The better albums I listened to over the past decade. My “Top 100″ list, if you will. 114, actually.
2009
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
Doves – Kingdom of Rust
Fever Ray – Fever Ray
Kasabian – The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
2008
Adele – 19
Beyonce – I Am… Sasha Fierce
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Johnny Flynn – A Larum
Juvelen – 1
Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
Lykke Li – Youth Novels
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Nada Surf – Lucky
The Stills – Oceans Will Rise
The Subways – All or Nothing
Young Knives – Superabundance
2007
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
Bat for Lashes – Fur and Gold
Battles – Mirrored
Blonde Redhead – 23
The Cinematic Orchestra – Ma Fleur
The Coral – Roots & Echoes
The Enemy – We’ll Live and Die in These Towns
Jamie T – Panic Prevention
Joel Plaskett – Ashtray Rock
Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
The Marzipan Man – Stories
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Mika – Life in Cartoon Motion
The National – Boxer
Pearl Jam – Live at the Gorge (Box Set)
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Silverchair – Young Modern
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Swod – Sekunden
The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
2006
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – So Divided
Detektivbyran – Hemvagen (EP)
Kasabian – Empire
The Killers – Sam’s Town
Lily Allen – Alright Still
Peter Bjorn & John – Writer’s Block
Sloan – Never Hear the End of It
2005
Boards of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV
Idlewild – Warnings/Promises
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Proposition (Soundtrack)
The Secret Machines – The Road Leads Where It’s Led (EP)
2004
American Music Club – Love Songs for Patriots
Bjork – Medulla
Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands
Esthero – O.G. Bitch (Remixes)
Feist – Let it Die
Jem – Finally Woken
k-os – Joyful Rebellion
Various Artists – The Ladykillers (Soundtrack)
2003
Anthony Hamilton – Comin’ from Where I’m From
Aqualung – Still Life
The Blood Brothers – Burn Piano Island, Burn
Boomkat – Boomkatalog.One
The Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight
Clearlake – Cedars
The Darkness – Permission to Land
The Jayhawks – Rainy Day Music
Sam Roberts – We Were Born in a Flame
Various Artists – Big Fish (Soundtrack)
Sufjan Stevens – Greetings from Michigan
The Thrills – So Much for the City
2002
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
Archive – You All Look the Same to Me
Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Brendan Benson – Lapalco
Death in Vegas – Scorpio Rising
Hot Hot Heat – Knock Knock Knock
Idlewild – The Remote Part
Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights
Paul Westerberg – Stereo
Sigur Ros – ()
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2001
The Charlatans – Wonderland
Fugazi – The Argument
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Manic Street Preachers – So Why So Sad (Single)
Remy Zero – The Golden Hum
Various Artists – Snatch (Soundtrack)
Starsailor – Fever (Single)
The Strokes – The Modern Age (EP)
2000
Alpinestars – B.A.S.I.C.
Blur – Music is My Radar (Single)
Chantal Kreviazuk – Colour Moving and Still
Daft Punk – One More Time (Single)
Dead Prez – Let’s Get Free
The Delgados – The Great Eastern
Doves – Lost Souls
Elastica – The Menace
Ian Brown – Golden Greats
JJ72 – JJ72
Mansun – Little Kix
Moloko – Things to Make and Do
Oasis – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
OutKast – Stankonia
PJ Harvey – Stories from the City Stories from the Sea
Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
Radiohead – Kid A
Six by Seven – The Closer You Get
The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God
Stroke – First In, Last Out
Tegan and Sara – This Business of Art
The Wu-Tang Clan – The W
