Whitechapel - Best Albums of 2010 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272670#Comment_272670 2010-12-02T14:09:17-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 Alright Whitechaplains, it's nearing the end of the year, it's time to start whipping out those best-of lists. What audio manipulations did you end up loving this year? My list would read (in no ...
My list would read (in no particular order):

Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight To The World
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Murder By Death - Good Morning, Magpie
Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Kylesa - Spiral Shadows
Melechesh - The Epigenesis
Coliseum - House With A Curse
Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272673#Comment_272673 2010-12-02T14:17:37-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 chris g http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1829 MCR - Dangers Days (wooot!) The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards (fuck yeah, this one jams so hard) Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth - Mostly just agreeing with you. I didn't replay it obsessively, but it's ... MCR - Dangers Days (wooot!)
The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards (fuck yeah, this one jams so hard)
Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth - Mostly just agreeing with you. I didn't replay it obsessively, but it's a great return to the form of the first 4 albums.
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine [remastered] :P]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272675#Comment_272675 2010-12-02T14:26:46-08:00 2010-12-02T14:26:58-08:00 riotmedic http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9756 I'm not done with the list yet, but so far I liked the following: Four Tet - There Is Love In You Vampire Weekend - Contra These New Puritans - Hidden Massive Attack - Heligoland Frightened ...
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Vampire Weekend - Contra
These New Puritans - Hidden
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Shearwater - Golden Archipelago
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo
Gayngs - Relayted
The Flashbulb - Anboreal
Girl Talk - Any Day
Eels - Tomorrow Morning
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272678#Comment_272678 2010-12-02T14:33:23-08:00 2010-12-02T14:36:17-08:00 Internaut http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7307 Pendulum - Immersion Heaven Shall Burn - Invictus Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic Deftones - Diamond Eyes Spirit in The System - The Qemists Zoroaster - Matador Valient Thorr - Stranger Four tet ... Pendulum - Immersion
Heaven Shall Burn - Invictus
Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Spirit in The System - The Qemists
Zoroaster - Matador
Valient Thorr - Stranger
Four tet - There Is Love In You
Eluveitie - Everything Remains (As It Never Was)]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272681#Comment_272681 2010-12-02T15:14:21-08:00 2010-12-02T15:19:53-08:00 Mercer Finn http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5496 These were the long-players that I rated the most, in order of perfection. Crystal Castles (II) - Crystal Castles Romance Is Boring - Los Campesinos! (needed two tracks taken out at the middle, ...
Crystal Castles (II) - Crystal Castles
Romance Is Boring - Los Campesinos! (needed two tracks taken out at the middle, but otherwise lovely)
There Is Love In You - Four Tet (I think "Love Cry" is VERY overrated, but everything else is golden)
Sir Lucious Left Foot - Big Boi (Nothing new as great as the stuff that was leaked, and some terrible decisions mangle a few of the tracks, but otherwise a pretty good package)

I'm more of a singles person. A list of my faves from 2010, plus some talk, over here.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272684#Comment_272684 2010-12-02T15:30:22-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Alastair http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=287 i haven't heard a lot of great albums this year... Beehoover - Concrete Catalyst Kylesa - Spiral Shadow Baseballs - Strike!!! (seriously you owe it to yourself to hear this)
Beehoover - Concrete Catalyst

Kylesa - Spiral Shadow

Baseballs - Strike!!! (seriously you owe it to yourself to hear this)]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272692#Comment_272692 2010-12-02T16:02:49-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7294 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma Arcade Fire - The Suburbs I didn't buy a lot of 2010 music. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

I didn't buy a lot of 2010 music.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272709#Comment_272709 2010-12-02T17:04:08-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 sacredchao http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1501 Grinderman 2 The Sword - Warp Riders Me either. The Sword - Warp Riders

Me either.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272711#Comment_272711 2010-12-02T17:16:31-08:00 2010-12-03T03:42:57-08:00 mybrainhurts http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1584 Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms The Arrivals - Volatile Molotov Mayflower - Second Best Sunsets The Measure (SA) - Notes None More Black - Icons The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits The ... Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms
The Arrivals - Volatile Molotov
Mayflower - Second Best Sunsets
The Measure (SA) - Notes
None More Black - Icons
The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
The Credentials - Routines
Off With Their Heads - In Desolation
Dangers - Messy, Isn't It?
The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Brutalist Bricks
Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
Grabass Charleston/Toys That Kill - Split LP
Iron Chic - Not Like This
Direct Hit! - #4 and #5
Sass Dragons - New Kids on the Bong
The Brokedowns - Species Bender
The Dopamines - Expect the Worst
Bomb the Music Industry! - Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited by Nothing!!!!!!!
The Manix - Van Activities
Unfun - Sick Outside View
Max Levine Ensemble - Them Steadily Depressing, Low Down Mind Messing, Post Modern Recession Blues]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272743#Comment_272743 2010-12-02T22:47:06-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 kevinmellon http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=576 Deftones -Diamond Eyes Die Antwoord - $0$ (the re-issue) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy The Devil Wears Prada - Zombie EP Minus The Bear - OMNI Coheed & Cambria - Year of the ... Die Antwoord - $0$ (the re-issue)
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Devil Wears Prada - Zombie EP
Minus The Bear - OMNI
Coheed & Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
Norma Jean - Meridional
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis

Weird mix of stuff this year, and I know I'm leaving out a lot of stuff that I was really digging the first part of the year.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272769#Comment_272769 2010-12-03T04:59:45-08:00 2010-12-03T05:00:30-08:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44 Good stuff, no particular order. Needed to represent the electro-pop side of things on the forums... MASSIVE ATTACK: Heligoland Much maligned, but still sounds really good on its own ...
MASSIVE ATTACK: Heligoland
Much maligned, but still sounds really good on its own merits.

GIL SCOTT HERON: I'm New Here
Best unexpected production and artist combination of the year.

HOT CHIP: One Life Stand
They just keep writing better and better catchy tunes.

GORILLAZ: Plastic Beach
This should have self-destructed under its premise, but the thing just worked. Like REALLY worked.

BOMB THE BASS: Back To Light
Getting clean was the best thing to happen to this former 80's DJ/producer.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: This Is Happening
Album of the year for me. James Murphy working through a shitty year and still producing such a great solid album. The DFA label has become my new "automatic purchase" label.

JANELLE MONAE: The ArchAndroid
Leave her alone and let this young woman grow into the genius that she's given us glimpses of via this album. A new hope for the true next gen R&B artist.

THOMAS DOLBY: Oceanea EP
Back in form after 20 years off. OK, I AM biased, but this is good stuff, folks.

MATTHEW DEAR: Black City
WOW. Matthew channels Bowie and 80's dark synth with impressive, cohesive results.

UNDERWORLD: Barking
Solid album, back on form from "Oblivion With Bells".

CARO EMERALD: Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor
Big Band Boogie Woogie re-thought with current club production.

KISSES: Heart of the Nightlife
A boy, a girl, a Casio and some really great, sweet songs.

SHIT ROBOT: From The Cradle To The Rave
Someone's been raiding the crates from 1985, and remaking great music because of it.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272782#Comment_272782 2010-12-03T07:03:39-08:00 2010-12-03T07:17:36-08:00 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1173 7" VACCINE-human hatred ICE NINE-nobodys son UNITED NATIONS-never mind the bombings, heres your six figures VEINS-tape WALLS-stare at the walls 12" DANGERS-messy isnt ... VACCINE-human hatred
ICE NINE-nobodys son
UNITED NATIONS-never mind the bombings, heres your six figures
VEINS-tape
WALLS-stare at the walls

12"
DANGERS-messy isnt it?
CEREMONY-rohnert park
AEROSOLS-s/t
PUNCH-push/pull
i need a little more time with it, but i would say the new RUN WITH THE HUNTED goes there too. just bought it from the band last friday, so it hasnt really settled yet.

the song of the year for me is a tie between SICK by CEREMONY and NA NA NA (na na na na na na na na na) by MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE.

the esteemed category MOST BRUTAL BREAKDOWN goes to the song FIXATION on the aforementioned PUNCH lp. shit is rugged.

i actually listened to CANCER KIDS lp more than just about everything else this year...]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272791#Comment_272791 2010-12-03T08:13:46-08:00 2010-12-15T12:58:04-08:00 m3t4lfi3nd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4774 My Metal list. A little long :D Preface; doing these ranked year end lists is a bit of labor, a lot of fun, and sometimes a bit unfair it seems. Dealing with as many albums as released, trying to ...
Preface; doing these ranked year end lists is a bit of labor, a lot of fun, and sometimes a bit unfair it seems. Dealing with as many albums as released, trying to listen to as many possible and listen enough times in context against or with one another, and to then rank a finite number? Limiting the number to ten is purely ludicrous from my viewpoint and completely unnecessary. The reader if looking for a top ten is free to disregard anything after fifteen. I am counting to twenty-five because it just feels right.

