Winners
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Deer Tick: War Elephant
Black Lips: Good Bad Not Evil
Panda Bear: Person Pitch
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
King Kahn & the Shrines: What Is?!
Angels of Light: We Are Him
Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position
Blonde Redhead: 23
New Pornographers: Challengers
Meg Ashling: Look at the Moon EP
Lucky Soul: The Great Unwanted
Feist: The Reminder
Cats on Fire: The Province Complains
The Ponys: Turn the Lights Out
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Dandelion Gum
Emma Pollock: Watch the Fireworks
The Sadies: New Seasons
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Pantha du Prince: This Bliss
Jens Lekman: Night Falls on Kortedelia
Okkervil River: The Stage Names
Alcest: Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
Rosebuds: Night of the Furies
The Good The Bad and the Queen: s/t
British Sea Power: Krankenhaus EP
Jon Hardy & the Public: Working in Love

Could Still Go Either Way
The Veils: Nux Vomica
Begushkin: Nightly Things
When: Trippy Happy
Wooden Shjips: S/t
David Vandervelde: Moonstation House Band
Band of Horses: Cease to Begin
Les Savy Fav: Let’s Stay Friends
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
The Go! Team: Proof of Youth
Besnard Lakes: Are the Dark Horse
The National Lights: The Dead Will Walk, Dear
The Raveonettes: Lust Lust Lust
Celebration: The Modern Tribe
The Busy Signals: s/t
Sister Vanilla: Little Pop Rock
Ike Reilly Assassination: We Belong to the Staggering Evening
Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta!
BC Camplight: Blink of a Nihilist
Dean and Britta: Back Numbers
Marissa Nadler: Song III: Bird on the Water
Shepherds: Loco Hills
Saturday Looks Good To Me: Fill Up the Room
Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell
Caribou: Andorra
Bodies of Water: Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink
Jim White: Transnormal Skiperoo
The Terminals: Last Days of the Sun
The Friend: Sports EP

Unimpressed
Super Furry Animals: Hey Venus!
Frog Eyes: Tears for the Valedictorian
Calla: Strength in Numbers
Loney, Dear: Loney, Noir
Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons: Little Bird
Amel Larrieux: Lovely Standards
Grinderman: s/t
Black Kids: Wizard of Ahhhs EP
Air: Pocket Symphony
The Broken West: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
Hail Social: Modern Love and Death
Field Music: Tones of Town
The Editors: An End Has A Start
Ted Leo: Living With the Living
Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
The Fiery Furnaces: Widow City
The Roadside Graves: No One Will Know Where You’ve Been
Shins: Wincing the Night Away

No Opinion Yet
Over the Rhine: Snow Angels
Jakob Olausson: Moonlight Farm
Earlimart: Mentor Tormentor
Sunset Rubdown: Random Spirit Lover
Nina Nastasia and Jim White: You Follow Me
Ghost: In Stormy Nights
Kristin Hersh: Learn to Sing Like a Star
Burial: Ghost Hardware
El Hijo: Las Otras Vidas
Reverend Beat-Man: Surreal Folk Blues Gospel Trash Vol. 1
Interpol: Our Love to Admire
Bloc Party: Weekend in the City
Letters Letters: s/t
Sylvie Lewis: Translations
Clientele: God Save the Clientele
Future of the Left: Curses
Café Tacuba: Sino
Gruff Rhys: Candylion

Yuk
Norah Jones: Not Too Late
Menomena: Friend and Foe
Architecture in Helsinki: Places Like This
The Heads: Dead in the Water
Deerhunter: Cryptograms
Blitzen Trapper
Dan Deacon: Spiderman of the Rings
BOAT: Let’s Drag Our Feet
Alasdair Roberts
The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder
The Bees: Octopus
Wold: Screech Owl
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Scared Famous

Still Need to Hear
Burial: Untrue
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Sambasssadeur: Migration
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Low: Drums and Guns
The White Stripes: Icky Thump
The National: Boxer
St. Vincent: Marry Me
Vic Chesnutt: North Star Deserter
Old Time Relijun: Catharsis in Crisis
Midnight Movies: Lion the Girl
Gowns: Red State
Loney, Dear: Sologne
Immaculate Machine: Fables
Stars of the Lid
Queens of the Stone Age: Era Vulgaris
The Shaky Hands
Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond
Brunettes: Structure & Cosmetics
The Femurs: Modern Mexico
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Early Songs: Wind Wound
Ween: La Cucaracha
Map of Africa: s/t
Bela Karoli: Furnished Rooms
Matthew Dear: Asa Breed
Ex-Cocaine: Esta Guerra
Fog: Ditherer
Turbonegro: Retox
Iron & Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog
The Sea and Cake: Everybody
Keren Ann – s/t
David Thomas Broughton – it’s in there somewhere
Mancino: Manners Matter
Soulsavers: It’s Not How Far You Fall
Haushka: Room to expand
Handsome Furs: Plague Park
Hallelujah the hills: Collective Psychosis Begone
Shout Out Louds: Our Ill Wills
Songs of Green Pheasant – Gyllyng Street
The Tough Alliance: A New Chance
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Pinback
Isengrind
Modest Mouse
!!!: Myth Takes
Julie Doiron: Woke Myself Up
Athlete: Beyond the Neighborhood
Whitehouse: Racket
Liars: Liars
Big Business: Here Comes the Waterworks
Earlies: The Enemy Chorus
Malcolm Middleton: A Brighter Beat
Softlightes: Say No to Being Cool
The Magic Whispers: Carousels & Music Boxes
Husky Rescue: Ghost is Not Real
Bracken: We Know About the Need
Noisettes: What’s The Time Mr. Wolf?
Madeline: The Slow Bang
The Affair: Yes Yes to You
Bobby Conn: King for a Day
Winterkids: Memoirs