I'm sure it's a shock to absolutely no one who knows me that Autolux would be #1.

Weirdly enough, I feel it's an album that's been forgotten about.

Haven't seen it listed on any of the big year-end lists.

It was a good year in rock for me.

Loads of bands of that ilk made my list.

Top 20 Albums Of 2010

01. Autolux - Transit Transit
02. Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
03. The Black Keys - Brothers
04. Beach House - Teen Dream
05. The Posies - Blood Candy
06. Retribution Gospel Choir - 2
07. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
08. Bad Books - Bad Books
09. Unkle - Where Did The Night Fall
10. Ty Segall - Melted
11. The National - High Violet
12. Shad - TSOL
13. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
14. The Whigs - In The Dark
15. No Age - Everything In Between
16. White Belt, Yellow Tag - Methods
17. Caribou - Swim
18. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
19. Feeder - Renegades
20. Massive Attack - Heligoland

Honorable Mention:

American Hi-Fi - Fight The Frequency
Best Coast - Crazy For You
The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
The Burning Hotels - Novels
Children Collide - Theory Of Everything
Department Of Eagles - Archive 2003-2006
Faded Paper Figures - New Medium
Gobotron - On Your Mark, Get Set ...
Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
Kashmir - Trespassers
Kids Of 88 - Sugarpills
Mark Ronson And The Business Intl - Record Collection
M.I.A. - MAYA
Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
Nada Surf - If I Had A Hi-Fi
Rasputina - Sister Kinderhook
School Of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
Sky Larkin - Kaleide
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Vampire Weekend - Contra
The Walkmen - Lisbon
Weekend - Sports

Shoegaze:

Amusement Parks On Fire - Road Eyes
The Brother Kite - Isolation
Ceremony - Rocket Fire
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
The Depreciation Guild - Spirit Youth
Lybria - Cycles
No Joy - Ghost Blonde
Sad Day For Puppets - Pale Silver & Shiny Gold
Whirl - Distressor EP

Hip Hop:

Childish Gambino - Culdesac
The Roots - How I Got Over
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


EPs And Singles:

The Amazing Broken Man - Lullabies For Western Babies EP
Giant Drag - Swan Song EP
Heat-Ray - Never Forever [7'']
Johnny Foreigner - You Thought You Saw A Shooting Star ... EP
Now, Now - Neighbors EP
Palmdale - Get Wasted EP
Paper Lions - Trophies EP
School Of Seven Bells - Windstorm EP
SPC ECO - Silver Clouds EP
Speed Skating - Take Care Now EP


Disappointments / Pure Suckage:

Aqualung - Aquanorth
Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
Jimmy Gnecco - The Heart
OK Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
Rooney - Eureka


2009 Releases Discovered This Year And Enjoyed:

Cursed Arrows - Telepathic High Five
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Heat-Ray - Loveallover
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
St Deluxe - St Deluxe
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre

I didn't hate 'Penny Sparkle' as much as all of the hate I have seen in the last few weeks of reading 'lists'..... far from great, but not horrid. I am losing interest in them though...

Third or fourth time I've seen that Posies pretty high on a list. How does it compare to their other stuff, cuz I love Frosting On the Beater and Amazing Disgrace?

Interested as well.

Posies: First 5 songs on the album are pretty killer and can be stacked wit the best shit they've ever recorded. The rest is hit and miss but good enough to be number 5 on my list.

I wish they would record an album as awesome as FotB but those days are gone.

Penny Sparkle: It's in the disappointment category. "23" was such a great album I didn't like the 180 style change on this one.

yeah, agree with that Posies assessment

got to see them on tour here in Hawai'i though

it was great

here's two songs I really liked off their new album


The Posies - The Glitter Prize



The Posies - Notion 99

I like those Posies songs but they sound more like Teenage Fanclub and Matthew Sweet than they ever have before.

Posted my year-end comp mix on me blog today.

Thought I'd share.

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