I’ve been grappling with writing a best-of songs list of the year and if I can get my druthers together between drinking piles of nog and watching Six Feet Under I’m totally gonna do it. In the meantime you can look at a list of CKDU’s most played new releases of the year as chosen by their programmers.
1. Duzheknew – Duz/Cuz
2. The New Pornographers – Together
3. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
4. Jenocide – Knee Deep
5. Thom Swift – Blue Sky Day
6. Flaming Lips – Embryonic
7. It Kills – It Kills
8. Old Man Ludecke – My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs
9. Radio Radio – Belmundo Regal
10. The National – High Violet
11. Ruth Minnikin – Depend On This
12. The Stanfields – The Vanguard of the Young and Reckless
13. The Black Keys – Brothers
14. Basia Bulat – Heart Of My Own
15. Owen Pallett – Heartland
16. Cousins – Duz/Cuz
17. The Roots – How I Got Over
18. Caribou – Swim
19. The Sadies – Darker Circles
20. Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
21. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
22. Galactic – YaKaMay
23. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
24. Holy Fuck – Latin
25. The xx – xx
26. Jenny Omnichord
27. Wintersleep – New Inheritors
28. Dog Day – Elder Schoolhouse
29. Bad Vibrations – Care About Yourself
30. Elizabeth Shephard – Heavy Falls The Night
This article appears in Dec 23-29, 2010.