THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE 2010s

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

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2010

Big albums of 2011 from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Florence + The Machine, Radiohead and The Black Keys.

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Albums of 2012: Alt-, The xx, Jack White and Jake Bugg

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2012

Some of the more notable albums of 2013 from Biffy Clyro, Haim, Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Jake Bugg.

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2013

The Best Albums Of 2014 including Kasabian, The Black Keys, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Wild Beasts.

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2014

The best albums of 2015 including New Order, Blur. Foals, Wolf Alice, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Florence + the Machine.

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2015

Some of the best albums of 2016 from Catfish & The Bottlemen, Blossoms, David Bowie, The Last Shadow Puppets and Viola Beach.

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2016

Some of the most memorable albums of 2017 from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, The Killers, Liam Gallagher and Wolf Alice.

The 25 best Indie 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 Indie Albums of 2018

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

The 25 best Indie 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, Amnesiac and Is This It.

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2001

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 Indie Albums of 2002

Some of the best albums of 2003 from The White Stripes, The Strokes, Electric Six, Kings Of Leon, Radiohead and more

The 25 best Indie 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 Indie Albums of 2005

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

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2006

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

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2008

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

The 25 best Indie Albums of 2009

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The 25 Best Albums Of 1991

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The 25 Best Albums Of 1994

The 25 Best Albums Of 1995

The 25 Best Albums Of 1996

The 25 Best Albums Of 1997

The 25 Best Albums Of 1998

The 25 Best Albums Of 1999

Best Albums Of The 1980s

Classic 1980 albums: Closer, Crocodiles, Kaleidoscope, Seventeen Seconds, Sound Affects and more.

The 25 best Indie albums of 1980

Some of the key albums of 1981: New Order, OMD, Depeche Mode, Echo & The Bunnymen and more.

The 25 best indie albums of 1981

Classic 1982 albums from Depeche Mode, The Cure, Associates, The Clash, Yazoo and Talk Talk.

The 25 best indie albums of 1982

Some of the most notable indie albums of 1983 from Pulp, New Order, Depeche Mode, U2, OMD and R.E.M.

The 25 best Indie albums of 1983

Some of the biggest albums of 1985: Low-Life., The Head On The Door, Meat Is Murder and more

The 25 best albums of 1985

Some of the big albums of 1986 from The Housemartins, The Smiths, R.E.M. and New Order.

The 25 best Indie albums of 1986

Some of the best albums of 1987...from The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Jesus And Mary Chain and more

The 25 best albums of 1987

Some of the most enduring albums of '88: Green, Bummed, Lovely, Surfer Rosa, Isn't Anything and Viva Hate.

The 25 best Indie albums of 1988

The biggest Indie albums of 1989: Technique, the debut by The Stone Roses, Bleach, Doolittle, Disintegration and more

The 20 best Indie albums of 1989

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