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MUSIC . Critics' Lists . 2009
Reviewers
A.D. Amorosi
Rodney Anonymous
Mary Armstrong
Justin Bauer
Lea Bogdan
Dennis Crowley
Felicia D'Ambrosio
Will Dean
Jesse Delaney
M.F. DiBella
Molly Eichel
Julia Factorial
David Faris
M.J. Fine
Pat Foley
Lauren F. Friedman
Wendy Ginsberg
Reseca Glasser
Ryan Godfrey
Atom Goren
Catherine Grubb
Naren Gupte
K. Ross Hoffman
Ed Hogarty
Greg Hoskins
Matt Hotz
Brian Howard
Tom Howard
Carolyn Huckabay
Maura Johnston
Jasia Kaulbach
J. Edward Keyes
Brian James Kirk
Bob McCormick
Natalie Hope McDonald
Dominic Mercier
Andrew Milner
Holly Otterbein
Michael Pelusi
Nicole Pensiero
Jenna Portnoy
Cheryl Poulos
Neal Ramirez
Mike Rapa
Patrick Rapa
Hillary Rea
James Saul
Lauren Seibert
Carrie South
Amy Strauss
Paul Tsikitas
John Vettese
Julia West
Scott Yorko
Lauren Zalut

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A.D. Amorosi

  1. Nellie McKay Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute To Doris Day (Verve)
  2. David Sylvian Manafon (Samadhi)
  3. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  4. Theo Bleckmann/John Hollenbeck/Gary Versace Refuge Trio (Winter & Winter)
  5. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  6. Melody Gardot My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
  7. Nick Cave + Warren Ellis The Death of Bunny Munroe (Macmillan)
  8. Digital Primitives Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch)
  9. Loudon Wainright III High Wide & Handsome (2nd Story)
  10. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]

Rodney Anonymous

  1. VNV Nation Reformation 01 (Red Distribution)
  2. Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
  3. The Warsaw Village Band Infinity (World Village)
  4. Angelspit Hideous and Perfect: (Metropolis)
  5. Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight (Sony Legacy)
  6. Velvet Acid Christ The Art of Breaking Apart (Metropolis)
  7. Warren Ellis and Nick Cave White Lunar Soundtrack (Mute)
  8. Ersatz Musika Songs Unrecantable (Asphalt Tango)
  9. Project Pitchfork Dream Tiresias! (Cop International)
  10. Schallfaktor Sittenverfall (Infacted)

Mary Armstrong

  1. Hip Hop Hoodios Carne Masada (Jazzheads)
  2. Lili Añel Every Second in Between (Wall-I)
  3. John Fogerty Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again (Fortunate Son/Verve)
  4. Booka and the Flaming Geckos Baghdad Texas (Loudhouse)
  5. Phil Lee, Eric Brace, Kieran Kane et al East Nashville vol. 3 More Music from the Other Side (Red Beet)
  6. Watcha Clan Diaspora Remixed, Marseille @ New Yokr, London (Piranha)
  7. Steve Wariner My Tribute to Chet Atkins (SelecTone)
  8. The Boston Boys Listen (Eric Robertson Music)
  9. Commander Cody Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers (Blind Pig)
  10. Sam & Ruby The Here and The Now (Rykodisc)

Justin Bauer

  1. Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute)
  2. Deer Tick Born on Flag Day (Partisan)
  3. Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
  4. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  5. The Dead Weather Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
  6. The Raveonettes In and Out of Control (Vice)
  7. Blakroc Blakroc (V2)
  8. White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)
  9. Handsome Furs Face Control (Sub Pop)
  10. Bon Iver Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar)

Lea Bogdan

  1. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  2. Andrew Bird Nobel Beast (Fat Possum)
  3. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
  4. Flight of the Conchords I Told you I was Freaky (Sub Pop)
  5. Iron & Wine Around the Well (Sub Pop)
  6. Hoots and Hellmouth The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)
  7. Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Bella Union)
  8. Birdie Busch Pattern of Saturn (Monotask)
  9. Moby Wait for Me (Little Idiot)
  10. Rosanne Cash The List (Mahattan)

Dennis Crowley

  1. Thee Oh Sees Help (In the Red)
  2. Atlas Sound Logos (Kranky)
  3. Sic Alps Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Drag City)
  4. Thee Oh Sees The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In (Tomlab)
  5. Kurt Vile God is Saying This to You (Mexican Summer)
  6. Ty Segall Lemons (Goner)
  7. Tyvek Tyvek (Siltbreeze)
  8. Eat Skull Wild and Inside (Siltbreeze)
  9. Home Blitz Out Of Phase (Richie Records)
  10. Nervous Sex Nervous Sex (self released)

Felicia D'Ambrosio

  1. Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  2. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  3. Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
  4. Blk Jks After Robots (Secretly Canadian)
  5. Beirut March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland (Pompeii)
  6. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  7. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  8. D. Lissvik 7 Trx + Intermission (Information)
  9. Amadou & Mariam Welcome to Mali (Nonesuch)
  10. Bat For Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks)

Will Dean

  1. Future Of The Left Travels with Myself and Another (4AD)
  2. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  3. Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
  4. We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls (Fat Cat)
  5. Random Mega Ran 9 (RAHM Nation, Capcom)
  6. Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
  7. Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles (Quote Unquote)
  8. Art Brut Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
  9. Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves Ace of Spades (Q division)
  10. They Might be Giants Here Comes Science (Disney)

Jesse Delaney

  1. The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
  2. Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (Ice Water)
  3. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
  4. Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains (Sister's Den)
  5. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
  6. Japandroids Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl) [CP Top 21]
  7. Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
  8. Built to Spill There Is No Enemy (Warner)
  9. Dinosaur Jr Farm (Jagjaguwar)
  10. Grand Archives Keep in Mind Frankenstein (Sub Pop)

M.F. DiBella

  1. Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (Ice Water)
  2. Eminem Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
  3. DOOM Born Like This (Lex)
  4. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  5. Mavado Mr. Brooks...A Better Tomorrow (VP)
  6. Tanya Morgan Brooklynatti (Interdependent Media)
  7. The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead (FatCat)
  8. Major Lazer Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do (Downtown)
  9. We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls (Fat Cat)
  10. Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)

Molly Eichel

  1. Japandroids Post Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl)
  2. The Noisettes Wild Young Hearts (Mercury)
  3. Screaming Females Power Move (Don Giovanni)
  4. XX XX (XL)
  5. The Whore Moans Hellow From the Radio Wasteland (Mt. Fuji)
  6. Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
  7. Elvis Perkins Elvis Perkins in Dearland (XL)
  8. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
  9. Chain and the Gang Down with Liberty … Up with Chains (K)
  10. Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream (Columbia)

Julia Factorial

  1. Home Blitz Out Of Phase (Richie Records)
  2. Ty Segall Lemons (Goner)
  3. Reigning Sound Love and Curses (In the Red)
  4. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  5. King Kong Ding Dong Youth Culture Index (S/R)
  6. Red Eyed Legends Wake Up, Legend (File 13)
  7. Screaming Females Power Move (Don Giovanni)
  8. Finally Punk Casual Goths (Army of Bad Luck)
  9. Obits I Blame You (Sub Pop)
  10. Bobby Ubangi Inside the Mind of Bobby Ubangi (Rob's House)

David Faris

  1. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  2. Eleni Mandell Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
  3. Alela Diane To Be Still (Rough Trade)
  4. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
  5. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  6. Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
  7. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  8. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
  9. Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band Outer South (Merge)
  10. Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)

