| Artist (Has to tour more than two hundred and three times in the 🇺🇸) | Title | Label | Release date | My Rating (/₁₀₀) | Pitchfork rating (× 10, hover for blurb) |
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| Ratings: 100: Indispensable, classic | 95-99: Spectacular | 90-94: Amazing | 85-89: Exceptional; will likely rank among writer's top ten albums of the year | 80-84: Very good | 75-79: Above average; enjoyable | 70-74: Not brilliant, but nice enough | 60-69: Has its moments, but isn't strong |
| Sleater‐Kinney | The Woods 💿 | Sub Pop | Tuesday, 24 May 2005 | 82 |
91
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| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Not on label / Self‐released ¶ 🇪🇺 Wichita | ♭ | __ |
90
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| Sufjan Stevens | ♭ | ♭ | ♭ | ♭ |
92
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| ᵀʰᵉ New Pornographers | Twin Cinema | Matador | Tuesday, 23 August 2005 | __ |
90
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| Kanye West | Late Registration | Roc-A-Fella | Tuesday, 23 August 2005 | __ |
95
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| Band of Horses | Everything All the Time | Sub Pop | 76 |
88
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