List of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Album

This is a list of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New album. This designation is made by editors of the music website for recordings they feel "transcend their scene and genre". This usually, but not always, corresponds to a score above 8.2-8.4 on the site's rating system.

Bold indicates that the album got a 9.0+ score.

2003

• Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
• The Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
• The Microphones - Mount Eerie
• Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
• The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party?
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
• Giddy Motors - Make It Pop
• Supersilent - 6
• Cat Power - You Are Free
• Majesticons - Beauty Party
• Xiu Xiu - A Promise
• Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
• Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn
• Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
• The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
• The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
• Deerhoof - Apple O
• Manitoba - Up in Flames
• The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
• Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress
• Panthers - Let's Get Serious EP
• Four Tet - Rounds
• Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
• M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
• Fog - Ether Teeth
• Singel Frame - Wetheads Come Running
• !!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) EP

• Grandaddy - Sumday
• Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
• Clearlake - Cedars
• WHY? - Oaklandazulasylum
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
• Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
• TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
• Constantines - Shine a Light
• Polysics - Neu
• The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists
• The Rapture - Echoes
• Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
• My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
• The Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy
• Need New Body - UFO
• The Wrens - The Meadowlands
• Cyann & Ben - Spring
• The Books - The Lemon of Pink
• Non-Prophets - Hope
• The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
• Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
• Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
• Ellen Allien - Berlinette
• The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
• Jay-Z - The Black Album
• MU - Afro Finger and Gel

2004

• Philip Jeck - 7
• Air - Talkie Walkie
• The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
• Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
• Kanye West - The College Dropout
• Cee-Lo Green - Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
• Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
• Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
• Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
• Madvillain - Madvillainy
• Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
• William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV
• Jason Forrest - The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
• Les Savy Fav - Inches
• Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
• Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
• Mission of Burma - ONoffON
• Erlend Øye - DJ-Kicks: Erlend Øye
• Mirah - C'mon Miracle
• The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
• Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
• Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

• A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
• Junior Boys - Last Exit
• The Plastic Constellations - Mazatlan
• Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
• The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
• Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
• The Futureheads - The Futureheads
• Björk - Medúlla
• Castanets - Cathedral
• Arcade Fire - Funeral
• The Foreign Exchange - Connected
• Dungen - Ta det lugnt
• Interpol - Antics
• Brian Wilson - Smile
• Panda Bear - Young Prayer
• The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
• Various Artists - DFA Compilation #2
• Annie - Anniemal
• Diplo & M.I.A. - Piracy Funds [...], Vol. 1
• Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu forsetar
• Excepter - KA

2005

• The Fiery Furnaces - EP
• Black Mountain - Black Mountain
• M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
• LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
• Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
• Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
• Various Artists - Run the Road
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
• M.I.A. - Arular
• The Decemberists - Picaresque
• Edan - Beauty and the Beat
• Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
• The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
• Vitalic - OK Cowboy
• Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
• The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Face the Truth
• Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

• Common - Be
• Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
• Isolée - We Are Monster
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Wilderness - Wilderness
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
• Kanye West - Late Registration
• Serena-Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
• Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
• Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
• Deerhoof - The Runners Four
• The Clientele - Strange Geometry
• Animal Collective - Feels
• Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
• Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
• Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
• Sunn O))) - Black One

2006

• Boris - Pink
• Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
• The Knife - Silent Shout
• Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
• Liars - Drum's Not Dead
• Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
• Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
• Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
• Islands - Return to the Sea
• Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
• Scott Walker - The Drift
• Danielson Famile - Ships
• Matthew Herbert - Scale
• TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
• Girl Talk - Night Ripper
• The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes

• I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
• Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
• The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
• Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
• Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your [...]
• Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
• Mastodon - Blood Mountain
• The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
• Califone - Roots and Crowns
• Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
• Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
• Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
• Joanna Newsom - Ys
• Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

2007

• Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance
• Menomena - Friend and Foe
• Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
• Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
• Deerhunter - Cryptograms
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
• LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
• Panda Bear - Person Pitch
• The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
• The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
• Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP
• The Prodigy - Return of the Mac
• Joanna Newsom - Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP
• Feist - The Reminder
• The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
• Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
• Battles - Mirrored
• The National - Boxer
• Justice - †
• Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
• Various Artists - After Dark

• Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• Okkervil River - The Stage Names
• M.I.A. - Kala
• Caribou - Andorra
• Liars - Liars
• A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
• Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
• Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
• Kanye West - Graduation
• Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
• Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
• Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
• Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP
• Chromatics - Night Drive
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
• Grizzly Bear - Friend EP
• Jay-Z - American Gangster
• Burial - Untrue
• Daft Punk - Alive 2007

