The 2000s

BOLDED: 8/10s+ - HIGHLY Recommended albums. I LOVED these!
Normal: 6/10s & 7/10s - Recommended albums. I liked these overall.

Country:

Rodney Crowell - "The Houston Kid" (2001)

Electronic:

Air - "Talkie Walkie" (2004)

Four Tet - "Rounds" (2003)

GAS - "Pop" (2000)

LTJ Bukem - "Producer 01" (2000)

Metal/Hardcore:

Converge - "Axe to Fall" (2009)

Converge - "Jane Doe" (2001)

Immolation - "Close to a World Below" (2000)

Mastodon - "Leviathan" (2004)

Necrophagist - "Onset of Putrefaction" (2004)

Opeth - "Blackwater Park" (2001)

Pop/R&B:

Bjork - "Vespertine" (2001)

Rap:

50 Cent - "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" (2003)

Clipse - "Hell Hath No Fury" (2006)

Deltron 3030 - "Deltron 3030" (2000)

Jay Z - "The Blueprint" (2001)

Rock/Folk:

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead... - "Source Tags & Codes" (2002)

Andrew Bird - "Weather Systems" (2003)

Animal Collective - "Merriweather Post Pavilion" (2009)

Arcade Fire - "Funeral" (2004)

Arctic Monkeys - "Favourite Worst Nightmare" (2007)

Arctic Monkeys - “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” (2006)

Art Brut - "Bang Bang Rock & Roll" (2005)

Badly Drawn Boy - "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" (2000)

Beck - “Guero” (2005)

Belle & Sebastian - “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” (2003)

Belle & Sebastian - "The Life Pursuit" (2006)

Ben Folds - "Rockin' the Suburbs" (2001)

Beulah - "The Coast is Never Clear" (2001)

Bloc Party - "Silent Alarm" (2005)

Broadcast - "Haha Sound" (2003)

Broadcast - "The Noise Made by People" (2000)

Broken Social Scene - "You Forgot It In People" (2003)

Built to Spill - "Live" (2000)

Built to Spill - "You In Reverse" (2006)

Coldplay - "Parachutes" (2000)

Coldplay - "A Rush of Blood to the Head" (2002)

Cut Copy - "Bright Like Neon Love" (2004)

Cut Copy - "In Ghost Colours" (2008)

Death Cab for Cutie - “Narrow Stairs” (2008)

Death Cab for Cutie - "Plans" (2005)

Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" (2003)

The Decemberists - “Castaways & Cutouts” (2002)

The Decemberists - "Picaresque" (2005)

Dismemberment Plan - "Change" (2001)

Drive-By Truckers - "A Blessing and a Curse" (2006)

Editors - "The Back Room" (2005)

Elf Power - “Creatures” (2002)

Elf Power - "Walking with the Beggar Boys" (2004)

Fiona Apple - "Extraordinary Machine" (2005)

The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (2002)

Fleet Foxes - "Fleet Foxes" (2008)

Green Day - "International Superhits!" (1990s/2000s)

Guster - "Keep It Together" (2003)

The Hives - "Tyrannosaurus Hives" (2004)

The Hives - “Veni Vidi Vicious” (2000)

The Hold Steady - "Stay Positive" (2008)

Interpol - "Turn On the Bright Lights" (2002)

Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American" (2001)

The Killers - "Hot Fuss" (2004)

The Kills - "Midnight Boom" (2008)

Kings of Convenience - "Quiet is the New Loud" (2004)

Kings of Convenience - "Riot On An Empty Street" (2004)

LCD Soundsystem - "Sound of Silver" (2007)

The Libertines - "The Libertines" (2004)

The Libertines - "Up the Bracket" (2002)

Maximo Park - "A Certain Trigger" (2005)

Modest Mouse - "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" (2004)

The Mooney Suzuki - "Electric Sweat" (2002)

Muse - "Absolution" (2004)

Muse - "Origin of Symmetry" (2001)

My Morning Jacket - "Z" (2005)

Nada Surf - "Let Go" (2003)

Nada Surf - "Lucky" (2008)

Nada Surf - "The Weight is a Gift" (2005)

The New Pornographers - “Electric Version” (2003)

The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic" (2000)

PJ Harvey - “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea" (2000)

The Postal Service - "Give Up" (2003)

Pulp - "Hits" (90s/2000s)

Queens of the Stone Age - "Songs for the Deaf" (2002)

Radiohead - "In Rainbows" (2007)

Radiohead - "Kid A" (2000)

The Shins - "Chutes Too Narrow" (2003)

The Shins - "Oh, Inverted World" (2001)

Sleater-Kinney - "The Woods" (2005)

Spoon - "Gimme Fiction" (2005)

Spoon - "Girls Can Tell" (2001)

The Stills - "Logic Will Break Your Heart" (2003)

The Strokes - "Is This It" (2001)

The Strokes - "Room On Fire" (2003)

Sun Kil Moon - "April" (2008)

Sun Kil Moon - "Ghosts of the Great Highway" (2003)

Sun Kil Moon - "Tiny Cities" (2005)

Sunny Day Real Estate - "The Rising Tide" (2000)

Supergrass - "Supergrass is 10: The Best of 94-04" (1990s/2000s)

The Tallest Man On Earth - "Shallow Grave" (2008)

Vampire Weekend - "Vampire Weekend" (2008)

The White Stripes - "De Stijl" (2000)

The White Stripes - “Elephant” (2003)

The White Stripes - "White Blood Cells" (2001)

Wilco - “Sky Blue Sky” (2007)

Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (2002)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Fever to Tell" (2003)