Favorite Albums from 2010

After much lollygagging and fence-riding, I’ve decided to come forth with my list of favorite albums from 2010.  To be honest, some of this could be blamed on copious rewrites of the mini-reviews for each album in the list.  This task just got too overwhelming.  (How does Chris Short do it?!!)  So I decided to just go with a list, no annotation.

My criteria for this list was simple; I chose my favorites from last year.  These were the albums I listened to in their entirety most frequently.  There are no reissues, 45s or EPs, as I placed those in an addendum with honorable mentions.  So here are my fifteen favorite albums from 2010, in no particular order.

1. Swim – Caribou (Merge)
2. Transit, Transit – Autolux (TBD)
3. The Changing of the Guard – Starflyer 59 (Tooth and Nail)
4. Cave Syndrome – Transient Songs (Indian Casino)
5. The Courage of Others – Midlake (Bella Union)
6. Who We Touch – Charlatans (Cooking Vinyl)
7. Clinging to a Scheme – The Radio Dept. (Labrador)
8. The Lady Killer – Cee-Lo Green (Elektra)
9. Losing Sleep – Edwyn Collins (Heavenly)
10. Intriguer – Crowded House (Fantasy)
11. Each Other All the Time – Cowboy Indian Bear (The Record Machine)
12. Cosmogramma – Flying Lotus (Warp)
13. Beach Fossils – Beach Fossils (Captured Tracks)
14. My Room in the Trees – The Innocence Mission (Badman)
15. Into the Great Wide Wonder – Trentemøller (In My Room)

Honorable Mentions

• Other People’s Songs – Damien Jurado and Richard Swift
• The Long Play – Sam Phillips
• 2010 Recordings – Monahans
• Aias 7” – Aias (Captured Tracks)
• Coals to Newcastle – Orange Juice (Domino)
• Say No to Love 7” – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland)
• Mechanism Design 10” – Kingdom of God Mathematics (Scatterplot Sounds)

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