two guns holla favorite albums of 2010

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:19 pm

Not really much of a surprise at the top if you know me at all.

1. The National - High Violet
2. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
3. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
4. Beach House - Teen Dream
5. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty
6. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
7. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
8. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
9. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
10. Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
11. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. Girl Talk - All Day
13. Vampire Weekend - Contra
14. Futurebirds - Hampton’s Lullaby
15. S. Carey - All We Grow
16. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
17. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
18. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement
19. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
20. How to Dress Well - Love Remains

21-30, listed in alphabetical order:
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
The Black Keys – Brothers
Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
Books – The Way Out
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
ceo – White Magic
Curren$y – Pilot Talk
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Free Energy – s/t
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Glasser – Ring
Ghostface Killah – Apollo Kids
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
jj – n° 3
Jonsi – Go
Menomena – Mines
MGMT – Congratulations
Owen Pallett – Heartland
The Radio Dept. – Clinging to a Scheme
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – III/IV
The Samps – s/t
Sleigh Bells – Treats
The Soft Pack – s/t
Spoon – Transference
Surfer Blood – Astrocoast
Twin Shadow – Forget
The Walkmen - Lisbon
Wavves – King of the Beach
White Denim – Last Day of Summer
Wild Nothing – Gemini

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:35 am

national was my spiritual #1

harry · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:41 am

Lower Dens, The Radio Dept, How to Dress Well... I don't think made any other list but made yours... and mine.

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:17 am

Radio Dept. was honorable mention for me and Lower Dens is on a handful

OPA! · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:33 am

harry Wrote:

Lower Dens, The Radio Dept, How to Dress Well... I don't think made any other list but made yours... and mine.

How to Dress Well made my list.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:34 pm

How to Dress Well made a late push for me. Could possibly have made it to the mid-teens range if I got it a month earlier.

Dalen · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:46 pm

Great list dude! Quite a few of my favs in there: The Radio Dept, Beach House, Big Boi, Ariel, etc

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:48 pm

contradiction Wrote:

Radio Dept. was honorable mention for me and Lower Dens is on a handful

Yeah, Lower Dens was in my top 10. (or 20, I've moved things around a little since I posted that)

Nice to see it on another list, though.

e-stone · **Posted:** Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:26 pm

two guns holla Wrote:

How to Dress Well made a late push for me. Could possibly have made it to the mid-teens range if I got it a month earlier.

i am so confused by this band/album. one minute a song like "ready for the world" is the GREATEST SONG I'VE EVER HEARD. and the next minute i can't stand the intentional lo-lo-fi production.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:40 pm

Yea, I'm kinda with you on that. The songs that hit outweigh the wtf-ness of some of the other more droney tracks on the album (though I like some of those too).

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:51 pm

e-stone Wrote:

two guns holla Wrote:

How to Dress Well made a late push for me. Could possibly have made it to the mid-teens range if I got it a month earlier.

i am so confused by this band/album. one minute a song like "ready for the world" is the GREATEST SONG I'VE EVER HEARD. and the next minute i can't stand the intentional lo-lo-fi production.

Yep.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:40 pm

I'm pretty sure 10 replies is the most I've ever gotten when I've posted a year-end list.

harry · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:33 pm

shiv Wrote:

e-stone Wrote:

two guns holla Wrote:

How to Dress Well made a late push for me. Could possibly have made it to the mid-teens range if I got it a month earlier.

i am so confused by this band/album. one minute a song like "ready for the world" is the GREATEST SONG I'VE EVER HEARD. and the next minute i can't stand the intentional lo-lo-fi production.

Yep.

In retrospect this was one of most interesting, original, releases of the year. That there's been "noise" smeared on musical ideas in order to make them sound deconstructed, or avant garde, or ironic, or to distract... has almost gotten passe. I listen to Yankee Foxtrot now and think how silly all those extraneous blips, clicks and buzzes are... seem like they are trying too hard.

But How to Dress Well.... I've described it as sounding like a tape that's been left in the trunk of the car for a week in August in Palm Springs. I can't imagine doing a second album with this "gimmick."

Oh, and two guns... 12.

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