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!!!: Louden Up Now (2.8)

+44: When Your Heart Stops Beating (3.4)

50 Foot Wave: Golden Ocean (4.0)

50 Foot Wave: 50 Foot Wave (4.1)

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Badly Drawn Boy: One Plus One Is One (4.2)

Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed the Fish? (3.6)

Badly Drawn Boy: About a Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (3.7)

David Baerwald: Here Comes the New Folk Underground (3.9)

Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow (3.6)

Devendra Banhart: Niño Rojo (4.2)

Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands (4.3)

Barenaked Ladies: Everything to Everyone (3.4)

Lou Barlow: Emoh (3.4)

Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash (4.0)

Beastie Boys: To the 5 Boroughs (3.0)

The Beatles: Let It Be... Naked (3.5)

Beck: The Information (3.3)

Beck: Guero (3.4)

Beck: Sea Change (4.5)

Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit (3.7)

Belle & Sebastian: Push Barman to Open Old Wounds (3.9)

Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress (3.4)

Dierks Bentley: Long Trip Alone (3.6)

Brendan Benson: The Alternative to Love (3.5)

Brendan Benson: Lapalco (3.8)

The Beta Band: Heroes to Zeros (3.8)

Beyoncé: Dangerously in Love (3.8)

Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production of Eggs (3.4)

Björk: Medúlla (4.5)

Blackalicious: The Craft (3.4)

Blackalicious: Blazing Arrow (3.8)

Frank Black and the Catholics: Show Me Your Tears (2.5)

The Black Keys: Rubber Factory (4.0)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Howl (3.4)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Take Them On, On Your Own (3.5)

Blink-182: Blink-182 (3.7)

Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (3.4)

The Blood Brothers: Crimes (4.1)

The Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island, Burn (4.0)

Blue Epic: Love & Hate [EP] (3.0)

Blue Man Group: The Complex (2.9)

Blur: Think Tank (3.8)

Boards of Canada: Geogaddi (4.3)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Letting Go (3.8)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney: Superwolf (4.3)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Greatest Palace Music (3.5)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Master and Everyone (4.0)

The Books: Lost and Safe (4.2)

The Books: The Lemon of Pink (4.1)

The Books: Thought for Food (4.0)

Boom Bip: Blue Eyed in the Red Room (3.8)

David Bowie: Reality (4.0)

The Breeders: Title TK (4.0)

Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (3.8)

Bright Eyes: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (3.3)

Bright Eyes: Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (3.7)

British Sea Power: Open Season (3.0)

British Sea Power: The Decline of British Sea Power (3.3)

Broadcast: Haha Sound (4.3)

Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene (4.1)

Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People (3.7)

The Bronx: The Bronx (2.7)

James Brown: Live at the Apollo (1962) [Expanded Edition] (5.0)

Built to Spill: You in Reverse (4.0)

Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up on Me (3.7)

Bush: Golden State (2.5)

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Caesars: Paper Tigers (2.7)

Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos (4.0)

Caitlin Cary: While You Weren't Looking (2.9)

John Cale: HoboSapiens (4.5)

John Cale: 5 Tracks [EP] (4.0)

Calexico: Garden Ruin (3.4)

Calexico: Convict Pool [EP] (3.2)

Calexico: Feast of Wire (4.2)

Calla: Televise (2.9)

Califone: Heron King Blues (3.7)

Califone: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (4.2)

Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (3.9)

Laura Cantrell: Humming By The Flowered Vine (4.0)

Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness (4.3)

Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (4.0)

Neko Case: Blacklisted (3.4)

Johnny Cash: American V: A Hundred Highways (3.5)

Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around (2.5)

Various Artists: Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash (3.4)

Castanets: Cathedral (3.9)

Cat Power: The Greatest (4.1)

Cat Power: You Are Free (3.8)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: B-Sides and Rarities (3.7)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (4.0)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama (3.8)

Cave In: Antenna (3.2)

Cex: Being Ridden (3.7)

