When people publish top ten of the year summary lists, normally I cringe at the choices and often in fact pass the opportunity to read for something more favorable. So, not particularly one for making favorites lists myself either, I suppose it is the end of a decade and things do need summarising and pigeon-holing, therefore…
Albums that I most respect or stayed in my playlist pretty consistently during the last ten years…
- Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
- Low - Long Division
- Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
- Cat Power - The Covers Record
- Gravenhurst - Fires In Distant Buildings
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
- At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
- Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
- Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Though if you read my Last.FM it may spin you other lies. Over the last ten years I’ve enjoyed a heady mix of indie-rock, electro, electronica, house, grime and UK garage. I tried hard to get a full electronica album onto the list, but it really is quite tough to name something that is either good or relevant all the way through, nor many that I could stomach anymore. The decade was won by Interpol in the end though, Turn On The Bright Lights I must have listened to at least weekly since its release in ’02.
Anyway, so buh-bye 2009 and the ’0os respectively, it’s been fun.
