Honourable Mentions: Albums 51-60 Clinic Internal Wranger (Domino; May 2, 2000) An album that truly did, despite the absurdity of the phrase, “get lost in…

Albums 10-1 10. Destroyer Your Blues (Merge) For some reason, this was widely celebrated in 2004 as his best since Streethawk (which is to say…

Albums 20-11 20. The Dead Texan The Dead Texan (Temporary Residence) I’m not going to waste your time trying to describe this record with flowery…

Albums 10 – 6 10. Gordon Downie: Battle of the Nudes (Wiener Art) Like Leonard Cohen before him, Gordon Downie pivots nearly every aspect on…

Dear To Whom it May Concern, I’m sitting here in Vancouver airport, on my way to Melbourne. I’ve slept none in the past 30 hours…

Albums 30 – 21 30. Rufus Wainwright: Want One (Dreamworks) You may as well have placed him against a wall for the firing squad brought…

Albums 50 – 41 50. Gordon Downie: Battle of the Nudes (Wiener Art) Eh. I don’t know. Whether you buy this album or not is…

Albums 20 – 11 20. TV on the Radio: Young Liars EP (Touch & Go) In an interview, the members of TV on the Radio…

Albums 30 – 21 30. Ms. John Soda: No P. or D. (Morr Music) The Acher siblings have the midas touch; whether it was the…

Albums 10 – 1 10. Out Hud: S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D. (Kranky) Another vastly underappreciated album (at least by our staff), S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D. is a killer album. With incredibly…