Just as I did last year, I submitted my top 5 albums of 2010 to Peenko’s BAMS list. You can view the collective results of that list, of which some of my top 5 were featured. However, I’m not that keen on ranking records in order, so here are those 5 plus a bunch more, in absolutely no order (and apologies to the host of great records I will only remember to include once this is posted).
- The National - High Violet
- Best Coast - Crazy For You
- Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry
- The Japanese War Effort - I Will Leave You Now, And Two Loudspeakers Will Take My Place
- Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
- Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
- Yusuf Azak - Turn on the Long Wire
- The Phantom Band - The Wants
- Field Music – Measure
- Mitchell Museum – The Peter’s Port Memorial Service
- Bear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
- Broken Records - Let Me Come Home
- LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
- Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
- Errors - Come Down With Me
- Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
- Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
- The Scottish Enlightenment – St. Thomas
- Port-royal - Dying in Time (Yes, it was released in 2009. I don’t care.)
- The Unwinding Hours – The Unwinding Hours
- Sufjan Stevens - Age Of Adz
- Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- Wooden Shjips – Vol. 2
- Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
- Foals - Total Life Forever
You should go and buy some of these. Go on.