 | Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.23 Skipping guitars,fractious melodies. Good news for people who like good albums
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 | Antics by Interpol
Buy new: £5.86 / Used from: £1.25 Urgent fulgurate songs,buzzing wiyh dramatic tension. Album of the year.
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 | Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Buy new: £10.47 / Used from: £6.64 Superb double album of cnatankerous swamp blues and blissful torch songs
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 | Carbon Glacier by Laura Veirs
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.96 Sombre cellos, twinkling glokenspiel, exquisitely plucked guitars and that clear ringing voice.Lovely
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 | Flashlight Seasons by Gravenhurst
Buy used from: £11.14 Another corker for the desolate and gorgeous pile
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 | Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine
Buy new: £6.22 / Used from: £6.01 Stark meditative offerings , quiet, understated, always beautiful.
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 | Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £0.40 In a quiet year for dance music this stood out a if not a mile a long way
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 | High by The Blue Nile
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £2.99 The first less than perfect Blue Nile release but still enough swoonworthy moments to make it essential listening
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 | Winged Life by Shearwater
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £7.06 Shear brilliance, a free flowing alt-country treat on an album of truly stunning songs
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 | Ave Marina - 10 Years of Marina Records by Various Artists
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £8.80 38 tracks, eclectic in style, few duffers. A real bargain
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 | Please Describe Yourself by Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.00 Irrepresibly retro with its fizzing keyboards and scratchy chords. Like it were 79 again
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 | Our Troubles End Tonight by Lucky Jim
Buy used from: £6.74 Superb songs, wonderfully performed, the most left field treat of the year
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 | Post to Wire by Richmond Fontaine
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.69 Much silvery magnificence on narrative relating guitar epic
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 | Free the Bees by Bees
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.88 Oh so retro, but some cracking songs and irrepresible vivacity
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 | Faded Seaside Glamour by Delays
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £1.49 Nearer than Heaven is possibly the song of the year but there is enough quality elsewhere to make it an enjoyable listen
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 | No Cities Left by Dears
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.00 Towering pop album of the year, made me nostalgic for the Chills. Some achievement
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 | Chutes Too Narrow by Shins
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.02 Mercurial guitars, plaintive vocals and some splendid songs
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 | Rocky Dennis Ep by Jens Lekman
Buy used from: £25.68 Quirky songwriting wonderfully performed, A major talent has emerged
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 | We Love You... So Love Us Vol.3 by Various Artists
Buy used from: £8.99 Brilliant compilation of soaring individualistic pop and lava like rock music
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 | Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi by Camera Obscura
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £24.24 Lilting poppy magnificence ......much of the time.Not like Belle and Sebastian at all
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