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Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Canvasback/Atlantic)
No other band in the world is in their strata.
Sloan – XX (Yep Roc)
Out next month!
exlovers – “Blowing Kisses” 7” single (Young and Lost Club UK)
Whoah! They never sounded like this before! Making their debut album now…
Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep (Cooperative/Downtown)
Surprise album of the year (and last year, since it came out in 2010 in the U.K.)
Corin Ashley – “Badfinger Bridge” 7” (Elephant SPAIN)
Pete Ham and Tom Evans rose from the dead to record this. (Well, no, but two of The Boo Radleys and Ken Stringfellow did a good job along with Corin making me think they did! This is actually as good as any Badfinger song I ever heard, and I loved their singles!)
Darker My Love – Alive as You Are (Dangerbird)
Still playing this folkpop/alt-country surprise, seven months later!
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (Deluxe CD + DVD) (Columbia Legacy)
The LP is a classic — the bonus DVD documentaries prove essential!
The Decemberists – The King is Dead (Capitol)
Even the weakest of their five albums is a gem.
Secret Shine – The Beginning and the End (Secret Shine)
Shoegaze album of the year, hands down, from a band that was there in the early ’90s in the first place!
Bad Religion – The Dissent of Man (Epitaph)
2010’s album of the year, still going strong.
