This post is the second of two parts. With hindsight and in living with particular albums for longer, we have compiled lists of our ten favourite albums for each year from 2000-2019. Perhaps these lists will be of some interest for those who wish to walk down Memory Lane, or indeed, for those who might wonder if any of these [subjective] gems passed them by (as we have discovered from comparing our respective lists). Whatever you—dear reader—might glean from our produce, we are grateful for the opportunity to indulge in our list-making and music-listening passions here.
Elijah & Greg
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- The Age of Adz / All Delighted People EP
Sufjan Stevens - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Frightened Rabbit - Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Teen Dream
Beach House - InnerSpeaker
Tame Impala - High Violet
The National - This is Happening
LCD Soundsystem - Clinging to a Scheme
The Radio Dept. - The Monitor
Titus Andronicus
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- The Age of Adz / All Delighted People EP
Sufjan Stevens - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Frightened Rabbit - InnerSpeaker
Tame Impala - Forget
Twin Shadow - The Reluctant Graveyard
Jeremy Messersmith - High Violet
The National - Contra
Vampire Weekend - Together
The New Pornographers - So Runs the World Away
Josh Ritter
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- The SMiLE Sessions
The Beach Boys - Belong
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Dye It Blonde
Smith Westerns - Strange Mercy
St Vincent - Bon Iver
Bon Iver - Let England Shake
PJ Harvey - Humor Risk
Cass McCombs - Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes - The Year of Hibernation
Youth Lagoon - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
M83
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- The Last of the Country Gentlemen
Josh T. Pearson - Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes - 100 Acres of Sycamore
Fionn Regan - Rapproacher
Class Actress - Build a Rocket Boys!
Elbow - Strange Negotiations
David Bazan - Making Mirrors
Gotye - Endless Now
Male Bonding - The Family Tree: The Roots
Radical Face - 12 Desperate StrAight Lines
Telekinesis
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- Shields
Grizzly Bear - Bloom
Beach House - Dept. of Disappearance
Jason Lytle - Lonerism
Tame Impala - Silver & Gold
Sufjan Stevens - America
Dan Deacon - ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - All We Love We Leave Behind
Converge - Shrines
Purity Ring - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Spiritualized
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- Fear Fun
Father John Misty - Silver & Gold
Sufjan Stevens - Break It Yourself
Andrew Bird - Tramp
Sharon Van Etten - Port of Morrow
The Shins - Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Patrick Watson - The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Drive of the Screw…
Fiona Apple - Lonerism
Tame Impala - Through the Deep, Dark Valley
The Oh Hellos - Who’s Feeling Young Now?
Punch Brothers
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- Pedestrian Verse
Frightened Rabbit - Reflektor
Arcade Fire - Partygoing
Future Bible Heroes - m b v
My Bloody Valentine - Big Wheel and Others
Cass McCombs - Trouble Will Find Me
The National - Wondrous Bughouse
Youth Lagoon - Love’s Crushing Diamond
Mutual Benefit - Monomania
Deerhunter - Muchacho
Phosphorescent
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- Pedestrian Verse
Frightened Rabbit - Modern Vampires of the City
Vampire Weekend - Torres
Torres - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
Neko Case - Promises
The Boxer Rebellion - Trouble Will Find Me
The National - The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand / Threeep
Matt Pond PA - Alone Aboard the Ark
The Leisure Society - Us Alone
Hayden - Lily & Madeline / The Weight of the Globe EP
Lily & Madeline
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- pom pom
Ariel Pink - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Angel Olsen - Nobody Wants to Be Here & Nobody Wants to Leave
The Twilight Sad - Lost in the Dream
The War on Drugs - St Vincent
St Vincent - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
Damien Jurado - Some Blue Morning
Adrian Crowley - Too Bright
