Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Becuase all the other pretentious music elitists are doing it (part II)

The only thing "cooler" than compiling a ridiculously long end-of the year music list is waiting an unnecessarily long amount of time between the two blog posts covering said topic. Preach it. Wurd.

18-35 below:


Janelle Monáe, Archandriod
 

Jónsi, Go


 Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


Laura Marling, I Speak Because I Can


 Local Natives, Gorilla Manor


 Les Savy Fav, Root For Ruin


 Magnetic Fields, Realism


 Mark Ronson and the Business INTL, Record Collection


 The Middle East, Recordings of the Middle East


 Miike Snow, Animal


 Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More


 Mystery Jets, Seratonin


 The Naked and Famous, Passive Me, Aggressive You


The National, High Violet


 Phantogram, Eyelid Movies


 Ruby Suns, Fight Softly


 Sleigh Bells, Treats


 We Were Promised Jet Packs, These Four Walls

Monday, January 3, 2011

Becuase all the other pretentious music elitists are doing it (part I)

...and because I genuinely enjoyed way too much music this year and feel I must share the love, I present to you the first 17 of my top 35 (yes, 35) albums for the year 2010. But first, allow me to explain how my list came to be so gratuitous - I was on a shitton of flights this year (about 28, to be exact) and put in 68,746,716,981,691,861 hours towards studying, both of which are endeavors made much more tolerable when paired with music. I must also acknowledge the particularly productive year I had at SXSW and with live music in general for this bloated list.Yay for Austin and Denver and their continuous splendor.
Anyway, 1-17 below, alphabetically sorted. Here goes:


 Arcade Fire, Suburbs


Belle and Sebastian, Write about Love


 Balmorhea, Constellations


Band of Horses, Infinite Arms


Black Keys, Brothers


 Broken Bells, Broken Bells


Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM


Casiokids, Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar


Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles II


Chromeo, Business Casual


Cocoon, Where The Oceans End


Dead Weather, Sea of Cowards



Efterklang, Magic Chairs


Foals, Total Life Forever


Frightened Rabbit, Winter of Mixed Drinks


Gorillaz, Plastic Beach


Grinderman, Grinderman 2