The Best Music of 2010 [Honorable Mentions]

We’ll move on to the countdown soon, but in the interest of completeness, let’s name some albums that just missed making the cut, but are no less worthy for having failed to grace the top 15.

The follow records have been recommended by one of the members of our esteemed panel. While these records didn’t earn Honorable Mention trophies, I trust the taste of our panel and I advise you to do the same. Got a hole in your musical soul? These albums may be able to mend it.

Adam Franklin and Bolts of Melody – I Could Sleep For a Thousand Years
The Budos Band – The Budos Band III
Caribou – Swim
Chiddy Bang – The Preview
Citay – Dream Get Together
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
Dean and Britta – 13 Most Beautiful…Songs from Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
Drake – Thank Me Later
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Gayngs – Relayted
Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer
MGMT – Congratulations
Miniature Tigers – FORTRESS
Minus the Bear – Omni
Neil Young – Le Noise
The Soft Pack – The Soft Pack
Stepdad – Ordinaire EP
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
The Walkmen – Lisbon
Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Got all that? Awesome.

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