1. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
2. Arcade Fire – Funeral
3. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
4. The Walkmen – Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
5. The National - Alligator
6. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
7. The Strokes – Is This It
8. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
9. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
10. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
11. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
12. Doves – Lost Souls
13. Muse – Origin of Symmetry
14. Los Campesinos! – Hold on Now, Youngster…
15. Clinic – Internal Wrangler
16. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
18. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
19. The Rapture - Echoes
20. Radiohead – Kid A
21. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
22. The Futureheads – The Futureheads
23. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
24. Guillemots – Through the Window Pane
25. Hot Hot Heat – Make Up the Breakdown
26. Travis – 12 Memories
27. be your own PET – be your own PET
28. The Libertines – Up the Bracket
29. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
30. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine
31. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – BRMC
32. Metric – Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
33. The Decemberists – Picaresque
34. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
35. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
36. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
37. The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
38. Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
39. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
40. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
41. Grandaddy – Sumday
42. The Concretes – The Concretes
43. The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs
44. Frog Eyes – The Folded Palm
45. The Mae Shi – Hlllyh
46. The Blood Brothers – Young Machetes
47. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
48. The Antlers - Hospice
49. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
50. Love is All – Nine Times That Same Song
Honourable Mentions:
• Adem – Homesongs
• The Black Keys – thickfreakness
• Blood on the Wall - Awesomer
• Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
• Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
• Built to Spill – Ancient Melodies of the Future
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• The Cribs – The New Fellas
• Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
• The Features – Exhibit A
• Gogogo Airheart – Rats! Sing! Sing!
• The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
• Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
• The Long Blondes – Someone to Drive You Home
• Mates of State – Bring It Back
• McLusky – The Only Difference..
• Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
• My Morning Jacket – Z
• The Rakes – Capture/Release
• The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
• Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
• Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
• The Von Bondies – Lack of Communication
• Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• The Zutons – Who Killed.. The Zutons?
2. Arcade Fire – Funeral
3. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
4. The Walkmen – Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
5. The National - Alligator
6. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
7. The Strokes – Is This It
8. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
9. Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
10. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
11. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
12. Doves – Lost Souls
13. Muse – Origin of Symmetry
14. Los Campesinos! – Hold on Now, Youngster…
15. Clinic – Internal Wrangler
16. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
18. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
19. The Rapture - Echoes
20. Radiohead – Kid A
21. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
22. The Futureheads – The Futureheads
23. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
24. Guillemots – Through the Window Pane
25. Hot Hot Heat – Make Up the Breakdown
26. Travis – 12 Memories
27. be your own PET – be your own PET
28. The Libertines – Up the Bracket
29. Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
30. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine
31. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – BRMC
32. Metric – Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
33. The Decemberists – Picaresque
34. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
35. Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
36. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
37. The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
38. Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
39. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
40. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
41. Grandaddy – Sumday
42. The Concretes – The Concretes
43. The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs
44. Frog Eyes – The Folded Palm
45. The Mae Shi – Hlllyh
46. The Blood Brothers – Young Machetes
47. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
48. The Antlers - Hospice
49. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
50. Love is All – Nine Times That Same Song
Honourable Mentions:
• Adem – Homesongs
• The Black Keys – thickfreakness
• Blood on the Wall - Awesomer
• Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
• Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
• Built to Spill – Ancient Melodies of the Future
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• The Cribs – The New Fellas
• Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
• The Features – Exhibit A
• Gogogo Airheart – Rats! Sing! Sing!
• The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
• Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
• The Long Blondes – Someone to Drive You Home
• Mates of State – Bring It Back
• McLusky – The Only Difference..
• Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
• My Morning Jacket – Z
• The Rakes – Capture/Release
• The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
• Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
• Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
• The Von Bondies – Lack of Communication
• Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• The Zutons – Who Killed.. The Zutons?