Slant Magazine Best of 2010

Slant Magazine Best of 2010

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23.

May 18, 2010
Critic Score
83
38 reviews
As good as this record is (and it is often very good), LCD Soundsystem can do, and has done, much better.

22.

January 11, 2010
Critic Score
79
37 reviews

20.

October 19, 2010
Critic Score
77
21 reviews

Despite its conceptual underpinnings, Love Remains never sounds overburdened by theory.

18.

May 4, 2010
Critic Score
85
35 reviews

Steve Ellison may be all kinds of intellectual, but on Cosmogramma he never loses sight of the less reflective pleasures of his craft.

17.

September 28, 2010
Critic Score
83
37 reviews

Halcyon Digest’s finest moment suggests that Deerhunter will get by just fine without the histrionics.

16.

Lizz Wright - Fellowship
September 28, 2010
Critic Score
70
1 review

15.

January 26, 2010
Critic Score
83
36 reviews

Like “Norway,” a mini masterpiece of vocal and musical interplay, Teen Dream boldly complies the subtle and the overt.

14.

April 20, 2010
Critic Score
82
35 reviews

Swim’s songs are fully evocative of the stylistic struggles that the band has come to represent.

13.

Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude
March 29, 2010
Critic Score
73
6 reviews

12.

January 12, 2010
Critic Score
77
22 reviews

With Heartland, Owen Pallett officially lays the Final Fantasy moniker to rest.

11.

October 12, 2010
Critic Score
77
34 reviews
Stevens’s conceptual obsessions continue on this trippy, orchestrated journey that is, in two words, beautifully neurotic.

10.

March 3, 2010
Critic Score
82
40 reviews

To handpick highlights from Plastic Beach should be considered lofty praise indeed; this is an album where the mind-boggling and the mind-blowing are wall to wall. Its brilliance adopts many guises throughout its 16 tracks.

9.

January 19, 2010
Critic Score
77
23 reviews
The album is a creamy, luscious sequence of classically structured pop-funk tracks glittering with Lindstrøm’s trademark brand of space dust.

8.

August 3, 2010
Critic Score
88
43 reviews

Another triumph of emotional generosity from the most humane and vital rock group of our generation.

7.

July 6, 2010
Critic Score
81
31 reviews

Sir Lucious Left Foot succeeds as both a character summation and a declaration of independence.

6.

April 23, 2010
Critic Score
73
30 reviews
They’ve moved on from huffing paint thinner to farting in your mouth while you are sleeping. The differences are subtle, but the key advance made is one of generosity.

5.

May 18, 2010
Critic Score
79
33 reviews
The album is as ferocious and soulful an exploration of contemporary blues as anything in recent memory.

4.

May 11, 2010
Critic Score
83
38 reviews
If it’s Sleigh Bells’s hooks versus your ear drums, I have a feeling the latter’s going to give out first.

3.

May 18, 2010
Critic Score
86
33 reviews

She's turned out a landmark debut that contains a full LP's worth of excellent songs and almost no bad ones, and she's done it entirely on her own highly idiosyncratic terms. And where her ambition just barely gets the better of her abilities, she puts on such a relentlessly entertaining show that you can certainly understand why she thought she could pull the whole thing off.

2.

November 22, 2010
Critic Score
83
20 reviews

Robyn’s Body Talk is one of the year’s finest, most progressive pop albums, but it’s also something of a minor letdown as a standalone project.

1.

November 22, 2010
Critic Score
91
45 reviews

No rap album I've heard can boast better production than this one. The music is exhilarating, often abrasive, never predictable, at times stunningly gorgeous. These are the finest tracks that any group of rappers has yet to rhyme over.

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