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The Best Rock Albums of 2010

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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Best of Rock
(Read the reviews)

    8.5/10
  1. Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me (Drag City)
    8/10
  2. Janelle Monae: The ArchAndroid (Bad Boy)
    7.5/10
  3. David First: Privacy Issues (XI)
  4. Dalek: Untitled (Latitudes)
  5. Soft Moon: The Soft Moon (Captured Track)
  6. Sarah June: In Black Robes (Silber)
  7. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella)
  8. Mi Ami: Steal Your Face (Thrill Jockey)
  9. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor (XL)
  10. Salem: King Night (IAmSound)
  11. These New Puritans: Hidden (Domino)
    7/10
  12. Gnaw Their Tongues: L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante (Burning World)
  13. Date Palms: Of Psalms (Thrill Jockey)
  14. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot (Purple Ribbon )
  15. Owen Pallett: Heartland (Domino)
  16. Solo Andata: Ritual (Desire Path)
  17. Natural Snow Buildings: The Centauri Agent (Vulpiano)
  18. Hail Architeuthis: Herald The Harbinger Of Impending Acoustics (Auris Apothecary)
  19. Magic Lantern: Platoon (Not Not Fun)
  20. Sleigh Bells: Treats (NEET)
  21. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest (4AD)
  22. Maquiladora: Wirikuta (Lotus House)
  23. The Body: All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (At A Loss)
  24. How to Dress Well : Love remains (Lefse)
  25. Bosse De Nage: Bosse De Nage (Flenser)
  26. Motion Sickness Of Time Travel: Seeping Through The Veil Of The Unconscious (Digitalis)

EPs:

7.5/10
Cave: Pure Moods (Drag City)
Gultskra Artikler: Qwerty (Mille Plateaux)
7/10
Keith Fullerton Whitman: Disingenuity/ Disingenuousness (Pan)
Murmuure: Murmuure (Cold Void Emanations)
Psychedelic Horseshit: Acid Tape (Fan Death)
Purling Hiss: Hissteria (2010) (EP)
Pop 1280: The Grid (Sacred Bones)
Demdike Stare: Liberation Through Hearing (Modern Love)
Playlist
(play these songs)
  1. Sleigh Bells: Straight A's
  2. Soft Moon: Breathe The Fire
  3. Glasser: Mirrorage
  4. Kanye West: Power
  5. Titus Andronicus: Titus Andronicus Forever
  6. Joanna Newsom: Good Intentions Paving Company
  7. Pop. 1280: The Grid
  8. Mi Ami: Latin Lover
  9. Psychedelic Horseshit: Tired Bluez
  10. Janelle Monae: Come Alive
  11. Titus Andronicus: Richard II
  12. How to Dress Well: Walking This Dumb
  13. Janelle Monae: Faster
  14. Arcade Fire: Month of May
  15. M.I.A.: XXX0
  16. Soft Moon: Circles
  17. Florence and the Machine: Dog Days Are Over
  18. Kanye West: Gorgeous
  19. Aloha: Searchlight
  20. Sarah June: From My Window High
  21. Katy Perry: E.T.
  22. Beach House: Used To Be
  23. Ariel Pink: Revolution's A Lie
  24. Soft Moon: Sewer Sickness
  25. Sleigh Bells: Kids
  26. Zola Jesus: Tower
  27. Owen Pallett: E Is for Estranged
  28. Mi Ami: Native American
  29. Mass Shivers: Languid Liquid
  30. Gogol Bordello: Last One Goes The Hope
  31. Irata: Infinite Eight
  32. Vampire Weekend: White Sky
  33. Alcest: Percees De LumiŠre
  34. Salem: Frost
  35. Black Keys: Too Afraid To Love You
  36. Soft Moon: Out Of Time
  37. Aloha: Blackout
  38. Deerhunter: Memory Boy
  39. Villagers: I Saw The Dead
  40. M.I.A.: Teqkilla
  41. Careful: New Life
  42. Gogol Bordello: My Companjera
  43. Owen Pallett: Keep the Dog Quiet
  44. Soft Moon: Parallels
  45. Ariel Pink: Butt House Blondies
  46. Grinderman: Worm Tamer
  47. Marnie Stern: Building A Body
  48. How to Dress Well: Ready For The World
  49. Gold Panda: Vanilla Minus

Extended tracks
(play this music)
  1. Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me
  2. Dalek: Untitled
  3. Natural Snow Buildings: Our Man From Centauri
  4. Solo Andata: Carving
  5. David First: Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis
  6. Titus Andronicus: The Battle Of Hampton Roads
  7. Purling Hiss: Down On The Delaware River
  8. Gultskra Artikler: Qwerty
  9. Magic Lantern: Friendship
  10. Mark McGuire: Wandering Memory
  11. Maquiladora: (Don't) Eat The Past (Don't) Eat The Fear
  12. Zs: Black Crown Ceremony
  13. Joanna Newsom: Baby Birch
  14. Demdike Stare: The Stars Are Moving
  15. Motion Sickness Of Time Travel: Telepathy
  16. Robert Poss: Tourniquet Revisited
  17. Dimitri Voudouris: A Alpha Theta= Phi
  18. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Disingenuity
  19. Titus Andronicus: Four Score And Seven
  20. Demdike Stare: Dawn
  21. Sufjan Stevens: All Delighted People
  22. Mi Ami: Slow
  23. Cave: Teenager
  24. Khalija: Khalija Part II
  25. Date Palms: Psalm 3
  26. Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here?
  27. Sufjan Stevens: Impossible Soul
  28. Fun Years: Get Out Of The Obese Crowd
  29. Titus Andronicus: A Pot In Which To Piss
  30. Erykah Badu: Out My Mind Just In Time
  31. Four Tet: This Unfolds
  32. Roska: Messages
  33. Sun Araw: Holodeck Blues
  34. The Body: Lathspell I Name You
  35. Barn Owl: Condensation
  36. Gnaw Their Tongues: L'arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante
Jazz
  1. Rova & Nels Cline Singers: The Celestial Septet (New World)
  2. Matthew Shipp: 4D
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound
  4. Vijay Iyer: Solo
  5. Nels Cline: Initiate

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