The Autumns – Lost in the Cloud

When we first launched Lost in the Cloud in 2010, we were on a roll from our previous blog, hoping to take LITC into different territory. One thing we carried over from our previous blog was our love for lists, especially music lists. We began Lost in the Cloud with productive intentions, but life, as it can so often do, got in the way of our keeping up with the blog.

For the first six years, we were diligent in posting the lists of our favourite albums of the year, complete with short descriptions of each. In those last couple of dwindling years, our ‘Best Albums’ lists were becoming the only new material we were producing for the blog. In time, even that dropped off of our list of priorities and Lost in the Cloud went quiet.

This year, we have decided to revisit our ‘Best Albums’ lists and to even elaborate on our whole ‘Best Albums’ corpus by travelling all the way back to the prehistoric year that was 2000. This post is part one of two. 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

— E —

Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Kid A
Radiohead
The Sophtware Slump
Grandaddy
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
ÁGÆTIS BYRJUN
Sigur Rós
Bachelor No. 2
Aimee Mann
Winners Never Quit
Pedro the Lion
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
PJ Harvey
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Yo La Tengo
Rising Tide
Sunny Day Real Estate

— G —

Kid A
Radiohead
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
Bachelor No. 2
Aimee Mann
All That You Can’t Leave Behind
U2
ÁGÆTIS BYRJUN
Sigur Rós
Fever & Mirrors
Bright Eyes
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
Rising Tide
Sunny Day Real Estate
Winners Never Quit
Pedro the Lion
MASS ROMANTIC
The New Pornographers

— E —

Amnesiac
Radiohead
Jane Doe
Converge
The Glow, Pt. 2
The Microphones
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
Blue Screen Life
Pinback
Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
Vespertine
Björk
“Love and Theft”
Bob Dylan
The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie
Discovery
Daft Punk

— G —

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
Lift to Experience
Oh, Inverted World
The Shins
Asleep in the back
Elbow
Musicforthemorningafter
Pete Yorn
Origin of Symmetry
Muse
The Invisible Band
Travis
The Only Reason I Feel Secure
Pedro the Lion
Skyscraper National Park
Hayden
The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie
AMNESIAC
Radiohead

— E —

Control
Pedro the Lion
Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol
Fantastic Damage
El-P
Alice / Blood Money
Tom Waits
The Creek Drank the Cradle
Iron & Wine
Sea Change
Beck
Unfortunately We’re Not Robots
Curl Up & Die
[A→B] Life
mewithoutYou
We Are the Only Friends We Have
Piebald
Give Up
Postal Service

— G —

Control
Pedro the Lion
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Bright Eyes
The Creek Drank the Cradle
Iron & Wine
Sea Change
Beck
The Last Broadcast
Doves
Give Up
Postal Service
A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco
Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol
The Seamonsters
The Seamonsters