2010: The Year In Review - Honourable Mentions

Slowly but surely, we're getting there. Below is the honourable mentions list. Okay, so I know you'll all be thinking "he's over cooked it". However, as I've stated in previous posts; this year has been that damn good, that I just feel compelled to name so much because quite simply, it's all taken my fancy in a big way at one stage or another. These albums are in no particular order:

Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
Label: Rough Trade
Release Date: February 8th

Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
Label: Columbia
Release Date: September 20th

Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
Label: 4AD
Release Date: September 13th

Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
Label: Hyrda Head
Release Date: May 10th

Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Label: Sub Pop
Release Date: June 29th

Highspire - Aquatic
Label: Reverse Reverb
Release Date: May 10th 

Citay - Dream Get Together
Label: Drag City
Release Date: January 26th

Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Label: Caldo Verde Records
Release Date: July 13th

Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Label: Reprise
Release Date: May 4th

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Label: Warp
Release Date: May 4th

Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Label: Arts & Crafts
Release Date: May 4th

A Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
Label: Constellation
Release Date: February 16th

Scbool of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
Label: Vagrant Records
Release Date: July 13th

Growing - Pumps
Label: Vice Records
Release Date: April 6th

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Label: Vagarant Records
Release Date: March 8th

65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Label: Hassle Records
Release Date: April 26th

Superchunk - Majesty Shredding 
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: September 14th

Yellow Swans - Going Places
Label: Type Records
Release Date: March 1st

Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Label: Brown Records/Fat Possum
Release Date: May 18th

!!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
Label: Warp
Release Date: August 24th

Beach House - Teen Dream
Label: Sub Pop
Release Date: January 26th

Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Label: Rise Above Records
Release Date: November 1st

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest 
Label: 4AD
Release Date: September 28th

Holy Sons - Survivalist Tales
Label: Partisan Records
Release Date: October 12th

Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
Label: Jagjaguwar
Release Date: September 14th

Windsor For the Derby - Against Love
Label: Secretly Canadian
Release Date: June 6th











Words by Simon K.