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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 |
| Acoustic Daughters | Acoustic Daughters | (Kranky) | avant-pop | 6/10 |
| Air | Talkie Walkie | (Virgin) | post-pop | 6/10 |
| All Night Radio | Spirit Stereo Frequency | (Subpop) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| American Music Club | Love Songs For Patriots | (Devil In The Woods) | folk-rock | 5/10 |
| Animal Collective | Sung Tongs | (Fat Cat) | psych-folk | 6/10 |
| Argentine | In Other Fictions | (Pehr) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Joseph Arthur | Our Shadows Will Remain | (Vector) | singer-songwriter | 5/10 |
| Ayreon | The Human Equation | (Transmission) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Azita | Life On The Fly | (Drag City) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Cake | Pressure Chief | (Sony) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Califone | Heron King Blves | (Thill Jockey) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Camera Obscura | Underachievers Please Try Harder | (Merge) | folk-pop | 4/10 |
| Camper Van Beethoven | New Roman Times | (Pitch-A-Tent) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Cannanes | Trouble Seemed So Far Away | (Lamingtone) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Tom Carter | Monument | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Castanets | Cathedral | (Asthmatic Kitty) | alt-country | 6/10 |
| Nick Cave | Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus | (Mute) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Charalambides | Joy Shapes | (Kranky) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| !!! (Chik Chik Chik) | Louden Up Now | (Touch And Go) | disco-punk | 6/10 |
| Church | Forget Yourself | (SpinArt) | pop | 4/10 |
| Claudia Quintet | I Claudia | (Cuneiform) | jazz-rock | 7/10 |
| Coastal | Halfway To You | (Words On Music) | slo-core | 7/10 |
| CocoRosie | La Maison de Mon Reve | (Touch & Go) | folktronica | 6/10 |
| Leonard Cohen | Dear Heather | (Sony) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Gerald Collier | Breakin' Down | (Isota) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Comets On Fire | Blue Cathedral | (Sub Pop) | garage-rock | 7/10 |
| Bobby Conn | Homeland | (Thrill Jockey) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Corea | Los Peores 7 km de mi Vida | (Error) | screamo | 7/10 |
| Elvis Costello | The Delivery Man | (Lost Highway) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Adrian Crowley | A Northern Country | (Ba Da Bing) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Crystal Method | Legion of Boom | (V2) | techno | 4/10 |
| Cul De Sac & Suzuki | Abhayamudra | (Strange Attractors) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Cure | The Cure | (Geffen) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Greg Davis | Somnia | (Kranky) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Dead Meadow | Feathers | (Matador) | psych-rock | 6/10 |
| Deerhoof | Milk Man | (Kill Rock Stars) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Delgados | Universal Audio | (Chemikal Underground) | pop | 6/10 |
| Ani DiFranco: | Educated Glass | (Righteous Babe) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Dillinger Escape Plan | Miss Machine | (Relapse) | grindcore | 6/10 |
| DJ Olive | Buoy | (Room40) | ambient | 6.5/10 |
| Donnas | Gold Metal | (Atlantic) | punk-pop | 5/10 |
| Einsturzende Neubauten | Perpetuum Mobile | (Mute) | industrial | 6/10 |
| Elected | Me First | (Subpop) | lo-fi roots | 6/10 |
| Electrelane | The Power Out | (Too Pure) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Eminem | Encore | (Shady) | rap | 4/10 |
| Eno & Fripp | The Equatorial Stars | (Opal) | prog-rock | 4/10 |
| Melissa Etheridge | Lucky | (Island) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Ex | Turn | (Touch & Go) | noise-rock | 5.5 |
| Faceditch | Faceditch | (Build a Buzz) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Fantomas | Delerium Cordia | (Ipecac) | ambient | 6/10 |
| Far Corner | Far Corner | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Felix Da Housecat | Devin Dazzle and The Neon Fever | (Emperor Norton) | dance-pop | 4/10 |
| Fennesz | Venice | (Touch) | glitch-pop | 6/10 |
| Fiery Furnaces | Blueberry Boat | (Rough Trade) | alt-rock | 7/10 |
| Fireclan | Sunrise to Sunset | (Noh Poetry) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Flotation Toy Warning | Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck | (Pointy) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | (Domino) | alt-pop | 6/10 |
| Friends Of Dean Martinez | Random Harvest | (Narnack) | desert-rock | 6/10 |
| John Frusciante | Shadows Collide With People | (Warner) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Fucking AM | Gold | (Drag City) | metal | 4/10 |
| Lisa Gerrard | Immortal Memory | (4AD) | folk-pop | 4/10 |
| The Get Up Kids | Guilt Show | (Vagrant) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Ghost | Hypnotic Underworld | (Drag City) | psych-rock | 7/10 |
