December 14, 2010
| 20 | Twin Tigers Grey Waves Heavy effects and a churning drive give this alt-rock debut serious punch. Read review |
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| 19 | ArpLine Travel Book Best of both grand dance-press and stripped, affecting electronica. Read review |
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| 18 | Truman Peyote Light-Lightning The 21st century is beautiful and its name is Truman Peyote. Read review |
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| 17 | Sleigh Bells Treats There’s no lack of energy on this electro-rock noise explosion. |
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| 16 | Bear Hands Burning Bush Supper Club Stands out just the right amount in today’s indie music scene. Read review |
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| 15 | Twin Sister Color Your Life A remarkably mature hybrid post-rock sound that’s a little this, a little that, and a whole lotta awesome. Read review |
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| 14 | Inspired Flight We All Want To Fly Extremely clever mix of rock, hip-hop, and pop with a complete lack of pretentiousness. |
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| 13 | Bag Raiders Bag Raiders Ultra-infectious, radio-dominating Aussies pick up where Cut Copy and Empire of the Sun left off. |
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| 12 | The Dig Electric Toys Dirty-grind with indie-skill – discovering them makes being a rock critic worth it. Read review |
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| 11 | Surfer Blood Astro Coast 80’s pop rock gets a kraut treatment with intriguing results. Read Review |
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| 10 | Delphic Acolyte Dance-centric electro-rock with no lack of hooks or ambition. |
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| 9 | Best Coast Crazy For You Beach House’s kid sister/brother. |
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| 8 | Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) Beyonce’ in the year 2020. |
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| 7 | Freelance Whales Weathervanes Free-spirited but sophisticated future-folk painted as a beautifully abstract picture. Read review |
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| 6 | Phantogram Eyelid Movies Easily some of the most stylish synth-pop of the year. Read review |
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| 5 | Gayngs Relayted Silky, slow-motion alley jams from what some like to call a supergroup. Read review |
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Wild Nothing |
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| 3 | Warpaint The Fool Mellow, lounge alt-rock grooves with sirens’ hypnotic vocal melodies. |
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| 2 | Male Bonding Nothing Hurts Feisty lo-fi garage punk with a surfer twist. Read review |
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| 1 | Tame Impala Innerspeaker Beatles-esque vocals meet 90’s psychedelia at its finest; the definitive breakout album of 2010. Read review |
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