2007’s best albums

As voted by the Guardian’s music writers

1 LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

2 Radiohead: In Rainbows

3 The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America

4 MIA: Kala

5 Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future

6 Kings of Leon: Because of the Times

7 Grinderman: Grinderman

8 Battles: Mirrored

9 PJ Harvey: White Chalk

10 Feist: The Reminder

11 Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare

12 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

13 The Felice Brothers: Tonight at the Arizona

14 Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

15  Les Savy Fav: Let’s Stay Friends

16  The Good, the Bad & the Queen: The Good, the Bad & the Queen

17  Britney Spears: Blackout

18 Bruce Springsteen: Magic

19 Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter

20 El-P: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead