Guest List: The Best Albums of 2010 – John Macintosh

1. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me

2. Beach House – Teen Dream

3. Twin Shadow – Forget

4. The National – High Violet

5. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma

6. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz / All Delighted People EP

7. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

8. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

9. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today

10. Girls – Broken Dreams Club

11. How To Dress Well – Love Remains

12. Matthew Dear – Black City

13. The WalkmenLisbon

14. No Age – Everything in Between

15. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II)

16. Caribou – Swim

17. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

18. The Morning Benders – Big Echo

19. Pantha du Prince – Black Noise

20. Four Tet – There Is Love in You

21. SpoonTransference

22. Janelle MonáeThe ArchAndroid

23. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Part 2

24. Magic Man – Real Live Color

25. LiarsSisterworld

The Best Albums of 2010


1. Kvelertak – Kvelertak


2. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today


3. Carbon Based Lifeforms – Interloper


4. Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini


5. The Black Crowes – Croweology


6. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs


7. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me


8. Scissor Sisters – Night Work


9. Alcest – Écailles de lune


10. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma


11. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


12. The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt


13. Misery Index – Heirs to Thievery


14. Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time


15. Grinderman – Grinderman 2


16. The National – High Violet


17. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz


18. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest


19. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh


20. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here


21. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can


22. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit


23. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid


24. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky


25. Oceansize – Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up