It’s finally over, and if you’ve been reading along (thank you), you’re probably about as glad as I am. That said, its been a nice exercise putting my feelings about these records into words. If I’ve introduced just one of you to a release you wouldn’t have checked out otherwise, then it was doubly worth it.
If you remember way back when on Jan. 1, I kind of outlined my criterium for ranking the releases, so I figured I would remind you of that now, as I post my complete list (with links to each review in the album titles). Hopefully this gives my Top 25 a bit more context, and who knows, maybe it gets some of you riled up about low rankings – if so, please comment! Like I said, I’m potentially going to have a mix hosted in the next couple days, so stay tuned for that. And again, thanks for reading!
TOP LPs of 2010
- Jumbling Towers – The Kanetown City Rips
- Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
- Elsinore – Yes Yes Yes
- Robyn – Body Talk
- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Let It Sway
- Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
- (tie) The Bird and The Bee – Interpreting The Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute To Hall & Oates / Mates of State –Crushes
- Hellogoodbye – Would It Kill You?
- Das Racist – Sit Down, Man
- The Love Language – Libraries
- Hot Chip – One Life Stand
- Beach House – Teen Dream
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- Jamie Lidell – Compass
- Feist – Look At What The Light Did Now
- The New Pornographers – Together
- Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
- Deftones – Diamond Eyes
- LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
- Absofacto – All The Songs
- Menomena – Mines
- The Budos Band – The Budos Band III
- The National – High Violet
- Yeasayer – Odd Blood
- Alphabeat – The Beat Is…
- OK Go – Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
- Eminem – Recovery
- Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
- Ceo – White Magic
- Band Of Horses – Infinite Arms
- Medications – Completely Removed
- Stars – The Five Ghosts
- Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
- Maximum Balloon – Maximum Balloon
- Matt & Kim – Sidewalks
- Rockwell Knuckles – Choose Your Own Adventure
- Tokyo Police Club – Champ
- Girl Talk – All Day
- Ash – The A-Z Series
- Sleigh Bells – Treats
- Hawksley Workman – Meat
- Ben Folds & Nick Hornby – Lonely Avenue
- La Strada – New Home
- One For The Team – Ghosts
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Jimmy Eat World – Invented
- Call Me Lightning – When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free
- Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – Record Collection
- Casiokids – Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar
- !!! – Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
- Ra Ra Riot – The Orchard
- (tie) Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty / Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
- Dead Child Star – Cold Hands, Warm Heart
- N.E.R.D. – Nothing
- Lazerbeak – Legend Recognize Legend
- Brandon Flowers – Flamingo
- Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
- The Roots – How I Got Over
- How To Dress Well – Love Remains
- Toadies – Feeler
- Weezer – Death To False Metal
- Vampire Weekend – Contra
- The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
- Title Tracks – It Was Easy
- Aloha – Home Acres
- Wolf Parade – Expo 86
- Spoon – Transference
- Drew Danbury – Goodnight Dannii
- Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
- Tim Kasher – The Game of Monogamy
- Hawksley Workman – Milk
- Cloud Cult – Light Chasers
- Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
- Fresh and Onlys – Play It Strange
- OFF! – First Four EPs
- Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
- Prefab Sprout – Let’s Change The World With Music
- Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
- Best Coast – Crazy For You
- Weezer – Hurley
- Interpol – Interpol
TOP EPs of 2010
- Jumbling Towers – Ramifications Of An Exciting Spouse
- BRONZE – BRONZE
- Robyn – Body Talk Pt. 1 & 2
- Sufjan Stevens – All Delighted People
- Dear Vincent – So Long Winter
- Jon Hardy & The Public – A Hard Year
- The Get Up Kids – Simple Science
- California Wives – Affair
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