2022

2021

1. Illuminati Hotties – Let Me Do One More
2. Colleen Green – I Want to Grow Up
3. Goat Girl – On All Fours
4. Anne Freeman – Keep it Close
5. Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
6. Reigning Sound – A Little More Time With Reigning Sound
7. James McMurtry – The Horses and the Hounds
8. FRITZ – Pastel
9. Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend
10. The Blips – The Blips

2020

1. Caroline Rose – Superstar
2. Catholic Action – Celebrated by Strangers
3. Bad Moves – Untenable
4. Beach Bunny – Honeymoon
5. Cornershop – England is a Garden
6. Jeff Rosenstock – No Dream
7. Close Lobsters – Post Neo Anti
8. En Attendant Ana – Juillet
9. Melenas – Dias Raros
10. Kiwi Jr – Football Money

2019

1. Tullycraft ? The Railway Prince Hotel
2. Amyl and the Sniffers ? s/t
3. Jenny Lewis ? On The Line
4. Foxhall Stacks ? The Coming Collapse
5. Lisa Prank ? Perfect Love Song
6. Tacocat ? This Mess Is A Place
7. Sheryl Crow ? Threads
8. French Vanilla ? How Am I Not Myself?
9. Palehound ? Black Friday
10. Last Import ? Last Import

2018

1. Anna Burch ? Quit the Curse
2. The Beths ? Future Me Hates Me
3. Sunflower Bean ? Twentytwo in Blue
4. Jeff Rosenstock ? Post-
5. Parquet Courts ? Wide Awake!
6. Rubblebucket ? Sun Machine
7. Superorganism ? Superorganism
8. Bad Bad Hats ? Lightning Round
9. Hinds ? I Don’t Run
10. Your Smith ? Bad Habit

2017

1. The Courtneys ? II
2. Alvvays ? Antisocialites
3. The Hayman Kupa Band ? s/t
4. Sweet Spirit ? St Mojo
5. Tristen ? Sneaker Waves
6. Dude York ? Sincerely
7. Jesus and Mary Chain ? Damage and Joy
8. Hollywood Makeout ? Speedo Spider
9. White Reaper ? The World’s Best American Band
10. Coco Hames ? s/t

2016

1. Jeff Rosenstock – Worry

The rest

• Big Eyes ? Stake My Claim
• Bleached ? Welcome the Worms
• Drive by Truckers ? American Band
• Eleanor Friedberger ? New View
• I Don’t Cares ? Wild Stab
• Japanese Breakfast ? Psychpomp
• Margaret Glaspy ? Emotions and Math
• Peter Wolf ? A Cure for Loneliness
• Sunflower Bean ? Human Ceremony
• Waco Brothers ? Going Down in History

2015

1. Courtney Barnett ? Sometimes I Sit….
2. Palehound ? Dry Food
3. All Dogs ? Kicking Every Day
4. Darren Hayman ? Chants for Socialists
5. Decemberists ? What a Terrible World
6. Sweet Spirit ? Cokomo
7. Bully ? Feels Like
8. Adult Mom ? Momentary Lapse of Happily
9. Sleater-Kinney ? No Cities to Love
10. Parquet Courts ? Content Nausea

2014

1. Ex Hex ? Rips
2. Amy LaVere ? Runaway’s Diary
3. Old 97’s ? Most Messed Up
4. Bis ? Data Panik Etcetera
5. Sallie Ford ? Slap Back
6. Laura Cantrell ? Now Way There from Here
7. Allo Darlin’ ? We Come from the Same Place
8. Jellybricks ? Youngstown Tune-Up
9. Hello Saferide ? The Fox, the Hunter, and Hello Saferide
10. Eternal Summers ? The Drop Beneath

and, of course,
Lone Justice – This is Lone Justice

2013

• Best Coast – Fade Away
• Bettie Serveert – Oh, Mayhem!
• Bleached – Ride Your Heart
• Camera Obscura – Desire Lines
• Caroline Smith – Half About Being a Woman
• Eleanor Friedberger – Personal Record
• Makthaverskan – II
• Neko Case – The Worse Things Get…
• Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In
• Veronica Falls – Waiting for Something to Happen

2012

1. Allo Darlin’ ? Europe
   02. Waco Brothers ? Great Chicago Fire
   03. Redd Kross ? Researching the Blues
   04. Justin Townes Earle ? Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
   05. The White Wires ? WWIII
   06. The Primitives ? Echoes and Rhymes
   07. Metric ? Synthetica
   08. Gold Motel ? Gold Motel
   09. Santigold ? Master of My Make-Believe
   10. Polica ? Give You the Ghost

