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Frank Jones schrieb:
1. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
This album is named so perfectly. Favorite tracks include “Electric Feel” and “Kids”. Sometimes with an 80s electro-feel. I can’t put into words how off-guard I was caught the first time I heard Oracular Spectacular.
2. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
One million plus fans (in one week) can’t be wrong, right? Jokes aside, eff the haters, I think Lil Wayne made a great pop album. Plus it was hilarious to see all the positive press that Wayne got on this album. This might be just a guilty pleasure… but it’s a damn good one if you ask me! Hell, dude more than doubled-up Kanye when you compare both of their first-week numbers! That is hilarious to me!
3. Portishead – Third
I was a Portishead fan the first time I heard Dummy. after a 10 year hiatus, Portishead finally released another album. It might take the average listener more than a few listens to get into “Third”, but this album made my Top 10 list on nostalgia alone! This trip-hop album fills a void that I haven’t felt since Portishead’s last release.
4. Santogold – s/t
This former A&R exec knocked me on my ass with her debut. At times a little MIA-ish, but an entertaining listen every time!
5. Vampire Weekend – s/t
Despite sounding as white as possible, there’s something about their music that is definitely Afro-pop influenced as well.
6. Girl Talk – Don’t Feed The Animals
Mash-ups can’t be done any better. And I know a lot of folks HATE mash-ups…but Girl Talk does such an amazing job choosing the songs he uses for his mixes that it’s sure to make the listener go back and say “did he really just use…?” more than a few times!
7. Al Green
Who would’ve thought that this legend might have released the best R&B album of the year? I’m not kidding…
8. Q-Tip – The Renaissance
Wow. It took forever for Q-Tip to release the follow-up to his first solo-effort, but man was this album worth the wait! In my humble-opinion, Q-Tip did a great job of making me feel like I would feel when I listened to ATCQ back in the day, while still having as “modern” of a sound that one would ever want from this legend.
9. Buff1 – There’s Only One
Okay, so I troll a lot of blogs and sites like Okayplayer, and happened to notice there were two new-comers this year that seemed to get a lot of love in the blog-o-sphere at some point this summer. One of which was Buff1, the other being Mickey Factz. Mickey Factz seemed to disappear as quickly as he showed up, but this dude Buff1 seemed to continue to pop-up. This album really snuck on my list this year, and I probably would’ve slept on Buff1 if it wasn’t for a dope review on Okayplayer, and all the blog-love this kid was getting. I end up finding out that this is his second album a year after his debut Pure, and if he keeps making albums like this, dude is going to be around for a long time.
10. N.E.R.D – Seeing Sounds
Finishing up the top 10 is Skateboard P and the crew. You can’t count on Pharrell to come through with a thorough full length when he’s working by himself, but when N.E.R.D. comes together you always get an all around solid effort. It’s hard to place them higher in the list, becuase their reputation sets the bar kind of high, but from the minute I heard, “Hundred dolla bills, look achoo look achoo”, they were on the top 10 radar.