2010: the resurgence of synthpop continues… I’d expected synthpop and electropop to start to wane after last year’s vintage crop, but if anything the opposite has happened: the number of quality synthpop albums released over the previous 12 months has been phenomenal! There were a good 50-odd albums released this year that could have made it onto this list (and that’s excluding releases that weren’t strictly synthpop, such as the much-acclaimed Hurts album). But after many hours of listening, lots of note-taking and a bit of electro-soul searching, here is the first part of the Pansentient League’s Top 20 Synthpop Albums of the Year!

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