At least popmatters is honest. Pitchfork's lip service to top 40 hip hop is tiring.
If you took metacritic's 50 top-rated albums today (admittedly skewed, and I'm lazy, so I'm not transcribing album titles), it'd look like this:
EDIT - alas, I jsut copied the list of artists currently up there, sorted by rating. Metacritic already did a top 30 of the year:
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1 Illinois by Sufjan Stevens 2005 90
2 Z by My Morning Jacket 2005 89
3 Wearemonster by Isolée 2005 89
4 Hypermagic Mountain by Lightning Bolt 2005 88
5 I Am A Bird Now by Antony And The Johnsons 2005 88
6 The Woods by Sleater-Kinney 2005 87
7 Arular by M.I.A. 2005 87
8 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005 86
9 Minimum-Maximum [Live] by Kraftwerk 2005 85
10 Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team 2005 85
11 The Mysterious Production Of Eggs by Andrew Bird 2005 85
12 Black Sheep Boy by Okkervil River 2005 85
13 LCD Soundsystem by LCD Soundsystem 2005 85
14 Chavez Ravine by Ry Cooder 2005 85
15 Lookaftering by Vashti Bunyan 2005 85
16 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes 2005 85
17 Blinking Lights And Other Revelations by Eels 2005 84
18 Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple 2005 84
19 Mezmerize by System Of A Down 2005 84
20 Beauty And The Beat by Edan 2005 84
21 Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers 2005 84
22 Oceans Apart by The Go-Betweens 2005 84
23 Late Registration by Kanye West 2005 84
24 Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady 2005 84
25 Kicking Television: Live In Chicago by Wilco 2005 84
26 Oh You're So Silent Jens by Jens Lekman 2005 84
27 This Right Here Is Buck 65 by Buck 65 2005 84
28 These Were The Earlies by The Earlies 2005 84
29 Takk... by Sigur Rós 2005 83
30 Lost And Safe by The Books 2005 83
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