Kasey Chambers: Barricades and Brickwalls (3.8)

The Chemical Brothers: Push the Button (3.3)

The Chemical Brothers: Come With Us (3.4)

Eric Church: Sinners Like Me (3.8)

The Church: After Everything Now This (3.8)

The Citizens: Are We There Yet? (2.8)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (3.8)

Eric Clapton: Me and Mr. Johnson (3.0)

The Clash: The Essential Clash (4.3)

Clearlake: Cedars (3.3)

Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen: Pin Your Spin (4.0)

Clinic: Winchester Cathedral (3.4)

Clinic: Walking With Thee (4.0)

The Close: Sun, Burn (2.0)

CocoRosie: Noah's Ark (2.7)

Coldplay: X&Y (3.3)

Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head (3.7)

Comets on Fire: Blue Cathedral (3.3)

Common: Be (3.5)

Conjure One: Conjure One (2.8)

Constantines: Tournament of Hearts (3.7)

Constantines: Shine a Light (3.5)

Ry Cooder: Chávez Ravine (3.9)

Coppé: Peppermint (3.7)

The Coral: The Invisible Invasion (3.8)

The Coral: Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker (3.0)

The Coral: Magic and Medicine (3.8)

The Coral: The Coral (3.3)

Cornelius: Point (4.2)

Cornershop: Handcream for a Generation (3.7)

Elvis Costello: The Delivery Man (3.3)

Elvis Costello: North (4.0)

Elvis Costello: When I Was Cruel (3.2)

Counting Crows: Films About Ghosts: The Best Of (3.8)

Counting Crows: Hard Candy (3.4)

Cowboy Mouth: Uh-Oh (3.5)

Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines (3.8)

The Cramps: Fiends of Dope Island (1.5)

Creed: Weathered (3.5)

Crime and Judy: Vendetta Chants [EP] (3.2)

Crooked Fingers: Dignity and Shame (4.1)

Crooked Fingers: Red Devil Dawn (3.8)

Sheryl Crow: C'mon, C'mon (2.9)

The Cure: The Cure (3.0)

Cursive: The Ugly Organ (4.0)

Cypress Hill: Till Death Do Us Part (3.3)

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Daft Punk: Human After All (3.0)

Damon & Naomi: The Earth Is Blue (3.7)

The Dandy Warhols: Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (3.3)

The Dandy Warhols: The Black Album / Come on Feel the Dandy Warhols (3.0)

The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House (4.3)

Danger Mouse: The Grey Album (2.8)

Dark Side of the Cop: Dark Side of the Cop (2.5)

The Darkness: Permission to Land (3.7)

Dashboard Confessional: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (2.5)

DC to Daylight: Xmas Murder '74 (3.0)

Dead Meadow: Feathers (3.0)

Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (2.4)

Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism (3.1)

Death Cab For Cutie: The Photo Album (3.5)

Death From Above 1979: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (4.1)

The Decemberists: The Crane Wife (4.6)

The Decemberists: Picaresque (4.5)

The Decemberists: Billy Liar [Single] (3.0)

The Decemberists: The Tain [EP] (4.5)

The Decemberists: Her Majesty the Decemberists (4.2)

The Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts (4.0)

The Decemberists: Five Songs [EP] (3.5)

Deerhoof: The Runners Four (3.8)

De La Soul: The Grind Date (4.1)

De La Soul: AOI: Bionix (4.0)

The Delgados: Universal Audio (3.8)

The Desert Fathers: The Spirituality (3.0)

Destroyer: Destroyer's Rubies (4.0)

Dido: Life For Rent (2.5)

Ani DiFranco: Knuckle Down (3.8)

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Medicated Magic (3.7)

The Dismemberment Plan: A People's History of The Dismemberment Plan (3.0)

The Dismemberment Plan: Change (4.5)

The Divine Comedy: Victory For The Comic Muse (3.2)

The Divine Comedy: Absent Friends (4.0)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Official Soundtrack) (3.8)

Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way (3.4)

Dixie Chicks: Home (3.3)

