…or at least those according to Phil Seaman

10/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazerus Dig!!!

Continuing in the same vein as Grinderman, this album continues Nick Cave’s recent success with an uptempo, aggressive stomp through the American post-grunge wilderness

9/British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?

Poor sales figures could not distract critics from loving the latest album from British Sea Power, daring to walk the line between string-laced pomp and melodic introspection with more than a passing reference to Arcade Fire

8/TV On The Radio – Dear Science

Funky, dancable and yet highly listenable whilst chilling out, Dear Science has a depth that is often lacking in full length dance albums as a result of great songwriting and passionate performances

7/Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

Thrust from the States with more than a little help from African music, basic melodies and simple instrumentation is the basis for one of the few highly original indie albums released this year

6/Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul

Always a talking point, the new Oasis album managed to draw from old influences but throw something new into the mix. The variety and quality of the songwriting made the album , and also its accompanying bonus disk one of the years most instantly enjoyable disks

5/Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke

Ladyhawke, from New Zealand, released one of the catchiest electro-pop albums of the year, refreshingly relient on old school hooks and catchy choruses whilst not veering onto the cheesey side

4/The Muslims – The Muslims

Sounding like a poppy, slightly happy Joy Division and with a vaguely amusing name to boot (which they have since bizarrely changed), The Muslims released a short, sweet LP with hints of punk and post-punk

3/The Kills – Midnight Boom

Reinforcing the blusey elements of previous releases with pop hooks and a new indie-dance strategy proved to be a great success for The Kills, whose short, blunt songs from the past are embelished and turned into somethhing verging on special

2/Beck – Modern Guilt

Working with Danger Mouse, Beck released his most accessable but most intreguing album of the decade, blurring dusty samples with infectious melodies, Beck burst back after a number of lametable releases

1/ Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago

Beautiful soft acoustic pop-folk with a hint of menace saw Bon Iver’s forsetto wearily work its way through textures that defy the fact that it was recorded on basic equipment, Bon Iver released a complete classic

Also:

The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement

Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid

Times New Viking – Rip It Off

Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

Late Of The Pier  -Fantasy Black Channel

Shugo Tokumaru – Exit

Most Overrated Albums:

5/Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles

4/Ryan Adams – Cardinology

3/Guns n Roses – Chinese Democracy

2/Glasvegas – Glasvegas

1/Adele -19