After nearly 1,500 votes for our 15 albums of the year (they’re all winners really), the public have voted Muse’s fifth studio album The Resistance as TMM’s Album of 2009.

Our original review of the album said:

The Resistance may not be their most cohesive work yet, and certainly not their finest, but it’s not too far off. Any producer in the world would probably have changed so much of this that you’d never recognise it, but it’s Muse’s ability to take risks and do things their own way which has made them one of the greatest bands in the world.

So, a worthy winner? There was some pretty stiff competition from Bombay Bicycle Club, Grammatics and Arctic Monkeys, but the boys from Devon held firm until the very end to win our first end of year poll.

Stay tuned for the TMM Writers’ Choice Award, which is slightly different to the winner of our public poll.