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January 2007

Macromantics: Moments in Movement (3.4)

December 2006

Jay-Z: Kingdom Come (3.0)
Mastodon: Blood Mountain (4.0)
The Twilight Singers: Powder Burns (3.7)
Dierks Bentley: Long Trip Alone (3.6)
Matthew Ryan: From A Late Night High Rise (3.7)
My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade (4.0)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: Olé! Tarantula (3.8)
Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (5.0)
The Killers: Sam's Town (2.6)

November 2006

Eric Church: Sinners Like Me (3.8)
+44: When Your Heart Stops Beating (3.4)
Damien Jurado: And Now That I'm In Your Shadow (4.2)
Joanna Newsom: Ys (4.4)
Pavement: Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition (4.7)

October 2006

Lambchop: Damaged (3.8)
Junior Boys: So This Is Goodbye (3.4)
Oxford Collapse: Remember the Night Parties (3.4)
Midlake: The Trials of Van Occupanther (4.5)
Ben Kweller: Ben Kweller (3.7) Beck: The Information (3.3) The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America (3.8) Nina Nastasia: On Leaving (3.0) Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Letting Go (3.8) The Close: Sun, Burn (2.0)
The Decemberists: The Crane Wife (4.6)

September 2006

Grizzly Bear: Yellow House (3.8)
R.E.M.: And I Feel Fine: Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (4.4)
Dark Side of the Cop: Dark Side of the Cop (2.5)
Muse: Black Holes and Revelations (4.2)
TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain (4.6)
The Album Leaf: Into the Blue Again (3.0)
Two Ton Boa: Parasiticide (3.5)
DJ Shadow: The Outsider (3.0)
The Mars Volta: Amputechture (3.4)
Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (4.3)

August 2006

The Roots: Game Theory (3.8)
Bob Dylan: Modern Times (4.0)
The Thermals: The Body, The Blood, The Machine (3.7)
OutKast: Idlewild (2.8)
The Mountain Goats: Get Lonely (4.0)
M. Ward: Post-War (3.4)
The Heartless Bastards: All This Time (3.6)
Shapes and Sizes: Shapes and Sizes (3.3)
Guillemots: Through the Windowpane (3.6)
J Dilla: Donuts (3.8)
Various Artists: Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound (4.0)

July 2006

Johnny Cash: American V: A Hundred Highways (3.5)
Destroyer: Destroyer's Rubies (4.0)
The Divine Comedy: Victory For The Comic Muse (3.2)
Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [Remastered Edition] (4.2)
Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche (4.0)
The Handsome Family: Last Days of Wonder (4.0)
Thom Yorke: The Eraser (3.7)
The Replacements: The Best of the Replacements (4.4)

June 2006

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones (3.8)
Liars: Drum's Not Dead (3.7)
Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped (4.0)
Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (4.0)
Ed Harcourt: The Beautiful Lie (3.8)
The Futureheads: News and Tributes (3.5)
Snow Patrol: Eyes Open (3.4)
Scott Walker: The Drift (3.8)
The Walkmen: A Hundred Miles Off (3.7)
Mission of Burma: The Obliterati (4.1)
The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers (3.5)
Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way (3.4)

May 2006

Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam (3.8)
Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (3.4)
Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (4.5)
Gomez: How We Operate (3.0)

April 2006

The Dresden Dolls: Yes, Virginia... (3.7)
The Streets: The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (3.7)
The Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (3.7)
Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and A Curse (4.3)
Built to Spill: You in Reverse (4.0)
Calexico: Garden Ruin (3.4)

March 2006

The Flaming Lips: At War With the Mystics (4.3)
Ghostface Killah: Fishscale (4.0)
Josh Rouse: Subtitulo (3.4)
Quasi: When the Going Gets Dark (3.4)

February 2006

Tarkio: Omnibus (3.0)
Wilco: Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (3.8)
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (3.4)
Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit (3.7)
Beth Orton: Comfort of Strangers (4.0)
Robert Pollard: From a Compound Eye (3.4)

January 2006

The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth (3.0)
Cat Power: The Greatest (4.1)
Isolée: We Are Monster (4.0)
Ryan Adams: 29 (2.9)

November 2005

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Howl (3.4)
Fall Out Boy: From Under the Cork Tree (3.5)

October 2005

My Morning Jacket: Z (4.4)
The Fiery Furnaces: Rehearsing My Choir (2.8)
Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain (4.4)
Constantines: Tournament of Hearts (3.7)
Animal Collective: Feels (3.5)
Deerhoof: The Runners Four (3.8)
Six Organs of Admittance: School of the Flower (3.5)
Silver Jews: Tanglewood Numbers (3.0)
Broken Social Scene: Broken Social Scene (4.1)
Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow (3.6)
Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine (4.0)
Ryan Adams: Jacksonville City Nights (3.9)
Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary (3.1)
Blackalicious: The Craft (3.4)
Elbow: Leaders of the Free World (3.0)
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (4.0)
Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better (3.6)
CocoRosie: Noah's Ark (2.7)
Tenth Hour Calling: Tenth Hour Calling (4.3)

