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1. Kemialliset Ystävät: Self-titled
2. Jessica Rylan: Interior Designs
3. Islaja: Ulual YYY
4. Gultskra Artikler: Kasha Iz Topora
5. Feist: The Reminder
6. Melt-Banana: Bambi’s Dilemma
7. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36
8. MoHa!: Norwegianism
9. Pharaoh Monch: Desire
10. Shining: Grindstone
11. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
12. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
13. Supersilent: 8
14. Dominik Eulberg: Bionik
15. Les Savy Fav: Let’s Stay Friends
16. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
17. Fond of Tigers: Release the Saviours
18. Kids on TV: Mixing Business with Pleasure
19. Róisín Murphy: Overpowered
20. A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal
21. Pinch: Underwater Dancehall
22. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog
23. Justice:
24. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Jinx
25. Shocking Pinks: Self-titled
26. Susanna: Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
27. Michaela Melián: Los Angeles
28. Sun: I’ll Be the Same
29. Shapes and Sizes: Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner
30. Black Milk: Popular Demand

::

1. Menomena: Friend and Foe
2. Nina Nastasia & Jim White: You Follow Me
3. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
5. Dizzee Rascal: Maths + English
6. Boris & Michio Kurahara: Rainbow
7. M.I.A.: Kala
8. Dinosaur Jr: Beyond
9. Future of the Left: Curses
10. Battles: Mirrored
11. Radiohead: In Rainbows
12. Radicalfashion: Odori
13. Jay-Z: American Gangster
14. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
15. Old Time Relijun: Catharsis in Crisis
16. Justice:
17. Jesu: Conquerer
18. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
19. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
20. Supersilent: 8

::

1. Victor Bermon: Arriving at Night
2. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Slaraffenland: Private Cinema
4. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
5. Parts & Labor: Mapmaker
6. Deer Tick: War Elephant
7. Hauschka: Room to Expand
8. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
9. Future of the Left: Curses
10. A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal
11. Nina Nastasia and Jim White: You Follow Me
12. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
13. Battles: Mirrored
14. Baja: Maps/Systemalheur
15. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
16. Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
17. St. Vincent: Marry Me
18. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
19. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
20. Von Sudenfed: Tromatic Reflexxions
21. Fog: Ditherer
22. Dungen: Tio Bitar
23. Studio: Yearbook 1
24. Helios: Ayres
25. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
26. Port-Royal: Afraid to Dance
27. Shapes and Sizes: Split Lips, Winning Hips, a Shiner
28. Paul Duncan: Above the Trees
29. Efterklang: Parades
30. Supersilent: 8

::

1. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2. Times New Viking: Present the Paisley Reich
3. Supersilent: 8
4. Psychedelic Horseshit: Magic Flowers Droned
5. Future of the Left: Curses
6. Deer Tick: War Elephant
7. Radiohead: In Rainbows
8. Fog: Ditherer
9. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
10. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
11. Chris and Mollie: The Palm Tree
12. Les Savy Fav: Lets Stay Friends
13. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
14. Ned Collette: Future Suture
15. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
16. Thurston Moore: Trees Outside The Academy
17. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
18. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
19. Jay-Z: American Gangster
20. Von Sudenfeld: Trommatic Reflexxions

::

1. Supersilent: 8
2. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
3. Future of the Left: Curses
4. Islaja: Ulual YYY
5. Battles: Mirrored
6. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
7. Radicalfashion: Odori
8. Fog: Ditherer
9. Pharoahe Monch: Desire
10. Jessica Rylan: Interior Designs
11. MoHa!: Norwegianism
12. Joe Beats: Diverse Recourse
13. Arve Henriksen: Strjon
14. Bald Eagle: Hot Shoulders
15. Kemialliset Ystavat: Self-titled
16. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
17. Ai Aso: Chamomile Pool
18. Dose One: Skeleton Repellent
19. Victor Bermon: Arriving at Night
20. Wolves in the Throne Room: Two Hunters
21. Pole: Steingarten
22. Burial: Untrue
23. Jay-Z: American Gangster
24. Pinch: Underwater Dancehall
25. Wu Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams
26. Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water
27. Feist: The Reminder
28. Black Milk: Popular Demand
29. Roisin Murphy: Overpowered
30. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline

::

1. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
2. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
3. Radiohead: In Rainbows
4. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
5. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
7. Ned Collette: Future Suture
8. Battles: Mirrored
9. Future of the Left: Curses
10. James Blackshaw: The Cloud of Unknowing
11. Menomena: Friend & Foe
12. Nina Nastasia & Jim White: You Follow Me
13. St. Vincent: Marry Me
14. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
15. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
16. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
17. Kalabrese: Rumpelzirkus
18. The National: Boxer
19. Feist: The Reminder
20. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
21. Oh No: Dr. No's Oxperiment
22. Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
23. Budos Band: Budos Band II
24. Dizzee Rascal: Maths + English
25. Pinch: Underwater Dancehall
26. Jay-Z: American Gangster
27. Burial: Untrue
28. Les Savy Fav: Let's Stay Friends
29. Radicalfashion: Odori
30. David Karsten Daniels: Sharp Teeth

::

1. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2. Menomena: Friend & Foe
3. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
4. Feist: The Reminder
5. Fog: Ditherer
6. The National: Boxer
7. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
8. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
9. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36
10. Deer Tick: War Elephant
11. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
12. Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Sustain Decay Release
13. Radiohead: In Rainbows
14. Battles: Mirrored
15. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
16. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
17. Field Music: Tones of Town
18. Seabear: The Ghost That Carried Us Away
19. Shocking Pinks: Self-titled
20. St. Vincent: Marry Me
21. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
22. Kemiallistet Ystavat: Self-titled
23. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
24. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
25. Parts & Labor: Mapmaker
26. Apples in Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder
27. Papercuts: Can't Go Back
28. Shugo Tokumaru: Exit
29. Avett Brothers: Emotionalism

::

1. Supersilent: 8
2. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
3. Kemialliset Ystavat: Self-titled
4. Stars of the Lid: And their Refinement of the Decline
5. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
6. Shining: Grindstone
7. Battles: Mirrored
8. Pantha du Prince: This Bliss
9. Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
10. Studio: Yearbook 1
11. Mark Templeton: Standing on a Hummingbird
12. Jessica Rylan: Interior Designs
13. Arve Henriksen: Strjon
14. Pole: Steingarten
15. Radicalfashion: Odori
16. Black Moth Super Rainbow: Dandelion Gum
17. Islaja: Ulual YYY
18. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
19. MoHa!: Norwegianism
20. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Jinx
21. Dungen: Tio Bitar
22. Ghost: In Stormy Nights
23. Roam the Hello Clouds: Near Misses
24. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
25. Amon Tobin: Foley Room
26. Ultralyd: Conditions for a Piece of Music
27. The Clientele: God Save the Clientele
28. Valet: Blood is Clean
29. Lichens: Omns
30. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36

::

1. Miracle Fortress: Five Roses
2. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. The National: Boxer
4. St. Vincent: Marry Me
5. Battles: Mirrored
6. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
7. Menomena: Friend & Foe
8. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
9. Radiohead: In Rainbows
10. Holy Fuck: LP
11. Deer Tick: War Elephant
12. The Acorn: Glory Hope Mountain
13. Feist: The Reminder
14. Caribou: Andorra
15. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

::

1. The National: Boxer
2. Future of the Left: Curses
3. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Radiohead: In Rainbows
5. Budos Band: Budos Band II
6. Working For a Nuclear Free City: Businessmen & Ghosts
7. Andew Bird: Armchair Apochrypa
8. !!!: Myth Takes
9. Queens of the Stone Age: Era Vulgaris
10. Palomar: All Things, Forests
11. Manic Street Preachers: Send Away the Tigers
12. Super Furry Animals: Hey Venus!
13. Thurston Moore: Trees Outside the Academy
14. Sea & Cake: Everybody
15. Roisin Murphy: Overpowered
16. Sharon Jones & the Dapkings: 100 Days & 100 Nights
17. 1990s: Cookies
18. Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell
19. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
20. Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

::

