Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Maximo Park - The National Health
Jake Bugg
Spector
Reverend and the Makers
The Enemy

Shearwater - Animal Joy
Go Kart Mozart - On the Hot Dog Streets
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Here
Miike Snow - Happy to you
The Unthanks - Diversions, Vol. 2: The Unthanks with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band
Grizzly Bear - Shields

also just discovered The Lumineers and Frank Ocean's albums

very very good

The Lumineers is the next in line of singalongsong quasi folk drivel to be filed alongside Mumford and Sons as being just bland.

On the point of Mumford and Sons, Babel is one of the most tedious albums released this year. All very samey. Start slow, build, say "I will" and then end. Throw in a banjo and some waistcoats, hey you're rootsy folk. No, you're to music what beige is trousers.

Late Entries (aka I forgot)

Cate Le Bon - CYRK
Ben Kweller - Go Fly A Kite

Tygers of Pan Tang - Ambush

Great album. Old school heavy metal at its finest.

Can't believe I never had this in my initial list

The School - Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything

Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg

To be fair, Nirvana and many other grunge bands used the exact same musical formula as you describe Mumford & Sons having.

I'm not a huge Mumford's fan, but there are several over hyped bands out there who outdo them with regards to blandness....(hello Biffy Clyro.. ).

Too many good albums last year, but these are the ones that come to mind immediately.

Jaya The Cat - New Sounds Of International Hedonism - ska meets dubstep meets punk and they all have a fine time in the pub.
Roughneck Riot - This Is Our Day - Punk and folk, two bedfellows that you'd not normally associate, but this works REALLY well.
Faintest Idea - Ignorance Is This - skapunk brilliance, equal to Keighley's brilliant Random Hand (who didn't have an album out this year, but needed a mention anyway....)

Finally, my out-and-out album of the year...

The Skints - Part & Parcel. London non-rasta reggae band finally get their stuff together and put out an absolute scorcher of an album. Essential listening for any fans of any form of reggae or ska.

Kendrick Lamar - Good kid, Maaad city
Brother Ali - Mourning in America and dreaming in color
Take Me To Your Leader -¡Mayday!

Apparat - Ash Black Veil
Radiohead - Nude
Mat Zo vs Porter Robinson - Easy
Above & Beyond - Black Room Boy (A&B Club Mix)

Jake Bugg - Taste It
Of Monsters and Men - Mountain Sound
Maccabees - Pelican
Mumford and sons - I Will Wait
Passion Pit - Take a Walk
Two Door Cinema Club - Sun

Double post