Women - Public strain
Beach house - Teen dream
Abe Vigoda - Crush
Shipping News - One less heartless to fear
Bill Callahan - Rough travel...

are the new records i listened to the most this year.

It's great, isn't it? Quite different from their other two.

Some of my favourites this year:

Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadez Vol 3
Group Doueh - Beatte Harab
Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Ghédalia Tazartès - Ante-Mortem
Konono Nº1 - Assume Crash Position
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus EP
Stretta - a funneled stone excellent modular synth goodness, you can download it for free on his website
T++ - Wireless
Ecstatic Music Of The Jemaa El Fna
Autechre - Move of Ten

swim by caribou is a super excellent album and it hast been mentioned yet if im not mistaken.
deffo in my top 10 of 2010 ..
atsonicpark you deffinetly should check that one out!

I really want a full-length from them. Sooo fucking good. As usual no one seems to care outside of the Terminal Boredom universe.

Really? I thought it was a HUGE step down from secular works. I probably would've still put it near the bottom of my list, but for some reason I thought it was a 2009 release anyway. But yeah, there were some breathtaking musical moments, but the vocals dominated the disc. It kinda seems like they're going through the Thinking Plague/Henry Cow type thing, which I respect, but their music doesn't move me like those bands did.

It's a shame. This band are REALLY something.

I like it about 10x more than Secular Works! Blows my mind with every listen. Complex, cathartic, emotional with barely any wasted song time (unlike Secular Works I think).

A top 15, as it looks today.

1. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
2. Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
3. Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm
4. Autechre - Move of Ten
5. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
6. Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect
7. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
8. Philip Jeck - An Ark for the Listener
9. Mike Watt - Hyphenated-Man
10. Bo Becker - Octodurum
11. Yellow Swans - Going Places
12. The Fun Years - God Was Like, No
13. The Dead C - Patience
14. Ariel Pink - Before Today
15. Gate - Republic of Sadness

I mean, how could you hate the low-budgeted cruddiness of this music video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWPA46uw0-M

@atsonicpark

40. keith fullerton whitman - generators

HOLY SHIT there's a new KFW???

Shipping News - One less heartless to fear

what...new shipping news??????? oh that has really made my day!!!!

Current Top 10

Deep Magic - Soul Vibration
Gate - A Republic of Sadness
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Generator
Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico
Rene Hell - Porcelain Opera
Deepchord presents Echospace - Liumin
No Fun Acid - This is No Fun Acid 3
Lace Bows - Glitter Pulse
Peter Wright - Dissolving Into Light
Garden Sound - Black Summit

His real number 1 is UUUUUU - The Astral Travels of course. I told him not to though because I'm modest.

I actually had this at about # 28, but I don't want to put friend's bands on my list, nor do I want my friends to put my stuff on their list (though I doubt anyone would). Hence why no Ruryk was on there either.

This is all I've heard, save for Ariel Pink whom I've never been a fan of, on your list this year. I'm so fucking behind on 2010 releases, I've got some catching up to do.

My top 5 are probably, in no particular order, Ikonika's, SCG, Crystal Castles, Salem and Caribou.

my list:


50. Skullflower - Strange Keys To Untune Gods' Firmament
49. Rangers - Suburban Tours
48. Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps and The Ship Is Gone
47. The Young Gods And Dalek - Griots and Gods
46. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
45. Belle and Sebastian - Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
44. Group Doueh - Beatte Harab
43. The High Confessions-Turning Lead Into Gold
42. Faust - Faust Is Last
41. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
40. The Roots - How I Got Over
39. Autechre - Oversteps
38. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
37. Gate - A Republic of Sadness
36. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here
35. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
34. MGMT – Congratulations
33. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
32. Catherine Christer Hennix- The Electric Harpsichord
31. Mark Mcguire - Living With Yourself
30. Mogwai - Special Moves
29. Dead C - Patience
28. Caribou - Caribou Vibration Ensemble featuring Marshall Allen
27. Lean Left - The Ex Guitars Meet Nilssen-Love & Vandermark Duo vol. 1
26. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble-Miles Away
25. Steve Reich - Double Sextet 2x5
24. Caribou - Swim
23. Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues
22. Disappears - Lux
21. Neil Young - Le Noise
20. Liars – Sisterworld
19. Rhys Chatham - The Bern Project
18. Women - Public Strain
17. Laurie Anderson- Homeland
16. Zs - New Slaves
15. Glenn Branca - The Ascension: The Sequel
14.Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
13. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra-Kollaps Tradixionales
12. Wovenhand - Threshing Floor
11. The Ex - Catch My Shoe
10. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
9. The Bad Plus - Never Stop
8. Jaga Jazzist - One Arm Bandit
7. Bardo Pond - Bardo Pond
6. The Fall – Your Future, Our Clutter
5. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
4. Yellow Swans - Going Places
3. Stereolab - Not Music
2. No Age – Everything In Between
1. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

kinda a thin year for me as far as listening to "new" stuff... but here's the shortlist off the top of my head...

Flower-Corsano Duo - You'll never work in this town again
Chris Corsano Band - High & Dry
Jailbreak (Chris Corsano/Heather Leigh) - The Rocker
Richard Youngs - Inceptor
Bill Orcutt - Way Down South
Keiji Haino/Oren Ambarchi/Jim O'Rourke - Tima Formosa
Lee Ranaldo/Ulrich Kreiger - Fathom
The Dead C. - Patience
James Blackshaw - All is falling
The Thing w/ Otomo Yoshihide - Shinjuku Crawl
Seijaku (Keiji Haino's new band!!!) - Mail from Fushitsusha
Jack Rose - Luck in the Valley

Late change: replace Peter Wright - Dissolving Into Light with Sundrips - Arrays