25. Mumford & Sons: 'Sign No More' (Island) - As beards and banjos came crawling out of the woodwork and into gig venues up and down the land, the stage was set for someone to take the scene by the scruff of the neck and make a genre-defining album. And so it came to pass that the noise in Marcus Mumford’s head was the sound the populace of 2009 had been craving. It should be twee as hell, but there’s something about the whisky-throated vocals, four-part harmonies and jug band instruments that makes you want to don your frock coat, run out into the snowy streets of Victorian London, and buy a bottle of illicit gin for a shiny sixpence. (Patrick Burke)
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- Moderat, Memory Tapes and Vitalic?!! Great list for including those alone
- The Blueprint 3? That is one rubbish album. Shame that Jay Z hasn't made a good album for 8 years.
- Tune-Yards should have been on this list.
- Gotta be the best album list I've read so far!
- bunch of marginally talented hipster douches ruined this list.
YYY and Muse are the only ones worth buying.
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