(favorite)/(best) albums of 2k10

Even though it’s barely dead, 2k10 will definitely end up being an underrated year I think.  There was nothing earth shattering (i.e. ‘summer of chillwave,' new Panda Bear album, etc.), but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good.  So, I decided to make a list of my ‘top’ 25 albums, which doesn’t even include stuff I liked from Male Bonding, Best Coast, Woods, Tokyo Police Club, etc., but I gotta stop somewhere.  Because people hate reading things these days I decided to keep my reviews to 5 words or less. RIP 2k10 4evr. 

25. MGMT: Congratulations

You probably hate this album.

24. Sleigh Bells: Treats

Ideal car commercial music.

23. Perfume Genius: Learning

I like being creeped out.

22. Toro y Moi: Causers of This

Chillwave will never die.

21. Girls: Broken Hearts Club EP

Sad, shuffling, twangy American rock.

20. Weekend: Sports

Slumberland will never die.

19. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Training manual for megalomaniacs.

18. Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record

Dad rock for the masses.

17. Caribou: Swim

Pulsating jumble of swirling sands. 

16. morning benders: Big Echo

Like beaches and green grass.

15. LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening

Old people can still shake.

14. Tame Impala: Innerspeaker

Riding Australian psych rocks waves.

13. Avi Buffalo: s/t

Classic rock, but young/haunted.

12.  Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz

Sometimes you just got it.

11. No Age: Everything in Between

More melody, less fuzz.

10. Wavves: King of the Beach

Pairs nicely with 4LOKO (RIP).

9. Abe Vigoda: Crush

Sinister echoes with angular bounce.

8. Los Campesinos!: Romance is Boring

Perverse comedy of twentysomething-dom.

7. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

I grew up here.

6. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: Let It Sway

Power pop is my heroin.

5. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Tale of Chico Dusty

Ridiculous rhymes and bodacious beats.

4. Harlem: Hippies

Blurry/drunken/nearly poignant schlock.

3. Beach House: Teen Dream

Watery and reverent house music.

2. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest

Everything finally falls into place.

1. Women: Public Strain

Buried ideas work best.  (RIP?)