A slow year, when all was said and done. Oh well.

1. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
2. White Rabbits – Fort Nightly
3. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
4. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
   • Retrospective #4 – LCD, Arcade Fire, Okkervil, White Rabbits.
5. New Pornographers – Challengers
6. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
7. Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
8. Pinback – Autumn of the Seraphs
9. Handsome Furs – Plague Park
10. Radiohead – In Rainbows

And that’s really all we need. Outliers from the bottom half of the list – Modest Mouse, of Montreal (Hissing Fauna, should be in the top ten for sure), Voxtrot.