Update:

01. Bonobo - Black Sands 4,5*
02. Sage Francis - Li(f)e
03. Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support 4*
04. The Roots - How I Got Over
05. Freeway & Jake One - The Stimulus Package
06. Emancipator - Safe in the Steep Cliffs
07. Grieves - The Confessions of Mr. Modest
08. The Q4 - Darker Days
09. Rakaa - Crown of Thorns 3,5*
10. Shad - TSOL

01. The National - High violet
02. Midlake - The courage of others
03. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
04. Spoon - Transference
05. Angus and Julia Stone - Down the way
06. Sleepy Sun - Fever
07. Beach House - Teen dream
08. Villagers - Becoming a jackal
09. Admiral Freebee - The honey and the knife
10. Band of Horses - Infinte arms
11. Blood Red Shoes - Fire like this
12. The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
13. Foals - Total life forever
14. Yeasayer - Odd blood
15. Local Natives - Gorilla manor
16. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
17. Eels - End times
18. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist history
19. Jonsi - Go
20. Seabear - We built a fire

Update:

01. (01.) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
02. (03.) The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
03. (02.) Delphic - Acolyte
04. (05.) MGMT - Congratulations
05. (----) Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
06. (06.) Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
07. (07.) Caribou - Swim
08. (----) The Drums - The Drums
09. (----) Ash - A-Z, Vol. 1
10. (04.) Hot Chip - One Life Stand

Update, nu een top 10, met de vorige positie erachter van mijn top 40:

01: (01) MGMT - Congratulations
02: (02) The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
03: (----) Korn - Korn III: Remember Who You Are
04: (----) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
05: (03) Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
06: (04) Deftones - Diamond Eyes
07: (05) Daughters - Daughters
08: (15) Shining - Blackjazz
09: (14) Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
10: (19) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

1. (1) Marc Almond - Varieté
2. (2) The Irrepressibles – Mirror Mirror
3. (3) Jónsi - Go
4. (4) The Magic Theatre – London Town
5. (5) John Grant – Queen of Denmark
6. (6) Emanuel and the Fear – Listen
7. (-) Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
8. (7) Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep
9. (9) Beach House – Teen Dream
10. (8) Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch – Genderful

11. (10) Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
12. (11) The Ark – In Full Regalia
13. (-) The Coral – Butterfly House
14. (12) Janelle Monaé – The ArchAndroid
15. (13) Angus & Julia Stone – Down the Way
16. (14) Get Well Soon – Vexations
17. (15) Blaudzun – Seadrift Soundmachine
18. (17) Vampire Weekend – Contra
19. (18) Sia – We Are Born
20. (16) Baby Dee – A Book of Songs for Anne Marie

met nog heel veel te luisteren:


1. The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights
2. Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - 3 Nights in Oslo
3. Artifact iTi: Live in St. Johann
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. anbb - Ret Marut Handshake
6. A Silver Mt. Zion - Kollaps Tradixionales
6. Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Forty Fort
7. Nels Cline Singers - Initiate
8. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
9. Autechre - Oversteps
10. Sten Sandell Trio - Face of Tokyo

11. Liars - Sisterworld
12. Alva Noto - For 2
13. Atomic - Theater Tilters
14. Sun Kil Moon - Admial Fell Promises
15. Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano - Identical Sunsets
16. The Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast
17. Efterkang - Magic Chairs
18. Tin Hat - Foreign Legion
19. Adam Pieronczyk Quartet - El Buscador
20. Elephant9 - Walk the Nile

Wat een jaar! Ik kan maar niet kiezen.

1. Julian Lynch – Mare
2. Beach House – Teen Dream
3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
4. Rangers – Suburban Tours
5. Twin Sister – Color Your Life
6. Nite Jewel - Am I Real?
7. Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
8. James Ferraro – Last American Hero
9. Wild Nothing – Gemini
10. Roy Montgomery & Grouper – Split

Update:

==========4,5*==========
01. Massive Attack - Heligoland
02. Beach House - Teen Dream
==========4,0*==========
03. Bonobo - Black Sands
04. Midlake - The Courage of Others
05. Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
06. Jamie Lidell - Compass
07. The Black Keys - Brothers
==========3,5*==========
08. Marble Sounds - Nice Is Good
09. Foals - Total Life Forever
10. Balthazar - Applause

