Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2010

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2010

Listing for 260 records from 2010 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Care Bears on Fire: *Girls Like It Loud* [S-Curve download EP] Johnny Cash: *American VI: Ain't No Grave* [American] Elizabeth Cook: *Welder* [31 Tigers] Etoile de Dakar: *Once Upon a Time in Senegal: The Birth of Mbalax* [Sterns Africa] Girl Talk: *All Day* [Illegal Art download] M.I.A.: *Maya (Deluxe Edition)* [Interscope] Nicki Minaj: *Pink Friday* [Young Money/Cash Money] No Age: *Everything in Between* [Sub Pop] The Plastic People of the Universe: *Magical Nights* [Munster] Tabu Ley Rochereau: *The Voice of Lightness Vol. 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993* [Sterns Africa] The Roots: *How I Got Over* [Def Jam] Rachid Taha: *Bonjour* [Knitting Factory] The Corin Tucker Band: *1,000 Years* [Kill Rock Stars] Vampire Weekend: *Contra* [XL] Kanye West: *My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy* [Roc-A-Fella] Tom Zé: *Estudando a Bossa: Nordeste Plaza* [Luaka Bop] *African Pearls: Congo: Pont Sur le Congo* [Syllart]
A−	Allo Darlin': *Allo Darlin'* [Fortuna Pop] Arcade Fire: *The Suburbs* [Merge] Balkan Beat Box: *Blue Eyed Black Boy* [Nat Geo Music] Best Coast: *Crazy for You* [Mexican Summer] Big Boi: *Sir Lucious Left Foot . . . The Son of Chico Dusty* [Def Jam] David Bowie: *Station to Station (Special Edition)* [EMI] The Bundles: *The Bundles* [K] Cornershop: *Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast* [Ample Play] Das Racist: *Shut Up, Dude* [Mishka download] Das Racist: *Sit Down, Man* [Mad Decent download] El DeBarge: *Second Chance* [Geffen] Deerhunter: *Halcyon Digest* [4AD] Pierre de Gaillande: *Bad Reputation: Pierre de Gaillande Sings Georges Brassens* [Barbès] Dessa: *A Badly Broken Code* [Doomtree] Die Antwoord: *$O$* [Cherrytree/Interscope] Eminem: *Recovery* [Aftermath/Interscope] Eskmo: *Eskmo* [Ninja Tune] Everybody Was in the French Resistance . . . Now!: *Fixing the Charts Vol. 1* [Cooking Vinyl] The Extra Lens: *Undercard* [Merge] Flying Lotus: *Cosmogramma* [Warp] Gold Panda: *Lucky Shiner* [Ghostly International] Macy Gray: *The Sellout* [Concord] Hole: *Nobody's Daughter* [Mercury] Gabriel Johnson: *Fra_ctured* [Electrofone] Konono No 1: *Assume Crash Position* [Crammed Discs] Kendrick Lamar: *O.verly D.edicated* [DatPiff download] LCD Soundsystem: *This Is Happening* [DFA/Virgin] Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: *The Logic of Chance* [Sunday Best] Les Savy Fav: *Root for Ruin* [Frenchkiss] Lil Wayne: *No Ceilings* [free download] Love Is All: *Two Thousand and Ten Injuries* [Polyvinyl] Loretta Lynn and Friends: *Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn* [Columbia Nashville] Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar: *Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven* [Piranha] MC Esoteric: *Saving Seamus Ryan* [Fly Casual] Kate & Anna McGarrigle: *Odditties* [Querbeservice] D.O. Misiani and Shirati Jazz: *The King of History* [Sterns Africa] Moby Grape: *Live* [Sundazed] Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: *Distant Relatives* [Def Jam] The National: *High Violet* [4AD] Youssou N'Dour: *I Bring What I Love* [Nonesuch] Aaron Neville: *I Know I've Been Changed* [EMI Gospel/Tell It] Of Montreal: *False Priest* [Polyvinyl] Old 97's: *The Grand Theatre Volume One* [New West] The Pernice Brothers: *Goodbye, Killer* [Ashmont] Pink: *Greatest Hits . . . So Far!!!