The first huge thing for 2010 is definitely Vampire Weekend's "Contra" that will be out on January 11th. There's now the whole album as a free streamer on the group's own page and their MySpace.
You can also listen to the album thoroughly right here:
Here's also a few couple new live takes for "Cousins", "Horchata" and "White Sky" and and boy, they're gorgeous. The very electronish "Horchata" gets a barbershop symphony treatment and sounds like the new M79 we've all been waiting for.
I also love how White Sky's chorus almost stumbles on itself but still doesn't.
COUSINS:
WHITE SKY:
HORCHATA: