MUSIC .
Critics' Lists .
2009
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A.D. Amorosi
- Nellie McKay Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute To Doris Day (Verve)
- David Sylvian Manafon (Samadhi)
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
- Theo Bleckmann/John Hollenbeck/Gary Versace Refuge Trio (Winter & Winter)
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Melody Gardot My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
- Nick Cave + Warren Ellis The Death of Bunny Munroe (Macmillan)
- Digital Primitives Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch)
- Loudon Wainright III High Wide & Handsome (2nd Story)
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
Rodney Anonymous
- VNV Nation Reformation 01 (Red Distribution)
- Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
- The Warsaw Village Band Infinity (World Village)
- Angelspit Hideous and Perfect: (Metropolis)
- Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight (Sony Legacy)
- Velvet Acid Christ The Art of Breaking Apart (Metropolis)
- Warren Ellis and Nick Cave White Lunar Soundtrack (Mute)
- Ersatz Musika Songs Unrecantable (Asphalt Tango)
- Project Pitchfork Dream Tiresias! (Cop International)
- Schallfaktor Sittenverfall (Infacted)
Mary Armstrong
- Hip Hop Hoodios Carne Masada (Jazzheads)
- Lili Añel Every Second in Between (Wall-I)
- John Fogerty Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again (Fortunate Son/Verve)
- Booka and the Flaming Geckos Baghdad Texas (Loudhouse)
- Phil Lee, Eric Brace, Kieran Kane et al East Nashville vol. 3 More Music from the Other Side (Red Beet)
- Watcha Clan Diaspora Remixed, Marseille @ New Yokr, London (Piranha)
- Steve Wariner My Tribute to Chet Atkins (SelecTone)
- The Boston Boys Listen (Eric Robertson Music)
- Commander Cody Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers (Blind Pig)
- Sam & Ruby The Here and The Now (Rykodisc)
Justin Bauer
- Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute)
- Deer Tick Born on Flag Day (Partisan)
- Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- The Dead Weather Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
- The Raveonettes In and Out of Control (Vice)
- Blakroc Blakroc (V2)
- White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)
- Handsome Furs Face Control (Sub Pop)
- Bon Iver Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar)
Lea Bogdan
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
- Andrew Bird Nobel Beast (Fat Possum)
- M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
- Flight of the Conchords I Told you I was Freaky (Sub Pop)
- Iron & Wine Around the Well (Sub Pop)
- Hoots and Hellmouth The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)
- Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Bella Union)
- Birdie Busch Pattern of Saturn (Monotask)
- Moby Wait for Me (Little Idiot)
- Rosanne Cash The List (Mahattan)
Dennis Crowley
- Thee Oh Sees Help (In the Red)
- Atlas Sound Logos (Kranky)
- Sic Alps Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Drag City)
- Thee Oh Sees The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In (Tomlab)
- Kurt Vile God is Saying This to You (Mexican Summer)
- Ty Segall Lemons (Goner)
- Tyvek Tyvek (Siltbreeze)
- Eat Skull Wild and Inside (Siltbreeze)
- Home Blitz Out Of Phase (Richie Records)
- Nervous Sex Nervous Sex (self released)
Felicia D'Ambrosio
- Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
- Blk Jks After Robots (Secretly Canadian)
- Beirut March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland (Pompeii)
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- D. Lissvik 7 Trx + Intermission (Information)
- Amadou & Mariam Welcome to Mali (Nonesuch)
- Bat For Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks)
Will Dean
- Future Of The Left Travels with Myself and Another (4AD)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls (Fat Cat)
- Random Mega Ran 9 (RAHM Nation, Capcom)
- Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
- Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles (Quote Unquote)
- Art Brut Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
- Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves Ace of Spades (Q division)
- They Might be Giants Here Comes Science (Disney)
Jesse Delaney
- The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
- Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (Ice Water)
- The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains (Sister's Den)
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
- Japandroids Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl) [CP Top 21]
- Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
- Built to Spill There Is No Enemy (Warner)
- Dinosaur Jr Farm (Jagjaguwar)
- Grand Archives Keep in Mind Frankenstein (Sub Pop)
M.F. DiBella
- Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II (Ice Water)
- Eminem Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
- DOOM Born Like This (Lex)
- Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Mavado Mr. Brooks...A Better Tomorrow (VP)
- Tanya Morgan Brooklynatti (Interdependent Media)
- The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead (FatCat)
- Major Lazer Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do (Downtown)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls (Fat Cat)
- Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Molly Eichel
- Japandroids Post Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl)
- The Noisettes Wild Young Hearts (Mercury)
- Screaming Females Power Move (Don Giovanni)
- XX XX (XL)
- The Whore Moans Hellow From the Radio Wasteland (Mt. Fuji)
- Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
- Elvis Perkins Elvis Perkins in Dearland (XL)
- Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Chain and the Gang Down with Liberty … Up with Chains (K)
- Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream (Columbia)
Julia Factorial
- Home Blitz Out Of Phase (Richie Records)
- Ty Segall Lemons (Goner)
- Reigning Sound Love and Curses (In the Red)
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- King Kong Ding Dong Youth Culture Index (S/R)
- Red Eyed Legends Wake Up, Legend (File 13)
- Screaming Females Power Move (Don Giovanni)
- Finally Punk Casual Goths (Army of Bad Luck)
- Obits I Blame You (Sub Pop)
- Bobby Ubangi Inside the Mind of Bobby Ubangi (Rob's House)
David Faris
- Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Eleni Mandell Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
- Alela Diane To Be Still (Rough Trade)
- M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
- Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band Outer South (Merge)
- Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
M.J. Fine
- Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
- Carsie Blanton Buoy (self-released)
- Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
- Bat for Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks)
- Florence + the Machine Lungs (Universal Republic)
- Drivin N Cryin Great American Bubble Factory (Vintage Earth)
- Canadian Invasion Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand (self-released)
- Strand of Oaks Leave Ruin (La Societe Expeditionnaire)
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
Pat Foley
- Fuck Buttons Tarot Spirit (ATP)
- Japandroids Post Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl)
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
- XX XX (XL)
- Real Estate Real Estate (Woodsist)
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Isis Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Bishop Allen Grrr... (Dead Oceans)
Lauren F. Friedman
- The Antlers Hospice (French Kiss)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Why? Eskimo Snow (Anticon)
- Os Mutantes Haih or Amortecedor (Anti)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
- Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
- Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing (Almost Gold)
- The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl)
Wendy Ginsberg
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)
- Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Various Artists Dark Was the Night (4AD)
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Glasvegas Glasvegas (Sony)
- The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
- Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
- Iggy Pop Preliminaries (Astralwerks)
- Leonard Cohen Live in London (Sony)
Reseca Glasser
- LMFAO Party Rock (Cherry Tree)
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Interscope)
- Sean Paul Imperial Blaze (Atlantic)
- Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- Rihanna Rated R (Def Jam)
- Adam Lambert For Your Entertainment (Octjay)
- Herchizeros Las Mas Bailables del Sonidito (Fonovisa Inc)
- Ciara Fantasy Ride (La Face)
Ryan Godfrey
- White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)
- Dirty Projectors BItte Orca (Domino)
- Adam Arcuragi I Am Become Joy (High Two)
- The Antlers Hospice (Frenchkiss)
- The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
- Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young (RCA/Jive)
- God Help the Girl God Help the Girl (Matador)
- Lightning Dust Infinite Light (Jagjaguwar)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
Atom Goren
