Finally got around to rating/compiling my list of top 25 (technically 26 with ties) albums of the decade. A couple surprised me, and I was surprised some were left off, but below is my unofficial list.
Code:
1. Franz Ferdinand - Frand Ferdinand (2004)
2. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse (2007)
3. My Morning Jacket - Z (2005)
4. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (2008)
4. The Postal Service - Give Up (2003)
4. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006)
7. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (2006)
8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
9. Okkervil River - The Stage Names (2007)
9. The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
11. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon (2005)
11. The Strokes - is This It (2001)
13. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (2008)
14. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008)
15. The National - Boxer (2007)
16. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (2007)
17. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
18. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
18. The Strokes - Room on Fire (2003)
20. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007)
20. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2009)
22. The Dodos - Visiter (2008)
23. !!! - Myth Takes (2007)
24. Los Campesiņos! - We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (2008)
25. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004)
25. The Zutons - Who Killed..... The Zutons? (2004)
This does not include any EPs/compilations, or some I never got around to listening to until recently (I'm really loving Wilco's YHF, but I never listened to it until recently for some reason).