2000s

Top 20

1. In Rainbows — Radiohead (2007)
2. Kid A — Radiohead (2000)
3. Funeral — Arcade Fire (2004)
4. Is This It — The Strokes (2001)
5. Illinois — Sufjan Stevens (2005)
6. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Wilco (2002)
7. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Arctic Monkeys (2006)
8. Madvillainy — Madvillain (2004)
9. Turn On The Bright Lights — Interpol (2002)
10. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven — Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2000)
11. Sound Of Silver — LCD Soundsystem (2007)
12. A Rush Of Blood To The Head — Coldplay (2002)
13. Elephant — The White Stripes (2003)
14. For Emma, Forever Ago — Bon Iver (2007)
15. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots — The Flaming Lips (2002)
16. Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes (2008)
17. Songs For The Deaf — Queens Of The Stone Age (2002)
18. Discovery — Daft Punk (2001)
19. Amnesiac — Radiohead (2001)
20. Demon Days — Gorillaz (2005)

2000

• Kid A — Radiohead
• Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven — Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• The Moon & Antarctica — Modest Mouse
• Since I Left You — The Avalanches
• Parachutes — Coldplay
• The Marshall Mathers LP — Eminem
• Stankonia — OutKast
• Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea — PJ Harvey
• White Pony — Deftones
• Relationship Of Command — At The Drive-In
• Voodoo — D'Angelo
• Hybrid Theory — Linkin Park
• Rated R — Queens Of The Stone Age
• Figure 8 — Elliott Smith
• Dopethrone — Electric Wizard
• All That You Can't Leave Behind — U2
• The Sophtware Slump — Grandaddy
• De Stijl — The White Stripes
• And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out — Yo La Tengo
• Deltron 3030 — Deltron 3030

2001

• Is This It — The Strokes
• Discovery — Daft Punk
• Amnesiac — Radiohead
• Vespertine — Björk
• Lateralus — Tool
• Origin Of Symmetry — Muse
• The Glow Pt. 2 — The Microphones
• Toxicity — System Of A Down
• White Blood Cells — The White Stripes
• The Blueprint — Jay-Z
• Oh, Inverted World — The Shins
• Gorillaz — Gorillaz
• Blackwater Park — Opeth
• Leaves Turn Inside You — Unwound
• No More Shall We Part — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Jane Doe — Converge
• Drukqs — Aphex Twin
• "Love And Theft" — Bob Dylan
• Bleed American — Jimmy Eat World
• The Cold Vein — Cannibal Ox

2002

• Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Wilco
• Turn On The Bright Lights — Interpol
• A Rush Of Blood To The Head — Coldplay
• Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots — The Flaming Lips
• Songs For The Deaf — Queens Of The Stone Age
• You Forgot It In People — Broken Social Scene
• Sea Change — Beck
• ( ) [Svigaplatan] — Sigur Rós
• By The Way — Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Geogaddi — Boards Of Canada
• In Absentia — Porcupine Tree
• Up The Bracket — The Libertines
• The Eminem Show — Eminem
• American IV: The Man Comes Around — Johnny Cash
• Original Pirate Material — The Streets
• O — Damien Rice
• Audioslave — Audioslave
• The Rising — Bruce Springsteen
• Come Away With Me — Norah Jones
• Neon Golden — The Notwist

2003

• Elephant — The White Stripes
• Hail To The Thief — Radiohead
• Absolution — Muse
• Room On Fire — The Strokes
• Chutes Too Narrow — The Shins
• Give Up — The Postal Service
• Transatlanticism — Death Cab For Cutie
• The Magnolia Electric Co. — Songs: Ohia
• De-Loused In The Comatorium — The Mars Volta
• Fever To Tell — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place — Explosions In The Sky
• Speakerboxxx/The Love Below — OutKast
• Michigan — Sufjan Stevens
• Meteora — Linkin Park
• Ghosts Of The Great Highway — Sun Kil Moon
• Quebec — Ween
• Velocity : Design : Comfort — Sweet Trip
• The Black Album — Jay-Z
• Fallen — Evanescence
• Deja Entendu — Brand New

