The Perlich Post's top albums of 2010...

 

1. AfroCubism - AfroCubism (World CIrcuit)
2. Lloyd Miller / The Heliocentrics - OST (Strut)
3. Mochilla Presents Timeless: Mulatu Astatke (Mochilla)
4. Lobi Traore - Rainy Season Blues (Glitterhouse)
5. The Black Keys - Brothers (Warner)
6. Nat Birchall - Guiding Spirit (Gondwana)
7. Lisa O Piu - Behind The Bend (Subliminal Sounds)
8. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green - Apex (Pi Recordings)
9. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
10. David Murray - Plays Nat King Cole en Español (Universal Jazz)
11. Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers - Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)
12. Fern Knight - Castings (vhf)
13. MIA - /\/\/\Y/\ (N.E.E.T./XL)
14. Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabate - Ali and Toumani (World Circuit)
15. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy (Dead Oceans)
16. Franck Biyong & Massak - Voodoolectric Ground (Colored-Inc)
17. Jussi Lampela Nonet featuring Jukka Eskola - Lampela x Eskola (Ricky-Tick)
18. Rusty Willoughby - Cobirds Unite (Local 638 Records)
19. Limiñanas — Limiñanas (Trouble In Mind)
20. Elizabeth Shepherd - Heavy Falls The Night (Do Right!)
21. Neil Young - Le Noise (Reprise) 
22. Seu Jorge and Almaz (Stones Throw)
23. Endless Boogie - Full House Head (No Quarter)
24. Kelly Haigh - Country Western Star (Darling Music)
25. Smoke Fairies - Through Low Light And Trees (V2)
26. Khaira Arby - Timbuktu Tarab (Clermont Music)
27. Peter Case - Wig! (Yep Roc)
28. Skeletons - Smile (Impossible Ark)
29. Voice Of The Seven Thunders - Voice Of The Seven Thunders (Tchantinler)
30. Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful: Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (Double Feature)
31. Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies - Alegrias (Eureka)
32. Myelin Sheaths - Get On Your Nerves (Southpaw)
33. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead (Strut)
34. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (Rough Trade)
35. Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil (Anti)
36. Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain (4AD)
37. Mostly Other People Do The Killing - Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
38. Dungen - Skit I Allt (Subliminal Sounds)
39. Christian Prommer's Drumlesson — Drumlesson Zwei (!K7)
40. Henry Threadgill Zooid - This Brings Us To, Vol. 2 (Pi Recordings)
41. We Are All One, In The Sun: A Tribute To Robbie Basho (Important)
42. Michael Weston King - I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier (Valve)
43. Black Milk - Album of The Year (Decon/Fat Beats)
44. Dylan LeBlanc - Paupers Field (Rough Trade)
45. First Aid Kit - The Big Black and The Blue (Wichita)
46. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Propeller Time (Yep Roc)
47. The Souljazz Orchestra - Rising Sun (Strut)
48. Norma Winstone - Stories Yet To Tell (ECM)
49. The Rizdales - How The Marriage Ended (TNT)
50. Pop. 1280 - The Grid (Sacred Bones)
51. The Ex - Catch My Shoe (Ex Records)
52. The Budos Band - III (Daptone)
53. Wounded Lion - Wounded Lion (In The Red)
54. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
55. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do (ATO)
56. Woima Collective - Tezeta (Kindred Spirits)
57. Marcos Valle - Estática (Far Out)
58. Laura Veirs - July Flame (Raven Marching Band)
59. Johnny Dowd - Wake Up The Snakes (Munich)
60. Dusko Goykovich - 5ive Horns & Rhythm (Enja)
61. C'mon - Beyond The Pale Horse (Blown Speaker/Yeah Right!)
62. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
63. Black Twig Pickers - Ironto Special (Thrill Jockey)
64. Wendy Bird - Natural Wonder (Beaumont Classic)
65. Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz Ensemble — Miles Away (Stones Throw)
66. Ebo Taylor - Love and Death (Strut)
67. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
68. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
69. William Parker - I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity)
70. Charlie Parr - When The Devil Goes Blind (Nero's Neptune)
71. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Rivers (Leaf)
72. Secret Sisters - Secret Sisters (Universal Republic)
73. The Parting Gifts - Strychnine Dandelion (In The Red)
74. Huron - Huron (Latent)
75. Earl Sweatshirt - Earl (OFWGKTA)
76. Doug Paisley - Constant Companion (No Quarter)
77. Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 - Northern Aggression (Yep Roc)
78. Caribou - Caribou Vibration Ensemble featuring Marshall Allen
79. Ty Segall - Melted (Goner)
80. John Zorn - Interzone (Tzadik)
81. Kyra & Tully - Wildlife [In and Out of The City] (Buster)
82. OFF! - The First Four EPs (Vice)
83. Pernice Brothers - Goodbye, Killer (Ashmount)
84. Indigo Jam Unit - Roots (basis)
85. Orgone - Killion Vaults (Ubiquity)
86. The Sadies - Darker Circles (Outside)
87. Azar Lawrence — Mystic Journey (Furthermore)
88. Junip - Fields (Mute)
89. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now (Rough Trade)
90. Jane Weaver - The Fallen By Watch Bird (Bird/B-Music)
91. Asmara All Stars - Eritrea's Got Soul (Out Here)
92. Greenhornes - **** (Third Man)
93. Nottz - You Need This Music (Traffic)
94. Holy Fuck - Latin (Young Turks)
95. Hacienda - Big Red & Barbacoa (Alive)
96. Vowls - In Consonance, Pt. 1 (Polyphasic)
97. Lazer Sword - Lazer Sword (Innovative Leisure)
98. Calibro 35 - Ritornano Quelli Di... (Ghost)
99. Clutchy Hopkins - Storyteller (Ubiquity)
100. Bill Elm & Woody Jackson - Red Dead Redemption (Wax Poetics)