September 2005

Iron & Wine / Calexico: In the Reins [EP] (3.7)
The Dandy Warhols: Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (3.3)
Idlewild: Warnings/Promises (3.7)
Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft (3.6)
Sigur Rós: Takk... (3.8)
Sexsmith & Kerr: Destination Unknown (3.4)

August 2005

Kanye West: Late Registration (3.8)
Death Cab For Cutie: Plans (2.4)
John Vanderslice: Pixel Revolt (3.7)
The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema (4.1)
Indicia: Identifying Marks (3.9)
Michael Penn: Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (3.7)
Caesars: Paper Tigers (2.7)

July 2005

Bob Mould: Body of Song (3.4)
Lali Puna: I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed and B-Sides (3.5)
Sparkwood: Jalopy Pop (3.9)
Parchman Farm: Parchman Farm [EP] (2.3)
Of Montreal: The Sunlandic Twins (3.8)
Teenage Fanclub: Man-Made (3.7)
Engineers: Engineers (3.2)
Röyksopp: The Understanding (3.8)
Laura Cantrell: Humming By The Flowered Vine (4.0)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (3.8)
Xiu Xiu: La Forêt (3.6)
The Magic Numbers: The Magic Numbers (3.7)
Missy Elliott: The Cookbook (3.3)
Son Volt: Okemah and the Melody of Riot (3.7)
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (4.4)
Amusement Parks on Fire: Amusement Parks on Fire (3.3)
Waterproof Blonde: The Morning After the Night Before (3.3)
Jamie Lidell: Multiply (4.0)

June 2005

Fountains of Wayne: Out-of-State Plates (3.0)
Dressy Bessy: Electrified (3.4)
Pernice Brothers: Discover a Lovelier You (3.4)
Van Morrison: Magic Time (3.8)
Turin Brakes: JackInABox (3.0)
Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock and Roll (3.5)
Akron/Family: Akron/Family (3.3)
Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (3.0)
Audioslave: Out of Exile (3.5)
Ry Cooder: Chávez Ravine (3.9)
Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum (4.5)
Brian Eno: Another Day on Earth (3.6)
Gomez: Out West (3.4)
Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (3.8)
Coldplay: X&Y (3.3)
The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (3.4)
System of a Down: Mezmerize (3.7)
Belle & Sebastian: Push Barman to Open Old Wounds (3.9)
At the Drive-In: Anthology: This Station Is Non-Operational (3.9)
Common: Be (3.5)
Smog: A River Ain't Too Much to Love (3.0)

May 2005

Maria Taylor: 11:11 (3.4)
The Wallflowers: Rebel, Sweetheart (3.3)
The Coral: The Invisible Invasion (3.8)
Dave Matthews Band: Stand Up (3.0)
Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright (3.8)
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods (4.6)
Gorillaz: Demon Days (3.5)
Stephen Malkmus: Face the Truth (3.7)
Screaming Trees: Ocean of Confusion: Songs of Screaming Trees 1989-1996 (4.2)
Monade: A Few Steps More (3.2)
The Dresden Dolls: The Dresden Dolls (4.1)
Quasimoto: The Further Adventures of Lord Quas (4.3)
Petra Haden: Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out (3.5)
Spoon: Gimme Fiction (4.5)
Weezer: Make Believe (1.7)
Lucinda Williams: Live at the Fillmore (3.5)
Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (3.8)
The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday (3.8)
Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust (3.4)
The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart (4.2)
Stereolab: Oscillons from the Anti-Sun (4.3)
Architecture in Helsinki: In Case We Die (3.8)
Edan: Beauty and the Beat (4.0)
Aimee Mann: The Forgotten Arm (3.5)
Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness (4.3)
Ryan Adams: Cold Roses (2.9)
Autechre: Untilted (3.7)
The Books: Lost and Safe (4.2)

April 2005

Ben Folds: Songs for Silverman (4.0)
The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4.1)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: B-Sides and Rarities (3.7)
Rob Thomas: ...Something to Be (1.6)
Damien Jurado: On My Way to Absence (3.8)
Billy Idol: Devil's Playground (3.7)
Brendan Benson: The Alternative to Love (3.5)
Amon Tobin: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory OST (3.2)
Glen Phillips: Winter Pays for Summer (3.6)
British Sea Power: Open Season (3.0)

March 2005

Beck: Guero (3.4)
Kathleen Edwards: Back to Me (3.5)
M83: Before The Dawn Heals Us (3.9)
Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak (3.8)
M.I.A.: Arular (3.8)
Moby: Hotel (3.7)
The Decemberists: Picaresque (4.5)
Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze (4.0)
Damon & Naomi: The Earth Is Blue (3.7)
Dead Meadow: Feathers (3.0)
Yo La Tengo: Prisoners of Love (4.9)
Antony and the Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now (4.0)
Daft Punk: Human After All (3.0)
50 Foot Wave: Golden Ocean (4.0)
The Kills: No Wow (3.5)
Sage Francis: A Healthy Distrust (3.8)
Dungen: Ta Det Lugnt (3.9)
Wilco: A Ghost Is Born [Bonus EP] (3.4)
Boom Bip: Blue Eyed in the Red Room (3.8)
Stars: Set Yourself on Fire (3.5)
Archer Prewitt: Wilderness (3.6)
Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production of Eggs (3.4)
Roots Manuva: Awfully Deep (4.1)
The Mars Volta: Frances the Mute (3.8)

February 2005

Aesop Rock: Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives [EP] (4.0)
M. Ward: Transistor Radio (4.3)
Josh Rouse: Nashville (4.5)
Crooked Fingers: Dignity and Shame (4.1)
Gruff Rhys: Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (3.5)
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm (3.4)
Iron & Wine: Woman King [EP] (4.0)
Mogwai: Government Commissions: BBC Sessions (1996-2003) (3.3)
Hood: Outside Closer (3.8)
LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem (4.2)
Super Furry Animals: Songbook: The Singles (Vol. 1) (4.4)
Ffa Coffi Pawb: Am Byth (3.5)
Mercury Rev: The Secret Migration (3.5)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney: Superwolf (4.3)
Ani DiFranco: Knuckle Down (3.8)
The Chemical Brothers: Push the Button (3.3)
Lemon Jelly: '64-'95 (4.3)
The Fiery Furnaces: EP (4.0)
The Citizens: Are We There Yet? (2.8)
The Decemberists: Billy Liar [Single] (3.0)
Trashcan Sinatras: Weightlifting (3.5)

January 2005

Lou Barlow: Emoh (3.4)
Low: The Great Destroyer (4.0)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Worlds Apart (3.0)
Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (3.8)
Bright Eyes: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (3.3)
The Violettes: The Violettes (4.3)
Mike Watt: The Secondman's Middle Stand (2.0)

December 2004

The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me (4.0)
The Divine Comedy: Absent Friends (4.0)
Radiohead: Com Lag: 2+2=5 [EP] (3.0)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Greatest Palace Music (3.5)
The Twilight Singers: She Loves You (4.0)
Ludacris: The Red Light District (3.8)
Elton John: Peachtree Road (3.7)
Damien Jurado: Just in Time for Something [EP] (3.5)
Eminem: Encore (1.8)
Robyn Hitchcock: Spooked (3.6)

November 2004

Death From Above 1979: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (4.1)
Castanets: Cathedral (3.9)
U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (4.1)
God Lives Underwater: Up Off the Floor (3.9)
The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike (3.7)
The Blood Brothers: Crimes (4.1)
Annie: Anniemal (4.0)

October 2004

Ed Harcourt: Strangers (3.7)
William Shatner: Has Been (3.4)
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins (4.5)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (4.0)
Elliott Smith: From a Basement on the Hill (3.9)
Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Shake the Sheets (4.3)
Elvis Costello: The Delivery Man (3.3)
Jill Scott: Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds, Vol. 2 (3.8)
Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (3.5)
R.E.M.: Around the Sun (2.8)
De La Soul: The Grind Date (4.1)
Green Day: American Idiot (4.3)
The Delgados: Universal Audio (3.8)
Hope of the States: The Lost Riots (4.6)
Tom Waits: Real Gone (3.5)

September 2004

Brian Wilson: Smile (4.8)
Thalia Zedek: Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness (3.5)
The Arcade Fire: Funeral (3.8)
Devendra Banhart: Niño Rojo (4.2)
Interpol: Antics (3.3)
Tim McGraw: Live Like You Were Dying (3.6)
Reverend Horton Heat: Revival (3.4)
The Finn Brothers: Everyone Is Here (3.6)
Dizzee Rascal: Showtime (4.4)
The Thrills: Let's Bottle Bohemia (3.5)
The Black Keys: Rubber Factory (4.0)
The Gunshy: No Man's Blues (3.1)
Argentine: In Other Fictions (3.7)
The Upwelling: The Upwelling [EP] (4.2)
Woke Up Falling: Woke Up Falling (3.1)
The Libertines: The Libertines (4.5)
Talking Heads: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads [Expanded Edition] (4.7)
Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South (4.4)
Steve Earle: The Revolution Starts…Now (3.6)

August 2004

Björk: Medúlla (4.5)
Clinic: Winchester Cathedral (3.4)
Mark Lanegan Band: Bubblegum (4.5)
Guided by Voices: Half Smiles of the Decomposed (3.7)
Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous (3.5)
The Earlies: These Were the Earlies (3.4)
Jim White: Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See (3.7)
Marah: 20,000 Streets Under the Sky (2.4)
Rogue Wave: Out of the Shadow (3.3)
Comets on Fire: Blue Cathedral (3.3)
Nine Men's Morris: It's A Wonderful Life (2.0)
Sketch Show: Loophole (4.0)
Ben Kweller: On My Way (3.2)
Graham Coxon: Happiness in Magazines (3.8)
The Futureheads: The Futureheads (3.8)

