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Elbow Named Critics's Album Of Year



Rock band Elbow have rounded off a breakthrough year with their album topping an annual "poll of polls" list.

Their Nationwide Mercury Prize-winning record The Seldom Seen Kid came out top in the eighth such chart, which combines the choices of critics.

The HMV Poll of Polls is collated each December, adding up album of the year nominations from music writers across specialist press, national media and online sites.

The top 50 list is headed by the music writers' overall choice of album of the year.

Previous winners include Daft Punk, OutKast, Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem.

The Seldom Seen Kid pulled the most nominations across 35 publications, sites and organisations polled.

Elbow's triumph followed a close run with Portishead's long-awaited comeback album Third.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Dig Lazarus, Dig was third, while debut albums from Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend completed the top five.

HMV's Rock & Pop Buyer, Damian Evans said: "The poll reflects an excellent, eclectic year in music with some exciting new artists featuring prominently.

"Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, MGMT and Bon Iver have really made their mark with wonderful debut albums, underlining how vibrant the music scene is right now.

"Established artists such as Portishead, Nick Cave and Metallica have also returned to great acclaim, although I suspect few people would dispute that Elbow have given us the album of the year.

"They were popular winners of the Nationwide Mercury Prize, and they now deservedly top the HMV Poll of Polls as well."

This year's poll also showed big hitters like Coldplay and Oasis at 34 and 39 respectively, while Killers were at 48.

Duffy, whose Rockferry album has been the year's runaway biggest seller, with 1.5 million copies sold according to Official Charts company data, sat way down the poll at number 28.

Source: itn.co.uk

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