My 100 favorite albums of 2000-2009, as reported to Pitchfork
01 | Fugazi: the Argument (Dischord, 2001)
02 | Spoon: Girls Can Tell (Merge, 2001)
03 | Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty, 2005)
04 | Animal Collective: Sung Tongs (Fat Cat, 2004)
05 | Iron and Wine: the Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop, 2007)
06 | Low: Things We Lost in the Fire (Kranky, 2001)
07 | Shellac: 1000 Hurts (Touch & Go, 2000)
08 | Earth: the Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (Southern Lord, 2008)
09 | Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours (Modular Interscope, 2008)
10 | the American Analog Set: Know By Heart (Tiger Style, 2001)
11 | Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian, 2005)
12 | Camera Obscura: Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge, 2006)
13 | Orthrelm: OV (Ipecac, 2005)
14 | Calexico: Carried to Dust (Quarterstick, 2008)
15 | Neko Case: Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot/Mint, 2000)
16 | Joanna Newsom: the Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City, 2004)
17 | the Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (4AD, 2002)
18 | Paramore: Riot! (Fueled by Ramen, 2007)
19 | the Decemberists: Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars, 2005)
20 | Thalia Zedek: Been Here and Gone (Matador, 2001)
21 | Gang Gang Dance: God's Money (the Social Registry, 2005)
22 | Consonant: Consonant (Fenway, 2002)
23 | Ida: Will You Find Me (Tiger Style, 2000)
24 | Daft Punk: Discovery (Virgin, 2001)
25 | Dirty Three: She Has No Strings Apollo (Touch & Go, 2003)
26 | Girl Talk: Feed the Animals (Illegal Art, 2008)
27 | the Field: From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt, 2007)
28 | Mastodon: Leviathan (Relapse, 2004)
29 | Death Vessel: Stay Close (North East Indie, 2005)
30 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago (self-released, 2007)
31 | the White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry, 2001)
32 | the New Pornographers: Mass Romantic (Mint, 2000)
33 | Songs: Ohia: the Lioness (Secretly Canadian, 2000)
34 | Shearwater: Rook (Matador, 2008)
35 | Easy Action: Friends of Rock & Roll (Reptilian, 2005)
36 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop, 2008)
37 | Boredoms: Vision Creation Newsun (Birdman, 2001)
38 | Band of Horses: Everything All the Time (Sub Pop, 2006)
39 | Isis: Wavering Radiant (Ipecac, 2009)
40 | Beck: Sea Change (Geffen/Interscope, 2002)
41 | Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar, 2005)
42 | Silkworm: Italian Platinum (Touch & Go, 2002)
43 | Theresa Andersson: Hummingbird Go! (Basin Street, 2008)
44 | Mogwai: Rock Action (Matador, 2001)
45 | Constantines: Constantines (Three Gut Records, 2001)
46 | Jucifer: L'Autrichienne (Relapse, 2008)
47 | Guided By Voices: Isolation Drills (TVT, 2001)
48 | Feist: the Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope, 2007)
49 | Liars: Drum's not Dead (Mute, 2006)
50 | the Pains of Being Pure at Heart: the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland, 2009)
51 | Bottomless Pit: Hammer of the Gods (Comedy Minus One, 207)
52 | Sonic Youth: Murray Street (Geffen, 2002)
53 | Bonnie Prince Billy: Master and Everyone (Palace Records/Drag City, 2003)
54 | Neil Halstead: Sleeping on Roads (4AD, 2002)
55 | Big Business: Mind the Drift (Hydra Head, 2009)
56 | the Black-Eyed Snakes: It's the Black-Eyed Snakes (Chairkickers, 2001)
57 | Bodies of Water: A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian, 2008)
58 | Califone: Roots & Crowns (Thrill Jockey, 2006)
59 | Jay-Z: the Black Album (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, 2003)
60 | Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino, 2009)
61 | M83: Saturdays=Youth (Mute, 2008)
62 | McLusky: McLusky Do Dallas (Too Pure/Beggars, 2002)
63 | Panda Bear: Person Pitch (Paw Tracks, 2007)
64 | Bardo Pond: Ticket Crystals (ATP, 2006)
65 | Neko Case: Blacklisted (Bloodshot, 2002)
66 | Explosions in the Sky: The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place (Temporary Residence, 2003)
67 | the Handsome Family: Honey Moon (Carrot Top, 2009)
68 | the Postal Service: Give Up (Sub Pop, 2003)
69 | Rye Coalition: On Top (Tiger Style, 2002)
70 | Shellac: Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch & Go, 2007)
71 | Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak (Roc-A-Fella, 2008)
72 | Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American (Dreamworks, 2001)
73 | Isis & Aerogramme: In the Fishtank 14 (Konkurrent, 2006)
74 | Nina Nastasia: the Blackened Air (Touch & Go, 2002)
75 | Vashti Bunyan: Lookaftering (Dicristina Stair/Fat Cat, 2005)
76 | the Pipettes: We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries, 2006)
77 | Portishead: Third (Mercury, 2008)
78 | A Place to Bury Strangers: A Place to Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp, 2007)
79 | Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass (Def Jux, 2007)
80 | Calexico: Garden Ruin (Quarterstick, 2006)
81 | Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City, 2009)
82 | Death Vessel: Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (Sub Pop, 2008)
83 | Einstürzende Neubauten: Perpetuum Mobile (Mute, 2004)
84 | Ida: Lovers Prayers (Polyvinyl, 2008)
85 | Josh Ritter: the Animal Years (V2, 2006)
86 | Low: the Great Destroyer (Sub Pop, 2005)
87 | M.I.A.: Kala (Interscope, 2007)
88 | the Mountain Goats: the Sunset Tree (4AD, 2005)
89 | the New Year: Newness Ends (Touch & Go, 2001)
90 | Spoon: Kill the Moonlight (Merge, 2002)
91 | Times New Viking: Rip It Off (Matador, 2008)
92 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (Universal Republic, 2007)
93 | Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum, 2007)
94 | the Sea and Cake: Everybody (Thrill Jockey, 2007)
95 | Sleater-Kinney: the Woods (Sub Pop, 2005)
96 | Crooked Fingers: Dignity and Shame (Merge, 2005)
97 | Retribution Gospel Choir: Retribution Gospel Choir (Caldo Verde, 2008)
98 | Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: Naturally (Daptone, 2005)
99 | Phoenix: It's Never Been Like That (Astralwerks, 2006)
100 | the Magnetic Fields: Distortion (Nonesuch, 2008)
.: P2K: the Decade in Music from Pitchfork.
.: My favorite albums of 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009.
