DENNIS COOPER
1. Pinback, Blue Screen Life The year’s most enigmatic, impeccable, swoonily beautiful songs.
2. Weezer, The Green Album America’s most popular great band brings rock formalism to the masses. Thirty perfect minutes.
3. Björk, Vespertine She escapes Lars von Trier and Matthew Barney unscathed.
4. Daft Punk, Discovery Intricate, vapid, irresistible, brainy French electro-pop piffle.
5. Mouse on Mars, Idiology Electronic music’s creative recession continued this year with a few eccentric exceptions. This was the wackiest.
6. Stephen Malkmus, Stephen Malkmus Even wiser words and music from