Alun Palmer

10: Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

9: Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men
Should have won the Mercury.

8: Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Swedes in top album shocker.

7: Anoraak - Nightdrive With You
Channel the spirit of Giorgio Moroder.

6: Portico Quartet - Tesla
Yet more superb jazz/minimalist musings. Nice.

5: Delphic - Acolyte
Okay, it’s not out for two weeks but it is the soundtrack to 2009.

4: White Lies – To Lose My Life
Who said Power, Corruption and Lies was dead?

3: The Cribs – Ignore the Ignorant
Two words – Johnny Marr is back. Okay four words.

2: Doves – Kingdom of Rust
Superb.

1: The XX – xx
Not 'alf.

Overrated
Muse - The Resistance
This lot channel the spirit of Queen in a horrid caught-with-a-copy-of-Razzle-by-yer-mum-in-yer-bedroom style.