Rank		Artist		Disc		Votes		Points
1		Bardo Pond		On the Ellipse		9		101
2		Broadcast		Ha Ha Sound		7		82
3		Kinski		Airs Above Your Station		8		76
4		Manitoba		Up in Flames		5		65
5		Pelt		Pearls from the River		6		64
6		Hala Strana		s/t		4		48
7		Animal Collective		Here Comes the Indian		5		47
8		John Fahey		Red Cross		4		44
9		The Postal Service		Give Up		4		43
10		The Fall		The Real New Fall LP (formerly Country on the Click)		3		41
11		Michael Yonkers Band		Microminiature Love	•	4		40
		Explosions in the Sky		The Earth is Not A Cold Dark Place		4		40
		The Books		The Lemon Of Pink		4		40
14		Simply Saucer		Cyborgs Revisited	•	4		37
15		Jack Rose		Opium Musick		3		36
		John Cale		Hobosapiens		3		36
17		Vibracathedral Orchestra		The Queen of Guess		4		34
18		Six Organs of Admittance		Compathia		7		33
19		Angels Of Light		Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home		3		33
		Spiritualized		Amazing Grace		3		33
		Sunroof!		Cloudz		3		33
22		The Ponys		Shishimumu		3		31
23		White Stripes		Elephant		3		30
24		Factrix		Artifact	•	2		29
25		The Unicorns		Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?		2		28
26		Prefuse 73		One Word Extinguisher		2		26
27		Double Leopards		Halve Maen		4		25
		The Rapture		Echoes		4		25
29		Yo La Tengo		Summer Sun		3		25
30		Dredd Foole & the Din		The Whys Of Fire		3		24
		New Pornographers		Electric Version		3		24
32		Calexico		Feast of Wire		2		24
		Four Tet		Rounds		2		24
34		Robert Wyatt		Cuckooland		2		23
35		Goldfrapp		Black Cherry		3		22
		No-Neck Blues Band		Intonomancy		3		22
37		Bonnie Prince Billy		Master and Everyone		2		22
		Pluramon		Dreams Top Rock		2		22
39		M83		Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts		3		21
		Outkast		Speakerboxxx/The Love Below		3		21
41		Hala Strana		Fielding		2		20
		Various Artists		Rebuilding the Bridge		2		20
43		Various Artists		Wooden Guitar		4		19
44		The Dead C		The Damned		3		19
45		Neil Young		On The Beach	•	2		19
		Avarus		III		2		19
47		Kevin Drumm		Land of Lurches		3		18
48		Jay-Z		The Black Album		2		18
		Kraig Grady		Stolen Stars		2		18
		Radiohead		Hail to the Thief		2		18
51		Comets On Fire		Comets On Fire	•	2		17
		Eleventh Dream Day		Prairie School Freakout	•	2		17
		Cul De Sac		Death Of The Sun		2		17
		Thuja		All Strange Beasts of the Past		2		17
55		Wayne Rogers		Constant Displacement	•	2		16
		The Franciscan Hobbies		Masks & Meanings		2		16
		Various Artists		DFA Compilation #1		2		16
58		Spacemen 3		Forged Prescriptions	•	2		15
		!!!		Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard (A True Story)		2		15
		Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham		L'Avventura		2		15
		Matt Valentine		Glorious Group Therapy		2		15
		The Shins		Chutes Too Narrow		2		15
63		Arthur Russell		Calling out of Context	•	1		15
		Alan Licht		Bridget O'Riley		1		15
		Brian Jonestown Massacre		And this Is Our Music		1		15
		Broadcast		Pendulum EP		1		15
		David Sylvian		Blemish		1		15
		Fe-Mail		Skylubb Fra Haelvette		1		15
		Fursaxa		The Cult From Moon Mountain		1		15
		Jandek		The Gone Wait		1		15
		Keith Rowe/John Tilbury		Duos for Doris		1		15
		Linus Pauling Quartet		C6H8O6		1		15
		Matmos		The Civil War		1		15
		Plat Ypus		Valis		1		15
		Quasi		Hot Shit		1		15
		Stereolab		ABC Music		1		15
		Sufjan Stevens		Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lakes State		1		15
