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For Emma, Forever Ago
For Emma, Forever Ago is Bon Iver's debut album, recorded by Justin Vernon alone over three months in a Wisconsin hunting cabin with one Shure SM57 and Pro Tools; self-released 2007, Jagjaguwar wide release February 19, 2008, nine songs, Platinum.
From a Basement on the Hill
From a Basement on the Hill is Elliott Smith's sixth and final studio album, released posthumously October 19, 2004 on Anti- (US) and Domino (Europe), completed by Rob Schnapf and Joanna Bolme from over thirty songs, later remastered by Larry Crane and Adam Gonsalves for Kill Rock Stars' 2024 reissue.
Get Behind Me Satan
Get Behind Me Satan (2005) is The White Stripes' fifth studio album, recorded in two weeks on Jack White's Detroit home stairway, expanding the duo's sound with piano, marimba, mandolin, and bells; it scored 81 on Metacritic, debuted Top 3 in four countries, and won a second consecutive Grammy for Best Alternative Album.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Good News for People Who Love Bad News is Modest Mouse's fourth studio album (Epic, April 6, 2004), a platinum indie-rock breakthrough led by the single "Float On," with two 2005 Grammy nominations.
Gorillaz (album)
Gorillaz (2001), the self-titled debut album of Albarn and Hewlett's virtual band, blending hip hop, dub and lo-fi rock; UK #3, US #14, about seven million sold.
Heathen Chemistry
Heathen Chemistry, Oasis's fifth studio album released 1 July 2002, triple platinum in the UK and a No. 1 there; last album with drummer Alan White, first with a Liam-written single, Songbird.
Hot Fuss
Hot Fuss is the debut studio album by American rock band The Killers, released in June 2004 on Island Records and featuring "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me."
Hozier (album)
Hozier is the 2014 self-titled debut album by Irish singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne, released by Rubyworks/Columbia. Includes "Take Me to Church"; fastest-selling Irish album of 2014, No. 2 charting debut.
Humbug (album)
Humbug, Arctic Monkeys' third studio album (August 2009, Domino), co-produced by Josh Homme and James Ford, recorded at Rancho de la Luna in the Joshua Tree desert, a darker, slower desert-rock turn that reached UK number one.
Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)
Illinois, full title Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise, is Sufjan Stevens' 2005 chamber-folk concept album for the state of Illinois, the second entry in his Fifty States Project after Michigan, known for Chicago, Casimir Pulaski Day, and John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Is This It
Is This It (2001) is the debut album by New York rock band The Strokes, produced by Gordon Raphael. Released July 30, 2001 (Australia) and October 9, 2001 (US) on RCA; "New York City Cops" was removed from the US edition after 9/11.
Life on Other Planets
Life on Other Planets is Supergrass' fourth studio album (2002), a glam-tinged UK rock record that peaked at number 9 in Britain and spawned the singles Grace and Seen the Light.
Lullabies to Paralyze
Lullabies to Paralyze is Queens of the Stone Age's fourth studio album, released March 22, 2005 on Interscope after Nick Oliveri's firing; it debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and features Billy Gibbons guesting on three tracks.
Lungs (album)
Lungs (2009) is the debut album by Florence + the Machine, released 3 July 2009 on Island Records. Produced by Paul Epworth, James Ford, and Steve Mackey, it topped the UK chart, sold four million, and won the 2010 BRIT for British Album of the Year.
Make Believe (Weezer album)
Make Believe is Weezer's fifth studio album, released May 10, 2005 on Geffen and produced by Rick Rubin; its single Beverly Hills hit No. 1 on Billboard Modern Rock and earned the band's first Grammy nomination.
Maladroit
Maladroit, Weezer's fourth studio album, released May 14, 2002 on Geffen; 13 tracks, 33 minutes, first album with bassist Scott Shriner, self-produced, built from fan-feedback demos on weezer.com, Metascore 72.
Merriweather Post Pavilion (album)
Merriweather Post Pavilion is Animal Collective's ninth studio album, released January 2009 on Domino, produced by Ben Allen in Oxford, Mississippi as a trio; a critically acclaimed electronic pop breakthrough named 2009's best album by several outlets.
Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album)
Minutes to Midnight is Linkin Park's third studio album, released May 2007 on Warner Bros. Co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, it dropped nu metal for alternative rock, topped UK and US charts, and divided critics (Metacritic 56).
Morning View
Morning View is Incubus's fourth album, released October 23, 2001 on Epic. Written and recorded in a rented Malibu beach house on Morning View Drive, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, went multi-platinum, and was re-recorded as Morning View XXIII in 2024.
Neon Bible
Neon Bible is Arcade Fire's second studio album, released March 2007 on Merge and Mercury. Recorded in a converted Quebec church, it pairs apocalyptic themes of religion and consumerism with Springsteen-influenced, organ-heavy indie rock.
Nervous Young Man
Nervous Young Man is the eighth self-released Car Seat Headrest album, put out by Will Toledo on Bandcamp on August 23, 2013. A conceptual double album of songs written between ages 17 and 21, it includes the long tracks Boxing Day and The Gun Song and the Disjecta Membra outtakes companion.
No Line on the Horizon
No Line on the Horizon is U2's twelfth studio album, released 27 February 2009, produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite, recorded in Fez, Dublin, New York, and London, debuting at No. 1 in 30 countries.
Nocturama (album)
Nocturama is the twelfth studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released February 2003 on Anti-/Epitaph and Mute. Produced by Nick Launay in a week in Melbourne with no overdubs, its last Bad Seeds album with Blixa Bargeld, closing with the 14:45 "Babe, I'm on Fire," and scored 73 on Metacritic.
One-X
One-X is a 2006 studio album by the Canadian rock group Three Days Grace. It was produced by Howard Benson and achieved quintuple-platinum status in the United States.
Only by the Night
Only by the Night is the fourth studio album by Kings of Leon, released September 2008 on RCA. Produced by Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King at Blackbird Studio, Nashville, it launched Sex on Fire and Use Somebody and became the UK's biggest seller of 2009.
Oracular Spectacular
Oracular Spectacular is the 2007 debut album by MGMT (Ben Goldwasser, Andrew VanWyngarden), produced by Dave Fridmann, released digitally October 2007 and physically January 22, 2008 on Columbia, with singles Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, and Kids, selling about two million copies.
Origin of Symmetry
Origin of Symmetry (オリジン・オブ・シンメトリー) is Muse's second studio album, released 18 June 2001 on Mushroom/Taste Media; produced by David Bottrill and John Leckie, it peaked at UK No. 3, took its title from Michio Kaku's Hyperspace, and was delayed in the US until 2005.
Parachutes (Coldplay album)
Parachutes (2000) is Coldplay's debut album, released on Parlophone in the UK and Capitol/Nettwerk in the US; 10 tracks, produced with Ken Nelson, No. 1 in the UK, over 13 million sold, Grammy-winning.
Pearl Jam (album)
Pearl Jam (the 2006 self-titled 'Avocado' album), Pearl Jam's eighth studio album on J Records, produced by Adam Kasper; debuted No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with the single World Wide Suicide, distinct from the band's other albums.
Raditude
Raditude is Weezer's seventh studio album, released October-November 2009 on DGC/Geffen/Interscope, named by actor Rainn Wilson, featuring Lil Wayne and Dr. Luke collaborators, and scoring 57 on Metacritic.