Perfume Genius - Owl John
Owl John - Are We There
Sharon Van Etten
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- Heart Murmurs
Jeremy Messersmith - 1000 Forms of Fear
Sia - Second Sight
Hey Rosetta! - Brill Bruisers
The New Pornographers - Stay Gold
First Aid Kit - Upside Down Mountain
Conor Oberst - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Damien Rice - Are We There
Sharon Van Etten - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Elbow - In Conflict
Owen Pallett
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- Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens - Currents
Tame Impala - viet cong
Viet Cong (Preoccupations) - Depression Cherry
Beach House - I Love You, Honeybear
Father John Misty - Vulnicura
Björk - Weirdo Shrine
La Luz - Fading Frontier
Deerhunter - White Men Are Black Men Too
Young Fathers - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett
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- Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens - Currents
Tame Impala - Teens of Style
Car Seat Headrest - Vulnicura
Björk - Bashed Out
This is the Kit - Dear Wormwood
The Oh Hellos - Depression Cherry
Beach House - Brother
The Brilliance - Sprinter
Torres - Times Infinity Vol. One
The Dears
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- Masterpiece
Big Thief - My Woman
Angel Olsen - Teens of Denial
Car Seat Headrest - Painting of a Panic Attack
Frightened Rabbit - Puberty 2
Mitski - A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead - Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - You Want it Darker
Leonard Cohen - Emotions and Math
Margaret Glaspy - Next Thing
Frankie Cosmos
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- Teens of Denial
Car Seat Headrest - Are You Serious
Andrew Bird - Painting of a Panic Attack
Frightened Rabbit - Puberty 2
Mitski - The Birds Outside Sang
Florist - A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead - Arranging Time
Pete Yorn - Remember Us to Life
Regina Spektor - Front Row Seat to Earth
Weyes Blood - 22, A Million
Bon Iver
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- A Crow Looked at Me
Mount Eerie - DAMN
Kendrick Lamar - Capacity
Big Thief - Planetarium
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister - No Shape
Perfume Genius - Slowdive
Slowdive - Last Place
Grandaddy - Sleep Well Beast
The National - Powerplant
Girlpool - Antisocialites
Alvvays
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- (I Am) Origami Pt. 2 – Every Power Wide Awake
John Van Deusen - Stranger in the Alps
Phoebe Bridgers - Pure Comedy
Father John Misty - Planetarium
Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister - Crack-Up
Fleet Foxes - Swin Inside the Moon
Angelo De Augustine - Sleep Well Beast
The National - Ruins
First Aid Kit - Mentall Illness
Aimee Mann - Painted Ruins
Grizzly Bear
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- 7
Beach House - Be the Cowboy
Mitski - And Nothing Hurt
Spiritualized - Only Love
The Armed - God’s Favorite Customer
Father John Misty - You Won’t Get What You Want
Daughters - Lush
Snail Mail - In a Poem Unlimited
US Girls - Singularity
Jon Hopkins - The Future Me Hates Me
The Beths
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- Be the Cowboy
Mitski - God’s Favorite Customer
Father John Misty - Something in the Rain (OST)
이남연 & Rachel Yamagata - Lush
Snail Mail - Boygenius
Boygenius - 7
Beach House - Big Red Machine
Big Red Machine - Love is Dead
Chvrches - You, Forever
Sam Evian - Hell-On
Neko Case
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- It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
The Twilight Sad - All Mirrors
Angel Olsen - U.F.O.F.
Big Thief - Remind Me Tomorrow
Sharon Van Etten - Reward
Cate Le Bon - Titanic Rising
Weyes Blood - Ghosteen
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Anima
Thom Yorke - 2020
Richard Dawson - Two Hands
Big Thief
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- Forever Overhead
Tim Baker - Cala
Fionn Regan - Better Oblivion Community Center
Better Oblivion Community Center - My Finest Work Yet
Andrew Bird - Titanic Rising
Weyes Blood - Tomb
Angelo De Augustine - Father of the Bride
Vampire Weekend - Remind Me Tomorrow
Sharon Van Etten - Anima
Thom Yorke - Immunity
Clairo
See our lists from 2000-2009 here.
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