Это персональный топ, он не претендует на адекватность / рациональность / объективность. В основном здесь собраны альбомы, которые я больше всего слушал в уходящем году.
*в случайном порядке*
TOP 2010
- Enter Shikari – Tribalism [trancecore]
- Catherine Corelli – Killed Alive [experimental/nu metal/industrial]
- The Birthday Massacre – Pins And Needles [gothic industrial/new wave]
- Paper Tongues – Paper Tongues [alternative/indie/pop]
- Eyes Set To Kill – Broken Frames [post-hardcore/screamo]
- Eminem – Recovery [hip-hop]
- Digital Summer – Counting The Hours [alt. rock]
- My Own Private Alaska – Amen [experimental/screamo/piano]
- Stereopony – Over The Border [j-rock]
- Unheilig – Grosse Freiheit [neue deutsche haerte]
- Backside Surfer – Everybody Loves The Robotits [post-hardcore/nintendocore]
- Abandon All Ships – Geeving [trancecore]
- Flow – Microcosm [j-rock]
- Serj Tankian – Imperfect Harmonies [alternative/experimental]
- Fail Emotions – Transfornation [trancecore]
- Systemshock – Virus-Electro [emb]
- Hadouken! – For the Masses [new rave]
- Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas – Dance & Scream [trancecore]
- A Day To Remember – What Separates Me From You [post-hardcore]
- Buckethead – Shadows Between The Sky [prog rock/instrumental]
И как это было в прошлом году...
TOP 2009
- Enter Shikari – Common Dreads [trancecore]
- 30 Seconds To Mars – This Is War [alt. rock]
- Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony [alt. rock]
- Angelspit – Hideous And Perfect [electro-industrial]
- Cloudkicker – The Map Is Not The Territory [prog/math metal]
- Dance Party. Dance! Dance! – Dance Party. Dance! Dance! [post-hardcore/indie/experimental]
- Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe [synthpop]
- Editors – In This Light And On This Evening [new wave]
- Fail Emotions – Side A [trancecore]
- High and Mighty Color – Swamp Man [j-rock/metalcore]
- Katatonia – Night is the New Day [doom metal]
- La Roux – La Roux [electropop]
- Mad Essence – Black Area 1.0 [digital rapcore]
- Madder Mortem – Eight Ways [avantgarde metal]
- Maybeshewill – Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony [post-rock]
- Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor [avantgarde]
- Placebo – Battle For The Sun [alt. rock/indie]
- Shaka Ponk – Bad Porn Movie Trax [alternative/crossower]
- Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke [indie/new wave]
- Психея – ПесниТрущобНадеждыРазбитыхСердец [cybercore]