Best Indie Albums of 2010 (As of August fifth)

Best Indie Albums of 2010

So far, now that my list of new albums I’ve listened to has gotten a little large, I’ve gone from ranking them individually to putting them into three alphabetical categories.


The Albums I Have On My Continual Revolving Playlist:


Beach House – Teen Dream
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Broken Bells – Broken Bells
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Clem Snide – The Meat of Life
Cowboy Junkies – Renmin Park
Damien Jurado – Saint Bartlett
Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame
Eels – End Times
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
Laura Veirs – July Flame
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
The National – High Violet
Phosphorescent – Here’s to Taking it Easy
Wolf Parade – Expo 86


The Albums that Have Something Going for Them but Which Don’t Knock My Socks Off


Angus & Julia Stone – Down the Way
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
The Bird and the Bee – Interpreting the Maters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates
The Flaming Lips – The Dark Side of the Moon
Jay Bennett – Kicking at the Perfumed Air
Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away
Mates of State – Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)
Mimicking Birds – Mimicking Birds
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band – Where the Messengers Meet
The New Pornographers – Together
Portugal. The Man. – American Ghetto
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor


Also Ran:


Adam Green – Minor Love
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
Autolux – Transit Transit
Beach Fossils – Beach Fossils
Best Coast – Crazy for You
Bill Callahan – Rough Travel for a Rare Thing
Blitzen Trapper – Destroyer of the Void
The Books – This Way Out
Deer Tick – The Black Dirt Sessions
Everest – On Approach
Foals – Total Life Forever
The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
Goldfrapp – Head First
Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress
Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
The Living Sisters – Love to Live
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Menomena – Mines
MGMT – Congratulations
Miniature Tigers – FORTRESS
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Of Montreal – False Priest
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Plants and Animals – La La Land
The Radio Dept. – Clinging to a Scheme
Rogue Wave – Permalight
Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature
She & Him – Volume Two
Shout Out Louds – Work
Sleigh Bells – Treat
Spoon – Transference
Suzanne Vega – Close-Up Vol 1, Love Songs
Wavves – King of the Beach