8/10

• Dirty 3: Whatever You Love You Are (2000)
• Joanna Newsom: Ys (2006)
• Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam (2001)
• Mars Volta: Frances The Mute (2005)
• Roy Montgomery: The Allegory of Hearing (2000)
• Shit And Shine: Ladybird (2005)
• Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop (2001)
• Spring Heel Jack: Disappeared (2000)
• Spring Heel Jack: Amassed (2002)
• Vladislav Delay: Anima (2001)

  7.5/10

• Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where (2002)
• Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished (2000)
• Arcade Fire: Funeral (2004)
• Battles: Mirrored (2007)
• Black Dice: Beaches & Canyons (2002)
• Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island Burn (2003)
• Books: The Lemon of Pink (2003)
• Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (2001)
• Carla Bozulich: Evangelista (2006)
• Cat Power: You Are Free (2003)
• Cerberus Shoal: Mr Boy Dog (2002)
• Charalambides: Joy Shapes (2004)
• cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (2001)
• Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (2005)
• Comets On Fire: Field Recordings From the Sun (2002)
• DJ Logic: Anomaly (2001)
• Electrelane: Rock It To The Moon (2001)
• Eluvium: Talk Amongst The Trees (2005)
• Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
• Entropic Advance: Red Yellow Noise (2002)
• Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark (2003)
• Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (2004)
• James Plotkin: Atomsmasher (2001)
• Jessica Bailiff: Jessica Bailiff (2002)
• Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (2006)
• Khanate: Things Viral (2003)
• Kopernik: Kopernik (2003)
• LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (2007)
• Low: Trust (2002)
• Lydia Lunch: Smoke In The Shadows (2004)
• M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (2003)
• Manitoba: Up In Flames (2003)
• Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts (2002)
• Menomena: I Am The Fun Blame Monster (2003)
• Microphones: Mount Eerie (2003)
• Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
• Orthrelm: OV (2005)
• Pan Sonic: Kesto (2004)
• Panda Bear: Person Pitch (2007)
• Pelt: Ayahuasca (2001)
• Robert Rich: Somnium (2001)
• Scott Tuma: Hard Again (2001)
• Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (2006)
• Stars Of The Lid: The Tired Sounds Of (2001)
• Steffen Basho-Junghans: Waters in Azure (2002)
• Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (2005)
• Suishou No Fune: Prayer for Chibi (2007)
• Supersilent: 6 (2003)
• Toby Dammit: Top Dollar (2001)
• Today Is The Day: Sadness Will Prevail (2002)
• Tool: Lateralus (2001)
• TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain (2006)
• Vibracathedral Orchestra: Dabbling With Gravity (2002)
• Volebeats: Solitude (2000)
• Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
• Xiu Xiu: A Promise (2003)
• Xiu Xiu: La Foret (2005)

  7/10

• !!!: Myth Takes (2007)
• A Silver Mt Zion: He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms (2000)
• Acid Mothers Temple: La Novia (2000)
• Acid Mothers Temple: Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (2003)
• Add N To (X): Loud Like Nature (2002)
• Aereogramme: Sleep And Release (2003)
• Aesop Rock: Float (2000)
• Akron/Family: Akron/Family (2005)
• Alastair Galbraith: Cry (2000)
• Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (2006)
• Alfredo Costa-Monteiro: Epicycle (2007)
• Alias: The Other Side of the Looking Glass (2002)
• Aloha: That's Your Fire (2000)
• Alps: III (2008)
• Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (2005)
• Andrew Bird: The Swimming Hour (2001)
• Angel: In Transmediale (2006)
• Angels of Light: How I Loved You (2001)
• Animal Collective: Danse Manatee (2001)
• Animal Collective: Here Comes The Indian (2003)
• Annette Peacock: An Acrobat's Heart (2000)
• Appalachian Death Ride: Hobo's Codebook (2003)
• Arab On Radar: Soak The Saddle (2000)
• Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (2007)
• Architecture In Helsinki: Fingers Crossed (2004)
• Art Of Fighting: Second Storey (2004)
• Arto Lindsay: Prize (2000)
• As One: 21st Century Soul (2001)
• Ashera: Colour Glow (2000)
• Avalanches: Since I Left You (2000)
• Avarus: II (2006)
• Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (2001)
• Azita: How Will You (2009)
• B Fleischmann: Welcome Tourist (2003)
• Bad Statistics: Static (2007)
• Beachwood Sparks: Once We Were Trees (2001)
• Beat Circus: Dreamland (2008)
• Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (2006)
• Bent Leg Fatima (2000)
• Bernhard Guenter: Time Dreaming Itself (2000)
• Bernhard Guenter: Then Silence (2001)
• Bernhard Guenter: Redshift - Abschied (2002)
• Besnard Lakes: Are The Dark Horse (2007)
• Birchville Cat Motel: Birds Call Home Their Dead (2007)
• Bird Show: Green Inferno (2005)
• Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable (2006)
• Black Dice: Broken Ear Record (2005)
• Black Dice: Creature Comforts (2004)
• Black Eyes: Black Eyes (2003)
• Black Heart Procession: 3 (2000)
• Black Lips: Let It Bloom (2005)
• Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger Bride (2002)
• Black To Comm: Wir Konnen Leider Nicht Etwas Mehr Zu Tun (2007)
• Blackalicious: Nia (2000)
• Blectum From Blechdom: The Messy Jesse Fiesta (2000)
• Blithe Sons: We Walk The Young Earth (2003)
• Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (2001)
• Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi (2002)
• Bohren & der Club of Gore: Sunset Mission (2000)
• Books: Thought For Food (2002)
• Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun (2000)
• Boris: At Last - Feedbacker (2004)
• Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (2006)
• Boxhead Ensemble: Quartets (2003)
• Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (2001)
• Bright Eyes: Fevers And Mirrors (2000)
• Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light (2006)
• Broadcast: Haha Sound (2003)
• Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People (2002)
• Bug: London Zoo (2008)
• Built To Spill: You In Reverse (2006)
• Burial: Burial (2006)
• Burning Star Core: Operator Dead Post Abandoned (2007)
• By The End Of Tonight: A Tribute To Tigers (2005)
• Calexico: Feast of Wire (2003)
• Calexico: Hot Rail (2000)
• Califone Roomsound (2001)
• Califone: Heron King Blves (2004)
• Caribou: The Milk Of Human Kindness (2005)
• Castanets: Cathedral (2003)
• Chad VanGaalen: Infiniheart (2004)
• Christina Carter: Electrice (2006)
• CJA: Pink Metal (2007)
• Clinic: Internal Wrangler (2000)
• Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
• cLOUDDEAD: Ten (2004)
• Coachwhips: Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (2003)
• Coastal: Coastal (2001)
• Coastal: Halfway To You (2004)
• CocoRosie: The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (2007)
• Coh: Seasons (2003)
• Coh: Strings (2007)
• Colleen: Everyone Alive Wants Answers (2003)
• Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialized Passenger (2005)
• Comets On Fire: Blue Cathedral (2004)
• Comets On Fire: Comets on Fire (2000)
• Corrupted: El Mundo Frio (2005)
• Cursive: Domestica (2000)
• Cursive: The Ugly Organ (2003)
• Czars: The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (2003)
• Daedelus: Exquisite Corpse (2005)
• Dalek: Absence (2004)
• Damien Jurado: Ghost Of David (2000)
• Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (2006)
• Daniel Johnston: Fear Yourself (2003)
• Darkspace: II (2005)
• Datach'i: We Are Always Well Thank You (2000)
• David Grubbs: The Spectrum Between (2000)
• Dead C: Future Artists (2007)
• Dead Meadow: Feathers (2004)
• Deca: Simbionte (2002)
• Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
• Decemberists: Picaresque (2005)
• Deerhunter: Cryptograms (2007)
• Deftones: White Pony (2000)
