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Best of 2010 - 10 to 6

Well, now, after much delay the case, start with those who for me were the top ten best albums that came out this year. For those interested (and lazy to google), this year I put a link so you can download the album. Notice in advance that I will not go up but the googling and looking for other places, so if you fall I do not look.

10 - Cathy Davey - "The Nameless"
knew of the existence of Cathy Davey because I read that Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) had helped to compose a song that appears on this album. The truth is that if you do not say that this song is "Army of tears", you would not know what it is. This rare genre called "chamber pop" (stupid name if any), epitomized by The Divine Comedy, is quietly making pop songs that could be part of a Broadway musical. Davey does not have an orchestra of one hundred and forty violins accompanying violins, but does not. His staging is more austere (along with the idea of \u200b\u200ba musical), and the emphasis is on his childlike voice. There is a childish tone in the album (especially "Happy slapping" and "Dog"), while it seems that the man bag is to get out from under the bed ready to attack. Perfect album for a rainy winter day or an autumn afternoon, while walking down the street kicking leaves the mountains of knowing that a neighbor is watching you.
Clicking here you can download the album.

9 - Aqualung - "Magnetic North"
Personally, I do not understand why success is so elusive to him Aqualung (whose real name is Matt Hales). Is as good as winning the Quini, writes ballads that of, Ponele, Coldplay, experimentation can play without going to hell as he goes to Radiohead. And yet, he formula "Cute guy who plays the piano" to do so famous. In his previous album terribly bored playing the guitar and singing softly, if this album was by that wave was going to be a disaster. But "Magnetic North" sounds more like "Memory man", with lots of sound effects, voices and violins are processed next to the piano. But the difference lies in the influences: there is an air of the '60s and '70s throughout the album, courtesy of the black backing vocals on "New friend" or the playful chorus of "Fingertip." Special mention two issues. First, "Hummingbird," which begins as if the piano had been playing the same three notes and had had four minutes Hales drive to silence him. The second song that stands out is "Reel me in, I do not know why it reminds me to Peter Gabriel for his first solo album.
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8 - Joanna Newsom - "Have One On Me CD1" Joanna Newsom
is exaggerated. When you do not take out a disk with 16 minute songs, you out a triple album. Logically, it always ends like having too much things that do not work. Of the three discs of "Have One On Me", which I really liked and listened with pleasure is the first, the other two hit a plunger me comatose. "Have One On Me" has as its main attraction Joanna Newsom sings like no a cat attacked by a pack of hyenas with adenoids, but now sounds like a human. And he is very good, because the truth still hard for me to hear some songs from their first album. The new voice of sweetness Newsom has stated that need songs like "Easy" or "Baby birch." "'81" Is the usual Joanna Newsom, voice and harp alone, and if it is a beautiful song captures all the attention the issues that have an orchestra, as the already named "Easy" or "Have one on me ". But all the applause they are taken "Good Intentions Paving Company, the perfect and undreamt of Kate Bush to Joni Mitchell.
Clicking here you can download the entire disc, but clicking here you get off only CD1.

7 - Dawn Kinnard - "Wrong Side Of The Dream"
'm in love with "The Courtesy Fall ', the debut album Dawn Kinnard. The album is a drop side by side, each song is filled with sadness and resignation, and voiced Kinnards shit does not help to think otherwise. "Wrong Side Of The Dream" is a tad more cheerful, even with songs that are called "Indescribably blue" or "My favorite ghost" (the saddest song on the disc). Kinnard's voice is more falls and broken before, and that you realize just the first song. The music, except few exceptions, German cabaret sounds more like, Tom Waits. And the comparison to Tom Waits is very successful, not only because they both sing as if gargling with studs making but because "Wrong Side ..." has the same atmosphere as any of the albums Waits "Mule Variations" for later. In that sense, it emphasizes "Death is a shark" that sounds like ... well, like this: as you're in the middle of the sea drunk after a shipwreck and a shark begins to circle around you.
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6 - Sarah Harmer - "Oh Little Fire"
Thank god! Sarah Harmer gave up his experiments with bluegrass and returned to doing what it does best: contemporary folk, with choruses gancheros, voices overlap and then separate in different ways and metaphors that only they understand ("I did not go to Washington , INSTEAD I swept the floor "). "Oh Little Fire" sounds a bit more electric in the first half, if there is even a bit of distortion on "Captive" (song that I've caught myself whistling down the middle of the street as if nothing else). It's an album optimistic but not happy, happy but at the point just hard not to be a jerk. It is ideal to sing while cooking, courtesy of slogans such as "Late Bloomer" or "One match" (which actually has no chorus, but has the phrase "If I Had only one match left Would I try to light a fire under you", that's cool).
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Best of 2010 - Honorable Mentions

This year I decided to make a top 10 with the disc that I liked, was outside this Puchito record that, under explicit reasons, failed to be on that list. However, discs are highly recommended for those with desire to hear something new and good.

