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Thirty Favorite Albums of 2010

Posted on July 4, 2014

  1. Pantha du Prince – Black Noise (Rough Trade)
  2. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God)
  3. Steve Reich / Bang on a Can – Double Sextet, 2×5 (Nonesuch)
  4. Owen Pallett – Heartland (Domino)
  5. Valentin Silvestrov / Kiev Chamber Choir – Sacred Works (ECM)
  6. Scott Amendola Trio – Lift (Sazi)
  7. Tracey Thorn  - Love and It’s Opposite (Merge)
  8. Baths – Cerulean (Anticon)
  9. Max Richter  - Infra (Fat Cat)
  10. Paul Hillier / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir – Baltic Runes (Harmonia Mundi)
  11. Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth – Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  12. Matthew Dear – Black City (Ghostly International)
  13. Brooklyn Rider – Dominant Curve (In a Circle)
  14. The Roots – How I Got Over” (Def Jam)
  15. Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
  16. The National – High Violet (4AD)
  17. Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch)
  18. Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
  19. Janelle Monae – The Archandroid (Bad Boy)
  20. Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone (Anti)
  21. Antony and the Johnsons – Swanlights (Secretly Canadian)
  22. Myra Melford’s Be Bread – The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  23. Dave Holland Octet  - Pathways (Dare2)
  24. Guillermo Klein – Domador de Huellas (Sunnyside)
  25. Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone)
  26. Victoire – Cathedral City (New Amsterdam)
  27. Marty Stuart – Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions (Sugar Hill)
  28. Foals  - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
  29. Konono Nº1 – Assume Crash Position (Crammed Disc)
  30. Caribou – Swim (Merge)
  31. The Budos Band – The Budos Band III (Daptone)

Five Favorite Reissues/Compilations

  • The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (Universal)
  • Ella Fitzgerald – 12 Nights in Hollywood (Verve)
  • v/a – Palenque Palenque – Afro Roots In Colombia 1975-91 (Soundway)
  • v/a – The World Ends Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway)
  • v/a – Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 1 (Vampi Soul)

Five Favorite Films of 2010

  • Red Riding Trilogy (Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anand Tucker)
  • The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)
  • The Square (Edgerton Brothers)
  • Mesrine: Killer Instinct & Public Enemy #1 (Jean-François Richet)
  • I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)

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