Twenty for Ten – David’s Best Albums of 2010

31 Dec Twenty for Ten – David’s Best Albums of 2010

Here are my selections for Best Albums of 2010 based not so much on what I think should be the best, but what resonated with me and “stuck around” more, causing repeated listening. There were many recordings put out this year that are technically marvelous, interesting and challenging. So, maybe this list should be called my “Favorite Albums of 2010” instead and, because of that, they tend to be a bit more “pop.”

• New Pornographers – Together
• Beach House – Teen Dream
• Broken Bells – s/t
• MGMT – Congratulations
• Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
• Grinderman – Grinderman 2
• Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
• LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
• Maximum Balloon – s/t
• Unkle – Where Did the Night Fall
• Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
• Spoon – Transference
• Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
• Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
• The National – High Violet
• Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
• Crystal Castles – s/t
• Laura Veirs – July Flame
• Les Savy Fav – Root for Ruin
• Massive Attack – Hegioland

Honorable Mentions: !!!, Eluvium, Yeasayer, Ruby Suns, Brian Eno, Janell Monàe, Arcade Fire, Cee-lo Green, Los Campesinos, Four Tet, First Aid Kit, Belle & Sebastian, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Joanna Newsom, Robert Wyatt-Gilad Atzmon-Ros Stephen, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti, Foals (liking more and more), Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, The Black Keys, Titus Andronicus, and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings.