Foals ‘Spanish Sahara’ voted NME Track Of The Year

It’s December, therefore exorbitant numbers of journalists, bloggers and pub philosophers are separating this year’s worthwhile records from the woeful ones. Here is one list which will rightly spark a fruitful debate or two, the NME Track of the Year. So it comes with much glee to announce that a 100% Miloco-made track has scaled higher than any other up the taste-making walls of Britain’s favourite music weekly to grab the title for 2010.

Foals’ ‘Spanish Sahara’, from the Mercury-nominated album Total Life Forever, was recorded in Assault & Battery 2 by Daniel Rejmer, and mixed in Assault & Battery 1 by Alan Moulder. It saw off stiff competition from Grinderman’s ‘Heathen Child’ (also recorded in Assault & Battery 2), Arcade Fire’s ‘We Used To Wait’ and Gorillaz’s ‘Stylo’.

The NME’s Luke Lewis describes his admiration for the song: “‘Spanish Sahara’ is subtle, mysterious, cryptic – it creates a filmic world of its own that you want to crawl inside.”

The Top 10 tracks of 2010 as voted by the NME are:

1. Foals – Spanish Sahara
2. MIA – XXXO
3. Janelle Monae – Tightrope
4. Kanye West – Power
5. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
6. Gorillaz – Stylo
7. Surfer Blood – Swim (To Reach The End)
8. Grinderman – Heathen Child
9. Zola Jesus – Night
10. The Fall – Bury Pts 2+4

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