So here it is, the Piccadilly top 100 albums of the year chart, and we reckon it’s one of the best yet – there have been so many great releases this year that we had a real struggle to fit everything we wanted into the top 100.

In the top 20 alone we have something for everyone: Indie (The Phantom Band, The XX, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), rock and psyche (Wilco, Wooden Shjips), soul and boogie (Dam-Funk, Lee Fields), disco-pop and house (Desire, The Juan Maclean, Linkwood), indie-pop (Camera Obscura), Balearic (Meanderthals, Blackbelt Andersen), indie-folk (Grizzly Bear, Speck Mountain) indie noise (Japandroids), tribal voodoo psyche (Sun Araw), dubstep and wonky-hop (Martyn, Bibio).

Congratulations go to the Phantom Band for claiming the top spot with their epic debut album "Checkmate Savage", it has to be said, it was a close run thing this year between the whole of the top five for that much lauded number one position.

And don't forget our end of year booklet is available now too, pick one up here, or free instore.

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