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This will be our last new podcast of 2010, sort of. Check back next Saturday, once our Top 50 Albums of 2010 has wrapped up and you’re still reeling about just how pretty and right it is, for a companion series of mixes highlighting artists featured on that list. Savor it all, because it’ll be our last content until early-mid January when we stumble back, refreshed but needing just a few more hours sleep, from our much needed break. The exact date mostly depends on how hungover we feel.

But, for now, please enjoy this: the perfect soundtrack for watching our list unfold (this year, unlike others, we’ll be spreading it out over five days), even though just a few of the artists featured here will appear in our Top 50 (guess which! Hint: it’s not either of the ones coming out in 2011). So, with thanks to all of the artists and labels involved in this and every other podcast we’ve done this year, and a big holidays-sized thank you for listening, enjoy:

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[56:45]

1. Glasser: “Home”

• (0:01 – 3:32)
• from Ring (True Panther; 2010)

2. Braids: “Plath Heart”

• (3:34 – 7:52)
• from Native Speaker (Flemish Eye; 2011)

3. Forest Swords: “Miarches”

• (7:53 – 14:08)
• from Dagger Paths (Olde English Spelling Bee/No Pain in Pop; 2010)

4. Atlas Sound: “Freak Train”

• (13:09 – 16:37)
• from Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 (4AD; 2010)

5. Bear Hands: “Crime Pays”

• (16:38 – 19:32)
• from Burning Bush Supper Club (Cantora Records; 2010)

6. Air Waves: “Waters (f/ Sharon Van Etten)”

• (19:33 – 22:52)
• from Dungeon Dots (Underwater Peoples; 2010)

7. Reading Rainbow: “Always On My Mind”

• (22:53 – 25:46)
• from Prism Eyes (Hozac; 2010)

8. Clinic: “I’m Aware”

• (25:47 – 28:39)
• from Bubblegum (Domino; 2010)

9. A Sunny Day in Glasgow: “Autumn, Again”

• (28:40 – 29:16)
• from Autumn, Again (Self-released; 2010)

10. Destroyer: “Chinatown”

• (29:17 – 32:54)
• from Kaputt (Merge; 2011)

11. Oneohtrix Point Never: “Returnal”

• (32:55 – 37:27)
• from Returnal (Editions Mego; 2010)

12. d’Eon: “Kill a Man With a Joystick in Your Hand”

• (37:28 – 43:53)
• from Palinopsia (Hippos in Tanks; 2010)

13. The xx: “VCR (Four Tet remix)”

• (43:54 – 52:12)
• Single (2010)

14. James Blake: “Limit to Your Love”

• (52:13 – 56:45)
• Single (Atlas; 2010)