Dec 21, 2011

The Best Albums Of 2010

Top 50













  1. Your future our clutter - THE FALL
  2. Ring - GLASSER
  3. High violet - THE NATIONAL
  4. I will be - DUM DUM GIRLS
  5. Treats - SLEIGH BELLS
  6. Everything in between - NO AGE
  7. Expo 86 - WOLF PARADE
  8. The suburbs - ARCADE FIRE
  9. Teen dream - BEACH HOUSE
  10. King night - SALEM
  11. Crystal Castles (II) - CRYSTAL CASTLES
  12. Sisterworld - LIARS
  13. Grinderman 2 - GRINDERMAN
  14. Transference - SPOON
  15. The fool - WARPAINT
  16. High Places Vs Mankind - HIGH PLACES
  17. Hidden - THESE NEW PURITANS
  18. Nerve up - LONELADY
  19. Gemini - WILD NOTHING
  20. Forgiveness rock record - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
  21. Root for ruin - LES SAVY FAV
  22. Wilderness heart - BLACK MOUNTAIN
  23. Crazy for you - BEST COAST
  24. Contra - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
  25. Total life forever - FOALS
  26. The flexible entertainer - PIT ER PAT
  27. Sea of cowards - THE DEAD WEATHER
  28. Majesty shredding - SUPERCHUNK
  29. The Soft Pack - THE SOFT PACK
  30. Sleep forever - CROCODILES
  31. Penny sparkle - BLONDE REDHEAD
  32. Interpol - INTERPOL
  33. Disconnect from desire - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
  34. Cosmogramma - FLYING LOTUS
  35. MAYA - M.I.A.
  36. Brothers - THE BLACK KEYS
  37. Coconut - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
  38. Congratulations - MGMT
  39. Innerspeaker - TAME IMPALA
  40. Halcyon digest - DEERHUNTER
  41. Forget - TWIN SHADOW
  42. The Drums - THE DRUMS
  43. Avi Buffalo - AVI BUFFALO
  44. 1000 years - THE CORIN TUCKER BAND
  45. The Soft Moon - THE SOFT MOON
  46. The monitor - TITUS ANDRONICUS
  47. XXXX - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
  48. The optimist - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
  49. Relayted - GAYNGS
  50. Swim - CARIBOU
Also recommended:

Latin - HOLY FUCK, The inevitable past is the future forgotten - THREE MILE PILOT, Cloak and cipher - LAND OF TALK, Phosphene dream - THE BLACK ANGELS, This is happening - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, My beautiful dark twisted fantasy - KANYE WEST, The Hundred In The Hands - THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS, Black noise - PANTHA DU PRINCE, My father will guide me up a rope to the sky - SWANS, Absolute dissent - KILLING JOKE, Fire like this - BLOOD RED SHOES, Transit transit - AUTOLUX, The age of adz - SUFJAN STEVENS, There is love in you - FOUR TET, How I got over - THE ROOTS, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The son of Chico Dusty - BIG BOI, Stridulum II - ZOLA JESUS, Broken Bells - BROKEN BELLS, The courage of others - MIDLAKE, Northern aggression - STEVE WYNN &THE MIRACLE 3, Blurry blue mountain - GIANT SAND, Together - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, I'm having fun now - JENNY AND JOHNNY, The five ghosts - STARS, Amsterdam throwdown King Street showdown! - SOLEX VS. CRISTINA MARTINEZ + JON SPENCER, Romance is boring - LOS CAMPESINOS!, Beat the devil's tattoo - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, The golden archipelago - SHEARWATER, Have one on me - JOANNA NEWSOM, 2 - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Lisbon - THE WALKMEN, Possession sound - GUN OUTFIT, Nothing hurts - MALE BONDING, Mines - MENOMENA, Odd blood - YEASAYER, Strange weather, isn't it? - !!!, Where did the night fall - UNKLE, Plastic beach - GORILLAZ, Before today - ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI, Here’s to taking it easy - PHOSPHORESCENT, The trip - LAETITIA SADIER, Grey oceans - COCOROSIE, Totaled - INDIAN JEWELRY, No 2: Abyss in B minor - SERENA MANEESH, Champ - TOKYO POLICE CLUB, Heaven is whenever - THE HOLD STEADY, Infinite arms - BAND OF HORSES, Personal life - THE THERMALS, Hippies - HARLEM, First four EPs - OFF!, Untitled - FACTORY FLOOR, JJ No3 - JJ, Dagger paths - FOREST SWORDS, American gong - QUASI, Nobody's daughter - HOLE, Come around sundown - KINGS OF LEON, Surfing the void - KLAXONS, One life stand - HOT CHIP, Mixed race - TRICKY, False priest - OF MONTREAL, Modern celibacy - BERLIN BRIDES, Planet earth about to be recycled - LAKE R▲DIO, Splazsh - ACTRESS, Anika - ANIKA, The waves - TAMARYN, = Sentridoh III - LOU BARLOW + THE MISSINGMEN, NonStopErotik - BLACK FRANCIS, Play it strange - THE FRESH & ONLYS, King of the beach - WAVVES, Sports - WEEKEND, Astro coast - SURFER BLOOD, Sex dreams and denim jeans - UFFIE, Rhizomes - EFFI BRIEST, Secret blood - SHANNON WRIGHT, Through low light and trees - SMOKE FAIRIES, The Besnard Lakes are the roaring night - THE BESNARD LAKES, Hawk - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Sex with an X - THE VASELINES, Shadows - TEENAGE FANCLUB, Bubblegum - CLINIC, In and out and back again - WOVEN BONES, Two thousand and ten injuries - LOVE IS ALL, Clinging to a scheme - THE RADIO DEPT., Tomorrow morning - EELS, Heaven's alright - PARAMOUNT STYLES, O. Children - O. CHILDREN, The grime and the glow - CHELSEA WOLFE, Vexations - GET WELL SOON, Our inventions - LALI PUNA, The way out - BOOKS, Lucky shiner - GOLD PANDA, Does it look like I'm here? - EMERALDS, Hard pop for blue trees - IT SOUND, All great events - MY WET CALVIN, Into the great wide yonder - TRENTEMOLLER, The ArchAndroid - JANELLE MONÁE, Heligoland - MASSIVE ATTACK, I'm new here - GIL SCOTT-HERON, A Sufi and a killer - GONJASUFI, North - DARKSTAR, Unicorn - CHEW LIPS, Bliss release - CLOUD CONTROL, K-X-P - K-X-P, What it means to be left-handed - MICE PARADE, Queen of Denmark - JOHN GRANT, Realism - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, Who killed Sgt. Pepper? - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Last day of summer - WHITE DENIM, We all got out of the army - ROBERT POLLARD, Our cubehouse still rocks - BOSTON SPACESHIPS, Give me walls - COLD IN BERLIN, No name no color - MIDDLE CLASS RUT, Here in the golden rays - HAIGHT ASHBURY, The chaos - THE FUTUREHEADS, Frankie Rose And The Outs - FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS, IRM - CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, Maximum Balloon - MAXIMUM BALLOON, Voice of seven thunders - VOICE OF SEVEN THUNDERS, The threshingfloor - WOVENHAND, Warm slime - THEE OH SEES, The brutalist bricks - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, The big to-do - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, American slang - THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, **** - GREENHORNES, Blood and fire - EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, Marnie Stern - MARNIE STERN, The calcination of Scout Niblett - SCOUT NIBLETT, The big black and the blue - FIRST AID KIT, I speak because I can - LAURA MARLING, Big echo - THE MORNING BENDERS, The winter of mixed drinks - FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Boys outside - STEVE MASON, Goodbye, killer - PERNICE BROTHERS, Permalight - ROGUE WAVE, Heartland - OWEN PALLETT, The ghost who walks - KAREN ELSON, Outlaster - NINA NASTASIA, And the pioneer saboteurs - MICAH P. HINSON, Land and fixed - BLANK DOGS, Crush - ABE VIGODA, Rocket fire - CEREMONY, Rush to relax - EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, Age of denial - SENNEN, We were exploding anyway - 65DAYSOFSTATIC, Turning on - CLOUD NOTHINGS, New chain - SMALL BLACK, Eyelid movies - PHANTOGRAM, The wants - THE PHANTOM BAND, Allo Darlin' - ALLO DARLIN', Serotonin - MYSTERY JETS, Man alive - EVERYTHING EVERYTHING, Pulled Apart By Horses - PULLED APART BY HORSES, Happy Birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Measure - FIELD MUSIC, The family jewels - MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS, Love remains - HOW TO DRESS WELL, Down there - AVEY TARE, Becoming a jackal - VILLAGERS, Learning - PERFUME GENIUS, Fever - SLEEPY SUN, Thing - TRANS AM, On the ones and threes - VERSUS, Omni - MINUS THE BEAR, Gambling with God - MAGNETA LANE, Out of our minds - MELISSA AUF DER MAUR, She was coloured in - SOLAR BEARS, Oversteps - AUTECHRE, Further - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Barking - UNDERWORLD, LP4 - RATATAT, Butterfly house - THE CORAL, Losing sleep - EDWYN COLLINS, Wake up the nation - PAUL WELLER, National ransom - ELVIS COSTELLO, Something for everybody - DEVO, Mastermind - MONSTER MAGNET, True love cast out all evil - ROKY ERICKSON / OKKERVIL RIVER, Le noise - NEIL YOUNG, Scratch my back - PETER GABRIEL, Homeland - LAURIE ANDERSON, Swanlights - ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS, Belle And Sebastian write about love - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Postcards from a young man - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Who we touch - THE CHARLATANS, Recovery - EMINEM, Sit down, man - DAS RACIST, Man on the moon II: The legend of Mr. Rager - KID CUDI, Crooks and lovers - MOUNT KIMBIE, Returnal - ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, Subiza - DELOREAN, Magnetic Man - MAGNETIC MAN, Symbiosis - DEMDIKE STARE, Black earth that made me - WHITE RING, Fevers - DREAM BOAT, oOoOO - oOoOO, The cold world melts - SOFT METALS, Escape - MOON DUO, Not music - STEREOLAB, Disco 2 - HEALTH, No singles - JAPANDROIDS, Vol.2 - WOODEN SHJIPS.