Best rock albums of the 2000's

Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Heavyland (2002)
Agalloch: The Mantle (2002)
Alcest: Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde (2007)
Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where (2002)
Anaal Nathrakh: The Codex Necro (2001)
Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished (2000)
Arcade Fire: Funeral (2004)
Bad Statistics: Static (2007)
Battles: Mirrored (2007)
Ben Frost: Theory of Machines (2006)
Billy Bao: Dialectics Of Shit (2008)
Black Dice: Beaches & Canyons (2002)
Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island Burn (2003)
Bohren & der Club of Gore: Sunset Mission (2000)
Brave Little Abacus: Masked Dancers (2009)
Burial: Burial (2006)
Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (2001)
Carla Bozulich: Evangelista (2006)
Cat Power: You Are Free (2003)
Cerberus Shoal: Mr Boy Dog (2002)
Chad VanGaalen: Infiniheart (2004)
Charalambides: Joy Shapes (2004)
Circle: Miljard (2006)
cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (2001)
Cobalt: Eater of Birds (2007)
Colleen: The Golden Morning Breaks (2005)
Comets On Fire: Field Recordings From the Sun (2002)
Common: Electric Circus (2002)
Cult of Luna: Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)
Dan Deacon: Bromst (2009)
David Thomas Broughton: The Complete Guide To Insufficiency (2005)
DJ Hidden: The Later After (2007)
DJ Logic: Anomaly (2001)
Dodos: Visiter (2008)
Dorine Muraille: Mani (2002)
El-P: Fantastic Damage (2002)
Electrelane: Rock It To The Moon (2001)
Elegi: Sistereis (2007)
Eliane Radigue: Adnos I-III (2002)
Eluvium: Talk Amongst The Trees (2005)
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Entropic Advance: Red Yellow Noise (2002)
Envy : A Dead Sinking Story (2003)
Evol Intent: Era of Diversion (2008)
Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark (2003)
Four Tet: Rounds (2003)
Frog Eyes: The Bloody Hand (2002)
Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (2008)
Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (2004)
Gnaw Their Tongues: An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood (2007)
Godspeed You Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)
Grails: Burning Off Impurities (2007)
Grouper: Way Their Crept (2005)
Gultskra Artikler: Kasha Iz Topora (2007)
Hella: Church Gone Wild/ Chirpin Hard (2005)
Helmut Schafer: Noise As A Language (2008)
Hunches: Yes No Shut It (2002)
Jacaszek: Treny (2008)
James Holden: The Idiots are Winning (2006)
James Plotkin: Atomsmasher (2001)
Jasper TX: Black Sleep (2008)
Jessica Bailiff: Jessica Bailiff (2002)
Jim Haynes: Telegraphy By The Sea (2006)
Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor (2009)
Jonathan Coleclough: Period (2001)
Juana Molina: Un Dia (2008)
Kanye West: The College Dropout (2004)
Katharsis: VVorld VVithout End (2006)
Kayo Dot: Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue (2006)
Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (2006)
Khanate: Things Viral (2003)
Koen Holtkamp: Field Rituals (2008)
Kopernik: Kopernik (2003)
Krallice: Krallice (2008)
LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (2007)
Leyland Kirby: Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was (2009)
Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi (2008)
Low: Trust (2002)
Lydia Lunch: Smoke In The Shadows (2004)
M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (2003)
Man Man: Man in a Blue Turban with a Face (2004)
Manitoba: Up In Flames (2003)
Maquiladora: Ritual Of Hearts (2002)
Menomena: I Am The Fun Blame Monster (2003)
Merzbow: Sha Mo 3000 (2004)
Mi Ami: Watersports (2009)
Microphones: Mount Eerie (2003)
Midori: Hello Everyone Nice to Meet You We are Midori (2008)
Natural Snow Buildings: The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (2006)
Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
No-Man: Together We're Stranger (2003)
Orthrelm: OV (2005)
Pan Sonic: Kesto (2004)
Panda Bear: Person Pitch (2007)
Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss (2007)
Paul Metzger: Deliverance (2007)
Pauline Oliveros: Primordial Lift (2000)
Pelt: Ayahuasca (2001)
Plastic Crimewave Sound: Flashing Open (2003)
Qa'a: Vesprada (2009)
Quasimoto: The Unseen (2000)
Religious Knives: Remains (2007)
Richard Chartier: Levels Inverted (2006)
Robert Rich: Somnium (2001)
Rosetta: The Galilean Satellites (2005)
Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (2006)
Scott Tuma: Hard Again (2001)
Shackleton: Three EPs (2009)
Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (2006)
Shugo Tokumaru: L.S.T. (2005)
Sightings: Michigan Haters (2002)
St Vincent: Marry Me (2007)
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)
Tera Melos: Tera Melos (2005)
To Live and Shave in LA: Noon and Eternity (2006)
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)
Ulver: Perdition City (2000)
Vektor: Black Future (2009)
Vibracathedral Orchestra: Dabbling With Gravity (2002)
Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (2006)
Warhammer 48K: An Ethereal Oracle (2006)
White Flight: White Flight (2006)
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops (2003)
Wraiths: Plaguebearer (2007)
Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem Of 12 Stars (2006)
Xiu Xiu: A Promise (2003)
Xiu Xiu: La Foret (2005)
Yoga: Megafauna (2009)

