Sunday, January 02, 2011

In No particular order are my top 10 albums

Arcade Fire -Suburbs
Kanye West -My Beautiful....(ok maybe not worth 10 on pitchfork , but bloody good)
Areil Pinks haunted Graffiti-Before today
The national- High Violet (A masterwork by a band at peak form, if you dont like this band by now you are being bloody difficult)
Broken Bells- Broken Bells
Beach House-Tean dream...( this is a band that is about sound atmosphere for the first 5 listens and then on the 6th listen you realise its a band that writes great songs)
Dean and Britta-13 Songs
Deerhunter-Halcyon Digest
Midlake-The courage of others
Stornoway-Beachcomber's...(my summer soundtrack)

The following are a group of albums that are all simple ()and acoustic primarily) and that are all extrordinarily beautiful and but subtly squewed or distictive to make them not tiresome at all after much repeated listens) all worth a peak....:

Anais Mitchel (w Bon Ivor, Rob Burger & many others)-Hadestown.. (this is the best of the lot- a folk opera with different singers, a real find, loved much)
Joanna newsome- Have One On me...(OK maybe still too over indulgent , but i see this being a great single disc condensed at some point)
Bombay Bicycle Club-Flaws
Deer Tick-Black dirt sessions
Horsefeathers-Thistled Spring
The wooden Sky-the wooden sky
Leif Vollebeck - Inland
The weather Station-The Line
Lissie-Catching a Tiger
Sharon Van Etten-Epic

The best single of the year by far for me and if you dont like it, well...fuck you...
Cee Lo Green ... Fuck You

A long gone record I never heard of from 71, avaailable on emusic...jazzy folk rock ...wonderful find:
Jimmy Spheeris - Isle Of View

Also anyone who has a soft spot for cowboy junkies, the single Renmin park off new disc (emusic)
is a real jawdropper......I didnt think they still had it in them , whod a thunk?

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