Top Alternative Dance albums

American trio Foster The People’s debut album Torches has music that might be a surprise to many of those who already like the band

Demon Days may end 2005 as one of the year’s most celebrated albums. Before you even consider the sonic and melodic innovation paraded through the album there’s so much crammed into each of these fifteen songs

Besides such megahits as Master and Servant, Enjoy the Silence, Personal Jesus, the just-released single Martyr and other great Depeche Mode’s works the album makes room for lesser-known gems

The cartoon musicians of Gorillaz, backed by a number of celebrated performers, prepared another studio CD, Plastic Beach. You will find here everything Gorillaz are loved for: diversity, quality, sweet mood

Made In The Dark widens the borders of the pop music notion in many respects proving that Hot Chip is a unique collective ignoring whatever regulations. As before its music causes smiles of admiration with precise shots of melodies and texts

Kasabian has an inclination to expand the borders of its music and diversify it. Therefore Empire first of all surprises with changing directions and more powerful vocals, and is definitely a more mature creation than the debut one

The second LCD Soundsystem’s work Sound Of Silver continues their previous diligences: laconic disco-beat, motley samples, guitar riffs, hypnotic passage of piano, percussion and James Murphy’s talent as a vocalist

Santogold is different from the other works of the kind with its bold incoherence: each song on it seems to live its own life and it is absolutely impossible to say what it is going to sound like every following minute

An artful layering of the most unexpected sound discoveries, contagious samples, sparkling tunes and bewitching vocal parts comprise only a part of all the merits LCD Soundsystem's new record This Is Happening can boast

Myths Of The Near Future is a truly interesting and unpredictable travel around the world in search of the better with the music of Klaxons. You get the sense that their music come not in the studious, but during their concerts.

We loved Beck the sex machine (Midnight Vultures), Beck the mutant folkie (Mutations) and even heartbreak Beck (Sea Change). Guero, however, is the real follow-up to his outstanding opus Odelay. Guero

The Automatic became one of the sales leaders of summer 2006. It is quite possible that even those who have never been fond of pop-punk rock can find a number of new interesting moments on Not Accepted Anywhere

Judging by the fact how much Black Kids' record called Partie Traumatic is catchy, joyful and energetic one can easily suppose that the band's popularity will only grow rather rapidly

The British indie-punk band Bloc Party often compared to Blur and The Cure, released the third disc Intimacy. It features ten excellent winding pop rock tracks with the innovative electronic flavor