		The Decemberists		Her Majesty the Decemberists		1		15
		The Microphones		Mt. Eerie		1		15
		Various Artists		La Cosa Nostra 2003, Vol 3		1		15
81		Black Forest/Black Sea		s/t		3		14
82		Dead Meadow		Shivering King and Others		2		14
83		Asa Chang and Junray		JUNRAY SONG CHANG	•	1		14
		La Monte Young		Der Zweck Dieser Serie Ist Nicht Unterhaltung!	•	1		14
		Pandit Pran Nath		Midnight: Raga Malkauns	•	1		14
		British Sea Power		The Decline of British Sea Power		1		14
		Brother JT3		Hang In There, Baby		1		14
		Kent Kessler		Bull Fiddle		1		14
		Khanate		Things Viral		1		14
		Led Zeppelin		How the West Was Won		1		14
		Ms. John Soda		No P. or D.		1		14
		Nurse With Wound		Salt Marie Celeste		1		14
		Terry Hall & Mushtaq		Hour of Two Lights		1		14
		The Scene Creamers		Suck On That Emotion		1		14
		Twelve		First Album		1		14
		Yura Yura Teikoku		Yura Yura Teikoku no Shibiri and Yura Yura Teikoku no Memai		1		14
		Zendo Garage		S/T		1		14
98		Cat Power		You Are Free		3		13
99		Abunai!		Two Brothers		2		13
		Campfire Songs		s/t		2		13
		Kraftwerk		Tour de France Soundtracks		2		13
102		Scott Walker		In Five Easy Pieces	•	1		13
		Various Artists		Bali: Music from the Morning of the World	•	1		13
		Various Artists		Rough Trade Post-Punk Volume 1	•	1		13
		Barbara Morgenstern		Nichts Muss		1		13
		Boris		Akuma no uta		1		13
		Chicks on Speed		99 Cents		1		13
		Colder		Again		1		13
		If Thousands		Lullaby		1		13
		Kelis		Trick Me		1		13
		Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple		s/t		1		13
		Lauhkeat Lampaat		7"		1		13
		Lightning Bolt		Wonderful Rainbow		1		13
		Matt Valentine & Erika Elder		Daybreak of Cocola & The Plumage Overtones of Black Patti		1		13
		Mogwai		Happy Songs for Happy People		1		13
		Music from the Deserted Village		Various Artists		1		13
		No Doctors		No Doctors		1		13
		Out Hud		S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.		1		13
		Prurient		Troubled Sleep		1		13
		Rocket From the Tombs		Rocket Redux		1		13
		Steffen Basho-Junghans		Rivers And Bridges		1		13
		The Blithe Sons		We Walk The Young Earth		1		13
		The Clean		Anthology		1		13
		Wiley		Salt Beef		1		13
125		Cerberus Shoal		Chaiming the Knoblessone		2		12
		Luomo		The Present Lover		2		12
127		Les Rallizes Desnudes		Fucked Up and Naked	•	1		12
		Television		Marquee Moon	•	1		12
		Braindonor		Too Jung to Die to Freud to Rock n Roll		1		12
		Dizzee Rascal		Boy In Da Corner		1		12
		Flying Saucer Attack		P.A. Blues		1		12
		Grandaddy		Sumday		1		12
		Growing		The Sky Runs Into the Sea		1		12
		Helmut Lachenmann		Schwankungen am Rand		1		12
		Ikuro Takahashi		Drums Solo		1		12
		Joe Colley		Desperate Attempts at Beauty: Conceptual and Research Excersizes		1		12
		Nurse with Wound		She and Me Fall Together in Free Death		1		12
		Of		The Infants Paths		1		12
		Saturday Looks Good To Me		All Your Summer Songs		1		12
		Skullflower		Exquisite Fucking Boredom		1		12
		Small Life Form		One		1		12
		The Duke Spirit		Roll, Spirit Roll		1		12
		The Lovetones		Be What You Want		1		12
		Transelement		Pendletones		1		12
		Various Artists		The Invisible Pyramid		1		12
		Wire		Send		1		12
147		Burmese		A Mere Shadow and Reminiscence		2		11
		Charalambides		Unknown Spin		2		11
		Dirty Three		She Has No Strings Apollo		2		11
		Sunburned Hand Of The Man		The Trickle Down Theory of Lord Knows What		2		11
151		Brigitte Fontaine		Plans Fixes (3 CD BOX SET)	•	1		11
		Kevin Ayers		Joy of a Toy	•	1		11
		LaMonte Young		Bootleg 4CD	•	1		11
		Aarktica		Pure Tone Audiometry		1		11
		Alvarius B		Ding		1		11
		Crooked Fingers		Red Devil Dawn		1		11
		Dizzee Rascal		I Luv U		1		11
		DJ Danger Mouse		The Grey Album		1		11
		Erase Errata		At Crystal Palace		1		11
		Jennifer Gentle		I Am You Are		1		11
		Ken Vandermark		Furniture Music		1		11
		King Missile III		The Psychopathology of Everyday Life		1		11
		Komeda		KoKoMeMeDaDa		1		11
		Loose Fur		Loose Fur		1		11
		Mark Dwinnel		Nonloc		1		11
		Matthew Dear		Leave Luck To Heaven		1		11
		Menomena		I am the fun Blame Monster		1		11
		One Mile North		Minor Shadows		1		11
		Roky Erickson		Don't Knock the Rok		1		11
		The Decemberists		Castaways and Cutouts		1		11
		The Double Leopards		Halve Maen		1		11
		The Rotary Downs		Long After the Thrill		1		11
		Throwing Muses		Throwing Muses		1		11
		Tom Carter		Root King		1		11
		Various Artists		Amplify 2002: balance		1		11
		Viktor Vaughn		Vaudeville Villain		1		11
177		The New Blockaders		Gesamtnichtswerk	•	2		10
178		Six Organs of Admittance		Nightly Trembling	•	1		10
		The Rubble Collection vol 1-10		The Rubble Collection vol 1-10	•	1		10
		Black Rebel Motorcycle Club		Take Them On, On Your Own		1		10
		Boom Bip		From Seed To Sun		1		10
		Busdriver		Temporary Forever		1		10
		Christmas Decorations		Model 91		1		10
		Dion Workman		Ching		1		10
		EXIAS-J		Electric Conception "Avant-Garde"		1		10
		Fiery Furnaces		Gallowsbird's Bark		1		10
		HIM		Many In High Places		1		10
		King Geedorah		Take Me to Your Leader		1		10
		Kobi		Projecto		1		10
		LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela		Tambouras of Pandit Pran Nath		1		10
		Landing		Passages Through		1		10
		Nina Hagen		Big Band Record		1		10
		Polmo Polpo		Like Hearts Swelling		1		10
		Six Organs of Admittance		For Octavio Paz		1		10
		Sunroof!		Splat!		1		10
		Ted Leo/Pharmacists		Hearts of Oak		1		10
		The Fire Theft		The Fire Theft		1		10
		Vandermark 5		Airports For Light		1		10
		Wolf Eyes and Black Dice		s/t		1		10
		Yeah Yeah Yeahs		Fever to Tell		1		10
201		Metal Urbain		Anarchy in Paris!	•	1		9
		Pentangle		Solomon's Seal	•	1		9
		Psychomania		ost	•	1		9
		Various Artists		New York Noise	•	1		9
		+/-		You Are Here		1		9
		Comets On Fire		Live at WFMU		1		9
		Ghost Exits		Cincinatti Riot Blues		1		9
		Jim O'Rourke		He Who Laughs		1		9
		Laura Nyro		Live in Japan		1		9
		Massive Attack		100th Window		1		9
		Rivulets		Debridement		1		9
		Sagor & Swing		Allt Hänger Samman		1		9
		Steve Roden		Invisible Cities		1		9
		Surface of Eceyon		Dragyyn		1		9
		Ted Leo/Pharmacists		Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead		1		9
		Timtim		Let's Pretend We're Going		1		9
		Ulrich Schnauss		A Strangely Isolated Place		1		9
		Various Artists		Amaterasu: A Musical Panorama Of Japan		1		9
219		Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti		Worn Copy		1		8
		Buff Medways		1918		1		8
		Danii Siciliano		Likes		1		8
		Dirtbombs		Dangerous Magical Noise		1		8
		Fannypack		So Stylistic		1		8
		Fruitbats		Mouthfuls		1		8
		Halo		Body of light		1		8
		Joan of Arc		So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness		1		8
		Mick Karn		Each Path A Remix		1		8
		Monolake		Momentum		1		8
		Pelican		Australaisa		1		8