Some Others
Bob Dylan ? Tempest
Corin Tucker Band ? Kills My Blues
Dr. Dog ? Be the Void
Eux Autres ? Sun is Sunk EP
Hannah Georgas ? Hannah Georgas
Heidi Happy ? On the Hills
Hospitality ? Hospitality
Japandroids ? Post-Nothing
Kelly Hogan ? I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
Seapony ? Falling
SoKo ? I Thought I was an Alien

2011

1. Tristen ? Charlatans at the Garden Gate
   02. Sleepy Kitty ? Infinity City
   03. Peter Bjorn & John ? Gimme Some
   04. Rachel Goodrich ? Rachel Goodrich
   05. Boat ? Dress Like Your Idols
   06. Wild Flag ? Wild Flag
   07. Emmy the Great ? Virtue
   08. Eleanor Friedberger ? Last Summer
   09. Primitives ? Never Kill a Secret EP
   10. Cornershop ? Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of

Others…..

Smith Westerns ? Dye It Blonde
Telekinesis ? 12 Desperate Straight Lines
The Babies ? The Babies
Drive-By Truckers ? Go-Go Boots
The Go! Team ? Rolling Blackouts
Beirut ? The Rip Tide
Wilco ? The Whole Love
Decemberists ? The King is Dead
Lykke Li ? Wounded Rhymes
St. Vincent ? Strange Mercy

2010

01.Peter Wolf ? Midnight Souvenirs
02. Superchunk ? Majesty Shredding
03. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin ? Let it Sway
04. Apples in Stereo ? Travellers in Space and Time
05. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists ? The Brutalist Bricks
06. Los Campesinos! ? Romance is Boring
07. Säkert! ? Facit
08. Best Coast ? Crazy for You
09. Dum Dum Girls ? I Will Be
10. Club 8 ? The People’s Record

2009

1. Camera Obscura ? My Maudlin Career
   02. Metric ? Fantasies
   03. American Aquarium ? Dances for the Lonely
   04. Lord Cut-Glass ? s/t
   05. God Help the Girl ? s/t
   06. Brakes ? Touchdown
   07. Telekinesis! ? s/t
   08. Gourds ? Haymaker
   09. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ? It’s Blitz!
   10. The Beautiful Confusion ? s/t

And some others that I really liked:

AC Newman ? Get Guilty
Beirut ? March of the Zapotec
Condo Fucks ? Fuckbook
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band ? Outer South
Ida Maria ? Fortree ‘Round My Heart
Lemonheads ? Varshons
Lucero ? 1372 Overton Park
Malcolm Middleton ? Waxing Gibbous
Neko Case ? Middle Cyclone
The Dirty Projectors ? Bitte Orca
Visqueen ? Message to Garcia

2008

1. Okkervil River ? The Stand Ins
   02. Emiliana Torrini ? Me and Armini
   03. British Sea Power ? Do You Like Rock Music?
   04. Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs ? Dirt Don’t Hurt
   05. Drive-By Truckers ? Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
   06. Tift Merritt ? Another Country
   07. Mates of State ? Re-Arrange Us
   08. Blue Mountain ? Midnight Mississippi
   09. Nada Surf ? Lucky
   10. Bitter:Sweet ? Drama

And…

The Decemberists ? Always a Bridesmaid Singles
Waco Brothers ? Waco Express: Live & Kickin’ at Schuba’s Tavern

2007

1. Apples in Stereo ? New Magnetic Wonder
   02. Okkervil River ? The Stage Names
   03. Josh Ritter ? The Historical Conquests Of…
   04. Emma Pollack ? Watch the Fireworks
   05. Feist ? The Reminder
   06. The Owls ? Daughters and Suns
   07. Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs ? You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying
   08. Roma di Luna ? Find Your Way Home
   09. Tullycraft ? Every Scene Needs a Center
   10. Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern ? st

2006

1. Essex Green ? Cannibal Sea
   02. Camera Obscura ? Let’s Get Out Of This Country
   03. Darren Hayman ? Table for One
   04. Hold Steady ? Boys & Girls in America
   05. Neko Case ? Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
   06. Band of Horses ? Everything All the Time
   07. Thermals ? The Body, The Blood, The Machine
   08. Belle & Sebastian ? The Life Pursuit
   09. Nellie McKay ? Pretty Little Head
   10. Gourds ? Heavy Ornamentals

And, of course:
Delgados ? The Complete BBC Peel Sessions
Hefner ? Best of Hefner 1996-2002

2005

1. Emiliana Torrini ? Fisherman’s Woman
   02. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ? s/t
   03. Andrew Bird ? The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
   04. Sleater-Kinney ? The Woods
   05. Tullycraft ? Disenchanted Hearts Unite
   06. Architecture in Helsinki ? In Case We Die
   07. Spoon ? Gimme Fiction
   08. Ladytron ? Witching Hour
   09. Brakes ? Give Blood
   10. New Pornographers ? Twin Cinema

