Top tens for 2010: Tobias Hellkvist (Pixie Carnation)
Some of these are probably from 2009 but this is what I've been enjoying this year:
ALBUMS:
The National - High Violet
Danny Paul Grody - Fountain
On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
David Tagg - Pentecost
The Sight Below - Glider
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Corey Fuller - Seas Between
Chihei Hatakeyama - Ghostly Garden + A Long Journey
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Ludwig Bell - Jag Har Försökt Förklara
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ali & Toumani
Christopher Hipgrave - Slow, With Pages Of Fluttering Interference
ALSO:
S. Carey - All We Grow
Fabio Orsi - Winterreise
Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
Midlake - The Courage of Others
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Aloha - Home Acres
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies, Vol IV
Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme
TOP LIVE MOMENT:
Broken Social Scene - Guilty Cubicles (@ Vega, Copenhagen)
TOP FESTIVAL MEMORY:
Mumford & Sons + Local Natives + LCD Soundsystem - (@ Way Out West)
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Tobias Hellkvist is an accomplished solo artist whose latest work "Evolutions" came out this year. He also plays in the band Pixie Carnation who will be releasing their full-length debut in 2011.
http://www.tobiashellkvist.com/
http://www.pixiecarnation.com/