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2002 Indie Rock Album Releases
2001
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2002
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Aug 20
Interpol
Turn On The Bright Lights
82
critic score
(11)
87
user score
(3,291)
Apr 23
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
91
critic score
(16)
87
user score
(2,572)
Oct 15
Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It In People
87
critic score
(11)
86
user score
(998)
Aug 6
Carissa's Wierd
Songs About Leaving
77
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(472)
Aug 20
Spoon
Kill The Moonlight
78
critic score
(8)
80
user score
(317)
Jun 25
Sonic Youth
Murray Street
81
critic score
(12)
78
user score
(313)
Oct 14
The Libertines
Up The Bracket
75
critic score
(10)
78
user score
(310)
Feb 26
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Source Tags & Codes
80
critic score
(15)
80
user score
(238)
Aug 20
Sleater-Kinney
One Beat
80
critic score
(13)
82
user score
(187)
Mar 5
Songs: Ohia
Didn't It Rain
88
critic score
(7)
83
user score
(181)
Nov 12
Interpol
Obstacle 1
96
user score
(138)
Oct 1
Rilo Kiley
The Execution of All Things
80
critic score
(6)
81
user score
(131)
Sep 23
The Strokes
Someday
94
user score
(112)
Aug 20
The Microphones
Song Islands
74
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(106)
Sep 24
Low
Trust
79
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(96)
Mar 26
The Walkmen
Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
82
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(83)
Jul 29
The Coral
The Coral
77
critic score
(10)
74
user score
(81)
Oct 15
12 RODS
Lost Time
83
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(74)
Jun 4
Interpol
Interpol EP
87
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(71)
Apr 23
Wilco
Jesus, Etc.
94
user score
(57)
Oct 8
Destroyer
This Night
71
critic score
(3)
69
user score
(56)
Aug 5
Primal Scream
Evil Heat
66
critic score
(10)
70
user score
(53)
Apr 16
Pedro The Lion
Control
76
critic score
(6)
79
user score
(50)
Oct 14
The Delgados
Hate
79
critic score
(9)
79
user score
(48)
May 21
Ugly Casanova
Sharpen Your Teeth
71
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(47)
Jun 4
Enon
High Society
83
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(47)
Oct 8
Hot Hot Heat
Make Up the Breakdown
77
critic score
(14)
77
user score
(44)
Feb 12
Desaparecidos
Read Music/Speak Spanish
73
critic score
(6)
77
user score
(44)
May 21
The Breeders
Title TK
72
critic score
(12)
74
user score
(43)
Jun 4
Deerhoof
Reveille
83
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(40)
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Nov 12
Minus the Bear
Highly Refined Pirates
68
critic score
(3)
82
user score
(39)
Aug 22
Interpol
PDA / Specialist
92
user score
(34)
May 14
The Get Up Kids
On a Wire
70
critic score
(10)
72
user score
(32)
Mar 5
Clinic
Walking With Thee
72
critic score
(13)
78
user score
(31)
Mar 5
Ben Kweller
Sha Sha
68
critic score
(7)
74
user score
(30)
Jan 22
Okkervil River
Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See
66
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(28)
Jul 15
Idlewild
The Remote Part
79
critic score
(9)
75
user score
(28)
Apr 9
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Good Health
86
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(27)
Nov 5
Kid Dakota
So Pretty
81
user score
(27)
Sep 2
The Music
The Music
63
critic score
(10)
71
user score
(26)
2002
Wilco
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
93
user score
(26)
Jan 1
Bright Eyes
A Christmas Album
62
critic score
(11)
64
user score
(25)
Feb 11
The Cooper Temple Clause
See This Through and Leave
78
critic score
(5)
76
user score
(24)
Apr 23
Wilco
Heavy Metal Drummer
92
user score
(23)
Oct 21
Q and Not U
Different Damage
78
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(22)
Feb 19
Death Cab for Cutie
The Stability EP
60
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(19)
Oct 20
Pavement
Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
100
critic score
(4)
90
user score
(19)
Feb 12
90 Day Men
To Everybody
79
critic score
(6)
72
user score
(19)
May 21
Wilco
War on War
88
user score
(19)
Jun 18
Guided by Voices
Universal Truths and Cycles
69
critic score
(11)
70
user score
(18)
Jul 29
Baxter Dury
Len Parrot's Memorial Lift
70
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(18)
Jul 9
Pixies
Pixies
60
critic score
(3)
70
user score
(17)
Sep 28
Trespassers William
Different Stars
73
critic score
(3)
83
user score
(17)
Sep 27
Karate
Some Boots
65
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(16)
Aug 6
The Raveonettes
Whip It On
67
critic score
(9)
79
user score
(15)
May 6
Bright Eyes
There Is No Beginning to the Story
81
critic score
(3)
74
user score
(15)
Oct 21
Graham Coxon
The Kiss of Morning
73
critic score
(4)
75
user score
(14)
May 31
Wilco
Ashes Of American Flags
92
user score
(14)
Nov 11
The Sounds
Living in America
56
critic score
(3)
64
user score
(13)
Feb 5
Radio 4
Gotham!
73
critic score
(7)
72
user score
(11)
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