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Nathan Amundson (rivulets) (alphabetically)
Aarktica | Pure Tone Audiometry
Auditem | Concert for Detuned Piano
The Birdree | Orchards and Caravans
Chris Brokaw | Wandering as Water
Clear Horizon | s/t
Elephant Micah | Your Dreams are Feeding Back
(the real) Tuesday Weld | I, Lucifer
Rollerball | Real Hair
Sin Ropas | Trickboxes on the Pony Line
Small Life Form | One


Jonathan Anderson (Jonathan Inc./Radiogram)
1. The Innocence Mission | Befriended
2. Sufjan Stevens | Greetings From Michigan the Great Lake State
3. Ester Drang | Infinite Keys
4. Stars | Heart
5. Songs:Ohia | Magnolia Electric Co.
6. The Frames | For the Birds
7. FourTet | Rounds
8. The Microphones | Mt. Eerie
9. Snailhouse | The Silence Show
10. Broken Social Scene | You Forgot it in People


Liam Astley
1. Okkervil River | Down The River of Golden Dreams
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever To Tell
3. Sleepy Jackson | Lovers
4. Radiohead | Hail To The Thief
5. The White Stripes | Elephant
6. The Fiery Furnaces | Gallowsbird's Bark
7. Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism
8. Saturday Looks Good To Me | All Our Summer Songs
9. The Kills | Keep On Your Mean Side
10. Pretty Girls Make Graves | The New Romance


Richard Bell
1. Jack Johnson | On and On
2. Gerard Langley | LIT
3. Matthew Herbert Big Band | Goodbye Swingtime
4. Laura Veirs | Troubled by the Fire
5. Bed | Spacebox
6. Bonny Prince Billy | Master & Everyone
7. Gillian Welch | Soul Journey
8. Four Tet | Rounds
9. Richard Youngs | Airs of the Ear
10. James William Hindle | Prospect Park

- Best of/Reissue -
Neil Young | On The Beach
- Various Artists Compilation -
Rough Trade Shops: Post Punk Vol.1


Tyler Blake
1. The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
2. Broken Social Scene | You Forgot it in People
3. Norfolk & Western | Dusk in Cold Parlours
4. Sufjan Stevens | Michigan
5. Rogue Wave | Out of the Shadows
6. M. Ward | The Transfiguration of Vincent
7. Azure Ray | Hold on Love
8. Manishevitz | City Life
9. The Graves | Love Love Love
10 (tie). Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Master and Everyone
(smog) | Supper


Neil Bloomer (alphabetically)
Ryan Adams | Rock N Roll
Belle & Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Drive By Truckers | Decoration Day
Fountains Of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers
Josh Rouse | 1972
The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
The Sleepy Jackson | Lovers
Rufus Wainwright | Want One
The White Stripes | Elephant
Neil Young | Greendale


Kevin Borras
1. Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism
2. Lowgold | Welcome to Winners
3. Buffseeds | The Picture Show
4. Radiohead | Hail to the Thief
5. Snow Patrol | Final Straw
6. Muse | Absolution
7. Elbow | Cast of Thousands
8. Aereogramme | Sleep and Release
9. Piano Magic | The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic
10. The Mars Volta | De|loused in the Comatorium


Jeff Cotton (alphabetically)
American Analog Set | Promise of Love
Califone | Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism
Kathleen Edwards | Failer
Grandaddy | Sumday
The Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine & Ours
Rogue Wave | Out of the Shadow
The Sea & Cake  | Bedroom
Tahiti 80 | Wallpaper for the Soul
Wheat | Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second


Mike Diver
1. Ten Grand | This is the Way to Rule
2. Bear Vs Shark | Right Now You're in the Best of Hands...
3. The Blood Brothers | Burn Piano Island, Burn
4. Sole | Selling Live Water
5. Azure Ray | Hold On Love
6. Since By Man | We Sing the Body Electric
7. Black Eyes | Black Eyes
8. FourTet | Rounds
9. Pretty Girls Make Graves | The New Romance
10. 31 Knots - It was High Time to Escape


