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Dave Albright
1. Richard Buckner | Dents and Shells
2. matt pond PA | Emblems
3. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
4. Hayden | Elk Lake Serenade
5. Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
6. Court and Spark | Witch Season
7. A.C. Newman | Slow Wonder
8. Arcade Fire | Funeral
9. Elliott Smith | From a Basement on a Hill
10. Dolorean | Violence in a Snowy Field


Nathan Amundson (rivulets) (alphabetically)
Arco | restraint
Bjorn | Medulla
Circle Brothers / Karina Esp | Split
The Cure | Join the Dots
Stafrænn Hákon | Ventill / Poki
Mirah | C'mon Miracle
Múm | Summer Make Good
Pan-American | Quiet City
Périr | I Believe in This
Vollmar | 13. or so People who need Chances


Jonathan Anderson
1. Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
2. Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway  
3. Rufus Wainright | Want One
4. Feist | Let It Die
5. matt pond PA | emblems
6. Kings of Convenience | Riot on an Empty Street
7. Loscil | First Narrows
8. I Am Robot And Proud | Grace Days
9. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
10. Ron Sexsmith | Retriever


Laurence Arnold
1. Grand Drive | the lights in this town are too many to count
2. Hem | Eveningland
3. Grant-Lee Phillips | Virginia Creeper
3. Robyn Hitchcock | Spooked
3. David Byrne | Grown Backwards
3. For Stars | It Falls Apart
3. The Tiny | Close Enough
8. Jim White | Drill a Hole...
8. R.E.M. - Around the Sun
8. Wilco | A Ghost is Born

- Best of/Reissue -
Josh Rouse | The Smooth Sounds Of Josh Rouse
Talking Heads | The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
The Go-Betweens | Tallulah

- Various Artists Compilation -
This One's For The Fellows - tribute to Young Fresh Fellows


Russell Barker
1. Jens Lekman | When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
2. Ben Kweller | On My Way
3. Dogs Die In Hot Cars | Please Describe Yourself
4. Mull Historical Society | This Is Hope
5. Trademark | Want More
6. Piney Gir | Peakahokahoo
7. Sondre Lerche | Two Way Monologue
8. Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
9. Polyphonic Spree | Together We're Heavy
10. Wan Light | Let's Wake Up Somewhere Else


Mat Bartram
1. Pedro The Lion | Achilles Heel
2. Elliott Smith | From a Basement On The Hill
3. AC Newman | The Slow Wonder
4. Rogue Wave | Out Of The Shadow
5. N.Lannon | Chemical Friends
6. The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
7. Cake | Pressure Chief
8. The Belles | Idle Acres
9. Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
10. Sufjan Stevens | Michigan


Jeff Bell (alphabetically)
William Basinski  | Silent Night
Matt Bauer | Nandina
Brightblack | Ala.Cali.Tucky
Charlemagne | Charlemagne
Dolorean | Violence In The Snowy Fields
Quinimine | Like Pistons For Engines
Tony Moreno | Grand & Failing
The Sixth Great Lake | Sunday Bridge
John Vanderslice | Cellar Door
Vetiver | Vetiver


Richard Bell
1. Kings of Convenience | Riot on an Empty Street
2. Jim White | Drill a Hole in that Substrate
3. Vetiver | Vetiver
4. Laura Veirs | Carbon Glacier
5. Devendra Banhart | Rejoice in the Hands of the Golden Empress
6. MC Murriz | Aint no Suckas
7. Joanna Newsom | The Milk Eyed Mender
8. Feist | Let it Die
9. Jolie Holland | Escondida
10. Jarrah | Evolution's Daughter

- Best of/Reissue -
Nick Drake | Made to Love Magic

- Various Artists Compilation -
Hope Isn't a Word (Comes with a Smile Vol.11)


Tyler Blake (alphabetically)
American Music Club | Love Songs for Patriots
Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing in the Hands
Dolorean | Violence in Snowy Fields
Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Cass Mccombs | A
Tony Moreno | Grand & Failing
Morning Spy | Two Horses ep
Joanna Newsom | The Milk-eyed Mender
of Montreal | Satanic Panic in the Attic
Tracker | Blankets


Kevin Borras
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2. The Walkmen | Bows and Arrows
3. American Music Club | Love Songs for Patriots
4. Six by Seven | 04
5. Interpol | Antics
6. The Killers | Hot Fuss
7. Shearwater | Winged Life
8. The Tragically Hip | Inbetween Evolution
9. Manic Street Preachers- Lifeblood
10. The Cure | s/t

- Various Artists Compilation -
The Verve | This Is Music


Paul Candler (alphabetically)
Nick Cave | Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Danny Cohen | Dannyland
Dizzee Rascal | Showtime
DJ Rupture | Special Gunpowder
The Fiery Furnaces | Blueberry Boat
Funkstorung | Disconnected
Les Georges Leningrad | Sur Les Traces De Black Eskimo
TV On the Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The Roots | The Tipping Point
Telefon Tel Aviv | Map of What is Efffortless

- Various Artists Compilation -
Anticon Label Sampler 1999-2004


Jeff Cotton (alphabetically)
Art of Fighting | Second Storey
Elvis Costello | The Delivery Man
Feist | Let It Die
Alison Krauss & Union Station | Lonely Runs Both Ways
Joanna Newsom | The Milk-Eyed Mender
Gretchen Peters | Halcyon
Pinback | Summer in Abaddon
Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
Kevin Tihista | Wake Up Captain

- Best of/Reissue -
Low | A Lifetime of Temporary Relief

- Various Artists Compilation -
Future Soundtrack of America


Mike Diver
1. Isis | Panopticon
2. The Icarus Line | Penance Soiree
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan | Miss
4. Comets On Fire | Blue Cathedral
5. The Paper Chase | God Bless Your Black Heart
6. The Delgados | Universal Audio'
7. Les Savy Fav | Inches
8. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster | The Royal Society'
9. The Blood Brothers | Crimes
10. Mono -Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined


Matt Dornan (alphabetically)
Art of Fighting | Second Storey
Daryll-Ann | Don't Stop
Dolorean | Violence in the Snowy Fields
Karate | Pockets
Maritime | Glass Floor
matt pond PA | Emblems
Tara Jane ONeil | You Sound, Reflect
Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
Kevin Tihista | Wake Up Captain
Unbunny | Snow Tires

- Best of/Reissue -
David Bowie | Diamond Dogs
The Last Town Chorus | s/t
Rogue Wave | Out Of The Shadow

- Various Artists Compilation -
Meanwhile in the Meantime (Comes with a Smile Vol.12)


Luke Drozd (alphabetically)
Andrew Bird | Weather Systems
Castanets | Cathedrals
Green Day | American Idiot
Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Karate | Pockets
Mission of Burma | On Off On
Pinback | Summer in Abaddon
That Fucking Tank | A Document of the First Set
Thee More Shallows | More Deep Cuts
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans


Stephan Evans
1. Sufjan Stevens | Michigan
2. Charlemagne | Charlemagne
3. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
4. Jens Lekman | When I Said I Wanted to be Your Dog
5. Rufus Wainwright | Want One
6. Iron & Wire | Our Endless Numbered Days
7. Jim White | Drill a Hole...
8. Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
9. St Thomas | Let's Grow Together
10. Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway


Ian Fletcher
1. The Streets | A Grand Don't Come For Free
2. Two Lone Swordsmen | From The Double Gone Chapel
3. Mum | Summer Make Good
4. Hope Of The States | The Lost Riots
5. David Grubbs | A Guess At The Riddle
6. Bark Psychosis | Codename: Dustsucker
7. Morrissey | You Are The Quarry
8. Fennesz | Venice
9. Bjorn | Medulla
10. Gravenhurst | Flashlight Seasons

- Best of/Reissue -
Weezer | Weezer (aka The Blue Album)


Tom Flynn (WMPG Portland, ME)
1. Califone | Heron King Blues
2. Giant Sand |  Is All Over The Map
3. Wilco |  A Ghost Is Born
4. My Morning Jacket | Acoustic Citsuoca
5. Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Sings Greatest Palace Music
7. Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing In the Hands
8. Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
9. Jay Farrar | Stone, Steel, & Bright Lights
10. Elvis Costello | The Delivery Man

- Best of/Reissue -
1. Bob Dylan | Official Bootleg vol. 6 (1964)
2. Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
3. Blaze Foley | Live at the Oval Room
4. Six Organs of Admittance | The Manifestation
5. Cerberus Shoal | Cerberus Shoal

- Various Artists Compilation -
1. Beautiful Dreamer: the Songs of Stephen Foster
2. I am a Cold Rock. I am Dull Grass: a Tribute to the Music of Will Oldham
3. Por Vida: a tribute to the songs of Alejandro Escovedo
4. Touch My Heart: a tribute to Johnny Paycheck


