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Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 2002 | 
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| Cat Power | You Are Free | 2003 |
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| Gorillaz |
Demon Days | 2005 |
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| Loretta Lynn | Van Lear Rose | 2004 |
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| Madvillain | Madvillainy | 2004 |
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| Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane |
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall | 2005 |
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| Elliott Smith | From a Basement on a Hill | 2004 |
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| The Streets |
A Grand Don't Come for Free | 2004 |
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| Wilco |
A Ghost Is Born | 2004 |
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