David Dolzan
1. Granfaloon Bus | Lucky Curtains
2. Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site
3. Willard Grant Conspiracy | Regard the End
4. Howe Gelb | The Listener
5. Tindersticks | Waiting for the Moon
6. Okkervil River | Down the River of Golden Dreams
7. Lucinda Williams | World Without Tears
8. Nick Cave | Nocturama
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master and Everyone
10. Adam Masterson | One Tale Too Many


Matt Dornan (alphabetically)
The American Analog Set | Promise of Love
James William Hindle | Prospect Park
Okkervil River | Down the River of Golden Dreams
The Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine & Ours
Rogue Wave | Out of the Shadow
The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
Sloan | Action Pact
Swell | Whenever You're Ready
M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
The Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site

- Best of/Reissue (tie) -
Tori Amos | Tales of a Librarian
David Bowie | Sound & Vision
The Byrds | Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Legacy Edition)
You Am I | The Cream & The Crock


Ian Fletcher
1. Ryan Adams | Love Is Hell Pt1
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever To Tell
3. Four Tet | Rounds
4. Mogwai | Happy Songs For Happy People
5. Colder | Again
6. The Kills | Keep On Your Mean Side
7. Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It In People
8. FortDax | Folly
9. Broadcast | Ha Ha Sound
10. Empress | The Sounds They Made

- Best of/Reissue -
Sonic Youth | Dirty


Ady Foley (alphabetically)
Animal Collective | Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee
Broken social Scene | You Forgot it in People
Cat Power | You are Free
Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism
Matt Elliot | The Mess We Made  
Explosions in the Sky | The Earth is Not a Cold Dark Place
The Postal Service | Give Up
Rachel's | Systems/Layers
Radiohead | Hail to the Thief  


Erik Fossen
1. The Minus 5 | Down With Wilco
2. Canyon | Empty Rooms
3. Josh Rouse | 1972
4. Sgt. Petter | It's A Record
5. M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
6. My Morning Jacket | It Still Moves
7. The Thrills | So Much For The City
8. The Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site
9. The Sleepy Jackson | Lovers
10. Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine and Ours


Richard Gunn
1. Songs: Ohia | Magnolia Electric co
2. Cat Power | You Are Free
3. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
4. The Mountain Goats | Tallahassee
5. The Strugglers | The New Room
6. Dirty Three | She Has No Wings Apollo
7. Lungfish  | Love is Love
8. (Smog) | Supper
9. Heman Düne | Mas Cambios
10. Nina Nastaia | Run to Ruin


Joe Handford (alphabetically)
Jay Farrar | Terroir Blues
The Fiery Furnaces | Gallowsbird's Bark
The Fire Theft | The Fire Theft
James William Hindle | Prospect Park
Howe | The Listener
Iron & Wine | The Creek Drank The Cradle
The Minus 5 | Down With Wilco
Piano Magic | The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic
Songs: Ohia | The Magnolia Electric Co.
M Ward | Transfiguration Of Vincent

- Best of/Reissue (tie) -
Mark Olson and The Creekdippers | Creekdippin' for the First Time
Television | Television
Guided By Voices | Hardcore UFOs

- Various Artists Compilation -
Sigmatropic | 16 Haiku & Other Stories


Mark Hannan
1. Radiohead | Hail to the Thief
2. Sufjan Stevens | Greetings from Michigan
3. The Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site
4. Rachel's | Systems and Layers
5. Damien Rice | O
6. Arab Strap | Monday at the Hug and Pint
7. Broken Social Scene | You Forgot it in People
8. The Decemberists | Her Majesty, the Decemberists
9. M Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
10. Blur | Think Tank


