Tut.... and I started a thread on Bon Iver too. Whatsamatta? Don't trust my exquisite judgement? ;)

So far this year for me:

Nick Cave-Dig Lazarus Dig
Bon Iver-For Emma Forever Ago
Foals-Antidote
These New Puritans-Beat Pyramid
Bong Ra-Full Metal Racket

I cannot stand the MGMT album and I'm not a big Coldplay fan. The latest Opeth album just sort of washed over me too. I am usually far behind with new releases and get there in my own time!

My favorites from this year...

Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Serenity 9/10
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid 9/10
Benga - Diaries of an Afro Warrior 8/10
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 8/10
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair 8/10
Ivan Smagghe - Cocoricò 03 8/10
Loco Dice - 7 Dunham Place 8/10
Nôze - Songs On the Rocks 8/10
Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality 8/10
The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts 8/10
Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us 7/10
Daedelus - Love to Make Music to 7/10
Ellen Allien - Boogybytes Vol. 4 7/10
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles 7/10
Jay Haze - Love & Beyond 7/10
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III 7/10
Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Pain Disappears 7/10
Morgan Geist - Double Night Time 7/10
Quiet Village - Silent Movie 7/10
Sascha Funke - Mango 7/10
Shonky - Time Zero 7/10
Sonar Kollektiv Orchester - Guaranteed Niceness 7/10
The Mole - As High As the Sky 7/10
The Virgins - The Virgins 7/10

I have heard exactly 2 of those! I do remember your views on 'These New Puritans' being a lot less favourable than 9/10 though!

I kept changing my mind about them, the album really grew on me.

I'd say that seeing them live also helped, but then I saw them a second time and they were terrible (and so unbelievably pretentious, talking all this **** about how "TNPS are a lot of things, being a band is just one of them," etc.), so I guess I can't really.

Only one to take full marks so far this year, Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig. Best thing I've heard since the last great Talking Heads album.

Not strictly this year, but Bettye LaVette's 2007 album - The Scene of the Crime... scored 11.

I'll come back here after i've heard the CSS & Primal Scream albums on Monday.

The Grinderman album last year was fairly decent too. If you like Bettye LaVette you should like Cassandra Wilson. Not as powerful, but a very talented jazz singer, and her new album was gorgeous.

I've heard barely a bad word spoken about it, a brilliant album that everyone seems to love at the moment. I hope it does well in the end of year Best Album polls.

Jackie, how could you NOT mention Portishead?

Because my brain is usuall fried after 12 am!

Portishead-Third added!