What were YOUR favorite albums of 2010?

I really liked the Kokayi album and came VERY close to nominating it for the poll, sadly only heard it after I'd done all my nominations but I nearly asked to have them changed. It's great, and I referred to it on an ILX thread the other day ('The State Of Hip-Hop' iirc)

'Nicotine' is a greeeat song

my favs probably autechre, pan sonic, actress and neil young

Actually, the only thing that really stopped me from nominating Kokayi was the fact he'd stuck a HORRIBLE rock-rap song ('Roxtar') really early on in the album - kills it completely in a bad way for 4 minutes - and IDC if it's meant as parodic, it's still horrid

the rest is gr8 tho and I wish I cd vote for it ;_;

"Roxtar" is the single IIRC and I don't think the Bounce Mix is particularly rap-rocky (obv the remix later on is but really all it does is remind me of NERD)

this seems to be the only top [x] list I've put together that's limited to genres or what a particular publication reviewed... I feel like I'd already change a few of these positions around but ehh

1. EXTRA LIFE ‘Made Flesh’ (LOAF)
2. CHRISTIAN MISTRESS ‘Agony & Opium’ (20 BUCK SPIN)
3. WOLF PEOPLE ‘Steeple’ (JAGJAGUWAR)
4. LINDSTROM & CHRISTABELLE ‘Real Life Is No Cool’ (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND)
5. RANGDA ‘False Flag’ (DRAG CITY)
6. KREIG ‘The Isolationist’ (CANDLELIGHT)
7. DJ NATE ‘Da Trak Genious’ (PLANET MU)
8. SWANS ‘My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky’ (YOUNG GOD)
9. SAHG ‘III’ (INDIE)
10. BLACK BREATH ‘Heavy Breathing’ (SOUTHERN LORD)

Faun Fables, Never Again, DJ Roc, Automelodi, Mob Rules, Cough and Waka Flocka Flame would get the 'honourable mention' treatment I think

should say "that's *not* limited to genres" at the start there - proof your posts, me

Ah, preempting the ILM vote tally to post our ballots. No huge surprises here: I'm a child of 4AD & art pop, a bit allergic to both insular/atavistic genres and the lyrical concerns of the mainstream.

1. Beach House — Teen Dream
2. We Love — We Love
3. Trentemøller — Into the Great Wide Yonder
4. Various Artists — Radio Rothko Mix by Deadbeat
5. Grum — Heartbeats
6. Glasser — Ring
7. Delphic — Acolyte
8. Gil Scott-Heron — I'm New Here
9. These New Puritans — Hidden
10. Warpaint — The Fool
11. Zola Jesus — Stridulum II
12. Tamaryn — The Waves
13. Grand Valley State New Music Ensemble — In C
14. Sleigh Bells — Treats
15. School of Seven Bells — Disconnect From Desire

if i vote my ilm ballot will probably look p different but this is the eoy ballot i put together like a month ago:

01 Jana Winderen - Energy Field (Touch)
02 Tyler, the Creater - Bastard (self-released)
03 BJ Nilsen - Draught #1 (Ash International)
04 Beach Fossils - s/t (Captured Tracks)
05 C V L T S - Black hole, Hi five (Atelier Ciseaux)
06 e-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift (Heavy on the Grind Ent./Jive)
07 Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP (self-released)
08 Daniel Menche - Raw Fall (Tapeworm)
09 Games - That We Can Play EP (Hippos in Tanks)
10 Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)

11 Outer Limits Recordings - Foxy Baby (Not Not Fun)
12 Blondes - Touched EP (Merock)
13 bvdub - We Were the Sun* (Quietus)
14 Nicholas Szczepanik - Dear Dad (Goat Eater Arts)
15 MellowHype - BlackenedWhite (self-released)
16 Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have (Hyperdub)
17 Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide To... (Low Point)
18 Yellow Swans - Going Places (Type)
19 We Love - s/t (Bpitch Control)
20 James Ferraro - Last American Hero (Olde English Spelling Bee)

1. Queen Of Denmark - John Grant
2. Hidden - These New Puritans
3. Seasons Of My Soul - Rumer
4. Ali & Toumani - Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate
5. Holkham Drones - Luke Abbott
6. Sky At Night - I Am Kloot
7. Ring - Glasser
8. Gothic Road - Jackie Leven
9. Genuine Negro Jig - Carolina Chocolate Drops
10. Timbuktu Tarab - Khaira Arby

11. We Love - We Love
12. One Life Stand - Hot Chip
13. Gift - Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson
14. I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling
15. Chamber Music Society - Esperanza Spalding
16. Dust - Ellen Allien
17. Head First - Goldfrapp
18. Through Light And Trees - Smoke Fairies
19. San Patricio - The Chieftains / Ry Cooder
20. There Is Love In You - Four Tet

21. Quadron - Quadron
22. Deep And Meaningless - Ron Basejam
23. Heartland - Owen Pallett
24. Handmade Life - Chris Wood
25. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae
26. Niwa - Ripperton
27. The Sea - Corinne Bailey Rae
28. Black Noise - Pantha Du Prince
29. I'm New Here - Gil Scott-Heron
30. Grey Oceans - CocoRosie

31. Relayted - Gayngs
32. Contra - Vampire Weekend
33. Afrocubism - Afrocubism
34. Swim - Caribou
35. Contact, Love, Want, Have - Ikonika
36. Measure - Field Music
37. En Fin Tid - Diskjokke
38. Wake Up The Nation - Paul Weller
39. Night Work - Scissor Sisters
40. Rising Sun - The Souljazz Orchestra

41. Acolyte - Delphic
42. Tradi-Mods vs Rockers (Alternative Takes On Congotronics) - Various
43. Transference - Spoon
44. She Was Coloured In - Solar Bears
45. Before Today - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
46. Soldier Of Love - Sade
47. I And Love And You - Avett Brothers
48. Praise & Blame - Tom Jones
49. Earthology - The Whitefield Brothers
50. LP4 - Ratatat

Call Back the Giants S/T
Way Down South - Bill Orcutt
Funeral Mariarchi - Sun City Girls
False Flag - Rangda
The Rocker - Jailbreak
Patience - The Dead C
Ancestral Star - Barn Owl
Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky - Swans
Sax Solo Performance at Subway in NY - Tamio Shiraishi