Bruce Henry
1. Matthew Ryan | Concussion
2. Nick Cave | Nocturama
3. Go-Betweens | Bright Yellow Bright Orange
4. The Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site
5. St Thomas | Hey Harmony
6. The Handsome Family | Singing Bones
7. Calexico | Feast of Wire
8. Midnight Choir I Waiting for the Bricks to Fall
9. Woven Hand | Woven Hand
10. Johnny Cash | The Man Comes Around


James William Hindle (alphabetically)
Beachwood Sparks | Robot Cowboys
Bonnie Prince Billy | Master & Everyone
Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism
Gravenhurst | Flashlight Tornados
Matmos | The Civil War
Nina Nastasia - Run To Ruin
Outkast | The Love Below
Songs: Ohia | Magnolia Electric Co.
The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
Gillian Welch | Soul Journey


Michael Horner
1. Heman Düne | Mas Cambios
2. Kristin Hersh | The Grotto
3. Mountain Goats | Talahassee
4. Jeff Lewis | It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through
5. Schwervon! | Quick Frozen Small Yellow Cracker
6. The Promise Ring | Wood/Water
7. Nan Turner | Leg Out
8. Diane Cluck | Macy's Day Bird
9. Blanche | America's Newest Hitmakers (EP)
10. Hamell on Trial | Tough Love

- Best of/Reissue -
Pavement | Slanted and Enchanted Luxe & Reduxe

- Various Artists Compilation -
CDs are for listening - A Luv-A-Lot Compilation


Alun Jones (Broken Horse Records)
1. Matt Suggs | Amigo Row
2. Josh Rouse | 1972
3. John Cunningham | Happy-Go-Unlucky
4. Royal City | Alone At The Microphone
5. Andrew Morgan | Adventures in Radiology
6. Smog | Supper
7. Grandpaboy | Dead Man's Shake
8. Herman Dune | Mas Cambios
9. Cam Butler | Crazy Dreams
10. Essex Green | The Long Goodbye

- Best of/Reissue -
Neil Young | On The Beach

- Various Artists Compilation -
Rough Trade 25 Years


Geraint Jones
1. My Morning Jacket | It Still Moves
2. Fountains Of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers
3. Cory Branan | The Hell You Say
4. The Jayhawks | Rainy Day Music
5. Lucinda Williams | World Without Tears
6. Shelby Lynne | Identity Crisis
7. Laura Veirs | Troubled By The Fire
8. Terry Allen | Amerasia
9. The Broken Family Band | Cold Water Songs
10. Spearmint | My Missing Days By Spearmint

- Best of/Reissue -
Gene Clark | No Other

- Various Artists Compilation -
No Thanks: The '70s Punk rebellion


Matthew Lee (alphabetically)
Belle and Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
Calexico | Feast of Wire
For Against | Coalesced
Grandaddy | Sumday
Iron and Wine | The Creek Drank the Cradle
Mountain Goats | Tallahassee
Nina Nastasia | Run to Ruin
Smog | Supper
Songs: Ohia | The Magnolia Electric Co


Keith Lerego (alphabetically)
Belle & Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Four Tet | Rounds
Grandaddy | Sumday
Hot Hot Heat | Make Up The Breakdown
Manitoba | Up In Flames
The Rapture | Echoes
The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
The Thermals | More Parts Per Million
The Tyde | Twice
The White Stripes | Elephant


David Love
1. Spiritualized | Amazing Grace
2. Stephen Duffy | Keep Going
3. Clearlake | Cedars
4. Fruit Bats | Mouthfuls
5. Steve Ward | See And Be Seen
6. Rosie Thomas I Only With Laughter...
7. Bitmap | Alpha Beta Gamma
8. The Clientele | The Violet Hour
9. King Creosote | Kenny And Beth's...
10. The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow


Steve McEntee
1. Nadine | Strange Seasons
2. Sufjan Stevens | Greetings from Michigan..
3. M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
4. Wheat | Per Second, Per Second...
5. Kings of Leon | Youth & Young Manhood
6. Norfolk & Western | Dusk in Cold Parlours
7. James William Hindle | Prospect Park
8. The Tyde | Twice
9. Centro-matic | Love You Just the Same
10. Oranger | Shutdown the Sun


Richard Meyrick
1. Songs: Ohia | Magnolia Electric Co.
2. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master and Everyone
3. Silver Mt. Zion | This is Our Punk Rock
4. Spiritualized | Amazing Grace
5. Grandaddy | Sumday
6. Explosions in the Sky | The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
7. Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People
8. No Neck Blues Band | Intonomancy
9. Smog | Supper
10. Scout Niblett | I Am

- Best of/Reissue -
Jackie O Motherfucker | The Magick Fire Music/Wow!


