The Dawn Chorus / The Retrospective Soundtrack Players - Blogging all over the World

here are my top albums of the year. i couldn't manage a top 10 so i went for a top 30. i am so indie it's painful. maybe next year it will be a bit more varied.

1) two gallants - what the toll tells
2) midlake - the trials of van occupanther
3) joanna newsom - ys
4) yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones
5) the young knives - voices of animals and men
6) The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
7) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
8) Decemberists - The Crane Wife
9) Howling Bells - Howling Bells
10) Be Your Own Pet
11) The Veils - Nux Vomica
12) My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
13) Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
14) Forward Russia - Give me a Wall
15) Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang
16) The Killers - Sam's Town
17) CSS - CSS
18) The Long Blondes - Somebody to Drive you Home
19) Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
20) Metric - Live it Out
21) Broken Social Scene
22) Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie
23) Bright Eyes - Noise Floor
24) Brakes - Beatific Visions
25) Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
26) M Ward - Post War
27) Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
28) arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am
29) Micah P Hinson - Opera Circuit
30) The Dears - Gang of Losers

16 from the US, 8 from the UK, 3 Canadians, 2 Antipodean, 1 Brazilian.