Notes on the Noughties #3 at the Guardian looks at the fragmentation of the decade via the prism of Pitchfork's top 200 albums of the 2000s poll

(I should have probably pointed out that Arcade Fire's Funeral don't mean shit to me, if only because that would be further evidence for the center not holding... whatever "unifying force" it's supposed to have mustered certainly didn't sweep me up in it... more to the point, though, i don't have an opinion on it either, it wasn't even an agree-to-disagree axis of contention like, somehow swimming against the entropic tide, Animal Collective amazingly are)