7/10

!!!: Myth Takes (2007)
A Broken Consort: The Shape Leaves (2006)
A Forest of Stars: The Corpse of Rebirth (2008)
A Silver Mt Zion: He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms (2000)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal (2007)
Absurd Minds: Deception (2000)
Acid Mothers Temple: Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (2002)
Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (2007)
Acid Mothers Temple: Iao Chant From The Cosmic Inferno (2005)
Add N To (X): Loud Like Nature (2002)
Aereogramme: Sleep And Release (2003)
Aesop Rock: Float (2000)
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain (2006)
AGF: Westernization Completed (2003)
Aidan Baker: Noise Of Silence (2007)
Akron/Family: Akron/Family (2005)
Alastair Galbraith: Cry (2000)
Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (2006)
Alexander Turnquist: As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color (2009)
Alfredo Costa-Monteiro: Epicycle (2007)
Alias: The Other Side of the Looking Glass (2002)
Aloha: That's Your Fire (2000)
Alps: III (2008)
Aluk Todolo: Descension (2007)
Ametsub: Linear Cryptics (2006)
Anahita: Matricaria (2009)
Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production Of Eggs (2005)
Andrew Bird: Noble Beast (2009)
Angel: In Transmediale (2006)
Angelic Process: Coma Waering (2003)
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)
Antlers: Hospice (2009)
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)
Atmosphere: Lucy Ford (2001)
Au Revoir Simone: Verses Of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation (2005)
Avalanches: Since I Left You (2000)
Avarus: II (2006)
Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (2001)
Azita: How Will You (2009)
Baby Dee: Love's Small Song (2002)
Barn Owl: The Conjurer (2009)
Baroness: Red Album (2007)
Beachwood Sparks: Once We Were Trees (2001)
Beat Circus: Dreamland (2008)
Behemoth: Demigod (2004)
Behold the Arctopus : Skullgrid (2007)
Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (2006)
Ben Frost: Steel Wound (2003)
Bent Leg Fatima (2000)
Besnard Lakes: Are The Dark Horse (2007)
Between the Buried and Me: Alaska (2005)
Between the Buried and Me: The Great Misdirect (2009)
Birchville Cat Motel: Beautiful Speck Triumph (2004)
Birchville Cat Motel: Birds Call Home Their Dead (2007)
Bird Show: Green Inferno (2005)
Black Angels: Passover (2006)
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 Eyes: Cough Cough (2004)
Black Heart Procession: 3 (2000)
Black Lips: Let It Bloom (2005)
Black Tape For A Blue Girl: The Scavenger Bride (2002)
Black To Comm: Ruckwarts Backwards (2006)
Black Vomit: Jungle Death (2009)
Blackalicious: Nia (2000)
Blackie : Wilderness of North America (2008)
Blectum From Blechdom: The Messy Jesse Fiesta (2000)
Blithe Sons: We Walk The Young Earth (2003)
Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (2001)
Blood on the Dance Floor: Let's Start a Riot (2008)
Blu & Exile: Below the Heavens (2007)
Blut Aus Nord: Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars (2009)
Bongripper: The Great Barrier Reefer (2006)
Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi (2002)
Books: Thought For Food (2002)
Boredoms: Seadrum/ House Of Sun (2004)
Boris: At Last - Feedbacker (2004)
Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (2006)
Boxhead Ensemble: Quartets (2003)
Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (2001)
Brendan Benson : Lapalco (2002)
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)
Bull of Heaven: 018 Candles Green, Heads and Skulls (2008)
By The End Of Tonight: A Tribute To Tigers (2005)
Cadence Weapon: Breaking Kayfabe (2005)
Caethua: The Long Afternoon Of Earth (2009)
Calexico: Feast of Wire (2003)
Calexico: Hot Rail (2000)
Califone: Roomsound (2001)
Califone: Heron King Blves (2004)
Caretaker: A Stairway To The Stars (2001)
Caribou: The Milk Of Human Kindness (2005)
Carl Stone: Al-Noor (2007)
Castanets: Cathedral (2004)
Castanets: In The Vines (2007)
Cave: Psychic Psummer (2009)
Celestiial: Desolate North (2006)
Christina Carter: Electrice (2006)
Circle: Prospekt (2000)
CJA: Pink Metal (2007)
Clinic: Internal Wrangler (2000)
Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
Cloaks A Crystal Skull In Peru (2007)
cLOUDDEAD: Ten (2004)
Clubroot: Clubroot (2009)
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)
Colour Haze: Los Sounds De Krauts (2003)
Combat Astronomy: The Dematerialized Passenger (2005)
Comets On Fire: Blue Cathedral (2004)
Comets On Fire: Comets on Fire (2000)
Converge: Jane Doe (2001)
Corea: Los Peores 7 km de mi Vida (2004)
Corrupted: El Mundo Frio (2005)
Crooked Fingers: Bring on the Snakes (2001)
Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles (2008)
Cult of Luna: Cult of Luna (2001)
Cursive: Domestica (2000)
Cursive: The Ugly Organ (2003)
Cut Chemist: The Audience Is Listening (2006)
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours (2008)
Czars: The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (2001)
Dale Cooper Quartet: Parole De Navarre (2006)
Dalek: Gutter Tactics (2009)
Dalek: From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (2002)
Dalek: Absence (2004)
Damien Jurado: Ghost Of David (2000)
Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (2006)
Daniel Johnston: Fear Yourself (2003)
Danubians: Danubians (2000)
Darkspace: II (2005)
Datach'i: We Are Always Well Thank You (2000)
David Grubbs: The Spectrum Between (2000)
David Thomas Broughton: Vs. 7 Hertz (2007)
Dead C: Future Artists (2007)
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Lost In Reflections (2008)
Dead Meadow: Feathers (2004)
Dead Weather: Horehound (2009)
Deaf Center: Pale Ravine (2005)
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 Getty Address (2005)
Dirty Projectors: The Glad Fact (2003)
Discordance Axis: The Inalienable Dreamless (2000)
Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (2003)
DJ Spooky: Optometry (2002)
DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (2009)
Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities (2002)
Double Leopards: Halve Maen (2003)
Double Leopards: A Hole Is True (2005)
Doves: Lost Souls (2000)
Doves: Kingdom of Rust (2009)
Dresden Dolls: Dresden Dolls (2004)
Drive-by Truckers: The Southern Rock Opera (2001)
Dysrhythmia: Contradiction (2000)
Early Day Miners: Let Us Garlands Bring (2002)
Earthless: Sonic Prayer (2005)
Ed Harcourt: Here Be Monsters (2001)
Edan Portnoy: Beauty And The Beat (2005)
Eels: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (2005)
El Guapo: Super System (2002)
Electric Wizard: Dopethrone (2000)
Elegi: Varde (2009)
Emeralds: Allegory Of Allergies (2007)
Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl (2000)
Envy : All The Footprints You've Ever Left (2001)
Envy : Insomniac Doze (2006)
Erase Errata: Nightlife (2006)
Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (2006)
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War (2008)
Evanescence: Origin (2000)
Evangelicals: The Evening Descends (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)
Expo '70: Mystical Amplification (2007)
Far Corner: Endangered (2007)
Fear Falls Burning: He Spoke in Dead Tongues (2005)
Fennesz: Black Sea (2008)
Fennesz: Endless Summer (2001)
Fever Ray: Fever Ray (2009)
Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (2004)
Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (2005)
Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (2006)
Final Fantasy: He Poos Clouds (2006)
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (2008)
Fleshpress: Pillars (2007)
Flotation Toy Warning: Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck (2004)
Fontanelle: Fontanelle (2000)
For Carnation (2000)
Four Tet: Pause (2001)
Fred Frith: Impur (2006)
Frodus: And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea (2001)
Frog Eyes: The Golden River (2003)
Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (2009)
Fucked Up: Hidden World (2006)
Fursaxa: Amulet (2004)
Furze: Necromanzee Cogent (2003)
Gang Gang Dance: God's Money (2005)
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Olesi - Fragments Of An Earth (2006)
