My Top 10 Albums of 2010
written by Marc Katsambis
⇒23 Dec 2010
1. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
Summary: James Murphy tops himself. Attempting greatness, he overshoots, and lands on a stone-cold classic. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Dance Yrself Clean
2. Drunk Girls
3. One Touch
4. All I Want
5. I Can Change
6. You Wanted a Hit
7. Pow Wow
8. Somebody’s Calling Me
9. Home
Label: DFA Records
Genre: Electronica, Post Punk
2. Four Tet – There Is Love In You
Summary: It seems perfection may be reached in Four Tet’s future. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Angel Echoes
2. Love Cry
3. Circling
4. Pablo’s Heart
5. Sing
6. This Unfolds
7. Reversing
8. Plastic People
9. She Just Likes to Fight
Label: Domino
Genre: Electronica
3. Foals – Total Life Forever
Summary: From Bloc Party to Radiohead, “The future is not what it used to be”. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Blue Blood
2. Miami
3. Total Life Forever
4. Black Gold
5. Spanish Sahara
6. This Orient
7. Fugue
8. After Glow
9. Alabaster
10. 2 Trees
11. What Remains
Label: Transgressive
Genre: Indie rock, Dance-Punk, Alternative Dance, Math Rock
4. The Chemical Brothers – Further
Summary: The block rockers grow wings. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Snow
2. Escape Velocity
3. Another World
4. Dissolve
5. Horse Power
6. Swoon
7. K+D+B
8. Wonders Of The Deep
Label: Junior Boy’s Own, Astralwerks, Freestyle Dust, Virgin Records
Genre: Electronica
5. Yeasayer – Odd Blood
Summary: On Odd Blood, Yeasayer are quite content to make cool yet easy pop music, ultimately keeping themselves as the band to check out if you like (better indie bands). (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. The Children
2. Ambling Alp
3. Madder Red
4. I Remember
5. ONE
6. Love Me Girl
7. Rome
8. Strange Reunions
9. Mondegreen
10. Grizeldap
Label: Secretly Canadian
Genre: Alt Rock, Indie Rock
6. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Summary: On Odd Blood, Yeasayer are quite content to make cool yet easy pop music, ultimately keeping themselves as the band to check out if you like (better indie bands). (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. The Suburbs
2. Ready to Start
3. Modern Man
4. Rococo
5. Empty Room
6. City With No Children
7. Half Light I
8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
9. Suburban War
10. Month of May
11. Wasted Hours
12. Deep Blue
13. We Used to Wait
14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
16. The Suburbs (Continued)
Label: Merge (US), Mercury (UK)
Genre: Indie
7. Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
Summary: Yet another British Indie-Pop band with a likeable, if overly familiar, debut. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Cigarettes In The Theatre
2. Come Back Home
3. Do You Want It All?
4. This Is The Life
5. Something Good Can Work
6. I Can Talk
7. Undercover Martyn
8. What You Know
9. Eat That Up, It’s Good For You
10. You’re Not Stubborn
Label: Kitsuné Music (Europe), Glassnote Records (U.S.)
Genre: Alternative rock, Electropop, Indie pop
8. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Summary: Local Natives have branded a likeable mix of indie-rock and folk with an energetic core. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Wide Eyes
2. Airplanes
3. Sun Hands
4. World News
5. Shape Shifter
6. Camera Talk
7. Cards And Quarters
8. Warning Sign
9. Who Knows Who Cares
10. Cubism Dream
11. Stranger Things
12. Sticky Thread
Label: Infectious, Frenchkiss Records
Genre: Indie rock, folk
9. Angus & Julia Stone – Down The Way
Summary: Australia’s sweethearts try for democracy – but really, sisters are doing it for themselves. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. Hold On
2. Black Crow
3. For You
4. Big Jet Plane
5. Santa Monica Dream
6. Yellow Brick Road
7. And the Boys
8. On the Road
9. Walk It Off
10. Hush
11. Draw Your Swords
12. I’m Not Yours
13. The Devil’s Tears
Label: EMI Music Australia, Capitol Records
Genre: Folk, acoustic
10. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
Summary: “Innerspeaker” is what The Beatles would sound like if they took EVEN MORE drugs with a dash of Led Zeppelin and Cream. The albums nostalgic lo-fi spaced out psychedelia, while nothing groundbreaking, does a lot of things pitch-perfectly right. (Source: Sputnik Music)
Track Listing:
1. It Is Not Meant To Be
2. Desire Be Desire Go
3. Alter Ego
4. Lucidity
5. Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?
6. Solitude Is Bliss
7. Island Walking (iTunes bonus track)
8. Jeremy’s Storm
9. Expectation
10. The Bold Arrow Of Time
11. Runway, Houses, City, Clouds
12. I Don’t Really Mind
Label: Modular Recordings
Genre: Psychedelic rock
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