Records Of The Year

This is terrible: for the first time in as long as I can remember the Sunday Telegraph hasn't found space to run my records of the year. So here they are anyway. My taste is immaculate: you cannot go wrong. They're in only rough order of preference, though the top five probably are my favourite top five. Enjoy!

The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love (Rough Trade) *****

Whaaaat? Can I really have given it just a miserly four stars when this came out? The Hazards Of Love is so totally my album o...