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Blow Up Critics’ List 2000
Best Album
• Daniel Givens-Age
• Trans Am-Red Line
• Storm & Stress-Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light
• David Maranha-Circunscrita
• Giant Sand-Chore Of Enchantment
• Songs:Ohia – Ghost Tropic
• Cat Power-The Covers Record
• Laurent Garnier-Unreasonable Behaviour
• Steve Peters-In Memory Of The Four Winds
• DJ Assault-Belle Isle Tech
• Kev Hopper-Whispering Foils
• Photek-Solaris
• Gogogo Airheart- Gogogo Airheart
• Sonic Youth Nyc-Ghosts & Flowers
• Yo La Tengo-And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
• Jolly Music-Jolly Bar 2000
• Pillow-Field On Water
• Klaxon Gueule-Muets
• Burkhard Stangl / Christof Kurzmann-Schnee
• Dean Roberts-The Grand Cinema
• Primal Scream-Xtrmntr
• San Agustin-Amokhali
• Shannon Wright-Maps Of Tacit
• Badly Drawn Boy-The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
• Mojave 3-Excuses For Travellers
• Broadcast-The Noise Made By People
• Kletka Red-Hybrid
• Blonde Redhead-Melodies Of Certain Damaged Lemons
• Vinicio Capossela-Canzoni A Manovella
• Jackie-O Motherfucker –Fig.5
• Radiohead-Kid A
• Etienne De Crecy-Tempovision
• Jim O’rourke / Mats Gustafsson-Xylophonen Virtuosen
• In Gowan Ring-Abend The Knurled Stitch
• Kevin Drumm / Martin Tétreault-Particles And Smears
• Ma Cherie For Painting-Autres Directions
• Piano Magic-Artists’ Rifles
• Tarantel-From Bone To Satellite
• Sun City Girls-Carnival Folklore Resurrection Series
• Aloha-That’s Your Fire
• Arab On Radar-Soak The Saddle
• Anti Pop Consortium-Tragic Epilogue
• Calexico-Hot Rail
• Sodastream-Looks Like A Russian
• C-Schulz & Hajsch- C-Schulz & Hajsch
• Radian-Tg 11
• 90 Day Men-(It (Is) It) Critical Band
• A Short Apnea-Illu Ogod Ellat Rhagedia
• Mum-Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok
• Jimi Tenor-Out Of Nowhere
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics’ List Best Album 2001
1. Radiohead - Amnesiac
2. Clouddead - Clouddead
3. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
4. Old Time Relijun - Witchcraft Rebellion
5. Jackie - O Motherfucker - Liberation
6. David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - Surf’s Up
7. Fennesz - Endless Summer
8. Bjork - Vespertine
9. Neotropic - La Prochaine Fois
10. Jim O’rourke - I’m Happy, And I’m Singing And 1,2,3,4
11. Green Velvet - Whatever
12. Arab On Radar - Yahweh Or The Highway
13. Us Maple - Acre Thrills
14. Daft Punk - Discovery
15. Ryoji Ikeda & Carsten Nicolai - Cyclo
16. Missy Elliott - So Addictive
17. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Ease Down The Road
18. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
19. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
20. Canyon - Canyon
21. Felix Da Housecat - Kitten And The Glitz
22. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
23. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
24. Nmperign - Bhob Rainey/Greg Kelley:Nmperign
25. Philip Jeck - Vinyl Coda IV
26. Slow Motion - Days Of Station Wagon
27. Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
28. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
29. Vert - Nine Types Of Ambiguity
30. Mark Lanegan - Field Songs
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics’ List Best Albums 2002
1. Oneida Each One Teach One
2. El Guapo Super / System
3. Low Trust
4. The Books Thought For Food
5. Anti Pop Consortium Arrhythmia
6. Spring Heel Jack Amassed
7. The Streets Original Pirate Material
8. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Dalek From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots
10. Blaze Spiritually Speaking
11. Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument...
12. L’altra In The Afternoon
13. Super_Collider Raw Digits
14. Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around
15. Tom Waits Alice/Blood Money
16. Mclusky Do Dallas
17. The Hunches Yes. No. Shut It
18. Primal Scream Evil Heat
19. Asa Chang & Junray Jun Ray Song Chang
20. William Basinski The Disintegration Loops
21. Suicide American Supreme
22. Beck Sea Change
23. Eliane Radigue Adnos I-Iii
24. Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
25. Crossover Fantasma
26. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays
27. Gus Gus Attention
28. Masters At Work Out Time Is Coming
29. Pere Ubu St. Arkansas
30. Xiu Xiu Knife Play
31. Steve Von Till If I Should Fall To The Field
32. Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
33. David Grubbs Rickets & Scurvy
34. Club 8 Spring Come Rain Fell
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics’ List Best Album 2003
• Daniel Johnston - Fear Yourself
• Wire - Send
• Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Master And Everyone
• Black Eyes - Black Eyes
• El Guapo - Fake French
• The White Stripes - Elephant
• Rechenzentrum - Director’s Cut
• Robert Wyatt - Cockooland
• Hell N.Y. - Muscle
• Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
• The Rapture - Echoes
• Matmos - The Civil War
• The Microphones - Mount Eerie
• Cat Power - You Are Free
• Flim - Helio
• Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
• Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
• Velma - Ludwig
• Agf - Westernization Completed
• Alan Licht - A New York Minute
• Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• Keith Rowe, John Tilbury - Duos For Doris
• David Sylvian - Blemish
• Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks
• Loose Fur - Loose Fur
• Manitoba - Up In Flames
• Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
• Spring Heel Jack - Live
• The Dirtbombs - Dangerous Magical Noise
• Ursula Rucker - Silver Or Lead
• Guther - I Know You Know
• Vert - Small Pieces Loosely Joined
• Audio Bullys - Ego War
• Buck 65 - Talkin’ Hony Blues
• Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers
• Drm - Haiku
• Fonica - Ripple
• Herman Dune - Mas Cambios
• Marlene Kuntz - Senza Peso
• Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia - My Elixir; My Poison
• Noxagt - Turning It Down Since 2001
• Okkervil River- Down The River Of Golden Dreams
• Plastikman - Closer
• The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
• Pulseprogramming - Tulsa For One Second
• Sole - Selling Live Water
• The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
• The Hospitals - The Hospitals
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics’ List Best Albums 2007
• Burial - Untrue
• Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter
• Battles - Mirrored
• Sightings - Through The Panama
• Panda Bear - Person Pitch
• Grinderman - Grinderman
• Alog - Amateur
• Talibam! - Ordination Of The Globetrotting Conscripts
• Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
• Om - Pilgrimage
• Alex Delivery - Star Destroyer
• Gowns - Red State
• The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
• Akron Family - Love Is Simple
• Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
• David Maranha - Marches Of The New World
• Dirty Projectors - Rise Abose
• Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are From Somewhere Else
• Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
• Supersilent - 8
• Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
• Bachi Da Pietra - Non Io
• Aa – Big A Little A - Gaame
• Aa.Vv. - Pisspounder
• Ananda Project - Fire Flower
• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
• Armand Van Helden - Ghettoblaster
• Bob Frank & John Murry - World Without End
• Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds
• Death Ambient - Drunken Forest
• Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
• Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
• Peven Everett - Power Soul
• Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
• Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
• Shannon Wright - Let In The Light
• The Bird And The Bee - The Bird And The Bee
• The National - Boxer
• Peeesseye - Mayhem In The Mansion, Shivers In The Shack
• Anthony Pateras - Chasms
• Broken Social Scene / Kevin Drew - Spirit If
• Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
• Richard Youngs - Autumn Response
• Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum’s Embrace
• Osunlade - Elements Beyond
• Paolo Angeli - Tessuti
• People - Misbegotten Man
• Pinback - Autumn Of The Seraphs
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Zu & Nobukazu Takemura - Identification With The Enemy A Key To The Underworld
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics’ List Best Of 2008
1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
2. São Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationship
3. Portishead - Third
4. Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - Recomposed
5. Fennesz - Black Sea
