The Best Albums of 2003

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Best of Rock Albums
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    8/10
  1. Books: The Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
    7.5/10
  2. Supersilent: 6 (Rune Grammofon)
  3. Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark (Rough Trade)
  4. Xiu Xiu: A Promise (5RC)
  5. Cat Power: You Are Free (Matador)
  6. Plastic Crimewave Sound: Flashing Open (Eclipse)
  7. Menomena: I Am The Fun Blame Monster (Muuuhahaha)
  8. Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island Burn (ArtistDirect)
  9. Khanate: Things Viral (Southern Lord)
  10. Kopernik: Kopernik (Eastern Developments)
  11. M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Mute)
  12. Microphones: Mount Eerie (K)
  13. Manitoba: Up In Flames (Leaf)
  14. Four Tet: Rounds (Domino)
  15. No-Man: Together We're Stranger (Kscope)
  16. Envy: A Dead Sinking Story (Sinzai)
  17. B Fleischmann: Welcome Tourist (Morr)
    7/10
  18. Ben Frost: Steel Wound (Room40)
  19. Mono: One Step More And You Die (Arena Rock)
  20. Animal Collective: Here Comes The Indian (Paw)
  21. Black Eyes: Black Eyes (Dischord)
  22. Six Organs Of Admittance: For Octavio Paz (Time-Lag)
  23. Li Jianhong: Talking Freely Before The Beginning (2pi)
  24. Colleen: Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf)
  25. Rapture: Echoes (Universal)
  26. Dirty Projectors: The Glad Fact (Western Vinyl)
  27. Lorna: This Time Each Year (Hybrid Electric)
  28. Boxhead Ensemble: Quartets (Atavistic)
  29. Intelligent Shanghai Mono University: 7.9 (Subjam)
  30. Patrick Wolf: Lycanthropy (Tomlab)
  31. Blithe Sons: We Walk The Young Earth (Family Vineyard)
  32. Pelican: Australasia (Hydra Head)
  33. Broadcast: Haha Sound (Warp)
  34. Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (XL)
  35. Daniel Johnston: Fear Yourself (Gammon)
  36. Calexico: Feast of Wire (Quarterstick)
  37. Kevin Blechdom: Bitches Without Britches (Chicks on Speed)
  38. Keiji Haino: C'est Parfait (Turtles' Dream)
  39. Double Leopards: Halve Maen (Eclipse)
  40. Coh: Seasons (Idea)
  41. Tim Hecker: Presents Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
  42. Portal: Seepia (Profound Lore)
  43. Ralph Carney: This is (BlackBeauty)
  44. AGF: Westernization Completed (Orthlorng Musork)
  45. John Cale: Hobosapiens (EMI)
  46. Cursive: The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
  47. Frog Eyes: The Golden River (Global Symphonic)
  48. Grails: The Burden of Hope (Neurot)
  49. Excepter: Ka (Fusetron)
  50. Kayo Dot: Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik)
  51. Ricardo Villalobos: Alcachofa (Playhouse)
  52. Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (4AD)
  53. Aereogramme: Sleep And Release (Matador)
  54. National: Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
  55. Ufomammut: Snailking (Music Cartel)
  56. Appalachian Death Ride: Hobo's Codebook (Anyway)
  57. Outkast: The Love Below
  58. Angelic Process: Coma Waering (Artwrek)
  59. Coachwhips: Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (Narnack)
  60. Juana Molina: Segundo (Domino)
  61. Furze: Necromanzee Cogent (Apocalyptic Empire)
  62. Sweet Trip: Velocity Design Comfort (Darla)
  63. Murmer: Definition (Absurd)
  64. Xanopticon: Liminal Space (Hymen)
  65. Colour Haze: Los Sounds De Krauts (Elektrohasch)
  66. Philip Jeck: Host (Bubble Core)
  67. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Cicadidae (Temporary Residence)
  68. Set Fire To Flames: Telegraphs In Negative (Alien8)
  69. Sole: Selling Live Water (Anticon)
Songs
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  1. M83: Unrecorded
  2. Blood Brothers: Fucking's Greatest Hits
  3. Menomena: Oahu
  4. Cat Power: I Don't Blame You
  5. Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island Burn
  6. Four Tet: My Angel Rocks Back And Forth
  7. Rapture: Sister Saviour
  8. Xiu Xiu: Sad Pony Guerilla Girl
  9. Plastic Crimewave Sound: Perfect Glass Orchards
  10. Sons & Daughters: Johnny Cash
  11. Daniel Johnston: Must
  12. Rosie Thomas: You And Me
  13. Calexico: Black Heart
  14. Nick Cave: Dead Man in My Bed
  15. Broadcast: Colour Me In
  16. Four Tet: Spirit Fingers
  17. John Cale: Reading My Mind
  18. Daniel Johnston: Love Not Dead
  19. Fiery Furnaces: We Got Back The Plague
  20. Black Eyes: Someone Has His Fingers Broken
  21. Smog: Vessel in Vain
  22. AGF: Privatebirds
  23. Tindersticks: Sometimes It Hurts
  24. Mountain Goats: Oceanographer's Choice
  25. Cat Power: Half of You
  26. Manitoba: Kid You'll Move Mountains
  27. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Mantra
  28. White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
  29. Postal Service: Such Great Heights
  30. Angels of Light: All Souls' Rising
  31. Wrens: Per Second Second
  32. Daniel Johnston: Syrup Of Tears
  33. Broadcast: Valerie
  34. Appalachian Death Ride: Comin' Around
  35. New Pornographers: The Laws Have Changed
  36. Manishevitz: Mary Ann
  37. Daughters: And Then the C.H.U.D.S. Came
  38. Hawksley Workman: Jealous Of Your Cigarette
  39. Cursive: Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand
  40. Dizzee Rascal: I Luv U
  41. Ariel Pink: Loverboy
  42. Manitoba: Bijoux replicate
  43. 1349: Pitch Black
  44. Plastic Crimewave Sound: Husk
  45. Robert Wyatt: Just a Bit
  46. Lorna: For Hours Light
  47. White Stripes: Black Math
  48. Frog Eyes: Time Destroys Its Plan At The Reactionary Table
  49. Fruit Bats: A Bit Of Wind
  50. Lightning Bolt: 30000 Monkeys
  51. Califone: Horoscopic Amputation Honey
  52. Snow Patrol: Run
  53. Parts & Labor: Mike Burke For President
  54. Sweet Trip: Dedicated
  55. Crooked Fingers: You Threw a Spark
  56. Kings of Leon: Red Morning Light
  57. Appalachian Death Ride: The Mission
  58. Okkervil River: Blanket and Crib
  59. Califone: Red
  60. Patrick Wolf: To The Lighthouse
  61. Set Fire To Flames: This Thing Between Us Is A Rickety Bridge Of Impossible Crossing
  62. Pinback: Microtonic Wave
  63. Brother Ali: Bitchslap!
  64. Neil Young: Leave the Driving
  65. Drive-by Truckers: Sink Hole
  66. Bonnie Prince Billy: Joy and Jubilee
  67. Kills: Fried My Little Brains
  68. Rapture: House of Jealous Lovers
  69. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Date with the Night
  70. Absurd Minds: Herzlos
  71. Evanescence: Bring Me to Life
  72. Sean Hayes: The Rain Coming Down
  73. Dizzee Rascal: Fix Up Look Sharp
  74. Sole: Salt on Everything

