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MOJO 2010

Albums

1 John Grant – Queen of Denmark
2 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3 MGMT – Congratulations
4 Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
5 The Black Keys – Brothers
6 Paul Weller – Wakes Up The Nation
7 Midlake – The Courage of Others
8 Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
9 The Coral – Butterfly House
10 Doug Paisley – Constant Companion
11 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
12 Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone
13 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
14 Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
15 Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
16 Aerial Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
17 Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Duppy Writer
18 Caribou – Swim
19 Rumer – Seasons of My Soul
20 Grinderman - Grinderman 2
21 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
22 Sam Amidon – I See The Sign
23 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings – I Learned The Hard Way
24 The Jim Jones Revue – Burning Your House Down
25 Foals – Total Life Forever
26 Gorrilaz – Plastic Beach
27 Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
28 DangerMouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night of The Soul
29 Gill Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
30 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
31 Neil Young – Le Noise
32 Robert Plant – Band of Joy
33 The Roots – How I Got Over You
34 Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
35 M.I.A. - // / Y /
36 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
37 Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
38 Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
39 Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephens – For The Ghosts Within
40 Eli Paperboy Reed – Come and Get It
41 Tom Jones – Praise and Blame
42 Kelley Soltz – To Dreamers
43 The Besnard Lakes – Are The Roaring Night
44 Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
45 Roky Erickson with Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
46 Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back
47 Jane Weaver & Septieme Souer – The Fallen By Watch Bird
48 John Legend & The Roots- Wake Up!
49 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate – Ali & Toumani
50 Matthew Dear – Black City

Re-issues

1 Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
2 The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St: Deluxe Edition
3 Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy
4 Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
5 Miles Davis- Bitches Brew: Collector's Edition
6 Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos
7 Robert Wyatt - His Greatest Misses
8 The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro: Deluxe Edition
9 R.E.M. - Fables of The Reconstruction
10 Various - Theme Time Radio Hour Vol. 3
11 David Bowie - Station To Station
12 Kris Kristofferson - Please Don't tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-1972
13 Bob Dylan - The Mono Box
14 Neu! - Box
15 Sandy Denny - Sandy Denny
16 Galaxie 500 - On Fire
17 Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
18 Kenny Graham And His Satellites - Moondog Suite
19 Lightnin’ Hopkins - His Blues
20 Various - Alan Lomax In Haiti

Track of The Year: Janelle Monae - 'Tightrope'
Book of The Year: Rob Young - 'Electric Eden'
DVD of The Year: White, The Edge, Page - It Might Get Loud
Return of The Year: Edwyn Collins


Best of the rest

Jazz
1 Phronesis - Alive
2 Grigoryan Brothers - Distance
3 Django Bates - Beloved Bates
4 Ivo Neame - Caught In The Light of The Day
5 Tom Harrell - Roman Nights
6 Secret Quartet - Bloor Street
7 Paul Motian - Lost In A Dream
8 Nigel Price - Organ Trio... Live!
9 Esperanza Spalding - Chamber Music Society
10 John Ellis & Double-Wide - Puppet Mischief

Reggae Reissues

1 Lee Parry and The Upsetter - Sound System Scratch
2 Henry Junjo - Volcano Eruption
3 Gregogry Issacs - Private Lesson
4 Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub
5 King Tubby & The Aggrovaters - Shalom Dub
6 Dadawah - Peace and Love
7 The Flying Lizards - The Secret Dub Life of The Flying Lizads
8 Evolution of Dub: Vol 5 - The Missing Link
9 Sound Iritation - Sound Iritation In Dub
10 King Tubby - The Roots of Dub

Soundtracks

1 The The - Tony: A Soundtrack
2 Teho Teardo - Soundtrack Work 2004-2008
3 Lalo Schifrin - Bullit
4 Ray Budd - Get Carter
5 Michael Small - Marathon Man/The Parallax View
6 Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia
7 Hans Zimmer - Inception
8 Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect
9 Various - Shutter Island
10 Various - Flipper Pyschout

Blues

1 Various - Things About Comin' My Way: A Tribute To The Music Of The Mississippi Shieks
2 Lightnin' Hopkins - His Blues
3 Guitar Shorty - Bare Knuckle
4 Oli Brown - Heads I Win Tales You Lose
5 Janiva Magness - The Devil is An Angel Too
6 Various - Fire In My Bones.. Raw + Rare Otherworldy African-American Gospel (1944-2007)
7 Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock
8 Jimmy Dawkins - Presents The Leric Stroy
9 Cyndi Lauper - Memphis Blues
10 Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three - Riverboat Soul

Folk

1 Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson - Gift
2 The Burns Unit - Side Show
3 Bellowhead - Hedonism
4 Ewan McLennan - Rags and Riches
5 Alasdair Roberts and Friends - Too Long In This Condition
6 Ian King - Panic Grass & Fever Few
7 Pete Coe - Backbane
8 The Imagined Village - Empire & Love
9 O'Hooley & Tidlow - Silent June
10 Emily Portman - The Glamoury

Electronica

1 Walls - Walls
2 Actress - Splazsh
3 Matthew Dear - Black City
4 Luke Abbot - Holkham Drones
5 Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
6 Phaeleh - Fallen Light
7 Superpitcher - Kilmanjiro
8 Reboot - Shunyata
9 Caribou - Swim
10 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Americana

1 Willie Nelson - Country Music
2 Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of A Friend
3 Curtis Harvey - Box of Stones
4 Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
5 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang - The Wonder Show of The World
6 Rocky Votolao - True Devotion
7 Kort - Invariable Heartache
8 Simon Joyner - Out Into The Snow
9 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Hawk
10 Mountain Man - Made The Harbor

World

1 AfroCubism - AfroCubism
2 Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig
3 The Chieftains ft. Ry Cooder - San Patrico
4 Konono No. 1 - Assume Crash Postion
5 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate – Ali & Toumani
6 Hangai - Juan Zou De Rem
7 Grupo Fantasma - El Existential
8 Sa Dingding - Harmony
9 Marcos Valle - Estatica
10 Tamikrest - Adagh

Underground

1 Endless Boogie - Full House Head
2 Peter Broderick How They Are
3 Tape & Bill Wells - Fugue
4 Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
5 Sophie Hutchings - Becalmed
6 Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
7 Richard Skelton - Landings
8 Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
9 Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves
10 Sun Araw - On Patrol

Q Magazine 2010

1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Robert Plant - Band of Joy
3. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
4. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
5. Vampire Weekend - Contra
6. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
7. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
8. The National - High Violet
9. Paul Weller - Wake Up the Nation
10. MGMT - Congratulations
11. The Black Keys - Brothers
12. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
13. Beach House - Teen Dream
14. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
15. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
16. Foals - Total Life Forever
17. John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up!
18. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man
19. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
20. Take That - Progress
21. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
22. Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
23. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
24. Bryan Ferry - Olympia
25. Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
26. Klaxons - Surfing the Void
27. Midlake - The Courage of Others
28. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
29. Interpol - Interpol
30. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
31. The Chemical Brothers - Further
32. The Drums - The Drums
33. Tricky - Mixed Race
34. The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
35. Man Alive - Everything Everything
36. The Roots - How I Got Over
37. The Coral - Butterfly House
38. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
39. I Am Kloot - Sky at Night
40. Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back
41. Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love
42. Tom Jones - Praise & Blame
43. Skream - Outside the Box
44. Villagers - Becoming a Jackal
45. Cherry Ghost - Beneath This Burning Shoreline
46. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
47. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
48. Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
49. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
50. Steve Mason - Boys Outside