1. Feist | The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope)

2. Ryan Adams | Easy Tiger (Lost Highway)

3. The Shins | Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop)

4. Wilco | Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)

5. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglová | Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Columbia)

6. Band of Horses | Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)

7. Arcade Fire | Neon Bible (Merge)

8. Mark Ronson | Version (Columbia)

9. Modest Mouse | We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)

10. Kings of Leon | Because of the Times (RCA)

| Katie Cook

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