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| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 2002 |
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| Fugazi |
The Argument | 2001 |
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| Interpol |
Turn On the Bright Lights | 2002 |
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| Liars |
They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top | 2002 |
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| Radiohead |
Hail to the Thief | 2003 |
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| The Shins |
Oh, Inverted World | 2001 |
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| The Shins |
Chutes Too Narrow | 2003 |
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| Sufjan Stevens | Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State | 2003 |
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| Wilco |
A Ghost Is Born | 2004 |
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| Brian Wilson | SMiLE | 2004 |
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