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| Artist | Album Title | (Label) | Genre | Rat. |
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| Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |
| A Forest of Stars | The Corpse of Rebirth | (self) | prog-metal | 7/10 |
| Abe Vigoda | Skeleton | (PPM) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Academy Is artist | Fast Times At Barrington High | (Fueled By Ramen) | emo-pop | 5/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Recurring Dream | (Important) | psych | 6/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Pink Lady Lemonade | (Riot Season) | space-rock | 4/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno | (Very Friendly) | space-rock | 6/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Glorify Astrological Martyrdom | (Important) | space-rock | 5/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno | (Essence) | psych | 5/10 |
| Actress | Hazyville | (Werk Discs) | dance | 6/10 |
| AGF | Words Are Missing | (AGF) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Ahousen | Ahousen | (PSF) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Alps | III | (Type) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| American Music Club | Golden Age | (Merge) | country | 5/10 |
| Antietam | Opus Mixtum | (Carrot Top) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Aufgehoben No Process | Khora | (Holy Mountain) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Autechre | Quarstice | (Warp) | glitch | 5/10 |
| Kevin Ayers | The Unfairground | (Lo-Max) | pop | 5/10 |
| Ayreon | 01011001 | (Transmission) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Azeda Booth | In Flesh Tones | (Absolutely Kosher) | dream-pop | 6/10 |
| Erykah Badu | New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War | (Motown) | soul | 7/10 |
| Bauhaus | Go Away White | (Bauhaus) | dark punk | 4/10 |
| Beach House | Devotion | (Carpark) | slo-core | 6/10 |
| Beat Circus | Dreamland | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Billy Bao | Dialectics Of Shit | (Parts Unknown) | noise-rock | 7/10 |
| Black Angels | Directions To See A Ghost | (Light In The Attic) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Black Keys | Attack & Release | (Nonesuch) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Black Mountain | In the Future | (Jagjaguwar) | hard-rock | 6/10 |
| Black To Comm | Fractal Hair Geometry | (Dekorder) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Blackie | Wilderness of North America | (self) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor | Let's Start a Riot | (Dark Fantasy) | crunkcore | 7/10 |
| Bon Iver | For Emma Forever Ago | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Richard Bone | Sudden Departure | (Quirkworks) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Bonnie Prince Billy | Lie Down In The Light | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Book of Knots | Traineater | (Anti) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Boris | Smile | (DIWPhalanx) | metal | 5/10 |
| Breeders | Mountain Battles | (4AD) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Brian Jonestown Massacre | My Bloody Underground | (A) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| British Sea Power | Do You Like Rock Music | (Rough Trade) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| The Bug | London Zoo | (Ninja Tune) | dubstep | 7/10 |
| Calexico | Carried To Dust | (Quarterstick) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Nick Cave | Dig Lazarus Dig | (Mute) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Celeste | Nihiliste(s) | (Denovali) | metal | 6/10 |
| Vic Chesnutt | Dark Developments | (Orange Twin) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Coldplay | Viva La Vida | (Capitol) | pop | 5/10 |
| Colour Haze | All | (Elektrohasch) | stoner | 5/10 |
| Constantines | Kensington Heights | (Arts and Crafts) | pop | 4/10 |
| Elvis Costello | Momofuku | (Lost Highway) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Counting Crows | Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings | (Geffen) | roots-rock | 4/10 |
| Sheryl Crow | Detours | (A&M) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Cut Copy | In Ghost Colours | (Modular) | dance | 6/10 |
| Darkspace | III | (Avantgarde) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Narrow Stairs | (Atlantic) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Deerhunter | Microcastle | (Kranky) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Dirtbombs | We Have You Surrounded | (In The Red) | garage | 5/10 |
| Dodos | The Visiter | (Frenchkiss) | roots-rock | 7/10 |
| Drive-by Truckers | Brighter Than Creation's Dark | (New West) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Earth | The Bee Made Honey | (Southern Lord) | metal | 6/10 |
| Elbow | The Seldom Seen Kid | (Fiction) | pop | 6/10 |
| Evol Intent | Era of Diversion | (System) | drum'n'bass | 7/10 |
| Excepter | Debt Dept | (Paw Tracks) | psych-tronica | 5/10 |
| Expo '70 | Black Ohms | (Beta-Lactam Ring) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Fire On Fire | The Orchard | (Young Gods) | folk | 5/10 |
| Firewater | The Golden Hour | (Bloodshot) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | (Subpop) | pop | 7/10 |
| Fuck Buttons | Street Horrrsing | (ATP) | noise-pop | 7/10 |
| Fucked Up | Chemistry Of Common Life | (Matador) | hardcore | 6/10 |
| Girl Talk | Feed the Animals | (Illegal Art) | dance | 6/10 |
| Goldfrapp | Seventh Tree | (Mute) | pop | 5/10 |
| Gutter Twins | Saturnalia | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Harvey Milk | Life The Best Game in Town | (Hydra Head) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Have A Nice Life | Deathconsciousness | (Enemies List) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Hercules And Love Affair | Hercules And Love Affair | (DFA) | dance | 6/10 |
| Zach Hill | Astrological Straits | (Ipecac) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Hjarnidaudi | Pain Noise March | (Paradigms) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Koen Holtkamp | Field Rituals | (Type) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Jasper TX | Black Sleep | (Miasmah) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Jasper TX | This Quiet Season | (Slaapwell) | ambient | 6.5/10 |
| Philip Jeck | Sand | (Touch) | noise | 6/10 |
| Journey To Ixtlan | Journey To Ixtlan | (Aurora Borealis) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Lambchop | OH | (City Slang) | country | 5/10 |
| KD Lang | Watershed | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Last Shadow Puppets | The Age Of The Understatement | (Domino) | pop | 6/10 |
| Late Of The Pier | Fantasy Black Channel | (Parlophone) | dance-punk | 6/10 |
| Leila Arab | Blood, Looms, And Blooms | (Warp) | downtempo | 7/10 |
| Long Blondes | Couples | (Rough Trade) | pop | 6/10 |
| M83 | Saturdays = Youth | (Mute) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Magnetic Field | Distortion | (Nonesuch) | pop | 6/10 |
| Maju | Maju-5 | (Extreme) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Stephen Malkmus | Real Emotional Trash | (Matador) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Mars Volta | The Bedlam In Goliath | (Universal) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Matmos | Supreme Balloon | (Matador) | electronics | 5/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Amethyst Waves | (Bleeding Panda) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Off In The Distance | (Chondritic Sound) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Light Movement | (Wagon) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Mark McGuire | Guitar Meditations | (Wagon) | instrumental | 7/10 |
| Metallica | Death Magnetic | (Sony) | metal | 6/10 |
| Paul Metzger | Gedanken Splitter | (Roaratorio) | solo acoustic | 7/10 |
| Midori | Hello Everyone Nice to Meet You We are Midori | (Sony) | punk-jazz | 7/10 |
| Motorpsycho | Little Lucid Moments | (Rune Grammofon) | acid-rock | 6/10 |
| Mountain Goats | Heretic Pride | (4AD) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Oasis | Dig Out Your Soul | (Sony) | pop | 4/10 |
| Okkervil River | The Stand Ins | (Jagjaguwar) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Old 97's | Blame It On Gravity | (New West) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Opeth | Watershed | (Roadrunner) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Robert Owens | Night-Time Stories | (Compost) | deep house | 5/10 |
Portishead's | | Third | (Mercury) | trip-hop | 6/10 | Primal Scream | Beautiful Future | (Warner) | alt-rock | 4/10 | Pussygutt | She Hid Behind Her Veil | (20 Buck Spin) | post-rock | 7/10 | |
| R.E.M. | Accelerate | (Warner Bros) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Marc Ribot | Party Intellectuals | (Pi) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| DJ Rupture | Uproot | (Agriculture) | mashup | 5/10 |
| Santogold | Santogold | (Downtown) | dance-pop | 6/10 |
| Helmut Schafer: | Noise As A Language | (Kwanyin) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Sam Shalabi | Eid | (Alien8) | avant-rock | 6/10 |
| She & Him | Volume 1 | (Merge) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Sigur Ros | Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust | (XL) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | In Glorious Times | (The End) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Spiritualized | Songs in A&E | (Fontana) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Mark Stewart | Edit | (Crippled Dick) | dub-funk | 5/10 |
| Sun Kil Moon | April | (Caldo Verde) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Tape | Luminarium | (Hapna) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| That Handsome Devil | A City Dressed in Dynamite | (Lgm) | retro | 6/10 |
| Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra | 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons | (Constellation) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Steve Tickmayer | Cold Peace | (ReR) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Times New Viking | Rip It Off | (Matador) | garage | 6/10 |
| Titus Andronicus | The Airing of Grievances | (Troubleman Unlimited) | punk-rock | 6/10 |
| Mia Doi Todd | Gea | (City Zen) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Tricky | Knowle West Boy | (Domino) | trip-hop | 4/10 |
| TV On The Radio | Dear Science | (Interscope) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Ulver | Shadows Of The Sun | (Jester) | prog-metal | 6/10 |
| Valet | Naked Acid | (Kranky) | psych-folk | 6/10 |
| Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | (XL) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Chad VanGaalen | Soft Airplane | (Flemish Eye) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Vivian Girls | Vivian Girls | (In The Red) | punk | 7/10 |
| Wavves | Wavves | (Fat Possum) | psych-pop | 7/10 |
| Paul Weller | 22 Dreams | (Yep Roc) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Why? | Alopecia | (Anticon) | pop | 6/10 |
| Wild Beasts | Limbo Panto | (Domino) | pop | 6/10 |
| Wildbirds & Peacedrums | The Snake | (Caprice) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Wire | Object 47 | (Pink Flag) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Wolf Parade | At Mount Zoomer | (Subpop) | pop | 6/10 |
| Woven Hand | Ten Stones | (Sounds Familyre) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Xiu Xiu | Women As Lovers | (Kill Rock Stars) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Ratings: 10=best album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan |