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    Big albums from 2010: Klaxons, Foals, Vampire Weekend, Two Door Cinema Club and Everything Everything.

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    The 25 best albums of 2017

    Some of the best albums of 2018... from Blossoms, Florence + The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines and Richard Ashcroft.

    The 25 best albums of 2018

    Some of the best albums of the year 2019 from Billie Eilish, Liam Gallagher, Sam Fender, Foals and Catfish & The Bottlemen.

    The 25 best albums of 2019

    THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE 2000s

    Some great albums from the year 2000: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, The Hour Of Bewilderbeast, Parachutes, Rated R and Parachutes.

    The 25 best indie albums of 2000

    Some of the best albums of 2001: Origin Of Symmetry, Discovery, Amnesiac and Is This It.

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    Some of the best albums of 2002... Original Pirate Material, Up The Bracket. By The Way and Turn On The Bright Lights

    The 25 best albums of 2002

    Some of the best albums of 2003 from
The White Stripes, Snow Patrol, Kings Of Leon and Radiohead.

    The 25 best albums of 2003

    Some of the best albums of 2004: Green Day, The Killers, The Libertines and Kings Of Leon

    The 25 best indie albums of 2004

    Some of the best albums of 2005 from Franz Ferdinand, Maximo Park, Hard-Fi, Editors and Kaiser Chiefs

    The 25 best albums of 2005

    Just some of the great albums issued in 2006:  The Fratellis, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Muse and The Killers

    The 25 best albums of 2006

    Albums of 2007: Editors, The Wombats, Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead

    The 25 best indie albums of 2007

    Some of the best albums of 2008: Elbow, Kings Of Leon, The Verve, Friendly Fires and MGMT.

    The 25 best albums of 2008

    Some of the best albums of 2009 from The xx, Florence + The Machine, Biffy Clyro, Calvin Harris and Arctic Monkeys.

    The 25 best albums of 2009

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