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This is an ordered list of Pitchfork's highest rated albums of 2002. Check out
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...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
February 26, 2002
Post-Hardcore
,
Indie Rock
Score
100
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2
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Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
April 23, 2002
Indie Rock
,
Art Rock
Score
100
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Spotify
3
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Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
October 21, 2002
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
97
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Spotify
4
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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
August 20, 2002
Post-Punk Revival
,
Indie Rock
Score
95
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5
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Shalabi Effect - The Trial of St. Orange
February 6, 2002
Score
94
Source →
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6
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Interpol - Interpol EP
June 4, 2002
Post-Punk Revival
Score
93
Source →
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7
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Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
April 30, 2002
Conscious Hip Hop
,
West Coast Hip Hop
Score
93
Source →
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Music
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8
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Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
November 12, 2002
Glitch Pop
,
Indietronica
Score
93
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
April 9, 2002
Post-Hardcore
,
Indie Rock
Score
92
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
The Notwist - Neon Golden
January 14, 2002
Indie Pop
,
Indietronica
Score
92
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
October 15, 2002
Indie Rock
,
Art Rock
Score
92
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Talib Kweli - Quality
November 19, 2002
Conscious Hip Hop
,
East Coast Hip Hop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
ISIS - Oceanic
September 16, 2002
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
,
Post-Metal
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Eminem - The Eminem Show
May 26, 2002
Hip Hop
,
Pop Rap
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
August 20, 2002
Indie Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
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Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Headdress
Free Folk
,
Psychedelic Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
17
.
Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
November 4, 2002
Indietronica
,
Dance-Punk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
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Mastodon - Remission
May 28, 2002
Progressive Metal
,
Sludge Metal
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
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Sonic Youth - Murray Street
June 25, 2002
Indie Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
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The Books - Thought For Food
June 3, 2002
Folktronica
,
Sound Collage
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
.
Tom Waits - Blood Money
May 7, 2002
Singer-Songwriter
,
Dark Cabaret
,
Experimental Rock
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Tom Waits - Alice
May 7, 2002
Singer-Songwriter
,
Vocal Jazz
,
Dark Cabaret
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn
January 1, 2002
Modern Classical
,
Ambient
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
Music
24
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Iran - The Moon Boys
December 1, 2002
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
25
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Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
August 20, 2002
Indie Rock
Score
89
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Pitchfork awarded albums throughout 2002.
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