The Best Records of 2000

Readers	Writers
Godpeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky) [34%] The For Carnation - s/t (Touch and Go) [22%] Yellow 6 - Overtone (Enraptured) [8%] Early Day Miners - Placer Found (Western) [5%] Bablicon - The Orange Tapered Moon (Misra) [4%], Blackalicious - Nia (Quannum) [4%], Bright - Full Negative (or) Breaks (BaDaBing!) [4%] Sonna - The Eventual Bow EP (Temporary Residence) [3%], Various Artists - Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver (Badman) [3%] Chicago Underground Duo - Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey) [2%], Meisha - Meisha Returns Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) [2%], Piano Magic - Artists' Rifles (Rocket Girl) [2%], Pinetop Seven - Bringing Home the Last Great Strike (Truckstop) [2%], Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC) [2%] Joe McPhee - Nation Time (Atavistic) [1%]	Godpeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky) [5/8], Meisha - Meisha Returns, Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) [5/8] Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) [4/8], Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC) [4/8] Aix Em Klemm - s/t (Kranky) [3/8], The Black Heart Procession - 3 (Touch and Go) [3/8], Bright - Full Negative (or) Breaks (BaDaBing!) [3/8], The For Carnation - s/t (Touch and Go) [3/8], Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch and Go) [3/8], Various Artists - Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver (Badman) [3/8], Yellow 6 - Overtone (Enraptured) [3/8], Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador) [3/8], Yume Bitsu - Auspicious Winds (K) [3/8]
Dave Christensen	Dick Baldwin
The For Carnation - s/t (Touch and Go) Chicago Underground Duo - Synesthesia (Thrill Jockey) Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC) Joy Division - The Complete BBC Recordings (Strange Fruit) Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to (Space Age) Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are (Touch and Go) Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung (Thrill Jockey) Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (Creation) A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms (Constellation) Current 93 - I Have a Special Plan for this World (Durto) Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (Columbia)	Yellow 6 - Overtone (Enraptured) Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) Sonna - The Eventual Bow (Temporary Residence) Bright - Full Negative (or) Breaks (BaDaBing!) Get Hustle - Earth Odyssey (Five Rue Christine) Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch and Go) Tarentel / Rothko - Carol Whiskey 09 7" (Jonathon Whiskey) The Black Heart Procession - 3 (Touch and Go) Oxes - s/t (Monitor) Tristeza - Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tiger Style) Meisha - Meisha Returns, Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) Pinback - Some Voices EP (Tree) Yume Bitsu - Auspicious Winds (K) Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (Touch and Go) Air - Virgin Suicides (Astralwerks) Aix em Klemm - s/t (Kranky) Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky) Unexplained Transmissions - s/t (Ochre) Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC) The Marquis de Tren and Bonny Billy - Get on Jolly (Palace)
Ned Clayton	Wade Chamberlain
Dirty Three - Whatever You Love You Are (Touch and Go) Quickspace - The Death of Quickspace (Matador) Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight (SWAMI) Stereolab - The First of the Microbe Hunters (Elektra) Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch and Go) Will Oldham, Rian Murphy - All Most Heaven (Drag City) The For Carnation - s/t (Touch and Go) Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC) Bright - Full Negative (or) Breaks (BaDaBing!) Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Kranky) Smog - Dongs of Sevotion (Drag City) Red Bennies - Red Bennies (State of Deseret) Elevator - A Taste of Complete Perspective (Teenage USA) Will Oldham - Ode Music EP (Drag City) PJ Harvey - Stories from the City Stories from the Sea (Island) Songs: Ohia - The Lioness (Secretly Canadian) Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador) Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) Various Artists - Reproductions: Songs of the Human League (March) Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (Epic)	Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (Epic) Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador) Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (Interscope) Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun (Fat Cat) Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) Idaho - Hearts of Palm (Idaho Music) Black Eyed Peas - Bridging the Gap (Interscope) Karate - Unsolved (Southern) Ida - Will You Find Me (Tiger Style) PJ Harvey - Stories From the City Stories From The Sea (Island) At The Drive In - Relationship of Command (Grand Royal) Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky) Early Day Miners - Placer Found (Western) Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (Barsuk) The For Carnation - s/t (Touch and Go) Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travelers (4AD) Various Artists - Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver (Badman) Meisha - Meisha Returns Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) The Cure - Bloodflowers (Elektra) Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant (Matador)
Gil Gershman	Daron Gardner
Burkhard Stangl / Christof Kurzmann - Schnee (Erstwhile) Thomas Lehn - Feldstärken (Random Acoustics) Gunter Müller / Le Quân Ninh - La Voyelle Liquide (Erstwhile) Toshimaru Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board (Zero Gravity) Kevin Drumm / Martin Tétreault - Particles and Smears (Erstwhile) Susumu Yokota - Sakura (Leaf) Stone Breath - Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis (Hand/Eye) Evan Parker / Keith Rowe - Dark Rags (Potlatch) Otomo Yoshihide / Voice Crack - Bits, Bots, and Signs (Erstwhile) Hecker - [r+] Iso Chall (Mego) Rowe / Sugimoto / Müller - The World Turned Upside Down (Erstwhile) Andrea Neumann / Annette Krebs - Rotophormen (Charhizma) Dean Roberts - And the Black Moths Play the Grand Cinema (Ritornell) Rothko - Forty Years to Find a Voice (Lo) Morton Feldman (John Tilbury) - All Piano (London Hall) Dieb13 - Restructuring (Charhizma) Dean Roberts / Werner Dafeldecker - Aluminium (Erstwhile) Emak Bakia - Después (Acuarela) Projekt Karpaty magiczne - Ksiega Utopii (Obuh) Annette Krebs / Taku Sugimoto - A Duo in Berlin (Slub Music)	Aix Em Klemm - s/t (Kranky) Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe (Jetset) David Grubbs - The Spectrum Between (Drag City) Joan of Arc - The Gap (Jade Tree) Meisha - Meisha Returns Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) Pinback - Some Voices EP (Tree) Rothko - Storm Cycle 10" (KRA-AAK) Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (DGC) Sonna - The Eventual Bow (Temporary Residence) Tarentel - Looking for Things, Searching for Things 12" (Resonant) Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador) Yume Bitsu - Auspicious Winds (K) Various Artists - Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver (Badman) Yellow 6 - Overtone (Enraptured) The Marquis de Tren and Bonny Billy - Get on Jolly (Palace) Five Way Mirror - Transcendence (Burnt Hair) The Black Heart Procession - 3 (Touch and Go) Bright - Full Negative (or) Breaks (BaDaBing!) Rothko - Forty Years to Find a Voice (Lo) Piano Magic - Artists' Rifles (Rocket Girl)
Pete Baumann	Jim Steed
Various Artists - Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver (Badman) Piano Magic - Artists' Rifles (Rocket Girl) Meisha - Meisha Returns Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) Yellow 6 - Overtone (Enraptured) Yume Bitsu - Auspicious Winds (K) Radiohead - Kid A (Capitol) Pole - 3 (Matador) Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky) Tarentel - Looking For Things, Searching For Things 12" (Resonant) Flying Saucer Attack - Mirror (Drag City) Yellow 6 - Postcard EP (Jonathan Whiskey) Air - Virgin Suicides (Astralwerks) Rothko - Storm Cycle 10" (KRA-AAK) Five Way Mirror - transcendence (Blue Flea) Flying Saucer Attack/Main/White Winged Moth - Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplat) Aix Em Klemm - s/t (Kranky) Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe (Jetset) The Black Heart Procession - 3 (Touch and Go) Idaho - Hearts of Palm (Idaho Music) Movietone - The Blossom Filled Streets (Drag City)	Analogue - Rock Proper (Rubric) Early Day Miners - Placer Found (Western) Bonny Billy - More Revery (Temporary Residence) Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky) Manishevitz - Rollover (Jagjaguwar) Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead (Constellation) The Lofty Pillars - When We Were Lost (Truckstop) Meisha - Meisha Returns Meisha Forever (Music Fellowship) Crooked Fingers - s/t (Warm) Brian and Chris - s/t (This) Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (Barsuk) Last of the Juanitas - Hawaii (Flapping Jet) Matt Suggs - Golden Days Before They End (Merge) Golden - Summer (Slowdime) Stereolab - The First of the Microbe Hunters (Elektra) Shellac - 1000 Hurts (Touch and Go) The Fucking Champs - IV (Drag City) Rumah Sakit - s/t (Temporary Residence) Trans Am - Red Line (Thrill Jockey) Molasses - Trilogie: Toil and Peaceful Life (Fancy)