With albums coming yet in 2010 from Ze Catalist favorites like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, (possibly) Sufjan Stevens, Ryan Adams, Built to Spill, Panda Bear, Jenny and Jonny, Andre 3000, MIA, Sun Kil Moon, Andre 3000, Battles, Belle & Sebastian, Black Lips, MF Doom, Common, Fleet Foxes, Interpol, Lyrics Born, Of Montreal, R.E.M., The Strokes, The Walkmen, The Wrens, Slum Village, Kanye West and more, it feels almost silly to make a mid-point Albums of the Year list.

 

Of the records listed below, we’re pretty confident that the Top 5 stand a good chance of being on our Year-End list come December. Others we think have a chance include Sufjan, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Built to Spill, Panda Bear, Sun Kil Moon, The Strokes, Andre 3000 and, mostly, The Wrens. Well, that is, if The Wrens ever do put out the album they’re been promising for years. Also, fingers crossed for Sufjan.

 

For now, here are our 50 favorite albums from the first half of 2010:

 

1. The National - High Violet
2. Beach House – Teen Dream
3. MGMT - Congratulations
4. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
5. The Roots - How I Got Over

6. Clem Snide – The Meat of Life
7. Black Label Summer - The Rise + Fall of Josh Hall

8. Mark Hutchins – Sleepy Furnace
9. Marah - Life Is a Problem
10. Ty Segall - Melted

 

11. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

12. The Morning Benders - Big Echo

13. She & Him – Volume Two
14. Spoon – Transference
15. Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do
16. The Black Keys - Brothers

17. The Besnard Lakes - Are the Roaring Night
18. The New Pornographers - Together
19. Harlem – Hippies
20. House of Bread - Superhuman Tomb

21. Phosphorescent - Here’s To Taking It Easy
22. Broken Bells – Broken Bells
23. Jason & the Scorchers - Halcyon Times

24. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
25. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
26. B. Dolan - Fallen House, Sunken City
27. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
28. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
29. The Flaming Lips - Dark Side of the Moon
30. Johnny Cash - Aint No Grave

31. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
32. The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
33. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows

34. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
35. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
36. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
37. Sage Francis - Li(f)e
38. Ratatat - LP4
39. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
40. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two

41. Yeasayer – Odd Blood
42. Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
43. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM

44. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Wonder Show of the World
45. Drake - Thank Me Later
46. Ike Reilly - Hard Luck Stories
47. Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer of the Void
48. Ryan Adams - Orion
49. Four Tet – There is Love In You
50. The Magnetic Fields – Realism

 

Have a list of your own? Send it to us at misterlisterman@gmail.com. Thanks for reading!