You voted, we tabulated. Here’s a print-ready list of the top 100 Pacific Northwest releases of the year for your post-holiday-gift-certificate shopping pleasure…
{50-41} * {40-31} * {30-21} * {20-11} * {10-1}
{top 100} * {imaginary picks}
- Death Cab for Cutie — Plans {review}
- Tullycraft — Disenchanted Hearts Unite {review}
- The Decemberists — Picaresque {review}
- Slender Means — Neon & Ruin {review}
- Stars Of Track & Field — You Came Here For Sunset Last Year {review}
- Blue Scholars — The Long March {review}
- Buttersprites — Buttersprites {review}
- Sleater Kinney — The Woods {review}
- Mon Frere — Real Vampires {review}
- Harvey Danger — Little By Little {review}
- The Hot Rollers — Got Your Number {review}
- The Long Winters — Ultimatum {review}
- Daylight Basement — Any Kind of Pretty {review}
- Tea For Julie — Division {review}
- The Divorce — The Gifted Program {review}
- The Purrs — The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of {review}
- New Pornographers — Twin Cinema {review}
- Schoolyard Heroes — Fantastic Wounds {review}
- The Pale Pacific — Urgency {review}
- Math and Physics Club — Weekends Away {review}
- In Praise of Folly — Means/Ends {review}
- Luke Temple — Hold a Match for a Gasoline World {review}
- Some By Sea — The Saddest Christmas {review}
- Speaker Speaker — Again & Again & Again {review}
- Mono in VCF — The Voltage Control EP {review}
- The Withholders — Stay in My Corner {review}
- The Pharmacy — B.F.F. {review}
- The Elephants — The Elephants {review}
- Minus the Bear — Menos El Oso {review}
- M. Ward — Transistor Radio
- Crystal Skulls — Blocked Numbers {review}
- Crown Aruba — alotisalot {review}
- Kelli Hanson — Lullaby for an Astronaut {review}
- Tim Seely — Tim Seely’s Funeral Music {review}
- The Emergency — Far Out
- Laura Veirs — Year of Meteors
- Aqueduct — I Sold Gold {review}
- Fruit Bats — Spelled in Bones {review}
- Matthew Shaw — Convenience
- Vendetta Red — Sisters of the Red Death
- Kinski — Alpine Static {review}
- The Valley — The Valley {review}
- Paris Spleen — The Gentleman’s Club EP {review}
- The Cloves — Waiting for the World To Be
- Key Note Speaker — Fiction
- Tennis Pro — Cassie’s Junior Varsity Make-Out Squad {review}
- Boat — Life is a Shipwreck, We Must Remember to Sing in the Lifeboats {review}
- Degenerate Art Ensemble — The Bastress {interview}
- The Catch — Get Cool {review}
- Common Market — Common Market
- Pistol for a Paycheck — Cult Culture
- The Village Green — The Village Green {review}
- The Cops — Get Good Or Stay Bad {review}
- Elite Stranger — Something To Fall Back On
- Gary Reynolds & the Brides of Obscurity — Instant Happiness {review}
- The Nevvers — Influencing Friends and Making People
- Damien Jurado — On My Way To Absence {review}
- The Hope — In the Deep {review}
- Space Cretins — Rocket Role
- Jimmy Flame & the SexXy Boys — It’s After Sick
- Crooked Fingers — Dignity & Shame
- Infomatik — Technologies
- A Frames — Black Forest
- Voyager One — Dissolver
- ManPlus — You Smell Pretty When You Stop Yelling
- Romance — When Things Are Better {review}
- Dear Darling — Songs of Friends and Family
- Sameer Shukla — There’s Only One Side Tonight {review}
- Headphones — Headphones
- Half Acre Day — Half Acre Day
- The Melody Unit — Songs for the New American Century
- Dolour — A Matter of Time
- The Ruby Doe — Always With Wings {review}
- The Briefs — Steal Yer Heart
- Velella Velella — The Bay of Biscay {interview}
- Black Mountain — Black Mountain
- Daphne Loves Derby — On the Strength of All Convinced
- Umber Sleeping — Psychedelic Sci-Fi New Wave Fusion Band Volume 1
- Fall of Troy — Doppelganger
- The Western States — Trouble in the Union
- Boyd Reno Is John Center — Soul Explosions
- Kate Tucker — Eros Turannos
- Kuma — Fast Colliding
- Holy Ghost Revival — Bleeding Light
- Kane Hodder — The Pleasure To Remain So Heartless
- Rosie Thomas — If Songs Could Be Held {review}
- Charming Snakes — Ammunition
- Derby — This Is The New You {review}
- The Joggers — With a Cape and a Cane
- Menomena — Under An Hour-Songs For Modern Dance
- Brandi Carlile — Brandi Carlile
- The Posies — Every Kind of Light
- The Beautiful Mothers — Half American Serviceman
- The Saturday Knights — The Saturday Knights
- The Small Change — The Small Change {review}
- 31 Knots — Talk Like Blood {review}
- Explone — Crooks
- The Blow — Poor Aim: Love Songs
- The Stares — Spine to Sea {review}
- Awesome — Delaware {review}