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My Morning Jacket – z

BMG

5/1

4

2.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

/self-released/

4/2

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3.

Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better

Domino

5/2

10

4.

Five Corners Quintet – Chasin’ The Jazz Gone By

Ricky Tick

4/4

6

5.

Gang OF Four – Return The Gift

V2

3/5

3

6.

Alice Russell – My Favourite Letters

Tru Thoughts

7/1

5

7.

Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow

XL

7/2

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8.

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights

Universan

6/6

8

9.

Sigur Rox – Takk

EMI

10/1

9

10.

Pet Shop Boys – Battleship Potemkin

Parlophone

8/7

13

11.

Echo & The Bunnymen – Siberia

Cookin Vinyl

7/11

14

12.

Broadcast – Tender Buttons

Warp

4/12

16

13.

Depeche Mode – Playing The Angel

Mute

3/13

17

14.

The Fall – Fall Heads Roll

Slogan

2/14

11

15.

Dandy Warhols  – Odditoruim Or Warlords Of Mars

Parlpohone

9/3

18

16.

The Cardigans – Super Extra Gravity

Polydor

4/16

19

17.

Vashti Bunyan – Lookaftering

Fat Cat

2/17

20

18.

Arab Strap – The Last Romance

Chemikal Underground

3/18

12

19.

Kanye West – Late Registration

Roc-A-Fella

9/2

21

20.

Audio Bullys – Generation

Source

2/20

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21.

Kate Bush – Aerial

EMI

1/21

15

22.

Deus – Pocket Revolution

V2

10/4

22

23.

V.A. – Warchild: Help – A Day In The Life

Independiente

4/22

24

24.

Mark Eitzel – Candy Ass

Cooking Vinyl

2/24

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Babyshambles – Down In Albion

Rough Trade

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