LOL@generic indie list. The list is final, but comments will be posted later. I always wanted to make a top 100 so yeah. all of these albums i rated higher than a 7. So I do like them all. It's not one of those 'forced' list. anyways, happy new year everyone. comments disabled until I finished my comments. =D

100. The Walkmen - You & Me
99. Common Market - Tabacco Road
98. Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt
97. Sunny Day Sets Fire - Summer Palace
96. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
95. Absentee - Victory Shorts
94. Valencia - We All Need A Reason To Believe
93. Polarkreis 18 - The Colour of Snow
92. The New Frontiers - Mending
91. Lykke Li - Youth Novels

90. Children 18:3 - Children 18:3
89. Russian Circle - Station
88. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
87. What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us
86. Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
85. Tilly and the Wall - o
84. P!nk - Funhouse
83. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
82. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
81. Chad Perrone - Wake

80. Longwave - Secrets Are Sinister
79. Pale Young Gentlemen - Black Forest (Tra La La)
78. Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
77. Anberlin - New Surrender
76. The Envy Crops - Dwell
75. Justice - Planisphère
74. The National - The Virginia EP
73. Halves - Haunt Me When I'm Drowsy
72. Anberlin - New Surrender
71. Sun Kil Moon - April

70. miaou - All Around Us
69. Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
68. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson & The Red Empire Orchestra
67. Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That
66. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
65. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
64. Giants - Old Stories
63. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
62. The Accidentals - There Were Wolves
61. Marit Larsen - The Chase

60. Jon Foreman - Limbs and Branches
59. The Week That Was - The Week That Was
58. Deerhunter - Mircocastle
57. Right Away, Great Captain! - The Eventually Home
56. Good Old War - Only Way To Be Alone
55. Dr. Dog - Fate
54. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
53. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
52. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
51. Balmorhea - Rivers Arms

50. Yasushi Yoshida - Little Grace
49. White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory
48. Jordan hull - Jordan Hull
47. Why? - Alopecia
46. The Narrative - Just Say Yes
45. Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs
44. The Weepies - Hideaway
Hell yes, I love matching outfits.
43. The Middle East - The Recordings of The Middle East
42. Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
41. Goddamn Electric Bill - Topics For Gossip

40. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
39. Thursday/Envy - Split
38. Sgt. - Stylus Fantasticus
37. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide
36. Animal Collective - Water Curses
35. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
34. Stars - Sad Robot EP
33. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
32. Yann Tiersen - Tabarly
31. Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath The Trees

30. Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
29. Brooke Waggoner - Heal For The Honey
28. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giants
27. Air France - No Way Down EP
26. La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair

25. The Indelicates - American Demo
Another male/female duo and they aren't the prettiest, but the music is so sarcastic and catchy.
Favorite Song: If Jeff Buckley Had Lived

24. She & Him - Volume One
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward teaming up to make this retro album that feels like a bunch of cover songs from the 50s, but Zooey wrote them all except for three. Please don't confuse her with Katy Perry.
Favorite Song: This is Not a Test

23. YUI - I LOVED YESTERDAY
Jpop, lol. I mainly like her because her music is pop/rock and she doesn't sound like a bimbo.
Favorite Song: Daydreamer

22. Jukebox the Ghost - Let Live and Let Ghosts
A band from DC that plays Piano Pop that's just really bouncy. At times, they remind me of Queen and The Mountain Goats. As a whole, the album felt like a rock opera.
Favorite Song: Hold It In

21. Taylor Swift - Fearless
I always been aware of her singles, but Fearless surprised me in how there were no filler tracks.
Favorite Song: You Belong With Me

20. Tamas Wells - Two Years In April
Another singer-songwriter type, but his voice is so floaty that it makes the album a pleasant listen. I could hear his music being the soundtrack for the next Juno.
Favorite Song: The Day that She Drowned, Her Body Was Found

19. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
Solo album from The Dresden Dolls. I don't really think of them as songs as she breaks away from the mold. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, but the ballads are amazing in how intense her feelings reach.
Favorite Song: Ampersand

18. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
11 fun songs that vary, but remain solid.
Favorite Song: M79

17. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
A straight forward indie rock album. At first listen, it might sound like a rip off of "In the Aeroplane over the Sea," but this band took that sound and scattered more spontaneous energy.
Favorite Song: Drain The Blood

16. Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying
Post-rock with some electronics. They don't make you search for those precious moments. "He Films The Clouds Pt. 2" and "Not For Want Of Trying" is the best 1-2 punch of the year.
Favorite Song: He Films The Clouds Pt. 2

15. Horse Feathers - House With No Home
His voice is weathered. The music is folksy. And when it happens together, it's cool, but the parts where it's separated feel the most detailed.
Favorite Song: Helen

14. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
This mixtape kinda blew my mind. I love his usage of the Seinfeld clips and everything just flowed extremely well.
Favorite Song: The Kramer

13. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
If you haven't heard this album yet, where have you been? This band is the biggest breakthrough artist of the year. The harmonies are so smooth.
Favorite Song: Your Protector

12. Lost In The Trees - All Alone in an Empty House
Why so short dang it. The vocals are kind of what you expect with indie bands, but the music and lyrics caught my attention.
Favorite Song: Song for the Painter

11. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
Awesome house music. Brilliant stuff. I don't know how to write about it, but I remember having my mind blown.
Favorite Song: Where You Go I Go Too

10. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
Male/female vocals that bursts with shouts and screams, but can be highly sentimental as well. The album is filled with great moments of joy.
Favorite Song: Knee Deep At ATP

9. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Other than The Beatles, Sigur Rós is the only other band that amazes me when I hear someone disliking them. Their music is headphone magic. This album showcases a new direction, but remains epic.
Favorite Song: Inní mér syngur vitleysingur

8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
This album helped me grow musically towards Folk music. At first, I just wanted to see what the hype was, but the hooks started to reveal itself and with more listens, the deeper it got into me.
Favorite Song: Missing One

7. The Cast Before The Break - As Your Shoulder Turns on You
All of their songs are cool, but the way they finish a song is ridiculous. This band simply rocks harder than what you paid for.
Favorite Song: Understanding the Universe

6. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Their past 2 albums were overrated. This album is their most consistent.
Favorite Song: Dancing Choose

5. Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
Her music is mostly acoustic folk and her technique alternatives between the bass string with the lower 3 strings. Still, it's her old soul voice with her self-directed lyrics that makes her so enchanting.
Favorite Song: Failure

4. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Is Punk Rock even the right words? It's more like nostalgic catchy blues-rock.
Favorite Song: Here's Looking At You, Kid

3. Girl Talk - Feed the Animal
Gregg Gillis is the man. 53 minutes and not once does it get boring.
Favorite Song: N/A

2. Moving Mountains - Foreword
Their instrumentation's can be compared to Explosions in the Sky, but the vocals are thunderous. Perfect mix of everything I enjoy in music.
Favorite Song: Lights & Shapes

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Every album released this year either had to grow on me or they faded away. Except this one. Literally each song on this album took a turn at being my favorite.
Favorite Song: Fast Blood

Good evening! There's less than an hour of 2008 left and so it's time for my traditional Best Albums list. This year, I had to whittle it down from 63 albums to the final forty below. Therefore, every album below is a winner, no matter the placing, I had to leave a lot out that I loved!

This year, I loved:

40. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel

A fabulous electroprogpop album that is as poppy as it is off-kilter. Probably the only band operating now that approaches the aesthetic of Devo.

39. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals

I got so many requests for tracks from this album this year when I was DJing and it's easy to see why: the beats are undeniable and the mashing is, unlike so many others, sophisticated and musically lovely.

38. Burning Skies - Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption

Ahhh, clean out your lugholes with this fine barrage of METAL! Some lovely riffery here coupled with a great, simple ferocity.

37. The Primary 5 - High Five

Take some Soup Dragons' playfulness and some Teenage Fanclub melody, mix it up with a slew of sunny, warm pop songs and you have this lovely, lovely album. High five indeed...

36. A Different Breed of Killer - I, Colossus

More metal mayhem that deserves a space in anyone's collection. Standout track: 'Omega.' Just perfect!

35. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

Yes, it's Springsteeny (as are a lot of albums at the mo) but what makes this album different from the herd is the lyrics. Some beautiful imagery there and I love the lack of embarrassment. More like this, please!

