List of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Album

This is a list of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Albums.^[1]

Contents 1 2003 2 2004 3 2005 4 2006 5 2007 6 2008 7 2009 8 2010 9 2011 10 References

2003

• Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
• The Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
• The Microphones - Mount Eerie
• Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
• The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party?
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
• Giddy Motors - Make It Pop
• Supersilent - 6
• Cat Power - You Are Free
• Majesticons - Beauty Party
• Xiu Xiu - A Promise
• Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
• Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn
• Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
• The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
• The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
• Deerhoof - Apple O
• Manitoba - Up in Flames
• The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
• Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress
• Panthers - Let's Get Serious EP
• Four Tet - Rounds
• Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
• M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
• Fog - Ether Teeth
• Singel Frame - Wetheads Come Running
• !!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) EP
• Grandaddy - Sumday
• Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
• Clearlake - Cedars
• WHY? - Oaklandazulasylum
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
• Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
• TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
• Constantines - Shine a Light
• Polysics - Neu
• The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
• The Rapture - Echoes
• Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
• My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
• The Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy
• Need New Body - UFO
• The Wrens - The Meadowlands
• Cyann & Ben - Spring
• The Books - The Lemon of Pink
• Non-Prophets - Hope
• The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
• Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
• Menoma - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
• Ellen Allien - Berlinette
• The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
• Jay-Z - The Black Album
• MU - Afro Finger and Gel

2004

• Philip Jeck - 7
• Air - Talkie Walkie
• The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows
• Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
• Kanye West - The College Dropout
• Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
• Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
• Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
• Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
• Madvillain - Madvillainy
• Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
• William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV
• Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
• Les Savy Fav - Inches
• Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
• Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
• Mission of Burma - ONoffON
• Erlend Øye - DJ Kicks
• Mirah - C'mon Miracle
• The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
• Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
• Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
• A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
• Junior Boys - Last Exit
• The Plastic Constellations - Mazatlan
• Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
• The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
• Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
• The Futureheads - The Futureheads
• Björk - Medúlla
• Castanets - Cathedral
• Arcade Fire - Funeral
• The Foreign Exchange - Connected
• Dungen - Ta det lugnt
• Interpol - Antics
• Brian Wilson - Smile
• Panda Bear - Young Prayer
• The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
• Various Artists - DFA Compilation #2
• Annie - Anniemal
• Diplo & M.I.A. - Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1
• Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu forsetar
• Excepter - KA

2005

• The Fiery Furnaces - EP
• Black Mountain - Black Mountain
• M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
• LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
• Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
• Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
• Various Artists - Run the Road
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
• M.I.A. - Arular
• The Decemberists - Picaresque
• Edan - Beauty and the Beat
• Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
• The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
• Vitalic - OK Cowboy
• Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
• The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Face the Truth
• Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
• Common - Be
• Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
• Isolée - We Are Monster
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Wilderness - Wilderness
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
• Kanye West - Late Registration
• Serena-Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
• Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
• Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
• Deerhoof - The Runners Four
• The Clientele - Strange Geometry
• Animal Collective - Feels
• Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
• Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
• Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
• Sunn O))) - Black One

2006

• Boris - Pink
• Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
• The Knife - Silent Shout
• Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
• Liars - Drum's Not Dead
• Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
• Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
• Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
• Islands - Return to the Sea
• Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
• Scott Walker - The Drift
• Danielson Famile - Ships
• Matthew Herbert - Scale
• TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
• Girl Talk - Night Ripper
• The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
• I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
• Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
• The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
• Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
• Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
• Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
• Mastodon - Blood Mountain
• The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
• Califone - Roots and Crowns
• Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
• Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
• Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
• Joanna Newsom - Ys
• Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

