My 100 Favorite Albums from 2000-2009

All artists restricted to two albums per decade. Updated regularly to reflect my changing tastes.

  • Aesop Rock- Float
  • Animal Collective- Feels
  • Animal Collective- Here Comes the Indian
  • The Antlers- Hospice
  • The Arcade Fire- Funeral
  • At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command
  • Beck- Sea Change
  • Black Dice- Beaches & Canyons
  • Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy- The Letting Go
  • Booka Shade- Movements
  • The Books- Thought for Food
  • Boris- Flood
  • Brand New- The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
  • Burial- Untrue
  • Califone- Heron King Blues
  • Califone- Roots & Crowns
  • Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
  • Carlos Giffoni- Adult Life
  • cLOUDDEAD- cLOUDDEAD
  • Coalesce- OX
  • Converge- Jane Doe
  • Cursive- Domestica
  • Daïtro- Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes
  • Dan Deacon- Spiderman of the Rings
  • Deathpile- G.R.
  • Derek Bailey- Ballads
  • Destroyer- Streethawk: A Seduction
  • Destroyer- Destroyer’s Rubies
  • Discordance Axis- The Inalienable Dreamless
  • DJ Sprinkles- Midtown 120 Blues
  • El-P- Fantastic Damage
  • Fennesz- Endless Summer
  • Fuck Buttons- Street Horrrsing
  • Fugazi- The Argument
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
  • Graham Lambkin- Salmon Run
  • Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump
  • Hella- Hold Your Horse Is
  • The Hold Steady- Almost Killed Me
  • The Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
  • Isis- Oceanic
  • J Dilla- Donuts
  • Jeph Jerman- The Second Attention
  • Joanna Newsom- The Milk-Eyed Mender
  • John Coltrane- The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
  • Kanye West- 808’s and Heartbreak
  • Keith Fullerton Whitman- Playthroughs
  • Kevin Drumm- Land of Lurches
  • King Geedorah- Take Me To Your Leader
  • LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
  • Lead Belly- The Definitive Lead Belly
  • Liars- Drums Not Dead
  • Lightning Bolt- Wonderful Rainbow
  • Low- Things We Lost In the Fire
  • Luomo- Vocalcity
  • Madvillain- Madvillainy
  • Mammal- Lonesome Drifter
  • Man Man- Six Demon Bag
  • The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
  • Max Richter- The Blue Notebooks
  • The Microphones- The Glow, Part 2
  • The Microphones- Mount Eerie
  • Modern Life Is War- Witness
  • Modest Mouse- The Moon & Antarctica
  • The Mountain Goats- The Coroner’s Gambit
  • The Mountain Goats- We Shall All Be Healed
  • Múm- Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK
  • Neko Case- Middle Cyclone
  • No Age- Nouns
  • of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
  • Panda Bear- Person Pitch
  • Pig Destroyer- Terrifyer
  • The Protomen- Act II: The Father of Death
  • Prurient- Pleasure Ground
  • Radiohead- In Rainbows
  • Radiohead- Kid A
  • Regina Spektor- Soviet Kitsch
  • Run On Sentence- Oh When the Wind Comes Down
  • Scott Walker- The Drift
  • Shellac- 1000 Hurts
  • Snowing- Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
  • Songs: Ohia- Didn’t It Rain
  • Stars of the Lid- The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
  • Steve Roden- Forms of Paper
  • Sunn O)))- Black One
  • The Thermals- The Body The Blood The Machine
  • Tim Hecker- Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again
  • Tom Waits- Alice
  • Tom Waits- Blood Money
  • The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
  • Various Artists- One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found
  • Weakling- Dead As Dreams
  • Why?- Alopecia
  • Why?- Elephant Eyelash
  • William Basinski- The Disintegration Loops
  • Wolf Eyes- Dread
  • Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles
  • Xiu Xiu- A Promise
  • Zs- Arms