Prefix's Best Albums of 2010

Prefix's Best Albums of 2010

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40.

November 22, 2010
Critic Score
83
20 reviews

39.

September 28, 2010
Critic Score
79
28 reviews

37.

September 14, 2010
Critic Score
77
13 reviews

36.

June 22, 2010
Critic Score
77
21 reviews

33.

March 9, 2010
Critic Score
71
21 reviews

32.

The Foreign Exchange - Authenticity
October 12, 2010
Critic Score
74
6 reviews

30.

October 5, 2010
Critic Score
78
19 reviews

29.

June 21, 2010
Critic Score
82
11 reviews

27.

October 25, 2010
Critic Score
80
10 reviews

26.

September 14, 2010
Critic Score
71
10 reviews

25.

September 21, 2010
Critic Score
81
26 reviews
This music, though, it’s almost anti-music in spots. In a good way. It strips away all the comforting structures we know and leaves us awash in harsh emotion.

24.

June 29, 2010
Critic Score
77
18 reviews

23.

January 11, 2010
Critic Score
79
37 reviews

22.

February 9, 2010
Critic Score
80
31 reviews

20.

June 22, 2010
Critic Score
81
23 reviews

Gone are the frantic raps, menacing synths, and general hardness of the band's past three albums. In their place is a mellow approximation of the jazzy, old-school charm of The Roots circa Things Fall Apart.

19.

May 18, 2010
Critic Score
86
33 reviews

In spite of the album’s potential obesity at 18 tracks of wildly different musical ideas, the three keep the weight off by welcoming coherence and by evenly spreading out their interests.

18.

September 14, 2010
Critic Score
79
31 reviews

17.

January 19, 2010
Critic Score
75
23 reviews

16.

October 12, 2010
Critic Score
77
34 reviews
Each pass cements that Stevens has done the impossible yet again: He's released another album that's both genre-defining and genre-defying.

13.

February 23, 2010
Critic Score
85
34 reviews

Have One on Me isn't at all a ploy for greater likability. It's an affecting, indulgent, and thoroughly fleshed-out monument to Newsom's considerable ambition.

10.

May 4, 2010
Critic Score
85
35 reviews

Even though the steady presence of featured performances helps beautify Cosmogramma, this is essentially Ellison's crowning achievement. The album is sequenced with a sense of purpose, evidential from the promo being presented as a long continuous track.

8.

August 3, 2010
Critic Score
88
43 reviews

Arcade Fire, because they’re really this damn good, are among the very few indie bands that could attempt a 65-minute album about the philosophical quandaries of the suburbs and pull it off completely.

7.

May 18, 2010
Critic Score
83
38 reviews

This Is Happening is a record that knows -- made by a band that knows -- that disco is better when it's just not so satisfied with itself.

6.

September 28, 2010
Critic Score
83
37 reviews
As they've made it to their fourth album, they've quickly become one of indie's most reliable bands, each new album bringing the promise of some of the year's best music.

5.

January 26, 2010
Critic Score
83
36 reviews

The greatest success of Teen Dream ... is its thematic connection ... Teen Dream is concerned with nostalgia for love lost with time; the kind of love that can be explained only by harmonious moans; and the kind of devotion their last album only touched on.

4.

May 11, 2010
Critic Score
83
38 reviews

The best part of Treats is that it makes you rethink the possibilities of this kind of music. It is possible for a former girl-group member and a former hardcore guitarist to get together to make an album that is more daring and more fun than anything you'll likely hear on Top 40 radio this year.

3.

May 10, 2010
Critic Score
84
37 reviews

High Violet is one of those rare albums where a band’s rising profile and rising talent meet in a perfect storm of anticipation and excellence.

1.

November 22, 2010
Critic Score
91
45 reviews

With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West has lurched to the vanguard of modern mainstream music.

Original Source: http://www.prefixmag.com/features/best-albums-2010/prefixs-top-40-albums-2010-40-31/46563/
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