Erik Fossen
1. Wilco | A Ghost is Born
2. Daryll-Ann | Don't stop
3. The Bees | Free The Bees
4. Luna | Rendezvous
5. Reigning Sound | Too Much Guitar
6. Phoenix | Alphabetical
7. Richmond Fontaine | Post to Wire
8. Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
9. The Mendoza Line | Fortune
10. Kings of Convenience | Riot on an Empty Street


Ana Garcia (alphabetically)
Animal Collective | Sung Tongs
Black Dice | Creature Comforts
Dungen | Ta Det Lugnt
Fennesz | Venice
Hurtmold | Mestro
IQU | Sun Q
Madvillian | Madvillany
Mombojó | Nadadenovo
Joanna Newsom | The Milk Eyed Minder
Savath and Savalas | Apropa't

- Best of/Reissue -
Vashti Bunyan | Just Another Diamond Day


Joe Handford (alphabetically)
American Music Club | Love Songs for Patriots
Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing In The Hands Of The Golden Empress)
Bark Psychosis | Codename: Dustsucker
Mission Of Burma | OnOffOn
Grant Lee Phillips | Virginia Creeper
Richmond Fontaine | Post to Wire
Shearwater | Winged Life
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
Tom Waits | Real Gone
Ben Weaver | Stories Under Nails

- Best of/Reissue -
Richard & Linda Thompson | Shoot Out The Lights

- Various Artists Compilation -
Gram Parsons | Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels


James Hindle (alphabetically)
Animal Collective | Sung Tongs
Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing in the Hands/Nino Rojo
Black Dice | Creature Comforts
Espers | s/t
Karate | Pockets
Joanna Newsom | The Milk Eyed Mender
Of Montreal | Satanic Panic in the Attic
Panda Bear | Young Prayer
PG Six | Well of Memory
Wilco | A Ghost is Born

- Best of/Reissue -
Six Organs of Admittance | For Octavia Paz
Rogue Wave | Out of the Shadow
Simon Finn | Pass the Distance

- Various Artists Compilation -
Golden Apples of the Sun


Mark (can't count) Hogg (alphabetically)
American Music Club | Love Songs For Patriots
Biosphere | Autour De La Lune
Fennesz | Venice
Futureheads | Futureheads
Interpol | Antics
Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Isis | Panotopican
Kings of Convenience | Riot On An Empty Street
Lambchop | Aw C'mon/No You C'mon
Murcof | Utopia
Pan American | Quiet City
Richmond Fontaine | Post To Wire


Chris Horkan (alphabetically)
The Album Leaf | In A Safe Place
Ella Guru | The First Album
Micah P Hinson | Micah P Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress...
Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Jens Lekman | When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
Joanna Newsom | The Milk-Eyed Mender
Pinback | Summer In Abaddon
Elliott Smith | From A Basement On The Hill
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
TV On The Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

- Best of/Reissue -
Appendix Out | The Night Is Advancing


Simon Jewell
1 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of
Orpheus
2 matt pond PA | Emblems
3 Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
4 Richmond Fontaine | Post to Wire
5 Modest Mouse | Good News for People Who Like Bad News
6 The Radio Dept | Lesser Matters
7 Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
8 Micah P Hinson | Micah P Hinson & the Gospel Of Progress
9 Adem | Homesongs
10 The Concretes | s/t


Ken Katkin
1. Dead Moon | Live at Paaspop Festival in Holland, April 10th, 2004
2. Mission Of Burma | ONoffON
3. Mekons | Punk Rock
4. Minus Story | The Captain is Dead, Let The Drum Corpse Dance
5. Rocket From The Tombs | Rocket Redux
6. Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing in the Hands
7. The Ex | Turn (plus Beautiful Frenzy DVD)
8. Joanna Newsom | The Milk-Eyed Mender
9. Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster | New Hope For The Ape Eared
10. Chills | Stand By

- Best of/Reissue -
Vashti Bunyan | Just Another Diamond Day
Faces | Five Guys Walk Into A Bar
Bill Fay | From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock
Homosexuals | Astral Glamour
Mirrors | Another Nail in the Remodeled Coffin
Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Saints | All Times Through Paradise
Scientists | Pissed On Another Planet
The Velvet Underground | Live At Max's Kansas City
Patty Waters | You Thrill Me: A Musical Odyssey


David Love
1. Wilco | A Ghost Is Born
2. King Creosote | Psalm Clerk
3. Beta Band | From Heros To Zeros
4. Kevin Tihista | Wake Up Captain
5. Anthony Reynolds | Neu York
6. Laura Veirs | Carbon Glacier
7. James Yorkston | Just Beyond The River
8. Graham Coxon | Happiness In Magazines
9. Marjorie Fair | Self Help Serenade
10. Vetiver | Vetiver

- Best of/Reissue -
Stephen Duffy | Music In Colors

- Various Artists Compilation -
Sandy Denny | Boxful Of Treasures
Pieces Of April (OST)


Jamie Lynn (alphabetically)
Concretes | s/t
Feist | Let It Die
Hidden Cameras | Mississauga Goddamn
Lambchop | Aw C'mon/No, You C'mon
Modest Mouse | Good News For People Who Like Bad News
Justin Rutledge | No Never Alone
The Sadies | Favourite Colours
Elliott Smith | From A Basement on the Hill
The Tragically Hip | In Between Evolution
Tom Waits | Real Gone
Wilco | A Ghost Is Born

- Best of/Reissue -
Talking Heads | The Name of the Band is Talking Heads


Anders Markström (alphabetically)
American Music Club | Love Songs for Patriots
Cub Country | Stay Poor Stay Happy
Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing in the Hands
Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
Hanif | Blame It On El Nino
Iron and Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Richard Buckner | Dents and Shells
St. Thomas | Let's Grow Together
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
Wilco | A Ghost Is Born


Ged McAlea (alphabetically)
Broken Family Band | Cold Water Songs
Richard Buckner | Dents and Shells
The Go! Team | Thunder, Lightning, Strike
James William Hindle | Prospect Park
The Loves | Love
Joanna Newsom: Milk Eyed Mender
Piney Gir | Peekahokahoo
Reigning Sound | Too Much Guitars
St Thomas | Let's Grow Together
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans


Stephen McEntee
1. Joanna Newsom | The Milk-eyed Mender
2. matt pond PA | Emblems
3. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
4. Rilo Kiley | More Adventurous
5. Shelley Short | Oh, Say Little Dogies, Why?
6. Gentleman Reg | Darby & Joan
7. Hem | Eveningland
8. Chad King | Love Your Engine
9. The Legends | Up Against The Legends
10. Deb Talan | A Bird Flies Out

- Various Artists Compilation -
The Late Great Daniel Johnston | Discovered Covered


Richard Meyrick
1. Castanets | Cathedral
2. Jason Molina | Pyramid Electric Co
3. Animal Collective | Sung Tongs
4. Black Dice | Creature Comforts
5. Wolf Eyes | Burned Mind
6. Coil | Ans
7. Mum | Summer Make Good
8. Sunburned Hand Of The Man | No Magic Man
9. Ghost | Hypnotic Underworld
10. Julian Cope | Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day

- Best of/Reissue -
Low | A Lifetime of Temporary Relief (box)
Deathprod | Deathprod (box)


Bill Miller
1. Ambulance Ltd | LP
2. Jonathan Inc | Things done and left undone
3. Now It's Overhead | Fall back open
4. Art of Fighting | Second Storey
5. Trashcan Sinatras | Weightlifting
6. Interpol | Antics
7. Ron Sexsmith | Retriever
8. Joseph Arthur | Our Shadows Will Remain
9. The Meeting Places | Find Yourself Along The Way
10. Charles Atlas | To the Dust


Laurent Orseau (hinah)
1. oRSo | My Dreams Are Back And They Are Better Than Ever
2. Devendra Banhart | Nino Rojo & Rejoicing in The Hands
3. Califone | Heron King Blues
4. Jean-Louis Murat | A Bird On A Poire
5. South San Gabriel | Welcome, Convalescence
6. Windsor For The Derby | We Fight Till Death
7. Glenn Jones | This is The Wind That Blows It Out
8. Vetiver | s/t
9. Hayden | Elk-Lake Serenade
10. The Transmissionary Six | Get Down

- Best of/Reissue -
Low | A Lifetime of Temporary Relief


Adrian Pannett (alphabetically)
50 Foot Wave | s/t
Naïm Amor | Soundtracks Vol. II
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
State River Widening | Cottonhead
Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
Tortoise | It's All Around You
Kevin Tihista | Wake Up Captain
Brian Wilson | SMiLE
Windsor For The Derby | We Fight Til Death

- Best of/Reissue -
Low | A Lifetime of Temporary Relief
Lee Hazlewood | Poet Fool or Bum / Back On The Street Again
The Fall | 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong

- Various Artists Compilation -
Matador at Fifteen
Hope Isn't a Word (Comes with a Smile Vol.11)


Stoodley Pike
1. The Streets | A Grand Don't Come for Free
2. Directorsound | Tales from the Tightrope vol 1
3. The Otto Show | s/t
4. Lambchop | Aw C'mon / No You C'mon
5. Gonzales | Solo Piano
6. Manyfingers | s/t
7. Bonnie Prince Billy | Greatest Palace Music
8. Johann Johannson | Virthulegu Forsetar
9. Swod | Gehen
10. The Dead Texan | s/t


Daniel Pipe (alphabetically)
Air | Talkie Walkie
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Sings Greatest Palace Music
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre Of Orpheus
Lambchop | Aw C'mon/No You C'mon
David Poe | Love Is Red
Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
U2 | How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Tom Waits | Real Gone
Jim White | Drill a Hole in that Substrate
Wilco | A Ghost is Born


Steve Rodgers
1. Brother Danielson | Brother:Son
2. Caramel Jack | Low Story
3. Robyn Hitchcock | Spooked
4. Dawn Of The Replicants | The Extra Room
5. The Minus Five | In Rock
6. Stereolab | Margerine Eclipse
7. Lambchop | Aw C'mon / No You C'mon
8. Flipron | Fancy Blues And Rustique Novelties
9. Jonathan Richman | Not So Much To Be Loved AsTo Love
10. Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players | Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol 1

- Best of/Reissue -
Richard & Linda Thompson | I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

- Various Artists Compilation -
Coffee & Cigarettes | Original Soundtrack


Paul Rushton
1. American Music Club | Love Songs for Patriots
2. Arcade Fire | Funeral
3. The Streets | A Grand Don't Come For Free
4. Richmond Fontaine | Post To Wire
5. Wilco | A Ghost Is Born
6. The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
7. Midlake | Bamnan & Slivercork
8. Modest Mouse | Good News For People Who Love Bad News
9. 65daysofstatic | The Fall Of Math
10. Grand Drive | The Lights In This Town...


Rick Rutjens (alphabetically)
The Band Of Blacky Ranchette | Still Lookin' Good To Me
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | The Lyre of Orpheus / Abattoir Blues
Detroit Cobras | Life, Love & Leaving
Marianne Faithful | Before The Poison
Finn Brothers | Everything Is Here
Jolie Holland | Escondida
Paul Kelly | Ways & Means
Lambchop | Aw C'mon / No You C'mon
Joanna Newson | Milk-Eyed Mender
Elliott Smith | From A Basement On The Hill

- Various Artists Compilation -
Tal.loon.ne | A Compilation For Tasmania's Forests


Andy Slocombe
1. Max Richter | The Blue Notebooks
2. Interpol | Antics
3. Bonnie Prince Billy | Greatest Palace Music
4. James Yorkston and the Athletes | Just Beyond the River
5. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
6. Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
7. Isan | Meet Next Life
8. Radio Dept | Lesser Matters
9. Killers | Hot Fuss
10. Go! Team | Thunder Lightning Strike


Mark Spall (alphabetically)
Art of Fighting | Second Storey
Candidate | Under the Skylon
Caramel Jack | Low Story
The Delgados | Universal Audio
Sarah Harmer | All of our Names
Hem | Eveningland
Matt Pond PA | Emblems
Obi | Diceman Lopez
Pinback | Summer in Abaddon
Thee More Shallows | More Deep Cuts


John Stacey (alphabetically)
The Czars | Goodbye
The Heavy Blinkers | The Night And I Are Still So Young
Honey church | Makes Me Feel Better
Lucky Jim | Our Troubles End Tonight
Marjorie Fair | Self-Help Serenade
Midlake - Banman and Slivercork
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter | Oh My Girl
Kevin Tihista | Wake Up Captain
Unbunny | Snow Tires
Barb Waters | Rosa Duet


Eloïse Stéclebout (hinah)
1. Morrissey | You Are The Quarry
2. Brian Wilson | Smile
3. Jean-Louis Murat | A Bird On A Poire
4. Devendra Banhart | Nino Rojo & Rejoicing in The Hands
5. Adem | Homesongs
6. The Transmissionary Six | Get Down
7. Arman Méliès | Néons blancs et asphaltine
8. James Yorkston & the Athletes | Just Beyond The River
9. Andrew Bird | Weather Systems
10. Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days


