 | Paranoid Cocoon by Cotton Jones
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.98 Not nearly as challenging as Oneida or most others on this list, but extremely good at what they do. Several big hits, pretty much most of the album; most noteworthy Some Strange Rain and the tied for #1 song of the year Blood Red Sentimental Blues.
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 | Rated O by Oneida
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.28 #1 huge hit- The Human Factor. Most confrontational album of the year and least likely to be played over your local grocery store's intercom. Sunn O))) is darker, but this is more challenging- and same could be said for all the rest of their albums. Ideally, Oneida should be a first ballot Hall of Famer.
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 | The Mountain by Heartless Bastards
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.58 3 #1 hits, Hold Your Head High, Nothing Seems the Same, and Had to Go
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 | Primary Colours by The Horrors
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.72 Two #1 hits, both tracks that are over 7 minutes long
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 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.49 #1 hit- No More Runnin' (yes, way better than My Girls)
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 | The Eternal by Sonic Youth
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.00 |
 | Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.15 #1 hit- No Intention Album features downright nasty guitar playing and this guitarist should be far more well known.
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 | Album by Girls
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.45 |
 | XX by Xx
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $23.60 #1 hit- VCR
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 | Popular Songs by Yo La Tengo
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.89 |
 | Embryonic by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.50 |
 | Mister Pop by The Clean
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.98 |
 | Baby Darling Doll Face Honey by Band Of Skulls
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.81 #1 hit (contender for #1 of year and top 10 of decade)- Cold Fame
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 | Post-Nothing by Japandroids
Buy new: $10.99 3 top 10 hits: Sovereignty has taken over best track on album previously held by Young Hearts Spark Fire and The Boys are Leaving Town.
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 | Horehound by The Dead Weather
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.25 #1 hit- Bone House
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 | Exploding Head by A Place to Bury Strangers
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.18 #1 hit- Ego Death
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 | Humbug by Arctic Monkeys
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.89 |
 | King of Jeans by Pissed Jeans
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $1.80 |
 | Love 2 by Air
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.75 |
 | Welcome Joy by Cave Singers
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.85 |
 | Gutter Tactics by Dälek
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.15 #1 hit- Street Diction
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 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.68 |
 | Enemy Mine by Swan Lake
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.77 New Sunset Rubdown is great also, Destroyer EP is supposedly good but hard to find, Frog Eyes is the best of the 3 and what earns this spot- hopefully they put one out soon.
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 | The Birth by Stardeath & White Dwarfs
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.91 Two huge hits- The Birth, Keep Score
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 | Where The Wild Things Are Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Original Songs By Karen O And The Kids
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.79 #1 hit- Hidaway
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 | The Love Language by The Love Language
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.66 |
 | The Spoils by Zola Jesus
#1 hit- The Way
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 | There Is No Enemy by Built to Spill
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.39 |
 | Why There Are Mountains by Cymbals Eat Guitars
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $16.14 |
 | My Electric Family by Bachelorette
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $1.99 |
 | BORN LIKE THIS. by Doom
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.77 |
 | See Mystery Lights by Yacht
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.00 #1 Hit- Psychic City
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 | Wind's Poem by Mount Eerie
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.25 |
 | Bonfires on the Heath by Clientele
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.15 |
 | Sun Gangs by The Veils
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.68 |
 | Begone Dull Care by Junior Boys
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.69 #1 hit- Dull to Pause
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 | Broken by Soulsavers
Buy new: $27.98 / Used from: $14.99 |
 | Technicolor Health by Harlem Shakes
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.91 |
 | Two Dancers by Wild Beasts
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.99 #1 hit- All the King's Men
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 | Songs of Shame by Woods
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.99 A little too folky, but catchy creative lo-fi earns top 40 slot.
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