12 Albums From 2010 I Want To Recognize

...because they're not by Kanye West, Robyn, Sufjan Stevens or Deerhunter, because we honored them a bunch already, assuming what we give them is worth calling "honor" (in alphabetical order).

by Gavin

Bathcrones - Psychorama

Baths - Cerulean

Beach House - Teen Dream (whatever)

Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Forest Swords - Dagger Paths

Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal

Pac Div - Don't Mention It Mixtape

Sam Amidon - I See The Sign

Tennis - Daytrotter Session 9.24.2010

Valgeir Sigurðsson - Draumalandið

Various Artists - Dope Mountain Fuck

Maybe when I trust myself more as a writer, I'll write about what, specifically, I like about each album, but every time I've tried it in the past, my own words sound completely worthless and tired by the end. So these are albums I enjoyed because I heard something new and exciting in each one. None of them played to my expectations - they all surpassed them.

JW's Top 20 Tracks of 2010

We played the top 13 on our 11th episode of Johnny Whopper - here are the top 20, a composite of mine & Knox's lists.

20. Neil Young - Sign of Love
19. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise
18. No Age - Chem Trails
17. The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
16. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Voice by Antony)
15. Sufjan Stevens - Too Much

14. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
13. Sam Amidon - Relief
12. unouomedude - Buildings
11. Beach House - Take Care
10. Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk in The Room

09. Kurt Vile - In My Time

08. Emeralds - Candy Shoppe

07. Robyn - Dancing on My Own

06 Chrome Sparks - I'll Be Wait for Sadness Comes Along

05. The War on Drugs - Comin' Through

04. Dead Gaze - Take Me Home or I Die Alone

03. Kanye West - Runaway (feat. Pusha T)

02. Surfer Blood - Swim

01. Deerhunter - Helicopter