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In search of the DEFINITIVE album of 2017

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It gives us great pleasure to announce that the DEFINITIVE Album of 2018 is ...

The Blue Hour by Suede.

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The runner-up in our DEFINITIVE poll this year is Calexico's The Thread That Keeps Us.

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Into the top three, and after placing 2nd in 2015, and 4th in 2017, Father John Misty is this year's number 3 with God's Favorite Customer.

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At number 4, it's 2004 winners Franz Ferdinand with Always Ascending.

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Double DEFINITIVE Poll winners Arctic Monkeys are at number 5 with their Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino album.

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Nowadays by the Copenhagen-based Aussie duo Palace Winter is our number 6.

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This year's number 8 is I'll Be Your Girl by the The Decemberists.

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Into the top ten, and we have an unprecedented five-way tie in 9th place:
George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's
John Maus - Addendum
Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
Teleman - Family of Aliens

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At number 14, it's Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer album.

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A new high for Low, whose Double Negative album is this year's number 15.

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Another three-way tie in joint 16th place:
Cat Power - Wanderer
Villagers - The Art of Pretending To Swim
Muse - Simulation Theory

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Kicking off with the Top Twenty(-one). A tie in 19th place between 2012 winners Django Django's Marble Skies, World's Strongest Man by Gaz Coombes, & Jack White's Boarding House Reach.

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@Fozzilman We are indeed (now)!

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It's time for another DEFINITIVE countdown folks, so that means it's time for a bit of this. Not 'arf ... https://t.co/jox1qLalfT

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A highly enjoyable evening with @willjoshea mostly discussing @DefinitiveAlbum 2017 results, and why the 80’s had such great songs

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It gives me great pleasure to announce that the #DEFINITIVE Album of 2017 is Semper Femina by Laura Marling.

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The runner-up in the 2017 #DEFINITIVE poll is Beck with Colors, having also been pipped at the post in 2014.

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2015 winners Public Service Broadcasting come in at number 3 this time around with their Every Valley album. #DEFINITIVE

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This year's number 4 is Pure Comedy, the latest record from 2015 runner-up Father John Misty. #DEFINITIVE