Bill Miller
1. Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway
2. Swell | Whenever You're Ready
3. Calexico | Feast Of Wire
4. Sloan | Action Pact
5. Oranger | Shutdown the Sun
6. Pernice Brothers | Your's Mine and Ours
7. The Stills | Logic Will Break Your Heart
8. Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism
9. Elbow | Cast of Thousands
10. Cosmic Rough Riders | Too Close to See Far


Laurent Orseau (hinah)
1. Califone | Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
2. Iron & Wine | The Creek Drank The Cradle
3. Clogs | Lullaby for Sue
4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
5. M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
6. Mojave 3 | Spoon and Rafter
7. Norfolk & Western | Dusk in Cold
8. The Transmissionary Six | Spooked
9. James William Hindle | Prospect Park
10. Barzin | s/t

- Best of/Reissue (tie) -
The Little Rabbits | Radio
Pavement | Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe

- Various Artists Compilation -
Fractured Discs: Preserve - Volume One


Adrian Pannett (alphabetically)
The Band of Blacky Ranchette | Still Lookin' Good To Me
Chris Brokaw | Wandering As Water
Brokeback | Looks At The Bird
Calexico | Feast of Wire
Mary Lorson & Billy Coté | Piano Creeps
Piano Magic | The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic
State River Widening | Early Music
Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway
Swell | Whenever You're Ready
(The Real) Tuesday Weld | I Lucifer

- Best of/Reissue (three|way tie for first) -
Neil Young | On The Beach
Eleventh Dream Day | Prairie School Freakout
Morphine | The Best of Morphine

- Various Artists Compilation -
Rough Trade Shops: Country 1


Steven Perry ()
1. The Wrens | Meadowlands
2. Clearlake | Almost the Same
3. Two Guys | Recorded
4. Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine And Ours
5. Songs: Ohia | Magnolia Electric Co
6. Arab Strap | Mondays at the Hug & Pint
7. Kissing Tigers | Trebuchet EP
8. Centro-Matic | Love You Just the Same
9. Cursive | Ugly Organ
10 (tie). Decemberists | Her Majesty the Decemberists
Mayday | I Know Your Troubles Been Long


Stoodley Pike
1. At Swim Two Birds | Quigley's Point
2. Directorsound | Redemptive Strikes
3. (Smog | Supper
4. Pedro | Pedro
5. Berg Sans Nipple | Form Of...
6. Fourtet | Rounds
7. Xela | For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights
8. Maher Shalal Hash Baz | Blues du Jour
9. Belle and Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress
10. Plaid | Spokes


Les Platt
1. Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine & Ours
2. Centromatic | Love You Just the Same
3. Jay Farrar | Terroir Blues
4. Calexico | Feast of Wire
5. The National | Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
6. Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway
7. Richmond Fontaine | Post to Wire
8. Collin Herring | Avoiding the Circus
9. Steve Wynn | Static Transmission
10. The Go Betweens | Bright Yellow Bright Orange

- Best of/Reissue (tie) -
Gene Clark | No Other
Uncle Tupelo | No Depression

- Various Artists Compilation -
All the CWAS ones of course!


