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End Of The Year 2010

2010 had way more to listen to than 2009 did. That’s for sure. Was that a good thing? I don’t know. I heard a lot of bad records this year. A lot of letdowns. Also, 2010 was dominated by electronic music. Electronic music entered the mainstream whether it be through hip-hop, or just plain pop music. For an example look no further than Katy Perry and Ke$ha‘s latest singles. Anyway, 2010 was a smooth year. Click the cut for the lists.

I SLEPT IN 2009:

In both of these cases below I listened in the past passively but fell in love in 2010.

2. El-P

1. The xx

BEST EP:

10. Bright & Early – Louder Than Words EP

9. Lonely Forest – Lonely Forest EP

8. O’Brother – The Death Of Day EP

7. Balance And Composure/Tiger’s Jaw – Split EP, Balance And Composure – I Just Want To Be Pure EP

6. Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa No Filla EP

5. Flux Pavilion – Lines In Wax EP

4. Skrillex – Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites EP

3. Lydia – Assailants EP

2. Balam Acab – See Birds EP

1. Oceana – Clean Head EP

BEST MIXTAPE:

5. B.o.B – No Genre

4. Wale – More About Nothing

3. Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa No Filla

2. J. Cole – Friday Night Lights

1. Apparat – DJ Kicks

BEST SONG:

60. J. Cole – Blow Up

59. Kingdom – Mind Reader

58. Katy Perry – E.T.

57. A-Trak – Ray Ban Vision (Feat. CyHi Da Prynce)

56. Kanye West – Christian Dior Denim Flow

55. Big Boi – Shine Blockas

54. Flux Pavilion – Haunt You

53. There For Tomorrow – Re:Burn

52. Conditions – When It Won’t Save You

51. letlive. – Renegade ’86

50. Local Natives – Cards & Quarters

49. Houses – All Night

48. Robyn – Hang With Me

47. Neon Trees – Sins Of My Youth

46. The Graduate – Pull Me In

45. The Gaslight Anthem – The Queen Of Lower Chelsea

44. Ellie Goulding – Under The Sheets

43. Eminem – Cinderella Man

42. Chromeo – Night by Night

41. States – Falling For

40. You, Me, And Everyone We Know – A Little Bit More

39. Drake – Fireworks

38. Four Tet – Love Cry

37. Kanye West – Lost In The World

36. Neon Trees – Animal

35. Four Year Strong – Eternal Summer (Wasting Time)

34. Robyn – Indestructible

33. Cee-Lo – Fuck You

32. Kelis – Home

31. The Maine – Inside Of You

30. Rihanna – What’s My Name

29. Kid Cudi – All Along

28. La Roux – In For The Kill (Skrillex Remix)

27. Willow Smith – Whip My Hair

26. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp

25. Four Tet – Angel Echoes

24. Local Natives – Airplanes

23. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill

22. Big Boi – Hustle Blood

21. Ke$ha – We R Who We R

20. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

19. Wiz Khalifa – Black & Yellow

18. Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa No Filla

17. Tokyo Police Club – Breakneck Speed

16. Skrillex – Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites

15. Bright & Early – Something Personal

14. Kid Cudi – Erase Me

13. Robyn – Dancing On My Own

12. LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yourself Clean

11. Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed

10. The Mission In Motion – New Skin

9. Deftones – Sex Tape

8. Oceana – Wool God

7. Kele – Tenderoni

6. Salem – King Night

5. letlive. – Muther

4. Kanye West – Runaway

3. Crystal Castles – Doe Deer

2. Innerpartysystem – American Trash

1. Crystal Castles – Not In Love (Feat. Robert Smith)

I don’t want to write about to many of the albums below because I really do believe every one of them deserves at least a cursory listen. And the more I write about this year, I’m realizing just how good it was.

HONORABLE MENTION (BEST ALBUM):

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Surfer Blood – Astro Coast

Darwin Deez – Darwin Deez

Underoath – Disambiguation

Neon Trees – Habits

Conditions – Fluorescent Youth

Drake – Thank Me Later

Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Foals – Total Life Forever

Envy On The Coast – Lowcountry

Robyn – Body Talk

Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz

Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can

Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns

Anberlin – Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place

BEST ALBUM:

50. The Wonder Years – The Upsides

49. Margot And The Nuclear So and So’s – Buzzard

48. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

47. Ellie Goulding – Lights

46. The Chemical Brothers – Further

45. Menomena – Mines

44. Broken Bells – Broken Bells

43. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker

42. S. Carey – All We Grow

41. Crime In Stereo – I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone

40. Frightened Rabbit – The Year of Mixed Drinks

39. Eminem – Recovery

38. Best Coast – Crazy For You

37. The Damned Things – Ironiclast

36. The Roots – How I Got Over

35. Fang Island – Fang Island

34. Limousines – Get Sharp

33. Death In The Park – Death In The Park

32. Jonsi – Go

31. Gaslight Anthem – American Slang

30. The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt

29. These New Puritans – Hidden

28. You, Me, And Everyone We Know – Some Things Don’t Wash Out

27. Zola Jesus – Stridulum II

26. The Graduate – Only Every Time

25. Ke$ha – Animal/Cannibal

24. Spoon – Transference

23. 65daysofstatic – We Were Exploding Anyway

22. Houses – All Night

21. Hellogoodbye – Would It Kill You?

20. How To Dress Well – Love Remains

19. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Social Network Soundtrack Music From The Motion Picture

18. Shad – TSOL

17. Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More

16. Sleigh Bells – Treats

15. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor

14. Baths – Cerulean

13. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor

12. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (2010)

11. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma

10. The National – High Violet

9. Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown

8. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach

7. Tokyo Police Club – Champ

6. Beach House – Teen Dream

5. Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

4. Deftones – Diamond Eyes

3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2. letlive. – Fake History

1. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

They can say Kanye put out the better album all they want. This is my album of the year. This is the sound of a band settling into their sound. And oh what a sound it is.

NEXT BIG THING 2011:

- Bad Rabbits

- James Blake

- Skrillex

- Balance & Composure

- OFWGKTA (Odd Future)

- Innerpartysystem

- Go Radio

- Nero

- J. Cole

-ERBNOWTFTRZ

- Wiz Khalifa

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