Going back and posting my favorites from years past
TOP TEN
Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
Okkervill River – The Stage Names
Apples in Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder
Beirut – The Flying Cup Club
Caribou – Andorra
The Besnard Lakes – Are the Dark Horse
Menomena – Friend and Foe
The Mabuses – Mabused
The National – The Boxer
David Kilgour – The Far Now
TWENTY MORE I LIKE A LOT
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
Dan Deacon – Spiderman of the Rings
Sloan – Never Hear the End of It
Pelle Carlberg – In a Nutshell
Jose Gonzales – In Our Nature
Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Battles – Mirrored
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Iron and Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Thurston Moore – Trees Outside the Academy
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Sank
The Fall – Reformation/Post TLC
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Architecture in Helsinki – Places Like This
Pinback – Autumn of the Seraphs
Rogue Wave – Asleep at Heaven’s Gate
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