Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Best of 2010 - part 2

Yesterday I posted my favorites ambient releases of 2010. Today it's a few other year end lists.

I spend most of my time listening to ambient/electronic music but enough"normal" music sneaks in there that I thought I'd do a top ten list for pop albums. I'll also list a few recordings that don't fit into either ambient or pop.

First up, my top ten pop albums:

  • 1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - the vs. ep
  • 2. Efterklang - magic chairs
  • 3. Vampire Weekend - Contra
  • 4. Ra Ra Riot - Orchard
  • 5. lost in the trees - all alone in an empty house
  • 6. Neil Young - Le Noise
  • 7. The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra
  • 8. Sun Kil Moon - admiral fell promises
  • 9. Horse Feathers - thistled spring
  • 10. Matt & Kim - sidewalks
  • 11. Damien Jurado - saint bartlett
  • 12. Black Dub - black dub

Some favorite single pop songs from 2010:
  • 1. Paul Simon - Getting Ready for Christmas Day
  • 2. Kanye West - Power
  • 3. Janelle MonĂ¡e - Tightrope
  • 4. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
  • 5. Damien Jurado - Cloudy Shoes
  • 6. Matisyahu - One Day
  • 7. New Pornographers - Crash Years
  • 8. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More & Winter Winds
  • 9. Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme
  • 10. Peter Gabriel - Flume
  • 11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Life is Cinema

Some other favorites recordings that didn't fit into pop or ambient categories:

  • Steve Reich - double sextet 2x5 [Nonesuch]
  • Michael Daugherty - metropolis symphony & deus ex machina [Naxos]
  • Max Richter - infra [fat cat]
  • Maya Beiser - provenance [innova]
  • Dakota Suite -vallisa [glitterhouse]
  • Steve Tibbetts - natural causes [ecm]
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