The duo’s considered, painterly approach to music was always going to suit the wide canvas of the album format, but on Crooks & Lovers we would have liked to have seen fewer wispy watercolours and more of the lively oils that characterised their unassailable debut EP, Maybes. Mount Kimbie’s relationship to dubstep was, from the off, a tangential one their music, though often attuned to the needs of the dancefloor, rarely prioritises them. The results were inconsistent, but as ever, when Ariel gets it right there are few pop songwriters close to his level. A huge inspiration on the hypnagogic pop/chillwave wave of US indie artists, this year Pink, along with his band Haunted Graffiti, signed to 4AD, recording their first ever album with a proper studio set-up. If you’re still yet to read our rundowns of the best record labels, breakthrough artists and soundtracks of the year, then they’re collected in the bottom left of the FACT homepage, along with the rest of our end of 2010 features so far.įew artists’ legacies loomed larger over 2010 than Ariel Pink’s. Next week, we’ll be ranking our 100 favourite tracks of the year, and we’ll end the year on a list of our favourite reissues. We’ll be listing them in groups of ten, so today it’s entries 40 to 31, on Wednesday it’s 30-21, Thursday 20-11, and finally 10-1 on Friday. From Tuesday November 30 to Friday December 3, we’ll be counting down our 40 favourite albums released this year.
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