M.J. Fine

  1. Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
  2. Carsie Blanton Buoy (self-released)
  3. Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
  4. Bat for Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks)
  5. Florence + the Machine Lungs (Universal Republic)
  6. Drivin N Cryin Great American Bubble Factory (Vintage Earth)
  7. Canadian Invasion Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand (self-released)
  8. Strand of Oaks Leave Ruin (La Societe Expeditionnaire)
  9. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  10. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]

Pat Foley

  1. Fuck Buttons Tarot Spirit (ATP)
  2. Japandroids Post Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl)
  3. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
  4. XX XX (XL)
  5. Real Estate Real Estate (Woodsist)
  6. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  7. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
  8. Isis Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
  9. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  10. Bishop Allen Grrr... (Dead Oceans)

Lauren F. Friedman

  1. The Antlers Hospice (French Kiss)
  2. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  3. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  4. Why? Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
  5. Os Mutantes Haih or Amortecedor (Anti)
  6. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  7. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
  8. Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
  9. Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing (Almost Gold)
  10. The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl)

Wendy Ginsberg

  1. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)
  3. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
  4. Various Artists Dark Was the Night (4AD)
  5. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  6. Glasvegas Glasvegas (Sony)
  7. The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
  8. Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
  9. Iggy Pop Preliminaries (Astralwerks)
  10. Leonard Cohen Live in London (Sony)

Reseca Glasser

  1. LMFAO Party Rock (Cherry Tree)
  2. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  3. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Interscope)
  4. Sean Paul Imperial Blaze (Atlantic)
  5. Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
  6. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  7. Rihanna Rated R (Def Jam)
  8. Adam Lambert For Your Entertainment (Octjay)
  9. Herchizeros Las Mas Bailables del Sonidito (Fonovisa Inc)
  10. Ciara Fantasy Ride (La Face)

Ryan Godfrey

  1. White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)
  2. Dirty Projectors BItte Orca (Domino)
  3. Adam Arcuragi I Am Become Joy (High Two)
  4. The Antlers Hospice (Frenchkiss)
  5. The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
  6. Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
  7. Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young (RCA/Jive)
  8. God Help the Girl God Help the Girl (Matador)
  9. Lightning Dust Infinite Light (Jagjaguwar)
  10. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]

Atom Goren

  1. Future Of The Left Travels with Myself and Another (4AD)
  2. Converge Axe to Fall (Epitaph)
  3. Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer (Sub Pop)
  4. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  5. Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
  6. Giant Squid Stravaganza Death to Humans (Wizard Rock Club)
  7. The Black Lips 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
  8. The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic)
  9. Good Luck Into Lake Griffy (No Idea)
  10. Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)

Catherine Grubb

  1. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
  2. The Devil Makes Three Do Wrong Right (Milan)
  3. Emily Wells Dirty (creative control)
  4. The Kills Black Balloon EP (Domino)
  5. Obits I Blame You (Sub Pop)
  6. Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
  7. Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
  8. William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark (Anti)
  9. Iron & Wine Around the Well (Sub Pop)
  10. Blakroc Blakroc (V2)

Naren Gupte

  1. PJ Harvey and John Parish Black Hearted Love (Island)
  2. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  3. Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
  4. Polvo In Prism (Merge)
  5. Bonnie Prince Billy Beware (Drag City)
  6. Dinosaur Jr. Farm (Jagjaguwar)
  7. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
  8. Built to Spill There Is No Enemy (Warner)
  9. An Horse Rearrange Beds (Mom & Pop Music)
  10. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]

K. Ross Hoffman

  1. The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl)
  2. Jonathan Johansson En Hand i Himelen (Hybris)
  3. Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
  4. JJ JJ No. 2 (Sincerely Yours)
  5. Adiam Dymott Adiam Dymott (Razzia)
  6. Buraka Som Sistema Black Diamond (Enchufada/Fabric)
  7. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  8. La Roux La Roux (Interscope)
  9. The Boy Least Likely To The Law of the Playground (Plus One)
  10. Birdie Busch Pattern of Saturn (Monotask)

Ed Hogarty

  1. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  2. Doug Gillard Call From Restricted (347 Records)
  3. Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
  4. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  5. Telekinesis! Telekinesis! (Merge)
  6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
  7. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  8. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
  9. Robin Guthrie Carousel (Darla Records)
  10. Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)

Greg Hoskins

  1. Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
  2. Dinosaur Jr. Farm (Jagjaguwar)
  3. Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (Interscope)
  4. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  5. Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
  6. Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
  7. Built to Spill There is No Enemy (Warner)
  8. Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter (Merge)
  9. Handsome Furs Face Control (Sub Pop)
  10. Arctic Monkeys Humbug (Domino)

Matt Hotz

  1. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
  2. Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
  3. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  4. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
  5. Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)
  6. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  7. Japandroids Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl) [CP Top 21]
  8. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  9. Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
  10. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]

Brian Howard

  1. Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)
  2. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  3. The Fruit Bats The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
  4. Dan Deacon Bromst (Carpark)
  5. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  6. Adam Arcuragi I Am Become Joy (High Two)
  7. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
  8. A.C. Newman Get Guilty (Matador)
  9. The Bats The Guilty Office (Hidden Agenda)
  10. Various Artists Not Given Lightly: A Tribute To the Giant Golden Book Of New Zealand's Alternative Music Scene (Morr Music)

Tom Howard

  1. American Steel Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts (Fat Wreck Chords)
  2. Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed (Anti/Epitaph)
  3. Good Luck Into Lake Griffy (No Idea)
  4. The Holloways No Smoke, No Mirrors (The Orchard)
  5. Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
  6. Pelican What We All Come to Need (Southern Lord)
  7. Lissy Trullie Self Taught Learner (Downtown)
  8. Ramona Falls Intuit (Barsuk)
  9. Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter EP (Merge)
  10. The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]

Carolyn Huckabay

  1. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  2. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  3. The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
  4. Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
  5. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  6. Imogen Heap Ellipse (RCA)
  7. The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
  8. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  9. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  10. Karen O and the Kids Where The Wild Things Are (Interscope)

Maura Johnston

  1. Michachu & The Shapes Jewellery (Rough Trade)
  2. Wye Oak The Knot (Merge)
  3. Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted (RCA)
  4. Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
  5. Charlotte Hatherley New Worlds (Minty Fresh)
  6. Alphabeat The Spell (Polydor)
  7. Annie Don't Stop / All Night (Smalltown Supersound)
  8. Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Epic)
  9. Shakira She Wolf (Epic)
  10. Tapemasters Inc. The Future Of R & B 23-30 (Tapemasters Inc.)

Jasia Kaulbach

  1. Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Planetary) [CP Top 21]
  2. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
  3. Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
  4. XX XX (XL)
  5. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  6. Passion Pit Manners (Columbia)
  7. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  8. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  9. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
  10. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)

J. Edward Keyes

  1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
  2. Funeral Mist Maranatha! (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
  3. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  4. Baroness The Blue Record (Relapse)
  5. Bat For Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks)
  6. David Bazan Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
  7. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
  8. Raekwon Only Built for Cuban Links II (Ice Water)
  9. Passion Pit Manners (Columbia)
  10. The Big Pink A Brief History of Love (4AD)

Brian James Kirk

  1. Phosphorescent To Willie (Dead Oceans)
  2. Owen New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
  3. Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
  4. Kings of Convenience Declaration of Dependence (Astralwerks)
  5. A.C. Newman Get Guilty (Matador)
  6. Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind (Hard Boiled)
  7. Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion)
  8. Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
  9. The Bird and the Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future (Blue Note)
  10. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]

Bob McCormick

  1. Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
  2. Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics (Strut)
  3. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
  4. Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
  5. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears Tell ’Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)
  6. Spider Bags Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World (Birdman)
  7. Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)
  8. Starlight Mints Change Remains (Barsuk)
  9. Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
  10. DOOM Born Like This (Lex)

