(for the album which you played and played and played and played and played - doesn’t have to be a 2005 release)

Elbow - Leaders of the Free World

I quite like Elbow - have done ever since the brooding mantra-like Any Day Now - but I’d never really given their albums a particularly good listen, because I much preferred the singles to the rest of their output.

Having said that, Leaders of the Free World is in a different class entirely. I certainly wouldn’t say it was the best album ever or anything, but it has a pleasing wholeness to it, which means it makes for a good listen from start to finish. In fact, I probably couldn’t think of any one song in particular - apart from the thumping Station Approach as opener - and yet I feel like I know the album well.

Close runners-up in this category:
Kate Bush - Aerial (see above) and Jeff Waynes - War of the Worlds musical interpretation. Dum-dum-DUURR (Diddly! Diddly !) etc.