| 4.0 excellent |
| Air Talkie Walkie |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Bjork Volta |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Blonde Redhead 23 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Common Universal Mind Control |
| That's right. This album is excellent, not perfect but still excellent. Am I the only one who actually listened to this album? No it is not a step backwards for Common. However, it is not a step forward either, it is more like a sidestep. And I hope he returns to his roots and what he does best on his next record but this is certainly and amusing distraction. UMC, Punch Drunk Love, Sex 4 Suga, Make My Day, and What a World are the highlights. |
| Common Electric Circus |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| Goldfrapp Supernature |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Interpol Antics |
| Justice † |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| Madonna Hard Candy |
| Martina Topley-Bird The Blue God |
| Mos Def The New Danger |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds |
| Nas Untitled |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone |
| Nelly Furtado Loose |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| No Age Nouns |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| Phantom Planet Raise The Dead |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Santigold Santogold |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| T.I. Paper Trail |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Hives Black and White Album |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| After a front-loaded first album and a muddled yet undeniably powerful second album, The Killers have released their best album to date. Whether The Killers have matured drastically and Brandon Flowers realized that his band's got nothing on U2 or the fact that everything Stuart Price touches turns into dance-driven ear camdy, Day & Age is a true step forward for the group. With this, I am truly excited to see what the Killers do next. It is worth noting my favorite track on the album because it is truly awesome. The swooning album closer "Goodnight, Travel Well" is undoubtedly the best song the band has ever recorded. The only thing wrong with this album is that sometimes style overtakes substance as is the case on "Joyride" and the WAY overrated "Dustland Fairytale". But from beginning to end, there is no denying this is an excellent record and a promising sign for a band that was slowly losing steam. |
| The New Pornographers Electric Version |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Streets Everything is Borrowed |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| U2 Pop |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is |
