5. Deadmau5: Random Album Title
Fantastic album of course, but it would have walked into this list if it I hadn’t only just found out it was released in November 2008. Curse my admirably strict selection policy
4. Kasabian: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
After the great strides made on 2006’s Empire, this just seemed like a bit of a step back into half-hearted psychadelica and tired sixties pastiche
3. Bat for Lashes: Two Suns
Natasha Khan follows her excellent debut with an overproduced second that sounds so in thrall to her influences it occasionally lurches into pastiche.
2. Eminem: Relapse
Better than the almost fascinatingly awful Encore, but still the strained and underwhelming efforts of a once essential and important artist, with nothing else to say; ‘My mom, I’m bet you’re sick of hearing about my mom’-well… yes, frankly
1. Regina Spektor: Far
Terrible. If her last album, the fantastic Begin to Hope, occasionally threatened to slip into radio-friendly blandness, Far dives right into the deep end, completely shedding all traces of her personality in pursuit of the Starbucks dollar. Worse, every time she attempts to inject a modicum of her trademark weirdness it comes out as the sort of self-consciously ‘kooky’ crap that the writers of Friends would reject as being too eye-gougingly irritating; ‘We built ourselves a computer/ Out of macaroni pieces’- Aaaaaaaaaaarrghh!!!
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