Steve Rodgers
1. Songs:Ohia | Magnolia Electric Company
2. M Ward | Transfiguration Of Vincent
3. David Olney | The Wheel
4. Paul The Girl | Electro Magnetic Blues
5. Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism
6. Aidan Smith | At Home With 1&2
7. Isobel Campbell | Amorino
8. Bubba Sparxxx | Deliverence
9. The Fall | Country On The Click
10. Lucinda Williams | World Without Tears


Stav Sherez
1. Richmond Fontiane | Post to Wire
2. Okkervil River | Down the River of Broken Dreams
3. The Handsome Family | Singing Bones
4. Neil Young | Greendale
5. Steve Wynn | Static Transmission
6. Steely Dan | Everything Must Go
7. Joe Henry | Tiny Voices
8. Damien Jurado | Where Shall You Take Me?
9. Songs:Ohia | The Magnolia Electric Co.
10. John Cale | Hobosapiens


Tom Sheriff
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever To Tell
2. Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It In People
3. Fruit Bats | Mouthfuls
4. Calexico | Feast of Wire
5. The Sadies | Stories Often Told
6. Willard Grant Conspiracy | Regard The End
7. Nicolai Dunger | Tranquil Isolation
8. Tindersticks | Waiting For The Moon
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Nocturama
10. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master And Everyone


Mark Spall (alphabetically)
Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism
Grandaddy | Sumday
Robb Johnson | Clockwork Music
Lowgold | Welcome to Winners
The Lucksmiths | Naturaliste
Mojave 3 | Spoon and Rafter
Pernice Bros. | Yours Mine & Ours
Rosie Thomas | Only With Laughter Can You Win
The Twin Atlas | Bring Along The Weather
The Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site


John Stacey (alphabetically)
Augie March | Strange Bird
Karl Broudie | Nowhere Now Here
Go Betweens | Bright Yellow, Bright Orange
Maria McKee | High Dive
Mojave 3 | Spoon And Rafter
Heather Nova | Storm
Okkervil River | Down The River Of Golden Dreams
Virgil Shaw | Still Falling
Joss Stone | The Soul Sessions
Woodstar - Life Sparks


Eloïse Stéclebout (hinah)
1. The Transmissionary Six | Spooked
2. M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
3. (smog) | Supper
4. James William Hindle | Prospect Park
5. Arman Méliès | Le long train lent et les beaux imbéciles
6. Mojave 3 | Spoon and Rafter
7. Norfolk & Western | Dusk in Cold
8. Pascals | abiento
9. Dean Manning | Diplomatic
10. Willard Grant Conspiracy | Regard The End


Doug Thomas
1. Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism
2. Josh Rouse | 1972
3. Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts Of The Great Highway
4. Songs:Ohia | Magnolia Electric Co
5. Paula Frazer | A Place Where I Know
6. Pernice Brothers | Yours, Mine & Ours
7. Kingsbury Manx | Afternoon Owls/Aztec Discipline
8. Oranger | Shutdown The Sun
9. The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
10. M. Ward | Transfiguration Of Vincent


Polly Traves (alphabetically)
Belle & Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Frank Black | Show Me Your Tears
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
The Handsome Family | Singing Bones
Emmylou Harris | Stumble into Grace
(The Real) Tuesday Weld | I, Lucifer
Moses | Django
Aidan Smith | At Home With Vol 2
Throwing Muses | Throwing Muses
Rufus Wainwright | Want One

- Best of/Reissue -
Tori Amos | Tales of a Librarian

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


Owen Tromans
1. Cat Power | You Are Free
2. Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway
3. State River Widening | Early Music
4. Yo La Tengo | Summer Sun
5. Lightening Bolt | Wonderful Rainbow
6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billie | Master and Everyone
7. Giardini di Miro | Punk... Not Diet
8. Bob Dylan | Bootleg Series vol. 5 Rolling Thunder Revue
9. Alasdair Roberts | Farewell Sorrow
10. Heman Düne | Mas Cambios


Theodore Vlassopulos (Tongue Master Records)
1. Broadcast | Haha Sound
2. Nina Nastasia | Run To Ruin
3. Tindersticks | Waiting For The Moon
4. Cat Power | You Are Free
5. Robert Wyatt | Cuckooland
6. Dorine Muraille | Mani
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
8. M. Ward | Transfiguration Of Vincent
9. White Stripes | Elephant
10. Mr.Airplane Man | Moanin


