LPs 2010

Mark’s Lp’s of 2010 - Unfinished, but never going to get finished now!

1. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz. At first listen you wonder if Sufjan has totally lost the plot as the abstract electronic beats dominate.  The second listen finds the pop hooks deep in your mind.  By the third it all falls together and you mind explodes.  One of the finest lp’s I’ve ever heard.  Only Wilco’s - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has made this kind of impression in such a short time in the last 15 years.
2.  Fang Island - Fang Island.  An album of National Anthems.  Happy Mogwai (thank-you James).  Kind of joyous, happy, chanty punk.  Just a few of the ways I’ve tried to describe this lp to friends this year.  Whatever it is, nothing has put a bigger smile on my face this year.  Nothing sounds quite like Fang Island.
3. The National - High Violet.
4. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest. 
5. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner. 
6. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today.  
7. Chemical Brothers - Further.  Exactly what Tom and Ed should sound like in 2010.  A nuclear powered, psychedelic trip to places only previously attempted by My Bloody Valentine.
8. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor.  Only got on this late in the year.  A heavy cross between Bruce Springsteen and Bright Eyes.  Themed around the US Civil War and full of historical references but don’t let that take away from the musical brilliance.
9. Neil Young - Le Noise.
10. Robyn - Body Talk.
11. No Age - Everything In Between
12. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
13. Foals - Total Life Forever
14. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
15. Caribou - Swim
16. Stornoway - Beachcomber’s Windowsill
17. Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
18. Gayngs - Relayted
19. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
20. MGMT - Congratulations