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Thursday, December 16, 2010

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)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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