My year in lists: music edition

Or the last Audiophilia part of the year: #4.
Audiophilia #3

As promised; here is a list of my favourite albums of 2010. I've added the links to the reviews I wrote for the IKRS 'Favourite Albums Of The Year-Countdown'.

01. Former Ghosts - New Love

Review

02. Twin Shadow - Forget

Review

03. Perfume Genius - Learning

Review

04. The National - High Violet

Review

05. Beach House - Teen Dream

Review

06. Sleigh Bells - Treats

Review

07. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Review

08. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II

Review

09. Best Coast - Crazy For You

Review

10. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts

Review

11. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement


12. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses


13. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring


14. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening


15. Salem - King Night


16. Warpaint - The Fool


17. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest


18. Wild Nothing - Gemini


19. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner


20. Glasser - Ring



Other albums I enjoyed this year (in a more or less particular order): Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself, Toro Y Moi - Causers Of This, Zach Hill - Face Tat, Bathcrones - Psychorama, Surfer Blood - Astro Coast, Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns, Small Black - New Chain, Future Islands - In Evening Air, Women - Public Strain, Caribou - Swim, Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils, Holy Fuck - Latin, El Guincho - Pop Negro, Abe Vigoda - Sequins, Autre Ne Veut - Autre Ne Veut, Girl Talk - All Day, Blank Dogs - Land and Fixed, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today, Baths - Cerulean, Forest Swords - Dagger Paths, Tickley Feather - Tickley Feather, Jeans Wilder - Relics, How To Dress Well - Love Remains, Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II, Fool's Gold - Fool's Gold, Suuns - Zeroes QC, Liars - Sisterworld, Harlem - Hippies, Woods - At Echo Lake, Sun Airway - Nocturne Of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, Cloud Nothings - Turning On, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - The Logics Of Chance, Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be.

Audiophilia

Click here for last edition

EDIT: For IKRS we did a best-albums-so-far-list too, so if you click on the album cover, you'll end up reading my thoughts on the album, as well as you'll learn about the other 2 panelmembers' favourite albums!

Here's part 2 for this year.


01. Perfume Genius - Learning


02. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses


03. Beach House - Teen Dream


04. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor


05. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring


06. The National - High Violet


07. Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself


08. Wild Nothing - Gemini


09. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast


10. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Audiophilia

Top 5 albums of the year so far. Let's do this every three months and see how it changes till the end of the year.

01. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring


02. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor


03. Beach House - Teen Dream


04. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast


05. Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself

My year in lists: music edition

Ok here is my album list of 2009. Don't know if I'm ever going to be bored enough to put up motivation, we'll see.

Please note that it's just my humble and tasteless opinion, so it's hardly of any value.

Top ten favourite albums of the year
01. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

02. The Antlers - Hospice

03. The XX - The XX

04. HEALTH - Get Color

05. Video Nasties - On All Fours

06. The Horrors - Primary Colours

07. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

08. Girls - Album

09. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

10. Micachu - Jewellery



There was no space in the list for them, but I liked their albums this year as well: Fools Gold, Dananananannaykroyd, The Maccabees, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sunset Rubdown, Kings Of Convenience, Real Estate, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Mumford & Sons, Animal Collective, Patrick Wolf, Cold Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Atlas Sound, Wavves, Franz Ferdinand, The Big Pink, Slow Club, Woods, A Place To Bury Strangers, JJ.


Albums to look forward to in 2010
01. Foals - TBA
02. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
03. The National - TBA
04. Wolf Parade - TBA
05. Mystery Jets - TBA
06. Arcade Fire - TBA
07. Crystal Castels - TBA
08. The Kills - TBA
09. Panda Bear - TBA
10. Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself

And also the following, but I already had the chance to listen to them:
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Beach House - Teen Dream
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Midlake - The Courage Of Others

and for the rest i'll just have to wait and see/hear :)