 | The Ecstatic by Mos Def
Buy new: £10.38 / Used from: £8.18 Brilliant, better than I was expecting, still not sick of this. Kick-ass production too
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 | Born Like This by DOOM
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.78 DOOM is back, and I love it. Do you?
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 | Enter the 37th Chamber by El Michels Affair
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £11.47 Wu-Tang covers, in a funk/soul big band style. Epic.
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 | Inspiration Information, Vol. 3 by Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics
Buy new: £5.98 Neo-jazz, with an Ethiopian twist. Amazing.
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 | A Strange Arrangement by Mayer Hawthorne
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £15.42 Motown is back? (listen to this guy's Stones Throw podcasts)
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 | My World by Lee Fields & the Expressions
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £13.18 Bold soul singer, lovely tunes
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 | The Spirit of Apollo by N.A.S.A
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £5.59 Pretty good! Best collaboration effort this year
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 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £8.93 A given...not as amazing as it was when it came out though
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 | Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £11.47 Same with this...
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 | Get Color by HEALTH
Buy new: £9.98 Better than their first album, less noise-based
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 | OCD Go Go Go Girls by Lovvers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £16.77 Best lo-fi band around
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 | UUVVWWZ by UUVVWWZ
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £5.75 Unexpectedly catchy stuff
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 | No More Stories by Mew
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.79 Haven't listened to this enough, but a grower nonetheless
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 | Lemonade by Lemonade
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £31.07 Crazy psych-house mixed with post-punk/No Wave, better than all that Gang Gang Dance rubbish
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 | Fits by White Denim
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £6.62 These guys are rip-roaring, second time round they're even louder, really want to see them live
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 | Octahedron by The Mars Volta
Buy new: £9.68 Despite people slating this album, it's actually not bad, never as good as Frances the Mute though
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 | Guns Dont Kill People Lazers Do by Major Lazer
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.99 Couple of awful ones in here but overall pretty catchy stuff from Diplo/Switch
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 | I Love You by Amanda Blank
Buy new: £4.98 Not bad for a pop album. If only they played this on the radio and telly all the time
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 | Alpinisms by School Of Seven Bells
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.49 Usually wouldn't go for this kinda thing but this album is really nice, need to hear their stuff with Prefuse 73 too though!
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 | Skanky Skanky by Toddla T
Buy new: £21.28 This has faded a little over the year as it's a bit novelty, but still really catchy for first time listeners
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 | Carboniferous by Zu
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £8.39 Proper decent math rock with Mike Patton of Faith No More on vocals
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 | Old Money by Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Buy new: £12.08 / Used from: £11.47 Pretty much a Mars Volta album, some may say better than Octahedron
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