anymore/Yours4Ever)

Idlewild - Warnings/Promises

OK GO - Oh No

Finley Quaye - Much More Than Love

Clem Snide - End of Love

Rosie Thomas - If Songs Could Be Held

3.9

The Ga Gas - Tonight the Midway Shines

Kaos - Hello Stranger

Special Goodness - Land, Air, Sea

Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

3.8

Big Star - In Space

3.6

Parks and Recreation - What Was She Doing on the Shore That Night?

3.5

Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Black Heart Procession - In the Fish Tank #11

Adam Green - Jacket Full of Danger

Poster Children - No More Songs About Sleep and Fire

Saint Etienne - Tales From the Turnpike House

Stellastarr* - Harmonies for the Haunted

Brian Wilson - SMiLE

3.4

Elkland - Golden

3.3

The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Kris Racer - Time Spent on Airplanes

3.2

Riddle of Steel - Got This Feelin'

3.1

Oval-Teen - Yorkville, IL

Russian Futurists - Our Thickness

3

Aqueduct - I Sold Gold

The Distortions - Exploding Teenage Body Part

Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here

The Others - S/T

Tarwater - The Needle was Traveling

Various Artists - Hey! Where'd the Summer Go?

2.9

The Books - Lost and Safe

Deftones - B-Sides and Rarities

The Living End - State of Emergency

Kylie Minogue - Body Language

Telepopmusik - Angel Milk

Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voices - Gipsy Freedom

2.8

Dub Narcotic Sound System - Degeneration Introduction

Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout

2.7

Feeder - Pushing the Senses

Poor Luther's Bones - Next to Nowhere

2.6

Gym Class Heroes - The Papercut Chronicles

2.5

Lou Barlow - Emoh

Die Monitr Batss - Girls of War

Unwritten Law - Here's to the Mourning

2.4

Casper and the Cookies - Oh!

2.3

Various Artists - To: Elliott From: Portland

2.1

Tiga - Sexor

2

Stephen Fretwell - Magpie

Timo Maas - Pictures

Old 97's - Drag It Up

Radium Screen - White Faces

1.9

Kelli Ali - Psychic Cat

Jason Anderson - New England

Boyracer - Happenstance

1.7

Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman

1.5

Venetian Snares - Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole

1.4

Spock's Beard - Octane

1.2

Destroyer - Notorious Lightning and Other Works

1.1

Bugs Eat Books - Ghosts of Leaves

Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice

1

Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk

Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming

The Visitations - Propaganda

0.9

Gatsby's American Dream - Volcano

0.8

Bjork - Drawing Restraint 9

0.5

The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight