1. Sept 10, 2007 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam - It is a time-tested creed of my life that I originally hate the things I eventually come to hold in highest regard, and when the walls you've put up are finally shattered by the blistering light of truth, well, I'd like to think that's the feeling of being moved.
2. Sept 14, 2004 The Arcade Fire - Funeral - It seems to me that this album is as close as the last decade got to approaching the kind of mysteries that Neutral Milk Hotel explored, but more than that, it stands without peer as the most emotionally engaging musical expression of the decade.
2. Sept 14, 2004 The Arcade Fire - Funeral - It seems to me that this album is as close as the last decade got to approaching the kind of mysteries that Neutral Milk Hotel explored, but more than that, it stands without peer as the most emotionally engaging musical expression of the decade.
3. Jul 1, 2003 Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State - Old-fashioned yet breathtakingly all-encompassing, this album showed the world Sufjan Stevens' weird and undeniable vignettes which paint stunning midwestern scenes with art-school brushes.
4. Oct 21, 2003 The Shins - Chutes too Narrow - On first listen I thought, this is the kind of band Superchunk wanted to mature into; several years later, I think James Mercer is the best pure pop songwriter of the new millennium.
5. Jul 3, 2006 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain - What a weird band to get so popular, and what a driven, rhythmic section for a band composed of so many weird noises -- TV on the Radio sound like the future of music in the same way OK Computer did, and I can't think of a better compliment than that.
6. Oct 3, 2006 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America - Sure, Craig Finn occasionally gets lost in histrionics and borderline misogyny, but his lexicon evokes hard-won wisdom in a way that's been missing in rock since Elliot Smith passed.
7. May 21, 2002 The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts - The Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons are fair, but one of the pitfalls of being reviewed by rock critics is being compared to previous bands, and, lord knows, there aren't very many better bands to be compared to.
8. Feb 7, 2006 Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit - Not the complete reinvention some reviews made it out to be, The Life Pursuit is to 70s pop what If You're Feeling Sinister was to 60s folk, and if not quite as devastatingly affecting as their earlier masterpiece, it should certainly cement Belle & Sebastian as the best pop band of their kind, and makes a convincing case for their being one of the best bands of their time.
9. Jun 5, 2001 Radiohead - Amnesiac - I don't imagine history will ever be so kind as to vindicate my assertion that Amnesiac, although released second, is the more impressive album, but its weirdness runs deeper and seems more honest, less an observation of the technological overload of our decade, more of a beast staring out as us from within.
10. Apr 6, 2004 Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic - Kevin Barnes has gradually gone from a manic last outpost for the Elephant 6 collective's best moments to an insane person, and along the way has created several near-perfect albums, this being the best of them.
11. May 2, 2006 Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming - With so many manically fused musical ideas and observations about "things that have to die so that other things can stay alive", Spencer Krug seems poised to claim the indie rock throne his Northwestern mentor Isaac Brock once occupied.
12. Sep 26, 2000 The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 - Humble without being twee, loud without ever rocking, confused and crystal clear, Phil Elvirum beautifully compresses not his influences, from the Beach Boys to Robert Pollard to the best of Elephant 6, into a postmodern gem that is rivaled by few.
13. Feb 21, 2006 Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies - A rich, opulent listen full of dense intertextuality and expansively produced songs; if an album can be said to be Port-like, this would be the one.
14. Oct 15, 2002 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People - A collective from Canada that pulls their disparate strands into a cohesive, unified whole to manage one of the most melodically compelling records of the decade.
15. Sept 13, 2005 Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft - If scoring were done based solely on the sheer number of ideas crammed into a sonic context, this album might take first prize, and since that's a big part of how I rate albums, this one scores pretty high.
16. Mar 16, 2004 Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans - One thing I learned in college is that intensely intellectual people can have religious faith as well; likewise can one craft spiritual music without sounding like Switchfoot, and I can think of no more capable hands for the project than the prodigiously talented Sufjan Stevens
17. Aug 23, 2005 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema - Twin Cinema explores the sheer force of the pop hook in all its glory, succeeding massively, and creating one of the most colorful, sunny records of the decade.
