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| A Place to Bury Strangers | Exploding Head | (Mute) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| A Sunny Day In Glasgow | Ashes Grammar | (Mis Ojos Discos) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Acid Mothers Temple | Lord Of The Underground | (Alien 8) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Aethenor | Faking Gold & Murder | (VHF) | metal | 5/10 |
| Air | Love 2 | (Astralwerks) | pop | 5/10 |
| Almost Charlie | The Plural of Yes | (Words On Music) | pop | 5/10 |
| Aluk Todolo | Finsternis | (Utech) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Amen Dunes | Dia | (Locust) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: | The Century Of Self | (Richter Scale) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | (Domino) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Antipop Consortium | Fluorescent Black | (Big Dada) | hip-hop | 6/10 |
| Antlers | Hospice | (Frenchkiss) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Antony and the Johnsons | The Crying Light | (Secretly Canadian) | pop | 6/10 |
| Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | (Domino) | Brit-pop | 6/10 |
| Art Brut | Art Brut vs. Satan | (Downtown) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Astral Social Club | Octuplex | (VHF) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Atlas Sound | Logos | (4AD) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Dan Auerbach | Keep It Hid | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Azita | How Will You | (Drag City) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Bachelorette | My Electric Family | (Drag City) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Devendra Banhart | What Will We Be? | (Warner) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Baroness | Blue Record | (Relapse) | post-metal | 6/10 |
| Basement Jaxx | Scars | (Ultra) | dance | 5/10 |
| Bat For Lashes | Two Suns | (Parlophone) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Masaki Batoh & Helena Espvall | Overloaded Ark | (Drag City) | acid-rock | 6/10 |
| Bear In Heaven | Beast Rest Forth Mouth | (Hometapes) | alt-pop | 6/10 |
| Beat Circus | Boy From Black Mountain | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Bibio | Ambivalence Avenue | (Warp) | dance | 6/10 |
| Big Pink | A Brief History Of Love | (4AD) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Billy Bao | May 08 | (Parts Unknown) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Black To Comm | Alphabet | (Type) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Black Vomit | Jungle Death | (Rusty Axe) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| BLK JKS | After Robots | (Secretly Canadian) | world-music | 6/10 |
| Blues Control | Local Flavor | (Siltbreeze) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Bong | Bong | (Heidenwut Productions) | doom | 6/10 |
| Bong | Bethmoora | (Infinite Exchange) | doom | 5/10 |
| Bonnie Prince Billy | Beware | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Andrew Bird | Noble Beast | (Fat Possum) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Sir Richard Bishop | The Freak of Araby | (Drag City) | guitar | 5/10 |
| James Blackshaw | The Glass Bead Game | (Young God) | prog-folk | 5/10 |
| Blank Dogs | Under And Under | (In The Red) | electroclash | 5/10 |
| Tyondai Braxton | Central Market | (Warp) | neoclassical | 6/10 |
| Brother Ali | Us | (Rhymesayers Entertainment) | hip-hop | 5/10 |
| VV Brown | Travelling Like The Light | (Island) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Bunkur | Nullify | (Displeased) | doom | 6/10 |
| Caethua | The Long Afternoon Of Earth | (Preservation) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Califone | All My Friends Are Funeral Singers | (Dead Oceans) | folk | 4/10 |
| Bill Callahan | Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Camera Obscura | My Maudlin Career | (4AD) | folk-pop | 5/10 |
| Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | (Anti) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Cave | Psychic Psummer | (Important) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Cheer-Accident | Fear Draws Misfortune | (Cuneiform) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Vic Chesnutt | At The Cut | (Constellation) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Church | Untitled #23 | (Second Motion) | pop | 5/10 |
| Church Of Misery | Houses Of The Unholy | (Rise Above) | stoner | 6/10 |
| Circulatory System | Signal Morning | (Cloud) | avant-pop | 6/10 |
| Cloaks | Versus Grain | (Baked Goods) | electronic | 6/10 |
| Clubroot | Clubroot | (Lo Dubs) | dubstep | 7/10 |
