Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Best Tunes of 2010

Here is a list of my top music picks from 2010. In several cases, i've also provided links to some relevant/particularly moving renderings.

Andrew Belle (Static Waves): The Ladder (feat. Katie Herzig)
Black Keys (Brothers): Everlasting Light
Broken Bells (Broken Bells): The Ghost Inside
Broken Social Scene (Forgiveness Rock Record): All to All
Caribou (Swim): Odessa
Deerhunter (N/A-Diplo & Lunice Remix): Helicopter
Dirty Projectors (Bitte Orca-expanded): Two Doves (live version)
Efterklang (Magic Chairs): Natural Tune
Four Tet (There is Love in You): Circling
Gorillaz (Plastic Beach): Stylo
Janelle Monae (Archandroid): Tightrope (feat. Big Boi)
Jonsi (Go): Go Do
Keepaway (Baby Style): Yellow Wings
Local Natives (Gorilla Manor): Stranger Things
School of Seven Bells (Disconnect from Desire): Babelonia
Spoon (Transference): I Saw the Light
Tame Impala (Inner Speaker): Solitude is Bliss
The Album Leaf (A Chorus of Storytellers): Falling from the Sun
Turin Brakes (Outbursts): The Sea Change
White Hinterland (Kairos): Icarus
Mumford and Sons (*Sigh No More): Roll Away Your Stone
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (*Up from Below): Home

*indicates 2009 album release; cited here due to my overall love of these bands and especially these particular tunes in 2010. Pointedly, neither band really came into full bloom until 2010 anyway.

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