Dizzee Rascal: Showtime (4.4)

Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (4.2)

DJ Shadow: The Outsider (3.0)

DJ Shadow: The Private Press (4.0)

DMX: Grand Champ (3.1)

DMX: The Great Depression (3.7)

Do Make Say Think: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (4.1)

Tanya Donelly: Whiskey Tango Ghosts (3.5)

Tanya Donelly: Beautysleep (3.4)

Doves: The Last Broadcast (3.8)

The Dresden Dolls: Yes, Virginia... (3.7)

The Dresden Dolls: The Dresden Dolls (4.1)

Dressy Bessy: Electrified (3.4)

Dressy Bessy: Dressy Bessy (3.8)

Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and A Curse (4.3)

Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South (4.4)

Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day (4.3)

Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera (4.0)

Pete Droge: Skywatching (3.6)

Dungen: Ta Det Lugnt (3.9)

Bob Dylan: Modern Times (4.0)

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (4.0)

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 6: Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall (5.0)

Bob Dylan: Masked & Anonymous [Soundtrack] (3.0)

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (4.8)

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Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts…Now (3.6)

Steve Earle: Jerusalem (4.0)

Steve Earle: Guitar Town (4.2)

Steve Earle: Sidetracks (3.5)

The Earlies: These Were the Earlies (3.4)

Edan: Beauty and the Beat (4.0)

Kathleen Edwards: Back to Me (3.5)

Kathleen Edwards: Failer (3.7)

Eels: Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (4.6)

Eels: Shootenanny! (4.2)

Eels: Souljacker (3.3)

Elbow: Leaders of the Free World (3.0)

Elbow: Cast of Thousands (3.8)

Elbow: Asleep in the Back (3.5)

Missy Elliott: The Cookbook (3.3)

Missy Elliott: This is Not a Test! (4.0)

Missy Elliott: Under Construction (3.8)

El-P: Fantastic Damage (4.3)

Eminem: Encore (1.8)

Eminem: The Eminem Show (3.8)

Engineers: Engineers (3.2)

Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [Remastered Edition] (4.2)

Brian Eno: Another Day on Earth (3.6)

Enon: Hocus Pocus (3.6)

Enon: In This City (3.4)

Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (4.5)

Alejandro Escovedo: By the Hand of the Father (4.0)

Explosions in the Sky: The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (3.8)

Explosions in the Sky: Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (4.0)

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The Fall: The Real New Fall LP [U.S. Version] (4.5)

The Fall: 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (4.7)

Fall Out Boy: From Under the Cork Tree (3.5)

Farben: Textstar (4.2)

Jay Farrar: Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (3.8)

Jay Farrar: Terroir Blues (3.0)

Jay Farrar: ThirdShiftGrottoSlack [EP] (3.0)

Jay Farrar: Sebastopol (3.5)

Fennesz: Venice (4.0)

Ffa Coffi Pawb: Am Byth (3.5)

The Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (3.7)

The Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (2.8)

The Fiery Furnaces: EP (4.0)

The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (4.0)

The Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark (3.5)

The Finn Brothers: Everyone Is Here (3.6)

The Fire Show: Saint the Fire Show (4.3)

The Fire Theft: The Fire Theft (2.7)

Fischerspooner: #1 (3.7)

The Flaming Lips: At War With the Mystics (4.3)

The Flaming Lips: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell [EP] (3.8)

The Flaming Lips: Fight Test [EP] (4.2)

The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (4.6)

Ben Folds: Songs for Silverman (4.0)

Fountains of Wayne: Out-of-State Plates (3.0)

Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (4.8)

Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (3.8)

Four Tet: Rounds (4.3)

Michael Franti and Spearhead: Everyone Deserves Music (3.8)

Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better (3.6)

Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand (3.1)

Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust (3.8)

Bill Frisell: The Willies (3.8)

Fugazi: The Argument (4.0)

The Futureheads: News and Tributes (3.5)

The Futureheads: The Futureheads (3.8)

