Ballots

Melanie Baskins:

1. Beach House - Devotion
2. No Age - Nouns
3. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
4. Deerhunter - Microcastle
5. Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
6. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville [reissue]
7. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
8. Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
10. Times New Viking - Rip it Off
11. Little Joy - Little Joy
12. Sigur Ros - Blah, blah, foreign title
13. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
14. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...
15. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
16. The Walkmen - You & Me
17. Tapes n’ Tapes - Walk it Off
18. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
19. The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust

Jonathan Bradley

1. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
3. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
4. Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak
5. Lil’ Wayne – Tha Carter III
6. Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
7. Taylor Swift – Fearless
8. The-Dream – Love/Hate
9. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
10. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
11. Kathleen Edwards – Asking for Flowers
12. Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke
13. Ashlee Simpson – Bittersweet World
14. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
15. The Knux – Remind Me in 3 Days...
16. Santogold – Santogold
17. The Veronicas – Hook Me Up
18. No Age – Nouns
19. Augie March – Watch Me Disappear
20. The Kills – Midnight Boom

Ally Brown

1. Portishead - Third
2. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
3. Shearwater - Rook
4. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
5. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. Y'All Is Fantasy Island - Rescue Weekend
9. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
10. Santogold vs. Diplo - Top Ranking
11. Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
12. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
14. Super Adventure Club - Chalk Horror!
15. Santogold - Santogold
16. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
17. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
18. The Bug - London Zoo
19. DeVotchka - A Mad and Faithful Telling
20. Monkey - Journey to the West

Andrew Casillas

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4. Sons & Daughters - This Gift
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. Lila Downs - Shake Away
7. The Knux - Remind Me in 3 Days...
8. Julieta Venegas - MTV Unplugged
9. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
10. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster
11. Akrobatik - Absolute Value
12. No Age - Nouns
13. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
14. Santogold - Santogold
15. The Kills - Midnight Boom
16. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Vol. 1: 4th World War
17. She & Him - Volume One
18. Estelle - Shine
19. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
20. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

Justin Cober-Lake

1. Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema
2. The Shackeltons - The Shackeltons
3. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
4. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
5. Marco Benevento - Invisible Baby
6. Public Record - Public Record
7. Wovenhand - Ten Stones
8. Grampall Jukabox - Ropechain
9. Avishai Cohen Trio - Gently Disturbed
10. Mavis Staples - Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout
11. Sean Noonan - Boxing Dreams
12. The Strugglers - The Latest Rights
13. Janelle Monae - Metropolis: The Chase Suite
14. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
15. Major Labels - Aquavia
16. David Crowder - Remedy Club Tour - Live
17. Shot x Shot - Let Nature Square
18. Calexico - Carried to Dust
19. Danny! - And I Love H.E.R.
20. Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - Party Intellectuals

Jason Gross

1. Wussy - Left for Dead
2. The Whigs - Mission Control
3. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
4. Honeydripper OST
5. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
6. The Heavy Great Vengeance - Furious Fire
7. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster...
8. Clark - Turning Dragon
9. James McMurty - Just Us Kids
10. Absentee - Victory Shorts
11. Münchener Kammerorchester Haydn, Yun: Farewell - Symphonies Nos. 39 and 45 / Chamber Symphony I
12. Paul Westerberg - 49:00
13. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
14. GZA - Pro Tools
15. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
16. Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
17. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
18. The Knux - Remind Me in 3 Days...
19. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
20. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins

Todd Hutlock

1. Portishead - Third
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
7. Fennesz - Black Sea
8. Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everthing That Happens Will Happen Today
9. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
10. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt

Josh Love

1. Kathleen Edwards – Asking for Flowers
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
3. Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You
4. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
5. Diplo vs. Santogold – Top Ranking
6. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
7. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
8. Lee Ann Womack – Call Me Crazy
9. Bob Dylan – Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
10. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
11. Portishead – Third
12. Wale – The Mixtape About Nothing
13. Ne-Yo – Year of the Gentleman
14. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
15. Why? – Alopecia
16. The-Dream – Love/Hate
17. Okkervil River – The Stand-Ins
18. Arthur Russell – Love is Overtaking Me
19. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
20. Marit Larsen – The Chase