- Future Of The Left Travels with Myself and Another (4AD)
- Converge Axe to Fall (Epitaph)
- Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer (Sub Pop)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- Giant Squid Stravaganza Death to Humans (Wizard Rock Club)
- The Black Lips 200 Million Thousand (Vice)
- The Walkmen You & Me (Gigantic)
- Good Luck Into Lake Griffy (No Idea)
- Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop)
Catherine Grubb
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
- The Devil Makes Three Do Wrong Right (Milan)
- Emily Wells Dirty (creative control)
- The Kills Black Balloon EP (Domino)
- Obits I Blame You (Sub Pop)
- Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
- Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark (Anti)
- Iron & Wine Around the Well (Sub Pop)
- Blakroc Blakroc (V2)
Naren Gupte
- PJ Harvey and John Parish Black Hearted Love (Island)
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
- Polvo In Prism (Merge)
- Bonnie Prince Billy Beware (Drag City)
- Dinosaur Jr. Farm (Jagjaguwar)
- Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
- Built to Spill There Is No Enemy (Warner)
- An Horse Rearrange Beds (Mom & Pop Music)
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
K. Ross Hoffman
- The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa (Green Owl)
- Jonathan Johansson En Hand i Himelen (Hybris)
- Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- JJ JJ No. 2 (Sincerely Yours)
- Adiam Dymott Adiam Dymott (Razzia)
- Buraka Som Sistema Black Diamond (Enchufada/Fabric)
- Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- La Roux La Roux (Interscope)
- The Boy Least Likely To The Law of the Playground (Plus One)
- Birdie Busch Pattern of Saturn (Monotask)
Ed Hogarty
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Doug Gillard Call From Restricted (347 Records)
- Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Telekinesis! Telekinesis! (Merge)
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
- Robin Guthrie Carousel (Darla Records)
- Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
Greg Hoskins
- Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
- Dinosaur Jr. Farm (Jagjaguwar)
- Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (Interscope)
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
- Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
- Built to Spill There is No Enemy (Warner)
- Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter (Merge)
- Handsome Furs Face Control (Sub Pop)
- Arctic Monkeys Humbug (Domino)
Matt Hotz
- The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
- Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
- Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Japandroids Post-Nothing (Unfamiliar/Polyvinyl) [CP Top 21]
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
Brian Howard
- Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- The Fruit Bats The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
- Dan Deacon Bromst (Carpark)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Adam Arcuragi I Am Become Joy (High Two)
- The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
- A.C. Newman Get Guilty (Matador)
- The Bats The Guilty Office (Hidden Agenda)
- Various Artists Not Given Lightly: A Tribute To the Giant Golden Book Of New Zealand's Alternative Music Scene (Morr Music)
Tom Howard
- American Steel Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts (Fat Wreck Chords)
- Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed (Anti/Epitaph)
- Good Luck Into Lake Griffy (No Idea)
- The Holloways No Smoke, No Mirrors (The Orchard)
- Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- Pelican What We All Come to Need (Southern Lord)
- Lissy Trullie Self Taught Learner (Downtown)
- Ramona Falls Intuit (Barsuk)
- Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter EP (Merge)
- The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
Carolyn Huckabay
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
- Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- Imogen Heap Ellipse (RCA)
- The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Karen O and the Kids Where The Wild Things Are (Interscope)
Maura Johnston
- Michachu & The Shapes Jewellery (Rough Trade)
- Wye Oak The Knot (Merge)
- Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted (RCA)
- Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
- Charlotte Hatherley New Worlds (Minty Fresh)
- Alphabeat The Spell (Polydor)
- Annie Don't Stop / All Night (Smalltown Supersound)
- Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Epic)
- Shakira She Wolf (Epic)
- Tapemasters Inc. The Future Of R & B 23-30 (Tapemasters Inc.)
