1999
What an amazing f
ucking year! What can I say about any of these? Maybe you don't know No Knife or Marmoset. No Knife is like smart pop punk/indie, one of their best albums. Marmoset channels lo-fi indie rock and stoney 60s psychedelic pop. Very good album.
1.
Built to Spill -
Keep It Like a Secret
2.
Plaid -
Rest Proof Clockwork
3.
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead -
Madonna
4.
Mr. Bungle -
California
5.
Pinback -
Pinback
6.
Marmoset -
Today It’s You
7.
No Knife -
Fire in the City of Automatons
8.
MF DOOM -
Operation: Doomsday
9.
The Roots -
Things Fall Apart
10.
Beck -
Midnite Vultures

Honorable mentions:
Burning Airlines - Mission: Control!
Les Savy Fav - The Cat and the Cobra
Super_Collider - Head On
Autechre - EP7
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote!
Seaweed - Actions and Indications
Melvins - The Maggot
Squarepusher - Selection Sixteen