Miscellaneous
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Albums of the Year 2010
published: 4 /
12 /
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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