18. Jan 23, 2007 The Shins - Wincing the Night Away - Not by any means worse than the bands first two albums, but markedly more experimental, and if some immediacy is sacrificed for craft and surprise, both albums are unrepentant beacons in a tired indie-pop world.
19. Sep 9, 2003 British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power - Miles beyond the Joy Division knockoffs they got lumped in with, British Sea Power are so much weirder, more musical, and energetic, that it's pointless to categorize them as post-punk revival instead of just one of the best bands of the decade.
20. Feb 19, 2008 Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel - Bradford Cox may wind up being as prolific as anyone since Bob Pollard, with a range just as diverse, but he constructs his hooks in the architecture of experimentality, and with albums like this, he stands out as one of the most singular and evocative musical voices of the decade.
21. Sep 8, 2009 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs - The first roll of pounding drums on opener "Here to Fall" will hook you immediately, and they're clearly banking on it because from there the band delves into progressively weirder echoes of their myriad stylistic diversions, breathtaking in sheer sweep.
22. Mar 22, 2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque - If the 2000s will be remembered as the decade where rock musicians turned their focus outward following the excess of the slobbering 90s, Colin Meloy is the decided admiral of the fleet, and if kitsch occasionally creeps into the arrangements, what part of American musical theater hasn't traditionally been affected with pomp and good-natured ostentation?
23. Apr 19, 2005 Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness - If Radiohead's significant contribution to music is their passion play casting technology as the Romans, then Dan Snaith creates the sound of someone making friends with technology, making an ally of surprising warmth out of its metal coils.
24. Aug 20, 2002 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - However history might remember this band, their debut album is a work of such poignant emotional depth and class that it should shine through the negativity associated with their over-hype.
25. Sep 9, 2003 My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves - That they seem so usual compared to the bulk of 2000s rock music, the bands' hollow-sounding take on rock'n'roll classicism is what sets them apart and makes them so much fun.
26. Feb 20, 2001 Spoon - Girls Can Tell - Spoon, from their inception have always been the indie band that weren't because they were too busy playing Pete Townsend-inspired riffs to care much about making a lot of noise or being really really aloof -- they've still got dad's clothes, and that's alright.
27. Feb 22, 2002 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - The subtle, wraith-like tone poems that glide from this album are as beautiful as somnambulent atmospheric pieces, but carry a weight and affect to which songs this gentle have no right.
28. Jun 13, 2000 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse have calmed down considerably since their 1997 explosion of an album, and if they contemplate things with a more rational attitude, they spare none of the existential subject matter, and begin their transition into the band that essentially broke 2000s indie rock to the mainstream.
29. Feb 3, 2004 The Walkmen - Bows + Arows - Throughout their history The Walkmen have been occasionally boring, sloppy, and borderline self-parodic, but this album is a near-perfect distillation of all they stand for musically and probably some profundities they didn't intend.
30. Jul 13, 2004 The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - Overflowing with creative energy, this bother-sister duo are staggeringly inventive throughout the thirteen tracks of this album.
31. Mar 9, 2004 Destroyer - Your Blues - The most flamboyant component of the divisive Your Blues is also its best, cheeseball synths and all, and there's no shame in that because theatricality is the arena in which Destroyer thrives.
32. Jul 5, 2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise - Swiftly, Stevens penned three of the greatest albums of the decade, and if this one loses points it's only for being a bit long in the tooth here and there.
4. Oct 21, 2003 The Shins - Chutes too Narrow - On first listen I thought, this is the kind of band Superchunk wanted to mature into; several years later, I think James Mercer is the best pure pop songwriter of the new millennium.
5. Jul 3, 2006 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain - What a weird band to get so popular, and what a driven, rhythmic section for a band composed of so many weird noises -- TV on the Radio sound like the future of music in the same way OK Computer did, and I can't think of a better compliment than that.
6. Oct 3, 2006 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America - Sure, Craig Finn occasionally gets lost in histrionics and borderline misogyny, but his lexicon evokes hard-won wisdom in a way that's been missing in rock since Elliot Smith passed.
