It was another stellar all-girl year for our favourite albums (although, to be honest, most years are pretty much all-girl for us). Stephanie Dosen, who for a while was the new voice of Massive Attack, released an album of dreamy, almost minimalist folk sketches; Bat For Lashes introduced her otherworldly mix of Björk, Kate Bush and her own imitable style; Britney Spears may have encountered public meltdown but she put her name to the best album of her career; Björk herself proved she still had it, despite backlash, with an exhilarating and heady alloy of African drums and horns and bright, harsh synths; and Dragonette, Canada's answer to Goldfrapp delivered one of the best synth-pop debuts of the decade.There was more unfeasibly gorgeous folk from Feist, a sound so unique and exciting it captured the imagination of America's mainstream hip-hop community from M.I.A., Robyn and her multi-faceted, multi-coloured hip-pop-punk started the pop-cool resurgence, and both Róisín Murphy and Siobhan Donaghy, two Irish beauties with wildly differing styles released sprawling and brilliant albums that, let's be fair, didn't get the commercial acclaim they deserved. Oh well.
- Stephanie Dosen - A Lily for the Spectre
- Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
- Britney Spears - Blackout
- Björk - Volta
- Dragonette - Galore
- Feist - The Reminder
- M.I.A. - Kala
- Robyn - Robyn
- Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
- Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts
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