| William Fowler Collins | Perdition Hill Radio | (Type) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Concern | Truth and Distance | (Digitalis) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Converge | Axe To Fall | (Epitaph) | metalcore | 6/10 |
| Chris Corsano | The Four Aims | (VHF) | avant-rock | 6/10 |
| Crystal Antlers | Tentacles | (Touch And Go) | garage-rock | 6/10 |
| Current 93 | Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain | (Dutro) | spoken-word | 5/10 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars | Why There Are Mountains | (Sister's Den) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Dalek | Gutter Tactics | (Ipecac) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Dan Deacon | Bromst | (Carpark) | new wave | 7/10 |
| Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words | Lost In Reflections | (Killer Pimp) | post-ambient | 7/10 |
| Dead Weather | Horehound | (Reprise) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Decemberists | The Hazards of Love | (Capitol) | pop | 5/10 |
| Depeche Mode | Sounds Of The Universe | (EMI) | synth-pop | 4/10 |
| Dirty Projectors | Bitte Orca | (Domino) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Doves | Kingdom of Rust | (Astralwerks) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Dream Theater | Black Clouds & Silver Linings | (Roadrunner) | prog-metal | 5/10 |
| Bob Dylan | Together Through Life | (Columbia) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Editors | In This Light and on This Evening | (Kitchenware) | synth-pop | 5/10 |
| Elegi | Varde | (Miasmah) | electronic | 7/10 |
| Emeralds | Emeralds | (Wagon Gneiss Things) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Emeralds | What Happened | (No Fun) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Engineers | Three Fact Fader | (Echo) | Brit-pop | 5/10 |
| Evangelista | Prince of Truth | (Constellation) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Expo '70 | Psychosis | (Peasant Magik) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Expo '70 | Sonic Messenger | (Beta Lactum Ring) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Fever Ray | Fever Ray | (Rabid) | synth-pop | 7/10 |
| Field | Yesterday And Today | (Anti) | techno | 6/10 |
| Fiery Furnaces | I'm Going Away | (Thrill Jockey) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Florence and the Machine | Lungs | (Island) | garage-rock | 6/10 |
| Forgas Band Phenomena | L'Axe du Fou | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| David Gray | Draw The Line | (Downtown) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Green | The Planets | (label) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown | (Reprise) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Health | Get Color | (Lovepump United) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Erdem Helvacioglu | Wounded Breath | (Aucourant) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| Isis | Wavering Radiant | (Ipecac) | metal | 5/10 |
| L'Acephale | Stahlhartes Gehause | (Aurora Borealis) | black-metal | 7/10 |
| Dave Matthews Band | Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King | (RCA) | alt-rock | 5.5/10 |
| Moodring | Scared of Ferret | (Silber) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Muse | Resistance | (Warner) | prog-pop | 4/10 |
| Necks | Silverwater | (ReR) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| Amy Neuburg | The Secret Language of Subways | (MinMax) | avantgarde | 6/10 |
| 1990s | Kicks | (Rough Trade) | Brit-pop | 4/10 |
| Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | (Slumberland) | alt-pop | 6/10 |
| Prodigy | Invaders Must Die | (Cooking Vinyl) | dance | 4/10 |
| Random Touch | A Way From the Heard | (Token Boy) | prog-jazz | 7/10 |
| Eric Glick Rieman | Trilogy From The Outside | (Water Goes Into Air) | avantgarde | 8/10 |
| Six Organs of Admittance | Luminous Night | (Drag City) | free-folk | 4/10 |
| Bruce Springsteen | Working On A Dream | (Columbia) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Sunset Rubdown | Dragonslayer | (Jagjaguwar) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Telefon Tel Aviv | Immolate Yourself | (Bpitch Control) | IDM | 5/10 |
| Terminal Sound System | Constructing Towers | (Extreme) | prog-rock | 7/10 |
| U2 | No Line On The Horizon | (Interscope) | pop | 3/10 |
| Vivian Girls | Everything Goes Wrong | (In The Red) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| White Denim | Fits | (Downtown) | garage | 6/10 |
| Wild Beasts | Two Dancers | (Domino) | pop | 5/10 |
| Patrick Wolf | Bachelor | (Bloody Chamber) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It's Blitz | (Interscope) | garage | 6/10 |
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