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Umsindo (2009)
Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (2001)
Gnaw Their Tongues: Reeking Pained And Shuddering (2007)
Gnaw Their Tongues: For All Slaves A Song Of False Hope (2008)
Go Team: Proof Of Youth (2007)
Go Team: Thunder Lightning Strike (2004)
Godspeed You Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (2002)
Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks (2005)
Gojira: From Mars to Sirius (2005)
Grails: The Burden of Hope (2003)
Green Milk From The Planet Orange: City Calls Revolution (2005)
Greg Davis: Arbor (2002)
Grinderman: Grinderman (2007)
Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (2006)
Grouper: Cover The Windows And Walls (2007)
Guapo: Five Suns (2004)
Hail Architeuthis: Hail Architeuthis (2009)
Half Makeshift: Omen (2008)
Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (2004)
Harris Newman: Accidents with Nature and Each Other (2005)
Have A Nice Life: Deathconsciousness (2008)
Health: Get Color (2009)
Herbert: Bodily Functions (2001)
Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious (2000)
Hlidolf: V01d (2002)
Holy Fuck: LP (2007)
Hood: Cold House (2001)
Horse The Band: The Mechanical Hand (2005)
Hope Sandoval: Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)
Howard Hello: Howard Hello (2002)
Hwyl Nofio: Hymnal (2002)
Icarus: I Tweet the Birdy Electric (2004)
Ida Maria: Fortress Round My Heart (2008)
Ilyas Ahmed: Towards The Night (2006)
Immolation: Close to a World Below (2000)
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)
Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gefuhle (2001)
Irr. App. (Ext.): Kreiselwelle (2009)
Isis: Celestial (2000)
Isis: Panopticon (2004)
Islands: Return to the Sea (2006)
Jack Rose: Red Horse White Mule (2001)
Jack Rose: Raag Manifestos (2004)
Jade Vincent: Vincent & Mr Green (2004)
Jaga Jazzist: The Stix (2002)
Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch (2005)
Jan Jelinek: Loop Finding Jazz Records (2001)
Janek Schaefer: Cold Storage (2004)
Japancakes: Waking Hours (2004)
Japandroids: Post-Nothing (2009)
Jasper TX: I'll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You (2005)
Jasper TX: A Darkness (2007)
Jasun Martz: The Pillory/ The Battle (2005)
Jennifer Gentle: Funny Creatures Lane (2002)
Jens Lekman: Oh You're So Silent Jens (2005)
JJ: JJ Nų 2 (2009)
Joan Of Arc: The Gap (2000)
Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
Johann Johannsson: Virthulegu Forsetar (2004)
John Cale: Hobosapiens (2003)
Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I'm From (2000)
Journey To Ixtlan: Journey To Ixtlan (2008)
JS666: I (2007)
Juana Molina: Segundo (2003)
Julian Lynch: Orange You Glad (2009)
Julianna Barwick: Sanguine (2006)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Absencen (2005)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Cicadidae (2003)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Jinx (2007)
Kanye West: Late Registration (2005)
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)
Kit Clayton: Lateral Forces - Surface Fault (2001)
Krallice: Dimensional Bleedthrough (2009)
Kreng: L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu (2009)
KTL: KTL (2006)
KTL: KTL 2 (2007)
L'Acephale: Stahlhartes Gehause (2009)
L'Altra: Music Of A Sinking Occasion (2000)
La Dispute: Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair (2008)
Lamp Of The Universe: Echo In Light (2001)
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver (2007)
Legion Of Two: Riffs (2009)
Leila Arab: Blood Looms And Blooms (2008)
Leviathan: Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (2008)
Li Jianhong: Talking Freely Before The Beginning (2003)
Liars: Drum's Not Dead (2006)
Light Of Shipwreck: From The Idle Cylinders (2007)
Lightning Bolt: Ride The Skies (2001)
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter II (2005)
Lindstrom: Where You Go I Go Too (2008)
Liquid Mind: Unity (2000)
Lorna: Static Patterns & Souvenirs (2005)
Lorna: This Time Each Year (2003)
Los Siquicos Litoralenos: A Pleno Ritmo Sideral (2005)
