- Swann Danger – Staccato 7” (Mess Me Up)
- Magick Daggers – Lions of Alchemy LP (EXO)
- Personal and the Pizzas – Raw Pie LP (1-2-3-4 Go!)
- V/A – Party Platter LP (Florida’s Dying)
2010
Albums that made my heart beat faster in 2010
- Beach House – Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
- The Concretes – WYWH (Friendly Fire)
- Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be (Sub Pop)
- First Aid Kit – The Big Black And The Blue (Wichita)
- The Hepburns – How The Fallen Are Mighty (Radio Khartoum)
- The Innocence Mission – My Room In The Trees (Badman)
- Javelin – No Más (Luaka Bop)
- Lawrence Arabia – Chant Darling (Bella Union)
- Magic Bullets – S/T (Mon Amie)
- Matorralman – Gauteque Estelar (Nacional)
- Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (Glassnote)
- Northern Portrait – Criminal Art Lovers (Matinee)
- The Parties – Coast Garde (Rainbow Quartz)
- Pont Des Arts – S/T (S/R)
- Rabbit Velvet – Crows And Doves (S/R)
- The Radio Dept. – Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador)
- The Rebel Set – Poison Arrow (Silver Hornet)
- Neverever – Angelic Swells (Slumberland)
- Royksopp – Senior (Wall Of Sound)
- She & Him – Volume Two (Merge)
- Stricken City – Songs About People I Know (The Kora)
- Tindersticks – Falling Down A Mountain (Constellation)
- Twin Shadow – Forget (Terrible)
20 “WOW” or “SICK” or “WHOA” Worthy Releases of 2010
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (4AD)
- Baths – Cerulean (Anticon)
- Bonobo – Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
- Caribou – Swim (Merge)
- Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude/Sit Down, Man (S/R)
- The Drums – S/T (Moshi Moshi)
- The Extra Lens – Undercard (Merge)
- Fang Island – S/T (Sargent House)
- The Ferocious Few – Juices (Birdman)
- Flying Lotus – Cosmogramm (Warp)
- The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
- Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me (Drag City)
- Magic Kids – Memphis (True Panther)
- LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening (DFA)
- The National – High Violet (With the Extended Edition) (4AD)
- Perfume Genius – Learning (Matador)
- Robyn – Body Talk (Konichiwa)
- The Soft Pack – S/T (S/R)
- Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Women – Public Strain (Jagjaguwar)
Best Albums of 2010
- Common Eider, King Eider – Worn (Root Strata)
- Sun City Girls – Funeral Mariachi (Abduction)
- Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
- Brian Eno – Small Craft On a Milk Sea (Warp)
- Masaoka, Chen, Grusel, Nagai – Self Titled (Resipiscent Records)
- Core of the Coalman – Box of the Last Help (Zum)
- Liz Albee – Theseus Vs. the Ship of Fools (Resipiscent)
- Barn Owl – Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
- Thomas Carnacki – The Disappearance of This Terrible Spool (Alithiometer)
- Sujo – Dahma (Inam)
- Acid Mothers Temple – Are We Experimental? (Prophase)
- Faun Fables – Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)
Most memorable shows of 2010
- Barn Owl and Jim Haynes with video projections @ The Hauntology exhibit at BAM
- Irr, app ext with Thomas Carnacki, and Jim Haynes @ The Lab
- Evangelista and Oxbow @ 21 Grand
- Core of the Coalman @ 21 Grand, Zum Anniversary
- Dan Higgs @ Andrew’s house
- Uke of Spaces Corners Counties and John Benson @ Vanessa’s house
- Peace, Loving with Selaroda @ the Bootstrap