• Delgados: The Great Eastern (2000)
• Demolition Squad: Hit It (2000)
• Dirty Projectors: The Glad Fact (2003)
• Discordance Axis: The Inalienable Dreamless (2000)
• Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (2003)
• DJ Spooky: Optometry (2002)
• Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities (2002)
• Dodos: Visiter (2008)
• Dorine Muraille: Mani (2002)
• Double Leopards: Halve Maen (2003)
• Doves: Lost Souls (2000)
• Dresden Dolls: Dresden Dolls (2004)
• Drive-by Truckers: The Southern Rock Opera (2001)
• Dysrhythmia: Contradiction (2000)
• Ed Harcourt Here Be Monsters (2001)
• Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (2005)
• El Guapo: Super System (2002)
• Electric Wizard: Dopethrone (2000)
• Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl (2000)
• Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (2006)
• Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War (2008)
• Ex Models: Other Mathematics (2001)
• Excepter: Ka (2003)
• Explosions In The Sky: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007)
• Expo 70: Animism (2007)
• Far Corner: Endangered (2007)
• Fear Falls Burning: He Spoke in Dead Tongues (2005)
• Fennesz: Black Sea (2008)
• Fennesz: Endless Summer (2001)
• Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (2004)
• Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
• Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (2006)
• Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (2008)
• Fleshpress: Fleshpress (2002)
• Fontanelle: Fontanelle (2000)
• For Carnation (2000)
• Four Tet: Pause (2000)
• Four Tet: Rounds (2003)
• Fred Frith: Impur (2006)
• Fucked Up: Chemistry Of Common Life (2008)
• Fursaxa: Amulet (2004)
• Furze: Necromanzee Cogent (2003)
• Gang Gang Dance: Gang Gang Dance (2004)
• Gang Gang Dance: God's Money (2005)
• Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (2001)
• Gnaw Their Tongues: Reeking Pained And Shuddering (2007)
• Go Team: Proof Of Youth (2007)
• Go Team: Thunder Lightning Strike (2004)
• Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (2002)
• Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (2006)
• Grails: Burning Off Impurities (2007)
• Greg Davis: Arbor (2002)
• Grinderman: Grinderman (2007)
• Grouper: Way Their Crept (2005)
• Guapo: Five Suns (2004)
• Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (2004)
• Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (2005)
• Have A Nice Life: Deathconsciousness (2008)
• Hella: Church Gone Wild/ Chirpin Hard (2005)
• Herbert: Bodily Functions (2001)
• Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious (2000)
• Hlidolf: V01d (2002)
• Holy Fuck: LP (2007)
• Hood: Cold House (2001)
• Hope Sandoval: Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)
• Horse The Band: The Mechanical Hand (2005)
• Howard Hello: Howard Hello (2002)
• Hwyl Nofio: Hymnal (2002)
• Icarus: I Tweet the Birdy Electric (2004)
• Infidel? Castro: Bioentropic Damage Fractal (2005)
• Intelligent Shanghai Mono University: 7.9 (2003)
• Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
• Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
• Isis: Celestial (2000)
• Isis: Panopticon (2004)
• Jack Rose: Red Horse White Mule (2001)
• Jackie-O Motherfucker: Magick Fire Music (2000)
• Jade Vincent: Vincent & Mr Green (2004)
• Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush (2001)
• James Blackshaw: Celeste (2004)
• James Blackshaw: Sunshrine (2005)
• Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch (2005)
• Jan Jelinek: Loop Finding Jazz Records (2001)
• Janek Schaefer: Cold Storage (2004)
• Jasun Martz: The Pillory/ The Battle (2005)
• Jennifer Gentle: Funny Creatures Lane (2002)
• Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens (2005)
• Joan Of Arc: The Gap (2000)
• Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
• Johann Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar (2004)
