Chad’s Top 10 Releases of 2010

Here are some of my favourite albums I have played to death and were released in 2010.

In no particular order:

Parades - Foreign Tapes

Jónsi - Go

The Naked & Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You

Four Tet - There Is Love In You

My Epic - Yet

The Rocket Summer - Of Men And Angels

Balmorhea - Consellations

Butterfly Explosion - Lost Trails

Futures - The Holiday (EP)

Fitz & The Tantrums - Pickin’ Up The Pieces

Honourable Mention goes out to:
Kanye West
- My Beatiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The National
- High Violet
Blue King Brown
- Worldwize
The Frozen Ocean
- In Exile
The Jury & The Saints
- As Alien & Stranger

Album everyone seemed to love, except for me:
Best Coast - Crazy For You

2009 Releases I loved but didn’t do a post about last year:
1. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
2. 30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War
3. The Temper Trap - Conditions
4. Alex & Jonsi - Riceboy Sleeps
5. Daybreak - Sleep Well Tonight My Brothers (EP)
6. Decoder Ring - They Blind The Stars & The Wild Team
7. Florence + The Machine - Lungs
8. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
9. Strike Anywhere - Iron Front
10. The Sundance Kids - Fall Into Place
11. Jonathan Boulet - Jonathan Boulet
12. Passion Pit - Manners