A huge thanks from all of us at the station – DJs, staff, and volunteers – to all the listeners who voted this year and to the Electric Fetus for their continued support of the annual Top 77 countdown!

 

(Note: Italics indicate a local album)

1	Deerhunter	Microcastle	Kranky
2	Portishead	Third	Mercury
3	Fleet Foxes	Fleet Foxes	Sub Pop
4	TV on the Radio	Dear Science	Interscope
5	Beach House	Devotion	Carpark
6	Vampire Hands	Me and You Cherry Red	Self-released
7	WHY?	Alopecia	Anticon
8	Santogold	Santogold	Downtown
9	Doomtree	Doomtree	Doomtree
10	Bon Iver	For Emma, Forever Ago [reissue]	Jagjaguwar
11	The Cool Kids	The Bake Sale [EP]	Chocolate Industries
12	Sigur Ros	Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust	XL
13	Land of Talk	Some Are Lakes	Saddle Creek
14	Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!	Anti
15	Atmosphere	When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold	Rhymesayers
16	Department of Eagles	In Ear Park	4AD
17	Lykke Li	Youth Novels	LL
18	M83	Saturdays = Youth	Mute
19	Vampire Weekend	Vampire Weekend	XL
20	School of Seven Bells	Alpinisms	Ghostly International
21	Wolf Parade	At Mount Zoomer	Sub Pop
22	Cut Copy	In Ghost Colours	Modular
23	Dosh	Wolves and Wishes	Anticon
24	Ratatat	LP3	XL
25	The Kills	Midnight Boom	Domino
26	Jay Reatard	Matador Singles 08	Matador
27	Yeasayer	All Hour Cymbals	We Are Free
28	Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles	Last Gang
29	Hercules and Love Affair	Hercules and Love Affair	Mute
30	The Walkmen	You and Me	Gigantic
31	Beck	Modern Guilt	Interscope
32	Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles	Orange Peels and Rattlesnakes	Self-released
33	Marnie Stern	This Is It…	Kill Rock Stars
34	Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks	Real Emotional Trash	Matador
35	King Khan and the Shrines	The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines	Vice
36	Roma di Luna	Casting the Bones	Self-released
37	The Hold Steady	Stay Positive	Vagrant
38	Emiliana Torrini	Me and Armini	Rough Trade
39	Hot Chip	Made in the Dark	DFA/Astralwerks
40	Tobacco	F*****d Up Friends	Anticon
41	Andrew Bird	Soldier On [EP]	Fargo
42	Black Mountain	In The Future	Jagjaguwar
43	Deerhoof	Offend Maggie	Kill Rock Stars
44	Dodos	Visiter	Frenchkiss
45	Sunset	The Glowing City	Autobus
46	The Magnetic Fields	Distortion	Nonesuch
47	Cloud Cult	Feel Good Ghosts	Earthology
48	CSS	Donkey	Sub Pop
49	Gospel Gossip	Sing Into My Mouth	Guilt Ridden Pop
50	Burial	Untrue	Hyperdub
51	Dizzee Rascal	Maths and English	Def Jux
52	Haley Bonar	Big Star	Afternoon
53	Sun Kil Moon	April	Caldo Verde
54	Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy	Lie Down in the Light	Drag City
55	Dark Dark Dark	The Snow Magic	Blood Onion
56	David Byrne and Brian Eno	Everything That Happens Will Happen Today	Self-released
57	F**k Buttons	Street Horrrsing	ATP
58	No Age	Nouns	Sub Pop
59	Spiritualized	Songs in A&E	Sanctuary
60	Erykah Badu	New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)	Universal
61	Foals	Antidotes	Sub Pop
62	Gnarls Barkley	The Odd Couple	Downtown
63	The Black Keys	Attack and Release	Nonesuch
64	The Ting Tings	We Started Nothing	Columbia
65	Mates of State	Rearrange Us	Barsuk
66	Anni Rossi	Afton [EP]	4AD
67	Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire	Lost Wisdom	P.W. Elverum & Sun
68	Stereolab	Chemical Cords	4AD
69	Silver Jews	Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea	Drag City
70	Thee Oh Sees	The Master’s Bedroom…	Tomlab
71	Tapes ‘n Tapes	Walk It Off	XL
72	The Raveonettes	Lust Lust Lust	Vice
73	Times New Viking	Rip It Off	Matador
74	White Magic	New Egypt	Southern
75	Women	Women	Jagjaguwar
76	First Communion Afterparty	Sorry For All The Mondays and to Those Who Cannot Sing	Mpls Ltd
77	Ladyhawke	Ladyhawke	Modular

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