Tift Merritt - "See You On The Moon"
On this album there are two essential things: inspiration and emotion. The Merritt does that odious pop folk are so fond of the Yankees, but she goes well. Beautiful singing, the lyrics are simple and straightforward, and when he sings you'll note that I'm sorry you're saying (something that not many years ago, for example, Jewel). The production is austere, there is little but well used. There are no excesses of any kind, all is well calculated and placed neatly ... and therein lies the problem disk. Having such beautiful songs as "Six more days of rain", "Papercut" and (especially) "Mixtape", the almost obsessive thoroughness in music takes away spontaneity to the disk and towards the end everything ends up diluted. Same disc is a nice background to a meeting. Unfortunately disc is a nice background to a meeting.

Paula Cole - "Ithaca"

complicated I was very, very hard to talk about the new Paula Cole. It is a mine capable of writing things grosísimas, themes with great lyrics great ("I have a piece of my soul in the sole of your shoe"), sung with an unstoppable force ... and yet always ends up doing something to shit his records. "This Fire", his masterpiece of 1996, his lungs had a couple of really disturbing. After forgettable made two albums, with a break in between to raise her daughter. And this year, almost without warning, came out "Ithaca." Those who had heard said it was a return to "This Fire", and half of the album are right. "The hard way", "Something I've gotta say," Come on inside "and" Music in Me "(Best of the disc) have such force that Paula Cole gave the recognition he deserved. But at the same time flagging and sends a kitsch like "Waiting on a miracle" or unjustifiable "Sex." Paula did it again, both the good and bad. Same, only for "Music in Me" is worth the drive. Note

deserves what is in the middle of the album: half serious and half in joke, it sends a "prenup", a song whose chorus is cortita "prenup baby, go baby prenup" and spelling the name ends the subject. She laughs at the end, but I do I remove my WTF face.

Kate Nash - "My Best Friend Is You"
This girl carries the karma of having made a very good song ("Foundations") in a time when girls with little piano and enojaditas lots of pop production became fashionable. It was not rock, it was not pop, it was not too upset but it was not too happy. I have understood that to Kate Nash label fits perfectly on one hit wonder, but they still pulled out a second album (which obviously was not released here, but brings a suicide in February) that against all odds is fine. Pros: this disc was not what was happening in the first, that when finished could not distinguish a subject from the other. This may be merit in production, the guitars sound more dirty and the voice does not sound as polished (especially in "I just love you more", which seems an issue of Yoko Ono), there are violins that create environments. Cons: Kate neglected letters. Not that it really so important, as is the case Chumbawamba album. But the strong suit of "Made Of Bricks" were those chronicles of daily life he had written and sung with so much resignation. If ever Kate Nash album gets a release combining the power that has "My Best Friend Is You" with the vision of poet who shone in "Made Of Bricks", the mine will be very successful. Meanwhile, enjoy this disquito. It is recommended in doses with strong volume and lots of energy to download.

Ida Maria - "Katla"

And after that incredible piercing cry of "Oh my god" and the other great new songs that had their first album, what could I do Ida Maria? The answer is neither good start "Katla" send to hell and keep doing what comes out of my ass. The first theme is a little calm valsesito, light years ahead of what to expect from Norway. To "Bad Karma" and we have the Ida Maria we all know, shouting, trying to survive a mountain of dirty guitars that smash. If you can make a comparison, this album is more the thread of "I Like You So Much Better When You're naked" than "Oh my god", which would not be wrong because "I like you ..." is a very good song and its sequels here makes you really move the leg (especially "Cherry red"). There are punk to move the leg and dance happy, but sometimes Ida Maria simply loses his way and do not understand what to do. In "I eat boys like you for breakfast" there trumpets and castanets, and do not understand if the topic is a parody or if done in earnest. "Devil" is fine, but the final stretches, stretches and stretches and ends touching the ten minutes! at least half would have been more than good. I do not know what happened on this record, and that leaves me feeling "Katla" at the end is that Ida Maria does not know.

