O jornal PitchFork produz anualmente uma lista fabulosa dos melhores álbuns do ano anterior. Seguindo a dica do meu amigo Tiago, reproduzo aqui as listas dos ultimos anos, num formato mais legível que o disponibilizado pelo site.

Pitchfork Best Albums of 2004

The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Brian Wilson - Smile
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
M.I.A. / Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
Erlend Øye - DJ-Kicks
Annie - Anniemal
Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Björk - Medulla
Air - Talkie Walkie
Fennesz - Venice
The Foreign Exchange - Connected
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Various Artists - DFA Compilation #2
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Interpol - Antics
Junior Boys - Last Exit
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
De La Soul - The Grind Date
Califone - Heron King Blues
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Espers - Espers
Mirah - C'mon Miracle
Excepter - KA
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is a Soul Machine
The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
Les Savy Fav - Inches
DJ/Rupture - Special Gunpowder
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
The Concretes - The Concretes
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles

Pitchfork Best Albums of 2003

The Rapture - Echoes
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher + Extinguished: Outtakes
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
Mu - Afro Finger & Gel
Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Four Tet - Rounds
Deerhoof - Apple O'
Jay-Z - The Black Album
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Non-Prophets - Hope
King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader
Songs - Ohia Magnolia Electric Co.
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
The Clientele - The Violet Hour
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
The Postal Service - Give Up
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Cat Power - You Are Free
The Decemberists - Castaways & Cutouts
Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat
DM + Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Broadcast - Haha Sound
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Alejandra & Aeron - Bousha Blue Blazes
Ms. John Soda - No P. or D.
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
George - The Magic Lantern
Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs
Cyann & Ben - Spring
Supersilent - 6

Pitchfork Best Albums of 2002

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
The Books - Thought for Food
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Notwist - Neon Golden
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Max Tundra - Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Enon - High Society
Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg - The Return of FennO'Berg
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Deerhoof - Reveille
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
Wire - Read & Burn 01 & 02
Fire Show - Saint the Fire Show
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays
McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
Neko Case - Blacklisted
GZA - Legend of the Liquid Sword
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Sigur Rós - ()
Mr. Lif - I Phantom
Isis - Oceanic
Philip Jeck - Stoke
Rjd2 - Deadringer
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
DJ /Rupture - Minesweeper Suite
Secret Machines - September 000
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
Derek Bailey - Ballads
Talib Kweli - Quality
Beck - Sea Change
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
Hrvatski - Swarm & Dither
Acid Mothers Temple - In C
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Songs - Ohia: Didn't It Rain
Tom Waits - Alice and Blood Money
Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots
Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun

Pitchfork Best Albums of 2001

Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Circulatory System - Circulatory System
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Autechre - Confield
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
Dismemberment Plan - Change
Strokes - Is This It
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Dntel - Life is Full of Possibilities
Fugazi - The Argument

Pitchfork Best Albums of 2000

Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
Les Savy Fav - Rome (Written Upside Down) EP
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
King Biscuit Time - No Style EP
Gas - Pop
Crooked Fingers - Crooked Fingers
Super Furry Animals - Mwng
Enon - Believo!
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
Summer Hymns - Voice Brother and Sister
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5

Pitchfork Best Albums of 1999

Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
The Beta Band - The Three EPs
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP
Blur - 13