July 2004

The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat (4.0)
The Cure: The Cure (3.0)
Tanya Donelly: Whiskey Tango Ghosts (3.5)
The Fall: The Real New Fall LP [U.S. Version] (4.5)
The Hives: Tyrannosaurus Hives (3.1)
!!!: Louden Up Now (2.8)
Mclusky: The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire (3.7)
Juliana Hatfield: In Exile Deo (3.8)
Brent Palmer: Stabilize [EP] (2.9)
NEMO: Signs of Life (3.0)
The Polyphonic Spree: Together We're Heavy (3.9)
Sparta: Porcelain (2.5)
The Dandy Warhols: The Black Album / Come on Feel the Dandy Warhols (3.0)
The Fall: 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (4.7)
The Roots: The Tipping Point (3.7)
Junior Boys: Last Exit (4.0)
Jay Farrar: Stone, Steel & Bright Lights (3.8)
Rush: Feedback [EP] (3.5)
Razorlight: Up All Night (2.8)
Nina Nastasia: Dogs (3.4)
Jim Lauderdale: Headed For the Hills (3.7)

June 2004

Patti Smith: Trampin' (3.4)
Les Savy Fav: Inches (4.1)
Arto Lindsay: Salt (3.8)
Wilco: A Ghost is Born (3.6)
Badly Drawn Boy: One Plus One Is One (4.2)
Zero 7: When It Falls (3.8)
Keane: Hopes and Fears (3.5)
Moonbabies: The Orange Billboard (3.7)
A.C. Newman: Slow Wonder (3.8)
Velvet Revolver: Contraband (3.5)
Nellie McKay: Get Away From Me (3.4)
Miss Kittin: I Com (3.7)
The Beta Band: Heroes to Zeros (3.8)
Beastie Boys: To the 5 Boroughs (3.0)
Animal Collective: Sung Tongs (3.7)
Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands (4.3)
Rjd2: Since We Last Spoke (3.7)
Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse (3.5)
Lali Puna: Faking the Books (3.8)
PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her (4.1)
Edwin McCain: Scream and Whisper (2.6)
Sally: Sally (3.3)

May 2004

Morrissey: You Are the Quarry (3.6)
The Magnetic Fields: i (3.4)
Lenny Kravitz: Baptism (1.8)
The Streets: A Grand Don't Come for Free (4.5)
Gomez: Split the Difference (3.4)
Mission of Burma: ONoffON (4.0)
Patterson Hood: Killers and Stars (3.8)
Cypress Hill: Till Death Do Us Part (3.3)
Múm: Summer Make Good (3.5)
Fennesz: Venice (4.0)

April 2004

Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose (4.7)
David Mead: Indiana (3.5)
Probot: Probot (3.4)
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen: Pin Your Spin (4.0)
William Hung: Inspiration (0.0)
Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans (4.0)
Sondre Lerche: Two Way Monologue (3.8)
Calexico: Convict Pool [EP] (3.2)
Tortoise: It's All Around You (3.8)
Allison Moorer: The Duel (3.8)
Murs: 3:16 - The 9th Edition (4.0)
50 Foot Wave: 50 Foot Wave (4.1)
Eric Clapton: Me and Mr. Johnson (3.0)
Wheat: Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second (3.2)
Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News (4.0)
Snow Patrol: Final Straw (4.3)
James Brown: Live at the Apollo (1962) [Expanded Edition] (5.0)
Madvillain: Madvillainy (4.0)

March 2004

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 6: Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall (5.0)
N.E.R.D.: Fly or Die (2.5)
Spymob: Sitting Around Keeping Score (3.6)
The Hiss: Panic Movement (3.6)
Ron Sexsmith: Retriever (3.3)
Scissor Sisters: Scissor Sisters (4.0)
Menomena: I Am the Fun Blame Monster (3.8)
Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days (4.1)
Godsmack: The Other Side (3.4)
Telefon Tel Aviv: Map of What Is Effortless (4.0)
The Decemberists: The Tain [EP] (4.5)
The Decemberists: Five Songs [EP] (3.5)
Ryan Adams: Love Is Hell, Pt. 1 (2.5) Ryan Adams: Love Is Hell, Pt. 2 (2.0)
TV on the Radio: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (4.3)
TV on the Radio: Young Liars [EP] (4.2)
Liars: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (4.3)
Lostprophets: Start Something (3.4)
Now It's Overhead: Fall Back Open (3.8)
The Von Bondies: Pawn Shoppe Heart (4.0)
Xiu Xiu: Fabulous Muscles (3.6)
Danger Mouse: The Grey Album (2.8)
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand (3.1)
The Coral: Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker (3.0)
Califone: Heron King Blues (3.7)
Kanye West: College Dropout (3.4)
Stereolab: Margerine Eclipse (4.0)
The Mountain Goats: We Shall All Be Healed (4.0)
Ghost: Hypnotic Underworld (3.8)
Preston School of Industry: Monsoon (3.4)

February 2004

Courtney Love: America's Sweetheart (2.6)
Lambchop: No, You C'mon (4.0)
Lambchop: Aw C'mon (3.6)
John Vanderslice: Cellar Door (4.2)
Norah Jones: Feels Like Home (3.8)
The Walkmen: Bows and Arrows (4.5)
Westside Connection: Terrorist Threats (2.5)
The Desert Fathers: The Spirituality (3.0)
Air: Talkie Walkie (3.7)