Jasia Kaulbach
- Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Planetary) [CP Top 21]
- Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
- Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
- XX XX (XL)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Passion Pit Manners (Columbia)
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
- Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
J. Edward Keyes
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
- Funeral Mist Maranatha! (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Baroness The Blue Record (Relapse)
- Bat For Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks)
- David Bazan Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
- The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
- Raekwon Only Built for Cuban Links II (Ice Water)
- Passion Pit Manners (Columbia)
- The Big Pink A Brief History of Love (4AD)
Brian James Kirk
- Phosphorescent To Willie (Dead Oceans)
- Owen New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
- Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
- Kings of Convenience Declaration of Dependence (Astralwerks)
- A.C. Newman Get Guilty (Matador)
- Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind (Hard Boiled)
- Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion)
- Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
- The Bird and the Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future (Blue Note)
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
Bob McCormick
- Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
- Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics (Strut)
- Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
- Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
- Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears Tell ’Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)
- Spider Bags Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World (Birdman)
- Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)
- Starlight Mints Change Remains (Barsuk)
- Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- DOOM Born Like This (Lex)
Natalie Hope McDonald
- Michael Jackson This Is It (Sony)
- Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- Jack Penate Everything is New (Beggars XI Recording)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
- Noisettes Wild Young Hearts (Mercury)
- Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
- Bob Dylan Together Through Life (Columbia)
- Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
Dominic Mercier
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Bowerbirds Upper Air (Dead Oceans)
- The Antlers Hospice (French Kiss)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
- Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
- Cass McCombs Catacombs (Domino)
- M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
Andrew Milner
- Kathy Griffin Suckin' It for the Holidays (Music with a Twist)
- Beyman Bros Memories of Summer as a Child (Dharma Moon)
- Spinal Tap Back from the Dead (A2M)
- Garfunkel and Oates Music Songs (Garfunkel and Oates)
- Kate Micucci Songs (Kate Micucci)
- Original Cast Album Road Show (Nonesuch)
- Eugene Mirman God is a Twelve-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's (Sub Pop)
- They Might Be Giants Here Comes Science (Disney)
- St Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Various Artists Song-Poem Archived Music (9 volumes) (WFMU.org)
Holly Otterbein
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up From Below (Vagrant)
- Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp) [CP Top 21]
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Neon Indian Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
- Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shangri-La)
- Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Michael Pelusi
- Wussy Wussy (Shake It)
- Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics (Strut)
- Art Brut Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Jarvis Cocker Further Complications (Rough Trade)
- Shudder To Think Live From Home (Team Love)
- Joe Pernice It Feels So Good When I Stop (Ashmont)
- Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
- Bishop Allen Grrr... (Dead Oceans)
Nicole Pensiero
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- David Gray Draw The Line (Downtown)
- Brandi Carlile Give Up The Ghost (Sony)
- Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11:00 AM (ATO)
- U2 No Line On The Horizon (Interscope)
- Rosanne Cash The List (Mahattan)
- Mark Knopfler Get Lucky (Warner)
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
- John Mayer Battle Studies (Sony)
Jenna Portnoy
- Andrew Bird Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Rosanne Cash The List (Mahattan)
- Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing (Almost Gold)
- Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
- Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Up from Below (Vagrant)
- Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
Cheryl Poulos
- Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (Interscope)
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- Beyonce I Am...Sasha Fierce (RCA)
- Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam)
- Miley Cyrus The Time of Our Lives (Hollywood)
- Taylor Swift Fearless (Big Machine)
- Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted (RCA)
- Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
- Shakira She Wolf (Sony Music Colombia)
- Carrie Underwood Play On (19/Arista Nashville)
Neal Ramirez
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland) [CP Top 21]
- Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
- A Sunny Day in Glasgow Ashes Grammar (Mis Ojos Discos)
- Julie Doiron I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Jagjaguwar)
- The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Brown Recluse The Soft Skin (Slumberland)
