#7

Wilco- Wilco (The Album)

Metacritic: 76/100

Pitchfork: 7.3/10

Allmusic: 4/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 543

Lists Appearing: 29

Final Points: 7873.5

"Wilco (The Album) adds yet another chapter to the story, and if this band's relevance is to continue going forward, then let the resilent closer 'Everlasting Everything ' score our impending sunrise."- Filter

#8

The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love

Metacritic: 74/100

Pitchfork: 5.7/10

Allmusic: 4/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 714

Lists Appearing: 22

Final Points: 7854

"The group continues their fantastic, totally unique song structures, lyrics and instrumentation, resulting in the next evolution of a Decemberists album, and it does not disappoint."- Delusions of Adequacy

#9

Monsters of Folk- Monsters of Folk

Metacritic: 80/100

Pitchfork: 6.5/10

Allmusic: 3.5/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 611

Lists Appearing: 25

Final Points: 7637.5

#1 Votes: 2

"Traveling Wilburys-vibe results in an impressive coherence, and though they inhabit one another's songs expertly, these Monsters' genre-expanding combinations prove equally inspired."- Austin Chronicle

#10

Passion Pit- Manners

Metacritic: 76/100

Pitchfork: 8.1/10

Allmusic: 4/5 AMG Album Pick

LP / CD

Original Points: 652

Lists Appearing: 21

Final Points: 6846

#1 Votes: 1

"Not every song is perfect, but perfection is boring. What we need in these weary times--and what Passion Pit brings--is exuberance. Manners delivers the elusive feeling that everything will be alright. Or, just maybe, that everything already is."- Paste

#11

The Flaming Lips- Embryonic

Metacritic: 79/100

Pitchfork: 9.0/10 BNM

Allmusic: 4/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 544

Lists Appearing: 22

Final Points: 5984

"This is accessible music pushed to the very edge of accessibility, far away from the safety of the band's song-oriented efforts "At War with the Mystics" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.""- The Phoenix

#12

Umphrey's McGee- Mantis

Metacritic: No page

Pitchfork: Not reviewed

Allmusic: 3.5/5

CD

Original Points: 606

Lists Appearing: 18

Final Points: 5454

#1 Votes: 3

"If the result is not quite the Umphrey's McGee equivalent of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, this is certainly the first album by the group to really sound like a studio effort, with its intricate editing, addition of strings (the overdubbed efforts of Christopher Hoffman and Nathan Swanson on violins, violas, and cellos), and such studio-only effects as fade-outs."- All Music Guide

#13

Andrew Bird- Noble Beast

Metacritic: 79/100

Pitchfork: 7.5/10

Allmusic: 4/5

LP / CD

Original Points: 491

Lists Appearing: 19

Final Points: 4664.5

#1 Votes: 1

"Bird and his 10 collaborators use sound the way the impressionists daubed paint, layering elegiac violin melodies with pattering plucked notes, fuzzy or jangly guitar, clip-clop percussion, clicks and drones to create music that might be straightforwardly folky, brightly poppy or more experimental, but is always vivid and engaging."- The Guardian