Album of the Year?

It is, of course, really early yet, but I'll be surprised to hear anything much better this year than Pantha Du Prince's This Bliss. It's the sort of stuff people like to call "minimal" or "minimal techno" even though that doesn't feel very accurate upon listening; "tech house" makes more sense to me. From Wikipedia:

Tech house is a subgenre of house music. Although it uses the same basic structure as house, Tech substitutes typical booming house kick drums with shorter, often distorted kicks, smaller hi-hats, and noisier snares. House's funky jazz loops are replaced with techno-sounding synth lines.

Listen at their MySpace page.