2010

• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (4AD)
• Baths – Cerulean (Anticon)
• Bonobo – Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
• Caribou – Swim (Merge)
• Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude/Sit Down, Man (S/R)
• The Drums – S/T (Moshi Moshi)
• The Extra Lens – Undercard (Merge)
• Fang Island – S/T (Sargent House)
• The Ferocious Few – Juices (Birdman)
• Flying Lotus – Cosmogramm (Warp)
• The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
• Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me (Drag City)
• Magic Kids – Memphis (True Panther)
• LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (DFA)
• The National – High Violet (With the Extended Edition) (4AD)
• Perfume Genius – Learning (Matador)
• Robyn – Body Talk (Konichiwa)
• The Soft Pack – S/T (S/R)
• Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Women – Public Strain (Jagjaguwar)

• Common Eider, King Eider – Worn (Root Strata)
• Sun City Girls – Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
• Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
• Brian Eno – Small Craft On a Milk Sea (Warp)
• Masaoka, Chen, Grusel, Nagai – Self Titled (Resipiscent Records)
• Core of the Coalman – Box of the Last Help (Zum)
• Liz Albee – Theseus Vs. the Ship of Fools (Resipiscent)
• Barn Owl – Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
• Thomas Carnacki – The Disappearance of This Terrible Spool (Alithiometer)
• Sujo – Dahma (Inam)
• Acid Mothers Temple – Are We Experimental? (Prophase)
• Faun Fables – Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)

Most memorable shows of 2010

• Barn Owl and Jim Haynes with video projections @ The Hauntology exhibit at BAM
• Irr, app ext with Thomas Carnacki, and Jim Haynes @ The Lab
• Evangelista and Oxbow @ 21 Grand
• Core of the Coalman @ 21 Grand, Zum Anniversary
• Dan Higgs @ Andrew’s house
• Uke of Spaces Corners Counties and John Benson @ Vanessa’s house
• Peace, Loving with Selaroda @ the Bootstrap

• Aphrodite’s Child – It’s The End Of The World (Esoteric)
• Aphrodite’s Child – It’s Five O’Clock (Esoteric)
• Sandy Denny & The Strawbs – All Our Own Work (Witchwood)
• Hawkwind – Choose Your Masques ( Atomhenge)
• Hawkwind – Sonic Attack (Atomhenge)
• Irmin Schmidt – Kamasutra (Inner Space)
• Ivy Green – Ivy Green (S/R)
• Various Artists – Cave Of Clear Light: The Pye and Dawn Records Underground 1967-1975 (Esoteric)

1. Dom – Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (Burning Mill)
2. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (4AD)
3. Crystal Castles – S/T II (Fiction)
4. Holy Fuck – Latin (Young Turks)
5. Jenny and Johnny – I’m Having Fun Now (Warner Bros.)
6. Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch)
7. The Roots – How I Got Over (Def Jam)
8. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
9. Girls – Broken Dreams Club (True Panther)
10. Jonsi – Go (XL)
11. The National – High Violet (4AD)
12. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (XL)
13. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (Virgin)
14. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Merge)
15. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)

Top Ten Live Performances of 2010

1. Explosions in the Sky – Great American Music Hall
2. Manchester Orchestra – Great American Music Hall
3. The Album Leaf – Berkeley Art Museum
4. The National – Treasure Island Music Festival
5. Frightened Rabbit – The Fillmore
6. Pavement – The Greek Theater
7. Atoms for Peace – The Fox Theater
8. Jonsi – Palace of Fine Arts
9. Arcade Fire – The Greek Theater
10. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – The Fillmore