7. May 21, 2002 The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts - The Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons are fair, but one of the pitfalls of being reviewed by rock critics is being compared to previous bands, and, lord knows, there aren't very many better bands to be compared to.
8. Feb 7, 2006 Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit - Not the complete reinvention some reviews made it out to be, The Life Pursuit is to 70s pop what If You're Feeling Sinister was to 60s folk, and if not quite as devastatingly affecting as their earlier masterpiece, it should certainly cement Belle & Sebastian as the best pop band of their kind, and makes a convincing case for their being one of the best bands of their time.
9. Jun 5, 2001 Radiohead - Amnesiac - I don't imagine history will ever be so kind as to vindicate my assertion that Amnesiac, although released second, is the more impressive album, but its weirdness runs deeper and seems more honest, less an observation of the technological overload of our decade, more of a beast staring out as us from within.
10. Apr 6, 2004 Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic - Kevin Barnes has gradually gone from a manic last outpost for the Elephant 6 collective's best moments to an insane person, and along the way has created several near-perfect albums, this being the best of them.
11. May 2, 2006 Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming - With so many manically fused musical ideas and observations about "things that have to die so that other things can stay alive", Spencer Krug seems poised to claim the indie rock throne his Northwestern mentor Isaac Brock once occupied.
12. Sep 26, 2000 The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 - Humble without being twee, loud without ever rocking, confused and crystal clear, Phil Elvirum beautifully compresses not his influences, from the Beach Boys to Robert Pollard to the best of Elephant 6, into a postmodern gem that is rivaled by few.
13. Feb 21, 2006 Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies - A rich, opulent listen full of dense intertextuality and expansively produced songs; if an album can be said to be Port-like, this would be the one.
14. Oct 15, 2002 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People - A collective from Canada that pulls their disparate strands into a cohesive, unified whole to manage one of the most melodically compelling records of the decade.
15. Sept 13, 2005 Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft - If scoring were done based solely on the sheer number of ideas crammed into a sonic context, this album might take first prize, and since that's a big part of how I rate albums, this one scores pretty high.
16. Mar 16, 2004 Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans - One thing I learned in college is that intensely intellectual people can have religious faith as well; likewise can one craft spiritual music without sounding like Switchfoot, and I can think of no more capable hands for the project than the prodigiously talented Sufjan Stevens
17. Aug 23, 2005 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema - Twin Cinema explores the sheer force of the pop hook in all its glory, succeeding massively, and creating one of the most colorful, sunny records of the decade.
18. Jan 23, 2007 The Shins - Wincing the Night Away - Not by any means worse than the bands first two albums, but markedly more experimental, and if some immediacy is sacrificed for craft and surprise, both albums are unrepentant beacons in a tired indie-pop world.
19. Sep 9, 2003 British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power - Miles beyond the Joy Division knockoffs they got lumped in with, British Sea Power are so much weirder, more musical, and energetic, that it's pointless to categorize them as post-punk revival instead of just one of the best bands of the decade.
20. Feb 19, 2008 Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel - Bradford Cox may wind up being as prolific as anyone since Bob Pollard, with a range just as diverse, but he constructs his hooks in the architecture of experimentality, and with albums like this, he stands out as one of the most singular and evocative musical voices of the decade.
21. Sep 8, 2009 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs - The first roll of pounding drums on opener "Here to Fall" will hook you immediately, and they're clearly banking on it because from there the band delves into progressively weirder echoes of their myriad stylistic diversions, breathtaking in sheer sweep.
22. Mar 22, 2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque - If the 2000s will be remembered as the decade where rock musicians turned their focus outward following the excess of the slobbering 90s, Colin Meloy is the decided admiral of the fleet, and if kitsch occasionally creeps into the arrangements, what part of American musical theater hasn't traditionally been affected with pomp and good-natured ostentation?
23. Apr 19, 2005 Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness - If Radiohead's significant contribution to music is their passion play casting technology as the Romans, then Dan Snaith creates the sound of someone making friends with technology, making an ally of surprising warmth out of its metal coils.
