Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010

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published: 4 / 12 / 2010




Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010

Our writers provide their favourite albums, and also favourite gig, of 2010




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CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. National - High Violet 2. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 4. Robert Plant - Band of Joy 5. Lovetones - Lost MALCOLM CARTER 1. Perry Keyes - Johnny Ray's Downtown 2. Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now 3. Michael Weston King - I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier 4. Duke and the King - Long Live the Duke and the King 5. Steve Connelly - Every Monster 6. Luke Jackson - ...And Then Some 7. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise 8. Anny Celsi - Tangle-Free World 9. Sarah MacDougall - Across the Atlantic 10.V/A - Next Stop Is Vietnam, The War On Record 1961-2008 ANDREW CARVER 1. Leatherface - The Stormy Petrel 2. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago 3. Janelle Monae - Archandroid 4. Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons 5. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star 6. Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs of Love 7. Mother’s Children - That’s Who 8. Best Coast - Crazy For You 9. Sharon Van Etten - Epic 10.Sir Lucious Left-Foot - The Son Of Chico Dusty Live Gig: Flaming Lips, Bluesfest, Ottawa JOHN CLARKSON 1. I Like Trains - He who Saw the Deep 2. Richmond Fontaine - Postcards from Portland: Live at Dantes 3. Spectorbullets - Spectorbullets 4. Arcade Fire -The Suburbs 5. Last Harbour - Volo 6. Shakespear's Sister - Songs from the Red Room 7. Adam Donen - Immortality 8. Shrag - Life!Death!Prizes! 9. OMD - History of Modern 10.A Band Called Quinn - The Beggar's Opera Live Gig: Willard Grant Conspiracy, Half Moon, London DANIEL CRESSEY 1. FM Belfast - How to Make Friends 2. Dropkick Murphys - Live on Lansdowne 3. National - High Violet 4. Dan Sartain - Lives 5. Roots Manuva - Duppy Writer 6. Sage Francis - Life ANTHONY DHANENDRAN Live Gig: Magnetic Fields, Barbican London DIXIE ERNILL 1. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal 2. Davey Woodward - 6 Miles East Of Here Five Miles North Of Nowhere 3. Paul Smith - Margins 4. Westfield Mining Disaster - Big Ideas From Small Places 5. Twin Shadow - Forget 6. I Am Kloot - Sky At Night 7. Brilliant Corners - Somebody Up There Likes Me/Joyride Reissue 8. Young Rebel Set - Young Rebel Set 9. Cats On Fire - Dealing In Antiques 10.Brilliant Corners - Growing Up Absurd/What's In A Word/Fruit Machine Reissue Live Gig: Davey Woodward/The Experimental Pop Band, The Thunderbolt, Bristol TOMMY GUNNARSSON 1. The Magnetic Fields - Realism 2. Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence 3. Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood Live Gig: Magnetic Fields, The Filadelfia Church, Stockholm BEN HOWARTH 1. Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood 2. Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Essex Arms 3. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown 4. David Ford - Let the Hard Times Roll 5. David Celia - I Tried 6. Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards - Shakes 7. Otis Gibbs - Joe Hill's Ashes 8. John Grant - Queen of Denmark 9. Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever 10.Ben Folds and Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue Live Gig: Paul McCartney, Isle of Wight Festival ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes 3. We Are Scientists - Barbara 3. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses 4. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 5. Trust - Puppets 6. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms 7. Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez 8. Hot Chip - One life stand 9. Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology 10.Les Savy Fav - Root for ruin FIONA HUTCHINGS Live Gig: a-ha, Arena, Sheffield SARAH JOHNSON 1. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record 2. Monroe Transfer - Trials 3. Warpaint - Fools 4. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 5. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 6. She & Him - Volume 2 Live Gig: Broken Social Scene, All Tomorrow's Parties, Minehead CHRIS JONES 1. Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme 2. Baths - Cerulean 3. Wild Nothing - Gemini 4. Beach House - Teen Dream 5. Breakage - Foundation 6. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 7. Japandroids - No Singles 8. Toro Y Moi - Causers of This 9. Andrew Hargreaves - Fragments/Defragment 10.Lali Puna - Our Inventions RICHARD LEWIS 1. Walkmen - Lisbon 2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 3. Black Keys - Brothers 4. Vampire Weekend - Contra 5. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 6. Best Coast - Crazy For You 7. National - High Violet 8. Chris Olley - Blackest Soul 9. Paul Weller - Wake Up the Nation 10.Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street Re-issue(Whaddaya mean it came out in 1972?) TARA MCEVOY 1. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal 2. Foals - Total Life Forever 3. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 4. Vampire Weekend - Contra 5. The Cast of Cheers - Chariot JAMIE ROWLAND (In no particular order) 1. Aloe Blacc - Good Things 2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 4. Beach House - Teen Dream 4. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record 5. Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep 6. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast 7. James Blackshaw - All Is Falling 8. Wooden Wand - Death Seat 9. Nina Nastasia - Outlaster 10.Ok Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky MARK ROWLAND 1. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz 2. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest 3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today 4. Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid 5. Monroe Transfer – Trials 6. Warpaint – The Fool 7. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record 8. Best Coast – Crazy For You 9. Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker 10.Vampire Weekend – Contra/Surfer Blood – Astro Coast MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Max Richter - Infra 2. Ergo Phizmiz - ThingsTo Do And Make 3. Black Carrot - Milking the Scarabs for Dough 4. Strange Boys - Be Brave 5. Ams - The Release of an American Soul 6. Copy - Hard Dream 7. Mark Sultan - $ 8. Serafina Steer - Change Is Good Change Is Good 9. Stereo Total - Baby Ouh! 10. Lee 'Scratch' Perry - The Mighty Upsetter / Dub Setter DOMINIC SIMPSON (In no particular order) 1. Besnard Lakes - ...Are the Roaring Night 2. Four Tet - There is Love in You 3. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? 4. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II 5. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening 6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today 7. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me a Rope Up to the Sky 8. Land of Kush's Egyptian Light Orchestra - Monogamy 9. Beach House - Teen Dream 10.Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain ANTHONY STRUTT 1. Northern Portrait - Criminal Art Lovers 2. Neil Young - Le Noise 3. Patrick Duff - The Mad Straight Road 4. Kelley Stoltz - To Dreamers 5. Leonard Cohen - Songs From the Road 6. Erland and the Carnival - Erland and the Carnival 7. Interpol - Interpol 8. Steve Wynn - Northern Aggression 9. Phil Wilson - God Bless Jim Kennedy 10.Doors - When You're Strange Live Gig: Paul McCartney, Hyde Park, London JEFF THIESSEN 1.Roky Erickson and Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil 2.Titus Andronicus - The Monitor 3.Liars - Sisterworld 4.Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer 5.Massive Attack - Heligoland 6.Weekend - Sports 7.Unkle - Where Did the Night Fall? 8.Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo 9.Scorpions - Sting in the Tail 10.Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart LISA TOREM 1. Hudson Fall - The Factory 2. Pondhawks - The Pondhawks Have Landed 3. Dakota - Heart and Soul 4. Andrew Vladeck - The Wheel 5. Bill Leverty - Deep South 6. Robinson - England's Bleeding 7. Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights 8. Asaf Avidan and the Mojos - The Reckoning 9. Judson Claiborne - Time and Temperature 10.Alex Lipinski - Lonesome Train Live Gig: Eric Burdon, Naperville Rib Fest, Naperville, Illinois PAUL WALLER 1. Villagers - Becoming A Jacka 2. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts 3. First Aid Kit - The Big Black and the Blue 4. M.I.A.- Maya 5. Fang Island - Fang Island 6. Throats - Throats 7. Stained Glass Heroes - Big Guns At Dawn 8. Summer Camp - Young 9. These New Puritans -Hidden 10.Humanfly - Darker Later DENZIL WATSON 1. Patrick Duff – The Mad Straight Road 2. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs 3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Beat the Devil’s Tattoo 4. Grinderman – Grinderman 2 5. Fall - Your Future, Our Clutter 6. I Am Kloot – Sky at Night 7. Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History 8. OMD – The History of Modern 9. Devo – Something for Everyone 10.Jon Windle – Step Out the Man



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Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010


Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010


Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010


Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010


Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2010



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