Average Rating: 3.98 Rating Variance: 0.52 Objectivity Score: 59% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicLCD Soundsystem Sound of Silveryeah, like reading a hundred characters will somehow enlighten you.Spoon Kill the MoonlightSpoon's masterpiece. never shall they match it.Television Marquee Moonwhere garage rock was born. you can hear them everywhere.The Antlers Hospicethe ultimate opus on grief and alienation. that's underselling it, by the way - don't dismiss it as a 'concept album', every piece of it has two legs to stand on.The National High Violetright when I thought that 'achingly beautiful' was a pointless cliche'The Walkmen Bows + Arrowsif you want to know how I'm feeling as a human being right now, listen to this record a bunch of times.Wire Chairs MissingSpoon's forefathers. the first track alone sells it.4.5 superbAnimal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilionyou can't really argue with this one. not a classic, because it's too happy-go-lucky without relent. but it's awesome.Arcade Fire FuneralI don't give it a 5 because I prefer emotions recollected in tranquility.Arcade Fire Neon Bibledark, sensual, world-weary. it's frustrating to know that they will never go down this path again. Bloc Party Silent Alarmthe only album we should take out of the 2004/05 british invasion. too bad they lost their steam so quickly.Bon Iver For Emma, Forever AgoI don't know whether this record appeals more to the emotions or to the senses. a bit of both, I guess. Cass McCombs Wit's EndClap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeahderivative and referential? I don't care, and at the time, I didn't even know.Cut Copy Zonoscopefor what it purports to be, it is basically perfect: in the bigger picture, it's awesome.Fleet Foxes Helplessness BluesInterpol Interpol EPit's got Specialist. I don't think I need to say more.Interpol Turn on the Bright Lightsthis magic will never happen again. don't drive at night to this.LCD Soundsystem This Is Happeningeach track streamrolls without mercy from beginning to end. dance-y and cerebral in equal proportions.of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?nothing comes close to how amazingly inventive and twisted this record is.Panda Bear Person Pitchone of those records that exists in a time and place of its own. Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Gaanother one of those records you can't fuck with. and I'm not. it's awesome. Don't You Evah is a dizzying high.Spoon Gimme Fictionmuscular, classical, simultaneously rough and polished, mysterious.The National Boxerits unaffectedness proved its demise.. by demise I mean, not being an honest-to-God classic.The Shins Chutes Too Narrowseveral songs that will change your.. attitude towards 60s-leaning indie pop. and its power to emote.The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is GoneBows + Arrows's timid and passive-aggressive little brother.The Walkmen You & Methis is what it sounds like when you're with the one you love but, for some reason, you still miss them. The xx xxoozing style. and lust. and whatever you want, really. immersive atmospheres.U2 WarU2 have always reached for the stars.. here at their most unapologetic, and lovelorn, too4.0 excellentAnimal Collective Feelssome songs give incredible highs: they've coined a language of their own. One wishes there were more peaks, though.Arcade Fire The Suburbs...and there's where the moralizing starts to get cloyingCut Copy In Ghost Colourssongs to pretend like the dancefloor is one big family.Deerhunter Microcastlepowerful, sprawling, etc. but mostly very streamlined. Little Kids is amazing if only because of its great sounds.Deerhunter Halcyon Digestuneven. some songs are epic, some are forgettable. more rock and less ambient. it speaks of stagnation, secludedness, invented memories.Deerhunter CryptogramsSpring Hall Convert is one of the best songs of the decade. the rest is good, although the first half gets tedious.Girls Broken Dreams Clubmore cohesive than their proper album and Carolina is their best song yetGirls Albumone of those records that seem set on inventing an imagery totally of their own. but it needs to make up its mind as to what it wants to be.Interpol Interpolunjustly panned by critics, it is solid and it rewards repeated listens.My Morning Jacket Zbeautiful.. giddy, eclectic, perfectly balanced between experimentation and accessiblity.No Age Nounssome of the sounds here blew my mind, but they haven't managed to sound compelling yet.Real Estate Real Estatelaid-back, pastoral, dreamy, but with an implicit sneer at the inertia of the characters it portrays.Spoon Transferencedifficult to place. some uncomfortably dull spots interspersed with some of their most exhilarating songwriting yet.The Magnetic Fields Distortiontwisted tales of love and sexual perversion.. drenched in static, some work needed to retrieve the timeless beauty of these songs.The National Alligatortheir scruffiest work.. the last we saw of their sardonic male chovinism until they eventually grew up (in a good way).The National Sad Songs for Dirty Loversrelatable, in touch with the human condition.. with some obnoxiousness we could all do without.The Shins Wincing the Night Awaythere's beauty here, but oddly enough it's beauty you can't bring yourself to care about.The Shins Oh, Inverted Worldit sports several songs that are better than the song that will 'change your life', so it's gotta be pretty good.. right..Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekenda solid, promising debut with innumerable good ideas and a wicked attitude.Vampire Weekend Contraanother helping of their globalised, eclectic, postmodern pop with the costumary improvement on the production. better than their debut.Weird Dreams Choreography3.5 greatAnimal Collective Strawberry Jamit has lots of good ideas, but they don't coalesce.Beach Fossils Beach Fossilsit really succeeds in being what it wants to be. meaningless fun.Neon Indian Psychic Chasmsyeah, it is well crafted and executed but.. it is utterly meaningless.Spoon Girls Can Tellloungy, sexy, yeah.. yeah.. um.. Everything Hits At Once is great. the rest is enjoyable.Spoon Love Waysthe first instance of the real 'Spoon sound'. Change My Life might be among the 10 best songs they've written.Spoon Soft Effects EPenjoyable rock overflowing with hooks. recommended if you like Weezer. and I don't even mean that as an insult.The Magnetic Fields Realismits maligned prettiness and ornateness emanates a faint scent of death. or maybe I'm just weird. The Walkmen LisbonI'm on the fence about this. maybe because it's too uncomplicated and happy? I like my Leithauser perturbed and heartbroken.Wooden Shjips Wooden ShjipsI can't for the life of me tell you whether you will find this record exhilarating or mind-numbingly boring.3.0 goodAdam Green GemstonesI wonder if I find it funny simply because english isn't my first language.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunderisn't as bad as people say it is. but it is a major step down.Interpol Our Love to Admirethey explored a bit here, but it sounds clunky, and he sounds like a douchebag.Peter Bjorn and John Gimme Someprecious few good ideas.. I'm afraid we've lost them.Spoon Series of Sneakssloppy fun. some kickass songs in here, but mostly they didn't really try all that hard.The Antlers Burst ApartYeasayer Odd Bloodit's simple.. nine songs are god-awful, ONE is the best song of 2010. the rating was some kind of a compromise.2.5 averageEzra Furman The Year Of No ReturningMy Morning Jacket Evil Urgesdon't get me started. ugh. one of my biggest disappointments ever.2.0 poorThe Fratellis Costello Musicsomeone said they're like marmite. you either hate them or love them. and, everybody from outside of the UK hates them. I don't care for them.1.5 very poorSpoon Got Nuffinbewildering marketing decision. I would fire whoever was in charge of releasing this.
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