Today I start counting down the top albums of 2010. There were a lot of good ones to choose from, but these are the very best!
25.
Laura Marling
I Speak Because I Can
Here For: "Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)"
Stay For: "Devil's Spoke," "Rambling Man," "I Speak Because I Can"
This 20 year old sounds like a seasoned vet on here second studio album. Folk legend in the making.
24.
Ugly Casanova
180 South Soundtrack
Here For: "Machines"
Stay For: "Spring Wind," "Here's to Now," "Lay Me Down," "Coconut Flakes"
Isaac Brock resurrects Ugly Casanova, and brings in friends James Mercer (on 2 tracks), Jack Johnson ("Spring Wind"), Mason Jennings ("Machines") and Love as Laughter ("Coconut Flakes"), to record the album to the wonderful documentary
180 South.
23.
Diamond Rings
Special Affections
Here For: "You & Me"
Stay For: "Wait & See," "Pre-Owned Heart," "You Oughta Know"
Lady Gaga's illegitimate son? Sure sounds like it on John O'Regan's electro pop masterpiece
Special Affections.
22.
MGMT
Congratulations
Here For: "Siberian Breaks"
Stay For: "Flash Delirium," "It's Working," "I Found a Whistle"
The boys from MGMT broke all the rules for the sophomore album as they completely through out everything that worked on their debut. The result? The greatest collection of acid-rock this decade has seen.
21.
Twin Shadow
Forget
Here For: "Slow"
Stay For: "Castles In the Snow," "Shooting Holes," "Forget"
George Lewis Jr. owes a lot to the 1980s on this album that sounds like it was lifted straight out of a John Hughes movie.
20.
The Dead Weather
Sea of Cowards
Here For: "The Difference Between Us"
Stay For: "Die By the Drop," "Hustle and Cuss," "Gasoline"
Jack White verifies what we all had previously assumed: the man can do no wrong. On this album of blues/grunge rock featuring lead vocals from The Kills' Alison Mosshart, Jack White's third band proves to be just as good as his first two.
19.
Cee Lo Green
The Lady Killer
Here For: "**** You"
Stay For: "Bright Lights Bigger City," "No One's Gonna Love You," "It's OK"
We all knew Cee Lo Green from his features on hits by Trick Daddy and OutKast, and from his work on Gnarls Barkley, but we never saw this coming. The neo-soul album of the year, featuring the instant classic "**** You."
18.
Vampire Weekend
Contra
Here For: "Giving Up the Gun"
Stay For: "Horchata," "Holiday," "I Think Ur a Contra"
Vampire Weekend tops their self-titled debut album with
Contra. Less gimmicky and more emotion goes a long way for these Ivy-leaguers.