Loscil: Submers (2002)
Loscil: Plume (2006)
Lou Reed: Ecstasy (2000)
Low: Things We Lost In The Fire (2001)
Lykke Li: Youth Novels (2008)
M Ward: End Of Amnesia (2001)
Machinefabriek: Marijn (2006)
Madvillain: Madvillainy (2004)
Mamaleek: Fever Dream (2008)
Man Man: Six Demon Bag (2006)
Maninkari: Le Diable Avec Ses Chevaux (2007)
Manitoba: Start Breaking My Heart (2001)
Maquiladora: White Sands (2000)
Mark McGuire: Guitar Meditations (2008)
Marnie Stern: In Advance Of The Broken Arm (2007)
Mastodon: Leviathan (2004)
Mastodon: Remission (2002)
Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (2001)
Max Richter : The Blue Notebooks (2004)
Max Tundra: Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be (2000)
MC Trachiotomy: W/Love From Tahiti (2002)
Me'Shell NdegeOcello: The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (2007)
Menomena: Under An Hour (2005)
Mermen: The Amazing California Health And Happiness Road Show (2000)
Merzbow: Dharma (2001)
Micachu: Jewellery (2009)
Michael Schumacher: Four Stills (2002)
Michael Schumacher: Room Pieces (2003)
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)
Moodymann: Black Mahogani (2004)
Morphine: The Night (2000)
Motion Picture: A Paper Gift (2001)
Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (2003)
Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (2005)
Mountains: Mountains (2005)
Mouse On Mars: Idiology (2001)
Mrtyu: The Burning Ground (2004)
Mrtyu: Ritual Terra Continuii (2007)
Mum: Finally We Are No One (2002)
Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok (2000)
Murmer: Definition (2003)
Murmer: We Are A Shadow (2007)
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)
Natural Snow Buildings: The Centauri Agent (2010)
Necks: Silverwater (2009)
Necro Deathmort: This Beat Is Necrotronic (2009)
Neko Case: Blacklisted (2002)
Nekrasov: The Form Of Thought From Beast (2008)
Neotropic: La Prochaine Fois (2001)
Nicolai Dunger: Soul Rush (2001)
Night Control: Death Control (2009)
Nihill: Krach (2007)
Niobe: Voodooluba (2004)
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 (2002)
Nudge: Cached (2005)
Nudge: As Good As Gone (2009)
Obscura: Cosmogenesis (2009)
Ocean Collective: Precambrian (2007)
Octopus Project: Identification Parade (2002)
Okkervil River: The Stage Names (2007)
Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (2005)
Old Time Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (2001)
Old Time Relijun: Lost Light (2004)
Olivia Block: Heave To (2006)
Olivia Block: Change Ringing (2005)
Oneida: Each One Teach One (2002)
Oneida: Rated O (2009)
Ooioo: Taiga (2006)
Ora: Amalgam (2000)
Oren Ambarchi: Suspension (2001)
Otep: Sevas Tra (2002)
Otomo Yoshihide: Anode (2000)
Out Hud: Street Dad (2002)
Outkast: The Love Below (2003)
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)
Paper Chase: Now You Are One Of Us (2006)
Patrick Wolf: Lycanthropy (2003)
Paul Dolden: Delires De Plaisirs (2005)
Pelican: Australasia (2003)
Philip Jeck: Vinyl Coda I-III (2000)
Philip Jeck: Host (2003)
Philip Jeck & Janek Schaefer: Songs For Europe (2004)
Pinetop Seven: Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (2000)
Ponys: Laced With Romance (2004)
Portal: Seepia (2003)
Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (2001)
Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U (2001)
Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural (2005)
Psychedelic Horseshit: Magic Flowers Droned (2007)
Puppetina: Piewacket (2001)
Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil (2008)
Pussygutt: Sea Of Sand (2007)
Raccoo-Oo-Oon: Behold Secret Kingdom (2006)
Radian: TG11 (2000)
Radiohead: Amnesiac (2001)
Ralph Carney: This is (2003)
Rapture: Echoes (2003)
Ricardo Villalobos: Alcachofa (2003)
Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms (2001)
Richard Chartier: Tracing (2005)
Richard Hawley: Truelove's Gutter (2009)
Rollerball: Trail Of The Butter Yeti (2001)
Rollerball: Bathing Music (2000)
Roy Montgomery: Silver Wheel Of Prayer (2001)
Russian Circles: Enter (2006)
Rusted Shut: Rehab (2004)