Extended compositions
  1. Khanate: Fields
  2. Li Jianhong: Talking Freely Before The Beginning
  3. B Fleischmann: Take Your Time
  4. Keiji Haino: C'est Parfait
  5. Pelican: Night And Day
  6. Mono: Com
  7. Six Organs of Admittance: The Acceptance of Absolute Negation
  8. !!!: Me And Giuliani Down By the School Yard
  9. Stalaggh: Projekt Nihil
  10. Plastic Crimewave Sound: Caged Fire Theme
  11. Blithe Sons: The Oldest Living Things
  12. M83: Beauties Can Die
  13. Excepter: Forget Me
  14. Coh: The Colour Of Beauty
  15. Philip Jeck: Veil
  16. Sixtoo: The Mile-End Artbike
  17. Boxhead Ensemble: Quartet Four
  18. No-Man: Things I Want to Tell You
  19. Microphones: The Sun
  20. Pelican: The Woods
  21. Furze: Sathanas' Megalomania
  22. Cerberus Shoal: Scaly Beast vs Toy Piano
  23. Ricardo Villalobos: What You Say Is More Than I Can Say
  24. Nick Cave: Babe I'm on Fire
  25. Cul De Sac: Dust of Butterflies
  26. Animal Collective: Native Belle
  27. Steffen Basho-Junghans: The River Suite
  28. !!!: Me And Giuliani Down By the School Yard
  29. Meredith Monk: Doctor - Patient
  30. Double Leopards: A Hemisphere in Your Hair
  31. Dirty 3: Alice Wading
  32. Sun Kil Moon: Duk Koo Kim
  33. Philip Jeck: Skew
  34. Larval: Something Terrible Is About To Happen
  35. Harris Newman: Forest for the Trees
  36. Yo La Tengo: Let's Be Still
  37. David Sylvian: The Heart Knows Better
  38. Cursive: Staying Alive
  39. Cheer-Accident: The Autumn Wind is a Pirate
  40. Robert Rich: Vertigo
  41. Birchville Cat Motel: Summer's Seething Pulse
  42. Juana Molina: Mantra Del Bicho Feo
  43. Theo Parrish: Timeislafinacharunninout
  44. Steve Roach: Vortex Ring
  45. White Hills: No Game To Play
  46. Envy: Unrepairable Gentleness
  47. Neil Young: Sun Green
  48. Richard Chartier: Component
  49. Pharaoh Overlord: Laivius 17
  50. Kayo Dot: The Manifold Curiosity
  51. Lil Wayne: 10000 Bars
  52. Yob: Catharsis
  53. Murmer: Oracle Extended
  54. Xanopticon: Constant
  55. Moodymann: Silence in the Secret Garden
  56. Colour Haze: Overriding
  57. My Cat is an Alien: Il Segno Part 2
  58. Vic Chesnutt: Sultan So Mighty
  59. Sunburned Hand of the Man: Show of Hands
  60. Sightings: Anna Mae Wong
  61. Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: Aeons of Darkness
  62. Darkspace: Dark 1.7
Jazz

