50 HEALTH Get Color
49 Flaming Lips, The Embryonic
48 YACHT See Mystery Lights
47 Sonic Youth The Eternal
46 Atlas Sound Logos
45 Placebo Battle for the Sun
44 Slow Club Yeah So
43 Eels Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
42 Cribs, The Ignore The Ignorant
41 Noah & The Whale First Days of Spring
Plenty of different staff members voted, Alexa traffic rating 342,733.
40 Metric Fantasies
39 Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
38 Various Dark Was The Night
37 Mew No More Stories…
36 Dananananaykroyd Hey Everyone
35 Why? Eskimo Snow
34 Leisure Society, The Sleeper
33 Maccabees Wall of Arms
32 Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
31 Big Pink, The A Brief History of Love
30 Mastodon Crack the Skye
29 Patrick Wolf The Bachelor
28 Passion Pit Manners
27 Girls Album
26 Fight Like Apes The Curse of the Golden Medallion
25 Twilight Sad, The Forget The Night Ahead
24 Emmy the Great First Love
23 Arctic Monkeys Humbug
22 PJ Harvey and John Parish A Woman A Man Walked By
21 Grammatics Grammatics
20) Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
19) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
18) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
17) Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellery review by Mitchell Stirling
16) St. Vincent - Actor
15) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
14) Florence + The Machine - Lungs
13) Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
12) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
11) Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
20) Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
19) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
18) Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
17) Micachu and The Shapes - Jewellery review by Mitchell Stirling
16) St. Vincent - Actor
15) Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
14) Florence + The Machine - Lungs
13) Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
12) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
11) Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
For the sake of transparency, I did vote in this poll and occasionally write for them. Though so did 35 other writers and it has a fairly good traffic ranking.
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2 XX, The XX
3 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion
4 Fever Ray Fever Ray
5 Bat For Lashes Two Suns
6 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
7 Horrors, The Primary Colours
8 Pains of Being Pure at Heart Pains of Being Pure at Heart
9 Dirty Projectors, The Bitte Orca
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!
11 Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers
12 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
13 Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
14 Florence + The Machine Lungs
15 Antony and the Johnsons The Crying Light
16 St. Vincent Actor
17 Micachu and The Shapes Jewellery
18 Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer
19 Camera Obscura My Maudalin Career
20 Future Of The Left Travels With Myself & Another
21 Grammatics Grammatics
23 Arctic Monkeys Humbug
22 PJ Harvey and John Parish A Woman A Man Walked By
24 Emmy the Great First Love
25 Twilight Sad, The Forget The Night Ahead
26 Fight Like Apes The Curse of the Golden Medallion
27 Girls Album
28 Passion Pit Manners
29 Patrick Wolf The Bachelor
30 Mastodon Crack the Skye
31 Big Pink, The A Brief History of Love
32 Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
33 Maccabees Wall of Arms
34 Leisure Society, The Sleeper
35 Why? Eskimo Snow
36 Dananananaykroyd Hey Everyone
37 Mew No More Stories…
38 Various Dark Was The Night
39 Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish i Were An Eagle
40 Metric Fantasies
41 Noah & The Whale First Days of Spring
42 Cribs, The Ignore The Ignorant
43 Eels Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
44 Slow Club Yeah So
45 Placebo Battle for the Sun
46 Atlas Sound Logos
47 Sonic Youth The Eternal
48 YACHT See Mystery Lights
49 Flaming Lips, The Embryonic
50 HEALTH Get Color
