Exoduster.com's List for 2006
The Decemberists - Crane Wife (Capitol Records)
CSS - s/t (Sub Pop Records)
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (Crucial Blast)
The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again (Sub Pop Records)
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped (Geffen Records)
Mono - You Are There (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Sondre Lerche & the Faces Down Quartet - Duper Sessions (Astralwerks)
The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You (Scratchie Records)
The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop Records)
Atone - Un An (Autres Directions in Music)
Eluvium - When I Live by the Garden and the Sea (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Dirty on Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens (North Street Records)
Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness (Geffen Records)
The Lovekill - These Moments Are Momentum (Astro Magnetics Records)
The Bouncing Souls - The Gold Record (Epitaph Records)
Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo (Tent Show Records)
Zero 7 - The Garden (Atlantic Records)
Freshkills - Creeps and Lovers (Arclight Records)
Maritime - We, The Vehicles (Flameshovel Records)
Wolfmother - s/t (Modular Records)
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire (RCA Records)
Islands - Return to the Sea (Equator Records)
Exoduster.com's List for 2005
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek Records)
The Decemberists – Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Criteria – When We Break (Saddle Creek Records)
Coheed & Cambria – Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. I: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (Equal Vision Records/Columbia)
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop Records)
Maria Taylor – 11:11 (Saddle Creek Records)
Rogue Wave – Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop Records)
Deerhoof – The Runner’s Four (5RC/Kill Rock Stars)
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (Vice/Dim Mak)
Iron & Wine – Woman King (Sub Pop Records)
Alkaline Trio – Crimson (Vagrant Records)
Turin Brakes – JakeInABox (Astralwerks)
The Forecast – Late Night Conversations (Victory Records)
The Fall of Troy – Doppelganger (Equal Vision Records)
Holopaw – Quite +/or Fight (Sub Pop Records)
Statistics – Often Lie (Jade Tree Records)
Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (Capitol Records)
The Locust – Safety Second, Body Last (Ipecac Recordings)
Hot Hot Heat – Elevator (Reprise Records)
The Fiery Furnaces – EP (Rough Trade)
Genghis Tron – Cloak of Love (Crucial Blast)
Blood Brothers – Crimes (V2)
Hood – Outside Closer (Domino)
Aiden – Nightmare Anatomy (Victory Records)
Engineers – Self-Titled (The Echo Label Ltd.)
The Faint – Wet From Birth (Saddle Creek Records)
The Chemical Brothers – Push the Button (Astralwerks)
Records
that Made Us Drool in 2004
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
Sondre Lerche – Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
Now It’s Overhead – Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Air – Talkie Walkie (Astralwerks)
My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Reprise)
Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Saul Williams – s/t (Fader Label)
Mono - Walking Cloud and the Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
The Album Leaf – In a Safe Place (Sub Pop)
Songs that Did Us in 2004
Andi Camp – “Lion’s Den”
My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”
Rilo Kiley – “Portions for Foxes”
Letter Kills – “Lights Out”
Morrissey – “First of the Gang to Die”
Jay Z – “99 Problems”
Howard Hello – “Giving Up”
Taking Back Sunday – “Set Phasers To Stun”
Now It’s Overhead – “Wait in a Line”
Har Mar Superstar – “D.U.I.”
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