Best of 2010

In IHKLY's First Year of Operation, Nate and I have a unanimous selection for Album of Year! Congratulations, Jonsi! You rock those mythical bird outfits! For the rest of our picks, including a massive year-end best of playlist, please read on! Thanks to everyone for a fantastic year and please note the inclusion of Nate's very own band, Frame the City, as number 26 on my best songs of the year list for his sublime offering, "Whisper in Winter."

Nate's List

Albums of the Year

1. Jonsi: Go
2. Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History
3. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
4. Beach House: Teen Dream
5. The National: High Violet
6. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles (II)
7. Typhoon: Hunger and Thirst
8. Freelance Whales: Weathervanes
9. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
10. Perfume Genius: Learning
11. Local Natives: Gorilla Manor
12. The Black Keys: Brothers

Honorable Mentions (in no order):


MIA: MAYA
Sleigh Bells: Treats
Broken Bells: Broken Bells
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Los Campesinos!: Romance Is Boring
Eminem: Recovery


Top Shows of the Year:

1. Jonsi: Coachella
2. Phantogram: Portland
3. Two Door Cinema Club: Portland (& LA)
4. The XX: Coachella
5. Local Natives: Coachella
6. Typhoon: Portland

Top Songs (in no order):


Jonsi: Go Do
Two Door Cinema Club: I Can Talk
Crystal Castles: Empathy & Celestia
Perfume Genius: Mr. Peterson
Eminem: Love the Way You Lie & Not Afraid
Arcade Fire: Ready To Start
The Black Keys: Everlasting Light
Typhoon: CPR / Claws Pt. 2
Worst Records of the Year:
MGMT: Congratulations
Vampire Weekend: Contra

Matt's List

Albums of the Year

1. Jonsi- Go
2. Twin Shadow- Forget
3. Geographer- Animal Shapes EP
4. Beach House- Teen Dream
5. Two Door Cinema Club- Tourist History
6. LCD Soundsystem- This is Happening
7. Casxio- Friends vs. Lovers
8. Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
9. Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles (II)
10. Wild Nothing- Gemini
11. Kanye West- My Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. Toro Y Moi- Causers of This

Honorable Mention

Dom-Sun Bronzed Greek Gods
Sun Airway- Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier
Diamond Rings- Special Affections
The Radio Dept.- Clinging to a Scheme
Groove Armada- Black Light
Polock- Getting Down From the Trees
Local Natives- Gorilla Manor
Future Islands- In Evening Air
The National- High Violet
Abe Vigoda- Crush
S. Carey- All We Grow
Active Child- Curtis Lane EP

Top Shows

1. Jonsi-Wiltern and Coachella
2. Arcade Fire- Shrine
3. Beach House- Coachella
4. Geographer- Glass House
5. Local Natives- Coachella and SXSW
6. Florence and the Machine- Coachella
7. LCD Soundsystem- Fox and Hollywood Bowl
8. Dirty Projectors- Walt Disney Hall
9. Plants and Animals- Troubadour
10. Two Door Cinema Club- Troubadour
11. The National- Wiltern
12. Yacht- Echoplex


Top Songs (In no particular order):


1. Groove Armada- Paper Romance
2. Twin Shadow- At My Heels
3. Deerhunter- Helicopter
4. Ra Ra Riot- Shadowcasting
5. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti- Round and Round
6. Minks- Funeral Song
7. Iamamiwhoami- Y
8. Tame Impala- Alter Ego
9. Arcade Fire- Ready to Start
10. New Villager- Genghis On
11. Dom- Living in America
12. Geographer- Verona
13. Regina- Olen Haviolla, Pauli
14. Gypsy and the Cat-Time to Wander (Joan of Arc Remix)
15. Active Child- When Your Love is Safe
16. Outputmessage- Get Away
17. LCD Soundsystem- All I Want
18. Two Door Cinema Club- Undercover Martyn
19. Crystal Castles- Suffocation
20. Radio Dept.- Heaven’s on Fire
21. Millionyoung- Cynthia
22. Morning Benders- Cold War
23. Kisses- Bermuda
24. Local Natives- Airplanes
25. Phantogram- As Far As I Can See
26. Frame the City- Whisper in Winter
27. The Brunettes- Red Rollerskates
28. Toro Y Moi- Low Shoulders
29. Los Campesinos- A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show-Me State; Or Letters from Me to Charlotte
30. Broken Bells- Vaporize
31. Owen Pallett- Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
32. Shine 2009- New Rules
33. Destroyer- Chinatown
34. Oh Land- Sun of a Gun
35. The Jezabels- Sahara Mahala
36. The War on Drugs- Baby Missiles
37. Sun Airway- American West
38. The Smiles- Cala Cola
39. Horizontal Ladies Club- Clean Fights
40. Underworld –Scribble
41. Abe Vigoda- Sequins
42. Jonsi- Boy Lilikoi
43. Adrian Lux- Teenage Crime
44. Yes Giantess- The Ruins
45. The Twelves- Works For Me
46. Wolf Parade- Yulia
47. Robyn- Hang with Me
48. Au Revoir Simone- Tell Me (Clock Opera Remix)
49. HEALTH- Nice Girls (Little Loud Remix)
50. Mumford & Sons- The Cave