Our music critics choose their favourites
BRIAN BOYD
1. Jamie T: Kings Queens
2. The Bronx: Mariachi El Bronx
3. Marc Carroll: Dust Of Rumour 4. Loney, Dear: Dear John
5. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu: Gurrumul
6. Madness: The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
7. Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
8.Tinariwen: Imidiwan:
9. Sting: If On A Winter’s Night
10.Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
JIM CARROLL
1.Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
2.Florence and The Machine: Lungs
3.DM Stith: Heavy Ghost
4. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
5. Fever Ray: Fever Ray
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz
7. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
8. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
9. The XX: XX
10.Dark Room Notes: We Love You Dark Matter
TONY CLAYTON-LEA
1. Lily Allen: It’s Not Me, It’s You
2.Richard Hawley: Truelove’s Gutter
3. Julie Feeney: Pages
4. Prefab Sprout: Let’s Change the World with Music
5. Manic Street Preachers: Journal for Plague Lovers
6. Lightning Dust: Infinite Light
7. The XX: XX
8. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
9. Madness: The Liberty of Norton Folgate
10.Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
LAUREN MURPHY
1. Brendan Benson: My Old, Familiar Friend
2. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. La Roux: La Roux
4. Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor
5. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
6. Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
7. PJ Harvey and John Parish: A Woman a Man Walked By
8. St. Vincent: Actor
9. 8 Ball: With All Your Friends
10. The Whitest Boy Alive: Rules
KEVIN COURTNEY
1. The Duckworth-Lewis
Method: Duckworth-Lewis Method
2. Doves: Kingdom of Rust
3. The XX: XX
4. The Temper Trap: Conditions
5. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
6. The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
7. Florence and the Machine: Lungs
8. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
9.Muse: The Resistance
10.Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