1. Nokturnal Mortum – The Voice of Steel – technically ’09 as released the last week of year in Europe. I considered it a ’10 release for last year’s list being as late as it was, and thus this year as well. I think this is their best yet. It’s truly amazing and the shit they pull off with this one. It’s like nothing I’ve heard done in the genre before. I don’t think anyone else could do it. A true milestone, not only in their careers but across the spectrum. They may have established themselves across a decade and a half, but with tVoS they fucking slay the competition here and now.

2. Anathema – We’re here because we’re here – seven years in the making and well worth the wait. It’s a very emotive, complete and profound release. Also the incredible production really is worth noting. A+ all around for such a unique and expertly recorded release.

3. Odroerir (German for the Islandic 'Óðrerir', vessel for the mead of Wisdom and Poetry in old Nordic mythology) - Goetterlieder II – a shame this release is really under just about everybody’s radar. It has a little bit of everything in a folk Metal release other than abundant BM/DM extremities and is one of my favorite FM releases in years. To me this is a true no-bullshit celebration of heritage, nature, and existence through Music.

4. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits – a perfect album from Slough Feg. I love everything about it. Truly, this is a modern masterpiece of traditional Metal if I have ever heard one. They are at the top of their game and perhaps the best American band going right now in my opinion.

5. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit – mesmerizing. Still absorbing it really. It has met expectations although it has peculiarities about it that strike me as cause for thought, which is good. Overall I like that it takes some chances and yet balances so very well.

6. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier – if ever a Maiden album took awhile to grow on me this is it. Once it started to sink in I found a solid, attentive, and worthy effort and one that is memorable and brings me much happiness with each listen.

7. SigArTyr – Godsaga – this is a release that wears its influences like badges of honor, and does them magnificently with justice and reverence. Epic is a word I don’t use opften but applies here. Inspiring and triumphant!

8. Melechesh - The Epigenesis – a near perfect melding of extreme Metal and Middle Eastern authentic sounds as I interpret them. Really interesting and absorbing, and not easy to do but they do it so well.

9. Watain - Lawless Darkness – one of but a few Black Metal releases I really enjoy listening to this year. At the top of them all, and the top of their game IMO

10. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones – really surprised I like this album as much as I do. It’s as ugly as anything released in memory: vengeful, angry, and sinister. Not usually my bag surface wise, but this is an exception as it feels truly of opposition.

11. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time – just another fantastic piece of work from the masters of this genre. I don’t think anyone does it better in the game concerning Power Metal.

12. Weapon - From the Devils Tomb – surprising release. As near a perfect mesh of Black and Death Metal as I can think of, with the occasional eccentricities outside of the box thrown in liberally to spice it up just enough.

13. Ludicra - The Tenant – the first Ludicra album to really do it for me. It’s a solid, dark, brilliant little gem of a release with a lot to offer and discover with each listen.

14. Alcest - Écailles De Lune – lots to love about this release, the way it builds and has all these facets. Lots not to like about it such as it’s short and the latter songs just kind of go along aimlessly (though intended to I think) and drift off. Compared to how good it starts it comes off a bit too uneven for me.

15. Diamond Eyed Princess – Korlguelaal – the latest entry of my list. Something about it appeals to me but I can’t really say what it is. It’s not innovative or really unique in any way, just has a certain charm to it I can’t put my finger on that appeals to me.

16. Aiumeen Basoa - Iraganeko Bide Malkartsutik
17. Dawnbringer – Nucleus
18. King of Asgard - Fi'mbulvintr
19. Bifröst – Heidenmetal
20. Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth
21. Drudkh - Handful of Stars
22. Wuthering Heights – Salt
23. Heidevolk - Uit Oude Grond
24. Borknagar – Universal
25. Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272831#Comment_272831 2010-12-03T11:56:55-08:00 2010-12-03T11:57:10-08:00 dot_xom http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2160 5. Forgiveness Rock Record by Broken Social Scene 4. How to Destroy Angels' EP 3. Plastic Beach by Gorillaz 2. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance 1. The ... Forgiveness Rock Record by Broken Social Scene
4. How to Destroy Angels' EP
3. Plastic Beach by Gorillaz
2. Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance
1. The Social Network score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=272980#Comment_272980 2010-12-04T11:37:08-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 Looking back through my stuff, I realized there were a few more that I spent a pretty good amount of time listening to: Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis Alcest - Ecailles De Lune Burzum ...
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Alcest - Ecailles De Lune
Burzum - Belus
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

And there were a few that I got, but was a tad disappointed in:

The National - High Violet - Boxer was great, catchy but depressing. Perfect cold weather record. The new one feels more meandering and after listening to it a few times, I realized I couldn't really remember anything about it.
Against Me! - White Crosses - I held out against the fairweather fans and stuck by them through the new record deal and New Wave, but this one was pretty meh. A few good songs, but mostly limp.
The Creepshow - They All Fall Down - I'm giving this one a bit more time to grab me, but so far nothing on this has charged out of the gate like their last album did.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273096#Comment_273096 2010-12-05T02:16:12-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 acacian http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9725 What immediately comes to mind... John Foxx - Metatronic; John Foxx (& Louis Gordon) never fail. Forest Swords - Dagger Paths/Rattling Cage ("... embracing scenic dubbed-out tapestries ...
John Foxx - Metatronic; John Foxx (& Louis Gordon) never fail.

Forest Swords - Dagger Paths/Rattling Cage ("... embracing scenic dubbed-out tapestries described by the label as a cross between Burial's sample-strewn claustrophobia and Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores...")]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273122#Comment_273122 2010-12-05T05:53:32-08:00 2010-12-05T05:54:38-08:00 mybrainhurts http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1584 @joe.distort: I can't believe I forgot Ceremony. That album is brilliant. Have you heard Unfun's Sick Outside View? They're one of those bands that seem to be cropping up a lot lately that sound like ...
Also, a new Vacation Bible School album drops today so I'm looking forward to that and I haven't managed to get my hands on Guitar Wolf's latest yet so there's a good chance they'll round out my list.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273143#Comment_273143 2010-12-05T09:31:34-08:00 2010-12-05T09:32:12-08:00 icelandbob http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5250 Here is a list of some albums that were my favourites this year (in no particular order) APPARAT ORGAN QUARTET - Pólýfónía MOMENTUM - Fixation, at Rest DEMDIKE STARE - Voices Of Dust PYE ...
APPARAT ORGAN QUARTET - Pólýfónía
MOMENTUM - Fixation, at Rest
DEMDIKE STARE - Voices Of Dust
PYE CORNER AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES - Black Mill Tapes Vol.1
CHELSEA WOLFE - ?????????? (aka the Apocalypse)
D. D. DENHAM - Electronic Music in the Classroom
GRINDERMAN - Grinderman 2
SHINING - Blackjazz
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Dress Up
KVELERTAK - Kvelertak
GONJASUFI - A Sufi and a Killer
ASURA - Asura
ZOLA JESUS - Stridium 2
NÓRA - Er einhver að hlusta
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: This Is Happening
RAIME - Raime EP
SEEFEEL - Faults
MOUNT KIMBIE - Crooks and Lovers

That is all....]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273158#Comment_273158 2010-12-05T12:44:49-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Amazed at how many people are citing GRINDERMAN 2. I tossed my copy. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273163#Comment_273163 2010-12-05T13:13:31-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Kernowdrunk http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1769 Four Tet There is Love in You VHS Head Trademark Ribbons of Gold Moon Wiring Club A Spare Tabby at the Wedding Position Normal Position Normal Swans My Father will guide me up a ... Four Tet There is Love in You

