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Top Albums of 2010

Recently I was asked to contribute to my friend Rob's blog. He wanted to help introduce his readers to some new music - click here for the post - he got 8 friends together and tasked us to compile a list of our top 5 albums from 2010.

It was during my research for this post that I discovered I have way more than 5 albums from 2010 that I love - 17 actually. So feeling inspired by Rob I bring you my list of the top 17 albums from 2010.

*Each band name links you to their myspace page and I've embedded a grooveshark player to the bottom of this post which contains 3 or 4 of my favourite songs from each album that you can listen to straight from my blog.

1. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
2. The National - High Violet
3. Delorean - Subiza
4. Mumford and Sons - Sign No More
5. Caribou - Swim
6. Angus and Julia Stone - Down the way
7. Beach House - Teen Dream
8. Ra Ra Riot - Orchard
9. Wintersleep - New Inheritors
10. Cary Brothers - Under Control
11. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms 
12. Birds of Tokyo - Birds of Tokyo
13. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
14. Morgan Page - Believe 
15. LCD Soundsystem - This is happening
16. The Black Keys - Brothers
17. Yeasayer - Odd Blood

~Happy Listening

Ringing in the new year

Happy New Year! 

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to spend the last day of 2010 with two of the most important people in my life my "little" brothers. I took them to enjoy a little taste of my everyday, the North Shore mountains. After gearing up in our luon and lending some running tights to my wee bro we hiked up the BCMC.  It was an absolutely gorgeous sunny day.

I am so proud of Kolton (he's 14) for coming along and powering up - he even ran up the last bit to ensure he'd "beat" me - you know according to him I'm middle at the ripe age of 27 so of course he had to beat me.

Some of my favourite pics from the day~ 

mid-hike photo shoot

taking a pic of yourself on the iPhone is tough! But we managed this one ;)  Also note my favourite clothing purchasing of the season is this ear warmer from Lululemon I've worn it hiking, running, snowshoeing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing already.

he's so hard core

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