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Peter Gabriel: Up (3.0)

Dave Gahan: Paper Monsters (3.2)

Galleon: So I Begin (2.0)

Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (3.8)

Ghostface Killah: Fishscale (4.0)

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season (4.7)

Thea Gilmore: Avalanche (3.7)

The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart (4.2)

The Go-Betweens: Bright Yellow Bright Orange (4.0)

God Lives Underwater: Up Off the Floor (3.9)

Godsmack: The Other Side (3.4)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Yanqui U.X.O. (4.0)

Goldfrapp: Black Cherry (3.7)

Gomez: How We Operate (3.0)

Gomez: Out West (3.4)

Gomez: Split the Difference (3.4)

Gomez: In Our Gun (4.3)

The Goo Goo Dolls: Gutterflower (3.0)

Gorillaz: Demon Days (3.5)

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Sleep/Holiday (3.7)

The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike (3.7)

Grandaddy: Sumday (3.0)

Grandpaboy (Paul Westerberg): Mono (3.8)

Macy Gray: The Trouble With Being Myself (3.4)

Al Green: I Can't Stop (4.0)

Green Day: American Idiot (4.3)

Green Day: International Superhits (4.3)

Green Day: Shenanigans (3.9)

Jonny Greenwood: Bodysong (4.0)

Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (3.8)

Guided by Voices: Half Smiles of the Decomposed (3.7)

Guided by Voices: Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusement at Hourly Rates (4.3)

Guided by Voices: Earthquake Glue (4.1)

Guided by Voices: Universal Truths And Cycles (4.0)

Guillemots: Through the Windowpane (3.6)

The Gunshy: No Man's Blues (3.1)

Guster: Keep It Together (3.8)

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Petra Haden: Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out (3.5)

Merle Haggard: Roots, Volume 1 (4.0)

The Handsome Family: Last Days of Wonder (4.0)

The Handsome Family: Singing Bones (4.0)

Ed Harcourt: The Beautiful Lie (3.8)

Ed Harcourt: Strangers (3.7)

Ed Harcourt: From Every Sphere (4.0)

Ben Harper: Diamonds on the Inside (2.7)

Emmylou Harris: Stumble Into Grace (3.4)

PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her (4.1)

Juliana Hatfield: In Exile Deo (3.8)

Hayden: Skyscraper National Park (3.8)

The Heartless Bastards: All This Time (3.6)

Joe Henry: Tiny Voices (3.8)

Kristin Hersh: The Grotto (3.9)

Hidden Cameras: Smell of Our Own (3.7)

Faith Hill: Cry (2.5)

The Hiss: Panic Movement (3.6)

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: Olé! Tarantula (3.8)

Robyn Hitchcock: Spooked (3.6)

The Hives: Tyrannosaurus Hives (3.1)

The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America (3.8)

The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday (3.8)

The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me (4.0)

Holopaw: Holopaw (3.7)

Hood: Outside Closer (3.8)

Hood: Cold House (3.9)

Patterson Hood: Killers and Stars (3.8)

Hootie & the Blowfish: Hootie & the Blowfish (3.5)

Hope of the States: The Lost Riots (4.6)

William Hung: Inspiration (0.0)

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Idlewild: Warnings/Promises (3.7)

Idlewild: The Remote Part (4.2)

Billy Idol: Devil's Playground (3.7)

Incubus: Morning View (0.0)

Indicia: Identifying Marks (3.9)

Interpol: Antics (3.3)

Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights (2.8)

Iron & Wine / Calexico: In the Reins [EP] (3.7)

Iron & Wine: Woman King [EP] (4.0)

Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (4.1)

Iron & Wine: The Sea & the Rhythm [EP] (3.0)

Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle (3.7)

The Isley Brothers: Body Kiss (2.4)

Isolée: We Are Monster (4.0)

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J Dilla: Donuts (3.8)

Jane's Addiction: Strays (3.4)

Jay-Z: Kingdom Come (3.0)

Jay-Z: The Black Album (4.2)

R. Kelly and Jay-Z: The Best of Both Worlds (2.0)

Jay-Z: The Blueprint (2.0)

Jem: It All Starts Here [EP] (3.3)

Jet: Get Born (3.3)

Elton John: Peachtree Road (3.7)

Norah Jones: Feels Like Home (3.8)

Junior Boys: So This Is Goodbye (3.4)

Junior Boys: Last Exit (4.0)

Damien Jurado: And Now That I'm In Your Shadow (4.2)

Damien Jurado: On My Way to Absence (3.8)

Damien Jurado: Just in Time for Something [EP] (3.5)

Damien Jurado: Where Shall You Take Me? (4.0)

Jurassic 5: Power in Numbers (4.0)

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Keane: Hopes and Fears (3.5)

Kelis: Tasty (4.0)

Alicia Keys: The Diary of Alicia Keys (3.3)

Kid Rock: Cocky (2.9)

Angélique Kidjo: Black Ivory Soul (3.7)

The Killers: Sam's Town (2.6)

Killing Joke: Killing Joke (4.0)

The Kills: No Wow (3.5)

The Kills: Keep on Your Mean Side (4.0)

Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak (3.8)

Kings of Leon: Youth & Young Manhood (3.5)

Kinky: Atlas (3.5)

Kinky: Kinky (3.5)

Kittie: Oracle (3.9)

Korn: Untouchables (2.8)

Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum (4.5)

Kraftwerk: Tour De France Soundtracks (3.6)

Lenny Kravitz: Baptism (1.8)

Lenny Kravitz: Lenny (3.5)

Talib Kweli: Quality (3.3)

Ben Kweller: Ben Kweller (3.7)

Ben Kweller: On My Way (3.2)

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Ladytron: Light & Magic (3.2)

Lali Puna: I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed and B-Sides (3.5)

Lali Puna: Faking the Books (3.8)

Lambchop: Damaged (3.8)

Lambchop: No, You C'mon (4.0)

Lambchop: Aw C'mon (3.6)

Lambchop: Is a Woman (3.0)

Mark Lanegan Band: Bubblegum (4.5)

Mark Lanegan Band: Here Comes That Weird Chill (Methamphetamine Blues, Extras & Oddities) [EP] (3.7)

Jim Lauderdale: Headed For the Hills (3.7)

Jim Lauderdale & Donna the Buffalo: Wait Til Spring (3.6)

Jim Lauderdale: The Hummingbirds (4.0)

Jim Lauderdale/Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Lost in the Lonesome Pines (3.8)

LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (4.2)

Led Zeppelin: How The West Was Won (4.5)

Lemon Jelly: '64-'95 (4.3)

Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Shake the Sheets (4.3)

Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead [EP] (4.0)

Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak (3.8)

Ted Leo/Pharmacists: The Tyranny of Distance (4.5)

Sondre Lerche: Two Way Monologue (3.8)

Les Savy Fav: Inches (4.1)

Liars: Drum's Not Dead (3.7)

Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (4.3)

Liars: They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top (3.0)

The Libertines: The Libertines (4.5)

The Libertines: Up the Bracket (4.0)

Jamie Lidell: Multiply (4.0)

Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain (4.4)

Lightning Bolt: Wonderful Rainbow (4.1)

Limp Bizkit: New Old Songs (1.8)

Arto Lindsay: Salt (3.8)

Linkin Park: Meteora (2.5)

Live: Birds of Pray (2.5)

Live: V (3.8)

Longwave: The Strangest Things (3.5)

Loose Fur: Loose Fur (3.0)

Los Lobos: Good Morning Aztlan (3.8)

Lostprophets: Start Something (3.4)

Courtney Love: America's Sweetheart (2.6)

Low: The Great Destroyer (4.0)

Low: Trust (4.2)

Ludacris: The Red Light District (3.8)

Ludacris: Chicken -N- Beer (2.8)

Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose (4.7)

Shelby Lynne: Love, Shelby (1.9)

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