 | The Reminder by Feist
Buy new: £4.98 In no particular order, we start with the lovely alt-folk vocalist Feist, who found chart success via the adorable "1,2,3,4" promo used for the iPod Nano ads... best track: "How My Heart Behaves".
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 | Release the Stars by Rufus Wainwright
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.04 In a year that included sell-out appearances as himself and dearly-departed Judy Garland, Mr Wainwright also found time to release a brilliant new album ... highlight: "Do I Disappoint You?"
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 | Kala by MIA
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £8.54 Award for Most Outspoken Pop Star goes to M.I.A. courtesy of a genre-busting album embracing electro, hip-hop and Bollywood amongst other elements to create an angry new sound... highlight: "$20".
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 | Version by Mark Ronson
Buy new: £8.18 / Used from: £2.90 Über-producer Mark Ronson delivers an album of covers of modern classics revisited as Motown soul stirrers with results as infuriating as they are toe-tappingly good ... highlight: "Valerie"
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 | Soundboy Rock by Groove Armada
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.99 Another customarily solid album from Grammy winning dance gurus Groove Armada featuring some of the more accessible moments of their career so far (not a bad thing!) ... highlight: "Paris"
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 | Volta by Bjork
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.78 Björk bounces back into the pop arena with her darkest solo release yet, buoyed by some fantastic rhythm sections and operatic horns ... highlight: "Wanderlust"
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 | Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.44 Operatic rock at its most heart-rendingly poignant and fiercely political as Canada's finest rock outfit of the moment deliver a stellar sophomore album ... highlight: "No Cars Go"
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 | Mirrored by Battles
Buy new: £9.28 / Used from: £5.00 Fearsome, harrowing, delightful and bizarre be the best adjectives to describe one of Warp Records's finest new signings of 2007 ... highlight: Martian rock anthem "Atlas"
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 | Once by Original Soundtrack
Buy used from: £7.44 From the film "Once", a musical for people who love music but hate musicals, this soundtrack showcases songwriters Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova marvelously well ... highlight: "Falling Slowly"
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 | Hairspray (2007 Soundtrack) by Various Artists
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.28 And at the other end of the spectrum, we have "Hairspray", which wears its old-fashioned musicaldom on its sleeve and is all the more fun for it ... highlight: "You Can't Stop The Beat"
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 | In Rainbows by Radiohead
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.29 Unforseen circumstance have prompted an update, so aplogies for the latecomers! First up is a typical return to sparking form from Radiohead ... highlight: "Nude".
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 | From Here We Go Sublime by Field
Buy used from: £9.28 Ambient minimal electro-techno gets a thoroughly enchanting entry now with Swedish one-man-band, The Field, sampling all sorts of pop heaven for some great slow-burners ... highlight: "Everday".
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 | X by Kylie Minogue
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £4.20 Nothing new from the UK's favourite adopted Aussie, but a welcome return to the euphoric disco and edgy sultriness that movingly sounds like the last few years never happened ... highlight: "Stars".
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![Across the Universe [Deluxe Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412C-d%2BbYQL._SL75_.jpg) | Across the Universe [Deluxe Version] by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £10.06 No less than 31 Beatles songs used to soundtrack a pallid lovestory set in late 60s America, courtesy of fine producers T-Bone Burnett and Elliot Goldenthal ... highlight: "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".
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 | Blackout by Britney Spears
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £4.90 It can't be seen as a credible evolution of Britney's public persona, but you'd still be hardpressed to find an album filled with more finer pop moments this year ... highlight: "Heaven On Earth".
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