FILTER’s Top 10 of 2010: Staff Picks

FILTER's Top 10 of 2010

1. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (DFA/VIRGIN)

2. Beach House, Teen Dream (SUB POP)

3. Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More (GLASSNOTE)

4. The National, High Violet (4AD)

5. The Walkmen, Lisbon (FAT POSSUM)

6. Gorillaz, Plastic Beach (PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN)

7. Surfer Blood, Astro Coast (KANINE)

8. The Black Keys, Brothers (NONESUCH)

9. The Tallest Man on Earth, The Wild Hunt (DEAD OCEANS)

10. Band of Horses, Infinite Arms (BROWN/FAT POSSUM/COLUMBIA)

Honorable Mentions:

Yeasayer, Odd Blood (SECRETLY CANADIAN); Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Before Today (4AD); Best Coast, Crazy For You (MEXICAN SUMMER); Broken Bells, Broken Bells (COLUMBIA); Jónsi, Go (XL); Hot Chip, One Life Stand (EMI)

Top FILTER Magazine Reviews of 2010

91% Band of Horses, Infinite Arms (BROWN/FAT POSSUM/COLUMBIA)

91% Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM (BECAUSE/ELEKTRA)

91% No Age, Everything in Between (SUB POP)

90% Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest (4AD)

89% Pepper Rabbit, Beauregard (KANINE)

88% Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore, Dear Companion (SUB POP)

88% Y La Bamba, Lupon (TENDER LOVING EMPIRE)

88% Rufus Wainwright, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (DECCA)

88% Avi Buffalo, Avi Buffalo (SUB POP)

88% Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz (ASTHMATIC KITTY)

88% Neil Young, Le Noise (REPRISE)

88% RJD2, The Colossus (ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS)

87% Brian Eno, Small Craft on a Milk Sea (WARP)

87% John Grant, Queen of Denmark (BELLA UNION)

87% The Concretes, WYWH (FRIENDLY FIRE)

87% Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me (DRAG CITY)

87% Jakob Dylan, Women and Country (COLUMBIA)

87% The Apples in Stereo, Travellers in Space and Time (YEP ROC)

87% The Morning Benders, Big Echo (ROUGH TRADE)

87% Titus Andronicus, The Monitor (XL)

87% Devo, Duty Now for the Future (WARNER)

87% LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (DFA/VIRGIN)

87% Autolux, Transit Transit (TBD)



FILTER Staff Individual Lists

Alan Sartirana, Publisher

1. Active Child, Curtis Lane EP (FILTER)

2. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (MERGE)

3. The Black Keys, Brothers (NONESUCH)

4. Local Natives, Gorilla Manor (FRENCHKISS)

5. The National, High Violet (4AD)

6. Broken Bells, Broken Bells (COLUMBIA)

7. Vampire Weekend, Contra (XL)

8. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Before Today (4AD)

9. Jónsi, Go (XL)

10. Amusement Parks on Fire, Road Eyes (FILTER)