| Giant Sand | Is All Over The Map | (Thrill Jockey) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Gomez | Split The Difference | (Virgin) | Brit-pop | 4/10 |
| Green Day | American Idiot | (Reprise) | punk-pop | 6/10 |
| Growing | The Soul Of The Rainbow And The Harmony Of Light | (Kranky) | electronica | 5/10 |
| David Grubbs | A Guess at the Riddle | (Drag City) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Guapo | Five Suns | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Guided by Voices | Half Smiles of the Decomposed | (Matador) | power-pop | 5/10 |
| Brent Gutzeit | Drug Money | (Kranky) | ambient | 6/10 |
| P.J. Harvey | Uh Huh Her | (Universal) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Juliana Hatfield | In Exile Deo | (Zoe) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Hidden Camers | Mississauga Goddam | (Rough Trade) | pop | 5/10 |
| Jolie Holland | Escondida | (Anti) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Icarus | I Tweet the Birdy Electric | (Leaf) | drum'n'bass | 6/10 |
| Incubus | A Crow Left Of The Murder | (Epic) | metal | 5/10 |
| Interpol | Antics | (Matador) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Ioscil | First Narrows | (Kranky) | ambient | 5/10 |
| Indigo Girls | All That We Let In | (Epic) | folk | 5/10 |
| Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days | (Subpop) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Isis | Panopticon | (Ipecac) | post-rock | 7/10 |
| Joan Of Arc | Joan Of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain | (Polyvinyl) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Johan Johannsson | Virthulegu Forsetar | (Touch) | synth-pop | 7/10 |
| Richard Lee Johnson Trio | Poetry of Appliance | (Cuneiform) | folk-jazz-rock | 7/10 |
| Glenn Jones | This Is The Wind That Blows It Out | (Strange Attractors) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Simon Joyner | Lost With the Lights On | (Jagjaguwar) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Junior Boys | Last Exit | (Kin) | synth-pop | 6/10 |
| Kinski | Don't Climb On And Take The Holy Water | (Strange Attractors) | stoner | 5/10 |
| Lali Puna | Faking the Books | (Morr) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Lambchop | Aw Cmon | (Merge) | alt-country | 6/10 |
| Mark Lanegan | Bubblegum | (Beggars Banquet) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Lazy Cowgirls | I'm Goin' Out and Get Hurt Tonight | (Reservation) | cowpunk | 5/10 |
| Lightwave | Bleue Comme Une Orange | (Signature) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Los Lobos | The Ride | (Hollywood) | roots-rock | 4/10 |
| Courtney Love | American Sweetheart | (Virgin) | riot-grrrrl | 5/10 |
| Lydia Lunch | Smoke In The Shadows | (Breakin' Beats) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Lungfish | Love Is Love | (Dischord) | alt-rock | 4/10 |
| Madvillain | Madvillainy | (Stones Throw) | hip-hop | 7/10 |
| Magnetic Fields | i | (Nonesuch) | pop | 5/10 |
| Hannah Marcus | Desert Farmers | (Bar None) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Matt Marque | Nothing Personal | (Truckstop) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Matmos | Rat Relocation Program | (Locust) | glitch | 4/10 |
| Mice Parade | Obrigado Saudade | (Fat Cat) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Vinny Miller | On The Block | (4AD) | Genre | 6/10 |
| Ministry | Houses Of The Mole | (Sanctuary) | thrash | 6/10 |
| Mission of Burma | OnOffOn | (Matador) | hardcore | 6/10 |
| Modest Mouse | Good News for People Who Love Bad News | (Epic) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Jason Molina | Pyramid Electric Co | (Secretly Canadian) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Moodymann | Black Mahogani | (Peacefrog) | house | 7/10 |
| Mountain Goats | We Shall All Be Healed | (4AD) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Movietone | The Sand And The Stars | (Drag City) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Muffins | Double Negative | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Mum | Summer Make Good | (Fat Cat) | alt-pop | 5/10 |
| Necks | Drive By | (ReR) | prog-rock | 6/10 |
| Nervous Cop | Nervous Cop | (5 Rue Christine) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Neurosis | The Eye Of Every Storm | (Neurot) | industrial | 6/10 |
| A.C.Newman | The Slow Wonder | (Matador) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Joanna Newsom | The Milk-Eyed Mender | (Drag City) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Niobe | Voodooluba | (Sonig) | noise-pop | 7/10 |
| Tara Jane O'Neill | You Sound Perfect | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Okkervil River | Down the River of Golden Dreams | (Jagjaguwar) | alt-country | 6/10 |
| Old Time Relijun | Lost Light | (K) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Oneida | Secret Wars | (Jagjaguwar) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Ooioo | Kila Kila Kila | (Thrill Jockey) | avant-rock | 5/10 |
