1. Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment
2. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
3. Ryan Adams – Gold
4. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
5. Joanna Newsom – YS
6. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
7. Goldfrap – Felt Mountain
8. Michael Weiss – Soul Journey
9. Radiohead – Kid A
10. Radiohead – In Rainbows
11. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
12. The Strokes – Is This It
13. Howe Gelb – The Listener
14. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
15. Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator)
16. Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
17. Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
18. Grace Jones – Hurricane
19. Spoon – Girls Can Tell
20. The XX – XX
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