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♫ Favorite Albums of 2010 (so far) ♫

Posted on September 3, 2010 | 1 comment

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a music post so I decided to make a top 10 list of my favorite albums of the year so far. Narrowing it down was pretty challenging but I think I’ve finally done it! I was surprised (and delighted) to see that half of them are from artists that I’ve been listening to for years.

So here they are in no particular order with a little sample song from each.

AuTOLUX

Transit Transit

“Census”

MI AMI

Steal Your Face

“Latin Lover”

Tame Impala

Innerspeaker

“Solitude is Bliss”

LCD Soundsystem

This is Happening

“Dance Yrself Clean”

Arcade fire

The Suburbs

“Ready to Start”

The Foals

Total Life Forever

“Miami”

Broken Social scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

“Texico Bitches”

Tobacco

Maniac Meat

“Heavy Makeup”

K-X-P

“18 Hours (of love)”

sleigh bells

Treats

“Infinity Guitars”

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Spanish Sahara

Posted on March 6, 2010 | 1 comment

The Foals album, Antidotes, was one of my favorite albums of 2008. I’ve been anxiously awaiting their next album, Total Life Forever, which is scheduled to drop in the U.S. on May 11th so I was pretty stoked to run into this video for a new song, Spanish Sahara. I was surprised by how different it is from the dance-punk rhythms of earlier songs but not at all surprised by how much it tickled the pleasure center of my brain. The video itself is a little creepy but gorgeous and mesmerizing (as is singer Yannis Philippakis and his big brown eyes). Oh and the expansive winter landscapes completely reminded me of a Dan McCarthy painting.. like this one minus the dinosaur.

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Top Albums of 2008

Posted on February 15, 2009 | 4 comments

Because I didn’t have this blog at the end of last year, I thought I’d post a list of my favorite albums of 2008. I would probably rearrange the order and swap some out with other albums now, but I’ll post them as I did at the end of December.

#20 Port O’Brien – All We Could Do Was Sing