| 2009 |
| The Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips show off their ability to take something that was already beautiful, and completely rearrange it and make it their own. It may not have the same power as the other, but it has a different power that is still quite satisfying. |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings | 4.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky | 3.5 |
| Atlas Sound Logos | 4.0 |
| This Time Next Year Road Maps and Heart Attacks | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 5.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Karen O and the Kids Where the Wild Things Are OST | 4.5 |
| Never have I heard an album that makes me want to cry, and feel like a child again. This album is really catchy, and just so heartfelt. I freaking love it!!! |
| Volcano Choir Unmap | 4.0 |
| The Big Pink A Brief History of Love | 4.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Owen New Leaves | 4.0 |
| Colour Anthology | 5.0 |
| Craig Owens With Love | 2.5 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| HEALTH Get Color | 4.5 |
| AJJ Can't Maintain | 4.0 |
| Weatherbox The Cosmic Drama | 4.0 |
| The Used Artwork | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| Cobra Starship Hot Mess | 2.0 |
| Gabe Saporta seems to just be grasping for ideas at this point. There are few tracks that stand out, let alone even sound like a whole lot of effort was put into them. |
| Balance and Composure Only Boundaries | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.0 |
| Oneida Rated O | 4.0 |
| UUVVWWZ UUVVWWZ | 4.0 |
| Discovery LP | 4.0 |
| Broadway Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 4.0 |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) | 4.0 |
| Tigers Jaw Spirit Desire | 4.0 |
| Bibio Ambivalence Avenue | 4.5 |
| Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer | 4.0 |
| Into It. Over It. 52 Weeks | 4.5 |
| Title Fight The Last Thing You Forget | 4.5 |
| The Answering Machine Another City, Another Sorry | 4.0 |
| The whole album is full of great Brit-Pop gems. My favorite is "Cliffer", by far. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 5.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 5.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Iron And Wine Around the Well | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 4.5 |
| Conor Oberst Outer South | 4.0 |
| Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free | 4.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun | 4.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 5.0 |
| Transit Stay Home | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.5 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.5 |
| Fireworks All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 5.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 4.5 |
| New Found Glory Not Without a Fight | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 5.0 |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place | 4.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.5 |
| Zombi Spirit Animal | 4.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 5.0 |
| Andrew Bird Noble Beast | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
| Big Surrender Big Surrender | 4.0 |
| Consistently great pop from ex-members of Waking Ashland. Each song is crafted pretty well, with a few standout tracks, including "Waiting for You" and "Place I'd Like to Be." |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| This album takes music to a new level. Every single song has intricately woven electronic melodies and countermelodies, but without ever going too far into the experimental side of things. The vocal lines soar over the instrumentation and create one of the greatest listening experiences of the last decade. |
| P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds | 4.0 |