VHS Head Trademark Ribbons of Gold

Moon Wiring Club A Spare Tabby at the Wedding

Position Normal Position Normal

Swans My Father will guide me up a rope to the sky]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273165#Comment_273165 2010-12-05T13:19:24-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Kernowdrunk http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1769 Zola Jesus too , but I can't remember what was released when...loved her poppy stuff, the split LP with Burial Hex, the LA Vampires collabaration. A true star. Zola Jesus too , but I can't remember what was released when...loved her poppy stuff, the split LP with Burial Hex, the LA Vampires collabaration. A true star.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273167#Comment_273167 2010-12-05T13:42:04-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Beamish http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8236 @warrenellis I actually assumed you tossed it after they put the hit out on you. I too thought it fell short. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273175#Comment_273175 2010-12-05T14:21:59-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 The new Grinderman had enough weird sounds and things happening to make me come back. Though I admit that it probably would have been bumped if some of the delayed releases I'm waiting on had ... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273176#Comment_273176 2010-12-05T14:29:24-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 icelandbob http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5250 well for me the kicker on the album was the song "Palaces Of Montezuma". I just LOVED that song. Been a while since i heard any decent love songs... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273205#Comment_273205 2010-12-05T18:21:58-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 lucien http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7742 i kind of liked that "wormtamer" track for the decent new love song thing.... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273225#Comment_273225 2010-12-05T22:04:37-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 JiveKitty http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7925 These are those I am fairly sure about: Alcest's Écailles de Lune Anathema's We're Here Because We're Here Crippled Black Phoenix's I, Vigilante Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here Julie ...
Alcest's Écailles de Lune
Anathema's We're Here Because We're Here
Crippled Black Phoenix's I, Vigilante
Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here
Julie Christmas' The Bad Wife
Kylesa's Spiral Shadow
Nevermore's Obsidian Conspiracy
The Ocean's Heliocentric
Sage Francis' Li(f)e

These are the ones I'm less certain of, either but I suspect at least some will be growers while others I'm quite enjoying will lose their lustre:

Atheist's Jupiter
Cee Lo Green's The Lady Killer
Dax Riggs' Say Goodnight to the World
Electric Wizard's Black Masses
Enslaved's Axioma Ethica Odini
Four Tet's There is Love in You
Greydon Square's The Kardashev Scale
The Ocean's Anthropocentric
Red Sparowes' The Fear is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer
Reflection Eternal's Revolutions Per Minute
Swans' My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists' Brutalist Bricks]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273231#Comment_273231 2010-12-05T23:34:38-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 sacredchao http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1501 I actually think Grinderman 2 as an album is superior to the first, though No Pussy Blues is probably a better song than any particular song on the second album. But I am totally blown away by the ... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273267#Comment_273267 2010-12-06T08:07:45-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1173 @ mybrainhurts Have you heard Unfun's Sick Outside View? They're one of those bands that seem to be cropping up a lot lately that sound like they were trying to make a hardcore album and got it ...
Have you heard Unfun's Sick Outside View? They're one of those bands that seem to be cropping up a lot lately that sound like they were trying to make a hardcore album and got it wrong slightly and ended up playing really noisy punk rock.


shit...i hope its not one of those things i get way into, as they just played a house party like two weeks ago that i missed :(]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273301#Comment_273301 2010-12-06T10:57:42-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 @ Jive That Gil Scott-Heron album is pretty good. I enjoy it while it's playing, but for some reason I rarely think to put it on. The Enslaved was also reasonably good, but there's something about ...
That Gil Scott-Heron album is pretty good. I enjoy it while it's playing, but for some reason I rarely think to put it on. The Enslaved was also reasonably good, but there's something about it that kept it out of the top of my list, too.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273303#Comment_273303 2010-12-06T11:05:09-08:00 2010-12-06T11:06:22-08:00 vandalhandle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4586 Deftones: Diamond Eyes Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here Isobel Cambell and Mark Lanegan: Hawk The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards Shining: Blackjazz Melissa Auf Der Maur: Out of Our Minds How To ... Deftones: Diamond Eyes
Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here
Isobel Cambell and Mark Lanegan: Hawk
The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards
Shining: Blackjazz
Melissa Auf Der Maur: Out of Our Minds
How To Destroy Angels: Self Titled E.P.
Ray Lamontagne and The Prairie Dogs: God Willin & The Creek Don't Rise
Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Band
Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe 2

thats it for albums, and single of the year for me is Atari teenage Riot: Activate]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273314#Comment_273314 2010-12-06T11:41:27-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019 i just started making this list the other day, but so far i've only done things i've gotten in the last few months. but, to start: Twin Shadow Supersilent Pete Swanson Grandchildren Frog ...
Twin Shadow
Supersilent
Pete Swanson
Grandchildren
Frog Eyes
Everything Everything
Emeralds
Cloudland Canyon
Blonde Redhead
Baths
Working For a Nuclear Free City
Kenseth Thibideau
Kisses
Liars
Luke Abbott
Yellow Swans
Walls
Mux Mool
Tobacco
Tunng

wow, this year has been a long one.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273330#Comment_273330 2010-12-06T12:35:10-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 nigredo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2373 Some of my favourites in your list as well, allana. Emeralds Luke Abbott Supersilent Also: Melvins Harvey Milk Ultralyd Oneohtrix Point Never Kayo Dot Master Musicians of ...
Emeralds
Luke Abbott
Supersilent

Also:

Melvins
Harvey Milk
Ultralyd
Oneohtrix Point Never
Kayo Dot
Master Musicians of Bukkake
Ufomammut
Titan
Gonjasufi
Deathspell Omega
John Zorn (In Search of the Miraculous)
Flying Lotus
Jucifer
KXP
Moritz von Oswald
Oval


I'm sure I'm forgetting some...]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273340#Comment_273340 2010-12-06T13:08:15-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 icelandbob http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5250 Damn! forgot about the Harvey Milk album... .... and the Oneohtrix point never! AAARGH!
.... and the Oneohtrix point never!

AAARGH!]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273346#Comment_273346 2010-12-06T13:41:18-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019 @nigredo, my music taste and your music taste should totally get married. what's with this year's Kayo Dot? a lot of friends have been losing their shit over it; i know i listened to it but i ...
what's with this year's Kayo Dot? a lot of friends have been losing their shit over it; i know i listened to it but i can't recall finding it at all interesting.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273386#Comment_273386 2010-12-06T21:44:28-08:00 2010-12-06T21:59:16-08:00 nigredo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2373 Tell me about it. Re: Kayo Dot, I've got a bit of a weakness for them. Plus I genuinely think the album is pretty good.
Re: Kayo Dot, I've got a bit of a weakness for them. Plus I genuinely think the album is pretty good.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273432#Comment_273432 2010-12-07T06:52:25-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019 i'm re-listening and now i remember that i deleted it because i listened to it once and said "okay, so now they're Cerberus Shoal. except i already have plenty of Cerberus Shoal." Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273469#Comment_273469 2010-12-07T11:31:49-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 nigredo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2373 Ah. Can't really say I would ever think that. Kayo Dot, as much as they channel traditional psychedelia in some ways, veer more towards modern composition where Cerberus Shoal has always sounded more ...
Having been a fan of Maudlin of the Well too, I think COYOTE makes a lot of sense within Toby Driver's ouevre.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273490#Comment_273490 2010-12-07T12:47:20-08:00 2010-12-07T12:50:03-08:00 Internaut http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7307 I'd like to add a recently discovered gem Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma Fantastically random and entertaining. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Fantastically random and entertaining.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273563#Comment_273563 2010-12-07T19:32:39-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Beamish http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8236 I would like to add the Tron: Legacy Soundtrack to the list. It dropped today and is fresh Daft Punk music. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273821#Comment_273821 2010-12-09T09:59:26-08:00 2010-12-09T10:00:42-08:00 m3t4lfi3nd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4774 This new Dax Riggs is pretty damn good after a listen. A nice discovery from this thread that he had a new album. Might come to enjoy it even more than WSOBL. Tried listening to The Dead Weather, ...
Surprised nobody mentioned the Smashing Pumpkins EP. I really dig it and want more.