2004

• Funeral — Arcade Fire
• Madvillainy — Madvillain
• American Idiot — Green Day
• The College Dropout — Kanye West
• Hot Fuss — The Killers
• Franz Ferdinand — Franz Ferdinand
• Good News For People Who Love Bad News — Modest Mouse
• Antics — Interpol
• Mm.. Food — MF DOOM
• The Milk-Eyed Mender — Joanna Newsom
• Hopes And Fears — Keane
• Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Brian Wilson Presents Smile — Brian Wilson
• Seven Swans — Sufjan Stevens
• A Ghost Is Born — Wilco
• Sung Tongs — Animal Collective
• Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge — My Chemical Romance
• Our Endless Numbered Days — Iron & Wine
• The Libertines — The Libertines
• Leviathan — Mastodon

2005

• Illinois — Sufjan Stevens
• Demon Days — Gorillaz
• Late Registration — Kanye West
• Takk... — Sigur Rós
• Silent Alarm — Bloc Party
• I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning — Bright Eyes
• Alligator — The National
• X&Y — Coldplay
• Feels — Animal Collective
• Deadwing — Porcupine Tree
• I Am A Bird Now — Antony & The Johnsons
• Plans — Death Cab For Cutie
• Frances The Mute — The Mars Volta
• Mezmerize — System Of A Down
• Z — My Morning Jacket
• LCD Soundsystem — LCD Soundsystem
• Aerial — Kate Bush
• Picaresque — The Decemberists
• The Woods — Sleater-Kinney
• Get Behind Me Satan — The White Stripes

2006

• Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Arctic Monkeys
• Ys — Joanna Newsom
• Back To Black — Amy Winehouse
• Black Holes And Revelations — Muse
• The Black Parade — My Chemical Romance
• Donuts — J Dilla
• The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me — Brand New
• 10,000 Days — Tool
• Stadium Arcadium — Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Sam's Town — The Killers
• Silent Shout — The Knife
• The Crane Wife — The Decemberists
• The Eraser — Thom Yorke
• Return To Cookie Mountain — TV On The Radio
• Continuum — John Mayer
• The Life Pursuit — Belle And Sebastian
• The Trials Of Van Occupanther — Midlake
• Modern Times — Bob Dylan
• FutureSex,LoveSounds — Justin Timberlake
• Yellow House — Grizzly Bear

2007

• In Rainbows — Radiohead
• Sound Of Silver — LCD Soundsystem
• For Emma, Forever Ago — Bon Iver
• Boxer — The National
• Neon Bible — Arcade Fire
• Favourite Worst Nightmare — Arctic Monkeys
• Oracular Spectacular — MGMT
• Untrue — Burial
• Graduation — Kanye West
• Fear Of A Blank Planet — Porcupine Tree
• Strawberry Jam — Animal Collective
• Person Pitch — Panda Bear
• Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? — of Montreal
• Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga — Spoon
• Wincing The Night Away — The Shins
• Kala — M.I.A.
• Sky Blue Sky — Wilco
• We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank — Modest Mouse
• † [Cross] — Justice (FR)
• Into The Wild (Music For The Motion Picture) — Eddie Vedder

2008

• Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes
• Vampire Weekend — Vampire Weekend
• Third — Portishead
• Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends — Coldplay
• Deathconsciousness — Have A Nice Life
• The Seldom Seen Kid — Elbow
• Dear Science — TV On The Radio
• 808s & Heartbreak — Kanye West
• Microcastle — Deerhunter
• Only By The Night — Kings Of Leon
• Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust — Sigur Rós
• Crystal Castles — Crystal Castles
• The '59 Sound — The Gaslight Anthem
• Consolers Of The Lonely — The Raconteurs
• Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill — Grouper
• Devotion — Beach House
• La Ley Innata — Extremoduro
• Narrow Stairs — Death Cab For Cutie
• The Age Of The Understatement — The Last Shadow Puppets
• Day & Age — The Killers

2009

• Merriweather Post Pavilion — Animal Collective
• Hospice — The Antlers
• XX — The xx
• Veckatimest — Grizzly Bear
• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix — Phoenix
• The Resistance — Muse
• Lungs — Florence + The Machine
• Humbug — Arctic Monkeys
• Bitte Orca — Dirty Projectors
• Man On The Moon: The End Of Day — Kid Cudi
• Sigh No More — Mumford & Sons
• It's Blitz! — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Crack The Skye — Mastodon
• Fever Ray — Fever Ray
• Primary Colours — The Horrors (UK)
• Actor — St. Vincent
• Embryonic — The Flaming Lips
• West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum — Kasabian
• Brand New Eyes — Paramore
• The Fame Monster — Lady Gaga