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
The Best Albums of 2009
1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2. Amorphis – Skyforger
3. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Group Bombino – Guitars From Agadez
6. Megadeth – Endgame
7. Natural Snow Buildings – Shadow Kingdom
8. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
9. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt II
10. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
11. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
12. The Antlers – Hospice
13. Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
14. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
15. Kylesa – Static Tensions
16. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
17. Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away
18. David Sylvian – Manafon
19. Atlas Sound – Logos
20. The Black Crowes – Before the Frost…
21. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
22. Cobalt – Gin
23. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
24. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind
25. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2009 – John Macintosh
15. jj – jj n° 2
14. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
13. Atlas Sound – Logos
12. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
11. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
10. Chromatic Flights – Sunset Bell
9. Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
8. Girls – Album
7. The Antlers – Hospice
6. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
5. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
4. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
3. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion