KEANE TOP Q MAGAZINE ALBUM POLL

Last updated: Sunday, December 28, 2008

KEANE TOP Q MAGAZINE ALBUM POLL

British rockers KEANE's album PERFECT SYMMETRY has beaten out competition from COLDPLAY and KINGS OF LEON to be named 2008's best record, according to a new poll.

Tom Chaplin of Keane performing at the XFM party at Club 229 London, England - 16.12.08

The trio's LP, its first since 2005's Under The Iron Sea, topped Britain's Q Magazine and Q Radio's best releases of the year (08) list.

Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds came second, with U.K. electro-folk group Goldfrapp taking the third spot on the coveted poll.

Earlier this year, Keane's first two albums - Hopes and Fears and Under the Iron Sea - were voted into Q magazine's Best British Albums Ever poll, sitting at number 13 and number eight respectively.

Q Magazine's best releases of 2008 are:

1. Perfect Symmetry - Keane

2. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds

3. Supernature - Goldfrapp

4. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis

5. Only By The Night - Kings of Leon

6. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay

7. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

8. Exotic Creatures of the Deep - Sparks

9. The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets

10. Accelerate - R.E.M