Along with a lot of excellent new EPs and singles, this year has seen the official release of Light Asylum‘s In Tension, our favorite EP of 2010. I should also mention Arthur Russell‘s outstanding Let’s Go Swimming 12”, which got reissued with a previously unreleased bonus track. As for this year’s releases, these are some of our favorites:

Holy Other: With U

Laurel Halo: Hour Logic

Maria Minerva: Sacred & Profane Love / Noble Savage

Mi Ami: Dolphins

Litanic Mask: Demo

NGUZUNGUZU: Timesup

Grimes/d’Eon: Darkbloom

Led Er Est: May

Ayshay: Warn-U

Autre Ne Veut: Body

Nowa Huta: ‘nova ‘xuta

Trust: Candy Walls / Bulbform

Invisible Conga People: In a Hole

Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience

Massive Attack vs Burial: Four Walls/Paradise Circus

Jacques Greene: Greene 01 / Another Girl

Spoek Mathambo: Put Some Red on it

Pale Sketcher: Seventh Heaven

The Soft Moon: Total Decay

Ital: Culture Clubs