Mid Year Wrap Up: Best Local Albums (Minnesota)

The year is almost half over! That means that all this week we will be listing our contributors’ favorite musical achievments for the year thus far.   Here are our favorite local albums from the first half of 2010:

Jon Behm

1. Dosh – Tommy (review)

2. Dante and the Lobster – Wonders (review)

3. Mike Swoop – New Love (stream)

4. Dark Dark Dark – Bright Bright Bright EP (review)

5. Jeremy Messersmith – The Reluctant Graveyard (review)

(Honorable mentions: A.R.M: Two Africans & a Jew EP, Vampire Hands/Daughters of the Sun: Skull Judge EP, Glass Buds/Orchard Thief: Melt Day EP)

Josh Keller

1. Retribution Gospel Choir – 2 (review)

2. Dante and the Lobster – Wonders (review)

3. Buffalo Moon – Wetsuit (review)

4. Private Dancer – Alive in High Five (review)

5. Dada Trash Collage – Neighbors (review)

(Honorable mentions: A Paper Cup Band: Sitting Shotgun to a Statue, Gayngs: Relayted)

Jon Schober

1. Peter Wolf Crier – Inter Be (review)

2. Buffalo Moon – Wetsuit (review)

3. Dosh – Tommy (review)

4. Communist Daughter – Soundtrack to the End (review)

5. Vampire Hands/Daughters of the Sun – Skull Judge 12″ (review)

Tune in tomorrow for our lists of our favorite national albums thus far!

Jon Behm