24. Aug 20, 2002 Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - However history might remember this band, their debut album is a work of such poignant emotional depth and class that it should shine through the negativity associated with their over-hype.
25. Sep 9, 2003 My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves - That they seem so usual compared to the bulk of 2000s rock music, the bands' hollow-sounding take on rock'n'roll classicism is what sets them apart and makes them so much fun.
26. Feb 20, 2001 Spoon - Girls Can Tell - Spoon, from their inception have always been the indie band that weren't because they were too busy playing Pete Townsend-inspired riffs to care much about making a lot of noise or being really really aloof -- they've still got dad's clothes, and that's alright.
27. Feb 22, 2002 Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - The subtle, wraith-like tone poems that glide from this album are as beautiful as somnambulent atmospheric pieces, but carry a weight and affect to which songs this gentle have no right.
28. Jun 13, 2000 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse have calmed down considerably since their 1997 explosion of an album, and if they contemplate things with a more rational attitude, they spare none of the existential subject matter, and begin their transition into the band that essentially broke 2000s indie rock to the mainstream.
29. Feb 3, 2004 The Walkmen - Bows + Arows - Throughout their history The Walkmen have been occasionally boring, sloppy, and borderline self-parodic, but this album is a near-perfect distillation of all they stand for musically and probably some profundities they didn't intend.
30. Jul 13, 2004 The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - Overflowing with creative energy, this bother-sister duo are staggeringly inventive throughout the thirteen tracks of this album.
31. Mar 9, 2004 Destroyer - Your Blues - The most flamboyant component of the divisive Your Blues is also its best, cheeseball synths and all, and there's no shame in that because theatricality is the arena in which Destroyer thrives.
32. Jul 5, 2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise - Swiftly, Stevens penned three of the greatest albums of the decade, and if this one loses points it's only for being a bit long in the tooth here and there.
33. Jul 3, 2001 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells - The most exciting, in the moment album this duo has cut features a mold of their simplistic sound with first-rate songwriting, for a rewarding, consistent listen.
34. Oct 7, 2003 The Books - The Lemon of Pink - The Schoenberg of experimental music, The Books compose music out of acoustic guitars, samples, digital cut-and-pasting, and probably a good amount of theory that they don't much explain, and while that sounds, on paper, like it could put you to sleep, this is music that needs to be marveled at, not overanalyzed.
35. May 22, 2001 Whiskeytown - Pneumonia - Before Wilco, Whiskeytown released this gem of genre-hopping pop songs to bust out of their alt-country designation, and while Ryan Adams never produced the perfect album everyone was routing for, Pneumonia is as close as he could reasonable be expected to get.
36. Jun 23, 2009 Dinosaur Jr. - Farm - In case anyone was wondering what separated the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr. from J's rotating cast of musicians through the 90s, it's that Lou Barlow and Murph are one of the great rhythm sections of all time, and here the band sounds heavier and more confident than ever.
37. May 23, 2006 Mission of Burma - The Obliterati - If there's one thing the 2000s have proven it's that guys pushing fifty can rock as hard as they did twenty years prior; now Mission of Burma have proven that even tinnitus is no longer an excuse, and I heard that in response, dads around the world are picking up guitars, hoping to become the next Roger Miller.
38. Sep 25, 2007 Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog - Sam Beem brightens his originally homogenized sound with inventive arrangements and grows in a musically satisfying way.
39. Jul 10, 2007 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - When the 1990s wanted to call them the next Pixies, Spoon reacted with by producing albums with such consistency and anglophilism throughout the 2000s that they sound downright classicist, influenced by the Clash and Billy Joel more than post-punk and this album shows them in fine form, crafting some of the best uptempo ballads of their career.
40. May 24, 2005 Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth - If at points on this album Malkmus sounds genuinely unhinged, its probably because Face the Truth marks the first time in his career that he's making music so screwy even he can't seem to wrap his considerable intellect around it.