Also really wish I could get intp Kayo Dot like I did with Maudlin of the Well. Will try the new one.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273824#Comment_273824 2010-12-09T10:03:28-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 MaC http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2175 Just want to thank infomancer for making aware that there was a new Dax Riggs CD I need to go buy. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273853#Comment_273853 2010-12-09T12:47:57-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 More Dax Riggs fans, excellent. :) I'm sad he's not touring closer to me this time out. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273855#Comment_273855 2010-12-09T13:01:00-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 MaC http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2175 @infomancer I definitely need to keep myself more aware of the music scene cause I really would love to hear him play live next time he swings through NYC. And its always nice to meet another Dax ...
I definitely need to keep myself more aware of the music scene cause I really would love to hear him play live next time he swings through NYC. And its always nice to meet another Dax fan, I've been following since my friend turned me on to Acid Bath in 04, they were of course already done so I looked to Agents of Oblivion, also already broken up. But I kept following and I am glad he is still putting stuff out.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273867#Comment_273867 2010-12-09T14:20:26-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 Yeah, if you get the chance, don't miss him live. I've seen both Deadboy and the Elephantmen and his solo show, and he's just plain magic live. Back on topic (sort of), I'm seeing other sites ...
Back on topic (sort of), I'm seeing other sites posting their year-end best-of lists, and they are largely atrocious. Was good music that hard to find this year?]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273871#Comment_273871 2010-12-09T14:55:52-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 dorkmuffin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6719 @infomancer/MaC, I saw him earlier this year (September?) in New York and he was PHENOMENAL. New Julie Christmas is spinning on repeat in my apartment. And on my headphones. It's making me listen ...
New Julie Christmas is spinning on repeat in my apartment. And on my headphones. It's making me listen to tons and tons of Made Out of Babies as well. I can't wait until THEY play live again. Hands down one of the best live shows I've ever seen.

On a totally different note, I've also been listening to Robyn's new album. It's pretty solid.

And yeah, Stereogum's year end list made me cry. Was music REALLY that hard to find?]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273874#Comment_273874 2010-12-09T15:47:01-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Nil http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=389 Going to stick in a mention for SKRILLEX - SCARY MONSTERS AND NICE SPRITES here. I've seen a lot of people panning it for being dubstep of the filth / midrange wobble kind. Frankly, I couldn't care ... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273876#Comment_273876 2010-12-09T16:29:36-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Audley Strange http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4475 @Dorkmuffin. You know, this year music was really hard to find for me, in so far as not much new stuff I heard, anywhere, remotely excited me. Don't know why, it just seemed like a lacklustre year ...
The only albums I heard from 2010 that I played more than about 5 times were "Teen Dream" by Beach House. "Big Echo" by Morning Benders and "Plastic Beach" by Gorillaz.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273892#Comment_273892 2010-12-09T19:26:31-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Walker James http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=526 Of what I've heard (and can remember off the top): Tobacco - "Maniac Meat" (trip-hop) Caribou - "Swim" (electronica with real instrumentation) Phantogram - "Eyelid ...
Tobacco - "Maniac Meat" (trip-hop)
Caribou - "Swim" (electronica with real instrumentation)
Phantogram - "Eyelid Movies" (if you like Portishead then here is a slightly happier version)
Matthew Dear- "Black City" (he leveled up big time)
Crystal Castles - (exponentially better than the first, saw them live, ejaculated)
Danny Brown - "The Hybrid" (the only hip-hop even making it for me this year...sad)
Fang Island - (happy, epic, & HAPPY, instrumental rock anthems)
Lazer Sword - (truly, the new school of electro)]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273904#Comment_273904 2010-12-09T21:15:21-08:00 2010-12-12T22:17:58-08:00 Tim Bishop http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=623 I've gotten more music that I've loved this year than I have in the few years prior, but still haven't had time to dig very deep: Superchunk-Majesty Shredding Drive-by Truckers-The Big ...
Superchunk-Majesty Shredding
Drive-by Truckers-The Big To-Do
Hold Steady-Heaven is Whenever
Gaslight Anthem-American Slang
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks

And that's about it [EXCEPT THAT TED LEO RECORD THAT I HAD TO GO BACK AND EDIT IN]. Everything else in heavy rotation came out last year or even further back.

Thanks to everybody who's posted, though--I now have more than a couple 2010 releases to check out.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273906#Comment_273906 2010-12-09T21:29:36-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 MaC http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2175 @informer/dorkmuffin So jealous. He was here in September and I didn't know?! I am soooo out of the music loop, it would be embarrassing to mention the "newest" music I have listened ...
So jealous. He was here in September and I didn't know?! I am soooo out of the music loop, it would be embarrassing to mention the "newest" music I have listened to. Or actually impossible, cause I couldn't tell ya.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273933#Comment_273933 2010-12-10T01:53:06-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7294 Wait, didn't Bonobo have a new album out this year? Oh yeah. Bonobo - Black Sands
Oh yeah.

Bonobo - Black Sands]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273954#Comment_273954 2010-12-10T06:15:21-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472 Disapointed by most of the stuff coming from the mainstream / alt.rock camps this year. Grinderman 2 has some alright songs, but left me cold for the most part. Seemed like a year for small EPs, ...
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Mr Boss - The Landing
szdl - break before make
Shit-Hop Ninja Terminatorz - Ded Kandi Shit Hed
Mr Loop - Music From The Tanhauser Gate
Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer
Comma - Comma
Stanley Odd - Oddio
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
Loki & Scattabrainz - Summer Knows... A Darker Shade of Grey
Asthmatic Astronaut - Super Intelligent Common Sense
]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=273960#Comment_273960 2010-12-10T06:54:02-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7294 HOW THE HELL COULD I FORGET: Tame Impala - Innerspeaker Fucking AWESOME.
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

Fucking AWESOME.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274066#Comment_274066 2010-12-10T16:26:55-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 dorkmuffin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6719 @keyofsilence, I will say my favorite thing about year end lists is discovering things like Tame Impala that COMPLETELY escaped my notice before. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274097#Comment_274097 2010-12-10T22:42:42-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 David Matthew http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2886 Best Album By a Fake Band PLASTIC BEACH - The Gorillaz Best Album Inspired by a Webcomic THE FELT - Various Artists Best Album About Conjoined Twins EVELYN EVELYN - Amanda Palmer and Jason ... PLASTIC BEACH - The Gorillaz

Best Album Inspired by a Webcomic
THE FELT - Various Artists

Best Album About Conjoined Twins
EVELYN EVELYN - Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley

Best Album to Walk Though a Rainy Evening in the City While Wearing a Dapper Hat and a Long Coat On Your Way to a Great Party
LP4 - Ratatat

Best Classical Album
INTO THE TREES - Zoe Keating

Best Album From a Band Who Always Makes Great Albums
TRANSFERENCE - Spoon

Best Album By a Band That Hipsters Love and People Who Hate Hipsters Love to Hate and Can't We All Just Get Along?
CONTRA - Vampire Weekend

Album That Best Captures The Zeitgeist
THE SUBURBS - Arcade Fire

Best Album By a Canadian Supergroup
TOGETHER - The New Pornographers

Album of the Year
FLYING LOTUS - Cosmogramma

Bonus round!

Best Song on an Otherwise Forgettable Album
"Ambling Alp" - Yeasayer - ODD BLOOD

Best Music Video
"Bombay" - El Guincho]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274104#Comment_274104 2010-12-11T00:08:29-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 BrianMowrey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1709 Ha, how'd the Bombay video get on YouTube, it's got nudities Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274118#Comment_274118 2010-12-11T07:41:14-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 Album That Best Captures The Zeitgeist THE SUBURBS - Arcade Fire OH KILL ME NOW Album That Best Captures The Zeitgeist
THE SUBURBS - Arcade Fire



OH KILL ME NOW]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274119#Comment_274119 2010-12-11T07:43:03-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 and fucking also
]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274302#Comment_274302 2010-12-12T10:43:26-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 David Matthew http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2886 Augh the eels the eels, they're in me! I suppose a slightly more truthful "zeitgeist" nomination might be Kanye West?
I suppose a slightly more truthful "zeitgeist" nomination might be Kanye West?]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274308#Comment_274308 2010-12-12T11:03:39-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 m3t4lfi3nd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4774 The recently released (and first in nine years) Diamond Eyed Princess is a grim, vicious aural-assault.
]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274322#Comment_274322 2010-12-12T12:23:54-08:00 2010-12-12T12:24:28-08:00 SilentObjector http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2587 Jesus Christ Warren THANK YOU. How had nobody mentioned The Monitor yet? Anyway so my list (besides Titus Andronicus - The Monitor, anyway): Girl Talk - All Day The Gaslight Anthem - American ...
Anyway so my list (besides Titus Andronicus - The Monitor, anyway):

Girl Talk - All Day
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
The Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Official Soundtrack
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Kanye West - MDBTF
What Pumpkin Studios - Homestuck Vol. 4/The Midnight Crew/Homestuck Vol.5/The Felt
The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
Fang Island - S/T
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Honorable Mentions:
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
Guster - Easy Wonderful (as Tufts alums, it's only fair that they be included)]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274332#Comment_274332 2010-12-12T13:40:30-08:00 2010-12-12T13:42:08-08:00 BrianMowrey http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1709 So I'll go. Kanye Pinnacles of Right-on-Ness - s/t (2009? Who knows it is just a free download on their site) Badu - new amerykah 2 Roots - how I got over Wavves - king of the beach Caribou - ...
Kanye
Pinnacles of Right-on-Ness - s/t (2009? Who knows it is just a free download on their site)
Badu - new amerykah 2
Roots - how I got over
Wavves - king of the beach
Caribou - swim
Gorillaz - plastic beach
Tyler Hornsby - road to remember

Very little in rock. I wish indie would get out of its fetish with filling albums up of mid-length and half-prog songs. Plenty of great tracks this year but a great rock album wants a fuller commitment to guitar and drum excess. Caribou squeeze in. Everything else, 5 minute song after 5 minute song, Soooooo tiiiiiiring. Wavves made it in, for putting out one of those reductive noise pop albums that the critics put 9s on without even listening to that is actually very filling. Lots of almosts in that department like vw and no age that stumble up in the middle. Otherwise, hip hop has the year.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274334#Comment_274334 2010-12-12T14:00:59-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Ninewhilenine83 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8787 My two bits: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network OST (Someone said somewhere on here it comes off like Ghosts part II but I think it's actually more sophisticated and together than ...
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network OST (Someone said somewhere on here it comes off like Ghosts part II but I think it's actually more sophisticated and together than that.)

