Here are my favorite music releases from the past years; these are songs I need to be able to continue functioning at my present outstanding level. Also, after going through though the shelves for many years, I have built a list of my favorite albums of all time, which I’m constantly updating.

2010

• Arcade Fire “The Suburbs“
• Archie Bronson Outfit “Coconut“
• The Drums S/T
• Errors “Come Down With Me“
• Four Tet “There Is Love in You“
• The Futureheads “The Chaos“
• Imogean Heap “Eclipse“
• Japandroids “Art Czar” / “Younger Us” singles
• Sharon Jones & the Dap-King “I Learned the Hard Way“
• Kings Go Forth “The Outsiders are Back“
• Menomena “Mines“
• John Legend & The Roots “Wake Up“
• Sleigh Bells “Treats“
• Surfer Blood “Astrocoast“
• Tame Impala “Innerspeaker“
• Wavves “King of the Beach“

2009

• Andrew Bird “Noble Beast”
• Neko Case “Tornado”
• DOOM “Born Like This”
• Morrissey “Years of Refusal”
• The Clues “Remember Severed Head”
• Disfear “Live The Storm”
• Imogen Heap “Elipse”
• Jay Reatard “Watch Me Fall“
• Part Chimp “Thiller”
• The Thermals “Now We Can See”
• Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch “Dark Night of the Soul”
• Mountain Goats “The Life of the World to Come”
• Lightning Bolt “Earthly Delights”
• Phoenix “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
• Rufus Wainwright “Milwaukee At Last!!!”
• Okkervil River “Black Sheep Boy” (reissue)
• Mogwai “Young Team” (reissue)
• Nirvana “Bleach” (reissue)
• Radiohead “OK Computer” (reissue)

2008

• Ryan Adams “Cardinalogy“
• Be Your Own Pet “Get Awkward”
• Born Ruffians “Red, Yellow & Blue“
• Blitzen Trapper “Furr”
• Brutal Knights “Living By Yourself“
• Liam Finn “I’ll Be Lighting”
• Girl Talk “Feed The Animals“
• Mogwai “The Hawk Is Howling“
• Mountain Goats “Heritic Pride“
• Smoothered in Hugs “The Healing Power of Injury“
• Magnetic Fields “Distortion“
• The New Year “The New Year“
• Thurston Moore “Trees Outside the Academy“
• Tokyo Police Club “Elephant Shell“
• TV On The Radio “Dear Science“

2007

• Ryan Adams “Easy Tiger“
• Andrew Bird “Armchair Apocrypha“
• Bloc Party “A Weekend in the City“
• Explosions in the Sky “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone“
• Feist “The Reminder“
• Interpol “Our Love to Admire“
• Menomena “Friend and Foe“
• Modest Mouse “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank“
• Radiohead “In Rainbows“
• Shellac “Excellent Italian Greyhound“
• The Shins “Wincing the Night Away“
• Elliott Smith “New Moon“
• Spoon “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga“
• Rufus Wainwright “Release the Stars“
• We Versus the Shark “EP Of Bees“
• Lucinda Williams “West“
• Amy Winehouse “Back to Black“
• Winterpills “The Light Divides“

2006

2005

• Ben Folds “Songs for Silverman”
• Bloc Party ”Silent Alarm”
• Danger Doom ”The Mouse And The Mask”
• DJ Shadow ”Endtroducing… [Deluxe Edition]”
• Fiona Apple ”Extraordinary Machine”
• Gorillaz ”Demon Days”
• John Vanderslice ”Pixel Revolt”
• The Lucksmiths ”Warmer Corners”
• Sigur Ros ”Takk…”
• Sleater-Kinney ”The Woods”
• Spoon ”Gimme Fiction”
• The Stars ”Set Yourself On Fire”
• Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane “At Carnegie Hall”
• Teenage Fanclub ”Man-Made”
• The Wedding Present ”Take Fountain”
• Lucinda Williams ”Live @ the Fillmore”

2004

• Elliot Smith “From a Basement on a Hill”
• Interpol “Antics”
• John Vanderslice “Cellar Door”
• Modest Mouse “Good News For People Who Love Bad News”
• PJ Harvey “Uh Huh Her”
• Silkworm “It’d Be Cool”
• The New Year “The End Is Near”
• Tobin Sprout “Live From The Horseshoe”
• Tragically Hip “In Between Evolution”
• Rufus Wainwright “Want Two”
• The Von Bondies “Pawn Shoppe Heart”

2003

• Blur “Think Tank“
• Broken Social Scene “You Forgot It In People“
• Cat Power “You Are Free“
• Guided by Voices “Human Amusement at Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided by Voices“
• Radiohead “Hail To The Thief“
• Ramones “NYC 1978“
• The Strokes “Room On Fire“
• The New Pornographers “Electric Version“
• Rufus Wainwright “Want One“
• Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs “Fever To Tell“

2002

• …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead “Source Tags And Codes”
• Badly Drawn Boy “About A Boy Soundtrack”
• Kasey Chambers “Barricades And Brickwalls”
• Death Cab For Cutie “The Photo Album”
• Neil Finn “One Nil”
• Fugazi “The Argument”
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy “A New Morning, Changing Weather”
• Interpol “Turn On The Bright Lights”
• Mary Lou Lord “Live City Sounds”
• Sleater-Kinney “One Beat”
• Spoon “Kill The Moonlight”
• The Strokes “Is This It” (Australian Reissue with DVD)
• You Am I “Deliverance”

2001

• Ben Folds “Rockin’ the Suburbs”
• Guided by Voices “Isolation Drills”
• The New Pornographers “Mass Romantic”
• Radiohead “Amnesiac”
• Shins “Oh, Inverted World”
• Spoon “Girls Can Tell”
• The Strokes “Is this it?”
• John Vanderslice “Time Travel is Lonely”
• Rufus Wainwright “Poses”
• Weezer “Weezer (Green Album)”
• Whiskeytown “Pneumonia”
• Wilco “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”
• Lucinda Williams “Essence”