Ian Mathers

1. Sam Amidon – All is Well
2. Los Campesinos! – Hold on Now, Youngster…
3. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
4. Stars Like Fleas – The Ken Burns Effect
5. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
6. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
7. The Kills – Midnight Boom
8. The Wedding Present – El Rey
9. Portishead – Third
10. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
11. Foals – Antidotes
12. Populous With Short Stories - Drawn in Basic
13. Delays – Everything's the Rush
14. Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
15. Horse Feathers – House With No Home
16. Los Campesinos! – We are Beautiful, We are Doomed
17. Paavoharju – Laulu Laakson Kukista
18. Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron - Lost Wisdom
19. The Goslings - Occasion
20. The Bug – London Zoo

Patrick McKay

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Portishead - Third
3. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
4. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
5. Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
6. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
7. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs
8. Islands - Arm's Way
9. Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
10. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Lisa Oliver

1. Portishead – Third
2. Herbaliser – Same As It Never Was
3. The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me
4. The School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
5. Dungen – 4
6. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
7. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
8. Adele – 19
9. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
10. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
11. Bubblegum Lemonade – Doubleplusgood
12. Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down

Mike Orme

1. The Chap - Mega Breakfast
2. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
3. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
4. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
5. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
6. Portishead - Third
7. Air France - No Way Down
8. The Kills - Midnight Boom
9. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
10. Osborne - Osborne
11. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
12. Jamie Liddell - Jim
13. The Field - Sound of Light
14. Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
15. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
16. School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
17. Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold On While the Sky is Falling
18. Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
19. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
20. The Depreciation Guild - In Her Gentle Jaws

Alfred Soto

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3. Robert Forster - The Evangelist
4. The-Dream - Love/Hate
5. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
6. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
7. Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentlemen
8. Portishead - Third
9. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter than Creation's Dark
10. Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
11. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
12. Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
13. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
14. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
15. T.I. - Paper Trail
16. No Age - Nouns
17. Dolly Parton - Backwoods Barbie
18. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
19. Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
20. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

Dave Toropov

1. Sam Amidon - All is Well
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
5. dj/Rupture - Uproot
6. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
8. Immortal Technique - The 3rd World
9. Why? - Alopecia
10. JDSY - Adage of Known

Theon Weber

1. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
2. Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood OST
3. Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
4. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
5. Portishead - Third
6. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
9. Taylor Swift - Fearless
10. Why? - Alopecia
11. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs
12. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
13. The Knux - Remind Me In 3 Days...
14. Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
15. Bloc Party - Intimacy

Christopher R. Weingarten

1. Portishead – Third
2. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
3. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
4. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
5. Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too
6. Torche - Meanderthal
7. Made Out of Babies – The Ruiner
8. The Roots – Rising Down
9. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
10. Harvey Milk – Life… The Best Game in Town
11. Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls
12. Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers – Bloom iPhone application
13. James Blackshaw – Litany Of Echoes
14. Boredoms – Super Roots 9
15. The Breeders – Mountain Battles
16. Extra Life – Secular Works
17. Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward
18. Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
19. Marnie Stern - This is It and I am It and You are It and So is That and He is It and She is It and It is It and That is That
20. Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual

Dan Weiss

1. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward/Get Damaged
2. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III/The Leak
3. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
4. Portishead - Third
5. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
6. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
7. No Age - Nouns
8. Stereolab - Chemical Chords
9. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
10. The Roots - Rising Down
11. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
12. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
13. Deerhunter - Microcastle
14. The Breeders - Mountain Battles
15. Weezer - Weezer [Red Album]
16. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
17. Al Green - Lay It Down
18. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
19. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
20. Nas - Nas

Jeff Weiss

1. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
2. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
3. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5 Dil Cosby Suite
4. The Knux - Remnd Me in 3 Days...
5. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
6. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
7. Dungen - 4
8. Elzhi - Europass
9. Portishead - Third
10. Why? - Alopecia
11. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
12. Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit - Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best
13. The Kills - Midnight Boom
14. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
15. Islands - Arm's Way
16. dj/Rupture - Uproot
17. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
18. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ
19. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
20. Al Green - Lay It Down