ALBUMS (descending points)
1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. M.I.A - Kala
3. Justice - Cross
4. The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Good The Bad & The Queen
5. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
6. Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
7. Dominik Eulberg - Heimische Gefilde
8. P J Harvey - White Chalk
9. False - 2007
10. Prinzhorn Dance School - Prinzhorn Dance School

TRACKS
1. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
2. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
3. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
4. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolecent
5. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination
6. Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are the Space Invader
7. Mr. Vegas - Tek Weh Yuhself
8. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
9. Cool Kids - Black Mags
10. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry on Their Own (Al Usher Remix)

REISSUES
1. Sly & the Family Stone - The Collection
2. v/a - "Live" Convention '77-'79
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Joy Division - Closer
5. v/a - Well Deep: Ten Years Of Big Dada Recordings

ARTISTS
1. LCD Soundsystem
2. M.I.A
3. Justice
4. Roisin Murphy
5. Arctic Monkeys

COMMENTS
I purposely left out two of my favorite albums because they're (in) Dutch and nobody else would probably vote for them anyway. They are both rap albums. Dutch rap is doing great, people aren't trying to sound American anymore, producers are finding their own sound. My faves this year have been Begin Twintig ("Early Twenties") by The Opposites (like a lot of Dutch rappers, they have English names from when they started out rapping in English) and Fakkelteit (wordplay on faculteit, "faculty", and fakkel - tijd, "torch" [i.e. weed] "time") by Sticks & Delic, two-thirds (an mc and the producer) of Holland's top hip-hop group Opgezwolle (from the city of Zwolle, opgezwollen meaning "swollen"). Both have been released by Top Notch, which signs all the best Dutch hip-hop, among them Extince, who rap fans in this country regard the same way their US counterparts regard Jay-Z, i.e. untouchably the best. Because Holland is relatively tiny (16 million people) and because hip-hop is not a mainstream genre here, needless to say, Extince is nowhere near a multi-millionaire. :-)