I just need to stop thinking about this--'tis late. Sorry I am not writing as beautifully as the rest of you!
- Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- MeShell Ndegeocello, Bitter
- Brandi Carlile, The Story
- Swell Season, Strict Joy
- Ray LaMontagne, Gossip in the Grain
- Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans
- Robyn, Body Talk
- Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Krystle Warren, Circles
- Michael Franti, Stay Human
Runners Up
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (do soundtracks count?)
- Lauren Hill, The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
- Spoon, Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga
- Sade, Lovers Rock
- Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
- Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs
- Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, I learned the Hard Way
- The Gossip, Standing in the Way of Control
- Rufus Wainwright, Poses
- Dawes, North Hills