Links:

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)

Set Fire To Flames: Telegraphs In Negative (2003)

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: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit (2009)

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)

Sic Alps: Pleasures And Treasures (2006)

Sigur Ros: () (2002)

Silvester Anfang: Sylvester Anfang II (2009)

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: Duration (2002)

Skullflower: Tribulation (2006)

Smoke & Mirrors: Deities (2004)

Soap And Skin: Lovetune For Vacuum (2009)

Sole: Salt on Everything (2003)

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)

Streets: Original Pirate Material (2002)

Strokes: Is This It (2001)

Subtle: For Hero For Fool (2006)

Suishou No Fune: Suishou No Fune (2005)

Sunburned Hand of the Man: Jaybird (2001)

Sunn O))): Black One (2005)

Sunn O))): Flight Of The Behemoth (2002)

Sunn O))): Zero Zero Void (2000)

Sunroof: Panzer Division Lou Reed (2007)

Supersilent: 5 (2001)

Surface of Eceon: The King Beneath the Mountain (2001)

Susumu Yokota: Sakura (2000)

Sweet Trip: Velocity Design Comfort (2003)

System Of A Down: Mezmerize (2005)

System Of A Down: Toxicity (2001)

Taken By Trees: Open Field (2007)

Tape: Rideau (2005)

Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines (2001)

Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (2008)

Terra Ambient: The Gate (2004)

The-Dream: Love/Hate (2007)

Thomas Brinkmann: Klick (2001)

Thomas Buckner and Jerome Bourdellon : Totem (2006)

Tim Hecker: Presents Radio Amor (2003)

Times New Viking: Dig Yourself (2005)

Town And Country: C'mon (2002)

Triosk: Moment Returns (2004)

Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: As the Fog Clears but for a Moment (2007)

Troum: Tjukurrpa - Harmonies (2001)

Troum: Shutun (2006)

TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)

Tycho: Sunrise Projector (2004)

Ufomammut: Snailking (2004)

Ugly Casanova: Sharpen Your Teeth (2002)

Ulan Bator: Ego Echo (2000)

Ulcerate: Of Fracture and Failure (2007)

Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)

Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (2008)

Velvet Teen: Elysium (2004)

Venetian Snares: Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett (2005)

Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll (2001)

Vex'd: Degenerate (2005)

Warhammer 48K: Uber Ohm (2004)

Wavves: Wavves (2008)

White Denim: Workout Holiday (2008)

White Stripes: White Blood Cells (2001)

Why: Elephant Eyelash (2005)

Wildbirds & Peacedrums: Heartcore (2007)

Wildildlife: Six (2007)

William Basinski: The River (2002)

William Fowler Collins: Perdition Hill Radio (2009)

Wold: L.O.T.M.P. (2005)

Wolf Eyes: Dread (2001)

Wolf Parade: Apologies To The Queen Mary (2005)

Won James Won: Theorist Attack (2005)

Worriedaboutsatan: Arrivals (2009)

Woven Hand: Mosaic (2006)

Wraiths: Oriflamme (2006)

Xanopticon: Liminal Space (2003)

Xiu Xiu: Knife Play (2002)

Yacht: I Believe in You Your Magic Is Real (2007)

Yakuza: Samsara (2006)

Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals (2007)

Yellow Swans: Psychic Secession (2005)

Yellow Swans: At All Ends (2007)

Yob: The Great Cessation (2009)

Zebulon Pike: Intransience (2008)

Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (2001)

Zombi: Cosmos (2004)

Zu: Igneo (2002)

EPs

8/10

Meshuggah: I (2004) (EP)
Purling Hiss: Purling Hiss (2009) (EP)

