Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid is music critics album of the year

Now into its eighth year, the HMV Poll of Polls is collated each December by HMV's music buying team, which adds up the total number of nominations a release has received from music writers in their annual album of the year pieces.

Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid proved a highly popular winner, pulling in 18 nominations in total across thirty-five publications, sites and organisations that were polled.

It proved a close run thing with Portishead's long awaited comeback album Third, ...

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