Highly Anticipated 2011 Releases

Here are a few releases I am excited to hear.

VERY EXCITED

Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys

The Get Up Kids - These Are Rules

Bright Eyes - The People's Key

The Decemberists - The King is Dead

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will


VERY EXCITED, but no definite release date yet

Battles - Title TBA

Fleet Foxes - Title TBA

Radiohead - Title TBA

Wilco - Title TBA




Maybe Excited, TBD

Cake - Showroom of Compassion (maybe)

Amos Lee - Mission Bell (maybe)

Best Albums of 2010 (Part 4 of 4)

Best Albums of 2010

Although there are still a few weeks left, I think this will be my final list.  Check out the previous quarterly installments of this list to see how things have moved and evolved.

The top 10-15 are ordered deliberately, after that I can't necessarily say which I like better.

LPs

1. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More 
2. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
3. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
4. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
5. The National - High Violet
6. Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett 
7. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms  
8. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
9. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion
10. J. Tillman - Singing Ax 
11. Domo - With Friends Like These ... We Need New Friends
    
12. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
13. RA Scion - Victor Shade
14. Minus the Bear - Omni
15. Vampire Weekend - Contra
16. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let it Sway
17. Beach House - Teen Dream
18. Jonsi - Go 
19. Ratatat - LP4
20. The Weakerthans - Live at Burton Cummings Theatre
21. Hoquiam (Damien Jurado) - Hoquiam 
22. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Gary
23. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
24. Matt Pond PA - The Dark Leaves
25. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Dannii
26. Spoon - Transference
27. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
28. Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard  
29. Gospel Claws - C-L-A-W-S
30. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
31. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
32. The Apache - The Apache
    
33. Daniel Johnston - Beam me Up
34. Galactic - Ya-Ka-May
35. Ben Folds and Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue
36. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
37. Rogue Wave - Permalight

EPs / Singles

1. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
   
2. Shark Speed - Education
3. Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home / Summer in Savannah / Biting Your Tail single
   
4. Owen - Abandoned Bridges /  I'm Always in Love single
5. Japandroids - Art Czars, Younger Us and Heavenward Grand Prix 7" singles
   
6. John K. Samson - Provincial Road 222
   
7. Kinch - The Economic Chastisement
   
8. Grand Archives - Villains (demos)
   
9.  Rocky Votolato - Chad Price Split 7"
10. Cold War Kids - Behave Yourself
11. The Get Up Kids - Simple Science
12. Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Reissue with new tracks)
13. Sun Kil Moon - I'll Be There
14. Junip - The Rope and Summit