Tis the season to compile top 10 lists, so we thought we’d get in on the the action. These are our favourite album releases of 2010, along with selections from Those Dancing Days, First Aid Kit and Peggy Sue.
Ben:
William Basinski – Vivian & Ondine
Black Breath – Heavy Breathing
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
Murmures – Murmuure
Retribution Gospel Choir – 2
Spectrals – Extended Play
Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime
Woods – At Echo Lake
Xasthur – Portal Of Sorrow
Y Niwl – Y Niwl”
Gareth:
Caribou – Swim
Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
Fourtet – There is Love In You
Free Energy – Stuck on Nothing
LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
Mogwai – Special Moves
Perfume Genius – Learning
Rolo Tomassi – Cosmology
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
Toro Y Moi – Causers of This
Mark:
Kanye West – My Dark Twisted Fantasy
Caribou – Swim
Jim Sullivan – UFO
Actress – Splazsh
Amanaz – Africa
Beach Fossils – Beach Fossils
Big Star – Keep An Eye On The Sky
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here
Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa No Filla
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics – Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics
Vicky:
Warpaint – The Fool
Perfume Genius – Learning
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Caribou – Swim
Glasser – Ring
She & Him – Volume Two
Kanye West – My Dark Twisted Fantasy
And from the bands….
Johanna & Klara, First Aid Kit:
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
MGMT – Congratulations
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
Laura Veirs – July Flame
Dylan LeBlanc – Paupers Field
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
Die Antwoord – $O$
Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Olly, Peggy Sue:
Timber Timbre – Timber Timbre
Archie Bronson Outfit – Coconut
The National – High Violet
Mariners Children – New Moore Island (EP)
Grinderman – Grinderman 2
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Isobelle Campbell Mark Lanagan – Hawk
Peter Wolf Crier – Inter Be
Gil Scott Heron – I’m New Here
Black Keys – Brothers
Rebecka, Those Dancing Days:
Bob Hund – Stumfilm (EP)
Mia – M A Y A
Dungen – Skit I Allt
Radio Dept. – Clinging to a Scheme
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Woods – At Echo Lake
Yeasayer – ODD BLOOD
Beach House – Teen Dream
Håkan Hellström – 2 steg från paradise
Robyn – Body Talk