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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Best Albums of 2010, January - September (Part 3 of 4)

Here are my favorite albums for the first 9 months of 2010.  
Rather than monthly editions, I am doing a quarterly update

LPs
  1. Mumford & 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. Minus the Bear - Omni
  8. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms  
  9. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
  10. Rocky Votolato - True Devotion
  11. J. Tillman - Singing Ax 
  12. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
  13. RA Scion - Victor Shade
  14. Vampire Weekend - Contra
  15. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let it Sway
  16. Jonsi - Go 
  17. Ratatat - LP4
  18. The Weakerthans - Live at Burton Cummings Theatre
  19. Hoquiam (Damien Jurado) - Hoquiam 
  20. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
  21. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
  22. Beach House - Teen Dream 
  23. Matt Pond PA - The Dark Leaves
  24. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Dannii
  25. Spoon - Transference
  26. Drew Danburry - Goodnight Gary
  27. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
  28. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
  29. Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard  
  30. Daniel Johnston - Beam me Up
  31. Galactic - Ya-Ka-May
  32. Ben Folds and Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue
  33. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
  34. Rogue Wave - Permalight

EPs
  1. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People
  2. Shark Speed - Education
  3. Japandroids - Art Czars, Younger Us and Heavenward Grand Prix 7" singles
  4. Cold War Kids - Behave Yourself
  5. The Get Up Kids - Simple Science
  6. Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Reissue with new tracks)
  7. Sun Kil Moon - I'll Be There
  8. Junip - The Rope and Summit