Top Ten Albums of the Year (1996 - 2009)

2009

01 St. Vincent, Actor
02 Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion and Fall Be Kind
03 P.O.S., Never Better
04 The Antlers, Hospice
05 The Field, Yesterday and Today
06 Mos Def, The Ecstatic
07 Passion Pit, Manners
08 Pomegranates, Everybody, Come Outside!
09 Morrissey, Years of Refusal
10 The Harlem Shakes, Technicolor Health

2008

01 TV on the Radio, Dear Science
02 British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
03 No Age, Nouns
04 Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
05 The Walkmen, You & Me
06 The Teenagers, Reality Check
07 Coldplay, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
08 Flying Lotus, Los Angeles
09 Babe, Terror, Babe, Terror
10 Aidan Baker and Tim Hecker, Fantasma-Parastasie

2007

01 Radiohead, In Rainbows
02 LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
03 The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
04 Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
05 Deerhunter, Cryptograms
06 The Virgins, The Virgins
07 New Young Pony Club, Fantastic Playroom
08 The Subjects, With the Ease, Grace, Precision, and Cleverness of Human Beings
09 Burial, Untrue
10 Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cendre

2006

01 Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors
02 Cold War Kids, Up in Rags
03 Be Your Own Pet, Be Your Own Pet
04 TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain
05 Scott Walker, The Drift
06 Bob Dylan, Modern Times
07 Junior Boys, So This Is Goodbye
08 Matmos, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
09 Jarvis Cocker, Jarvis
10 Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar

2005

01 Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
02 Bloc Party, Escape Alarm
03 The Subjects, The Subjects
04 LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem
05 Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary
06 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
07 British Sea Power, Open Season
08 Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Insen
09 One Be Lo, S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.
10 Giant Drag, Hearts and Unicorns

2004

01 Nellie McKay, Get Away From Me
02 Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
03 Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Like Bad News
04 The Killers, Hot Fuss
05 The Twilight Singers, She Loves You
06 The Arcade Fire, Funeral
07 The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
08 Black Dice, Creature Comforts
09 Destroyer, Your Blues
10 Morrissey, You Are the Quarry

2003

01 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell
02 TV on the Radio, Young Liars
03 The Strokes, Room on Fire
04 British Sea Power, The Decline of British Sea Power
05 Radiohead, Hail to the Thief
06 Arab Strap, The Shy Retirer
07 The Postal Service, Give Up
08 The Constantines, Shine a Light and Mogwai, Happy Songs for Happy People
09 The Brian Jonestown Massacre, And This Is Our Music
10 The Wrens, The Meadowlands

2002

01 Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights
02 Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
03 Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People
04 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Hives, Veni Vidi Vicious
05 The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
06 DJ Shadow, The Private Press
07 Andrew W.K., I Get Wet
08 Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
09 Arto Lindsay, Invoke
10 Cody ChesnuTT, The Headphone Masterpiece

2001

01 The Strokes, Is This It
02 Radiohead, I Might Be Wrong: The Live Recordings and Amnesiac
03 Pulp, We Love Life
04 Spoon, Girls Can Tell
05 Air, 10,000 Hz Legend
06 Mira Calix, Prickle
07 Matmos, A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
08 The White Stripes, White Blood Cells
09 Aphex Twin, Drukqs and Slayer, God Hates Us All
10 Arab Strap, The Red Thread

2000

01 Coldplay, Parachutes
02 Radiohead, Kid A
03 Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun
04 Cornelius, CM and FM
05 Boards of Canada, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
06 Air, The Soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides
07 Thievery Corporation, The Mirror Conspiracy
08 Black Box Recorder, The Facts of Life
09 Doves, Lost Souls
10 Kid 606, The Soccergirl EP

1999

01 Momus, The Little Red Songbook
02 Beck, Midnite Vultures
03 Moby, Play
04 Cornelius, Fantasma
05 Fiona Apple, When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts…
06 Jim O'Rourke, Eureka
07 Arto Lindsay, Noon Chill
08 Air, Premiers Symptomes
09 Underworld, Beaucoup Fish
10 Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs

1998

01 Massive Attack, Mezzanine
02 The Afghan Whigs, 1965
03 Pulp, This Is Hardcore
04 UNKLE, Psyence Fiction
05 Air, Moon Safari
06 Beck, Mutations
07 PJ Harvey, Is This Desire?
08 Garbage, Version 2.0
09 Boredoms, Super Æ
10 Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Black Star

1997

01 Radiohead, OK Computer
02 Mogwai, Young Team
03 Momus, Ping Pong
04 Jim O'Rourke, Bad Timing
05 Stereolab, Dots and Loops
06 DJ Shadow, Preemptive Strike
07 Kid Loco, A Grand Love Story
08 U2, Pop
09 The Crystal Method, Vegas
10 Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

1996

01 Weezer, Pinkerton
02 Aphex Twin, Richard D. James Album
03 Arto Lindsay, Mundo Civilizado
04 Fiona Apple, Tidal
05 Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1996
06 Ghostface Killah, Ironman
07 Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
08 The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Take It From the Man!
09 Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
10 Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die


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