Natalie Hope McDonald

  1. Michael Jackson This Is It (Sony)
  2. Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  3. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  4. Jack Penate Everything is New (Beggars XI Recording)
  5. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
  7. Noisettes Wild Young Hearts (Mercury)
  8. Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
  9. Bob Dylan Together Through Life (Columbia)
  10. Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)

Dominic Mercier

  1. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  2. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  3. Bowerbirds Upper Air (Dead Oceans)
  4. The Antlers Hospice (French Kiss)
  5. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  6. The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
  7. Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
  8. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
  9. Cass McCombs Catacombs (Domino)
  10. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)

Andrew Milner

  1. Kathy Griffin Suckin' It for the Holidays (Music with a Twist)
  2. Beyman Bros Memories of Summer as a Child (Dharma Moon)
  3. Spinal Tap Back from the Dead (A2M)
  4. Garfunkel and Oates Music Songs (Garfunkel and Oates)
  5. Kate Micucci Songs (Kate Micucci)
  6. Original Cast Album Road Show (Nonesuch)
  7. Eugene Mirman God is a Twelve-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's (Sub Pop)
  8. They Might Be Giants Here Comes Science (Disney)
  9. St Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  10. Various Artists Song-Poem Archived Music (9 volumes) (WFMU.org)

Holly Otterbein

  1. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  2. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  3. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
  4. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up From Below (Vagrant)
  5. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
  6. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  7. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  8. Neon Indian Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
  9. Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shangri-La)
  10. Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)

Michael Pelusi

  1. Wussy Wussy (Shake It)
  2. Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics (Strut)
  3. Art Brut Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
  4. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  5. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  6. Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
  7. Shudder To Think Live From Home (Team Love)
  8. Joe Pernice It Feels So Good When I Stop (Ashmont)
  9. Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
  10. Bishop Allen Grrr... (Dead Oceans)

Nicole Pensiero

  1. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  2. David Gray Draw The Line (Downtown)
  3. Brandi Carlile Give Up The Ghost (Sony)
  4. Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
  5. Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11:00 AM (ATO)
  6. U2 No Line On The Horizon (Interscope)
  7. Rosanne Cash The List (Mahattan)
  8. Mark Knopfler Get Lucky (Warner)
  9. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  10. John Mayer Battle Studies (Sony)

Jenna Portnoy

  1. Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
  2. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  3. Rosanne Cash The List (Mahattan)
  4. Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing (Almost Gold)
  5. Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
  6. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
  7. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  8. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  9. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Up from Below (Vagrant)
  10. Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

Cheryl Poulos

  1. Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Interscope)
  2. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  3. Beyonce I Am...Sasha Fierce (RCA)
  4. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam)
  5. Miley Cyrus The Time of Our Lives (Hollywood)
  6. Taylor Swift Fearless (Big Machine)
  7. Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted (RCA)
  8. Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
  9. Shakira She Wolf (Sony Music Colombia)
  10. Carrie Underwood Play On (19/Arista Nashville)

Neal Ramirez

  1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
  2. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
  3. A Sunny Day in Glasgow Ashes Grammar (Mis Ojos Discos)
  4. Julie Doiron I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Jagjaguwar)
  5. The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
  6. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  7. Brown Recluse The Soft Skin (Slumberland)
  8. Various Artists Dark Was the Night (4AD)
  9. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
  10. Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]

Mike Rapa

  1. Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Plus One) [CP Top 21]
  2. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up from Below (Vagrant)
  3. Portugal. The Man. The Satanic Satanist (Equal Vision)
  4. The Dead Weather Horehound (Warner)
  5. Wolfmother Cosmic Egg (Modular / Interscope)
  6. Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
  7. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
  8. Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
  9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)
  10. Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)

Patrick Rapa

  1. Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
  2. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  3. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
  4. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  5. Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)
  6. Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Planetary) [CP Top 21]
  7. Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter (Merge)
  8. Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
  9. Thao Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
  10. Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]

