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The Boy

♍ London indie DJ who ♥ Americana ♫ Playing alt. rock, indiefolk 'n electro ♬

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Dec 30 '10

Damn these were good… some of the best albums of the year.

Bring on 2011

Tags: Arcade Fire Best albums of 2010 Black Keys Broken Social Scene Dead Weather Deerhunter Foals Girl Talk Sleigh Bells Surfer Blood The Boy Yeasayer Dj The Boy dj

Dec 30 '10

The Boy’s best albums of 2010 

I’ve waited until the last minute to write this and really thought about it a lot… I’ve tried to ignore how bands sounded live and just judge the records on their own merit. Also records had to have been released in the UK this year. So here we are:

  1. Total Life Forever - Foals
  2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
  3. Treats - Sleigh Bells

  4. Brothers - the Black Keys
  5. Astro Coast - Surfer Blood
  6. All Day - Girl Talk
  7. Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene
  8. Sea of Cowards - Dead Weather
  9. Odd Blood - Yeasayer
  10. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
  11. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
  12. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
  13. The Fool - Warpaint
  14. High Violet - The National
  15. We Can’t Fly - Aeroplane

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  16. Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
  17. Transference - Spoon
  18. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
  19. Big Echo - the Morning Benders
  20. Gemini - Wild Nothing
  21. One Life Stand - Hot Chip
  22. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
  23. Admiral Fell Promises - Sun Kil Moon
  24. Crazy For You - Best Coast
  25. Everything in Between - No Age

- The main point is that the Foals, Arcade Fire and Sleigh Bells albums were all pretty much 5* and I keep switching which should come first… so take your pick. Around half of my favourite songs of the year are on just these three.

- Tier two albums were pretty solid all the way through- the new Black Keys, Surfer Blood and Girl Talk albums in particular were excellent and I could listen to them again and again. Those three in particular blew me away.

- Tier three albums had great moments (if not consistency) and were definitely worth a listen. The Morning Benders, Avi Buffalo and Two Door Cinema Club records were such great additions and I want to hear more.

I know a lot is missing from this- Kanye, LCD Soundsystem, Grinderman (sorry mate) and even Ryan Adams- but I think this year was defined by quantity. There were ALOT of 3* and 4* albums so it was pretty easy to fill a top 25. Despite this quantity my top 7, and in particular the top 3, stand apart.

So now I get to look out for all those I missed… got any suggestions?

The Boy

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