This list is pretty great. I know people are tired to seeing top 10 lists but I love them. Eventually I hope to do posts of this caliber as well. Kudos to No Clean Singing for an awesome list and entertaining set up. Hit those guys up and look at some of their articles. I've been enjoying the site all day! Some of the highlights of the list are Fang Island, Sleigh Bells, and Crystal Castles. Heres one of their more interesting entry's for Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
In all likelihood even if you are not familiar with (mostly) instrumental hip-hop artist Steve Ellison AKA Flying Lotus, you have heard his music. FlyLo was once most well known for the creator of the bumper music heard before and after commercials during Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim program. But this record makes those track samples look like ringtones, when Cosmogramma is an opera. To be objective, this is probably the best album of 2010 cross-genre.
Ellison and his motley crew of guest contributors (including Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, the most depressed non-black metal musician in the world) have created a piece of work that is lush, intense and deep in the same way prog-metal, post-metal and djent can be. This is the sort of record that takes you places, sober or not (but if you want to try it any other way than sober . . . you’ll probably like it even more).
This game-changing album blends Detroit-style trip-hop (think sadly deceased mastermind J-Dilla) with jazz-fusion sounds (FlyLo is the descendant of jazz legend John Coltrane) and creates a sort of space-rock symphony out of it, if that makes any kind of sense. If FlyLo ever did a song with Paul Masvidal I might die of sheer joy (if either of you read this—MAKE IT HAPPEN! IT WOULD BE SO GOOD!). Dark, introspective and completely unique — I cannot recommend Cosmogramma enough, to anyone.
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