December 28, 2010
Stunning debuts, amazing follow-ups, thrilling returns – 2010 had it all, and the first twenty of our top fifty:
| 50 | MiniBoone Big Changes EP Larger-than-life with energy to spare, lo-fi with no limits. Read review |
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| 49 | Cee Lo Green The Ladykiller Mr. Gnarls Barkley brings the hooks and the skills on his solo debut. Read review |
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| 48 | Jonsi Go The Sigur Rós frontman shows he has plenty to offer on his own with a shimmering, effervescent collection of hyper-organic pop. Read review |
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| 47 | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings I Learned the Hard Way ‘Neo-soul’ minus the ‘neo-’, the Daptone sound has transcended homage, revival, parody, and sub-categorization. Read review |
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| 46 | DOM Sun Bronzed Greek Gods Über-rising young outfit cross genres as they do it their way. |
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| 45 | Sia We Are Born Soars with soulfulness, singing like pop music is going out of style. Read review |
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| 44 | James The Night Before The Morning After A welcome return of a band that you didn’t appreciate enough first time ‘round. Read review |
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| 43 | Crocodiles Sleep Forever Krautrock refines seventies power in this most striking of beasts. Read review |
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| 41 | Washed Out Life of Leisure Ernest Greene pushes the confines of electronic music while never getting too far out of reach. Read review |
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| 41 | Liars Sisterworld The most accessible record yet by this most inaccessible of bands. Read review |
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| 40 | Shout Out Louds Work Swedish indie-pop reaches new heights of accomplishment. Read review |
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| 39 | No Age Everything In Between The guitar-and-drums duo that revived the indie guitar-and-drums duo returns. Read review |
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| 38 | Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring “Twee as fuck” young indie-collective is maturing without losing their spark. Read review |
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| 37 | The New Pornographers Together By stripping down to their power-pop essentials, Canadian super-group is even more than the sum of their great parts. Read review |
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| 36 | Kanye West Kanye West There is no other word but ‘epic’ that quite captures the Herculean juggernaut that Kanye West has created. |
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Mumford & Sons |
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| 34 | Owen Pallett Heartland The artist formerly known as Final Fantasy expands to a full orchestra and unfolds like an epic novel. Read review |
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| 33 | Black Angels Phosphene Dream Sixties psych-jam with indie-lightness at just the right levels. Read review |
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| 32 | Land of Talk Cloak and Cipher The lovely Elizabeth Powell returns, as evocative as she’s ever been. Read review |
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| 31 | Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record The definition of indie-collective expanse delivers their best record since their breakout. Read review |
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