Speaking of ego:
1) The New Pornographers: "Twin Cinema"
2) My Morning Jacket: "Z"
3) Brendan Benson: "The Alternative to Love"
4) Bloc Party: "Silent Alarm"
5) Danger Doom: "The Mouse and the Mask"
6) M83: "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
7) Spoon: "Gimme Fiction"
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah" (bring it on!!)
9) The Mountain Goats: "The Sunset Tree"
10) Sufjan Stevens: "Illinois"
11) The National: "Alligator"
12) The Decemberists: "Picaresque"
13) Sage Francis: "A Healthy Distrust"
14) Stephen Malkmus: "Face the Truth"
15) The White Stripes: "Get Behind Me Satan"
16) Andrew Bird: "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"
17) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "Howl"
18) Dr. Dog: "Easy Beat"
19) Architecture in Helsinki: "In Case We Die"
20) Kanye West: "Late Registration"
21) Against Me!: "Searching for a Former Clarity"
22) Okkervil River: "Black Sheep Boy"
23) Sleater-Kinney: "The Woods"
24) Lou Barlow: "Emoh"
25) The Game: "The Documentary"
26) Dead Meadow: "Feathers"
27) Black Mountain: "Black Mountain"
28) The Ponys: "Celebration Castle"
29) Josh Rouse: "Nashville"
30) Gorillaz: "Demon Days"
Honorable Mentions:
Annie Hayden The Enemy of Love
Archer Prewitt Wilderness
Ben Lee Awake Is the New Sleep
Bettie Serveert Attagirl
Big Star In Space
Black Mountain Druganaut [EP]
Blackalicious The Craft
Bob Mould Body of Song
Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Matt Sweeney Superwolf
The Clientele Strange Geometry
CocoRosie Noah's Ark
Colin Meloy Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey
Common Be
The Cribs The Cribs
Damien Jurado On My Way to Absence
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow
Doves Some Cities
The Evens The Evens
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better With ...
The Go Betweens Oceans Apart
Hockey Night Keep Guessin
The Hold Steady Separation Sunday
Hot Hot Heat Elevator
Iron & Wine Woman King [EP]
Kathleen Edwards Back To Me
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
Low The Great Destroyer
M.I.A. Arular
Mercury Rev The Secret Migration
Neil Young Prarie Wind
New Order Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins
The Orange Peels Circling The Sun
Oranger New Comes And Goes
The Oranges Band The World And Everything In It
Outrageous Cherry Our Love Will Change The World
Paul McCartney Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
Pernice Brothers Discover A Lovelier You
Portastatic Bright Ideas
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Sam Prekop Who's Your New Professor
Son Volt Okemah and the Melody of Riot
The Spinto Band Nice And Nicely Done
Teenage Fanclub Man-Made
Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game
Weezer Make Believe
Yo La Tengo A Smattering Of Outtakes And Rarities
