Not long to go now until we reveal the winner of the first Uncut Music Award. Later this week, we’ll announce who our judges have chosen as their favourite from the shortlist of eight. In the meantime, though, I’ve been doing some rudimentary maths based on the messages you’ve all posted on this blog. Here come your favourites; the winner, I should say, came home by a landslide.

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1 Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (New West)

2 Felice Brothers – Felice Brothers (Loose)

3 Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD)

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4= Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)

4= The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely (XL)