My Top 25 Albums of 2010

ArtistDeerhunter
AlbumHalcyon Digest
Track“Desire Lines”

ArtistTame Impala
AlbumInnerspeaker
Track“Vital Signs”

ArtistNew Mexico (formally Apes of Wrath)
AlbumHave You Met My Friend?
Track“Abused and Amused”

ArtistTy Segall
AlbumMelted
Track: “Imaginary Person”

ArtistLower Dens
AlbumTwin Hand Movement
Track“A Dog’s Dick”

ArtistFuture Islands
AlbumIn the Evening Air
Track“As I Fall”

ArtistThe Radio Dept.
AlbumClinging to a Scheme
Track: “This Time Around”

Artist: Woods
Album: At Echo Lake
Track: “Blood Dries Quicker”


Artist: Mount Kimbie
AlbumCrooks & Lovers
Track: “Blind Night Errand”

ArtistSea of Bees
AlbumSongs for the Raven
Track: “Marmalade

ArtistSonny & The Sunsets
AlbumTomorrow is Alright
Track“Lovin’ on an Older Gal”

ArtistTamaryn
AlbumThe Waves
Track: “Mild Confusion”

ArtistSun Airway
AlbumNocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier
Featured TracksPut the Days Away”

Artist: J. Irvin Dally
Album: Despistado
Track:  “The Little Ones”

Artist: Royal Baths
AlbumLitanies
Track: “Nikki Don’t”

Artist: The Dig
Album: Electric Toys
Track: “You’re Already Gone


Artist: Phantogram
Album: Eyelid Movies
Track“When I’m Small”


Artist: Caribou
Album: Swim
Track: “Sun


Artist: Local Natives
Album: Gorilla Manor
Track“Sun Hands”


Artist: Twin Tigers
Album: Gray Waves
Track“Everyday


Artist: The National
Album: High Violet
Track“Afraid of Everyone”


Artist: The Black Keys
AlbumBrothers

Artist: The Black Ryder
AlbumBuy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Track: “Gone Without Feeling

ArtistWarpaint
AlbumThe Fool
Track: “Undertow

ArtistGeographer
AlbumAnimal Shapes
Track: “Original Sin”

The OCMD: Best Albums of 2009


Alberta CrossBroken Side of Time
“Rise from the Shadows”

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Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
“Ready Able”

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“Scantron”


Ty SegallLemons
“It #1″


Atlas Sound Logos
“Quick Canal”


Flaming Lips – Embryonic
The Ego’s Last Stand”

Woods – Songs of Shame
Rain On”

Bear In HeavenBeast Rest Forth Mouth
You Do You

Amazing Baby Rewild
“The Narwhal”

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Band of Skulls – Baby Darlin Doll Face Honey
“Death by Diamonds and Pearls” 

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Cymbals Eat GuitarsWhy There Are Mountains
“And The Hazy Sea”

The XX – The XX
Crystalised

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“Gimme”

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“Lust for Life”

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Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
“The Prowl”

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Fever Ray – Fever Ray
“If I Had A Heart”

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Foreign Born – Person to Person
“Vacationing People

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J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory Blues
“First Born”

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Leopold and His Fiction – Ain’t No Surprise
“Broke”

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Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
“Future Primitive”

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Speck Mountain – Some Sweet Relief
“I Feel Eternal

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Shadows on a River – Shadows on a River
“In Business

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The Veils – Sun Gangs
“The Letter”

The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
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Jeff the Brotherhood – Heavy Days
“U Got The Look

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“Blew It Again”