Top Five of the First Half of 2010: Conclusions …and Controversy!
Well friends, it looks like there’s a technicality issue with this year’s TFFH. I thought I’d be all set to go with Clamfight‘s righteous Vol. 1 at number five, but I got this comment from guitarist Sean on the original post:
To clarify, the CD has not been officially released, we are aiming to have it out for a release show in Philly on August 13th with some incredible bands. We’ve been doling out home-burned copies to a select few and some songs will be up for download on the various sites shortly.
August clearly is not June, and since this is the Top Five of the First Half of 2010, Vol. 1 is hereby disqualified.
Controversy! I’ll give you a second to gasp…
Now that the shock has (hopefully) subsided, we can deal with the issue on a practical level. We all know Clamfight‘s Vol. 1 will be seen again at the end of the year, so it’s not worth crying about that, and obviously this change is no value judgment on the record — which, let me emphasize, fucking rules — but if I include a record that won’t be out until August on this list, then I’d have to include stuff like the new Zoroaster too, which comes out in July, and that’s not really what the TFFH about.
Without further ado, here is the revised Top Five of the First Half of 2010:
1. Asteroid, II
2. Solace, A.D.
3. Ufomammut, Eve
4. Fatso Jetson, Archaic Volumes
5. The Wounded Kings, The Shadow over Atlantis
There. Now we can all dance like Ewoks and be happy that the list is fair and only includes albums which were released in the first six months of the year. Honorable mentions go out to Apostle of Solitude, The Brought Low, Sasquatch and Brant Bjork, any of whom could have been on this list easily.
With that cleared up, that’s it for the 2010 TFFH. If you’ve got a list of your own, leave a comment and let me know what I’ve been missing.
Tags: Asteroid, ClamFight, Fatso Jetson, Solace, TFFH10, The Wounded Kings, Ufomammut
Suma “Ashes” and Droids Attack “Must Destroy” could easily make the cut.
High On Fire “Snakes for the Divine”
Triptykon “Eparistera Daimones”
Cathedral “The Guessing Game”
Lair of the Minotaur “Evil Power”
My Sleeping Karma “Tri”
Samsara Blues Experiment “Long Distance Trip”
Danko Jones “Below the Belt”
Melissa Auf der Maur “Out of Our Minds”
Year Long Disaster „Black Magic; All Mysteries Revealed“
Briton Rites “For Mircalla”
Los Cruces “Dusk”
Grand Magus „Hammer of the North“
all incredible gems. The year definitely had a good start
Love the Asteroid album. Red Sparowes album is growing on me. I’m really into Brant Bjork after being a tad bored with it initially. Ufomammut’s Eve one is in the post! Woohoo!!