Winners
Albums ranked by vote-count, no point-weighting.
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1 154 Animal Collective · Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 139 Phoenix · Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3 114 Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz!
4 108 Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca
5 106 Grizzly Bear · Veckatimest
Neko Case · Middle Cyclone
7 93 The xx · The xx
8 85 Raekwon · Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Part II
9 65 The Flaming Lips · Embryonic
10 63 Girls · Album
11 62 St. Vincent · Actor
12 59 Mos Def · The Ecstatic
13 53 Fever Ray · Fever Ray
14 49 Maxwell · BLACKsummers'night
15 48 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart · The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
16 44 Mastodon · Crack the Skye
Wilco · Wilco (The Album)
18 42 The Avett Brothers · I and Love and You
Sonic Youth · The Eternal
20 40 Bat for Lashes · Two Suns
21 39 Baroness · The Blue Record
22 37 Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You
The-Dream · Love vs. Money
24 34 Converge · Axe to Fall
25 33 The Decemberists · The Hazards of Love
26 32 Camera Obscura · My Maudlin Career
27 31 Jay-Z · The Blueprint 3
Miranda Lambert · Revolution
29 30 Antony and the Johnsons · The Crying Light
30 29 The Dead Weather · Horehound
Passion Pit · Manners
32 28 K'Naan · Troubadour
33 27 Brad Paisley · American Saturday Night
Fuck Buttons · Tarot Sport
Japandroids · Post-Nothing
36 26 Bob Dylan · Together Through Life
Green Day · 21st Century Breakdown
Lady Gaga · The Fame/The Fame Monster
Micachu and the Shapes · Jewellery
U2 · No Line on the Horizon
41 25 Sunn O))) · Monoliths and Dimensions
Yo La Tengo · Popular Songs
43 24 Rosanne Cash · The List
44 23 Atlas Sound · Logos
Levon Helm · Electric Dirt
46 22 Allen Toussaint · The Bright Mississippi
Dinosaur Jr. · The Farm
Doom · Born Like This
49 21 The Antlers · Hospice
50 20 Dâm-Funk · Toeachizown
Leonard Cohen · Live in London
Metric · Fantasies
Them Crooked Vultures · Them Crooked Vultures
54 19 Amadou & Mariam · Welcome to Mali
Bill Callahan · Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Bruce Springsteen · Working on a Dream
tUnE-yArDs · BiRd-BrAiNs
58 18 The Horrors · Primary Colours
Kylesa · Static Tensions
Monsters of Folk · Monsters of Folk
Pearl Jam · Backspacer
Pissed Jeans · King of Jeans
Tinariwen · Imidiwan: Companions
The Very Best · Warm Heart of Africa
65 17 Built to Spill · There Is No Enemy
Florence and the Machine · Lungs
Future of the Left · Travels With Myself and Another
Ida Maria · Fortress Round My Heart
Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come
Oumou Sangaré · Seya
Real Estate · Real Estate
72 16 Art Brut · Art Brut vs. Satan
Black Crowes · Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
DJ Quik and Kurupt · Blaqkout
Jarvis Cocker · Further Complications
Jay Reatard · Watch Me Fall
Paramore · Brand New Eyes
Sunset Rubdown · Dragonslayer
Vijay Iyer Trio · Historicity
80 15 Buddy & Julie Miller · Written in Chalk
Neon Indian · Psychic Chasms
82 14 Big Star · Keep an Eye on the Sky
Dan Deacon · Bromst
Kurt Vile and the Violators · Childish Prodigy
Loudon Wainwright III · High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project
Raveonettes · In and Out of Control
Regina Spektor · Far
88 13 Andrew Bird · Noble Beast
DJ Sprinkles · Midtown 120 Blues
Drake · So Far Gone
Fiery Furnaces · I'm Going Away
P.O.S. · Never Better
PJ Harvey and John Parish · A Woman a Man Walked By
Tegan and Sara · Sainthood
95 12 A Sunny Day in Glasgow · Ashes Grammar
Akron/Family · Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
Bibio · Ambivalence Avenue
The Big Pink · A Brief History of Love
Brother Ali · Us
Clientele · Bonfires on the Heath
Glasvegas · Glasvegas
Health · Get Color
Julian Casablancas · Phrazes for the Young
Kid Cudi · Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Mayer Hawthorne & the County · A Strange Arrangement
The Thermals · Now We Can See
107 11 AC Newman · Get Guilty
Black Moth Super Rainbow · Eating Us
Broadcast and the Focus Group · Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Eels · Hombre Lobo
Jim O'Rourke · The Visitor
The Low Anthem · Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
M. Ward · Hold Time
Miike Snow · Miike Snow
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · Inspiration Information, Vol. 3
Nellie McKay · Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day
New York Dolls · 'Cause I Sez So
Nirvana · Live at Reading
Reigning Sound · Love and Curses
Rihanna · Rated R
Screaming Females · Power Move
Wussy · Wussy
123 10 Black Eyed Peas · The E.N.D.
Blakroc · Blakroc
Elvis Costello · Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
The Juan MacLean · The Future WIll Come
The Lonely Island · Incredibad
The Swell Season · Strict Joy
Vic Chesnutt · At the Cut
Wye Oak · The Knot
Various Artists · 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
Various Artists · Dark Was the Night
133 9 Clean · Mister Pop
Cobalt · Gin
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society · Infernal Machines
Electrik Red · How to Be a Lady, Volume 1
Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz · Francophonic, Vol. 2
Gossip · Music for Men
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La Roux · La Roux
Lucero · 1372 Overton Park
Matt and Kim · Grand
Muse · The Resistance
Omar-S · Fabric 45: Detroit
Silversun Pickups · Swoon
Slayer · World Painted Blood
Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down · Know Better Learn Faster
Tim Hecker · An Imaginary Country
Wild Beasts · Two Dancers
150 8 Alice in Chains · Black Gives Way to Blue
BLK JKS · After Robots
Dan Auerbach · Keep It Hid
Dave Rawlings Machine · A Friend of a Friend
David Bazan · Curse Your Branches
David Sylvian · Manafon
Death · ...For the Whole World to See
Deer Tick · Born on Flag Day
Emeralds · What Happened
Heartless Bastards · The Mountain
Junior Boys · Begone Dull Care
Major Lazer · Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do
Mission of Burma · The Sound the Speed the Light
Richard Hawley · Truelove's Gutter
Rokia Traoré · Tchamantché
Tanya Morgan · Brooklynati
Taylor Swift · Fearless
Tinted Windows · Tinted Windows
Visqueen · A Message to Garcia
Why? · Eskimo Snow
YACHT · See Mystery Lights
171 7 A.A. Bondy · When the Devil's Loose
The Arctic Monkeys · Humbug
Blues Control · Local Flavor
Califone · All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Cheap Trick · The Latest
Chuck Prophet · ¡Let Freedom Ring!
Discovery · LP
Eat Skull · Wild and Inside
Eminem · Relapse
Ghostface Killah · Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
Handsome Furs · Face Control
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara · Tell No Lies
Justin Townes Earle · Midnight at the Movies
King Midas Sound · Waiting for You...
Kris Kristofferson · Closer to the Bone
Lee Fields & the Expressions · My World
Lil Wayne · No Ceilings
Meshell Ndegeocello · Devil's Halo
Morrissey · Years of Refusal
Noisettes · Wild Young Hearts
Rick Ross · Deeper Than Rap
Robert Glasper · Double Booked
Shackleton · 3 EPs
Thee Oh Sees · Help
Woods · Songs of Shame
196 6 A Place to Bury Strangers · Exploding Head
Alasdair Roberts · Spoils
Annie · Don't Stop
Bird and the Bee · Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
Black Meteoric Star · Black Meteoric Star
Bonnie "Prince" Billy · Beware
Buraka Som Sistema · Black Diamond
Béla Fleck · Throw Down Your Heart
Clipse · Til the Casket Drops
Cymbals Eat Guitars · Why There Are Mountains
Dethklok · Dethalbum II
Dizzee Rascal · Tongue 'N' Cheek
Double Dagger · More
Field · Yesterday and Today
Franz Ferdinand · Tonight
Group Bombino · Guitars From Agadez, Vol 2
Ian Hunter · Man Overboard
Joe Henry · Blood From Stars
Kurt Vile and the Violators · God Is Saying This to You?
Manic Street Preachers · Journal for Plague Lovers
Matias Aguayo · Ay Ay Ay
Megafaun · Gather, Form, & Fly
Mew · No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away
Moritz Von Oswald Trio · Vertical Ascent
Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens · What Have You Done, My Brother?
Nite Jewel · Good Evening
Norah Jones · The Fall
Pastels & Tenniscoats · Two Sunsets
Patterson Hood · Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
Pet Shop Boys · Yes
Porcupine Tree · The Incident
Steve Earle · Townes
Super Furry Animals · Dark Days/Light Years
Telekinesis · Telekinesis!
Todd Snider · The Excitement Plan
Veils · Sun Gangs
Wavves · Wavves
White Denim · Fits
Wolfmother · Cosmic Egg
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band · Between My Head and the Sky
Zu · Carboniferous
237 5 The Beatles · The Beatles in Mono
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears · Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!
Black Lips · 200 Million Thousand
Bon Iver · Blood Bank EP
Booker T. · Potato Hole
Bottle Rockets · Lean Forward
Brendan Benson · My Old, Familiar Friend
Cold Cave · Love Comes Close
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse · Dark Night of the Soul
Doves · Kingdom of Rust
Dutchess & the Duke · Sunset/Sunrise
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros · Up From Below
Fanfarlo · Reservoir
Gucci Mane · The Burrprint: 3D
Harlem Shakes · Technicolor Health
Henry Threadgill's Zooid · This Brings Us to, Volume 1
Islands · Vapours
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit · Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Kelly Clarkson · All I Ever Wanted
Khaled · Liberté
Magnolia Electric Company · Josephine
Marissa Nadler · Little Hells
Memory Tapes · Seek Magic
MONO · Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Mount Eerie · Wind's Poem
Napalm Death · Time Waits for No Slave
Nels Cline · Coward
Nosaj Thing · Drift
Oneida · Rated O
Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey · Here and Now
Phish · Joy
Röyksopp · Junior
Shakira · She Wolf
Shrinebuilder · Shrinebuilder
Six Organs of Admittance · Luminous Night
Slaid Cleaves · Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away ...
Soundtrack of Our Lives · Communion
Steve Lehman Octet · Travail, Transformation, and Flow
Tom Waits · Glitter and Doom Live
UGK · UGK 4 Life
Vieux Farka Touré · Fondo
Wale · Attention Deficit
Washed Out · Life of Leisure
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel · Willie and the Wheel
YOB · The Great Cessation
Various Artists · Fire in My Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel [1944-2007]
Various Artists · Legends of Benin