Ivan Wadeson (alphabetically)
British Sea Power | The Decline of...
Neko Case | Blacklisted
Johnny Cash | Unearthed
Cat Power | You Are Free
The Fiery Furnaces | Gallowsbird's Bark
I Am Kloot | I Am Kloot
(The Real) Tuesday Weld | I, Lucifer
Aidan Smith | At Home Vol 1
Willard Grant Conspiracy | Regard The End
Warren Zevon | The Wind


G Weaver
1. Calexico | Feast of Wire
2. M. Ward | Transfiguration of Vincent
3. Elbow | Cast of Thousands
4. Damien Jurado | Where Shall You Take Me?
5. Loose Fur | Loose Fur
6. Grandaddy | Sumday
7. Fairport Convention | Unhalfbricking (Re-issue)
8. The White Stripes | Elephant
9. Fairport Convention | What We Did on our Holidays (Re-issue)
10. Arab Strap | Monday at the Hug and Pint


Harry Wheeler
1. Smog | Supper
2. Cat Power | You are Free
3. Herman Dune | Mas Cambios
4. Mogwai | Happy Songs for Happy People
5. Nina Nastasia | Run To Ruin
6. Four Tet | Rounds
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
8. Herman Dune | Mash Concrete Metal Mushrooms
9. Jeffrey Lewis | It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through
10. Dirty Three | She Has No Wings Apollo


John Wenzel (Co-Editor, Sponiczine.com)
1. The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow
2. Radiohead | Hail to the Thief
3. OutKast | Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
4. Pinback | Offcell EP
5. Guided By Voices | Earthquake Glue
6. The Caribbean | History's First Know-It-All
7. Blusom | Go Slowly All the Way Round the Outside
8. King of Prussia | Blood Rains Down on My Hometown
9. The Strokes | Room on Fire
10. Beth Gibbons | Out of Season


Dave Wickens (alphabetically)
American Analog Set | Promise Of Love
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Master & Everyone
Granfaloon Bus | Lucky Curtains
Maximilian Hecker | Rose
Robyn Hitchcock | Luxor
Ral Partha Vogelbacher | Kite vs Obelisk
Rosie Thomas | Only With Laughter Can You Win
M Ward | Transfiguration Of Vincent
The Weakerthans | Reconstruction Site
Yo La Tengo | Summer Sun


Torbjorn Wickman (alphabetically)
Beulah | Yoko
Death Cab For Cutie | Transatlanticism
Innocence Mission | Befriended
The Long Winters | When I Pretend to Fall
Randy Newman | Songbook Vol. 1
Okkervil River | Down the River of Golden Dreams
Plush | Fed
The Shins | Chutes too Narrow
Starlight Mints | Built on Squares
Swell | Whenever You're Ready


Mike Wiltshire
The Band of Blacky Ranchette | Still Lookin' Good To Me
Califone | Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Constantines | Shine a Light
Sally Crewe | Drive It Like You Stole It
Matt Elliott | The Mess We Made
Joe Henry | Tiny Voices
Okkervil River | Down the River...
Pleasure Club | Here Comes the Trick
Virgil Shaw | Still Falling
The Twilight Singers | Blackberry Belle

- Various Artists Compilation (tie) -
Domino: Worlds of Possibility
Saddle Creek: 50


Scott Young
1. Neil Young | On the Beach
2. Calexico | Feast of Wire
3. The Strokes | Room on Fire
4. Kelly Joe Phelps | Slingshot Professionals
5. The White Stripes | Elephant
6. Neil Young | Greendale
7. Spiritualized | Amazing Grace
8. Band of Blacky Ranchette | Still Looking Good to Me
9. Kings of Leon | Youth and Young Manhood
10. Black Keys | Thickfreakness