Collaborators' Top Albums List - 2010

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Yay! my votes made #10 and 59. I should really try to keep up this year.

A truly fabelous job, Alex (Harmonium) !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

By any chance; is your t-shirt size L and do you like the band Izz ?????? I have a t-shirt by them which is at least ten slimming diets too small for me. Just a sign of my appreciation......

And in any case you think I am "buttering" him up; two of my top ten made it into the list.... Nurse, more butter. Nurse !!! 

1. Periphery - Periphery

2. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke

3. Cloudkicker - Beacons

4. The Ocean - Anthropocentric

5. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

6. TesseracT - Concealing Fate EP

7. East of the Wall - Ressentiment

8. Kayo Dot - Stained Glass

9. Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality

10. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis

1/10 for me... I guess I must have missed out on the avant and jazz craze.  Iridule probably would have made my list if I had acquired it before the deadline.

Man, Coyote really hit hard this year.  I've tried that album again and again and it still hasn't quite hit me as being as good as everyone claims it to be.  That being said I liked Stained Glass a ton.

An alright year as far as metal releases go, but it pales in comparison to 2009 and then even the releases lined up for 2011.

Well I got 3 out of the top 10, which is at least two more than other years

Edited by Sean Trane - February 23 2011 at 08:00

Fantastic work Alex, glad to see Kayo Dot nabbed no. 3. Now I finally have an excuse to grab Clivages!

CCVP wrote: the only real surprise on that list was Agalloch. That album isn't remotely near good. It is nothing but a shadow of the band's past releases, quality-wise.

Cool, I agree with my buddy Caio on this one!
Does that mean I will soon come to like Haken as well now?

CCVP wrote: the only real surprise on that list was Agalloch. That album isn't remotely near good. It is nothing but a shadow of the band's past releases, quality-wise. But you know what they say: hipsters gonna hipster, lol.

Yeah MotS is easily, very very easily, their worst album. And not "worst" in an "It's only a 4.5/5" way. it is completely mediocre except for one song and the last few minutes of the album.

Black metal is terrible, and the more any band drifts to that, the more mediocre they will be.

CCVP wrote: LOL, stoney quote fail.

:(


Edited by stonebeard - February 22 2011 at 20:36

harmonium.ro wrote: CCVP wrote: wow, excepting Haken's album, every other I mentioned or would mention would be 45th of below. Well don't keep the goodies just for yourself, always keep some youtube links in your pocket, just in case!

OK. Some other albums I would point out are:

Gazpacho - Night @ Loreley (live, so doesn't count)
Cripled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
Quantum Fantay - Bridges of Kukuriku
Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (exception)

Not enough for a top 10, but anyway.

Not many highlights for my taste this year and some albums I lost interest over time, like Alcest's and KD's: I loved those at first sight, but with time I lost interest and they slipped out of my top list. We had many good albums regardless of tastes, but few really remarkable or memorable IMO (for my taste).

the only real surprise on that list was Agalloch. That album isn't remotely near good. It is nothing but a shadow of the band's past releases, quality-wise. But you know what they say: hipsters gonna hipster, lol.


Edited by CCVP - February 22 2011 at 20:19

Splendid work, Alex!!!


I haven't been voting this year because I listened only to a handful of 2010 albums - it's never too late to discover music that is either 40 years or 1 year old. I was pleasantly surprised with 'Coyote', Coheed & Cambria's 'Year Of The Black Rainbow' and Ciccada's debut,  while the new Pure Reason Revolution and PFM were huge let-downs, and David Byrne & Fatboy Slim was pure atrocity.


Now I'm really curious to check Top 10 - hell, I was too lazy to check the new Moon Safari   (and 2009's album was very good).