• John Cale: Hobosapiens (2003)
• Jonathan Coleclough: Period (2001)
• Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I'm From (2000)
• Juana Molina: Segundo (2003)
• Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Absencen (2005)
• Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Hysteria (2001)
• Kanye West: Late Registration (2005)
• Kanye West: The College Dropout (2004)
• Kayo Dot: Choirs of the Eye (2003)
• Keiji Haino: C'est Parfait (2003)
• Keiji Haino: Abandon All Words (2001)
• Kevin Blechdom: Bitches Without Britches (2003)
• Kevin Blechdom: Eat My Heart Out (2005)
• Khanate: Capture & Release (2005)
• Khanate: Khanate (2002)
• Kid 606: Down With The Scene (2000)
• Killswitch Engage: Alive or Just Breathing (2002)
• Kit Clayton: Lateral Forces - Surface Fault (2001)
• KTL: KTL (2006)
• KTL: KTL 2 (2007)
• L'Altra: Music Of A Sinking Occasion (2000)
• LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver (2007)
• Leviathan: The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide (2003)
• Li Jianhong: Talking Freely Before The Beginning (2003)
• Liars: Drum's Not Dead (2006)
• Lightning Bolt: Ride The Skies (2001)
• Lindstrom: Where You Go I Go Too (2008)
• Liquid Mind: Unity (2000)
• Lorna: Static Patterns & Souvenirs (2005)
• Lorna: This Time Each Year (2003)
• Loscil: Submers (2002)
• Loscil: Plume (2006)
• Lou Reed: Ecstasy (2000)
• Low: Things We Lost In The Fire (2001)
• M Ward: End Of Amnesia (2001)
• Machinefabriek: Marijn (2006)
• Madvillain: Madvillainy (2004)
• Man Man: Six Demon Bag (2006)
• Manitoba: Start Breaking My Heart (2001)
• Maquiladora: White Sands (2000)
• Mastodon: Leviathan (2004)
• Mastodon: Remission (2002)
• Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (2001)
• Max Tundra: Mastered By Guy At The Exchange (2002)
• MC Trachiotomy: W/Love From Tahiti (2002)
• Menomena: Under An Hour (2005)
• Mermen: The Amazing California Health And Happiness Road Show (2000)
• Mike Johnson: What Would You Do (2002)
• Milk Cult: Project M-13 (2000)
• Mojave 3: Excuses For Travellers (2000)
• Monarch: 666 (2005)
• Mono: One Step More And You Die (2003)
• Morphine: The Night (2000)
• Motion Picture: A Paper Gift (2001)
• Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (2003)
• Mouse On Mars: Idiology (2001)
• Mum: Finally We Are No One (2002)
• Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok (2000)
• My Cat Is An Alien: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy (2005)
• Nadja: Thaumogenesis (2007)
• N.E.R.D.: Fly or Die (2004)
• National: Boxer (2007)
• National: Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (2003)
• Need New Body: UFO (2003)
• Neko Case: Blacklisted (2002)
• Nekrasov: Into The No-Man's Sphere Of The Ancient Days (2007)
• Neotropic: La Prochaine Fois (2001)
• Nicolai Dunger: Soul Rush (2001)
• Njiqahdda: Njimajikal Arts (2007)
• No Age: Nouns (2008)
• No-Neck Blues Band: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (2001)
• No-Neck Blues Band: Qvaris (2005)
• Noize Creator: Deferred Media (2002)
• Notwist: Neon Golden (2001)
• Nudge: Cached (2005)
• Ocean Collective: Precambrian (2007)
• Okkervil River: The Stage Names (2007)
• Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (2005)
• Old Time Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (2001)
• Oneida: Each One Teach One (2002)
• Ooioo: Taiga (2006)
• Ora: Amalgam (2000)
• Otep: Sevas Tra (2002)
• Otomo Yoshihide: Anode (2000)
• Out Hud: Street Dad (2002)
• Oxbow: An Evil Heat (2002)
• P'taah: Compressed Light (2000)
• Paik: Satin Black (2004)
• Pamela Z: A Delay Is Better (2005)
• Pan American: Quiet City (2004)
• Pan American: 360 Business 360 Bypass (2000)
• Patrick Wolf: Lycanthropy (2003)
• Pelican: Australasia (2003)
• Pinetop Seven: Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (2000)
• Portal: Seepia (2003)
• Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (2001)
• Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U (2001)
• Radian: TG11 (2000)
• Radiohead: Amnesiac (2001)
• Ralph Carney: This is (2003)
• Rapture: Echoes (2003)
• Richard Chartier: Tracing (2005)
• Rollerball: Trail Of The Butter Yeti (2001)
• Rosetta: The Galilean Satellites (2005)
• Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (2006)
• Sage Francis: Personal Journals (2002)
• Safety Scissors: Tainted Lunch (2005)
• Scenic: The Acid Gospel Experience (2002)
• Scott Walker: Drift (2006)
• Seconds: Y (2001)
• Serena-Maneesh: Serena-Maneesh (2005)
• Shalabi Effect: Shalabi Effect (2000)
• Shalabi Effect: The Trial Of St. Orange (2002)
• Shannon Wright: Dyed In The Wool (2001)
• Shearwater: Palo Santo (2006)
• Shipping News: Very Soon And In Pleasant Company (2000)
• Shit And Shine: Cunts With Roses (2007)
• Shit And Shine: You're Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (2004)
• Shitmat: Killababylonkutz (2004)
• Shivaree: I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump (2000)
• Shogun Kunitoki: Tasankokaiku (2006)
• Shugo Tokumaru: L.S.T. (2005)
• Shugo Tokumaru: Exit (2007)
• Sigur Ros: () (2002)
• Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives (2001)
• Sin Ropas: Three Cherries (2000)
• Sir Richard Bishop: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (2007)
• Six Organs Of Admittance: For Octavio Paz (2003)
• Sixtoo: Antagonist Survival Kit (2003)
• Sixtoo: Duration (2002)
• Smoke & Mirrors: Deities (2004)
• Solefald: Pills Against the Ageless Ills (2001)
• Solex: Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock (2004)
• Songs:Ohia: Ghost Tropic (2000)
• Soulfly: Primitive (2000)
• Sparklehorse: It's A Wonderful Life (2001)
• Spektr: Et Fugit Intera Fugit Irreparabile Tempus (2004)
• Spring Heel Jack: Masses (2001)
• Squarepusher: Go Plastic (2001)
• Steffen Basho-Junghans: Song of the Earth (2000)
• Steve Earle: Transcendental Blues (2000)
• Steve Wynn: Here Come The Miracles (2001)
• Storm & Stress: Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light (2000)
• Subtle: For Hero For Fool (2006)
• Suishou No Fune: Suishou No Fune (2005)
• Sunn O))): Black One (2005)
• Sunn O))): Flight Of The Behemoth (2002)
• Sunn O))): Zero Zero Void (2000)
• Supersilent: 5 (2001)
• Surface of Eceon: The King Beneath the Mountain (2001)
• Susumu Yokota: Sakura (2000)
• System Of A Down: Mezmerize (2005)
• System Of A Down: Toxicity (2001)
• Tape: Rideau (2005)
• Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines (2001)
• Tarentel: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun (2006)
• Danubians: The Danubians (2000)
• Thomas Brinkmann: Klick (2001)
• Tin Hat Trio: Helium (2000)
• Town And Country: C'mon (2002)
• Triosk: Moment Returns (2004)
• Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: Arcane Runes Adorn The Ice-Veiled Monoliths (2003)
• TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)
• Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth (2002)
• Ulan Bator: Ego Echo (2000)
• Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (2008)
• Velvet Cacoon: Genevieve (2004)
• Velvet Teen: Elysium (2004)
• Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett (2005)
• Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll (2001)
• Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (2006)
• White Flight: White Flight (2006)
• White Stripes: White Blood Cells (2001)
• Wold: L.O.T.M.P. (2005)
• Wolf Eyes: Dread (2001)
• Wolf Parade: Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)
• Xiu Xiu: Knife Play (2002)
  Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals (2007)
• Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (2001)
• Zu: Igneo (2002)

The greatest bands of the 2000s

1. Xiu Xiu
2. Animal Collective
3. Vladislav Delay
4. Supersilent
5. Joanna Newsom
6. Shit and Shine
7. Mars Volta
8. Solex
9. Black Dice
10. Fiery Furnaces
11. Books
12. Arcade Fire
13. Khanate
14. TV On The Radio