2008

• Times New Viking - Rip It Off
• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
• High Palaces - 03/07 - 09/07
• Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
• El Guincho - Alegranza!
• Beach House - Devotion
• Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
• The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
• Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
• [...] Buttons - Street Horrrsing
• The Dodos - Visiter
• Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
• M83 - Saturdays=Youth
• Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
• Portishead - Third
• No Age - Nouns
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
• Spiritualized - Songs in A&E

• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Crystal Antlers - EP
• Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
• Air France - No Way Down EP
• Harvey Milk - Life…The Best Game In Town
• The Bug - London Zoo
• The Walkmen - You & Me
• Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
• Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
• TV on the Radio - Dear Science
• Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
• Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
• Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
• Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom
• [...] Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
• DJ /rupture - Uproot
• 'Deerhunter -Microcastle'/Weird Era Cont.
• The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best

2009

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
• Various Artists - Dark Was the Night
• Wavves - Wavves
• Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
• Dan Deacon - Bromst
• Fever Ray - Fever Ray
• Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
• Bill Callahan - Drag City
• Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
• Woods - Song of Shame
• Japandroids - Post-Nothing
• St. Vincent - Actor
• Isis - Wavering Radiant
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
• Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
• Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
• Mos Def - The Ecstatic
• Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
• Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer

• Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
• Cass McCombs - Catacombs
• jj - jj n° 2
• Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP
• The Antlers - Hospice
• YACHT - See Mystery Lights
• The xx - xx
• Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
• Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
• Volcano Choir - Unmap
• Girls - Album
• Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
• The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
• The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
• Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
• The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
• Atlas Sound - Logos
• [...] Buttons - Tarot Sport
• Various Artists - 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
• Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
• Real Estate - Real Estate
• Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind

2010

• Vampire Weekend - Contra
• Owen Pallett - Heartland
• Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
• Four Tet - There Is Love in You
• Beach House - Teen Dream
• Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
• Hot Chip - One Life Stand
• Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
• Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
• Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
• Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
• Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
• Liars - Sisterworld
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
• Fang Island - Fang Island
• The Morning Benders - Big Echo
• The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
• Caribou - Swim
• Delorean - Subiza
• The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
• Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
• Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
• The National - High Violet
• Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
• Sleigh Bells - Treats
• LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

• Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
• James Blake - CMYK
• Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
• Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
• Wild Nothing - Gemini
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
• Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
• Julian Lynch - Mare
• ceo - White Magic
• Wavves - King of the Beach
• Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
• The-Dream - Love King
• Best Coast - Crazy For You
• Curren$y - Pilot Talk
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• Matthew Dear - Black City
• The Walkmen - Lisbon
• Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
• How to Dress Well - Love Remains
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
• No Age - Everything in Between
• Twin Shadow - Forget
• Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
• Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP
• Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
• Robyn - Body Talk
• OFF! - First Four EPs

2011

• Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
• Destroyer - Kaputt
• Cut Copy - Zonoscope
• James Blake - James Blake
• PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
• Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
• Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
• Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
• Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine
• Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
• Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
• The Weeknd - House of Balloons
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
• Panda Bear - Tomboy
• Tune-Yards - Whokill
• Big K.R.I.T. - Return of 4Eva
• Cass McCombs - Wit's End
• DJ Quik - The Book of David
• Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
• Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
• EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
• The Antlers - Burst Apart
• Cults - Cults
• [...] Up - David Comes to Life

• Bon Iver - Bon Iver
• WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
• Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
• Iceage - New Brigade
• AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream
• John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
• Washed Out - Within and Without
• Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
• The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
• The Field - Looping State of Mind
• Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
• St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
• Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
• Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
• Trash Talk - Awake EP
• M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
• Real Estate - Days
• Atlas Sound - Parallax
• ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
• Drake - Take Care
• Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
• Sepalcure - Sepalcure

2012

• Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
• Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
• John Talabot - ƒIN
• Burial - Kindred EP
• Grimes - Visions
• Frankie Rose - Interstellar
• Lambchop - Mr. M
• Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
• Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
• Julia Holter - Ekstasis
• The Men - Open Your Heart
• The Shins - Port of Morrow
• Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
• Chromatics - Kill For Love
• Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
• Death Grips - The Money Store
• Actress - R.I.P.
• Beach House - Bloom
• Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
• El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
• Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
• Japandroids - Celebration Rock
• Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
• Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
• DIIV - Oshin

• Twin Shadow - Confess
• Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
• Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
• Baroness - Yellow & Green
• Nas - Life Is Good
• Passion Pit - Gossamer
• Purity Ring - Shrines
• TNGHT - TNGHT
• Jessie Ware - Devotion
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
• Swans - The Seer
• Wild Nothing - Nocturne
• Grizzly Bear - Shields
• How to Dress Well - Total Loss
• Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze
• Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
• Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
• Tame Impala - Lonerism
• Metz - Metz
• Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
• Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
• Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
• Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
• Mac DeMarco - 2

2013

• ASAP Rocky - Long. Live. ASAP
• Burial - Truant / Rough Sleeper

• Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
• Grouper - ''The Man Who Died in His Boat

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