January 2004

Jem: It All Starts Here [EP] (3.3)
The Thrills: So Much for the City (4.2)
Crime and Judy: Vendetta Chants [EP] (3.2)
Pink Swords: One Night High (2.8)
Brent Palmer: Boomerang Shoes [EP] (3.3)
Pagewater: Kinetic (2.7)
Placer: Summer (2.7)
Tigerella: Tigerella (2.8)
Wellwater Conspiracy: Wellwater Conspiracy (3.5)
Mindy Smith: One Moment More (3.5)
Galleon: So I Begin (2.0)
Angie Aparo: For Stars And Moon (3.0)

December 2003

M. Ward: Transfiguration of Vincent (4.0)
The Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Bark (3.5)
Jay Farrar: Terroir Blues (3.0)
Jim Lauderdale & Donna the Buffalo: Wait Til Spring (3.6)
Wilco: More Like the Moon [EP] (3.0)
Mark Lanegan Band: Here Comes That Weird Chill (Methamphetamine Blues, Extras & Oddities) [EP] (3.7)
The Twilight Singers: The Twilight Singers Play Blackberry Belle (4.2)
The Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site (4.0)
Kinky: Atlas (3.5)
Explosions in the Sky: The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (3.8)
Kelis: Tasty (4.0)
Al Green: I Can't Stop (4.0)
Blink-182: Blink-182 (3.7)
Barenaked Ladies: Everything to Everyone (3.4)
Iggy Pop: Skull Ring (3.0)
Jonny Greenwood: Bodysong (4.0)
Jay-Z: The Black Album (4.2)
Elvis Costello: North (4.0)
Missy Elliott: This is Not a Test! (4.0)
Alicia Keys: The Diary of Alicia Keys (3.3)
Robert Wyatt: Cuckooland (4.0)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: Sleep/Holiday (3.7)
Counting Crows: Films About Ghosts: The Best Of (3.8)

November 2003

R.E.M.: In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (4.4)
Jet: Get Born (3.3)
Travis: 12 Memories (2.7)
The Handsome Family: Singing Bones (4.0)
Sufjan Stevens: Michigan (3.8)
The Beatles: Let It Be... Naked (3.5)
Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway (4.0)
John Cale: HoboSapiens (4.5)
John Cale: 5 Tracks [EP] (4.0)
The Flaming Lips: Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell [EP] (3.8)
The Books: The Lemon of Pink (4.1)
Ludacris: Chicken -N- Beer (2.8)
Sarah McLachlan: Afterglow (3.5)
Blue Epic: Love & Hate [EP] (3.0)
The Dismemberment Plan: A People's History of The Dismemberment Plan (3.0)
Guided by Voices: Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusement at Hourly Rates (4.3)
Aesop Rock: Bazooka Tooth (4.1)
Peaches: Fatherfucker (2.0)
Thea Gilmore: Avalanche (3.7)

October 2003

Clay Aiken: Measure of a Man (2.8)
Ryan Adams: Rock N Roll (4.0)
Joe Henry: Tiny Voices (3.8)
Constantines: Shine a Light (3.5)
Do Make Say Think: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (4.1)
Dressy Bessy: Dressy Bessy (3.8)
Nina Nastasia: Run to Ruin (4.2)
Yo La Tengo: Today Is the Day [EP] (4.0)
Stereolab: Instant 0 in the Universe [EP] (3.8)
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses (4.0)
Clearlake: Cedars (3.3)
Dido: Life For Rent (2.5)
Sting: Sacred Love (3.5)
The Strokes: Room on Fire (3.8)
Van Morrison: What's Wrong With This Picture? (4.1)
The Neptunes: The Neptunes Present...Clones (4.1)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Greendale (2.4)
Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash (4.0)
The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow (3.8)
Cowboy Mouth: Uh-Oh (3.5)
Meshell Ndegeocello: Comfort Woman (4.3)
Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead [EP] (4.0)
Iron & Wine: The Sea & the Rhythm [EP] (3.0)
The Rapture: Echoes (3.3)
The Kills: Keep on Your Mean Side (4.0)
Guided by Voices: Earthquake Glue (4.1)
Goldfrapp: Black Cherry (3.7)
Tomanonymous: I Am Be (3.0)
The New Pornographers: Electric Version (4.0)
The Blood Brothers: Burn Piano Island, Burn (4.0)
Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism (3.1)
Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress (3.4)
Dave Matthews: Some Devil (3.0)
The Wrens: The Meadowlands (4.6)