Chumbawamba - "ABCDEFG"

If a band is difficult to comment, that is Chumbawamba. It costs a lot to tell when they're serious because the entire time they are to fuck. The closest thing to a serious issue was "Tubthumping", and yet this song was an absolute pit alive. Chumbawamba previous albums (which are many, many, many) all time walking the line between the frenetic punk and alternative rock of the '90s, the exception is perhaps "Inglés Rebel Songs 1381-1914", an album with songs sung a capella nineteenth century, many of them written by workers and soldiers of that era. Yes, the same people who made "Tubthumping." "ABCDEFG" could relate a bit to "Inglés Rebel ...": the focus is on the voices (vocal harmonies are everywhere) and letters. The instruments that were once violent distorted guitars and drums, are now just an acoustic guitar here, a little piano over there, in such cases "at the Wagner opera" minimalism is going to end and everything is a scraper, a can and a whistle. According to the same Chumbawamba, "ABCDEFG" is an album about music, but the funny thing is that the focus is on the letters. If you do not have the letters by hand, many do not understand what it's disc. But well worth the effort to sit down and pay attention to songs like "Torturing James Hetfield" or "Dance, Idiot, Dance."

Charlotte Sometimes - "Sideways EP"

This girl was hired by a major label, did a very good pop album ("Waves And The Both Of Us"), the disc did not work, seal rescinded the contract (although the fault was theirs because they did not get promotion that corresponded) and she stayed in Pampa and the track. Charlotte Sometimes formula is good, with falsetto vocals, lyrics fucking depressed and choruses that run almost forever. Without departing from that formula, the EP (released independently and digital editing as it gave the same Charlotte in Facebook) shows that not having the pressure of the seal was given carte blanche to compose. You can tell the league that is not pressure to have a hit, and it falls incredibly well, the clearest example is "Ooh love", where the voice of Charlotte and a cushion of strings oscillate nervously throughout the song, something hardly can be heard on a pop album today today. Two other gems are "Call me up" and "Bad bad world", but the whole EP is great. Why is only an indication and not included it in the list? Well they are only six songs. If the next disc Charlotte Sometimes maintains this level will be a favorite in my collection of heads.

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The Worst of 2010 disks

already reached that time of year in which the sick boy do lists about what we liked and least liked us in the year. Sick boy's class to which I belong make lists of records.

These are some records that came out in 2010 and topped that are a mess. However, there is a reason are here: they are a total disappointment. Or because I was very excited with a song or artist I like because I wanted that I liked and ended up hating.


Weezer - "Hurley"
For the sake, "Hurley" has the best cover of the year. Too bad the cover is the only trace of originality on the disc. Rivers Cuomo is a genius, all that had been taking until now seemed little round. This album is less inspired than a disc Maria Martha Serra Lima. Not even a chorus hits you, there's not a nice melody, no song that say "Look what crazy what they did here. "Weezer I always imagined a college band to listen, this album seems pendejito own 12 years who believes that Green Day are bigger than God.

Klaxons - "Surfing The Void"
Klaxons The first album I listened while he is all scratched (although it continues to listen well, and that's rare). I knew they would not be able to match it, but I figured that I would be bored both. The cover is cute and
the video for "Twin Flames" (you can see by clicking here) is incredible. The songs, no.

Lou Rhodes - "One Good Thing"
The name of this album is a big lie. Earlier this year, Lamb's new album comes out, so I scored beans that.

The Hoosiers - "The Illusion Of Safety"
Your band released their first album relatively successful and well received by critics, which mixes rock with the Dresden Dolls cabaret and a falsetto on the Thom Yorke. It is a rare mix your band makes it work. Then, for the second album, what you do is ... Berreta pop "which sounds like the new album by The Symbol? What happened here? "Devil's in the details" is fine, but the rest is one big mess.

Evelyn Evelyn - "Evelyn Evelyn"
Amanda Palmer. And Jason Webley. Tell a story of two twins that are going on tour as freaks. Theoretically, could not fail. Amanda is very theatrical, his forte is his performance when he sings his lyrics. Jason always be the delves to give a gloomy thing to their songs. The story is booked. And yet, the disc is a bofe. There is nothing worse than a person wanting to be the funny when it is not. That happens to every one of the songs, looking at the complicity of the listener, not because they have found what. The progress of the disk is going to take Amanda year that is not promising, and over this year also skewered with a Radiohead album covers with ukulele. So everything wrong with the former Dresden Dolls. Brian, I re banks.

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