		RHY Yau		Coagulation: Selected Works 1996-2000		1		8
		Rollerball		Real Hair		1		8
		Slumber Party		3		1		8
		The Iditarod & Sharron Krauss		Yuletide		1		8
		Various Artists		Compositions for Guitars		1		8
		Xiu-Xiu		A Promise		1		8
236		Arthur Russell		The World of Arthur Russell	•	1		7
		Elaine Radigue		Geelriandre/Arthesis	•	1		7
		Jeff Buckley		The Grace EPs	•	1		7
		Stereo Total		Monokini	•	1		7
		Throbbing Gristle		TG+	•	1		7
		Various Artists		Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra vol. 1	•	1		7
		Adult		Anxiety Always		1		7
		Al Green		I Can't Stop		1		7
		Burning Star Core		Amelia		1		7
		Guignol		Angela, David & the Great Neopolitan Road Issue		1		7
		Jessica Bailiff		Jessica Bailiff		1		7
		Miminokoto		Miminokoto 2		1		7
		Ralph Carney		This Is Ralph Carney		1		7
		SUNN 0)))		White 1		1		7
		The Coral		Magic and Medicine		1		7
		The Desert Fathers		The Spirituality		1		7
		The High Llamas		beet maize and corn		1		7
253		Gene Clark		No Other	•	1		6
		Mainliner		Mellow Out	•	1		6
		Rhythm & Sound		w/ the Artists	•	1		6
		Six Organs of Admittance		Six Organs Of Admittance	•	1		6
		Aesop Rock		Bazooka Tooth		1		6
		Alvin Lucier		Navigations for Strings/Small Waves		1		6
		David Bowie		Reality		1		6
		Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom		El Monte		1		6
		Fat Worm Of Error		2003 Mixtape		1		6
		Jamie Barnes		The Fallen Acrobat		1		6
		Keiji Haino		Masu Wa Iro O Nakuso Ka		1		6
		Keijo		s/t		1		6
		Limescale		Limescale		1		6
		Madlib		Shades of Blue		1		6
		Mojave 3		Spoon And Rafter		1		6
		Polyphonic Spree		The Beginning Stages		1		6
		Sightings		Absolutes		1		6
		Supersilent		6		1		6
		The Lost Domain		Something Is...		1		6
272		Aphex Twin		26 mixes for cash	•	1		5
		Robert Wyatt		Solar Flares Burn	•	1		5
		Sleep		Dopesmoker	•	1		5
		Sun City Girls		God Is My Solar System/ Superpower	•	1		5
		Trad Gras Och Stenar		Live 1972	•	1		5
		Cerberus Shoal		split series with alvarius b, guapo & hermann dune		1		5
		Clang Quartet		The Separation of Church & Hate		1		5
		East River Pipe		Garbageheads on Endless Stun		1		5
		Hans Joachim Irmler		Lifelike		1		5
		Large Number		Spray on Sound		1		5
		Leafcutter John		The Housebound Spirit		1		5
		Paik		The Orson Fader		1		5
		Philip Boa & The Voodoo Club / Sand		C-90 / Uunderground Garage (TIE)		1		5
		Q & Not U		Different Damage		1		5
		Rev. Lester Knox		Put Your Face in Gwod		1		5
		Rotten Piece		Jet Trails		1		5
		Sachiko M/Sean Meehan		s/t		1		5
		Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks		Pig Lib		1		5
		Terence Trent D'Arby		Wildcard! (The Joker's Edition)		1		5
		Various Artists		Radio Java		1		5
		Vybz Kartel		Up 2 Di Time		1		5
293		Jackie-O Motherfucker		Europe 2002	•	1		4
		Keith Hudson		Playing it Cool and Playing it Right	•	1		4
		Sonic Youth		Dirty: Deluxe Edition	•	1		4
		Belle and Sebastian		Dear Catastrophe Waitress		1		4
		Cheer-Accident		Introducing Lemon		1		4
		Clear Horizon		Clear Horizon		1		4
		Country Teasers		Secret Wepon Revealed At Last/Full Moon Empty Sportsbag		1		4
		Ellen Allien		Berlinette		1		4
		Erykah Badu		Worldwide Underground		1		4
		Exploding Hearts		Guitar Romantic		1		4
		Henry Flynt		C Tune		1		4
		Julien Ottavi		Nervure Magnetique		1		4
		Magical Folk of the Faraway Tree		The Mildew Leaf		1		4
		Minny Pops		Secret Stories		1		4
