Rounding Out the Top 50

Albums 22 through 50 in the City Paper critics' poll.

22. The National Boxer (Beggars Banquet)

23. Band of Horses Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)

24. PJ Harvey White Chalk (Island)

25. Illinois What the Hell Do I Know (Ace Fu)

26. Celebration The Modern Tribe (4AD)

27. The New Pornographers Challengers (Matador)

28. Laura Veirs Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)

29. Refrigerator Bottles of Make Up (Shrimper)

30. Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (Beggars Xl)

31. Panda Bear Person Pitch (FatCat)

32. Thurston Moore Trees Outside the Academy (Ecstatic Peace)

33. Kanye West Graduation (Def Jam)

34. Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls (Too Pure)

35. Meg Baird Dear Companion (Drag City)

36. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Living With the Living (Touch & Go)

37. Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)

38. Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark)

39. Mark Ronson Version (Columbia)

40. Beirut The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing!)

41. Amy Winehouse Frank (Universal/Island)

42. Apollo Heights White Music for Black People (Manimal Vinyl)

43. Iron and Wine The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)

44. The A-Sides Silver Storms (Vagrant)

45. Stars In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts and Crafts)

46. Sean Price Jesus Price Supastar (Duck Down)

47. Bitter, Bitter Weeks Peace is Burning Like a River (High Two)

48. The Swimmers Fighting Trees (self-released)

49. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals Follow the Lights EP (Lost Highway)

50. The Good, the Bad, & the Queen The Good, the Bad, & the Queen (Virgin)