34. Ghosty - Answers

If you've ever liked Weezer, Pavement, MMJ or any American indie rock, you owe it to yourself to check out Ghosty and in particular this stormer of an album.

33. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing

More summery indie rock, this time with a touch more Beach Boys and perhaps even Ben Folds about it? Whatever, there's some catchy shit on here!

32. Sons and Daughters - This Gift

Moving from their early, folkier sound to a more ragged, urgent rock, Sons And Daughters remind me in places of The Poppy Family channelling John Leyton. Which is, of course, a huge compliment.

31. Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal

A thrash band fronted by Arnie himself? (errr...) Every song a classic line from one of the Governator's films? How can you not like this album, eh? COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIIIIIVE!

30. The Fairline Parkway - A Memory Of Open Spaces

And, as a complete contrast, welcome to the whisper-quiet, vibraphone-padded heaven of The Fairline Parkway. A pretty safe bet if you've ever loved any American Analog Set or any similar quiet magnificence.

29. The Girls - Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No

Wow. Just some great, angular, jerky, catchy pop songs on this album. Every time I've DJed 'Not I,' someone has come and asked me what the band is. That's pop!

28. Division of Laura Lee - Violence Is Timeless

Bizarrely, I met the drummer of DOLL in an Apple Shop on Aveny in Gothenburg a couple of years ago. Lovely guy... umm, well, nothing to do with this action-packed album that you should check out if you've ever liked rocking in a melodic hardcore-y way. Hell, it's just fine pop music!

27. Cyne - Pretty Dark Things

Cyne have been making damn excellent hip hop for years now and they keep up their standards with this album. And, yes, 'Excite Me' does just that.

26. Mystic Man & Eshamanjaro- In Heavy Weather

Mystic Man on the beats, Eshamanjaro rapping, this is a damn near perfect hip hop album. That's it's a debut and that it's UK hip hop only makes me happier. 'Cheshire Cat' should be everywhere all the time.

25. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

This is the first of two magnificent Aussie synthpop albums in this year's best-of. Cut Copy's second album is pure, swooning '80s-ness, sometimes drifting through Fiction Factory through B Movie via Lotus Eater-y melodies. Oh, and it's bloody good to dance to, too! Tutu!

24. Orion - Esperanza

Independent hip hop putting the big, corporate artists to shame. Check out Orion if you love hip hop but you're bored of hearing the same lame chattering over and over again. Solid.

23. Dosh - Wolves And Wishes

Anticon's Dosh delivers an album that sounds as fresh as it is catchy. 'Waiting For The Needle To Drop' is seductively, deceptively simple sounding at first until the meld of drums and tuned percussion just draws you in. This is cinematic.

22. Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality

France's greatest ever Eurovision entry, Tellier's sweeping synthpop is playful and yet still sincere. That's quite a trick. But if you listen to tracks like 'Divine' or 'Sexual Sportswear,' there's real heart there.

21. These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid

Heavy beats, Barnett's marvellous sneer of a voice, lawnmower rhythm guitar, These New Puritans take a host of disparate, jarring elements and bake us a fine, dancey cake. As an old man, it's great to hear something as novel as this.

20. Ladytron - Velocifero

You can always rely on Ladytron to deliver some fab, catchy pop and frame it in novel ways. My fave track from this gem of an album is 'Ghosts,' I must have listened to it a gazillion times in the car. Such a swagger and sway!

19. Modcam - Six Minute City

For more info about this album, click here!

18. Mystery Jets - Twenty One

Why you should love this band: here and here!

17. Kettel - Myam James Part 1

Blissful, dreamy electronic music that sounds like lullabies you've forgotten. Check out 'The Wombat.' If that doesn't move you, nowt will!

16. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie

Another best-of, another Deerhoof album! How do these bleeders keep making experimental pop music that pushes things but never retreats into technique for technique's sake? Again, some lovely pop songs on here.

15. Russian Circles - Station

I've lost track of the number of times I've played 'Harper Lewis' when I've DJed this year. From the first time I heard it, I fell in love with the grandeur and power. I'm not a postrock fan so I hesitate to label Russian Circles as such, though that's where they come from. They're just hugely more interesting than most of their genre brethren.

