everything you missed about the second to last year of the world.
2010 was pretty great year, especially since I started to really live the great American dream. Porn and music are pretty much the only reason the internet should exist or does exist, and why not have them both in one centralized place? Yupp, thank Rich Moms for that one. Not only will you find out about the new Myelin Sheaths record, but you can now jack off while listening to it. Pretty exciting advance on the part of the great people of America. Now we can celebrate by checking out some of the best full lengths of 2010. The following releases are so fucking perfect, that I tried to write 4u. I tried so hard. Kinda not in any order although Juan Wauters & Pill Wonder are number one.
let's get married, please.
Juan Wauters from Jackson Heights, New York.
This Is Uruguay Radio is probably the greatest thing released since Nickelback's Dark Horse LP. Most of the tracks are sweet love songs written by Juan Wauters of the Beets featuring Matt Vols, the staple artist of the Beets, in the background playing the piccolo, an added touch that makes a world of magic and brilliance. The lyrics are simple and charged with clever satire, but are tangled in a realm of complexities too difficult for the heart to conceive. It's all too brilliant to even write about or to even understand, but at the surface it's just catchy lo-fi pop music and that in itself is probably just enough.
that beach house record.
Pill Wonder from Seattle, WA.
Honestly, I can't even pretend to write about Jungle/Surf. It's too perfect to be described with bullshit words that I don't even understand. Jungle/Surf is just short of being twenty minutes, but feels like the most perfect and complete piece released in 2010. You can listen to a track here and there from all the other releases on this list, but Jungle/Surf is a record that cries to be enjoyed from start to finish. Can your record do that? Nah, son.
did you make it inside the music hall of williamsburg? i think i see diddy.
Women from Calgary Alberta, Canada.
Public Strain has some of the strangest most mind numbing pop music from the entire year. It's weird and most of the time I have no idea what the fuck I'm hearing, but it's kind of genius.
#iprefer the cheetah girls over high school musical”
Tim Cohen from San Francisco, California.
Tim Cohen is one of the musical masterminds behind the Fresh & Onlys. Cohen's solo material is definitely a departure from the Fresh & Onlys, but it rules so much more. Laugh Tracks has endearing pop numbers that have funky Mexican feeling brass solos and bluesy harmonicas and tons of weird random shit that sounds fantastic. Tim Cohen, you rule.
#2010memories Ending my marriage with @Black_success and putting him on Child support!
Andrew Cedermark from Charlottesville, VA.
The first time I saw Andrew Cedermark was at Market Hotel where he played a set with lots of looping and the only merch he had for sale was a brown paper bag of home grown tomatoes and some demo tracks burnt onto a blank CD. Now he's playing shows with a full band and has a brilliant full length record that is probably one of the most wonderful things I've heard all year.
my #2010memories : @justinbieber concert and when he followed me<3>
Myelin Sheaths from Alberta, Canada.
Oh man I was so excited when I realized these kids were releasing a full length. Gritty sugary punk jams, what could be better? I was kind of obsessed with their 7" from 2009 and the LP is nothing short of that. Every song on Get on Your Nerves is raw and awesome and I just want to make love to it, all of it.
#iprefer shopping as my high #abovetheinfluence
The Feeling of Love from Paris, France.
It seems like Acid Baby Jesus was the gateway to a handful of amazing bands. The Feeling of Love toured with them around Greece a while back. OK Judge Revival is full of trippy psychedelic garage punk. Paris is really killing it with this shit.
#iprefer "this aint burger king u cant have it ur way" over any other fastfood joke lol
White Fence from San Francisco, California.
White Fence is the project of Tim Presley, a dope artist and member of the Strange Boys. The White Fence LP is full of warped nostalgia that sounds like it could have been something extracted from the 60's. Every song is bedroom pop at it's best. Someone once told me that as a college radio music director, it's my job to come up with dumb genres like chill wave, so I've dubbed White Fence as hillbilly chime gaze hymns. I think that genre is kind of rad.
"He just my thirdd periodd boo" "Well you just lost yaa thirdd periodd boo" #2010memories
Acid Baby Jesus from Athens, Greece.
This band was the gateway to a better future, or at least better jams. Without Acid Baby Jesus, I probably wouldn't be into Crash Normal, The Feeling of Love, or my dearest BAZOOKA. If you haven't heard of this band yet, they've got a US release coming up soon and they will take over your world. Every jam on this tape rules and if they've got any left, you should email the band ASAP to get one.
#2010memories Lost 'n' found myself.
JC Satan from Paris, France.
I told you, the French are really fucking killing it. Despite the handful of tracks that took a while to get into, Sick of Love offers up some of the greatest, catchiest garage pop jams of the year. I'm so in love with this tight little Paris garage rock scene. I'm probably just going to move to there and become a mega-groupie. Also, most under-appreciated record of 2010? I think so.
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