The Top 10 will be named on December 31, 2009. These LPs all are 9.7+ caliber, to give you a rough outline.

Animal Collective
– Strawberry Jam (2007)
– Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)

Arcade Fire
– Funeral (2004)

Arctic Monkeys
– Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not (2006)
– Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)
–  Humbug (2009)

Beirut
– Gulag Orkestar (2006)

Black Lips
– Good Bad Not Evil (2007)
– Los Valienteles Del Mundo Nuevo (2007)

Bright  Eyes
– I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
– Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)

Death From Above 1979
– You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine (2004)

Grizzly Bear
– Yellow House (2006)

Jay Reatard
– Blood Visions (2006)

The King  Khan & BBQ Show
– The King Khan & BBQ Show LP (2004)
– What’s For Dinner? (2006)
– Invisible Girl (2009)

King Khan & The Shrines
– The Supreme Genius of King Khan & His Shrines (2008)

The Libertines
– Up the Bracket (2002)

The Lovely Feathers
– Hind Hind Legs (2006)

No Age
– Weirdo Rippers (2006)
– Nouns (2008)

Panda Bear
– Person Pitch (2007)

Peter Bjorn and John
– Writer’s  Block (2006)

Radiohead
– Kid A (2000)
– In Rainbows (2007)

The Raveonettes
– Lust Lust Lust (2007)

Rogue Wave
– Out of the Shadow (2003)

The Strokes
– Is This It? (2001)

Tapes ‘n Tapes
– The Loon (2005)

Uninhabitable Mansions
– Nature Is A Taker (2009)

Vampire Weekend
– Vampire Weekend (2008)

The Walkmen
– Bows and Arrows (2004)
– A Hundred Miles Off (2006)
– You and Me (2008)

Wolf Parade
– Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005)