December 21, 2003 -

best albums of 2003 in no particular order:

hawnay troof - EP and LP

chromatics - chrome rats vs basment rutz

mu - afro finger and gel

gossip - movement

cassiotone for the painfully alone - twinkle echo

rapture - echoes

manitoba - up in flames

glass candy - love love love

four tet - rounds

die monitor bats - youth controllerz

black eyes - s/t

gravy train - hello doctor

erase eratta - at crystal palace

neon hunk - smarmymob

xiu xiu - a promise

and:

fly pan am

outkast

young people

the blow

lowdown

peaches

ssion

lightning bolt

best shows:

godspeed you black emperor/black dice

fischerspooner

liquid liquid

stratford 4

cat power

sigur ros

hella/quails/aislers set

notwist/styrafoam

gold chains/starlight mints

primal scream/the kills

scene creamers/dub narcotic soundsystem

mirah/anna oxygen/the blow

the wives/casual dots/wrangler brutes

the cramps

lightning bolt/friends forever

peaches/electrocute/xbxrx

hawnay troof

gravy train!!!

lcd soundsystem/casiotone f.t.p.a

white magic/ gavin and delia

belle & sebastian