The best albums of 2012: numbers 40-21!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for – the start of our countdown through this year's best albums. The list has been compiled following an extensive poll of the Guardian and the Observer's music writers – we'll reveal more on Wednesday40 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!What we said about Godspeed: "A decade on from their split, this Montreal collective still sound like nothing else … It's beautiful, thrilling and exhausting. The Godspeed ethos of wordle...

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