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) (just awesome)

65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway (Comes off like what would happen if M83 and Godspeed had sex in a fetish club that specialized in Glitch and Hard Rock, just excellent)

Deftones - Diamond Eyes ("Return to form" to use the turn of phrase. This is the album that should've happened after White Pony)

Anamanaguchi - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World the Game OST (Need I say more?)

Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy OST (It's the soundtrack to the Tron film... ALMOST perfect. A few more hard-edged sawtooth waves wouldn't've gone amiss...)

Other than that I've not really been impressed this year. Pretty much a big win for soundtracks though.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274337#Comment_274337 2010-12-12T14:10:46-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 arklight http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5355 anything by BIG KRIT... he's put out 4 albums worth of stuff. He's approaching underground legendry status. Not one bad song yet... Big KRIT -"somedayz" Big KRIT ... BIG KRIT...

he's put out 4 albums worth of stuff.
He's approaching underground legendry status.
Not one bad song yet...


Big KRIT -"somedayz"





Big KRIT -"it can't be all"








There's been a bit of a last minute splurge
of good stuff out there.

Heri mkocha

http://www.youtube.com/thearklight]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274359#Comment_274359 2010-12-12T15:27:38-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 SilentObjector http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2587 I think I should add that the What Pumpkin releases deserve special note for being the first (at least, the first that I've ever heard) official multi-volume soundtrack to a webcomic. The fact that ...
I should also mention how disappointed I was by the new Of Montreal. One or two exceptional tracks aside, the album falls flat.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274372#Comment_274372 2010-12-12T16:52:31-08:00 2010-12-12T17:52:47-08:00 InvincibleM http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3064 My Top Seven for 2010. Honourable/No need to be Said Albums: JANELLE MONAE - The Archandroid, ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs, THE BLACK KEYS - Brothers, AMANDA PALMER - Radiohead Ukelele Cover album, ... Honourable/No need to be Said Albums: JANELLE MONAE - The Archandroid, ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs, THE BLACK KEYS - Brothers, AMANDA PALMER - Radiohead Ukelele Cover album, 65DAYSOFSTATIC - We Were Exploding Anyway, GORILLAZ - Plastic Beach, WARPAINT - THE FOOL

7. DARK DARK DARK - Wild Go



6. TAME IMPALA - Innerspeaker



5. WOLF PEOPLE - Tidings/Steeples (Two albums in one year. Both good. Couldn't pick which I like better.)



4. LAURA MARLING - I Speak Because I Can



3. FRIGHTENED RABBIT - The Winter of Mixed Drinks



2. REDHOOKER - Vespers



1. THE PACK AD - We Kill Computers (forgive the terrible video. They don't have many songs on Youtube. I would not have chosen this one.)



EDIT: Ah, there we are. Videos don't appear in the preview posts. Thus my consternation. Thank you, Ellis.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274378#Comment_274378 2010-12-12T17:24:39-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2 I fixed one for you. It's really easy. Go to YouTube, get the short Share code, come back here, click the video/mp3 button, put the Share code (which looks like ... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274422#Comment_274422 2010-12-12T22:45:32-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Robson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=682 My favourites: Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave Autechre - Oversteps Flying Lotus - Cosmagramma The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter John Zorn - The Nobel Prize Winner OST (Filmworks ...
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
Autechre - Oversteps
Flying Lotus - Cosmagramma
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
John Zorn - The Nobel Prize Winner OST (Filmworks XXIV)
Laurie Anderson - Homeland]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274445#Comment_274445 2010-12-13T05:16:15-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Nil http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=389 I have already posted here once, hope it's ok if I drop one more album recommendation in here. Much more for the metalheads, this one, although I suspect the concepts behind the music may be of ...
As to the concept behind the album itself, a quote from a brief interview with the band (which can be found here):

The concept of the album is mainly (with a few song exceptions) based around the Codex Exoniensis of Anglo Saxon poetry and features adaptations of a number of great stories from within it, such as "The Battle of Brunanburh," "The Ruin" and a three part song based on "The wanderer."


Finally, my favourite song off the album, the wonderful THE FIELDS OF RECKONING (note: the sound quality here doesn't quite do it justice)

]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274470#Comment_274470 2010-12-13T08:50:00-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Denari http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7907 So, I'll jump on the TRON: Legacy – Daft Punk wagon. Bonobo's Black Sands was superb – I totally over played it before May had even reached us. Fourtet, as suggested by the Swami, I'd not ...
I'll jump on the TRON: Legacy – Daft Punk wagon.
Bonobo's Black Sands was superb – I totally over played it before May had even reached us.
Fourtet, as suggested by the Swami, I'd not heard any before.
Baths Cerulean is just mental, but I love it.
Massive Attack's Heligoland left me cold I'm afraid. I do love the Hope Sandoval track though.
Gil Scott Heron was great, but the album is painfully slight and doesn't really reward repeated listens.

And Clearsignal's Stars Lost Your Name (as suggested by Miss Zoetica) kept me going through some touch times. Thanks Ix!]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274499#Comment_274499 2010-12-13T11:58:26-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 brycemidas http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1636 I was going to say... with all the Flylo and Caribou love going on around here, what happened to Four Tet? There Is Love In You is a KILLER record. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274507#Comment_274507 2010-12-13T13:07:11-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 JiveKitty http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7925 @Infomancer: From a few pages back, on I'm New Here, initially I thought I'd leave it out but I discovered I'd listened to it more than I realised and it is something which while I haven't listened ... I'm New Here, initially I thought I'd leave it out but I discovered I'd listened to it more than I realised and it is something which while I haven't listened to it as regularly as others I think I'll keep coming back to.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274630#Comment_274630 2010-12-14T08:12:55-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Internaut http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7307 @Ninewhilenine83: RE: Deftones - Diamond Eyes ("Return to form" to use the turn of phrase. This is the album that should've happened after White Pony) I think Diamond Eyes is more a ... Deftones - Diamond Eyes ("Return to form" to use the turn of phrase. This is the album that should've happened after White Pony)

I think Diamond Eyes is more a continuation of Around The Fur than White Pony. White Pony signals the embrace of more atmospheric and meandering songwriting, which was continued on in both Deftones and Saturday Night Wrist (More the latter than the former). In any case, I think it's the best album they've done in 10 years. I am curious as to what Eros sounds like though, the album they shelved when Chi got hurt. I'd wager it sounds more like Saturday Night Wrist than Diamond Eyes.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274661#Comment_274661 2010-12-14T11:29:48-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 m3t4lfi3nd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4774 @Nil - I enjoy the new Winterfylleth as well, not too interested in the whole English heritage aspect of it so much but whatever, as long as they make enjoyable Music it's all good. np: Heidevolk ...
np: Heidevolk - Uit Oude Grond]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274670#Comment_274670 2010-12-14T11:44:20-08:00 2010-12-14T11:47:06-08:00 Ryan Burton http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3794 Yeasayer - Odd Blood Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Saw them at Madison Square Garden where Lou Reed came on set and sang his song. Vampire Weekend - Contra Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Sufjan ... Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Saw them at Madison Square Garden where Lou Reed came on set and sang his song.

