Rounding Out the Top 50

22. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)

23. Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)

24. XX XX (XL)

25. Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)

26. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)

27. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)

28. Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)

29. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)

30. Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)

31. Future of the Left Travels with Myself and Another (4AD)

32. Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)

33. The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)

34. White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)

35. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)

36. Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)

37. Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)

38. Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)

39. Melody Gardot My One and Only Thrill (Verve)

40. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up from Below (Vagrant)

41. The Antlers Hospice (French Kiss)

42. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)

43. Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics (Strut)

44. The Dead Weather Horehound (Warner)

45. DOOM Born Like This (Lex)

46. Adam Arcuragi I Am Become Joy (High Two)

47. Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute)

48. Dinosaur Jr. Farm (Jagjaguwar)

49. Home Blitz Out of Phase (Richie)

50. Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)