by MIRROR MUSIC STAFF
Rupert Bottenberg
Best
The Arcade Fire Funeral (Merge)
Björk Medúlla (Elektra/Warner)
The Dresden Dolls self-titled (8ft.)
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries)
The Polyphonic Spree Together We're Heavy (Good)
Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place (Domino)
William Shatner Has Been (Shout! Factory)
The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free (679)
Brian Wilson Presents Smile (Nonesuch)
Various Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay)
Worst
Courtney Love America's Sweetheart (Virgin)
Gwen Stefani Love Angel Music Baby (Interscope)
Zero 7 When It Falls (Ultimate Dilemma)
Scott C
Best
DJ Mitsu the Beats Re:Awakening 1-2 (Jazzy Sport)
DKD Future Rage (Bitasweet)
Mark de Clive-Lowe Tide's Arising (Antipodean)
Foreign Exchange Connected (BBE)
MF Doom Mm Food (Rhymesayers)
New Sector Movements Turn It Up (Virgin UK)
Various Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion in 70's Ghana Vol. 2 (Soundway)
Various Sun Ra: Dedication-The Myth Lives On (Kindred Spirits)
Tom Waits Real Gone (Anti-)
Kanye West The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
Worst
Brand Nubian Fire in the Hole (Babygrande)
The Beatnuts Milk Me (Penalty)
Jay-Z & Linkin Park Collision Course (DefJam/MTV)
Lorraine Carpenter
Best
!!! Louden Up Now (Touch and Go)
The Arcade Fire Funeral (Merge)
Neko Case The Tigers Have Spoken (Mint)
Death From Above 1979 You Are a Woman, I'm a Machine (Last Gang)
The Hidden Cameras Mississauga Goddam (Evil Evil)
Morrissey You Are the Quarry (Attack)
The Organ Grab That Gun (Mint/604)
Quebec Connection Bonjour Expo (Protomusik)
Stars Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Le Tigre This Island (Strummer)
Worst
Auf Der Maur self-titled (EMI)
Courtney Love America's Sweetheart (Virgin)
The Music Welcome to the North (Capitol)
Johnson Cummins
Best
Aerosmith Honkin' on Bobo (Columbia)
Converge You Fail Me (Epitaph)
Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine (Relapse)
Hatebeak "Beak of Putrefaction" 7" (Reptilian)
Isis Panopticon (Ipecac)
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill (Anti-)
Ike & Tina Turner Live in '71 (Eagle Rock)
Tom Waits Real Gone (Anti-)
Brian Wilson Presents Smile (Nonesuch)
Wrangler Brutes Zulu (Kill Rock Stars)
Worst
A Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... (Lava)
Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death (Epic)
That fucking lip-syncing imp Ashlee Simpson
Gerard Dee
Best
Anita Baker My Everything (Blue Note)
Hill St. Soul Copasetic & Cool (Shanchie)
Janet Damita Jo (Virgin)
R. Kelly Happy People (Disc 1) (Jive)
Alicia Keys Diary of Alicia Keys (J)
Gerald Levert Do I Speak for the World (Warner)
Jill Scott Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2 (Hidden Beach)
Seek Journey Into Day (Seekronized Music)
Angie Stone Stone Love (J)
Teena Marie La Dona (Universal)
Worst
Kimberly Locke One Love (Curb)
Lionel Richie Just for You (Universal)
One Twelve Hot & Wet (Def Soul)
Len Dobbin
Best
Andy Bey American Song (Savoy Jazz)
Bill Carrothers Armistice 1918 (Sketch)
Bill Charlap Somewhere (Blue Note)
Miles Davis Seven Steps (Columbia)
Kevin Dean Live at Upstairs (KD)
Gordie Fleming According to Gordie (Just A Memory)
Joe Lovano I'm All for You (Blue Note)
Joel Miller Mandala (Effendi)
Maria Schneider Concert in the Garden (artistShare)
Judi Silvano Let Yourself Go (Zoho)
Worst
Michael Buble Come Fly With Me (Warner)
Jamie Cullum Twenty Something (Verve)
Matt Dusk Two Shots (Decca)
Erin MacLeod
Best
Abyssinians and Friends Tree of Satta Vol. 1 (Blood & Fire)
The Arcade Fire Funeral (Merge)
Bugz in the Attic Got the Bug (V2)
Cocoa Tea Tek We Yuh Gal (VP)
Beres Hammond Love Has No Boundaries (VP)
Luciano Lessons of Life (Shanachie)
Richie Spice Spice in Your Life (5th Element)
Tamrat Tadesse Anleyayem (Tibebu Workey)
Tanya Stephens Gangsta Blues (VP)
Various Out on a Funky Trip: Funk, Soul & Reggae from Randy's 1970-75 (Motion)
Worst
Ms Thing Miss Jamaica (Sequence)
Various Is it Rolling Bob? A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan (Ras)
Various Two Culture Clash (Wall of Sound/V2)
Lateef Martin
Best
Björk Medúlla (Elektra/Warner)
Coheed & Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Equal Vision)
KMFDM WWIII Live (Sanctuary)
Madvillain Madvillainy (Stones Throw)
Marilyn Manson Lest We Forget: the Best of… (Interscope)
Ali Shaheed Muhammad Shaheedullah and Stereotypes (Garden Seeker)
Rammstein Reise, Reise (Republic)
Jill Scott Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (Hidden Beach)
Saul Williams self-titled (Fader)
Wu Tang Clan Disciples of the 36 Chambers Chapter 1 (Sony)
Worst
Blackistani Dirty Shrilanka (Bandu)
Depeche Mode Remixes 81-04 (Mute)
Various Axis of Justice Concert Series Vol. 1 (Serjical Strike)
Raf Katigbak
Best
808 State Prebuild (Rephlex)
Animal Collective Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
Devendra Banhart Nino Roja (XL)
Dungen Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds)
Erlend Oye DJ Kicks (!K7)
My Robot Friend Hot Action! (Proptronix)
The Streets A Grand Don't Come for Free (Vice/Atlantic)
Superpitcher Here Comes Love (Kompakt)
Otto Von Schirach Global Speaker Fisting (Schematic)
Kanye West The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
Worst
Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs (Capitol)
Fatboy Slim Palookaville (Astralwerks
Prodigy Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (XL)
Peter Lightburn
Best
Amp Fiddler Waltz of a Ghetto Fly (Genuine)
The Clash London Calling 25th Anniversary Edition (Columbia)
The Dears Thank You Good Night Sold Out (MapleMusic)
Prince Musicology (NPG)
Timmy Regisford Live at Club Shelter Vol.1 (Shelter)
Arthur Russell The World of… (Soul Jazz)
Jill Scott Beautifully Human (Hidden Beach)
Various Keep Hope Alive: Blaze presents Underground Dance Artists United for Life (King Street Sounds)
Various Very Best of Brazil (Nascente)
Kanye West The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)
Worst
Mase Welcome Back (Bad Boy)
Ashlee Simpson Autobiography (Geffen)
Mario Winans Hurt No More (Universal)
