should be

it's great and probably the definitive indie album

I think you're right.

Kill The Moonlight - Spoon

Oh, Inverted World - The Shins

Z - My Morning Jacket

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Is This It - The Strokes

Off the top of my head.

Essential, not necessarily the best:

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
In the Aeroplane Over The Sea
Sebadoh lll
Figure 8
Your Living All Over Me

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Death Cab - Transatlanticism
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
NMH - Airplane over the sea

Hmm I hope to listen to this music your talking about

1.) Slanted and Enchanted- Pavement (The holy grail of Indie music)
2.) Doolittle- Pixies (Probably my favorite all time album and essential for Indie)
3.) Painful- Yo La Tango
4.) Dusk at Cabist Castle- Olivia Tremor Control
5.) 69 Love Songs- Magnetic Field

1. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
2. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
3. Cursive - Domestica
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. Afghan Whigs - Gentleman

More leaning towards Indie Rock, but whatever, these albums are all killer and at least semi-essential.

Too many great albums! cant decide

Debate Team- Wins Again
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
Death Cab for Cutie- Plans
Care Bears on Fire- Girls Like it Loud
The White Stripes- Elephant
I'm still getting into the genre, though.