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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
April 23, 2002
Critic Score
92
13
reviews
2
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Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
August 22, 2002
Critic Score
87
10
reviews
3
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Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
August 27, 2002
Critic Score
87
8
reviews
4
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Beck - Sea Change
September 24, 2002
Critic Score
86
11
reviews
5
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Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
October 15, 2002
Critic Score
86
10
reviews
6
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The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
May 21, 2002
Critic Score
85
5
reviews
7
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The Libertines - Up The Bracket
October 14, 2002
Critic Score
85
6
reviews
8
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John Parish - How Animals Move
September 10, 2002
Critic Score
84
5
reviews
9
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mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
September 22, 2002
Critic Score
83
5
reviews
10
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Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
August 20, 2002
Critic Score
83
10
reviews
11
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Sonic Youth - Murray Street
June 25, 2002
Critic Score
82
9
reviews
12
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The Delgados - Hate
October 14, 2002
Critic Score
82
8
reviews
13
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Tom Waits - Blood Money
May 7, 2002
Critic Score
81
8
reviews
14
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90 Day Men - To Everybody
February 12, 2002
Critic Score
80
5
reviews
15
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Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
August 20, 2002
Critic Score
80
8
reviews
16
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Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
July 30, 2002
Critic Score
80
8
reviews
17
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Nirvana - Nirvana
October 29, 2002
Critic Score
80
10
reviews
18
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Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
October 1, 2002
Critic Score
79
5
reviews
19
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Sigur Rós - ()
October 29, 2002
Critic Score
79
11
reviews
20
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N.E.R.D - In Search of...
March 12, 2002
Critic Score
79
8
reviews
21
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George Harrison - Brainwashed
November 18, 2002
Critic Score
79
5
reviews
22
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Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
February 19, 2002
Critic Score
79
5
reviews
23
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Paul Weller - Illumination
September 16, 2002
Critic Score
79
6
reviews
24
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Idlewild - The Remote Part
July 15, 2002
Critic Score
79
9
reviews
25
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
July 9, 2002
Critic Score
79
8
reviews
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