Here are my Top 20 favourite albums of the decade, in order of release. These are all records that I love as albums – a collection of songs that work together to create something finer than the songs alone. There were better singles over the decade, and there were albums that had many better songs, but this list contains my favourites that I can return to and always be sure I’m going to enjoy the entire album. I’ve linked to the albums on Spotify where available: disappointingly only eleven out of the twenty as it turns out. Anyway enough pre-amble: click through for the music and happy new year from Edinburgh!

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Infected Mushroom – “Classical Mushroom” (2000)

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Covenant – “United States of Mind” (2000)

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Human League – “Secrets” (2001)

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Shpongle – “Tales of the Inexpressible” (2001)

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Rammstein – “Mutter” (2001)

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Karl Bartos – “Communication” (2003)

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Hoboken – “Crazy Glue” (2004)

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The Knife – “Silent Shout” (2006)

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Muse – “Black Holes and Revelations” (2006)

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The Emperor Machine – “Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise” (2006)

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Schmoof – “The Glamour” (2007)

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Northern Kind – “Fiftythreedegreesnorth” (2007)

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Editors – “An End Has A Start” (2007)

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Arcade Fire – “Neon Bible” (2007)

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Black Devil Disco Club – “Black Devil In Dub” (2007)

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Onetwo – “Instead” (2007)

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Kelley Polar – “I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling” (2008)

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Parralox – “Electricity” (2008)

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Thermostatic – “Humanizer” (2008)

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VNV Nation – “Of Faith, Power And Glory” (2009)