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100 Unheralded Albums from 2010
Among the thousands of under-appreciated or under-publicized albums that were released in 2010, hundreds became our favorites and were presented in ALARM and on AlarmPress.com. Of those, we pared down to 100 outstanding releases, leaving no genre unexplored in our list of this year’s overlooked gems.
The Books: Media Detritus and Profound Nonsense
Five years have passed since its last release, Lost and Safe, but multi-instrumentalist duo The Books hasn’t skipped a beat. The Way Out is a sample-based masterpiece, in which its creators use “humor [as] a back door to the profound.”
Om: Spiritual Work and Colossal Vibrations
Om, the intense, hypnotic bass-and-drum duo that bassist Al Cisneros founded with drummer Chris Haikus in 2003, has been reinventing the way that many people perceive heavy music. Its songs are cerebral but accessible, spiritual but unreligious. Its new album, entitled God is Good, is out now on Drag City.