musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 4 – Caribou – Swim

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4. Caribou – Swim (City Slang) 2010 is the year when Dan Snaith’s project has seen its profile rise several notches in the UK. This is...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 7 – Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

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7. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (4AD) Halcyon Digest is a difficult album to discuss, and at times, it’s a difficult listen. But the genius of Deerhunter’s...

musicOMH’s Most Read Album Reviews: 2010 Q2

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Good gracious. Half of 2010 has been and gone. Where does the time go? In the last three months the passing of time has been...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 8 – Foals – Total Life Forever

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8. Foals – Total Life Forever (Warner) Rather than become a weight around their necks, the big second album has proved a catalyst for Foals. Being...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 9 – Four Tet – There Is Love In You

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9. Four Tet – There Is Love In You (Domino) In a year heavily weighted with forward-thinking (if tightly-budgeted) electro, the always forward-thinking Kieran Hebden turned...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 30-21

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30. Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise (Rough Trade) What we said: “This is a special album, make no doubt about it, casting its spell as...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: The Making Of A Chart

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Daniel Paton’s excellent piece contextualising the pitfalls of compiling a definitive albums of the year chart from a hivemind of disparate writers explains why such...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 50-41

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50. Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner (Notown) What we said: “An album full of interesting sounds, from unusual cut up vocal samples to clanging percusssion or...

musicOMH’s Most Read Album Reviews: 2010 Q3

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The Top 50 album reviews of 2010 Q3 is a chart of readership in our album reviews section between July and September 2010. Only reviews...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 40-31

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40. Allo Darlin’ – Allo Darlin’ (Fortuna POP!) What we said: “Their timing couldn’t be better; the Aussie portion of the band bring a ray of...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 20-11

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20. Field Music – Field Music (Measure) (Memphis Industries) What we said: “Field Music have never sounded so focused. For the most part, this is an...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Albums Of 2010: 5 – Beach House – Teen Dream

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5. Beach House – Teen Dream (Bella Union) Teen Dream was released almost a year ago, but its shimmering tones seared into memory immediately and have...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2009: 40-31

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40. Shirley Bassey – The Performance (Polydor) With songs by Rufus Wainwright, Pet Shop Boys and Richard Hawley, the Dame from Tiger Bay returned with...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2009: The Top Three

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3. The xx – xx (XL) No sooner had the Putney band surfaced with their whispery, self-titled debut than keyboard player Baria Qureshi had left,...

musicOMH’s Most Read Album Reviews: 2009 Q3

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After 2009 Q1 and 2009 Q2 it is with a certain inevitability that Q3’s Top 50 Most Read Album Reviews chart gets compiled, has some...

musicOMH’s Most Read Album Reviews: 2009 Q1

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Herewith, a snapshot of musicOMH readers’ viewing habits – the Top 50 album reviews most read in January, February and March 2009. The album reviews...

musicOMH’s Most Read Album Reviews: 2009 Q2

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Time for another snapshot of musicOMH readers’ viewing habits, seeing as the 2009 Q1 piece seemed to go down rather well. Below you’ll find the...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2009: 10-4

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10. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (Warp) Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear’s third studio album, named after an island off Cape Cod,...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2009: 20-11

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20. tUnE-yArDs – BiRd BrAiNs (4AD) A typist’s nightmare, Merill Garbus’s fiercely female and maternal debut runs the gamut from Africa to Jamaica via a...

musicOMH’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2009: 50-41

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The 16th album by the Daydream Nation creators was their first in three years after a label change. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore remain the...