I was pretty blown away by Solar Bears’ Inner Sunshine EP, which Planet Mu released early in 2010. Split into two red LPs (with no digital download card, WHAT?), She Was Coloured In followed — it’s the Irish act’s debut album. Packaged like a campy sci-fi movie, some of the film score-type compositions on this warm, psychedelic opus more than fit the bill. Washes of synths and crystalline folk guitars bump up against fuzzy, funky instrumentals here that sound as if they were hatched on different planets. This one definitely fell into my 2010 favorites for the year.
