The Final List

So as the year draws to a close we finally bring you the completed end of year list. 2010 has seen some great releases and trying to narrow it down to just 50 was hard graft to say the least! In the end we went with our gut feeling and selected albums that have had an impact on us (myself and Jess) one way or another over the year. As the list was completed it became ever so apparent that many other great titles could have easily made the final selection, so below the first 50 you will find many other worthy albums. Apologies for any we missed out.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has supported the station throughout the year. It’s been hard going at times and there was even one point in the year when we almost pulled the plug. It was through kind emails of support and encouragement that we got through that time and so a MASSIVE thanks goes out to all our followers/readers. We would also like to say a big thank you to the people that have written reviews for us. You guys have done a sterling job to say the least! Last and by no means least we would like to thank all the artists and labels that have been involved with us this year! Actually now we think of it there is one last person to thank… Jeremy at Exerimedia: A true gentleman and a source of so much encouragement to us this year x

50 For 2010

1: Anna Rose Carter – Silver Lines (Schedios)
2: Plinth – Music for Smalls Lighthouse (Second Language)
3: Clouwbeck – From Which The River Rises (Sustain – Release)
4: Barn Owl – Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
5: Brave Timbers – For Everyday You Lost (Second Language)
6: Clem Leek & Jannick Schou – Pimlico (Dead Pilot)
7: Erik K. Skodvin – Flare (Sonic Pieces)
8: Ithaca Trio/Machinefabriek – Par Avion (Split cdr)
9: Nils Frahm & Anne Müller – 7 Fingers (HUSH)
10: Gurun Gurun – Gurun Gurun (Home Normal)
11: Winter’s Day – Winter’s Day 7″ (Morc Tapes)
12: United Bible Studies – The Gascoigne Observatory (Apollolaan)
13: Minamo & Lawrence English – A Path Less Travelled (Room40)
14: TwinSisterMoon – Then Fell The Ashes (Blackest Rainbow)
15: Sophie Hutchings – Becalmed (Preservation)
16: Clem Leek – Holly Lane (Hibernate)
17: Chris Abrahams – Play Scar (Room40)
18: Mains de Givre – Esther Marie (textura)
19: Richard A Ingram – Consolamentum (White Box)
20: Library Tapes – Like Green Grass Against A Blue Sky (Auetic)
21: Antonymes – Beauty Becomes The Enemy Of The Future (Self Release)
22: Elfin Saddle – Wurld (Constellation)
23: Part Timer – Reel To Reel (Lost Tribe Sound)
24: Fennesz / Daniell / Buck – Knoxville (Thrill Jockey)
25: Solo Andata – Ritual (Desire Path)
26: Richard A Ingram – Piano Test (Self Release)
27: Peter Broderick – Three Film Score Intakes (Schedios)
28: Olan Mill – Pine (Serein)
29: Grasslung – Sincere Void (Root Strata)
30: Murralin Lane – Our House Is On The Wall (12k)
31: Padang Food Tigers – Born Music (Under The Spire)
32: Jasper TX/Simon Scott – Conformists (Low Point)
33: Balmorhea – Constellations (Western Vinyl)
34: Marcus Fischer – Monocoastal (12k)
35: Dustin O’Halloran – Vorleben (Sonic Pieces)
36: Mount Eerie – Song Islands vol. 2 (P.W Elverum & Sun)
37: Upward Arrows – Upward Arrows (Under The Spire)
38: Minamo – Duree (12k)
39: Aaron Martin – Worried About The Fire (Experimedia)
40: Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect (Kranky)
41: Fern Knight – Castings (vhf Records)
42: Hessien – Home Is Where The Ghost Is (Hand Stitched)
43: Scott Cortez and Thisquietarmy – Meridians (Three – Four)
44: Peter Jorgensen – Sound Track Remixes (Under The Spire)
45: James Blackshaw – All Is Falling (Young God)
46: Date Palms – Of Psalms (Root Strata)
47: Gareth Dickson – The Dance (Self Release)
48: M. Ostermeier – Chance Reconstruction (Tench Recs)
49: Nest – Retold (Serein)
50: Boduf Songs – This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything (Kranky)

Other Noteworthy Editions:

Evan Caminiti – West Winds (Threelobed)
Piiptsjilling – Wurdskrieme (Experimedia)
Barn Owl, Barn Owl & The Infinite Strings Ensemble – The Headlands (Important)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Love Is A Stream (Type)
Aaron Martin – Night Erased Them All (Sonic Meditations)
Allysen Callery – Hobgoblin’s Hat (Self Release)
Grouper – Hold/Sick (Room40)
Talvihorros – Music In Four Movements (Hibernate)
The Green Kingdom – Prismatic (Home Assembly)
Marcus Fjellström – Schattenspieler (Miasmah)
Damian Valles – Bow Echoes (Resting Bell)
BJ Nilsen – The Invisible City (Touch)
Wreaths – Like Sparks From Throats Falling (Under The Spire)
Ilyas Ahmed – Between Two Skies/Towards The Night 2xLP (Digitalis)
Kyle Bobby Dunn – Rural Route No.2 (Standard Form)
Simon Scott – Silenne (Slaapwel)
Herion – Out and About (Hypnos)
Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend (Room40)
Jasper TX – A Voice From Dead Radio (Under The Spire)
The Humble Bee – Morning Music (Cotton Goods)
Celer – Salvaged Violets (Infraction)
Seaworthy & Matt Rösner – Two Lakes (12k)
Rameses III – For José María (Under The Spire)
Michael Santos – Memory Maker (Home Normal)
Machinefabriek / Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra / Liondialer – That it Stays Winter Forever (White Box)
Demdike Stare – Voices Of Dust / Forest of Evil / Liberation Through Hearing (Modern Love)
Andrew Hargreaves – Defragment (Lacies)
Taylor Deupree – Shoals (12k)
Celer & Yui Onodera – Generic City (Two Acorns)
The Declining Winter – Scenes from the Back Bedroom Window (Secret Furry Hole)
Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose – Bridge Carols (Baskaru / Headz)
Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek – Drape (Home Normal)
Ilya E. Monosov – Seven Lucky Plays, Or How To Fix Songs For A Broken Heart (Language Of Stone)
Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises (Caldo Verde)
Dirk Serries: Microphonics I-V (Tone Float)
Spheruleus – Frozen Quarters (Audio Gourmet)
Pausal – Lapses (Barge Recordings)
Ex-Easter Island Head – Mallet Guitars One (Low Point)
Andrea Ferraris/Matteo Uggeri – Autumn Is Coming, We’re All In Slow Motion (Hibernate)
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I Am Here? (Editions Mego)
Koen Holtkamp – Gravity/Bees (Thrill Jockey)
Danny Paul Grody – Fountain (Root Strata)
Danny Saul – Kinison – Goldthwait (Hibernate)
Listening Mirror – Falling Under (Heat Death)
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Disingenuity (Pan)
Keith Kenniff – The Last Survivor (Unseen)
Monolyth & Cobalt – The Clyde Parker Project 3 (Self Release)