1. Okkervil River | The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)

2. Beirut | The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing!)

3. Of Montreal | Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)

4. Arcade Fire | Neon Bible (Merge)

5. Andrew Bird | Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)

6. Jens Lekman | Nightfall Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)

7. The White Stripes | Icky Thump (Warner Bros)

8. The Polyphonic Spree | The Fragile Army (TVT)

9. St. Vincent | Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)

10. The Apples in Stereo | New Magnetic Wonder (Simian)

| Pete Wissinger

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