		Mogwai		Happy Music for Happy People		1		4
		Nebula		Atomic Ritual		1		4
		Oren Ambarchi & Johan Berthling		My Days Are Darker Than Your Nights		1		4
		Overhang Party		Out Takes From 1996 to 2003		1		4
		Reynols		Sosina Arada Mica		1		4
		Sid Selvidge		A Little Bit of Rain		1		4
		Stone Breath		The Silver Skein Unwound		1		4
314		Lilys		Precollection		2		3
		Whitehouse		Bird Seed		2		3
316		Basil Kirchin		Trunk	•	1		3
		King Tubby		The Dubmaster presents the Roots of Dub and the Dub of Roots	•	1		3
		Lizzy Mercier Descloux		Press Color & Mambo Nassau (2 Reissues)	•	1		3
		Marshall Jefferson		Move Your Body: The Evolution of Chicago House	•	1		3
		Shudder to Think		Curses, Spells, Voodoo, Mooses	•	1		3
		(smog)		Supper		1		3
		A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and & Tra-La-La Band		"This Is Our Punk Rock," Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing		1		3
		Acid Mothers Temple		The Day Before the Sky Fell In America		1		3
		American Analog Set		Promise Of Love		1		3
		Birchville Cat Motel		Screamformelongbeach		1		3
		E-Z Rollers		Titles of the Unexpected: Outtakes and Missing Breaks Vols. 1 and 2		1		3
		Fu Manchu		Go For It...Live!		1		3
		Handsome Family		Singing Bones		1		3
		Mono		One step more and you die		1		3
		Rosina De Peira		Gospel d'Orc		1		3
		Spiritualized		Lord Let It Rain On Me		1		3
		Tetuzi Akiyama		Don't Forget to Boogie		1		3
		The Black-Eyed Snakes		Rise Up!		1		3
		The Blow		The Concussive Caress		1		3
		The Thrills		So Much for the City		1		3
		Wooden Wand & the Van		Angel Hair		1		3
		Yat Kha		Tuva Rock		1		3
338		Bernard Parmegiani		Violostries	•	1		2
		Charlemagne Palestine		Sacred Bordello	•	1		2
		Serge Gainsbourg		Aus Armes & Mauvaises (2 reissues)	•	1		2
		Broken Social Scene		You Forgot It In People		1		2
		Caustic Resin		Keep on Truckin'		1		2
		Hans Appelqvist		Att möta verkligheten		1		2
		Morton Feldman		Violin and String Quartet		1		2
		Neil Campbell/Campbell Kneale		S/t		1		2
		Neil Young		Greendale		1		2
		NTX/Erika Thrasher		Pain Reliever/Titanium EP		1		2
		Richard Youngs		Airs of the Ear		1		2
		Scorces		Vivre Avec Le Bete		1		2
		Subarachnoid Space		Also Rising		1		2
		The Joggers		Solid Guild		1		2
		The Mars Volta		Deloused in the Comatorium		1		2
		Tuck Tuck Tuck		Tuck Tuck Tuck		1		2
		U.S. Maple		Purple On Time		1		2
		Various Artists		Johnny's Blues- A Tribute to Johnny Cash		1		2
356		Extradition		Hush	•	1		1
		Stark Reality		Now	•	1		1
		Alastair Galbraith/Constantine Karlis		Radiant		1		1
		Basement Jaxx		Kish Kash		1		1
		DM & Jemini Ghetto		Pop Life		1		1
		Donna Summer		This Needs To Be Your Style		1		1
		EKG		Object 2		1		1
		Evergreen		Room on Fire		1		1
		Fennesz		Live In Japan		1		1
		Glass Candy		Love Love Love		1		1
		Lycia		Empty Space		1		1
		Moodymann		Silence in the Secret Garden		1		1
		Oneida		Secret Wars		1		1
		rhBand		S/t		1		1
		Scout Niblett		I Am		1		1
		Severiano Martinez		Clocks and Psandas		1		1
		The Dirty Projectors		The Glad Fact		1		1
		The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players		Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle Volume 1		1		1
		Three Inches of Blood		Battel Cry under a Winter Sun		1		1
		Toshack Highway/SIANspheric		Asperin Age/Magnetic Morning		1		1
		Wilco		Australian EP		1		1

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