One of the more difficult lists I’ve compiled, and even after agonizing over this for weeks I’m still not sure about it!

• Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites
• Air – Talkie Walkie
• The Dresden Dolls – The Dresden Dolls
• Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
• Radiohead – Kid A
• The Decemberists – Picaresque
• Opeth – Damnation
• Halou – Wholeness and Separation
• Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
• Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours