2010 Mechy Awards: R&B Album of the Year

The Nominees:

• Aloe Blacc - Good Things
• Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
• Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
• Lady Daisey - In My Pocket
• Shawn Lee - Sing A Song
• Solomon Burke - Nothing's Impossible

And the winner is...

Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

There were a lot of great throw-back soulful and funky R&B albums in 2010, but Janelle Monae is the perfect example of where R&B should be at this point in its evolution. Not auto-tuning assholes singing over clubby hip hop beats.