14. Neon Neon - Stainless Style

More classy synthpop, this time of a more shiny, aerodynamic bent. Top tracks: 'I Lust U' and 'Alderaan.' Stick this on and start throwing shapes in your bedroom.

13. Deerhunter - Microcastle

I dunno why, but this album reminds me loads of late-period Delgados. It has the same catchiness, the same unpredictability from track to track and the same mix of sombreness and err.. fun?

12. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You

Do you like the idea of Nick Drake singing over a glitching laptop once owned by Frazier Chorus? If so, buy this excitable balloon of an album.

11. Blitzen Trapper - Furr

I loved the first Blitzen Trapper album and this one is even poppier! Mixing country, rock, country-rock and anything else they can get their hands on, Blitzen Trapper frame great pop songs in erratic, fractious settings. Works for me!

10. Why? – Alopecia

Jonathon Wolf can't be tied to any one genre. And that eclectic rambling is what makes every Why? album a rare treat. Is it indierock? Is it hip hop? Is it electronica? Who cares - it's brilliant.

9. mc chris - MC Chris Is Dead

More great rapping, this time from the absolute monarch of geek hip hop, MC Chris. His rap skills are awesome, his imagery is pure magic. Forget all the nerdcore hoo-haa, this is simply brilliant hip hop.

8. Ratatat - LP3

I've listened to this sublime album so many times this year, often when I'm writing or tidying or whatever. It starts off as perfect backgroundy music for that kind of activity but eventually I'll end up stopping what I'm doing and just listening. Utterly captivating.

7. The Presets - Apocalypso

Why I love these Aussie synthateers here.

6. School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms

A very late entry in this list, I have to put it so high because SOSB's album clicks, ticks and whirrs along on a shimmery bed of grunty synths and girly harmonies. What's not to like?

5. Pacific! - Reveries

'Hotlips' was one of the top songs of the year and it comes from an album just as poppy and just as fantastic. Stomping, singalong Swedie synthpop, you have to check this album out.

4. Billie The Vision And The Dancers - I Used To Wander These Streets

I've already rambled about this band here and here.

3. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

I often get accused of being deliberately obscure in these best-of lists. Not so! It's just my tastes don't often coincide with the big sellers. But here's a bona-fide US number-one album that is also one of the best albums of the year. This one deserves every one of its sales. Every one.

2. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories From...

Easily the best indie / pop / rock album of the year, 'More Modern Stories From...' is what I wish more guitar-rock music would be like: honest. Sometimes painfully honest as in the horribly intimate 'Anna':

You know, we could have had a daughter
And we could have named her Anna
And she would have been a sweetheart
But with punk rock manners

You could have taught her to play hockey
I could have taught her the guitar
And her granddad could have shown her the way to the bar
She could have supported us when we retire, bought us a cottage near the countryside

...which is about a child that never got to be. It's all the more effective for the non-goth framing, the song lulls you into expecting just another wispy indie singalong and then kicks you in the head.

Really, if you've ever loved Leonard Cohen or Tim Hardin or Martin Gore or... well, any songwriter who deals with the extremely personal and intense, you need to own this album. Every song is a perfect vignette, every lyric a poem.

1. Braintax - My Last And Best Album

It was close but Braintax' album is definitely, defiantly the best album of 2008. The lyricism, the beats, the concepts... this is an artist at the top of his game. All the sadder then that the following appears to be true:

In 2008 Braintax suddenly announced his retirement with the release of his final album titled My Last And Best Album and also the end of Low Life Records to the disappointment of many UK Hip-Hop fans.
(Source: Wikipedia)

If he has given up, the world, not only the UK, has lost one of its best rappers. He runs circles round all of the major-label corporate rappers clogging up the airwaves, Braintax is as nimble as they are plodding, as erudite as they are incoherent. Think I'm hyping him too much? Check out these lyrics:

Spit ’bout crimes we forget for the sake of our own little tragedy’s
Incidental maladies
Irrelevant like a fucking Akon ballad is
The biggest shame of this society we live in
While we act all spiritual when we’re money driven
It’s the way we forget in a hell of a rush
Like ‘If it ain’t affecting me, then I ain’t too fussed’
Then there’s bombs on the street and us Brits get shaky
But how can we be shocked - Check our leadership lately?
They’re rattling the sabres, talking ’bout Jesus
Fundamentalist believers acting like crusaders
Memories are short over here
The zeitgeist is a truck that the media steer
So we ain’t on the streets protesting - We’re stuck in front of TV sets digesting
Forgetting about the lies and the unfound weapons
Suggestions, the questions we should be asking journalists a second
I’m (BRAAAIIIIN) taxing - the opposite of aspirin
Blood is on the streets and the East End soaking it up
Bush making me a target - and I’m not too pleased
There’s no peace when the beast is us.

And that's just one verse from one song off this truly stunning, seminal album. How he comes up with this shit, I really don't know. This is stellar songwriting, these are lyrics I'm going to remember snatches of years from now.

Braintax, I'll miss you. Thank you for some of the best music I've ever heard in my life. I hope Australia brings you what you're looking for.

10. The Old Days Feeling - Mirah
This is a very short album with each song lasting less than 3 minutes. This is just the way I like my music in tiny bite sized morsels. I enjoy the variety of instruments and styles used by Mirah. Front half of the album is much better than the back half, but it’s all fun to listen to.

9. I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura - PAS/CAL
Okay, I admit it, this was a late comer to my list. I didn’t even know that they had a new album until a friend posted them in his list. So I checked my computer and lo and behold the album was already there but SOMBODY (ahem, ahem) didn’t tell me that he had it and/or that I should listen to it. Anyway, I haven’t had much time to digest the album, but I really do dig it and the poppy beats and catchy melodies. Also, bonus points for being from Detroit.

8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
If you haven’t heard of Vampire Weekend you are living under a rock. I wasn’t really sure if I liked it when I heard it first. I think my mindset went something like this: “What is this, some reggae-ska hybrid?” But, after a listen or two it was hard to stop humming along and tapping my toes. That equals a winner in my book.

7. Modern Guilt - Beck
Classic Beck, I’m sure you’ve heard of him. He’s dreamy and makes good music. It’s nothing groundbreaking but it’s a fun album to listen to. I guess I am getting old, too, Scotter.

6. reverse migration - Au Revoir Simone
This is an album of remixes from the 2007 release The Bird of Music (My 6th favorite album last year). I’m not normally a fan of remixes, especially the ones that are like 7 minutes long and just drag on forever, but this album is not like that. The music is varied and sounds different than the original album while retaining the beautiful vocals that I enjoyed in the original. The music is much richer and fuller, even more acoustic in some places. Dare I say, it is better than the original.

5. 19 - Adele
What a powerful singer! If her album hadn’t been named “19” I never would have guessed that was her age. Channeling the spirit of singers past like a young Brenda Lee with a hint of Kate Nash’s attitude. It’s hard to not enjoy her voice and her lyrics are smart.

4. More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide - Hello Saferide
I believe that Annika Norlin got it right with the title of the album. She doesn’t sing songs, she tells stories. Her music is so autobiographical that I still feel like I know her. This is much more tranquil than her previous album, Introducing Hello Saferide. My Biggest regret of 2008 was missing seeing a concert of hers in Oslo by ONE day on our November trip to Scandinavia. Now if only I could learn to speak Swedish so I could enjoy her Swedish language side project – Sakert!

3. I Used to Wander These Streets - Billie the Vision & The Dancers
I adore this band. I dare you to listen to the album and not tap your toes. Much like 2007’s album, the songs are humorous and catchy. This is an awesome pop album from my favorite Swedish pop band. This album contains songs about homesickness as a child moving to a new country, struggling with a transgender identity, a much more personal album than the 3 previously released by the band.

2. We Brave Bee Stings All - Thao Nguyen & the Get Down Stay Down
Also known by
We Brave Bee Stings All - Thao
I’m not really sure how to credit this artist. She has followings as Thao, Thao Nguyen, Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down and the above name. In any case, she and her Ger Down Stay Down kids have been making some kick ass music this year. Unusual vocals and catchy beats make this album one of the best of the year.