7.5/10

!!!: Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard (2003) (EP)
B Fleischmann: Welcome Tourist (2003)
Crystal Antlers: Crystal Antlers (2008) (EP)
Decemberists: The Tain (2004) (EP)
Fucked Up: Looking For Gold (2004) (EP)
Grails: Take Refuge In Clean Living (2008) (mini)
James Blackshaw: Celeste (2004) (mini)
Oren Ambarchi: A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks (2008) (EP)
Raccoo-Oo-Oon: Is Night People (2005) (mini)
Squadra Omega: Rennes Le Chateau (2008) (EP)
Squadra Omega: Tenebroso (2009) (EP)
Stalaggh: Projekt Nihil (2003) (mini)
Sun Araw: Beach Head (2008)
Tarentel: Looking for Things/ Searching for Things (2000) (EP)
Three Trapped Tigers: EP 1 (2008)
Tropes: Tropes (2007) (mini)
Twin Stumps: Twin Stumps (2009) (mini)
Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls (2008) (mini)
Wolves In The Throne Room: Malevolent Grain (2009) (mini)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2001) (EP)

7/10

Acid Mothers Temple: 41st Century Splendid Man (2002) (mini)
Alps: Jewelt Galaxies (2005) (mini)
Bablicon: The Orange Tapered Moon (2000) (mini)
Bachelorette: The End Of Things (2005) (EP)
Blues Control: Local Flavor (2009) (EP)
By The End of Tonight: Fireworks on Ice (2004) (EP)
By The End of Tonight: A Tribute To Tigers (2005) (mini)
Clipd Beaks: Preyers (2006) (EP)
Cloudland Canyon: Silver Tongued Sisyphus (2007) ( EP)
Deathspell Omega: Kenose (2005) (EP)
Deathspell Omega: Mass Grave Aesthetics (2008) (EP)
Double Leopards: Out Of One, Through One, And To One (2005) (mini)
Ducktails: Ducktails (2009)
Efterklang: Springer (2003) (EP)
Efterklang: One Sided LP (2006) (EP)
Eternals: Black Museum (2002) (EP)
Excepter: Vacation (2003)(EP)
Fleshpress: Worm Dirges (2004) (mini)
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Worthnothings (2004) (EP)
Georgia Anne Muldrow: Sagala (2007) (EP)
Gog: Mist From The Random More (2009) (mini)
Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol 2 (2006) (EP)
Green Milk From The Planet Orange: The Shape of Rock to Come (2001) (EP)
Gregg Kowalsky: Tape Chants Arroyo (2007) (mini)
Gultskra Artikler: Pofigistka (2006) (EP)
Half Makeshift: Aphotic Leech (2007) (mini)
Health: Health (2007) (mini)
James Blackshaw: Sunshrine (2005) (mini)
Kreidler: Eve Future (2002) (mini)
Landing: Fade In Fade Out (2002) (EP)
Light Of Shipwreck: Through The Bilge Lies A Calm And Bloodless Sea (2008) (EP)
Lil Wayne: SQ7 (2003) (EP)
L'Ocelle Mare: Engourdissement (2009) (mini)
Monument of Urns: The Ancient Method (2005) (EP)
Moodymann: Black Mahogani II (2004)
Nisennenmondai: Destination Tokyo (2008) (mini)
Paul Metzger: Canticle Of Ignat (2008) (EP)
Pelican: Pelican (2003) (EP)
Rameses III: Parsimonia (2004) (mini)
Ricardo Villalobos: Fizheuer Zieheuer (2006) (EP)
Ruidosa Inmundicia De Una Vez (2005) (EP)
Savage Young Taterbug: River Mortis (2009) (EP)
Shit And Shine: Toilet Door Tits (2006) (mini)
Shugo Tokumaru: Night Piece (2004) (mini)
Skull Kontrol: Zzzzzz.... (2000) (mini)
Steven Smith: Tableland (2000) (mini)
Thrones: Sperm Whale (2000) (EP)
Venetian Snares: Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole (2005) (mini)
Washed Out: Life of Leisure (2009) (EP)
White Hills: No Game To Play (2003) (mini)
Wolf Eyes: Human Animal (2006) (EP)
Zs: Music of the Modern White (2009) (EP)

Nick Vieira's graphical summary:

The greatest bands of the 2000s

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