September 2003

Lightning Bolt: Wonderful Rainbow (4.1)
Xiu Xiu: A Promise (3.5)
Cex: Being Ridden (3.7)
Pete Droge: Skywatching (3.6)
Ambulance Ltd: Ambulance Ltd (3.3)
DMX: Grand Champ (3.1)
Emmylou Harris: Stumble Into Grace (3.4)
The Fire Theft: The Fire Theft (2.7)
British Sea Power: The Decline of British Sea Power (3.3)
OutKast: Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (3.8)
Natalie Merchant: The House Carpenter’s Daughter (4.0)
Matthew Ryan: Regret Over the Wires (4.7)
Turin Brakes: Ether Song (3.5)
The Darkness: Permission to Land (3.7)
David Bowie: Reality (4.0)
Verbena: La Musica Negra (3.6)
The Bronx: The Bronx (2.7)
The Decemberists: Her Majesty the Decemberists (4.2)
The Decemberists: Castaways and Cutouts (4.0)
My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves (4.0)
Broadcast: Haha Sound (4.3)
Enon: Hocus Pocus (3.6)
Spiritualized: Amazing Grace (3.8)
Frank Black and the Catholics: Show Me Your Tears (2.5)
Pretty Girls Make Graves: The New Romance (3.6)
M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (3.0)
Linda Perhacs: Parallelograms (3.8)
Damien Rice: O (4.0)
The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House (4.3)
Kings of Leon: Youth & Young Manhood (3.5)
Killing Joke: Killing Joke (4.0)
The Raveonettes: Chain Gang of Love (4.0)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Take Them On, On Your Own (3.5)
Hidden Cameras: Smell of Our Own (3.7)
The Thermals: More Parts Per Million (3.0)
Crooked Fingers: Red Devil Dawn (3.8)
Four Tet: Rounds (4.3)
Elbow: Cast of Thousands (3.8)
Warren Zevon: The Wind (4.3)
Josh Rouse: 1972 (3.6)

August 2003

Dashboard Confessional: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (2.5)
Kraftwerk: Tour De France Soundtracks (3.6)
Michael Franti and Spearhead: Everyone Deserves Music (3.8)
Ween: Quebec (3.6)
Dizzee Rascal: Boy in Da Corner (4.2)
Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos (4.0)
The Coral: Magic and Medicine (3.8)
Bob Dylan: Masked & Anonymous [Soundtrack] (3.0)
Richard Ashcroft: Human Conditions (2.9)
The Music: The Music (3.8)
Macy Gray: The Trouble With Being Myself (3.4)
Enon: In This City (3.4)

July 2003

Longwave: The Strangest Things (3.5)
Jane's Addiction: Strays (3.4)
Live: Birds of Pray (2.5)
Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power (4.3)
Led Zeppelin: How The West Was Won (4.5)
Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine & Ours (4.1)
Ed Harcourt: From Every Sphere (4.0)
Dave Gahan: Paper Monsters (3.2)
Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day (4.3)
The Polyphonic Spree: The Beginning Stages Of... (3.5)
Beyoncé: Dangerously in Love (3.8)
Prefuse 73: One Word Extinguisher (4.1)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell (3.7)

June 2003

Guster: Keep It Together (3.8)
James Mason: Carnival Sky (2.8)
Blue Man Group: The Complex (2.9)
Eels: Shootenanny! (4.2)
The Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium (4.3)
Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People (3.7)
Mogwai: Happy Songs for Happy People (4.1)
Liz Phair: Liz Phair (3.1)
Metallica: St. Anger (1.7)
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers (4.8)
Blur: Think Tank (3.8)
Gillian Welch: Soul Journey (4.2)
Grandaddy: Sumday (3.0)
Cursive: The Ugly Organ (4.0)
Powerman 5000: Transform (3.6)
The Thorns: The Thorns (4.1)
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (4.5)

May 2003

Third Eye Blind: Out of the Vein (3.7)
The Isley Brothers: Body Kiss (2.4)
Darryl Worley: Have You Forgotten? (1.5)
Mull Historical Society: Us (3.8)
The Postal Service: Give Up (3.7)
The Cramps: Fiends of Dope Island (1.5)
Linkin Park: Meteora (2.5)

April 2003

Manitoba: Up in Flames (4.8)
The Flaming Lips: Fight Test [EP] (4.2)
Lisa Marie Presley: To Whom It May Concern (2.8)
Damien Jurado: Where Shall You Take Me? (4.0)
Autechre: Draft 7.30 (4.1)
(Smog): Supper (3.5)
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: The Secret of Elena's Tomb [EP] (3.5)
Yo La Tengo: Summer Sun (4.2)
The Clash: The Essential Clash (4.3)
Lucinda Williams: World Without Tears (4.3)
DC to Daylight: Xmas Murder '74 (3.0)

March 2003

The White Stripes: Elephant (3.7)
Califone: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (4.2)
Kristin Hersh: The Grotto (3.9)
Songs: Ohia: Magnolia Electric Co. (4.3)
Ben Harper: Diamonds on the Inside (2.7)
Fischerspooner: #1 (3.7)
Cave In: Antenna (3.2)
The Libertines: Up the Bracket (4.0)
Hootie & the Blowfish: Hootie & the Blowfish (3.5)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: Pig Lib (4.5)
Lou Reed: The Raven (1.5)
The Minus 5: Down With Wilco (3.6)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Master and Everyone (4.0)
Calexico: Feast of Wire (4.2)
Calla: Televise (2.9)