2007

• Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
• Menomena - Friend and Foe
• Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
• Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
• Deerhunter - Cryptograms
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
• LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
• Panda Bear - Person Pitch
• The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
• The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
• Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP
• The Prodigy - Return of the Mac
• Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP
• Feist - The Reminder
• The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
• Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
• Battles - Mirrored
• The National - Boxer
• Justice - † (album)
• Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
• Various Artists - After Dark
• Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Okkervil River - The Stage Names
• M.I.A. - Kala
• Caribou - Andorra
• Liars - Liars
• A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
• Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
• Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
• Kanye West - Graduation
• Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
• Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
• Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
• Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP
• Chromatics - Night Drive
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
• Grizzly Bear - Friend EP
• Jay-Z - American Gangster
• Burial - Untrue
• Daft Punk - Alive 2007

2008

• Times New Viking - Rip It Off
• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
• High Palaces - 03/07 - 09/07
• Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
• El Guincho - Alegranza!
• Beach House - Devotion
• Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
• The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
• Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
• Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
• The Dodos - Visiter
• Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
• M83 - Saturdays=Youth
• Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
• Portishead - Third
• No Age - Nouns
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
• Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Crystal Antlers - EP
• Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
• Air France - No Way Down EP
• Harvey Milk - Life…The Best Game In Town
• The Bug - London Zoo
• The Walkmen - You & Me
• Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
• Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
• TV on the Radio - Dear Science
• Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
• Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
• Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
• Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom
• Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
• DJ /rupture - Uproot
• Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
• The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best

2009

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
• Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
• Wavves - Wavves
• Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
• Dan Deacon - Bromst
• Fever Ray - Fever Ray
• Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
• Bill Callahan - Drag City
• Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
• Woods - Song of Shame
• Japandroids - Post-Nothing
• St. Vincent - Actor
• Isis - Wavering Radiant
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
• Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
• Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
• Mos Def - The Ecstatic
• Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
• Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
• Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
• Cass McCombs - Catacombs
• jj - jj n° 2
• Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP
• The Antlers - Hospice
• YACHT - See Mystery Lights
• The xx - The xx
• Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
• Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
• Volcano Choir - Unmap
• Girls - Album
• Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
• The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
• The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
• Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
• The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
• Atlas Sound - Logos
• Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
• Various Artists - 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
• Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
• Real Estate - Real Estate
• Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind

2010

• Vampire Weekend - Contra
• Owen Pallett - Heartland
• Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
• Four Tet - There Is Love in You
• Beach House - Teen Dream
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
• Hot Chip - One Life Stand
• Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
• Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
• Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
• Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
• Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
• Liars - Sisterworld
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
• Fang Island - Fang Island
• The Morning Benders - Big Echo
• The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
• Caribou - Swim
• Delorean - Subiza
• The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
• Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
• Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
• The National - High Violet
• Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
• Sleigh Bells - Treats
• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
• Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
• James Blake - CMYK
• Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
• Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
• Wild Nothing - Gemini
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
• Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
• Julian Lynch - Mare
• ceo - White Magic
• Wavves - King of the Beach
• Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
• The-Dream - Love King
• Best Coast - Crazy For You
• Curren$y - Pilot Talk
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• Matthew Dear - Black City
• The Walkmen - Lisbon
• Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
• How to Dress Well - Love Remains
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
• No Age - Everything in Between
• Twin Shadow - Forget
• Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
• Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP
• Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• Robyn - Body Talk
• OFF! - First Four EPs

2011

• Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
• Destroyer - Kaputt
• Cut Copy - Zonoscope
• James Blake - James Blake
• PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
• Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
• Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
• Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
• Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
• Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
• Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
• The Weeknd - House of Balloons
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
• Panda Bear - Tomboy
• tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
• Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva
• Cass McCombs - Wit's End
• DJ Quik - The Book of David
• Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
• Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
• EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
• The Antlers - Burst Apart
• Cults - Cults
• Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
• Bon Iver - Bon Iver
• WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
• Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
• Iceage - New Brigade
• AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream
• John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
• Washed Out - Within and Without
• Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
• The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
• The Field - Looping State of Mind
• Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
• St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
• Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
• Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
• Trash Talk - Awake
• M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
• Real Estate - Days
• Atlas Sound - Parallax
• ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
• Drake - Take Care
• Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
• Sepalcure - Sepalcure

References

1. ^ Pitchfork Media list of best albums Retrieved 21 November 2011.