| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Ask Forgiveness | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 5.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Rounds | 3.5 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 5.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.5 |
| Donuts will put you in a good mood no matter who you are. J Dilla, bedridden with his health deteriorating, spent the last period of his life making these beats, which speaks volumes about how much he loved music. And, his passion comes out in many of these songs, resulting in an immense amount of fun and beauty. This album can remind a person why they love music. Obviously, Dilla was trying to bust out all of the tracks he possibly could because this album would be his final statement in the world, so the 31 song length is reasonable. However, there are a number of boring throwaway tracks. There is quite a bit of 5/5 material on here, but the filler brings down the rating a bit. |
| John Coltrane Blue Train | 4.5 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.0 |
| Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 | 4.0 |
| M. Ward Hold Time | 3.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.0 |
| Maps & Atlases decided to approach songwriting in a different manner than on their previous EP, incorporating their stunning technical talent more subtly into songs with catchier vocal harmonies. The resulting EP is an improvement on "Tree, Swallows, Houses," containing some of the most infectious songs of 2008. Now, how about they stop teasing us and release an LP? |
| Mark Kozelek Finally | 3.5 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis And With The Right Kind Of Eyes... | 4.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 4.5 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.0 |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps | 4.0 |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 3.5 |
| Oh No Dr. No's Oxperiment | 3.5 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 3.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.5 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 4.5 |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens | 3.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night | 3.5 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance School of the Flower | 4.0 |
| Spoon Got Nuffin | 2.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 3.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 3.5 |
| The Dodos Time to Die | 3.5 |
| The Drones Gala Mill | 4.5 |
| The Drones Havilah | 4.5 |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 4.0 |
| like a mix of a less edgy Mission of Burma and happier Velvet Underground. great record |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 5.0 |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 4.0 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 3.5 |