Vampire Weekend - Contra

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

Cary Ann Hearst - Are You Ready To Die
If you Watch True Blood, you've probably heard "Hell's Bells" (vid below), but the best track on the album is "The Hardest Thing"


(Looking forward to Kieron Gillen's year-end wrap-up.)]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274721#Comment_274721 2010-12-14T17:18:59-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 celan http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5337 I will second that Das Racist album, definitely. Also, @joedistort...re: CEREMONY-rohnert park It's funny that band is from my area but I haven't heard of them. I was surprised to see the name ...
Also, @joedistort...re: CEREMONY-rohnert park
It's funny that band is from my area but I haven't heard of them. I was surprised to see the name "Rohnert Park" on an album..for those that don't know, R.P. is a much maligned town just south of (Santa Rosa, CA, USA) me down the 101.
Anyway, I will definitely check it out.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274738#Comment_274738 2010-12-14T20:33:54-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 joe.distort http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1173 it sounds like desperation. such a good album that i totally didnt like that much at first. but once i understood it was not as fast as their other music and got into the overall feel it got a LOT of ... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274823#Comment_274823 2010-12-15T10:46:00-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 I just got the new Deathspell Omega album Paracletus. I'm pretty impressed. Good way to close their trilogy, and surprisingly listenable for avant-black metal, if you can get through the overly ... Deathspell Omega album Paracletus. I'm pretty impressed. Good way to close their trilogy, and surprisingly listenable for avant-black metal, if you can get through the overly academic/purposely obfuscating sort of attitude they have. I'm sure I'll listen to this one a lot before the winter's over.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274867#Comment_274867 2010-12-15T14:11:02-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 arklight http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5355 kanye- i do like alot of the album, its really growing on me. but i love that song "runaway".... Kanye west -"runaway" That whole campaign for the album (and the ...
but i love that song "runaway"....

Kanye west -"runaway"




That whole campaign for the album (and the parodies of it ), were awesome,
the whole pans labyrinth/neil gaiman fairie/stardust other world theme
was great to look at as well as hear...





heri mkocha

http://www.youtube.com/thearklight]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274871#Comment_274871 2010-12-15T14:41:20-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 twentythoughts http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7347 Hrm. Two of the best albums I bought this year were from LAST year... Røyksopp's "Junior", Basement Jaxx's "Scars" and Mew's "No more stories were told". Soooo let's ...
Gorillaz's (or would that be without the S? Gorillaz'?) "Plastic Beach" was good. I'ma be all nationalist and nominate a buncha Norwegian albums, though. Mainly because they're damn good.

Susanne Sundfør's "The Brothel" is just amazing. I wasn't a fan of her previous stuff, but this one's just all over the place in a good way. There's not a single track on it that's not good.



Weirdly, this sombre tune was the first single from the album.



Shining's "Blackjazz", while not quite the masterpiece that their previous album was, is still pretty danged nice. It's... pretty much what it says on the tin. Blackmetal-jazz.



"My Chemical Romance" win the "awesome song that made me buy their album which then turned out to be okay but not as awesome as the song" award with "Na Na Na". I mean, I like the songs and all, but that voice-warping thing they do with the vocals just gets tiring after a while, and they do it in NEARLY EVERY DAMN SONG. I'd like a "less vocal warping" version of the album, please. Maybe they'll do a live version.

Røyksopp came out with a new album called "Senior", which was all right, but nothing all that special. Felt like a B-sides album.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=274880#Comment_274880 2010-12-15T16:21:17-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Ninewhilenine83 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8787 @ Internaut I'm deadly curious about Eros - I just hope they eventually release it regardless (in a terrible, entirely consumerist not-giving-a-shit-about-artist-rights kinda way). I would put my ...
I'm deadly curious about Eros - I just hope they eventually release it regardless (in a terrible, entirely consumerist not-giving-a-shit-about-artist-rights kinda way). I would put my money on it being more Saturday Night Wrist than Diamond Eyes but it was probably a stepping stone in this direction too.

On reflection I'm inclined to agree with you, it is really a continuation of Around the Fur. Which isn't a good thing. It's an awesome thing. Around the Fur is probably more consistently my favourite.

@ twentythoughts

I'm in total agreement about "Na Na Na." The album is okayish, but that song is simply brilliant. I wanted an album of that. Looped. 16 times, in progressively louder, more obnoxious performances. Perhaps doing the pop thing and ending with a slow acoustic ballad version...]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275050#Comment_275050 2010-12-16T19:50:29-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 tachyon42 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8841 Haven't listened to too many full albums from 2010. Probably Plastic Beach would have to be one of my favorites though.
Probably Plastic Beach would have to be one of my favorites though.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275115#Comment_275115 2010-12-17T06:24:16-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 MagicSword! http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1309 I always think: Oh crap, did I listen to ten albums this year? I always feel like I'm missing something obvious. Still, this year was easier than most... I think. It's very pop. Nina Nastasia - ...
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
Kimonos - Kimonos
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Leftfoot
Tokyo Jihen - Sports
Buffalo Daughter - Weapons of Math Destruction
Mass of The Fermenting Dregs - Zero Comma, Iro toridori no Sekai

There you go! A nice round ten too!

There's a bunch of albums hanging around the edge of that list too. I've only just started listening to Deftones - Diamond Eyes, after a friend kept banging on about it. Never listened to them before, but it's growing on me with each listen. The MCR album is fun, but yeah, struggles to live up to Na Na Na. That album for me has a fantastic song at the start, a fantastic song in the middle and a fantastic song at the end, and they kind of buttress up the rest of the record, making it seem better than it probably is. I really liked the first three songs on Kele's solo album, but it drops away too much after that. Almost the same for EGO WRAPPIN's new album. Woven Hand - The Threshingfloor is great too, actually, that should maybe be in there. Nah, I preferred Ten Stones more. Browsing end of year lists there's a lot I really want to check out, and a bunch of albums like Flying Lotus and Gorillaz that I kept meaning to check out and kept forgetting to.

Oh, and away from albums I really enjoyed Ash's A-Z series, I imagine it works better as they released it than as an album. Also the Japanese electro-pop group Perfume released three fantastic singles this year that haven't been collected on an album yet.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275512#Comment_275512 2010-12-20T06:21:00-08:00 2010-12-20T06:21:58-08:00 antistigma http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2592 I had a really shitty year, but the stuff that probably kept me going: El-P - weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 LA Vampires & Zola Jesus iamamiwhoami Cosmogramma ( should go without ...
El-P - weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus
iamamiwhoami
Cosmogramma ( should go without saying )
A-1 - After School Special
Japanese Cartoon - In The Jaws Of The Lords Of Death
Hybrid - Disappear Here
Central Services - Forever Frozen In Television Time ( I think Submarine was my favorite song of the year )
Depakote - The Gummo Album
Tokimonsta - Cosmic Intoxication
Best Coast - Crazy For You
Blackbird Blackbird - Summer Heart

Should really give Heligoland a proper listen when I get the time.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275538#Comment_275538 2010-12-20T10:04:47-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Charlene http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4463 1. La Dispute / Touche Amore - Searching For A Pulse/The Worth Of The World 2. Volbeat - Beyond Hell/Above Heaven 3. Authority Zero - Stories of Survival 4. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur ... 1. La Dispute / Touche Amore - Searching For A Pulse/The Worth Of The World
2. Volbeat - Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
3. Authority Zero - Stories of Survival
4. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
5. Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275562#Comment_275562 2010-12-20T13:52:48-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 JiveKitty http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7925 One I forgot: God is an Astronaut's Age of the Fifth Sun
God is an Astronaut's Age of the Fifth Sun]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275812#Comment_275812 2010-12-23T10:41:45-08:00 2010-12-24T13:56:32-08:00 TC-Cork http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1500 Black Tusk - Taste The Sin The Damned Things - Ironiclast Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis Interpol - Interpol Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams John Zorn - Ipsissimus Kylesa - Spiral ... The Damned Things - Ironiclast
Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Interpol - Interpol
Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams
John Zorn - Ipsissimus
Kylesa - Spiral Shadows
Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show #7: High Jazz
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
Shining - Blackjazz
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
Tokyo Police Club - Champ]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275872#Comment_275872 2010-12-24T04:09:53-08:00 2010-12-24T04:11:08-08:00 ian holloway http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6961 my top 10 of 2010 Andrew Chalk - Ghosts of Nakhodka - sumptuous ambient experimentalism Chemins - cdr #5 - 5 short cds in one year and any one could have been here Mendel Kaelen - Remembering ...
Andrew Chalk - Ghosts of Nakhodka - sumptuous ambient experimentalism
Chemins - cdr #5 - 5 short cds in one year and any one could have been here
Mendel Kaelen - Remembering What Was Forgotten - deep deep ambient
Sujo - Dimona - post rock, post psyche, post industrial, post metal, post alservice
Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain / Dysthymia - split 7" - hard edged dronework
Viosac - Dawning Luminosity - beautiful soaring psyche-drone
Hearts of Palm - Earth Headed Heart - faustian bang and clang experimentalist
Marsfield - The Towering Sky - more beautiful andrew chalk (and friends)
Nurse With Wound - Paranoia in Hi-Fi (Earworms 1978-2008) - a majestically silly mashup
Darren Tate - Nature In The City - more kosmiche space-drone

