| 4.0 excellent |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| I was actually shocked by how consistently on par with Cities this album was. New Surrender, while not quite overtaking Cities as my favorite Anberlin album, totally blew away my expectations. I just thought that the lack of overall cohesion and a couple of lackluster tracks kept this one from becoming an all time classic. |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Beck Odelay |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Boy and Bear Harlequin Dream |
| Bruce Springsteen Magic |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Conor Oberst Upside Down Mountain |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Smooth, groovy, and stylish. Daft Punk truly make disco nu with this record, and dang, it sounds good. |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name |
| Gaelic Storm Tree |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght |
| Mikal Cronin MCII |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| This album changed music for me. I don't think I've looked at rock music the same way since I gave this one a listen. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Needtobreathe The Heat |
| I really enjoy this one. The songs are both insanely catchy and at the same time worth listening to. "Washed By The Water" is one of Needtobreathe's best songs ever. A couple of skip tracks place this one below The Outsiders, though. I think "Moving On" deserves more credit than it gets. |
| Noah Gundersen Ledges |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| OneRepublic Native |
| Passenger (UK) All The Little Lights |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Pet Shop Boys Actually |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| Seven Nations Big Dog |
| Sky Sailing An Airplane Carried Me to Bed |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| The Church Starfish |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Middle East I Want That You Are Always Happy |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Xcerts There Is Only You |
| Tigers on Trains Antarctica In Color |
| tobyMac Portable Sounds |
| tobyMac Eye On It |
| Todd Terje It's Album Time |
| Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Is it more like Blue or Pinkerton? I can't tell. But I don't really care. Weezer is back for reals, folks. For reals. |