This list is currently under development, so #1 doesn’t necessarily represent #1 (although we will see), and there are many many albums that I’ve yet to consider/rank. But for the moment:
- The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee
- Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen
- Portastatic: Slow Note from a Sinking Ship
- Seam: The Problem With Me
- Arcade Fire: Funeral
- Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
- Luna: Penthouse
- The Cure: Disintegration
- Ultra Vivid Scene: Rev
- Built to Spill: Perfect From Now On/Keep It Like a Secret
- Lotion: Nobody’s Cool
- Plastic Mastery: In the Fall of Unearthly Angels
- Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

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