Top Ten Albums of 2010 - #02
Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More"
Editor's Note: This is the 9th in a weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2010. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published shortly after the first of the year. Stay tuned!
Taking my indie leanings into consideration, you might have expected this one. Although I haven't read through many other 2010 round-ups, I imagine that Sigh No More ranks pretty highly in most of them. It's a little pop, it's a lot of indie, it's several parts folk, and it's a dash of country - basically it hits a lot of sweet spots for a lot of different people. And it does each of those themes so well!
I tried doing some homework while listening to this album for the first time and I attribute my horrible grades that week to the goosebumps that kept distracting me from my numbers. "I Gave You All" stopped me cold; I put the pencil down and just let it take me away for a couple of minutes. The one-two punch of "Awake My Soul" and "Dust Bowl Dance" left me misty and breathless. If you've ever played an instrument and gotten so carried away in your practice that you find that you've been holding your breath for what feels like forever, then you know that breathless feeling.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with anything else I've written over the last nine weeks, trust me on this one: You want to hear this album.
Album highlight: A good build-up wins me over every time. See "I Gave You All".
Editor's Note: This is the 9th in a weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2010. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published shortly after the first of the year. Stay tuned!Taking my indie leanings into consideration, you might have expected this one. Although I haven't read through many other 2010 round-ups, I imagine that Sigh No More ranks pretty highly in most of them. It's a little pop, it's a lot of indie, it's several parts folk, and it's a dash of country - basically it hits a lot of sweet spots for a lot of different people. And it does each of those themes so well!
I tried doing some homework while listening to this album for the first time and I attribute my horrible grades that week to the goosebumps that kept distracting me from my numbers. "I Gave You All" stopped me cold; I put the pencil down and just let it take me away for a couple of minutes. The one-two punch of "Awake My Soul" and "Dust Bowl Dance" left me misty and breathless. If you've ever played an instrument and gotten so carried away in your practice that you find that you've been holding your breath for what feels like forever, then you know that breathless feeling.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with anything else I've written over the last nine weeks, trust me on this one: You want to hear this album.
Album highlight: A good build-up wins me over every time. See "I Gave You All".
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