Best of 2010 Music

Best album

Beach House – Teen Dream
Some of the tunes and melodies are so fertile that they grow even if sporadically.





Best song

Dent May – Eastover Wives
A very good combination of sax and sex

Best intro

Ariel Pink – Little Wig

Best verse

No Age – Valley Hump Crash

Best chorus

Deerhunter - Desire Lines

Best outro

Ariel Pink – Little Wig

Best track to track in an album

Interpol’s “Success” followed by “Memory Serves”

Kanye West’s “Devil in a New Dress” followed by “Runaway”

Avey Tare’s “Laughing Hieroglyphic” followed by “3 Umbrellas”

White Denim's "Incaviglia" followed by "Light Light Light"

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Teenage Fanclub - Sometimes I don't need to believe in anything
You feel a new sense of emancipation for this band.




Gonjasufi - Kowboyz and Indians
A whirling, fun tune with its highlight being the bridge where a woman rants away freely

Gonjasufi - Change
'Wah wah'-ed chord, thrilling drum and bass, little jazzy piano part complement this song

Gonjasufi - Sheep
The singer sounds like he's sometimes sick of violence and power trip: "I wish I was a sheep instead of a lion/Cos then I wouldn't have to eat this meat that is dying/I wish I was a sheep instead of a lion/Only because I wouldn't have to kill to eat...Have you ever seen 2 lions when they meet?/Egos too big to greet/One is up in the other's teeth/It wouldn't be this way if they were eating leaves" Vegetarians would be happy to hear this

Gonjasufi - Made
Classy beginning, psychedelic end in the vein of Hendrix but fuck the long, middle void

Contemporary songs

The Liars - Scissor
As the initial vocal fragments come together, I was conned not surprisingly by The Liars into thinking that the fragments would form into Jeff Buckley's "Mojo Pin".
Beautiful verse.
These guys can also be as punk-ass as The Pixies as evident in the chorus.

The Liars - Proud Revolution
Think Yeah Yeah Yeahs + Radiohead

The Liars - Drop Dead
Middle Eastern riff courtesy of 2 sumptuous chords which bare themselves clearer in the brief final moments of the song.

Jaga Jazzist - Toccata
Cinematically good

Four Tet - Sing
Repetition never sounded so addictive for a long time

Vampire Weekend - Diplomat's Son
Here lies the most elaborate art-piece by VW to date.
It's playful, thoughtful and plentiful in terms of creative ideas and melodies.
"I can sleep wherever I lay my head on." rephrases a section of Grant Lee Buffalo's "All That I Have".
Ezra Koenig also reminds himself to seize the day ("If I wait, would I ever forgive myself?").
The mini instrumental part after the 2nd chorus is a celestial marriage between new (electronic music gadget) and old (beautiful worn out piano) sounds.
The mentioned part is a genius change of tempo.
This song can easily be featured in some scenes of Cidade de deus.