Top tens for 2010: Mattias Alkberg (The Bear Quartet)
Best Albums of 2010
Burzum – Belus
Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Stornoway – Beachcomber's Windowsill
Pascal – Orkanen närmar sig
Masshysteri – Masshysteri
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones
Håkan Hellström – 2 steg från paradise
David Sylvian – Sleepwalkers
Electric Wizard – Black Masses
The Sword – Warp Riders
Slöa Knivar – Ingen klass, ingen stil
The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter
Bäddat för Trubbel – Det här är inte New York
Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Fantasy
Salem – King Nights
Setherial – Ekpyrosis
Wolf People – Steeple
Détente - Decline
Most hated in 2010
Eclecticism. I'm sick of it, but guilty as charged. Check list above for proof.
Most Geeky of 2010
I watched all of Battlestar Galactica, all of it, all the webisodes, miniseries, everything. Twice.
Best films of 2010
Monsters
Toy Story 3
Get Him To the Greek
New Garage Explosion
Mogwai - Burning
Best TV of 2010
Rubicon
Caprica
Justified
Walking Dead
Boardwalk Empire
The Big Bang Theory
Best News of 2010
The Ark
Worst News of 2010
Four more years of fascists governing Sweden. And also the above...
Best Things in General 2010
bob hund, NWOBHM, finally getting Danzig, Touring with Nerverna, recording "Monty Python", recording new Nerverna album, Can, GR†LLGR†LL and a lot of that other Witch House or whatever young people call the music of DJ Shadow and Massive Attack nowadays, Brian Eno's German era in the 70's, Grindcore.
And books; I've been reading a lot this year, I'd say 50 books or something. And I've been writing quite a bit. If things work out, it'll be a busy 2011.
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Look for Mattias Alkberg to release a new album with Neverna in 2011, along with a split album with Pascal and who knows? maybe even a new Bear Quartet record as well.
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