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 It's so very nearly Christmas time - and if you're after a present that both looks and sounds amazing, then you won't go wrong with these 12 awesome albums from 2013 that you NEED to own on vinyl. 

There's no question that 2013 has been a pretty astounding year for music so far, with some of the finest albums that we've heard in recent times being dropped in the last nine months - but it takes a special kind of album to sound truly 'great' on vinyl. We may be ruled by the cloud, the stream and the MP3 in the reign of the Digital Age, but you can't beat sitting down with a solidly arresting album on a vinyl LP, but it doesn't work for everyone. Fun as The 1975's album may be, it's tightly-knit guitar pop anthemics don't really benefit from being given the rich ambience of the vinyl treatment.

So from Arctic Monkeys, Queens Of The Stone Age, The National and the Manics to Daft Punk and Boards Of Canada, drop the needle and check out these 11 records which are made all the more awesome on vinyl.