6. Megafaun - Bury The Square
7. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes The Dusk
8. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
9. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
10. Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
11. Raiders Of The Lost Arp - Tema 5
12. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore
13. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
14. Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica - Canzoni Da Spiaggia Deturpata
15. Micah P. Hinson - And The Red Empire Orchestra
16. Woven Hand - Ten Stones
17. Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Everydays
18. Bachi Da Pietra - Tarlo Terzo
19. Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh
20. Mark Stewart - Edit
21. Tape - Luminarium
22. Women - Women
23. Anthony Pateras, Sean Dexter, David Brown - Interference
24. Aufgehoben - Khora
25. Baustelle - Amen
26. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
27. Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
28. Boris - Smile
29. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
30. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
31. No Age - Nouns
32. Neptune - Gong Lake
33. Renderizors Submarine
34. Wire - Object 47
35. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
36. Kenny Larkin - Keys, Strings & Tambourines
37. Mgmt - Oracular Spectacular
38. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
39. Soulphiction - Do You Overstand?
40. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
41. Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
42. Alexander Tucker - Portal
43. Black Mountain - In The Future
44. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
45. The Chap - Mega Breakfast
46. Dredd Foole - Kissing The Contemporary Bliss
47. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager!
48. Grace Jones - Hurricane
49. Prurient - And Still, Wanting
50. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics’ List Best Of 2009
1. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Broadcast And The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
4. Shackleton - Three Eps
5. Animal Collective - Merryweather Post Pavilion
6. Dm Stith - Heavy Ghost
7. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
8. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
9. Black Dice - Repo
10. Harvestman - In A Dark Tongue
11. Dj Sprinkles Aka Terre Thaemlitz - Midtown 120 Blues
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
13. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
14. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
15. Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut
16. Vladislav Delay Tummaa
17. 2562 - Unbalance
18. Aa.Vv. - 5: Five Years Of Hyperdub
19. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
20. Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be
21. Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
22. Blank Dogs - Under And Under
23. Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
24. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
25. Gus Gus - 24/7
26. Il Teatro Degli Orrori - A Sangue Freddo
27. Jean-Luc Guionnet - Non-Organic Bias
28. Johnny Dangerous - Problem 13
29. Josephine Foster - Graphic As A Star
30. Land Of Kush - Against The Day
31. Maisie - Balera Metropolitana
32. Martyn - Great Lenghts
33. Peter Wright - Snow Blind
34. Pontiak - Maker
35. Rain Machine - Rain Machine
36. Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night
37. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimension
38. Uncode Duello - Tre
39. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
40. Action Beat - The Noise Band From Bletchley
41. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Thankyou Very Much
42. David Sylvian - Manafon
43. Fine Before You Came - Sfortuna
44. Furt - Sense
45. Moderat - Moderat
46. Mountains - Choral
47. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
48. Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020
49. Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits
50. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics Playlist 2010
• The Books - The Way Out
• Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor
• Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
• Caribou - Swim
• Exploding Star Orchestra - Stars Have Stripes
• Neil Young - Le Noise
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
• Yannis Kyriakides - Antichamber
• Massimo Volume - Cattive Abitudini
• Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
• Eels - Tomorrow Morning
• Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
• Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
• Denseland - Chunk
• Scuba - Triangulation
• The Vaselines - Sex With An X
• Robert Hood - Omega
• Oval - O
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
• Locrian - The Crystal World
• Belfi, Grubbs, Pilia - Onrushing Cloud
• Arandel - In D
• Grinderman - Grinderman 2
• Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra
• Peeesseye & Talibam - Peeesseye & Talibam!
