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75. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, ‘Blood & Fire’. NME said: “Absorbing on an almost parasitic level.” Album review. 7/10 Buy this album
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73. Interpol, ‘Interpol’. NME said: “Cinematic, abstract and complex.” Album review. 6/10 Buy this album
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71. Field Music, ‘Field Music (Measure)’. NME said: “Syncopated, white-collar funk.” 8/10 Buy this album
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70. Broken Social Scene, ‘Forgiveness Rock Record’. NME said: “Back in their comfortable realm of soaring and magisterial indie.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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68. Edwyn Collins, ‘Losing Sleep’. NME said: “One of the best British albums of the year.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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62. Gil Scott-Heron, ‘I’m New Here’. NME said: “A copper-bottomed genius.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album
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61. Flying Lotus, ‘Cosmogramma’. NME said: “A telegram from our own digital planet.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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60. Belle And Sebastian, ‘Write About Love’. NME said: “Your heart fairly skips a beat.” Album review. 6/10. Let us know what you think of our albums of 2010 list Buy this album
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58. Crocodiles, ‘Sleep Forever’. NME said: “Roaring monumental pop tunes.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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56. Mount Kimbie, ‘Crooks & Lovers’. NME said: “There’ll be no better comedown than this lush collection of soul-stepping miniatures.” 8/10 Buy this album
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55. Ikonika, ‘Contact, Love, Want, Have’. NME said: “Feels like a photograph of an athlete mid-stride.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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54. First Aid Kit, ‘The Big Black and The Blue’. NME said: “There’s enough imagination in FAK for them to go the distance.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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49. Surfer Blood, ‘Astro Coast’. NME said: “The great ones should just about see them through. For now.” Album review. 7/10 Buy this album
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48. My Chemical Romance, ‘Danger Days’. NME said: “This is the album they were born to make.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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46. Paul Weller, ‘Wake Up The Nation’. NME said: “Weller’s most personal record in years, possibly ever.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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44. Manic Street Preachers, ‘Postcards From A Young Man’. NME said: “Doesn’t so much run with the ball as kick that shit right out the stadium.” Album review. 7/10 Buy this album
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43. Everything Everything, ‘Man Alive’. NME said: “Bow at the feet of pop’s new Picassos.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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41. Steve Mason, ‘Boys Outside’. NME said: “An elegant blend of trilling piano, strummed guitar and crisp digital beats.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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39. Magnetic Man, ‘Magnetic Man’. NME said: “A forward-thinking, original British album that has captivated a new generation of music fans.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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37. Lonelady, ‘Nerve Up’. NME said: “A fresh and invigorating voice whose talent transcends time and place and influence.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album
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33. Marina And The Diamonds, ‘The Family Jewels’. NME said: “An album with a distinct dual personality.” Album review 9/10 Buy this album
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31. Crystal Castles, ‘Crystal Castles’. NME said: “Awkward, intractable, occasionally brilliant, always human.” Album review. 7/10 Buy this album
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24. Vampire Weekend, ‘Contra’. NME said: “VW have escaped their collegiate niche without sacrificing their true essence.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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17. Factory Floor, ‘Untitled’. NME said: “There’s a driving pulse thundering away.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album
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16. Grinderman, ‘Grinderman 2’. NME said: “A curious and rowdy record that, in a world of po-faced drips, revels in mischief.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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14. The Fall, ‘Your Future, Our Clutter’. NME said: “An audacious album of lyrical wit.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album. Disagree? Vote for your own albums of 2010
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13. Gayngs, ‘Relayted’. NME said: “Decadent and sprawling.” Album review. 9/10. Check out our 75 tracks of 2010 Buy this album
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10. The Drums, ‘The Drums’. NME said: “So much more than a simple validation of the hype.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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9. Liars, ‘Sisterworld’. NME said: “This incredible album is your passport to a better place.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album
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5. Laura Marling, ‘I Speak Because I Can’. NME said: “A slightly rootsier direction for Marling.” Album review. 8/10 Buy this album
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3. Beach House, ‘Teen Dream’. NME said: “A gem in the crown of the great chronicles of youth.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album
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2. Arcade Fire, ‘The Suburbs’. NME said: “An album that combines mass accessibility with much greater ambition. Pretty much perfect.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album
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1. These New Puritans, ‘Hidden’. NME said: “It’s genuinely surprising, beautifully wrought and announces TNP as one of the most powerful artistic forces in Britain today.” Album review. 9/10 Buy this album