1. Radiohead: In Rainbows
2. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. The National: Boxer
4. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
5. The Clientele: God Save the Clientele
6. The Thrills: Teenager
7. Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
8. St. Vincent: Marry Me
9. The Main Drag: Yours as Fast as Mine
10. Loney, Dear: Loney, Noir
11. Ravens & Chimes: Reichenbach Falls
12. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
13. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
14. The Acorn: Glory Hope Mountain
15. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
16. The Broken West: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On
17. Kanye West: Graduation
18. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
19. The Sea and Cake: Everybody
20. Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger
21. New Buffalo: Somewhere Anywhere
22. Pants Yell!: Alison Statton
23. Club 8: The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
24. Richard Hawley: Lady's Bridge
25. Dungen: Tio Bitar
26. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
27. Autumn Defense: Self-titled
28. Laura Veirs: Saltbreakers
29. Saturday Looks Good To Me: Fill Up the Room
30. Devendra Banhart: Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

::

1. Menomena: Friend & Foe
2. Nina Nastasia & Jim White: You Follow Me
3. Battles: Mirrored
4. Future of the Left: Curses
5. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
6. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
7. Radiohead: In Rainbows
8. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
9. Ned Collette: Future Suture
10. Supersilent: 8
11. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
12. The National: Boxer
13. PJ Harvey: White Chalk
14. Dizzee Rascal: Maths + English
15. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
16. St. Vincent: Marry Me
17. Deer Tick: War Elephant
18. Handsome Furs: Plague Park
19. Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
20. Burial: Untrue
21. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
22. Justice:
23. Black Milk: Popular Demand
24. Marnie Stern: In Advance of the Broken Arm
25. Shugo Tokumaru: Exit
26. Isjala: Ulual YYY
27. Angels of Light: We Are Him
28. The Twilight Sad: Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters
29. Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water
30. Deerhunter: Cryptograms

::

1. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
2. Ned Collette: Future Suture
3. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
4. Fog: Ditherer
5. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
6. El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
7. Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
8. National: Boxer
9. Radiohead: In Rainbows
10. Dalek: Abandoned Language
11. Buck 65: Situation
12. Saul Williams: Niggy Tardust
13. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder
14. Cunninlynguists: Southernunderground
15. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
16. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
17. Menomena: Friend & Foe
18. M.I.A.: Kala
19. Talib Kweli & Madlib: Liberation
20. Handsome Furs: Plague Park
21. Muscles: Guns Babes Lemonade
22. SJ Easu: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse

::

1. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
2. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
3. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
4. Menomena: Friend & Foe
5. The National: Boxer
6. Deer Tick: War Elephant
7. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
8. Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
9. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
11. Sigur Rós: Hvarf/Heim
12. M.I.A.: Kala
13. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
14. Radiohead: In Rainbows
15. Ghostface Killah: Big Doe Rehab
16. Ravens & Chimes: Reichenbach Falls
17. Papercuts: Can't Go Back
18. Fourth of July: On the Plains
19. Beirut: Flying Club Cup
20. Film School: Hideout

::

1. Future of the Left: Curses
2. Jay-Z: American Gangster
3. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
4. Pantha du Prince: This Bliss
5. Radicalfashion: Odori
6. Battles: Mirrored
7. El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
8. Ned Collette: Future Suture
9. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10. Radiohead: In Rainbows
11. Deer Tick: War Elephant
12. Clockcleaner: Babylon Rules
13. UGK: Underground Kingz
14. Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
15. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
16. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
17. Chris & Mollie: The Palm Tree
18. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
19. Pharaohe Monch: Desire
20. Feist: The Reminder
21. A Place to Bury Strangers: Self-titled
22. !!!: Myth Takes
23. Bald Eagle: Hot Shoulders
24. Justice:
25. Supersilent: 8
26. Menomena: Friend & Foe
27. Field Music: Tones of Town
28. Studio: Yearbook 1
29. Black Milk: Popular Demand
30. Mouthus: Saw a Halo

::

1. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
2. Deer Tick: War Elephant
3. Fog: Ditherer
4. Future of the Left: Curses
5. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Field Music: Tones of Town
7. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
8. Ned Collette: Future Suture
9. Menomena: Friend & Foe
10. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
11. Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
12. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
13. Supersilent: 8
14. Radiohead: In Rainbows
15. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
16. Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water
17. Angels of Light: We Are Him
18. El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead
19. SJ Esau: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse
20. Budos Band: Budos Band II
21. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
22. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
23. Battles: Mirrored
24. Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
25. Islaja: Ulual YYY
26. Pharoahe Monch: Desire
27. Studio: Yearbook 1
28. Clockcleaner: Babylon Rules
29. Kemialliset Ystavat: Self-titled
30. Von Sudenfed: Tromatic Reflexxions

::

1. Loney, Dear: Loney, Noir
2. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
4. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
5. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
6. Jay-Z: American Gangster
7. Parts & Labor: Mapmaker
8. The Acorn: Glory Hope Mountain
9. Prodigy: Return of the Mac
10. Feist: The Reminder
11. UGK: Underground Kingz
12. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
13. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights
14. Les Savvy Fav: Let's Stay Friends
15. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
16. Pants Yell!: Alison Statton
17. Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
18. Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad
19. Battles: Mirrored
20. Timbaland: Shock Value

::

1. PJ Harvey: White Chalk
2. Von Sudenfed: Tromatic Reflexxions
3. Gui Boratto: Chromophobia
4. Yoko Ono: Yes, I’m A Witch
5. Cornelius: Sensuous
6. Roisin Murphy: Overpowered
7. Rufus Wainwright: Release The Stars
8. Siouxsie: Mantaray
9. Boyz Noize: Oi Oi Oi
10. Bjork: Volta
11. !!!: Myth Takes
12. Eugene McGuinness: The Early learnings of Eugene McGuiness
13. Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
14. Pharoah Monch: Desire
15. Ulrich Schnauss: Goodbye
16. Justice: Cross
17. Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position
18. Asobi Seksu: Citrus
19. LCD Soundsystem: Sounds of Silver
20. Queens Of The Stone Age: Era Vulgaris
21. M.I.A: Kala
22. The New Pornographers: Challengers
23. Turbo Fruits: Self-titled
24. Lucky Soul: The Great Unwanted
25. The Horrors: Strange House
26. The Go! Team: Proof Of Youth
27. Richard Swift: Dressed Up For The Letdown
28. The Noisettes: What’s The Time Mister Wolf?
29. Laura Viers: Saltbreakers
30. Jay Z: American Gangster

::

1. Future of the Left: Curses
2. Nina Nastasia & Jim White: You Follow Me
3. Parts & Labor: Mapmaker
4. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
5. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
6. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog
7. Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass
8. Beirut: The Flying Cup Club
9. Kings of Leon: Because of the Times
10. Pale Young Gentlemen: Self-titled
11. Jay-Z: American Gangster
12. Clockcleaner: Babylon Rules
13. The National: Boxer
14. Ravens & Chimes: Reichenbach Falls
15. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbows
16. Blonde Redhead: 23
17. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
18. Ned Collette: Future Suture
19. Feist: The Reminder
20. Julie Doiron: Woke Myself Up
21. Field Music: Tones of Town
22. Dizzee Rascal: Maths + English
23. Caribou: Andorra
24. Spiral Beach: Ball
25. The White Stripes: Icky Thump

::

1. Menomena: Friend & Foe
2. Future of the Left: Curses
3. Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
4. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
5. Shining: Grindstone
6. Radiohead: In Rainbows
7. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Deer Tick: War Elephant
9. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss
10. Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
11. Boris & Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
12. Angels of Light: We Are Him
13. Battles: Mirrored
14. The National: Boxer
15. !!!: Myth Takes
16. SJ Esau: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse
17. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
18. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36
19. Supersilent: 8
20. Jay-Z: American Gangster
21. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
22. Field Music: Tones of Town
23. Islaja: Ulual YYY
24. Nina Nastasia & Jim White: You Follow Me
25. Ned Collette: Future Suture
26. Les Savy Fav: Let's Stay Friends
27. Radicalfashion: Odori
28. Shugo Tokumaru: Exit
29. Lichens: Omns
30. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog


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