I'm sorry about this guys, but these last couple days have been really hectic. More on all of this in the next day or so, but for now you'll have to enjoy my best music of 2002 without descriptions. Oh, and West Wash folks get 8 extra albums that I didn't list there.

1. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2. Rye Coalition - On Top
3. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Source Tags & Codes
4. Mum - Finally We Are No One
5. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
6. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
7. Imperial Teen - On
8. Brendan Benson - Lapalco
9. John Vanderslice - Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
10. Piebald - We Are the Only Friends We Have
11. Damien Jurado and Gathered in Song - I Break Chairs
12. Enon - High Society
13. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
14. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
15. The Promise Ring - Wood/Water
16. RjD2 - Deadringer
17. French Kicks - One Time Bells
18. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
19. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of
20. Beck - Sea Change
21. Cornelius - Point
22. Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
23. Milemarker - Satanic Versus
24. Cake - Comfort Eagle
25. Black Heart Procession - Amore del Tropico

Honorary Mention:
Nik Freitas - Here's Laughing at You
The Waxwings - Shadows Of
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice

Special Note: (On my list or released in Europe in 01)
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
Ash - Free All Angels
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters