2010 was quite a year. It saw graduations, festivals, a move from Athens to Barcelona, the discovery of a new city, a slight, um, slowing down of our blog activity, a World Cup, many flights (17 for me), three festivals and a lot of great music. So, without further ado, we present to you:
So, how did we compile this rather fantastic list, you ask? Easy, we consulted our trusty last.fm profiles (see the bottom of this page for our individual profiles). We then each chose our top 25 and added it to the following list.
(in alphabetical order) p.s. fixed the links that didn’t work yesterday
- Allo Darlin’ – Kiss Your Lips (also: Dreaming, If Loneliness Was Art)
- Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (also: Rococo, The Suburbs)
- Beach House – Take Care
- Belle and Sebastian – I Didn’t See It Coming
- Big Boi – Fo Yo Sorrows
- Broken Social Scene – Texico Bitches
- Caribou – Odessa
- Cloud Nothings – Strummin
- Club 8 – Isn’t That Great (also: Shape Up!, Western Hospitality)
- Coma Cinema – Sucker Punch
- Coolrunnings – Mental Illness
- Crystal Castles – Doe Deer (also: Not in Love)
- Darren Hanlon – All These Things
- Delorean – Stay Close
- Efterklang – Natural Tune (also: Modern Drift, I Was Playing Drums)
- Emeralds – Candy Shoppe
- Gigi – Alone at the Pier (with Rose Melberg)
- Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
- Harlem – Someday Soon
- Hot Chip – Take It In
- Japanther – Surfin’ Coffin
- Lali Puna – Rest Your Head (also: Remember)
- Les Savy Fav – Let’s get out of here
- Male Bonding – Year’s Not Long
- The Magnetic Fields – You Must Be Out Of Your Mind
- Nana Grizol – Cynicism
- Of Montreal – Coquet Coquette
- Paperfangs – The Fastest Planes
- Perfume Genius – Learning (also: Look Out Look Out, Mr. Peterson)
- Reading Rainbow – Wasting Time
- Robyn – Dancing on My Own
- Salem – King Night
- Small Black – Despicable Dogs
- Stars – Fixed
- Teenage Fanclub – Baby Lee
- Tennis – Marathon
- The Almighty Defenders – Bow Down and Die
- The Drums – Down By the Water (also: Best Friend)
- The Felt Tips – Dear Morrissey
- The Just Joans – Stuart had a dirty book
- The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
- Tamaryn – Love Fade
- These New Puritans – Drum Courts/Where Corals Lie (also: the whole album)
- Trembling Blue Stars – No More Sad Songs (also: the whole album)
- Tunng – Weekend Away
- Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
- Wavves – Post-Acid
- Kanye West – Lost In The World (feat. Bon Iver)
- Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday (also: Golden Haze, Live in Dreams)
- Woods – Til the Sun Rips
If you have Spotify, you can listen to (most of) these songs here!
Best of: Local (Spanish & Catalan songs of 2010)
Best of: covers
We loved the awesome cover album “Wish I’d Kept a Scrapbook: A Tribute to Tullycraft” (The Smittens – Sweet (Tullycraft Cover) / Math And Physics Club – Superboy & Supergirl (Tullycraft Cover))
We also liked:
- The Good Natured – For the Widows in Paradise (Sufjan Stevens cover)
- Mates of State – Laura (Girls cover)
- Grizzly Bear – Boy From School (Hot Chip cover)
And finally, a big shout out and truckloads of virtual love for the people behind Primavera Sound/Club for making our lives that much more fun!
Happy New Year, everyone!!!
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