2004

1. Delgados ? Universal Audio
   02. Komeda ? Kokomemedada
   03. Camera Obscura ? Underachievers Please Try Harder
   04. Two Cow Garage ? Wall Against Our Back
   05. Neko Case ? Tigers Have Spoken
   06. Elected ? Me First
   07. Futureheads ? Futureheads
   08. Rilo Kiley ? More Adventurous
   09. Franz Ferdinand ? Franz Ferdinand
   10. Wilco ? A Ghost Is Born

2003

01 Dressy Bessy ? Dressy Bessy
02 The New Pornographers ? Electric Version
03 Belle & Sebastian ? Dear Catastrophe Waitress
04 Some Girls ? Feel It
05 The Thrills ? So Much For The City
06 All Girl Summer Fun Band ? 2
07 British Sea Power ? The Decline of British Sea Power
08 The Shins ? Chutes Too Narrow
09 Beulah ? Yoko
10 Songs:Ohia ? Magnolia Electric Company

2002

01 Delgados ? Hate
02 Apples In Stereo ? Velocity of Sound
03 Dressy Bessy ? Sound Go Round
04 Waco Brothers ? New Deal
05 The Gourds ? Cow Fish Fowl or Pig
06 Laura Cantrell ? When The Roses Bloom Again
07 Caitlin Cary ? While You Weren’t Looking
08 Wilco ? Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
09 All Girl Summer Fun Band ? All Girl Summer Fun Band
10 Neko Case ? Blacklisted

2001

01 Hefner ? We Love The City
02 Beulah ? Coast Is Never Clear
03 Call & Response ? Call & Response
04 Neko Case ? Canadian Amp
05 Pernice Brothers ? World Won’t End
06 Superchunk ? Here’s To Shutting Up
07 The Strokes ? Is This It?
08 Stereolab ? Sound Dust
09 Old 97s ? Satellite Rides
10 Death By Chocolate ? Death By Chocolate

2000

01 Morcheeba ? Fragments of Freedom
02 Apples in Stereo ? The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
03 Waco Brothers ? Electric Waco Chair
04 Slobberbone ? Everything That You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today
05 Belle & Sebastian ? Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
06 The New Pornographers ? Mass Romantic
07 Marah ? Kids In Philly
08 Badly Drawn Boy The ? Hour of Bewilderbeast
09 Jurassic-5 ? Quality Control
10 Various ? Powerpuff Girls Soundtrack

1999

01 Lone Justice ? The World Is Not My Home
02 The Muffs ? Alert Today Alive Tomorrow
03 The Gourds ? Ghosts of Hallelujah
04 Damnations TX ? Half Mad Moon
05 Kelly Willis ? What I Deserve
06 Blue Mountain ? Tales of a Traveller
07 The Clash ? Live From Here To Eternity
08 Wilco ? Summerteeth
09 Old 97s ? Fight Songs
10 Bis ? Social Dancing

1998

01 Billy Bragg and Wilco ? Mermaid Avenue
02 V-Roys ? All About Town
03 The Gourds ? Stadium Blitzer
04 Golden Smog ? Weird Tales
05 Marah ? Let’s Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later On Tonight
06 Tina and the B-Sides ? It’s All Just The Same
07 Son Volt ? Wide Swing Tremolo
08 Belle & Sebastian ? The Boy With The Arab Strap
09 Amy Rigby ? Middlescence
10 Neko Case ? The Virginian

1997

01 Old 97’s ? Too Far To Care
02 The Muffs ? Happy Birthday To Me
03 Delgados ? BBC Sessions
04 Whiskytown ? Stranger’s Almanac
05 Blue Mountain ? Homegrown
06 Stereolab ? Dots and Loops
07 Son Volt ? Straightaways
08 The Dandy Warhols ? The Dandy Warhols Come Down
09 The Original Harmony Creek Dippers ? The Original Harmony Creek Dippers
10 Radiohead ? OK Computer

1996

01 Wilco ? Being There
02 Belle and Sebastian ? Tigermilk
03 Stereolab ? Emperor Tomato Ketchup
04 Belle and Sebastian ? If You’re Feeling Sinister
05 Komeda ? The Genius of Komeda
06 V-Roys ? Just Add Ice
07 Golden Smog ? Down by the Old Mainstream
08 Sleater-Kinney ? Call the Doctor
09 Morcheeba ? Who Can You Trust?
10 Mazzy Star ? Among My Swan

1995

01 Son Volt ? Trace
02 Rancid ? And Out Come the Wolves
03 Elastica ? Elastica
04 Wilco ? AM
05 Muffs ? Blonder and Blonder
06 Papas Fritas ? Paps Fritas
07 Blue Mountain ? Dog Days
08 Old 97s ? Wreck Your Life
09 Apples in Stereo ? Fun Trick Noisemaker
10 Björk? Post