Best of 2010

[black coffee]

At least he agrees with Chino and me on Pantha Du Prince.

[theis]

That should just be implied.  But yes I am embarrased for forgetting

Haha, okay. I was only kidding though.

[Starz]

Caribou - Swim is just incredible and only found out about it today

[alvarezbassist17]

making my picks for 2010 official. decided to split it into a metal category and everything else

THE BEST:
1. MGMT - Congratulations
2. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
3. Sleigh Bells - Treats
4. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
5. Klaxons - Surfing the Void
6. the Picturesque Episodes - Constellations
7. Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams
8. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
9. Chiodos - Illuminaudio
10. Matt & Kim - Sidewalks
11. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
12. Lights Out Asia - In the Days of Jupiter
13. Broken Bells - s/t
14. Jack Wall - Mass Effect 2 OST
15. Álfheimr - Dream Sequences
16. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
17. the Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots
18. Jatun - Blanket of Ash
19. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
20. Bill Elm & Woody Jackson - Red Dead Redemption OST

BEST OF METAL:
1. Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
2. The Contortionist - Exoplanet
3. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
4. Dysphoria - Satyriasis XXI
5. The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
6. Rings of Saturn - Embryonic Anomaly
7. I Declare War - Malevolence
8. Through the Eyes of the Dead - Skepsis
9. The Ocean - Heliocentric/Anthropocentric
10. Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
11. Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
12. And Hell Followed WIth - Proprioception
13. Periphery - s/t
14. The Secret - Solve et Coagula
15. Devil Sold His Soul - Blessed & Cursed
16. The Chariot - Long Live
17. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
18. Norma Jean - Meridional
19. Suffokate - No Mercy, No Forgiveness
20. Vendetta Spoken - Schrödinger Equation

awwww no love at all for ATB?

[bright lights, big city]

it's an honorable mention. i just really enjoyed those metal albums more than the ATB overall.

[Slacker]

the new after the burial is most definitly a top 10 for the metal lists this year.

[endoeleven]

10. Coheed & Cambria 'Year of Black Rainbow' 

09. Cancer Bats 'Beats, Mayors, Scraps & Bones'

08. Comeback Kid 'Symptoms and Cures'

07. Norma Jean 'Meridonal'

06. Cave In 'Anomalies'

05. The Bled 'Heat Fetish'

04. Terror 'Keepers of the Faith'

03. First Blood 'Silence is Betrayal'

02. The Dillinger Escape Plan 'Option Paralysis'

01. Deftones 'Diamond Eyes'

[theis]

Here we go...

1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
2. Cloudkicker - Beacons
3. Sleepy Sun - Fever
4. Hans Zimmer - Inception OST
5. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
7. Twilight - Monument To Time End
8. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
9. Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer
10. Daughters - Daughters

Honorable mentions:

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
The Black Keys - Brothers
Menomena - Mines
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Black Tusk - Taste the Sin
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Roky Erickson – True Love Cast Out All Evil
The Sword - Warp Riders
High on Fire - Snakes of the Serpent
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke

[bright lights, big city]

I'm actually SHOCKED you have the Daughters in your top 10. It's a fine album, just never thought it was your cup of tea.

Checking out Sleepy Sun, btw.

[theis]

Really? Why not? I love the frantic nature of the album.

So ridiculously heavy, yet somewhat melodic. I read that someone described his voice as a cross between Danzig and Elvis and I couldn't agree more.

And yeah. definitely check out Sleepy Sun. It's kinda like a mix between Band of Horses and Fleet Foxes with an overdose of 60's psychedelic.

[bright lights, big city]

I dig it! And with the Daughters, I agree with that voice comparison, but I actually used to consider them a grindcore-ish band, not exactly what I thought you enjoyed.

[E-Money]

Final 2010 list.  What a great year. 

Kanye West - MBDTF
Kid CuDi - MOTM Legend of Mr. Rager
Beach House - Teen Dream
Wavves - King of the Beach
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives
Kids & Explosions - Shit Computer
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Glassjaw - New Shit 

Yea the new Kanye album is that fucking good. 

[theis]

I dig it! And with the Daughters, I agree with that voice comparison, but I actually used to consider them a grindcore-ish band, not exactly what I thought you enjoyed.

I've actually only heard their newest record. I don't think there's anything grindcore'ish about that album. Maybe that's why I dug it, ha.

[black coffee]

Took me a while. 2010 was great, looking at it at the end of it! I listen to more music than ever before, also genre-wise. Thanks to anyone who inspired me with sweet albums, hope I was able to return the favor here and there. Greetings.


Favorites in Rock / Indie / Related

The Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours
Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer
Maserati - Pyramid Of The Sun
Amplifier - The Octopus
Foals - Total Life Forever
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Envy - Recitation
Cynic - Re-Traced
Oceansize - Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows... Living With the Ghosts


Good stuff that comes after the favorites

The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing
Constants - If Tomorrow The War
Standstill - Adelante Bonaparte
The Felix Culpa - Sever Your Roots
Stateless - Matilda
Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place
The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
The Album Leaf - A Chorus of Storytellers
God Is an Astronaut - Age of the Fifth Sun


Favorites in Metal / Hardcore / Related

The Ocean - Anthropocentric
The Ocean - Heliocentric
Cloudkicker - Beacons
Solution .45 - For Aeons Past
The Dilinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
The Secret - Solve Et Coagula
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
The Chariot - Long Live
Norma Jean - Meridional


Favorites in Electronic music

Der Dritte Raum - Rosa Rausch
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Spirit Catcher - Partners In Crime
Moguai - We Ar Lyve
Tony Lionni - As One

[SONICYOUTHINPLANTS]

Future Islands - In Evening Air
Belle & Sebastian - Belle & Sebastian Write About Love
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Jónsi - Go
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
Atlas Sound - Bedroom Databank Vol. 1
El Trío de Omar Rodríguez-López - Ciencia De Los Inútiles
ROVA & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet
Warpaint - The Fool
Sleepy Sun - Fever
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[Hidalgo]

deftones - diamond eyes

eminem - recovery

korn - korn III

didn't listen to much else new

[davetonez]

Besides Diamond Eyes, only a few really good new releases came out for me.

Taproot - Plead the Fifth
Cypress Hill - Rise Up
Norma Jean - Meridional
Far - At Night We Live
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
Weezer - Hurley
36 Crazyfists - Collisions and Castaways

[Sinatra]

Really? Why not? I love the frantic nature of the album.

So ridiculously heavy, yet somewhat melodic. I read that someone described his voice as a cross between Danzig and Elvis and I couldn't agree more.

And yeah. definitely check out Sleepy Sun. It's kinda like a mix between Band of Horses and Fleet Foxes with an overdose of 60's psychedelic.

the vocalist works at a newbury comics that I always go into. big fan of daughters.

[ben]

Anyone ever listen to the besnard lakes?  They are Pretty damn legit