* [LaFace/Jive] Quasi: *American Gong* [Kill Rock Stars] Robyn: *Body Talk* [Konichiwa/Cherrytree/Interscope] The Russian Futurists: *The Weight's on the Wheels* [Upper Class] Homeboy Sandman: *The Good Sun* [High Water Music] Scissor Sisters: *Night Work* [Downtown/Polydor] Shad: *TSOL* [Black Box/Decon] Sleigh Bells: *Treats* [Mom + Pop] Spoon: *Transference* [Merge] Peter Stampfel: *Dook of the Beatniks* [Piety Street Files & Archaic] Standard Fare: *The Noyelle Beat* [Bar/None] Street Sweeper Social Club (Tom Morello/Boots Riley): *The Ghetto Blaster EP* [SSSC EP] Jazmine Sullivan: *Love Me Back* [J] Superchunk: *Majesty Shredding* [Merge] Surfer Blood: *Astro Coast* [Kanine] Taylor Swift: *Speak Now* [Big Machine] Systema Solar: *Systema Solar* [Chusma] Titus Andronicus: *The Monitor* [XL] Tokyo Police Club: *Champ* [Mom + Pop] Tricky: *Mixed Race* [Domino] The Whitefield Brothers: *Earthology* [Now-Again] Wire: *14 September 2002, Metro, Chicago* [Pinkflag] *Blow Your Head: Diplo Presents Dubstep* [Downtown/Mad Decent] *Now That's What I Call Club Hits 2* [EMI] *The Rough Guide to Desert Blues* [World Music Network] *Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa* [Honest Jon's]
B+	AfroCubism: *AfroCubism* [Nonesuch] Mose Allison: *The Way of the World* [Anti-] Khaira Arby: *Timbuktu Tarab* [Clermont Music] Archie Bronson Outfit: *Coconut* [Domino] The Dead Weather: *Sea of Cowards* [Third Man/Warner Bros.] Drake: *Thank Me Later* [Universal/Motown] Far East Movement: *Free Wired* [Cherrytree/Interscope] Merle Haggard: *I Am What I Am* [Vanguard] The Henry Clay People: *Somewhere on the Golden Coast* [TBD] Jon Langford & Skull Orchard: *Old Devils* [Bloodshot] M.I.A.: *Vicki Leekx Mixtape* [vickileekx.com download] Miguel: *All I Want Is You* [Jive] Old 97's: *Mimeograph* [New West EP] Ski Beatz: *24 Hour Karate School* [DD172 New York] Tamikrest: *Adagh* [Glitterbeat] The Vaselines: *Sex With an X* [Sub Pop] *Angola Soundtrack* [Analog Africa] *Radioclit Presents: The Sound of Club Secousse Vol. 1* [Crammed Discs] *Scion CD Sampler v. 28--Dub Police* [Scion AV]
★★★	Laurie Anderson: *Homeland* [Nonesuch] The Apples in Stereo: *Travellers in Space and Time* [Yep Roc] Danny Barnes: *Pizza Box* [ATO] Bettie Serveert: *Pharmacy of Love* [Second Motion] V.V. Brown: *Travelling Like the Light* [Capitol] Canibus: *C of Tranquility* [iM] Carolina Chocolate Drops: *Genuine Negro Jig* [Nonesuch] Chromeo: *Business Casual* [Big Beat/Atlantic/Vice] J Cole: *Friday Night Lights* [Roc Nation download] Cut Chemist: *Sound of the Police* [A Stable Sound/Soul Kitchen] Drive-By Truckers: *The Big To-Do* [ATO] Fishtank Ensemble: *Woman in Sin* [fishtankensemble.com] Ben Folds/Nick Hornby: *Lonely Avenue* [Nonesuch] Ghostface Killah: *Apollo Kids* [Def Jam] Gogol Bordello: *Trans-Continental Hustle* [Columbia] The Go! Team: *Rolling Blackouts* [Memphis Industries] Grateful Dead: *Crimson White & Indigo* [Rhino] Mariem Hassan: *Shouka* [Nubenegra] The Hold Steady: *Heaven Is Whenever* [Vagrant] The Holmes Brothers: *Feed My Soul* [Alligator] Hot Chip: *One Life Stand* [Astralwerks] I See Hawks in L.A.: *Shoulda Been Gold: 2001-2009* [American Beat] Jaguar Love: *Hologram Jams* [Fat Possum] Jenny & Johnny: *I'm Having Fun Now* [Warner Bros.] Issa Juma and Super Wanyika Stars: *World Defeats the Grandfathers* [Sterns Africa] Salif Keita: *La Différence* [Decca] John Legend & the Roots: *Wake Up!