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2010
Alexandra Streliski - Pianoscope
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Bad Books - Bad Books
Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning
Florence + The Machine - Between Two Lungs
Girl Talk - All Day
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Neon Trees - Habits
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
The Black Keys - Brother
The National - High Violets
The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Vampire Weekend - Contra
2011
Adele - 21
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Drake - Take Care
Ed Sheeran - +
Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Gotye - Making Mirrors
James Blake - James Blake
Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Panic! at the Disco - Vices & Virtues
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
The Head and The Heart - The Head and The Heart
The Milk Carton Kids - Prologue
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?
Young the Giant - Young the Giant
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
2012
alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Among Savages - Wanderings of an Illustrative Mind
Andy Shauf - The Bearer of Bad News
Beach House - Bloom
Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Ellie Goulding - Halcyon
Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood of Colour
Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
fun. - Some Nights
Grizzly Bear - Shields
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Lucy Rose - Like I Used To
Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
Purity Rings - Shrines
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Taylor Swift - Red
The Killers - Battle Born
The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
Trampled by Turtles - Stars and Satellites
Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
2013
Animal Years - Sun Will Rise
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Bastille - Bad Blood
Birdy - Fire Within
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
Darkside - Psychic
Disclosure - Settle
Dresses - Sun Shy
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP2
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
Keaton Henson - Birthdays
Lorde - Pure Heroine
New Politics - A Bad Girl in Harlem
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -Push the Sky Away
Paramore - Paramore
Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Branches
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
The 1975 - The 1975
The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk
The National Parks - Young
The Royal Concept - Goldrushed
The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever
Twenty One Pilots - Vessel
Vampire Weekend - modern Vampires of the City
Various Artists - The Great Gatsby
2014
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Caribou - Our Love
Charli XCX - Sucker
Daley - Days & Nights
Family and Friends - Love You Mean It
FKA twigs - LP1
Foxing - The Albatross
Glass Animals - ZABA
HOME - Odyssey
Hozier - Hozier
Johnnyswim - Diamonds
Jukebox the Box - Juke the Box
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Porter Robinson - Worlds
Sir Sly - You Haunt Me
Taylor Swift - 1989
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
2015
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
Beach House - Depression Cherry
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Christine and the Queens - Christine and the Queens
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Darlingside - Birds Say
Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Jamie xx - In Colour
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
MisterWives - Our Own House
Oh Wonder - Oh Wonder
Tame Impala - Currents
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
Vulfpecks - Thrill of the Arts