The National – High Violet
Beach House – Teen Dream
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
The Walkmen – Lisbon
The Morning Benders – Big Echo
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
Toro Y Moi – Causers of This
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Sufjan Stevens – Age of Adz
Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
*The list was voted on by the writers of Potholes In My Blog and was conducted in no particular order. We used the term “rock” very loosely.
If we’re talking rock, I would personally add: The Black Keys ‘Brother,’ Grinderman ‘Grinderman II’ and Wolf People ‘Steeple.’
Broken Bells was a major letdown. I was tired of that record after two spins.
Broken Bells was 2010, but it was leaning more to the top disappointments of 2010 instead of this list.
No Broken Bells? Was that last year?
rock is not a music, it’s mess
Fuck a list. 😀
I agree, it was a tad long. But it had some of my favorite tracks of 2010 for sure.
Suburbs sounded like one amazing album and one sorta decent EP of leftovers to me. 3-4 tracks shorter, that album would’ve been DANGEROUS.