ALBUM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES!

Okay, folks, here they are:

***SPOILER WARNING: IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE AUDIO VERSION FIRST, STOP READING NOW AND EMAIL ME. I WILL SEND IT TO YOU***


Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die


Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs


Beck - Guero


Bjork - Music From Drawing Restraint 9


Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning


Death Cab For Cutie - Plans


Decemberists - Picaresque


Feist - Let It Die


John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt


Matt Sweeney and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Superwolf


My Morning Jacket - Z


Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer


Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures


Sigur Ros - Takk...


Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


They Might Be Giants - Here Come the ABCs

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire; Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn; Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene; Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer?; Iron & Wine - Woman King; Kronos Quartet and Asha Bohsle - You've Stolen My Heart; The Long Winters - Ultimatum; Metric - Live It Out; Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift; Negativland - No Business; Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth; Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

TURKEY AWARD (which goes to worst album of the year by a respectable or formerly respectable artist) RUNNERUPS: Neil Young - Prairie Wind; Coldplay - X&Y

TURKEY AWARD WINNER: Stereo Total - Do the Bambi

Congrats to all and shame on some! Winner will be announced at a party to be held sometime around New Year's. Check your email.