Domingo 9 Ene 2011, 23:57

OTHER LISTINESS
All albums listed/ranked
Top singles, 2010

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Of Montreal- False Priest
The Black Keys- Brothers
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's- Buzzard
Frightened Rabbit- The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Rogue Wave- Permalight
The Dead Weather- Sea of Cowards
The Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Neon Trees- habits
The National- High Violet
Spoon- Transferrence
Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Grinderman- Grinderman II
Gogol Bordello- Trans-Continental Hustle

THE LIST

10-A. LCD Soundsystem- This is Happening
Listen: Dance Yrself Clean, Drunk Girls

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LCD Soundsystem perfectly articulates sexualization and rejection with infectious dance beats and misleading hooks, and shows the vulnerability of aging's melancholy while providing at the same time a danceable catharsis.

10-B. Beach House- Teen Dream
Listen: Zebra, Used to Be

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Beach House bring us a classic album filled with deep and poetic lyrics and tunes that seep through with longing. Of all the bands doing the whole "male/female" vocalist thing these days, few are able to utilize the dynamic as fluidly or lusciously as Beach House does in Teen Dream.

9. Tokyo Police Club- Champ
Listen: Favourite Food, Bambi

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Tokyo Police Club continue their forgery of their new patent genre of pop punk and create a mature album rich with literary songs about the yearning for yesteryear and snapshot images of the past.

8. Foxy Shazam- Foxy Shazam
Listen: Bye Bye Symphony, Oh Lord

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Foxy Shazam perfectly fuses jazz, soul, and punk and come out swinging creating the feel good album of the year–and one MJ probably would have approved of.

7. Jónsi- Go
Listen: Animal Arithmatic, Tornado

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Jonsi, the mind behind Swedish Icelandic folk rock band Sigur Ros, is no stranger to creating breathtakingly beautiful music. His solo outing takes everything listeners will have come to expect from his more popular and well-known group and add pop edge. The end result in an album that's engaging beginning to end, with nine miraculous and enchanting tracks.

6. Gorillaz- Plastic Beach
Listen: On Melancholy Hill, Superfast Jellyfish

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The new Gorillaz album is every bit as quirky as the project's past releases but breaks new ground with inspired samples and guest artists as well as a pretentious and well-executed concept.

5. Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
Listen: The Cave, Thistle and Weeds

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Sigh No More contains the spectrum of human emotion's darker colors–from rampage to guilt to sorrow, jealousy, remorse and shame, but does not do so in any way that begs for sympathy. The result is a powerful testament to the human spirit wrapped in folk and a tenuous and scandalous love triangle. Sigh No More is a revelation, and a perfect example of the potential and diversity of country music as a genre.

4. Laura Marling- I Speak Because I Can
Listen: Devil's Spoke, Blackberry Stone

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Laura Marling weaves a heartbreaking if not defiant yarn in her first album proper, relentlessly crooning against a backdrop of fresh, crisp, folk. The album is honest and full of candor, soul shaking and pure.

3. The Morning Benders- Big Echo
Listen: Excuses, Promises, Cold War

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The Morning Benders roar to life with a refreshing blend of beach rock and classic rock. Big Echo is gritty, romantic, and powerful and oozes over with loud, full production and walls of sound.

2. Vampire Weekend- Contra
Listen: Horchata, Run, Giving Up the Gun, Diplomat's Son

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Vampire Weekend bends genres in this game-changing rewrite of the indie-pop genre, travelling across demographics and genres to pull apart music and reassemble it in Ezra Koenig's off-kilter, fruity New England Ivy League image.

1. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Listen: Dark Fantasy, Power, Monster, Lost in the World

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Kanye West has produced a hedonistic galla of an album that at once is a tribute and a tragedy to his Self. Every track could very well be the best song to be released this year, the rhymes are just as culturally involved and inspired as in the past–but more mature, more poignant, more self-aware, and more introspective, and the collection of guests must be heard to believed. Though at times Kanye's lyrical style can boil over in cheese and obnoxiousness, this does not keep his Twisted Fantasy from being without a doubt the best album of the year.