A Feast of Consequences - Fish. Contains a superb suite of 5 tracks relating to a battle in WW1 for a strategic point called High Wood. Lyrically stunning and thought-provoking.

Foals - holy fire ...get better and better this band in my book.

Gotta agree with you here, not particularly keen on Foals but the last album for me is a real goody!

Manics-Rewind the film. Completely underwhelmed after the first listen. Will really need to be 'in the mood' to give this one another go.
Pearl Jam-Lightning bolt. Great album. 'Sirens' is an instant classic.

For me The Strokes is the best.

Torn a bit this year. The stand out would have to be Chvrches album. Fantastic debut considering they produced it themselves and are getting pretty big in America off the back of it.

Also a cracking album came out on monday from TOY, dirty psychadelic rock. Also wasn't their best but I enjoyed Paramore's new offering. Losing two influencial members of the band they've moved away from the pop rock they're accustomed to, to something a little more mainstream with electronic elements thrown in.

Having had some time to digest this, my top 10 goes like this:

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Deerhunter - Monomania
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Forest Swords - Engravings
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
F*** Buttons - Slow Focus
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
James Blake - Overgrown

Special mention: The Field, Sally Shapiro and Low.

I would probably choose Public Service Broadcasting's Inform - Educate - Entertain as my particular favourite of the year, though give me time to think I will come up with numerous other favourites.

In no particular order:-

Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Ghost - Infestessimum
Black Sabbath 13
Blood Ceremony - The Eldrich Dark
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control

After another couple of listens, how wrong I was to be underwhelmed!!!