Albums Of The Year

My favourite albums of the year
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
3. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
4. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
5. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
6. Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig
7. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
8. GlasVegas - Glasvegas
9. Beck - Modern Guilt
10. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night

Songs Of The Year

So here it is then…my 20 favourite songs of the year
1. The Age Of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
2. Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
3. On A Day Like This - Elbow
4. Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River
5. He Doesn't Know Why - Fleet Foxes
6. Being Somebody Else - The Coral
7. Violet Hill - Coldplay
8. Love Is Noise - Verve
9. Geraldine - Glasvegas
10. I Keep Faith - Billy Bragg
11. That's How People Grow Up - Morrissey
12. Time To Pretend - MGMT
13. Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
14. Not Nineteen Forever - The Courteenas
15. Cross Your Fingers - Laura Marling
16. I Told Her On Alderan - Neon Neon
17. 5 Years Time - Noah And The Whale
18. All I Wanna Do - Paul Weller
19. I'm Outta Time - Oasis
20. Leaders in the Temple - Conor Oberst

Listening to...

Love Is Noise - The Verve
Great comeback single from The Verve. I Love Nick McCabe's subtle, understated guitar work.

It's the group's first single in 5 years and is the first track to be taken from the group's new album 'Forth' out on August 25th.

I wonder how long they will last this time.

Listening to...

Cracking new album from Beck. A real return to form and a contender for DJ's Album of the Year. A gift for my birthday along with the new Albert Hammond Jnr album - Coma Te Llama.