1. Volume 1 - She & Him
A little bit of country, a little bit of 60’s girl band. The charm of Zooey Deschannel meets M. Ward’s musical stylings in the best album of the year. I certainly hope that this is volume 1 of many.

Albums:

01. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago


02. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes


03. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust


04. Santogold - Santogold


05. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue


06. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets


07. The Dodos - Visiter


08. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim


09. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight


10. Lykke Li - Youth Novels


11. Portishead - Third
12. Duffy - Rockferry
13. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont
14. The Dø - A Mouthful
15. HEALTH//DISCO
16. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
17. Scott Matthew - Scott Matthew
18. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
19. The Kills - Midnight Boom
20. Cat Power - Jukebox
21. Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
22. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
23. Marnie Stern - This Is it and I Am it and You Are it and so Is That and He Is it and She Is it and it Is it and That is That
24. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
25. Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
26. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart
27. Ida Maria - Fortress Around My Heart
28. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories From...
29. She & Him - Volume 1
30. Angus & Julia Stone - A Book Like This


Songs:
01. Sigur Rós - Ára bátur
02. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
03. Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat
04. Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why
05. Cat Power - Metal Heart
06. Portishead - Machine Gun
07. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
08. Jenny Lewis - The Next Messiah
09. Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better
10. Duffy - Rockferry
11. Laura Marling - Ghosts
12. MGMT - Time to Pretend
13. Sam Sparro - Black & Gold
14. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
15. Adele - Make You Feel My Love
16. Elbow - One Day Like This
17. Rachael Yamagata - Sunday Afternoon
18. Scott Matthew - abandoned
19. Bon Iver - Flume
20. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
21. Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
22. Oh No! Oh My! - Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman
23. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
24. Sigur Rós - Festival
25. Get Well Soon - If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting
26. HEALTH - Perfect Skin (Curses! Rmx)
27. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
28. The Dodos - Fools
29. Deerhunter - Little Kids
30. of Montreal - Nonpareil of Favor
31. Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
32. Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl
33. Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum
34. Alphabeat - What Is Happening?
35. Micah P. Hinson - Tell Me It Ain't So
36. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
37. She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
38. Hello Saferide - Anna
39. Vampire Weekend - Ottoman
40. The Dø - On My Shoulders
41. Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
42. The Kills - Tape Song
43. Jenny Lewis - Black Sand
44. Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
45. Marnie Stern - Vault
46. The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands
47. Angus & Julia Stone - Just A Boy
48. MARIA & METAMMIT - Dirty Place
49. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Sun Ain't Shining No More
50. No Age - Sleeper Hold


Gigs:
01. Bon Iver @ Paradiso
02. Sigur Rós @ Lowlands
03. Cat Power @ Paradiso
04. Sigur Rós @ Heineken Music Hall
05. CocoRosie @ Concertgebouw
06. Jenny Lewis @ Melkweg
07. Franz Ferdinand @ Lowlands
08. Fleet Foxes @ Paradiso
09. Laura Marling @ Lowlands
10. Yeasayer @ Roskilde
11. Okkervil River @ Paradiso
12. Blood Red Shoes @ Ekko
13. Santogold @ Lowlands
14. Jay-Z @ Roskilde
15. Efterklang @ Roskilde
16. The Dodos @ Melkweg
17. Radiohead @ Roskilde
18. Lykke Li @ Paradiso
19. Vampire Weekend @ Melkweg
20. Lucky Fonz III @ Lowlands

Honorable mentions:
Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett, Black Mountain - In The Future, Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow And Blue, The Bug - London Zoo, Dreamend - The Long Forgotten Friend, Girl Talk - Feed The Animals, The Hold Steady - Stay Positive, Hot Chip - Made In The Dark, Islands - Arm's Way, Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too, Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster..., Lykke Li - Youth Novels, Neon Neon - Stainless Style, Nina Kinert - Pets & Friends, No Age - Nouns, Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista, Portishead - Third, Sun Kil Moon - April, Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start - Embers, Zeigeist - The Jade Motel


30. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
Neither of Us, Uncertainly, Nothing Ever Happened, Agoraphobia


29. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
Parachute, wedding, Clocca


28. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
White Winter Hymnal, Ragged Wood, Oliver James


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