full reviews here

happy xmas]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=275879#Comment_275879 2010-12-24T05:41:10-08:00 2010-12-24T07:15:21-08:00 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7294 Bought Caribou's Swim the other week. Pretty awesome. Also finally managed to check out Four Tet's new album and I can tell immediately why there's so much hype about it in this thread. ETA: yeah ...
ETA: yeah this Four Tet album is fucking magical.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276558#Comment_276558 2011-01-01T13:57:41-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Fooly_Cooly_Kid http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9821 Okay, just five off the top of my head: Flying Lotus: Cosmogramm; Magical album that you can listen to over and over again and never be done. LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening; Probabaly the ...
Flying Lotus: Cosmogramm; Magical album that you can listen to over and over again and never be done.
LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening; Probabaly the best this year, 9 magical tracks, especially recommend Dance Yrself Clean
Local Natives: Gorilla Manor; For the love of God, check these guys out. No one payed attention to this amazing album, please give it some love!
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy; Most appropriate name for a cd ever. Nicki Manaji's guest vocals on Monster is one of the best musical moments in recent history.
Hot Chip: One Life Stand; Caution: At least one of these songs will be stuck in your head every single day forever.

Many many more I should mention:
Arcade Fire: Suburbs
Best Coast: Crazy for You
Ariel Pink: Before Today]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276586#Comment_276586 2011-01-01T17:06:15-08:00 2011-01-01T20:39:10-08:00 WebVomit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9838 Yeasayer – Odd Blood Automelodi - Automelodi Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today Autre Ne Veut - Autre Ne Veut Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles Coyote Clean Up - Double Trouble Doo ... Yeasayer – Odd Blood
Automelodi - Automelodi
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Autre Ne Veut - Autre Ne Veut
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Coyote Clean Up - Double Trouble Doo Doo Bubble (free download) / Downhill Exxxpress (free download)
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Future Islands - In The Fall EP / In Evening Air LP / Undressed EP
LAKE R?DIO - Blair EP / The Weather EP / Planet Earth About To Be Recycled LP
Lettercamp - Raccoon Panda (free download) / Raccoon Panda Redux (free download)
Salem - King Night]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276604#Comment_276604 2011-01-01T19:34:43-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 brycemidas http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1636 I like that Coyote Cleanup band. They're good for a hangover. Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276618#Comment_276618 2011-01-01T21:38:50-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Banishman http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=454 Grand Bounce by Gordon Downie & the Country of Miracles...only record I can remember buying this year... Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276622#Comment_276622 2011-01-01T22:44:00-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 infomancer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5161 Man, I forgot the Coffinworm debut When All Became None came out this year. I thought that was late '09. Anyhow, they've gotta go on my list. That album is a beast. Coffinworm debut When All Became None came out this year. I thought that was late '09. Anyhow, they've gotta go on my list. That album is a beast.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276642#Comment_276642 2011-01-02T02:35:30-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Tim http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2283 (Cut and paste from my LJ I'm afraid. There was a meme. What can I say?). Disappointment of the year: MGMT – Congratulations What on earth were you thinking? This is bobbins. It’s like ... Disappointment of the year:
MGMT – Congratulations
What on earth were you thinking? This is bobbins. It’s like prog, but without the Wagnerian lunacy that is prog’s redeeming feature. From the interviews they’ve given, it seems as if they have decided pop music is beneath them. Wrong decision.
The sound of a moderately talented indie band disappearing up its own arse.

Honourable mentions:
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Don’t get me wrong, I love LCD, but they have now made the precise same album three times. It’s a very fine album, but a fourth time would be jumping the shark. James Murphy seems to agree.

Holy Fuck – Latin
Doesn’t make the cut because it’s not quite as good as “LP”.

Darkstar – North
Elegiac, piano led synthpop, not dubstep at all. Doesn’t make it because the best tune on it is a Human League cover, and because live, the singer is quite annoying.

M.I.A. - /\/\ /\ Y /\
Panned by the critics, unfairly, I feel. “Teqkilla” and the Sleigh Bells sampling “Meds and Feds” are as good as anything she’s ever done. Doesn’t make it because of the cod-reggae bollocks of “Story to be Told” and “It Takes a Muscle”, and because it was utterly eclipsed by the live show with added BASS.

Coloureds – Cameleopardalis
Local boys produce an excellent EP, which doesn’t make it because, being an EP, it only has three tracks (plus three remixes, but frankly two of them aren’t that great).

So, anyway, to the utterly subjective best albums of the year, in reverse order.

10) HEALTH - ::DISCO2
Remixes of last year’s “Get Color” by the likes of Salem, CFCF and Tobacco plus new track “USA Boys”. HEALTH continue to work the Indie/Metal/Electro crossover genre. This album is approximately a million times better than that sentence makes it sound. Awesome live.

9) New Young Pony Club – The Optimist
A make or break album for NYPC after jumping record labels and losing the guy with the porn star tache. Tahita introduced the live show with “Hello, we’re New Young Pony Club….back from the brink”. Hopefully this album sold enough to keep them going because it’s lovely, ditching the sarcastic spoken word vocals and allowing her to actually sing, which she turns out to be quite good at. Maybe now they can stop endlessly rereleasing “Ice Cream”.

8) Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
“Demon Days” was critically lauded but for some reason didn’t quite grab me. No idea why. This, on the other hand, hit the spot. Best track – Glitter Freeze, a glam rock stomp featuring an incomprehensible rant from Mark E Smith.

7) Chew Lips – Unicorn
This won’t be in everyone’s top ten. Fairly standard Kitsune female fronted electro, doesn’t even contain the hit critically acclaimed singles “Solo” and “Salt Air”. In because I keep coming back and playing it again, because it’s gorgeous.

6) Salem – King Night
Call it Drag, call it Witch House, call it Night Bus – this is the genre that defined hipsterism in 2010. Equally, it is the genre that those same people will drop like a hot potato in 2011. The critics who loved this album will be saying “Salem? Never heard of them, and besides, they were always shit”.
To be fair, the band haven’t helped themselves, with a string of irritating interviews and atrocious live performances, but this is a brilliant album that deserves better than the already-nascent backlash. Enjoy it while you can.

5) Tobacco – Maniac Meat/Mystic Thickness
Tobacco is the side project of some guy in Black Moth Super Rainbow, who I’d never heard of before. This album basically consists of huge basslines, crunchy synth chords, and noise. One of the tracks, “Creepy Phone Calls”, also crops up as a remix on the HEALTH album. They have three completely different tracks all called “Nuclear Waste Aerobics”.
That is all you need to know about Tobacco.

4) Tearist – Tearist
Like an electro version of The Creatures (minimalist Siouxie Sioux side project) consisting of simple synth lines, krautrock style drum loops and incomprehensible vocals. Nothing about it should work, and yet there is something oddly compelling about it. Another record I keep coming back to and playing, and the only record ever to have prompted me to buy a booster pack from eMusic becasuse I just couldn’t wait for my monthly downloads to clock before grabbing it.
The second witch house act to make this year’s top ten. There would probably be more if the acts concerned would release actual records I could buy instead of making me chase them through obscure internet forums (are you listening, White Ring?). I guess I must be a hipster then. This sounds nothing like the Salem record. It’s almost as if these bands aren’t that similar at all but have been pushed together into an artificial genre by lazy journalists but THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN.

3) Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II)
In an interview in the Guardian, the famously grumpy Ethan Kath took great offence when the interviewer suggested that he writes great pop songs. He is wrong.
This record is ravier than a ravey thing. At a rave. Like the first album, it has a series of instantly memorable hooks which have been corroded almost, but not quite, into unlistenability. Works astonishingly well live.