| Orb | Bicycles & Tricycles | (Cooking Vinyl) | ambient house | 4/10 |
| Orbital | Blue Album | (IHT) | dance | 4/10 |
| P.G. Six | The Well of Memory | (Amish) | psych-folk | 5/10 |
| P:ano | Den | (Zum) | chamber pop | 6/10 |
| Paik | Satin Black | (Strange Attractors) | drone-rock | 7/10 |
| Pan American | Quiet City | (Kranky) | ambient | 7/10 |
| Pan Sonic | Kesto | (Mute) | electronica | 7/10 |
| Pedro the Lion | Achilles Heel | (Jade Tree) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Grant-Lee Phillips | Virginia Creeper | (Cooking Vinyl) | Genre | 4/10 |
| Sam Phillips | A Boot And A Shoe | (Nonesuch) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Phish | Undermind | (Elektra) | alt-rock | 3/10 |
| Piano Magic | The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic | (Green UFOs) | dream-pop | 5/10 |
| Pinback | Summer In Abaddon | (Touch & Go) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Dan Plonsey | Moving About | (Limited Sedition) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Poster Children | No More Songs About Sleep and Fire | (Hidden Agenda) | noise-rock | 5/10 |
| Preston School Of Industry | Monsoon | (Matador) | country-pop | 5/10 |
| Probot | Probot | (Southern Lord) | metal-pop | 4/10 |
| R.E.M. | Around The Sun | (Warner) | folk-rock | 4/10 |
| Lou Reed | Animal Serenade | (Warner) | songwriter | 4/10 |
| Roger Reynolds | Process and Passion | (Pogus) | avantgarde | 7/10 |
| Robert Rich | Calling Down the Sky | (Soundscape) | electronica | 6/10 |
| Stan Ridgway | Snakebite | (Redfly) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Roitan | Roitan | (Bulb) | garage-rock | 7/10 |
| Ruins Of Beverast | Unlock The Shrine | (Van, 2004) | black metal | 6/10 |
| Janek Schaefer | Cold Storage | (DSP) | electronica | 7/10 |
| Seachange | Lay of the Land | (Matador) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 | Book of Horizons | (Web of Mimicry) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| Ron Sexsmith | Retriever | (Nettwerk) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Shalabi Effects | Pink Abyss | (Alien8) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Silkworm | It'll Be Cool | (Touch & Go) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| 65Daysofstatic | The Fall Of Math | (Monotreme, 2004) | post-rock | 6/10 |
| Roni Size | Return To V | (Thrive) | drum'n'bass | 6/10 |
| Elliott Smith | From A Basement On A Hill | (Anti) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Solex | Laughing Stock Of Indie Rock | (Arena Rock) | songwriter | 7/10 |
| Jon Spencer | Damage | (Sanctuary) | garage-rock | 5/10 |
| Slipknot | The Subliminal Verses | (Roadrunner) | nu-metal | 4/10 |
| Patti Smith | Trampin' | (Columbia) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Sonic Youth | Sonic Nurse | (Geffen) | noise-rock | 6/10 |
| Southern Culture On The Skids | Mojo Box | (Yep Roc) | roots-rock | 6/10 |
| Sophia | People Are Like Seasons | (City Slang) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Spektr | Et Fugit Intera Fugit Irreparabile Tempus | (Appease Me) | post-metal | 7/10 |
| Spring Heel Jack | The Sweetness of the Water | (Thirsty Ear) | jazz | 6/10 |
| Squarepusher | Ultravisitor | (Warp) | drum'n'bass | 5/10 |
| Starsailor | Silence Is Easy | (EMI) | Brit-pop | 4/10 |
| Stereolab | Margerine Eclipse | (Elektra) | alt-rock | 5/10 |
| Strategy | Drumsolo's Delight | (Kranky) | electronica | 5/10 |
| Sunburned Hand of the Man | Rare Wood | (Spirit of Orr) | psych-rock | 5/10 |
| David Thomas | 18 Monkeys On A Dead Man's Chest | (Glitterhouse) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Yann Tiersen | Les Retrouvailles | (Ici D'Ailleurs) | ambient | 4/10 |
| Tin Hat Trio | Book Of Silk | (Ropeadope) | instrumental | 6/10 |
| To Rococo Rot | Hotel Morgen | (Domino) | post-rock | 5/10 |
| Tortoise | It's All Around You | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Trans Am | Liberation | (Thrill Jockey) | post-rock | 4/10 |
| Triosk | Moment Returns | (Leaf) | post-jazz | 7/10 |
| Two Lone Swordsmen | From the Double Gone Chapel | (Warp) | glitch | 6/10 |
| U2 | How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb | (Interscope) | pop | 4/10 |
| Univers Zero | Implosion | (Cuneiform) | prog-rock | 5/10 |
| Jade Vincent | Vincent & Mr Green | (Ipecac) | avant-pop | 7/10 |
| Vocokesh | The Tenth Corner | (Strange Attractors) | psych-pop | 6/10 |
| Tom Waits | Real Gone | (Anti) | songwriter | 5/10 |
| Wilco | A Ghost Is Born | (Nonesuch) | roots-rock | 5/10 |
| Bob Wiseman | It's True | (Blocks Blocks Blocks) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Won James Won | Tol's Toy | (RAIG) | collage | 6/10 |
| Brian Woodbury | Variety Orchestra | (ReR) | post-jazz | 6/10 |
| Shannon Wright | Over The Sun | (Touch & Go) | songwriter | 6/10 |
| Xiu Xiu | Fabulous Muscles | (5 Rue Christine) | alt-rock | 6/10 |
| Yang | Une Nature Complexe | (Cuneiform) | prog-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 |
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