Artist Picks #6: Clock Opera's albums of 2010
A band that may well pop up on contemporaries lists' this time next year if they keep up the standard of early singles ‘A Piece of String’ and ‘Once & For All’, Clock Opera are certainly ones to keep an eye in 2011. But before what will undoubtedly be a busy year for them, the Kitsune-signed boys were nice enough to share their 10 best albums of 2010 with us.
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The influences are pretty obvious on this album. In other hands that might be considered annoying, but Deerhunter have too much class for that to be a problem.
Dripping with with sleaze and atmosphere, this album is sprawling and self-indulgent - but that's what makes it amazing.
We’ve wavered with Four Tet over the years – but now we are absolutely convinced. The guy is a genius.
French horns, taiko drums and a children's choir - who can argue with that?
This album is pretty hard to not like. We've banned ourselves from listening to it in the hope that we'll forget it and be pleasantly surprised when we go back.
The guy must have eight arms, two heads and six mouths to be able to pull all this off. Nice to hear electronics thrown in this time.
The pop record of the year? Hmm...
A sonic patchwork stitched seamlessly together from found sounds and synthetic electronics.
Completely different when they play live than on record, but we like both very much. One of the best bands we saw at Primavera this year.
We toured with Yeasayer earlier this year and they were an amazing live band - all of them brilliant musicians. And very nice chaps.
Other artist's top tens
All these lists were compiled into one Artist's top ten albums of the decade poll. But here are all the individual lists that went into it...
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