2) Sleigh Bells – Treats
This record consists entirely of stomping beats, repetitive lyrics and enormous riffs. The production sounds like the whole thing has been fed through the automatic gain control on an old tape player. You remember, that button that cut out everything except the drums whenever there was a snare hit and rendered everything else unrecognisably distorted. It is insane. It is also a great pop record.
Somewhere there is an alternate universe in which Sleigh Bells and Crystal Castles duke it out for the Christmas Number One spot. I wish I lived there.

And finally….drum roll….

1) These New Puritans – Hidden
Yes, I know, it’s topped everyone’s list this year. That’s for good reason. This is a record of astonishing ambition that pretty much carries it off. Features a lead single – their best hope of an actual hit – seven minutes long, veering from taiko drum enhanced dancehall to Britten-inspired woodwind. The rest of the album is the same, only more so.
Brought to life at the Barbican where there was much enthusiastic smashing of watermelons (duct taping cream crackers to a watermelon then hitting it with a hammer sounds like a skull exploding, see?) and a giant drum taller than I am.
Taking to the NME Barnett floated the idea that the next record will be three minute pop songs. I have no idea what a three minute pop song is like in his world, but I can’t wait.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276705#Comment_276705 2011-01-02T15:52:11-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 kyote23 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9845 my favorite sounds of 2010... sun city girls - funeral mariachi master musicians of bukkake - totem two master musicians of bukkake - elogia de la sombra (ep) master musicians of ...
sun city girls - funeral mariachi
master musicians of bukkake - totem two
master musicians of bukkake - elogia de la sombra (ep)
master musicians of bukkake - themes from the motion picture... (7")
rangda - false flag
master musicians of jajouka led by bachir attar - the source
sir richard bishop - head trauma
bill horist - covalent lodge
the lights - failed graves
swans - my father will guide me up a rope to the sky
killing joke - absolute dissent
massive attack - heligoland
four tet - there is love in you
sunburned hand of the man - a
muslimgauze - camel through a needles eye
tzii - vuole morire
hawkwind - blood of the earth

arrington de dionyso - my 2 handmade lathe-cut records (BEAUTIFUL!!!)

savage republic - procession - an aural history 1981-2010
einstürzende neubauten - strategies against architecture IV - 2002-2010

and of course my buddha machine 3 - chan fang ??]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276854#Comment_276854 2011-01-03T12:59:15-08:00 2011-01-03T13:03:41-08:00 adamncopeland http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1057 10. Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here 9. Noun - Holy Hell 8. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor 7. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding 6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 5. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 4. Frog Eyes ... 9. Noun - Holy Hell
8. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
7. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
4. Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph
3. Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Sharon Van Etten - Epic
1. Future Islands - In The Fall EP / In Evening Air LP / Undressed EP]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276894#Comment_276894 2011-01-03T16:13:50-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Eels4eyes http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5958 Ufomammut - Eve The Blood of Heroes - Self titled album The Blood of Heroes - Self titled album]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=276984#Comment_276984 2011-01-04T05:43:31-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 sympatheticdivision http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7618 Jumping onto this at a rather late moment...anyway, the albums that stood out for me this year: The National- High Violet (Discovered these guys rather recently, a fantastic dark ride) Massive ...
The National- High Violet (Discovered these guys rather recently, a fantastic dark ride)
Massive Attack-Heligoland (This album has really divided the fans, which is why I loved it! On constant rotation at home!)
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs (Not as epic, a lot more intimate...still a rather beautiful piece of work)
Muse- The Resistance (Mad & rather self indulgent, but that's what makes it!)
Autechre- Oversteps (Cold, deep & rather effective...a return to form?)
Daft Punk- Tron:Legacy OST (Pretty damn nice work, wish it had a bit more electronic madness but still up there!)

After reading everyone's lists it seems I missed out on quite a bit!!!! I have some catching up to do!]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=277005#Comment_277005 2011-01-04T08:51:17-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Sonny http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1167 Kristoff Krane - "Hunting For Father" (strongly suggest supporting this dude and this album, unbelievable record start to finish) El-P - ... El-P - "Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxxx3"
Glitch Mob - "Glitch Mob"
Trampled By Turtles - "Palomino"
Lazerbeak - "Legend Recognize Legend"
Scott Lucas and the Married Men - "George Lassos the Moon"
Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma"
Gorillaz - "Plastic Beach"
The Hold Steady - "Heaven Is Whenever"
The Roots - "How I Got Over"
Four Tet - "There Is Love In You"
Gil Scott-Heron - "I'm New Here"

I'm sure I'm forgetting several of my fav's of 2010.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=277025#Comment_277025 2011-01-04T11:15:20-08:00 2011-01-04T11:17:07-08:00 m3t4lfi3nd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4774 I just gotta say, if this isn't one of the most beautiful and well put together compilations of atmospheric, diverse, tranquil and fantastic neo-folk recordings ever then I don't know what is. It's ...

I just gotta say, if this isn't one of the most beautiful and well put together compilations of atmospheric, diverse, tranquil and fantastic neo-folk recordings ever then I don't know what is. It's just simply, wonderful. And deserves mention in the best of 2010!

http://shop.prophecy-productions.de/product_info.php?language=en&info=p1147_V-A---Whom-the-Moon-a-Nightsong-sings--Gatefold-2LP-.html]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=277038#Comment_277038 2011-01-04T12:31:30-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 jonah http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6503 @Ryan Burton That song was the best thing about true blood, but I didn't know who the performer was. I'll have to check out the album later.Thanks. Stream: Bangs and Works Vol. 1, A Chicago ...
Stream: Bangs and Works Vol. 1, A Chicago Footwork Compilation. The dance sound of the decade. It's nice to have a good mix in one place and lots of great tracks I've never heard before. Or as they say a "Document". It stinks that the most ripped off aspect of the sound is the skittering beats.There is so much more going on. You can hear It's Gonna Rain, Oval, Miami Bass, Illbient(haha, what) and more. The polyrhythms! Or the omnivorous, non-ironic sampling. The aggressive sampling as a tool to reclaim the audio we are bombarded with goes way beyond the mashup. It's all very exciting conceptually. Most importantly I can crank it up and dance like Ian Curtis.

Mark Fell - Multistability most psychedelic listening experience. His UL8 album had a better last 1/3rd though.

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh. There were just so many good opportunities to play to this.

Individual tracks: Crystal Castles - I am made of chalk. I kept coming back to this song. Whenever I listened to it I felt regret for all the stupid things I've done. Pretty cool. The rest of the album did nothing for me. K'naan - Wavin' Flag. Uhh, wait, did this get released this year? Well, I heard it this year and it makes me feel great and brain damaged, so I hope it did.

Just listened to My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na, nice. I'm gonna search the thread now specifically for more metal and generally for awesomeness. I couldn't find the time to keep up this year or even really know where to look anymore. Playing two Deathspell Omega tracks at once sounds great right now.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=277111#Comment_277111 2011-01-05T00:16:19-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 oR.hal http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3404 Grinderman - Grinderman 2 The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards Massive Attack - Heligoland Deftones - Diamond Eyes Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell - Hawk Shearwater - Golden Archipelago Agnes ... The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell - Hawk
Shearwater - Golden Archipelago
Agnes Obel - Philarmonics]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=277125#Comment_277125 2011-01-05T02:54:14-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 keyofsilence http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7294 My girlfriend bought me Olafur Arnalds' latest album ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness for Christmas. Very beautiful. ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness for Christmas. Very beautiful.

]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=277452#Comment_277452 2011-01-06T20:06:43-08:00 2011-01-06T20:07:11-08:00 Flup http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2401 Goes something like Gil Scott Heron - I'm new here Melodica Deathship - Doom your cities, Doom your towns Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma Ratatat - LP4 The Black Dog - Music for real ...
Gil Scott Heron - I'm new here

Melodica Deathship - Doom your cities, Doom your towns

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Ratatat - LP4

The Black Dog - Music for real airports

Professor Elemental - The Indifference Engine

The Cujo Family - The Cujo Family

Electric Wizard - Black Masses

Crookers - Tons of friends (if only for we love animals)

Anodyne - Corrosion

B12 - Last days of silence

Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent

Holy Fuck - Latin

Dinky - Musica Libre

Susumu Yokota - Kaleidoscope

I'm forgetting some and I found more interesting stuff this year from previous years that doesn't fit in a 2010 thread.]]> Best Albums of 2010 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=9251&Focus=281876#Comment_281876 2011-02-04T20:04:20-08:00 2013-05-18T14:08:51-07:00 Metronome http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9830 Foxy Shazzam - Foxy Shazzam Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens The Way Out - The Books Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
The Way Out - The Books]]>