February 2003

Cat Power: You Are Free (3.8)
Massive Attack: 100th Window (3.5)
Holopaw: Holopaw (3.7)
The Go-Betweens: Bright Yellow Bright Orange (4.0)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama (3.8)
Ted Leo/Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak (3.8)
Zwan: Mary Star of the Sea (3.3)
Loose Fur: Loose Fur (3.0)

January 2003

The Microphones: Mount Eerie (4.5)
The Sea and Cake: One Bedroom (4.0)
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season (4.7)
Kathleen Edwards: Failer (3.7)
The Books: Thought for Food (4.0)

December 2002

Brendan Benson: Lapalco (3.8)
Mclusky: Mclusky Do Dallas (4.3)
Jay Farrar: ThirdShiftGrottoSlack [EP] (3.0)
Out Hud: Street Dad (4.0)
Joseph Arthur: Redemption's Son (3.3)
Josh Rouse: Under Cold Blue Stars (4.2)
Amon Tobin: Out From Out Where (4.3)
Rilo Kiley: Execution of All Things (3.3)
Ours: Precious (2.0)
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (4.8)
The Roots: Phrenology (4.3)
Pearl Jam: Riot Act (2.7)

November 2002

My Computer: Vulnerabilia (3.0)
Audioslave: Audioslave (4.2)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Yanqui U.X.O. (4.0)
Matchbox 20: More Than You Think You Are (3.0)
Talib Kweli: Quality (3.3)
Buddy Miller: Midnight and Lonesome (2.6)
Missy Elliott: Under Construction (3.8)
Thalia Zedek: You're a Big Girl Now [EP] (4.0)
U2: The Best of 1990-2000 (2.7)
Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around (2.5)
Various Artists: Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash (3.4)
Nirvana: Nirvana (4.6)
Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed the Fish? (3.6)
The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (3.5)
John Vanderslice: Life & Death of an American Fourtracker (3.7)
Sigur Rós: ( ) (4.5)
Peter Gabriel: Up (3.0)

October 2002

Santana: Shaman (3.0)
Ron Sexsmith: Cobblestone Runway (3.8)
Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe (5.0)
Faith Hill: Cry (2.5)
The Notwist: Neon Golden (3.8)
Supergrass: Life on Other Planets (3.4)
Mr. Lif: I Phantom (3.7)
The Rolling Stones: 40 Licks (3.5)
The Soft Boys: Nextdoorland (3.7)
Jurassic 5: Power in Numbers (4.0)
Dixie Chicks: Home (3.3)
Ladytron: Light & Magic (3.2)

September 2002

Neko Case: Blacklisted (3.4)
Steve Earle: Jerusalem (4.0)
Low: Trust (4.2)
Ryan Adams: Demolition (3.4)
Matthew Ryan: Dissent From the Living Room (4.4)
Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank the Cradle (3.7)
Farben: Textstar (4.2)
Sixteen Horsepower: Folklore (3.8)
Conjure One: Conjure One (2.8)
Beck: Sea Change (4.5)
The Fire Show: Saint the Fire Show (4.3)
Radar Brothers: And the Surrounding Mountains (3.2)
Doug Martsch: Now You Know (3.5)
Pulp: We Love Life (3.7)

August 2002

Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf (3.5)
The Reindeer Section: Son of Evil Reindeer (3.8)
Los Lobos: Good Morning Aztlan (3.8)
Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head (3.7)
Aimee Mann: Lost in Space (3.8)
Liars: They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top (3.0)
Dave Matthews Band: Busted Stuff (3.4)
Spoon: Kill the Moonlight (4.7)
Idlewild: The Remote Part (4.2)
Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights (2.8)
Sleater-Kinney: One Beat (4.0)
Primal Scream: Evil Heat (3.5)
Bright Eyes: Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (3.7)
Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera (4.0)
Nickel Creek: This Side (2.9)
Anti-Pop Consortium: Arrhythmia (3.8)
Autechre: Gantz Graf [EP] (3.8)
El-P: Fantastic Damage (4.3)
Bruce Springsteen: The Rising (4.0)
Dave Pirner: Faces & Names (3.1)
Linda Thompson: Fashionably Late (4.0)
The Coral: The Coral (3.3)
Beth Orton: Daybreaker (3.3)
Múm: Finally We Are No One (4.4)
Coppé: Peppermint (3.7)
Darius Rucker: Back to Then (2.8)
Pretty Girls Make Graves: Good Health (4.0)
Allison Moorer: Miss Fortune (3.0)
Elvis Costello: When I Was Cruel (3.2)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: By the Way (2.0)

July 2002

Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up on Me (3.7)
David Baerwald: Here Comes the New Folk Underground (3.9)
Counting Crows: Hard Candy (3.4)
The Vines: Highly Evolved (3.4)
Oasis: Heathen Chemistry (2.5)
Pixies: Pixies (2.7)
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (4.6)
Paul Westerberg: Stereo (3.6)
Grandpaboy (Paul Westerberg): Mono (3.8)
Jim Lauderdale: The Hummingbirds (4.0)
Jim Lauderdale/Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Lost in the Lonesome Pines (3.8)
Green Day: Shenanigans (3.9)
Green Day: International Superhits (4.3)
Songs: Ohia: Didn't It Rain (3.0)
Papa Roach: lovehatetragedy (3.0)
Otep: Sevas Tra (2.8)

