So on my own end-of-year favourite albums list I mentioned the Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites award, which my fellow blogger Peenko organises and awards each year. The award is gained via consensus from the writers asked, and the top ten is worked out (I presume) by aggregating the scores given by everyone involved.
Since I’m not in Edinburgh and I haven’t posted in a while, I’m gonna leave for the new year with the two bands I was sort-of going to cover then didn’t buy the albums of, et cetera.
The Last Battle featured at number 8 on the Scottish BAMS and, although I wanted to write about them I never got round to finding their bandcamp. Nevertheless Edinburgh Man played them in last week’s podcast which I just listened to again, and they’re great, a little delicate jangly folk act. If you liked Randolph’s Leap you’ll like this.
Withered Hand are quite well known in Edinburgh so it’s silly I still haven’t seen, or heard them. If y0u google “withered hand” all you get is links to one of the psalms, some crap about one of Robin Hood’s Merry Men and an Atlanta death/black metal band called Withered. Apparently they’re the future of heavy metal, but that doesn’t distinguish from the fact that they’re all overweight and ponytailed. You can’t be the future of anything if you have a ponytail. But I digress; here is the link.
So, Dauphin Digital Magazine got asked to submit a top ten albums of 2010 to fellow interweb spider Peenko a while back, so that they could compile their list of the 30 best albums of the year from all the different Scottish bloggers/music sites. Contributions came also from: Timothy London, Jock N Roll, The Daily Dose,Resound Scotland, The Steinberg Principle,Dauphin, Hercules Moments, Argos Barks, The Web Is Not A Cold Dead Place, The Tidal Wave Indifference, Ed Rock, Off the Beaten Tracks, Found In Sound, Elba Sessions, Kowalskiy, Have Fun At Dinner, Ayetunes, Edinburgh Man, 17 Seconds,Scots Whay Hae, Open Till Midnight, Products of a Gaseous Brain, The Spill, Last Years Girl, Is This Music, JockRock, Dear Scotland, Manic Pop Thrills,Favourite Son, Peenko, Jim Gellatly, My Portis Wasp says, Never Make Friends, Detour, Jenny Soep, Net Sounds Unsigned, Listen Before You Buy, Song By Toad, The Daily Growl, Earz Mag, Glasgow Podcart,Rokbun, The Pop Cop, Pin Up Nights, Traffic Cone Music, Radar and Blueback Hotrod.
That’s an awful block of orange hyperlinks and I’m sorry for your eyes. But nevertheless, here’s the list of the top 30 albums below.
1. The National – High Violet
2. Admiral Fallow – Boots Met My Face
3. Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
4. Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
5. Kid Canaveral – Shouting at Wildlife
6. The Phantom Band – The Wants
7. The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
8. The Last Battle – Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea
9. Broken Records – Let Me Come Home
10. Bronto Skylift – The White Crow
11. Beach House – Teen Dream
12. The Fire & I – Stampede Finale
13. Sufjan Stevens – Age Of Adz
14. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
15. Best Coast – Crazy For You
16. Mitchell Museum – The Peters Port Memorial Service
17. Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
18. The Scottish Enlightenment – St Thomas
19. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
20. Jonsi – go do
21. RM Hubbert – First & Last
22. Errors – Come Down With Me
23. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
24. Sleigh Bells – Treats
25. The Boy Who Trapped The Sun – Fireplace
26. Micah P Hinson and the Pioneer Saboteurs
27. Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
28. How To Swim – Retina (Or More Fun Than A Vat Of Love)
29. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
30. Silver Columns – Yes and Dance
There’s a bit more info at Peenko’s site itself about a Spotify playlist amongst other things. Do you reckon the list did 2010 justice? Or are the BAMS just a load of bollocks?