Update:

1. Sick of It All – Based on a True Story
2. Call to Preserve – Life of Defiance
3. Brain Drill – Quantum Catastrophe
4. The Ghost Inside - Returners
5. Carnifex – Hell Chose Me
6. Beneath the Sky – In Loving Memory
7. Suffokate – No Mercy, No Forgiveness
8. Deftones – Diamond Eyes
9. Freeway & Jake One – The Stimulus Package
10. Inherit Disease – Visceral Transcendence

01 (01) Beach House - Teen Dream
02 (---) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
03 (02) The Irrepressibles - Mirror Mirror
04 (---) Jonsi - Go
05 (---) The Morning Benders - Big Echo
06 (03) Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
07 (---) Near The Parenthesis - Music For The Forest Concourse
08 (---) The Futureheads - The Chaos
09 (---) Delorean - Subiza
10 (---) Wolf Parade - Expo 86

1. The National-High Violet
2. Beach House-Teen Dream
3. Arcade Fire-The Suburbs
4. Black Keys-Brother
5. Admiral Freebee-The Honey and The Knife
6. Angus and Julia Stone-Down The Way
7. The Van Jets-Cat Fit Fury
8. Midlake-The Courage of Others
9. The Bear that wasn't- And so it's the morning dew
10. MGMT-Congratulations

Update:

1. Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong 4,5*
2. Aloe Blacc - Good Things
3. Bonobo - Black Sands
4. Sage Francis - Li(f)e
5. The Roots - How I Got Over 4*
6. Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support
7. Freeway & Jake One - The Stimulus Package
8. Emancipator - Safe in the Steep Cliffs
9. Grieves - The Confessions of Mr. Modest
10. The Q4 - Darker Days

Momenteel erg tevreden met deze top 10, hoewel ik graag zie dat Grieves en The Q4 (beide EP's) nog plaatsmaken voor een LP.

Er is geen houden aan.
Iets over de helft van het jaar moet ik concluderen dat als ik me zou beperken tot een lijst van tien albums, zoals getuige de titel van het topic de bedoeling lijkt te zijn, ik een aanzienlijke reeks prachtige albums te kort zou doen.
Bij deze dus een top 30.

I. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
II. The National - High Violet
III. Wild Nothing - Gemini
IV. Jònsi - Go
V. Beach House - Teen Dream
VI. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
VII. Get Well Soon - Vexations
VIII. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
IX. Foals - Total Life Forever
X. Efterklang - Magic Chairs
XI. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
XII. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
XIII. Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils
XIV. Seabear - We Built a Fire
XV. Wolf Parade - Expo 86
XVI. Marble Sounds - Nice is Good
XVII. Caribou - Swim
XVIII. Tocotronic - Schall und Wahn
XIX. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
XX. Lali Puna - Our Inventions
XXI. Secret Cities - Pink Graffiti
XXII. These New Puritans - Hidden
XXIII. Sam Amidon - I See the Sign
XXIV. Vampire Weekend - Contra
XXV. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
XXVI. Love is All - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries
XXVII. Spoon - Transference
XXVIII. The Besnard Lakes - ......Are the Roaring Night
XXIX. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
XXX. Woods - At Echo Lake

Update:

01. Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support 4,5*
02. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma 4*
03. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
04. James Holden - DJ-Kicks
05. Liars - Sisterworld
06. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of the World
07. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Present: Dark Night of the 3,5*
Soul
08. Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
09. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
10. Bonobo - Black Sands

1 Foals - Total Life Forever 4,5*
2 Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises 4,5*
3 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 2 4*
4 Dustin O'Halloran - Vorleben 4*
5 Die Antwoord - $O$ 4*
6 Future Islands - In Evening Air 4*
7 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma 4*
8 Herpes - Das Kommt Vom Küssen 4*
9 Four Tet - There Is Love in You 4*
10 Dangers - Messy, Isn't It? 4*
11 Jónsi - Go 4*
12 Bonobo - Black Sands 4*
13 Loscil - Endless Falls 4*
14 Daughters - Daughters 4*
15 The National - High Violet 4*

Toen:


Nu:
1. Greg Haines - Until the point of hushed support
2. Nicholas Szczepanik - Dear Dad
3. Christopher McFall - The Body As I Left It
4. Rangda - False Flag
5. Grouper / Roy Montgomery - Split
6. Yellow Swans - Going Places
7. Joanna Newsom - Have One One Me
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Autechre - Move of Ten
10. Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm
11. Burning Star Core - Papercuts Theater
12. Robert Curgenven - Oltre
13. Fenn O'Berg - In Stereo
14. Ignatz - Mort Aux Vaches

Voor de verandering maar eens een top 15 van een sympho-freak...