• The Chap - Well Done Europe
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• C. W. Stoneking - Jungle Blues
• Monolake - Silence
• Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
• Joe Gideon & The Shark - Harum Scarum
• Ergo Phizmiz - Things To Do And Make
• Four Tet - There Is Love In You
• Richard A Ingram - Consolamentum
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
• Andrea Tich - Siamo Nati Vegetali
• Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
• These New Puritans - Hidden
• Wolf+Lamb - Love Someone
• Cheikh Lô - Jamm
• Boduf Songs - This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything
• Chemical Brothers - Further
• Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
• Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
• Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
• St.Ride - Cercando Niente
• Sun Araw - On Patrol
• The Machine - Redhead
• Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
• Jack Rose - Luck In The Valley
Skip To TopBlow Up Critics Playlist 2011
• Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton
• Tom Waits - Bad As Me
• Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
• Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
• Demdike Stare - Triptych
• Rhys Chatham - Outdoor Spell
• Kaboom Karavan - Barra Barra
• Beirut - The Rip Tide
• Kurt Vile Smoke - Ring For My Halo
• Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
• Peaking Lights - 936
• Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
• Bon Iver - Bon Iver
• Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
• Amon Tobin - Isam
• Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
• Arbouretum - The Gathering
• Battles - Gloss Drop
• Boris - Attention Please
• Brian Wilson - In The Key Of Disney
• Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat
• Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2
• D. Charles Speer - Arghiledes
• Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument .02
• David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
• Dirty Beaches - Badlands
• Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
• Gable’ - Cute Horse Cut
• Gang - La Rossa Primavera
• Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
• Kode9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun
• Kuedo - Severant
• Luciano Maggiore & Francesco “Fuzz” Brasini - Chàsm Achanès
• Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem 3
• Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth
• Moon Duo - Mazes
• Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
• Panda Bear - Tomboy
• Pj Harvey - Let England Shake
• Roly Porter - Aftertime
• Rotterdam - Cambodia
• Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
• Sightings - Future Accidents
• Six Organs Of Admittance - Asleep On The Floodplain
• St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
• Starlicker - Double Demon
• Sun Araw - Ancient Romans
• The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies
• The Necks - Mindset
Skip To TopBLOW UP Best Album of the Decade 2000-2009
Artist Title Year
1 Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise 2005
2 Clouddead Clouddead 2001
3 Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2003
3 Radiohead Amnesiac 2001
5 Burial Untrue 2007
5 Fennesz Endless Summer 2001
7 Battles Mirrored 2007
7 Burial Burial 2006
7 Daft Punk Discovery 2001
10 Arcade Fire Funeral 2004
10 Björk Vespertine 2000
10 Daniel Givens Age 2000
10 Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing 2008
10 J Dilla Donuts 2006
10 Joanna Newsom Ys 2005
10 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem 2005
10 Radiohead Kid A 2000
10 Richard Youngs The Naive Shaman 2005
10 Storm & Stress Under Thunder And Fluorescent Lights 2000
10 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
21 Animal Collective Here Comes The Indian 2003
21 Anti Pop Consortium Arrhythmia 2002
21 Brian Wilson Smile 2004
21 Clouddead Ten 2004
21 Cocorosie La Maison De Mon Rève 2004
21 Converge Jane Doe 2001
21 Dälek Absence 2005
21 Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 2009
21 Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around 2002
21 Kylie Minogue Fever 2001
21 Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned 2004
21 Matmos A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure 2001
21 Oneida Each One Teach One 2002
21 Portishead Third 2008
21 Radiohead Hail To The Thief 2003
21 Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens 2006
21 The Microphones The Glow, pt. 2 2001
21 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow 2003
21 Various Improvised Music From Japan 2002
21 William Basinski The Disintegration Loops 2002
21 Xiu Xiu Knife Play 2002
