A decade in music - 50 best albums of 2000

For the next few weeks as the "noughties" wrap up we're looking back at NME's best albums of the decade. Here are the top 50 albums from 2000, as chosen at the time. 50. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, ‘The Blue Trees’. NME said: “23 minutes of magical, and wildly esoteric beauty that suggested the band had remained indifferent to the rise of nu-metal.”

• Added: Oct 30, 2009

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