June 2002

DJ Shadow: The Private Press (4.0)
Sonic Youth: Murray Street (3.7)
Alejandro Escovedo: By the Hand of the Father (4.0)
Guided by Voices: Universal Truths And Cycles (4.0)
Meshell Ndegeocello: Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (3.8)
They Might Be Giants: No! (3.7)
Doves: The Last Broadcast (3.8)
Bill Frisell: The Willies (3.8)
Korn: Untouchables (2.8)
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Medicated Magic (3.7)
Eminem: The Eminem Show (3.8)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Official Soundtrack) (3.8)
The Breeders: Title TK (4.0)

May 2002

Van Morrison: Down the Road (4.2)
Mary Timony: The Golden Dove (2.7)
Weezer: Maladroit (3.5)
Nina Nastasia: The Blackened Air (3.6)
Moby: 18 (3.4)
Tom Waits: Alice (4.2)
Tom Waits: Blood Money (3.8)
Rush: Vapor Trails (4.0)
Badly Drawn Boy: About a Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (3.7)
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (5.0)
Cornershop: Handcream for a Generation (3.7)
Blackalicious: Blazing Arrow (3.8)
Moth: Provisions, Fiction and Gear (2.5)
Medeski, Martin & Wood: Uninvisible (3.8)
The Mooney Suzuki: Electric Sweat (3.3)
Martin Sexton: Live Wide Open (4.0)

April 2002

Sheryl Crow: C'mon, C'mon (2.9)
Steve Earle: Guitar Town (4.2)
Steve Earle: Sidetracks (3.5)
Neil Young: Are You Passionate? (2.0)
The Streets: Original Pirate Material (4.3)
Gomez: In Our Gun (4.3)
The Goo Goo Dolls: Gutterflower (3.0)
Ol' Dirty Bastard: The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones (1.5)
R. Kelly and Jay-Z: The Best of Both Worlds (2.0)
Andrew W.K.: I Get Wet (3.1)
Clinic: Walking With Thee (4.0)
Bruce Arnold: Give 'Em Some (3.0)
Kinky: Kinky (3.5)
The Walkmen: Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone (3.0)
Kasey Chambers: Barricades and Brickwalls (3.8)

March 2002

Hayden: Skyscraper National Park (3.8)
Super Furry Animals: Rings Around The World (4.2)
Angélique Kidjo: Black Ivory Soul (3.7)
Caitlin Cary: While You Weren't Looking (2.9)
Bob Mould: Modulate (3.2)
N.E.R.D.: In Search Of... (4.5)
The Eels: Souljacker (3.3)
Phantom Planet: The Guest (2.5)
Alanis Morissette: Under Rug Swept (2.9)
Explosions in the Sky: Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (4.0)
Boards of Canada: Geogaddi (4.3)
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: Source Tags & Codes (3.7)
South: From Here On In (2.9)

February 2002

Lambchop: Is a Woman (3.0)
The Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas (4.0)
Tanya Donelly: Beautysleep (3.4)
Cornelius: Point (4.2)
The Chemical Brothers: Come With Us (3.4)
Nine Inch Nails: And All That Could Have Been (2.9)
The Church: After Everything Now This (3.8)
De La Soul: AOI: Bionix (4.0)
Ted Leo/Pharmacists: The Tyranny of Distance (4.5)
Hood: Cold House (3.9)
Elbow: Asleep in the Back (3.5)

January 2002

Starsailor: Love is Here (2.8)
Mogwai: My Father My King [EP] (4.0)

December 2001

OutKast: Big Boi and Dre Present...OutKast (4.2)
No Doubt: Rock Steady (2.0)
Limp Bizkit: New Old Songs (1.8)

November 2001

Merle Haggard: Roots, Volume 1 (4.0)

Silver Jews: Bright Flight (3.8)

Shelby Lynne: Love, Shelby (1.9)

Creed: Weathered (3.5)

Jim O'Rourke: Insignificance (4.0)

Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong (4.0)

Natalie Merchant: Motherland (3.6)

Death Cab For Cutie: The Photo Album (3.5)

Kid Rock: Cocky (2.9)

Rob Zombie: The Sinister Urge (3.5)

DMX: The Great Depression (3.7)

Jay-Z: The Blueprint (2.0)

Sevendust: Animosity (3.8)

The Dismemberment Plan: Change (4.5)

October 2001

Fugazi: The Argument (4.0)

Jay Farrar: Sebastopol (3.5)

Kittie: Oracle (3.9)

Bush: Golden State (2.5)

Lenny Kravitz: Lenny (3.5)

Incubus: Morning View (0.0)

The Strokes: Is This It (3.4)

The Shins: Oh, Inverted World (3.0)

Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (3.9)

Live: V (3.8)

Ryan Adams: Gold (4.0)

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