50. I Believe in You - Yacht

49. Random Spirit Lover - Sunset Rubdown

48. 23 - Blonde Redhead

47. Beyond - Dinosaur Jr

46. Dead Rock - Guitar Wolf

45. Pop Up - Yelle

44. Pleasure is Pretty - ReWork

43. Fort Knightly - White Rabbits

42. Tears of the Valedictorian - Frog Eyes

41. Wincing the Night Away - The Shins

40. † - Justice

39. Trees Outside the Academy - Thurston Moore

38. Ten New Messages - The Rakes

37. Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman

36. Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective

35. LP - Holy Fuck

34. It's a Bit Complicated - Art Brut

33. Hissing Fauna, Are you The Destroyer? - Of Monteal

32. Attack Decay Sustain Release - SMD

31. S/T - Liars

30. Person Pitch - Panda Bear

29. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

28. Sky Blue Sky - Wilco

27. The Reminder - Feist

26. Our Earthly Pleasures - Maximo Park

25. Fancy Footwork - Chromeo

24. Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav

23. Don't Dance Rattlesnake - The Films

22. Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever - The Cribs

21. Asleep at Heaven's Gate - Rogue Wave

20. Good Bad Not Evil - Black Lips

19. The Black and White Album - The Hives

18. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon

17. Kala - MIA

16. Cotton Teeth - The Snake The Cross The Crown

15. Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon - Devendra Banhart

14. Can't Go Back - Papercuts

13. Dumb Luck - Dntel

12. Volta - Bjork

11. We All Belong - Dr. Dog

10. Turn the Lights Out - The Ponys

9. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

8. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

7. Dystopia - Midnight Juggernauts

6. War Stories - Unkle

5. Cryptograms - Deerhunter

4. Icky Thump - The White Stripes

3. Family Tree - Nick Drake

2. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

1. In Rainbows - Radiohead



Honorable mentions + EPS (which I'll keep adding to until 2008):

I Created Disco - Calvin Harris

Behold Secret Kingdom - Raccoo-oo-oon

Regality - Duke Dumont

Excellent Italian Greyhound - Shellac

Hello We Are - Les Petits Pilous

A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party

The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf

Boxer - The National

Oi Oi Oi - Boys Noize

Graduation - Kanye West

Is Is - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Shepard's Dog - Iron & Wine

Friend EP - Grizzly Bear

1986 - Kavinsky

Technicolor - The Loves

Muzzle No 1 - The Whip

S/T - The Book Of Lists

Friendly Fires EP - So So Modern

Ma Fleur EP - The Cinematic Orchestra

Idealism - Digitalism


Best album cover goes to Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam
Best Live Album goes to Daft Punk's Alive 2007
Best Re-release goes to Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation (two-CD deluxe edition containing live versions of every track on the 1988 album, plus studio recordings of some cover songs)
Best compilation goes to either Soulwax's Most of The Remixes or Afghan Whigs' Unbreakable: A Retrospective.
Best song might be Kids by MGMT or John Brown by the Papercuts or anything Midnight Juggernauts put out this year.
Best album that I purposely left out of my list because it's on everyone else's: Beruit's Lon Gisland


And there it is.