Top 10 albums of 2012/13 so far - my opinion

At last somewhere where I can throw my opinions out to the world on music. I may of course find this difficult as I don't like it when people disagree (my wife thinks that I'm pretty pretentious and precious about music) but what the hey! Rather than start by reviewing an album I thought I'd do something I've always wanted to do and do a top 10 list! The following is a personal list of the best new albums added to the Library Catalogue in the last 12 months (I should have known that I wouldn't have been able to keep it down to 10!):

• Antony & the Johnsons - Cut the World
• Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
• Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
• Beach House - Bloom
• Cat Power - Sun
• Crystal Castles - III
• First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
• Grizzly Bear - Shields
• Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
• Lambchop - Mr.M
• The Lumineers - The Lumineers
• Mumford and Sons - Babel
• Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
• Lucy Rose - Like I Used To
• Sigur Ros - Valtari
• Tindersticks - The Something Rain
• The xx - Coexist
• Lana Del Rey - Born to Die