Best Of 2010
I reasonably enjoyed all of these. There are some I'm definitely missing. |
1 | | Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To the Sky
This is a lumbering beast of an album. In other words, just how a Swans
album should be. In fact, this may be the best Swans yet. |
2 | | Rosetta A Determinism of Morality
Brilliant post-space-hardcore-metal. |
3 | | Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts
This has a beautiful ambience. |
4 | | Jonsi Go
Absolutely breathtaking. |
5 | | Max Richter Infra
Max Richter seems to be channeling Phillip Glass here. |
6 | | Titus Andronicus The Monitor
The best punk concept album based on the Civil War you'll hear all year. |
7 | | Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit
I'm surprised this isn't very well-liked here. I am also surprised this works
so well as a concept. |
8 | | Kayo Dot Coyote |
9 | | U.S. Christmas Run Thick In The Night
This album is criminally overlooked. |
10 | | Maserati Pyramid of the Sun
This album serves an excellent tribute to their dead drummer, but it also
really stands up on it's own. |
11 | | Arcade Fire The Suburbs
In lesser years, this would have been much higher for me. It's not quite as
good as the past two Arcade Fire albums, but it is still really great. |
12 | | God is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun |
13 | | Superchunk Majesty Shredding
In lesser years, this would have been much higher for me. It's not quite as
good as the past two Arcade Fire albums, but it is still really great. In other
words, why isn't this higher on more people's year end lists? |
14 | | The Ascent of Everest From This Vantage |
15 | | Alcest Ecailles de Lune |
16 | | Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Obligatory choice. Seriously though, it's good. Really, criminally good. |
17 | | Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
18 | | Envy Recitation |
19 | | Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
20 | | Grinderman Grinderman 2
Nick Cave is a god. |
21 | | Yakuza Of Seismic Consequence |
22 | | Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
23 | | Zoroaster Matador |
24 | | Oceansize Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up |
25 | | High on Fire Snakes for the Divine |
26 | | Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here? |
27 | | Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 |
28 | | Eluvium Similes |
29 | | Electric Wizard Black Masses |
30 | | RVIVR RVIVR LP |
31 | | Goldmund Famous Places |
32 | | Sailors With Wax Wings Sailors With Wax Wings |
33 | | The Ocean Anthropocentric
I think this works much better than Heliocentric. |
34 | | Scout Niblett The Calcination of Scout Niblett |
35 | | Julie Christmas The Bad Wife |
36 | | Coliseum House With A Curse |
37 | | Defiance, Ohio Midwestern Minutes |
38 | | East of the Wall Ressentiment |
39 | | Off With Their Heads In Desolation |
40 | | James Blackshaw All Is Falling |
41 | | Triptykon Eparistera Daimones |
42 | | 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway |
43 | | Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Kollaps Tradixionales |
44 | | The Corin Tucker Band 1,000 Years
New stuff by Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney. |
45 | | Castevet Mounds of Ash
It's annoying that there are two Castevets I want to check out: the emo one and the black metal one. This
album
by the latter is good stuff. |
46 | | Adebisi Shank This Is the Second Album of a Band Called... |
47 | | Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
48 | | Balmorhea Constellations |
49 | | Constants If Tomorrow the War |
50 | | Twilight Monument to Time End |
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