    7.5/10
  1. Franz Koglmann: Fear Death By Water (2003)
  2. Denman Maroney: Fluxations (New World)
  3. Ivo Perelman: Suite for Helen F (2003)
    7/10
  4. Jason Moran: The Bandwagon (Blue Note)
  5. Hiromi: Another Mind (Telarc)
  6. Claudia Quintet: I Claudia (Cuneiform)
  7. Vijay Iyer: Blood Sutra (Artists House)
  8. Spring Heel Jack: Live (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Paul Rucker: History of an Apology (Jackson Street)
  10. Scott Rosenberg: Creative Orchestra Music (New World)
  11. David Ware: Threads (Thirsty Ear)
  12. Angelica Sanchez: Mirror Me (Omnitone)
  13. Outward Sound Ensemble: Cloudburst
  14. Robert Glasper: Mood (Fresh Sound)
  15. Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas (Columbia)
  16. Michael Brecker: Wide Angles (2003)
  17. Tord Gustavsen: Changing Places (ECM)
  18. Dave Douglas: Freak In (Bluebird)
  19. Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (Blue Note)
  20. Dave Holland: Extended Play (ECM)
  21. Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance (Warner)
  22. Jetemy Pelt: Close to My Heart (Maxjazz)
  23. Gilad Atzmon: Exile (Justin Time)
  24. Wayne Shorter: Alegria (Verve)
  25. Marco Minneman: Broken Orange (2003)

Classical
  1. Wagner: Flying Dutchman (Barenboim, Teldec)
  2. Mahler: Symphony 3 (Boulez, DG)
  3. Penderecki: Sextet/Clarinet Quartet (Naxos)
  4. Brahms: Symphonies (Bohm, DG)
  5. Meredith Monk: Mercy (ECM)
  6. Georges Lentz: Caeli Enarrant (Naxos)
  7. John Tavener: Ikon of Eros (Reference)
  8. Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony (Daniel, Naxos)
  9. Messiaen: Transfiguration (Chung, DG)
  10. John Rutter: Mass of the Children (Collegium)

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