* [Good Music/Columbia] Jinx Lennon: *National Cancer Strategy* [Septic Tiger] Lil Wayne: *I Am Not a Human Being* [Universal/Motown] Los Campesinos!: *Romance Is Boring* [Arts & Crafts] Magnetic Fields: *Realism* [Nonesuch] Bruno Mars: *Doo-Wops & Hooligans* [Elektra] Kate Nash: *My Best Friend Is You* [Geffen/Fiction] John Prine: *In Person & On Stage* [Oh Boy] The Soft Pack: *The Soft Pack* [Kemado] Omar Souleyman: *Jazeera Nights* [Sublime Frequencies] Peter Stampfel & Baby Gramps: *Outertainment* [Red Newt] Peter and Zoë Stampfel: *Ass in the Air* [Jolly Olga] Sun City Girls: *Funeral Mariachi* [Abduction] Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen: *Inspiration Information* [Strut] Uffie: *Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans* [Ed Banger/Because/Elektra] *African Pearls: Sénégal--Echo Musical* [Syllart] *Afro-Beat Airways* [Analog Africa] *Egypt Noir: Nubian Soul Treasures* [Piranha] *Project Ahimsa Presents Global Lingo* [Project Ahimsa] *Yes We Can: Songs About Leaving Africa* [Out Here]
★★	Tony Allen: *Secret Agent* [World Circuit/Nonesuch] Asphalt Orchestra: *Asphalt Orchestra* [Cantaloupe] Erykah Badu: *New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh* [Universal/Motown] Rick Berlin: *Paper Airplane* [Hi-N-Dry] Blk Jks: *Zol!* [Secretly Canadian] Broken Bells: *Broken Bells* [Columbia] Ray Charles: *Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters* [Concord] Clem Snide: *The Meat of Life* [429] Dark Time Sunshine: *Vessel* [Fake Four] MF Doom Featuring Big Benn Klingon: *Expektoration . . . Live* [Gold Dust] Open Mike Eagle: *Unapologetic Art Rap* [Mush] The Fall: *Your Future Our Clutter* [Domino] Fat Tony: *Rabdargab* [HomeSkool Rekordz] Béla Fleck: *Throw Down Your Heart: Unreleased Tracks: Africa Sessions Part 2* [Acoustic Planet] Flying Lotus: *Pattern + Grid World* [Warp EP] Giant Sand: *Blurry Blue Mountain* [Fire] Japandroids: *No Singles* [Polyvinyl] Kano: *Method to the Maadness* [Bigger Picture] Kasai Allstars: *Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers* [Crammed Discs] Kleenex LiLiPUT: *Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovie* [Kill Rock Stars] Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: *I Speak Fula* [Sub Pop] Lil Wayne: *Rebirth* [Universal/Motown/Cash Money] Lucy Love: *Kilo* [Superbillion] Mates of State: *Crushes: The Covers Mixtape* [matesofstate.com] Anaïs Mitchell: *Hadestown* [Righteous Babe] Willie Nelson: *Country Music* [Rounder] Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars: *Rise & Shine* [Cumbancha] The Superions: *Destination . . . Christmas!* [Fanatic] Sweet Talks: *The Kusum Beat* [Soundway] Texas Tornados: *Esta Bueno* [Bismeaux] The-Dream: *Love King* [Def Jam/Radio Killa] Tracey Thorn: *Love and Its Opposite* [Merge] Timbila: *Remembering the Future* [Timbila] The Wailing Wall: *The Low Hanging Fruit* [JDub] *African Pearls: Côte d'Ivoire: West African Crossroads* [Syllart] *BalkanBeats: A Night in Berlin* [Piranha] *Eccentric Breaks & Beats* [Numero Group] *Lagos Disco Inferno* [Academy LPs/Voodoo Funk] *The Lost Cuban Trios of Casa Marina* [Ahi-Nama] *The Rough Guide to Arabic Lounge* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to the Music of Afghanistan* [World Music Network]