1. Mystery - One Among The Living (5*) ---Album van het jaar, zou me verwonderen als er nog een betere uitkomt dit jaar...

2. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (4.5*)
3. Spock's Beard - X (4.5*)
4. Haken - Aquarius (4.5*)
5. Karnataka - The Gathering Light (4.5*)

6. Kaipa - In The Wake of Evolution (4*)
7. Odyssice - Silence (4*)
8. Vanden Plas - The Seraphic Clockwork (4*)
9. Mindgames - MMX (4*)

10. Orphaned Land - The Way of the ORwarriOR (3.5*)
11. Unitopia - Artificial (3.5*)
12. Nick Magnus - Children of Another God (3.5*)
13. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (3.5*)
14. The National - High Violet (3.5*)
15. The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing (3.5*)

1 Four tet - There is Love In You
2 Motorpsycho - Heavy metal Fruit
3 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramme
4 Sage Francis Li(f)e
5 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
6 Jagga Jazzist - One Armed bandit
7 Ólafur Arnalds - ...and They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness (2010)
8 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of the World
9 Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider
10 Shining - Blackjazz

----
11 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales

1. (-) Yeasayer - Odd Blood 4.5*
2. (-) Perfume Genius - Leaning
3. (1) Beach House - Teen Dream
4. (2) Four Tet - There Is Love In You
5. (-) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
6. (4) Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
7. (-) The National - High Violet
8. (3) Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
9. (7) First Aid Kit - The Big Black and the Blue 4*
10. (-) Steve Mason - Boys Outside

zal ook eens een songs-top10 maken.... exclusief jazz... dat is neit te vergelijken..

1. Gorillaz ft. Lou Reed - Some Kind of Nature
2. Joanna Newson - Good Intentions Paving Company
3. anbb (Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld) - Bernsteinzimmer
4. The White Stripes - Slowly Turning Into You (Live)
5. Angus & Julia Stone - Hold On
6. Three Mile Pilot - Grey Clouds
7. Liars - Scissor
8. Motorpsycho - Gullible's Travels
9. A Silver Mt. Zion - I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds
10. Efterklang - I Was Playing Drums

01. (01) Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here 4,5*
02. (04) Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
03. (03) Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
04. (02) José James – Blackmagic
05. (06) Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
06. ( – ) Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong
07. (05) Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer 4*
08. ( – ) Tumi And The Volume – Pick a Dream
09. (07) The Whitefield Brothers – Earthology
10. (08) Madlib – Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa

11. (09) The Roots – How I Got Over
12. ( – ) Aloe Blacc – Good Things
13. (10) Young Jazz Rebels – Slave Riot
14. (11) Georgia Anne Muldrow – Kings Ballad
15. (13) Four Tet – There Is Love in You
16. (14) Jamie Lidell – Compass 3,5*
17. (12) Bonobo – Black Sands
18. (15) Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
19. ( – ) Shad – TSOL
20. (16) Balthazar – Applause

1.Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
2.Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3.Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
4.Caribou - Swim
5.Beach House - Teen Dream
6.Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
7.Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
8.Fang Island - Fang Island
9.Autechre - Oversteps
10.The National - High Violet

1. John Grant - Queen of Denmark 4,5*
2. Midlake - The Courage of Others
3. Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
4. The Irrepressibles - Mirror Mirror
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra 4*
6. Jónsi - Go
7. José James - Blackmagic
8. Kent - En Plats I Solen
9. Sade - Soldier of Love
10. Beach House - Teen Dream 3,5*

1. Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Caribou - Swim
3. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
4. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
5. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
6. The Roots - How I Got Over
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. Vampire Weekend - Contra
9. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
10. The National - High Violet

Heb wel nog niet zo heel veel beluisterd uit 2010.

1. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt.
2. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
3. The National - High Violet
4. (-) Perfume Genius - Learning
5. Woods - At Echo Lake
6. Mountain Man - Made the Harbor
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
8. Caribou - Swim
9. (-) F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - Music for Lovers, Music versus Time
10.(-) Stornoway- Beachcomber's Windowsill

Moeilijk om er 10 te selecteren. Ik laat nu o.a Beach House, Vampire Weekend, Toro y Moi, Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils en Seabear al buiten beschouwing. Daarnaast zijn er nog nieuwe releases waar ik me op verheug, zoals de nieuwe Deerhunter, Spinvis, Crystal Stilts en The War on Drugs. En natuurlijk nog albums die ik een paar keer moet luisteren, zoals het album van Richard A. Ingram, Jaill en Women. Al met al ben ik al dik tevreden met dit popjaar.

1. Bonobo: Black Sands 4,5*
2. The National: High Violet
3. The Tallest Man On Earth: The Wild Hunt
4. First Aid Kit: The Big Black And The Blue
5. eels: End Times
6. Ihsahn: After 4*
7. Villagers: Becoming A Jackal
8. Motorpsycho: Heavy Metal Fruit
9. Triptykon: Eparistera Daimones
10. The Roots: How I Got Over
11. Perfume Genius: Learning
12. The Black Keys: Brothers
13. Angus and Julia Stone: Down The Way
14. Admiral Freebee: The Honey & The Knife
15. Alcest: Ecailles de Lune
16. Wallace Vanborn: Free Blank Shots
17. Black Box Revelation: Silver Threats
18. Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep
19. Tindersticks: Falling Down A Mountain
20. Ufomammut: Eve
21. Midlake: The Courage of Others
22. Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me
23. Kashmir: Trespassers
24. Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago
25. Balthazar: Applause

01. Besnard Lakes - ... Are the Roaring Night
02. Vampire Weekend - Contra
03. The National - High Violet
04. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
05. Scissor Sisters - Night Work
06. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
07. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
08. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
09. Ruby Suns - Fight Softly
10. Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void

___________5*____________
01. Laurie Anderson- Homeland
___________4,5*___________
02. Motorpsycho- Heavy Metal Fruit
03. The National- High violet
04. Iron Maiden- Final Frontier
___________4*____________
05. Anathema- We Are here....
06. The Black keys- brothers
07. Johnny cash- American VI
08. Jonsi- Go
09. Eels- End times
10. Brendan Perry- ark
11. Broken Bells-Broken Bells
12. Haken- Aquarius
13. Roky erickson/Okkervile river- true love casts....
___________3,5_______________
14. The Pineapple Thief- someone here is missing
15. Arcade Fire- The suburbs
16. Midlake- The courage of others
17. Demians- Mute
18. Chemical Brothers- further
19. Bonobo- Black sands
20. Vampire Weekend- contra.

flop 5
___________0,5______________
1. Peter gabriel- scratch my back
___________1,5______________
2. Pain of salvation- Road salt One
___________2*______________
3.Mindgames-MMX
4.Di-rect- This is who we are
5.Daugthers-Daugthers

Helemaal niets gewijzigd afgelopen maand (de Sufjan EP tel ik niet mee).

1. (1) Marc Almond - Varieté
2. (2) The Irrepressibles – Mirror Mirror
3. (3) Jónsi - Go
4. (4) The Magic Theatre – London Town
5. (5) John Grant – Queen of Denmark
6. (6) Emanuel and the Fear – Listen
7. (7) Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
8. (8) Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep
9. (9) Beach House – Teen Dream
10. (10) Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch – Genderful

11. (11) Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
12. (12) The Ark – In Full Regalia
13. (13) The Coral – Butterfly House
14. (14) Janelle Monaé – The ArchAndroid
15. (15) Angus & Julia Stone – Down the Way
16. (16) Get Well Soon – Vexations
17. (17) Blaudzun – Seadrift Soundmachine
18. (18) Vampire Weekend – Contra
19. (19) Sia – We Are Born
20. (20) Baby Dee – A Book of Songs for Anne Marie

Ik zit nu ook die natalie merchant te beluisteren, die heeft veel kans om in mijn eindlijst te komen. waarschijnlijk in plaats van eels.