top tier
“Is This It” - The Strokes [RCA, 2001]
“Pop” - Gas [Mille Plateaux, 2000]
“Merriweather Post Pavilion” - Animal Collective [Domino, 2009]
“The Doldrums” - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti [Paw Tracks, 2004]
“The Milk-Eyed Mender” - Joanna Newsom [Drag City, 2004]
“Wonderful Rainbow” - Lightning Bolt [Load, 2003]
“Untrue” - Burial [Hyperdub, 2007]
“Beaches & Canyons” - Black Dice [DFA, 2002]
“Black One” - Sunn O))) [Southern Lord, 2005]
“You Forgot It In People” - Broken Social Scene [Arts & Crafts, 2003]
“In Ghost Colours” - Cut Copy [Modular/Interscope, 2008]
“Hell Hath No Fury” - Clipse [Jive, 2006]
“Suburban Light” - The Clientele [2000]
“Sound Of Silver” - LCD Soundsystem [EMI, 2007]
“The Disintegration Loops” - William Basinksi [2062, 2004]
others
“Burned Mind” - Wolf Eyes [Sub Pop, 2004]
“Blondie” - Ada [Areal, 2004]
“Insignificance” - Jim O’Rourke [Drag City, 2001]
“Lookaftering” - Vashti Bunyan [Fat Cat, 2005]
“The Darkness” - The Darkness [Atlantic, 2003]
“The Drift” - Scott Walker [4AD, 2006]
“Change” - Dismemberment Plan [DeSoto, 2001]
“The Meadowlands” - The Wrens [Absolutely Kosher, 2003]
“The Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top” - Liars [Mute, 2002]
“Rejoicing In the Hands” - Devendra Banhart [Young God, 2004]
“Turn on the Bright Lights” - Interpol [Matador, 2002]
“House Arrest” - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
“Madvillainy” - Madvillain [Stones Throw, 2004]
“And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out” - Yo La Tengo [Matador, 2000]
“Congotronics” - Konono No. 1” [Crammed Discs, 2005]
“Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone” - The Walkmen [StarTime, 2002]
“Fever To Tell” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Endless Summer” - Fennesz [Mego, 2001]
“Original Pirate Material” - The Streets [Vice, 2002]
“Everything All The Time” - Band Of Horses [Sub Pop, 2006]
“Anniemal” - Annie [679, 2004]
“Voice Brother and Sister” - Summer Hymns [Misra, 2000]
“Make Up The Breakdown” - Hot Hot Heat [Sub Pop, 2002]
“Fishscale” - Ghostface Killah [Def Jam, 2006]
“Mass Romantic” - The New Pornographers [Mint, 2001]
“Silent Shout” - The Knife [Mute, 2006]
“Oh, Inverted World” - The Shins
“Field Recordings From the Sun” - Comets On Fire [Ba Da Bing!, 2002]
“The Moon and Antarctica” - Modest Mouse [Epic, 2000]
“Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” - Phoenix
“Person Pitch” - Panda Bear [Paw Tracks, 2007]
“Inches” - Les Savy Fav [Frenchkiss, 2004]
“Agaetis Byrjun” - Sigur Ros [Bubble Core, 2000]
“Ballads” - Derek Bailey [Tzadik, 2002]
“Bang Bang Rock & Roll” - Art Brut [Fierce Panda, 2005]
“Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1” - M.I.A. [Hollertronix, 2004]
“Ta Det Lugnt” - Dungen [Subliminal, 2004]
“Saturdays = Youth” - M83 [Mute, 2008]
“Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill” - Grouper [Type, 2008]
“Street Horrrsing” - Fuck Buttons [ATP, 2008]
“Writer’s Block” - Peter Bjorn and John [Wichita/V2, 2006]
“Crystal Castles” - Crystal Castles [Last Gang, 2008]
“Microcastle”/”Weird Era Cont.” - Deerhunter [Kranky, 2008]
“Dedication 2” - DJ Drama & Lil Wayne [Gangsta Grillz, 2006]
“Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel” - Atlas Sound [Kranky]
“Franz Ferdinand” - Franz Ferdinand [Domino, 2004]
“Oceanic” - Isis [Ipecac, 2002]
“Alright, Still” - Lily Allen [Parlaphone/EMI, 2006]
“God’s Money” - Gang Gang Dance [Social Registry]
“King” - T.I. [Grand Hustle/Atlantic, 2006]
“Sheer Hellish Miasma” - Kevin Drumm [Mego, 2002]
“Let’s Stay Friends” - Les Savy Fav [Frenchkiss, 2007]
“Destroyer’s Rubies” - Destroyer [Merge, 2006]
“Nouns” - No Age [sub pop, 2008]
“Last Exit” - Junior Boys [Kin/Domino, 2004]
“Late Registration” - Kanye West [Roc-A-Fella, 2005]
“Mirages” - Tim Hecker [Alien8, 2004]
“From Here We Go Sublime” - The Field [Kompakt, 2007]
“The Futureheads” - The Futureheads [679, 2004]
“Veckatimest” - Grizzly Bear [Warp, 2009]
“Mirrored” - Battles [Warp, 2007]
“S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D.” - Out Hud [Kranky, 2002]
“Plays” - Ekkehard Ehlers [Staubgold, 2002]