★	Abraham Inc.: *Tweet Tweet* [Table Pounding] Beach House: *Teen Dream* [Sub Pop] Eric Bibb: *Booker's Guitar* [Telarc] The Black Keys: *Brothers* [Nonesuch] Jason Collett: *Rat a Tat Tat* [Arts & Crafts] Easton Corbin: *Easton Corbin* [Mercury Nashville] Deer Tick: *The Black Dirt Sessions* [Partisan] Devin the Dude: *Suite 420* [E1 Music] Etran Finatawa: *Tarkat Taiji/Let's Go!* [Riverboat] Renée Fleming: *Dark Hope* [Decca] Fool's Gold: *Fool's Gold* [IAmSound] Four Tet: *There Is Love in You* [Domino] Robbie Fulks: *Happy* [Boondoggle] Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie: *Reinterpreting Black Flag* [secretofliferecords.com] Freedy Johnston: *Rain on the City* [Bar/None] Peter Karp & Sue Foley: *He Said She Said* [Blind Pig] Jerry Lee Lewis: *Mean Old Man* [Verve Forecast] Ludacris: *Battle of the Sexes* [Disturbing Tha Peace] Blake Mills: *Break Mirrors* [I] Mimicking Birds: *Mimicking Birds* [Glacial Pace] Youssou N'Dour: *Dakar-Kingston* [Universal/EmArcy] The New Pornographers: *Together* [Matador] Nneka: *Concrete Jungle* [Yo Mama/Decon/Epic] Fernando Otero: *Vital* [World Village] Liz Phair: *Funstyle* [Rocket Science Ventures] Phineas and the Lonely Leaves: *The Kids We Used to Be* [lonelyleaves.com] The Red Krayola With Art & Language: *Five American Portraits* [Drag City] Sade: *Soldier of Love* [Epic] Gil Scott-Heron: *I'm New Here* [XL] Shout Out Louds: *Work* [Merge] Soft Machine: *NDR Jazz Workshop: Hamburg, Germany 1973* [Cuneiform] Ton3x: *Unspoken* [Battery/Zomba] Anibal Velasquez y Su Conjunto: *Mambo Loco* [Analog Africa] The White Stripes: *Under Great White Northern Lights* [Warner Bros.] *Next Stop . . . Soweto* [Strut] *Raise Hope for Congo* [Mercer Street] *Snoop Dogg Presents the West Coast Blueprint* [Priority]
	Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova: *One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels* [Saddle Creek] Burkina Electric: *Paspanga* [Cantaloupe] Court Yard Hounds: *Court Yard Hounds* [Columbia] Fefe Dobson: *Joy* [21 Music] Peter Gabriel: *Scratch My Back* [RealWorld] Gorillaz: *Plastic Beach* [Virgin] The Herbaliser: *The Best of the Herbaliser: 1994-2010* [Ninja Tune] Kesha: *Animal* [Jive] Bettye Lavette: *Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook* [Anti-] Ozomatli: *Fire Away* [Concord] She & Him: *Volume Two* [Merge] *Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine* [Oh Boy]
B	Freeway & Jake One: *Stimulus Package* [Rhymesayers Entertainment] Julian Marley: *Awake* [Universal Republic]
C+	MGMT: *Congratulations* [Columbia]
	Toni Braxton: *Pulse* [Atlantic] Jackson Browne/David Lindley/El Vivo Con Tino: *Love Is Strange* [Inside Recordings] Built to Spill: *There Is No Enemy* [Warner Bros.] The Dillinger Escape Plan: *Option Paralysis* [Season of Mist] Dum Dum Girls: *I Will Be* [Sub Pop] Jakob Dylan: *Women + Country* [Columbia] Karen Elson: *The Ghost Who Walks* [XL] The Knife, in Collaboration With Mt. Sims and Planningtorock: *Tomorrow, in a Year* [Rabid/Brille/Mute] Lady Antebellum: *Need You Now* [Capitol Nashville] Shelby Lynne: *Tears, Lies, and Alibis* [Everso] Ky-Mani Marley: *Radio* [Vox] Meth, Ghost and Rae: *Wu Massacre* [Def Jam] Rain Machine: *Rain Machine* [Anti-] Blake Shelton: *Hillbilly Bone* [Warner Bros.] *Tribute to a Reggae Legend* [Putumayo World Music]

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