41. Jun 4, 2002 Deerhoof - Reveille - There is an undefined genre characterized by noisy, rhythmically haphazard groups fronted by Asian girls singing nonsense, and amongst such groups Deerhoof surely stand as the most impressive example. 34. Oct 7, 2003 The Books - The Lemon of Pink - The Schoenberg of experimental music, The Books compose music out of acoustic guitars, samples, digital cut-and-pasting, and probably a good amount of theory that they don't much explain, and while that sounds, on paper, like it could put you to sleep, this is music that needs to be marveled at, not overanalyzed.
35. May 22, 2001 Whiskeytown - Pneumonia - Before Wilco, Whiskeytown released this gem of genre-hopping pop songs to bust out of their alt-country designation, and while Ryan Adams never produced the perfect album everyone was routing for, Pneumonia is as close as he could reasonable be expected to get.
36. Jun 23, 2009 Dinosaur Jr. - Farm - In case anyone was wondering what separated the original lineup of Dinosaur Jr. from J's rotating cast of musicians through the 90s, it's that Lou Barlow and Murph are one of the great rhythm sections of all time, and here the band sounds heavier and more confident than ever.
37. May 23, 2006 Mission of Burma - The Obliterati - If there's one thing the 2000s have proven it's that guys pushing fifty can rock as hard as they did twenty years prior; now Mission of Burma have proven that even tinnitus is no longer an excuse, and I heard that in response, dads around the world are picking up guitars, hoping to become the next Roger Miller.
38. Sep 25, 2007 Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog - Sam Beem brightens his originally homogenized sound with inventive arrangements and grows in a musically satisfying way.
39. Jul 10, 2007 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - When the 1990s wanted to call them the next Pixies, Spoon reacted with by producing albums with such consistency and anglophilism throughout the 2000s that they sound downright classicist, influenced by the Clash and Billy Joel more than post-punk and this album shows them in fine form, crafting some of the best uptempo ballads of their career.
40. May 24, 2005 Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth - If at points on this album Malkmus sounds genuinely unhinged, its probably because Face the Truth marks the first time in his career that he's making music so screwy even he can't seem to wrap his considerable intellect around it.
42. Feb 11, 2003 Stars - Heart - I'm sick of pretending there isn't a respository of cheesy romanticism in me (I think, somewhere in the left ventricle), and this album satisfies that gushy impulse with the best of 'em.
43. Aug 19, 2003 Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue - Robert Pollard is the most obvious genius in rock music but refuses to let anyone see it for a whole album; if there was ever an artist who needed to be considered for the sun-like brilliance of his entire catalog, it is Pollard, but as far as individual albums go, Earthquake Glue is his best in this millennium.
44. May 23, 2006 Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That - Few people would proudly bear the moniker "soft rock" and fewer still could make it a compelling listen; that Phoenix succeed makes this album one of the most impressive in mainstream music.
45. Sep 18, 2007 Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends - Always full of surprises, Les Savy Fav here go for a set of more thought-out songs, wedding their characteristic surprises into the kinds of songs most bands would deal with the devil to write.
46. Sep 11, 2001 Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear - People thought this album a bit of a letdown when it first came out, but that was in 2001 when everybody was waiting for the next Pavement; instead, The Coast is Never Clear is an actually sunny album with some wry twists that make it an indie pop classic.
47. May 4, 2004 The Reigning Sound - Too Much Guitar - Easily the album least likely to on this list, but their conflation of noise-rock and garage revivalism is too hot to pass over.
48. Apr 23, 2003 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - As with all the music I've come to adore, I had a hell of a time getting into Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, mainly just going along with my firends' opinions because I assumed there was something there I wasn't seeing; my thoughts now are that the album isn't showy or dynamic or the life-changing event some have insisted it should be, but it is graceful, complete, and assiduous, and marked by a subtle but self-assured poetry that won't ever blow your mind, but will give you pause now and then.
49. Feb 6, 2007 Deerhunter - Cryptograms - The real shocker isn't that nobody criticized this band for ripping off The Fall, but that these perversely damaged songs are engaging in their active efforts at alienation and cries out for affection.
Sep 11, 2001 The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches - I know this album pretty much blows, but I had to give the cabosse award to someone, and I can think of no band who would like that better or would have done more to earn it.
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