Doug Thomas
1. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror | Wake Up Captain
2. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
3. Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
4. Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
5. Jon Brion - I Heart Huckabees (OST)
6. Plush | Underfed
7. Stateside | Phonograph
8. The Comas | Conductor
9. Dom Mariani | Homespun Blues & Greens
10. Jeffrey Foskett | Stars in the Sand


Polly Traves
1 Tanya Donelly | Whiskey Tango Ghosts
2 Devendra Barnhart | Rejoicing in the Hands/Nino Rojo
3 Andrew Bird | Weather Systems
4 Feist | Let It Die
5 The Earlies | These Were the Earlies
6 Adem | Homesongs
7 Mistys Big Adventure | ...The Solar Hi-Fi System
8 Carolyn Mark | The Pros and Cons of Collaboration
9 American Music Club | Love Songs for Patriots
10 Laura Veirs | Carbon Glacier

- Best of/Reissue -
Nina Simone | Emergency Ward/It Is Finished

- Various Artists Compilation -
Wig in a Box: Songs from Hedwig & the Angry Inch


Graham Weaver
1. Wilco | A Ghost is Born
2. The Czars | Goodbye
3. The Necks | Drive By
4. Sufjan Stevens | Seven Swans
5. Brad Mehldau | Anything Goes
6. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror | Wake Up Captain
7. The Earlies | These Were The Earlies
8. Gomez | Split the Difference
9. Lambchop | Aw C'mon/No You C'mon
10. John Martyn | On the Cobbles


Dave Wickens (alphabetically)
Adem | Homesongs
The Album Leaf | In A Safe Place
The Arcade Fire | Funeral
Castanets | Cathedral
Dolorean | Violence in The Snowy Fields
Gravenhurst | The Flashlight Seasons
Micah P Hinson | The Gospel Of Progress
Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Sophia | People Are Like Seasons
Thee More Shallows | More Deep Cuts

- Best of/Reissue -
Nina Nastasia | Dogs


Anders Wickman (alphabetically)
Mattias Alkberg BD | Tunaskolan
Ambulance Ltd | LP
Architecture in Helsinki | Fingers Crossed
The Elected | Me First
Hayden | Elk-Lake Serenade
Iron & Wine | Our Endless Numbered Days
Maritime | Glass Floor
Modest Mouse | Good News for People who Love Bad News
Elliott Smith | From a Basement on the Hill
Volcano I'm still excited!! | s/t

- Best of/Reissue -
Neil Young | Greatest Hits

- Various Artists Compilation -
Future Soundtrack of America


Torbjørn Wickman (alphabetically)
Art of Fighting | Second Storey
The Czars | Goodbye
The Heavy Blinkers | The night and I are still young
Karate | Pockets
Maritime | Glass Floor
Matt Pond PA | Emblems
Pinback | Summer in Abaddon
Q and Not U | Power
They Might Be Giants | The Spine
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror | Wake up Captain

- Best of/Reissue -
Can | Ege Bamyasi

- Various Artists Compilation -
The Coctails | Popcorn Box


Mike Wiltshire (alphabetically)
Richard Buckner | Dents & Shells
Tanya Donelly | Whiskey Tango Ghosts
Micah P Hinson | The Gospel of Progress
Karate | Pockets
The National | Cherry Tree
Joel RL Phelps and the Downer Trio | Customs
Pleasure Club | The Fugitive Kind
Sons and Daughters | Love the Cup
Treasure State | Migration
TV on the Radio | Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes


Blake Wolf
1. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | sings Greatest Palace Music
2. Paul Armfield & the Four Good Reasons | Songs Without Words
3. Jim White | Drill a Hole in the Substrate
4. Blanche | If We Can't Trust the Doctors
5. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror | Wake Up Captain
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
7. Jessie Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter | Oh, My Girl
8. Mark Lanegan Band | Bubblegum
9. Loretta Lynn | Van Lear Rose
10. Woven Hand | Consider the Birds

- Various Artists Compilation -
Touch My Heart - a tribute to Johnny Paycheck


Zorba (alphabetically)
Devendra Banhart | Rejoicing In the Hands
Castanets | Cathedral
Dungen | Ta Det Lungt
Hymie's Basement - s/t
Interpol | Antics
Kings Of Convenience | Riot on an Empty Street
Kudo, Tori & Say source | Return to a Source
Les Savy Fav | Inches
Secret Machines | Now Here is No Where
Tenniscoats | We are Every One

- Best of/Reissue -
Hood | Singles Compiled
Le Mans | Saudade
Nina Nastasia | Dogs