- Various Artists Dark Was the Night (4AD)
- The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
- Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD) [CP Top 21]
Mike Rapa
- Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Plus One) [CP Top 21]
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up from Below (Vagrant)
- Portugal. The Man. The Satanic Satanist (Equal Vision)
- The Dead Weather Horehound (Warner)
- Wolfmother Cosmic Egg (Modular / Interscope)
- Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
- Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)
- Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope)
Patrick Rapa
- Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- Times New Viking Born Again Revisited (Matador)
- Illinois The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Planetary) [CP Top 21]
- Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter (Merge)
- Heartless Bastards The Mountain (Fat Possum) [CP Top 21]
- Thao Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)
- Matt & Kim Grand (Fader) [CP Top 21]
Hillary Rea
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Langhorne Slim Be Set Free (Kemado)
- Karen O and the Kids Where The Wild Things Are (Interscope)
- Grizzly Bear Vecktamist (Warp)
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
- Devendra Banhart What Will We Be (Warner)
- Amanda Blank I Love You (Downtown)
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- St. Vincent Actor (4AD) [CP Top 21]
- Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shagri-La)
James Saul
- Wild Beasts Two Dancers (Domino)
- XX XX (XL)
- DOOM Born Like This (Lex)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- Peaches I Feel Cream (XL)
- Speech Debelle Speech Therapy (Big Dada)
- Tamaryn Led Astray Washed Ashore (Troubleman Unlimited)
- DJ Quik and Kurupt BlaQKout (Mad Science)
- Girls Album (True Panther Sounds)
Lauren Seibert
- The Fray The Fray (Epic)
- Lady Gaga The Fame Monster (Interscope) [CP Top 21]
- Train Save Me, San Francisco (Sony)
- Muse The Resistance (Warner Music UK Limited)
- Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
- John Mayer Battle Studies (Sony)
- Vertical Horizon Burning the Days (Outfall)
- Silversun Pickups Swoon (P Dangerbird)
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Dave Matthews Band BIg Whiskey and the GooGrux King (Bama Rags)
Carrie South
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw)
- Chromeo DJ Kicks (!K7)
- Islands Vapors (Anti)
- White Rabbits It's Frightening (TBD)
- Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute/Rabid)
- The Raveonettes In and Out of Control (Vice)
- Wolfmother Cosmic Egg (Modular / Interscope)
- Chain and the Gang Down with Liberty … Up with Chains (K)
- Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
Amy Strauss
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
- M. Ward Hold Time (Merge)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! (Interscope)
- The Mars Volta Octahedron (Warner)
- Devendra Banhart What Will We Be (Warner)
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Metric Fantasies (Metric Music International)
- Rain Machine Rain Machine (Anti)
Paul Tsikitas
- Mastodon Crack The Skye (Reprise/WEA)
- Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
- Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glass Note) [CP Top 21]
- Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shagri-La)
- Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young (Cult Records via RCA)
- The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
- Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
- Pink Mountaintops Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
John Vettese
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian) [CP Top 21]
- Melody Gardot My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
- Reading Rainbow Mystical Participation (Slipshot Mucus Kiss / Single Girl Married Girl)
- Night Control Death Control (Kill Shaman)
- The Swimmers People Are Soft (Mad Dragon)
- Florence + the Machine Lungs (Universal Republic)
- Gemini Wolf Synchronized Eyes (Ear Snake)
- The Big Pink A Brief History of Love (4AD)
- Northern Liberties Suffocation (self-released)
Julia West
- Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall (Matador)
- Rain Machine Rain Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Wavves Wavvves (Fat Possum)
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Sonic Youth The Eternal (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- Passion Pit Manners (Columbia)
- Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino) [CP Top 21]
- Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains (Sister's Den)
- The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
- Various Artists Dark Was the Night (4AD)
Scott Yorko
- Avett Brothers I and Love and You (Sony) [CP Top 21]
- Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam Coming Up For Air (Blix Street)
- Pretty Lights Passing By Behind Your Eyes (Pretty Lights)
- Eminem Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
- The Dead Weather Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
- Hill Country Review Make A Move (Razor & Tie)
- Manu Chao Baionarena (Nacional Records)
- Wolfmother Cosmic Egg (Modular / Interscope)
- Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)
- Gov't Mule By A Thread (Evil Teen)
Lauren Zalut
- Neko Case Middle Cyclone (Anti) [CP Top 21]
- Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador) [CP Top 21]
- The Thermals Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars) [CP Top 21]
- The Flaming Lips Embryonic (Warner)
- Built to Spill There is No Enemy (Warner)
- Yo La Tengo Popular Songs (Matador)
- Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk (Shagri-La)
- Regina Spektor Far (Sire) [CP Top 21]
- The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come (4AD)
- Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young (RCA)