Hillary Rea

  1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  2. Langhorne Slim Be Set Free (Kemado)
  3. Karen O and the Kids Where The Wild Things Are (Interscope)
  4. Grizzly Bear Vecktamist (Warp)
  5. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  6. Devendra Banhart What Will We Be (Warner)
  7. Amanda Blank I Love You (Downtown)
  8. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  9. St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
  10. Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shagri-La)

James Saul

  1. Wild Beasts Two Dancers (Domino)
  2. XX XX (XL)
  3. DOOM Born Like This (Lex)
  4. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  5. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  6. Peaches I Feel Cream (XL)
  7. Speech Debelle Speech Therapy (Big Dada)
  8. Tamaryn Led Astray Washed Ashore (Troubleman Unlimited)
  9. DJ Quik and Kurupt BlaQKout (Mad Science)
  10. Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)

Lauren Seibert

  1. The Fray The Fray (Epic)
  2. Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
  3. Train Save Me, San Francisco (Sony)
  4. Muse The Resistance (Warner Music UK Limited)
  5. Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
  6. John Mayer Battle Studies (Sony)
  7. Vertical Horizon Burning the Days (Outfall)
  8. Silversun Pickups Swoon (P Dangerbird)
  9. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  10. Dave Matthews Band BIg Whiskey and the GooGrux King (Bama Rags)

Carrie South

  1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  2. Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
  3. Chromeo DJ Kicks (!K7)
  4. Islands Vapors (Anti)
  5. White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)
  6. Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute/Rabid)
  7. The Raveonettes In and Out of Control (Vice)
  8. Wolfmother Cosmic Egg (Modular / Interscope)
  9. Chain and the Gang Down with Liberty … Up with Chains (K)
  10. Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)

Amy Strauss

  1. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  2. Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
  3. M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
  4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)
  5. The Mars Volta Octahedron (Warner)
  6. Devendra Banhart What Will We Be (Warner)
  7. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  8. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  9. Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
  10. Rain Machine Rain Machine (Anti)

Paul Tsikitas

  1. Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
  2. Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  3. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
  4. Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shagri-La)
  5. Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young (Cult Records via RCA)
  6. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
  7. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  8. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
  9. Pink Mountaintops Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
  10. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]

John Vettese

  1. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  2. Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
  3. Melody Gardot My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
  4. Reading Rainbow Mystical Participation (Slipshot Mucus Kiss / Single Girl Married Girl)
  5. Night Control Death Control (Kill Shaman)
  6. The Swimmers People Are Soft (Mad Dragon)
  7. Florence + the Machine Lungs (Universal Republic)
  8. Gemini Wolf Synchronized Eyes (Ear Snake)
  9. The Big Pink A Brief History of Love (4AD)
  10. Northern Liberties Suffocation (self-released)

Julia West

  1. Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
  2. Rain Machine Rain Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
  3. Wavves Wavvves (Fat Possum)
  4. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  5. Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  6. Passion Pit Manners (Columbia)
  7. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
  8. Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains (Sister's Den)
  9. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
  10. Various Artists Dark Was the Night (4AD)

Scott Yorko

  1. Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
  2. Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam Coming Up For Air (Blix Street)
  3. Pretty Lights Passing By Behind Your Eyes (Pretty Lights)
  4. Eminem Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
  5. The Dead Weather Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
  6. Hill Country Review Make A Move (Razor & Tie)
  7. Manu Chao Baionarena (Nacional Records)
  8. Wolfmother Cosmic Egg (Modular / Interscope)
  9. Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)
  10. Gov't Mule By A Thread (Evil Teen)

Lauren Zalut

  1. Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
  2. Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
  3. The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
  4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
  5. Built to Spill There is No Enemy (Warner)
  6. Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
  7. Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shagri-La)
  8. Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
  9. The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
  10. Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young (RCA)
 
 
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