The end of the year brings a list of the year’s favorite releases. Before I list those favorites, it may be helpful to see a list of all the albums listen to at The Wheel’s Still In Spin during 2010.
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T.I. – No Mercy
Tallest Man on Earth – Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird [EP] | Recommended
Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt | Recommended
Tamaryn – The Waves
Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
Tamed Animals – Redefinition
Bibi Tanga and Professeur Inlassable – Dunya
Serj Tankian – Imperfect Harmonies
Camu Tao – King of Hearts
Avey Tare – Down There
Tarja – What Lies Beneath
David Tattersall – Happy For a While
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – The New Bye & Bye
Joanne Shaw Taylor – Diamonds in the Dirt
Otis Taylor – Clovis People, Vol. 3
Tea Leaf Green – Looking West
Team Ghost – You Never Did Anything Wrong to Me [EP]
Tears Run Rings – Distance
Tech N9ne Collabos – The Gates Mixed Plate
Teebs – Ardour
Teenage Fanclub – Shadows | Recommended
Telekinesis – Parallel Seismic Conspiracies [EP] | Recommended
The Telepathic Butterflies – Wow & Flutter
Television Personalities – A Memory Is Better Than Nothing
Tender Forever – No Snare
Tender Trap – Dansette Dansette
Tera Melos – Patagonian Rats
Terror Danjah – Undeniable
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt – I Love You. I Love You and I’m in Love with You. Have an Awesome Day! Have the Best Day of Your Life!
Terry Ohms – What Do You Mean, What Do I Mean?
Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime
Thee Sgt. Major III – The Idea Factory
The Thermals – Personal Life | Recommended
These New Puritans – Hidden
These United States – What Lasts | Recommended
Thieves Like Us – Again & Again
Thinking Machines – Work Tapes
Richard Thompson – Dream Attic [Live]
Paul Thorn – Pimps and Preachers
Those Poor Bastards – Gospel Haunted
Tracey Thorn – Love and Its Opposite
Three Mile Pilot – The Inevitable Past is the Future Forgotten
Yann Tiersen – Dust Lane
Tigers Jaw – Tigers Jaw
Tigers that Talked – The Merchant
J. Tillman – Singing Ax
Tindersticks – Falling Down a Mountain
Tired Pony – The Place We Ran From
Title Tracks – It Was Easy
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
To Rococo Rot – Speculation
Tobacco – Maniac Meat
Tobacco – LA UTI [EP]
Martina Topley-Bird – Some Place Simple
Torche – Songs for Singles
Toro Y Moi – Causers of This
Trans Am – Thing
Travie McCoy – Lazarus
Trek Life – Everything Changed Nothing
Trembling Bells – Abandoned Love
Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong
Tricky – Mixed Race
Tristeza – Paisajes
Walter Trout – Common Ground
Robin Trower – The Playful Heart
Trumans Water – O Zeta Zunis
Truth & Salvage Co. – Truth & Salvage Co.
Tu Fawning – Hearts on Hold
The Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years | Recommended
Tunng – …And Then We Saw Land | Recommended
KT Tunstall – Tiger Suit
Turin Brakes – Outbursts
Turnpike Troubadours – Diamonds & Gasoline
Twin Shadow – Forget
Twin Sister – Color Your Life [EP]
Two Cow Garage – Sweet Saint Me
Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
Two Hours Traffic – Territory
Ty – Special Kind of Fool
Tyler, the Creator – Bastard
Tyvek – Nothing Fits
U.S. Girls – Go Grey
Uffie – Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans
Unbunny – Moon Food
Underworld – Barking
Undo – As Always But Never Before
UNKLE – Where Did the Night Fall
Unnatural Helpers – Cracked Love & Other Drugs
The Upsidedown – The Town with Bad Wiring
Ursa Major – Great Big Light [EP]
Usher – Raymond v Raymond
Valencia – Dancing with a Ghost
Sharon Van Etten – Epic
Mark Van Hoen – Where is the Truth
Vampire Weekend – Contra | Recommended
Various Artists – Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
The Vaselines – Sex with an X
Jimmie Vaughan – Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
Veara – What We Left Behind
Laura Veirs – July Flame
Venetian Snares – My So-Called Life
Versus – On the Ones and Threes
David Vertesi – Cardiography
Viernes – Sinister Devices
Kurt Vile – Square Shells [EP] | Recommended
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
Violens – Amoral
Violent Kin – Velvet Hideout [EP]
Viva Viva – Viva Viva
Rocky Votolato – True Devotion | Recommended
Loudon Wainwright III – 10 Songs for the New Depression
Rufus Wainwright – All Days Are Lights: Songs For Lulu
Butch Walker and the Black Widows – I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
The Walkmen – Lisbon
Paul Wall – Heart of a Champion
Richard Walters – The Animal
The War on Drugs – Future Weather
Warpaint – The Fool
Washed Out – Life of Leisure [EP]
The Watson Twins – Talking to You, Talking to Me
Wavves – King of the Beach
Wax Fang – La La Land
We Are Scientists – Barbara
We Are the In Crowd – Guaranteed to Disagree [EP]
We Are Trees – Boyfriend [EP]
We Are Wolves – Invisible Violence
We Have Band – WHB
We Were Skeletons – We Were Skeletons
Ben Weaver – Mirepoix & Smoke
Weep – Worn Thin
The Weepies – Be My Thrill
Weezer – Hurley
The Weird Weeds – Help Me Name Melody
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
Corinne West & Kelly Joe Phelps – Magnetic Skyline [EP]
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Recommended
Wet Wings – Skin to Soil [EP]
What Laura Says – Bloom Cheek
The Whigs – In the Dark
White Buffalo – Prepare for Black and Blue
White Denim – Last Days of Summer
White Fence – White Fence
White Hills – Stolen Stars Left for No One [EP]
White Hills – White Hills
White Hinterland – Kairos
White Moth – White Moth
White Mystery – White Mystery
Emily Jane White – Victorian America
Shannon Whitworth – Water Bound
Widespread Panic – Dirty Side Down
Gin Wigmore and the Cardinals – Holy Smoke
Wild Nothing – Gemini
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers
Wildlife – Strike Hard, Young Diamond | Recommended
Hank Williams III – Rebel Within
Kathryn Williams – The Quickening
Keller [Williams] & The Keels – Thief
Rusty Willoughby – Cobirds Unite
Brian Wilson – Reimagines Gershwin
Charlie Wilson – Just Charlie
Kendl Winter – Apple Core | Recommended
Winter Gloves – All Red
Wintersleep – New Inheritors
Wolf & Cub – Science & Sorcery
Wolf + Lamb – Love Someone
Wolf Parade – Expo 86
Wolf People – Steeple
Wolf People – Tidings
Josiah Wolf – Jet Lag
Peter Wolf – Midnight Souvenirs
Women – Public Strain
Wooden Shjips – Vol. 2
Wooden Wand – Death Seat
Woodhands – Remorsecapade
Woods – At Echo Lake
Donovan Woods – The Widowmaker
Lucy Woodward – Hooked!
Woozy Viper – Rock & Roll
Working for a Nuclear Free City – The Jojo Tempest Burger
Wounded Lion – Wounded Lion
Woven Bones – In and Out and Back Again
Wovenhand – The Threshingfloor
Wyatt, Atzmon, and Stephen – For the Ghosts Within
Wye Oak – My Neighbor/My Creator [EP]
Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 – Northern Aggression | Recommended
Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Have Myself
Nikki Yanofsky – Nikki
Yarn – Come On In
Yawning – Noah [EP]
Yeasayer – Old Blood
Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
Pete Yorn – Pete Yorn
Neil Young – Le Noise | Recommended
Young Jazz Rebels – Slave Riot
Young Man – Boy [EP]
The Young Veins – Take a Vacation!
Richard Youngs – Beyond the Valley of the Ultrahits
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Gurrumul | Recommended
Zeus – Say Us
Zola Jesus – Valusia [EP]
Zola Jesus – Stridulum [EP]
Zombie Dogs – Zombie Dogs
Zs – New Slaves
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