Top 10 Albums - 2010

10. Beach House Teen Dream

9. Four Tet There Is Love In You

8. Gold Panda Lucky Shiner

7. Foals Total Life Forever

6. Lcd Soundsystem This is Happening

5. The National High Violet

4. Mount Kimbie Crooks & Lovers

3. Caribou Swim

2. Villagers Becoming a Jackal

1. Arcade Fire The Suburbs

Thank You!

Caribou, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Fever Ray, Janelle Monáe, Hot Chip (both times), Reneck Manifesto, Jape, Four Tet, R.S.A.G., Villagers (both times), Dirty Projectors, Wild Beasts, Efterklang, Tunng, Donal Dineen and friends, NSO, Channel One, Greg Wilson, Gold Panda, Pantha du Prince, Yeasayer, Kele, Armand Van Helden, Friendly Fires, Two Door Cinema Club, Foals, Girls.

Now that's what I call a summer, 2010.

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Snippets from the National's new album

The National have started to release new material from the album High Violet, which will be released officially in May.
Here you will find a link to Bloodbuzz Ohio, which has elements of the tenderer story telling side of Boxer, with lead vocal Matt Berninger's voice offering a reminder of why he enchanted us all on that soon-to-be-considered-classic album.





Below we see the more aggressive, upbeat side of the National's style, with a belting inaugural rendition of Terrible Love on the Jimmy Fallon Show recently



It even has elements of this storming post-rock anthem towards the end....