Albums of 2010: How Guardian music critics voted

Alex Macpherson

Albums
1. Ciara - Basic Instinct
2. The-Dream - Love King
3. K. Michelle - What's the 911?
4. Sade - Soldier Of Love
5. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
6. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
7. Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
8. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
9. Glasser - Ring
10. Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik 0-60

Songs:
1. Girl Unit - Wut
2. Kingdom Feat. Shyvonne - Mind Reader
3. Waka Flocka Flame - Hard in Da Paint
4. Fantasia - Man Of The House
5. Cassie Feat. Nicki Minaj - Fuck U Silly

Alex Needham

Albums
1. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
2. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
3. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
4. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
5. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
6. MIA - /\/\ /\Y/\
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. Robyn - Body Talk
9. These New Puritans - Hidden
10. Shit Robot - From the Cradle to the Rave

Songs
1. Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
2. Owen Pallett - Scandal At the Parkade
3. Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
4. Katy B - On a Mission
5. Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World)

Alexis Petridis

Albums
1. Gayngs - Relayted
2. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
3. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
4. Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here
5. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
6. Magnetic Fields - Realism
7. Tracey Thorn - Love and Its Opposite
8. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
9. Perfume Genius - Learning
10. Caribou - Swim

Songs
1. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
2. Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance (Dixon re-edit)
3. College feat. Electric Youth - A Real Hero
4. Tensnake - Coma Cat
5. Ariel Pink - Round and Round

Angus Batey:

Albums
1. Syl Johnson - Complete Mythology
2. Canibus - C of Tranquility
3. The Roots - How I Got Over
4. Zarif - Box of Secrets
5. John Legend and the Roots - Wake Up!
6. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
7. Canibus - Melatonin Magik
8. The Script - Science and Faith
9. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
10. Nas and Damian Marley - Distant Relatives

Songs:
1. B.o.B. - Nothin' On You feat Bruno Mars
2. Canibus - Captain Cold Crush
3. Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
4. John Legend and the Roots - Our Generation (The Hope of the World) feat CL Smooth
5. Gangstagrass - Long Hard Times to Come (Theme from Justified) feat T.O.N.E.-Z

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Albums:
1. These New Puritans - Hidden
2. The-Dream - Love King (Deluxe Edition)
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
4. Actress - Splazsh
5. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
6. James Ferraro - Last American Hero
7. Dustin Wong - Infinite Love
8. No Age - Everything in Between
9. Autechre - Move of Ten
10. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Live in New York

Songs:
1. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round
2. Lissie - When I'm Alone
3. Jamie Woon - Night Air
4. Caribou - Odessa
5. James Blake - CMYK

Ben Thompson

Albums
1. Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté - Ali & Toumani
3. Caribou - Swim
4. Drake - Thank Me Later
5. MGMT- Congratulations
6. Gorillaz - Third Time Lucky
7. Midlake - Courage of Others
8. These New Puritans - Hidden
9. Sam Amidon - I See the Sign
10. Vampire Weekend - Contra
Tracks
1. Drake - Fancy
2. Kanye - Monster
3. MGMT - Flash Delirium
4. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
5. Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul

Betty Clark

Albums
1. Sleigh Bells - Treats
2. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
3. Warpaint – The Fool
4. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
5. Carl Barât – Carl Barât
6. Harlem - Hippies
7. Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology
8. Spoon – Transference
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti – Before Today
10. Rumer – Seasons of My Soul

Songs
1. Blur - Fool's Day
2. The Vaccines - Wreckin' Bar
3. Laura Marling – The Needle and the Damage Done
4. Crystal Castles - Celestica
5. Rhianna - Only Girl in the World

Bob Stanley

Albums
1. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
2. Susanne Sundfor - The Brothel
3. Rihanna - Loud
4. The Concretes - WYWH
5. Lissie - Catching A Tiger
6. Beach House - Teen Dream
7. Ariel Pink - Before Today
8. Warpaint - The Fool
9. Robyn - Body Talk
10. The Radio Dept - Clinging To A Scheme

Songs
1. Usher - OMG
2. The Pierces - Love You More
3. Janelle Monae - Tightrope
4. Of Montreal - Sex Karma
5. Justin Bieber - Baby

Caroline Sullivan

Albums
1. Corinne Bailey Rae -The Sea
2. The Coral - Butterfly House
3. Gil Scott Heron - I'm new Here
4. Black Keys - Brothers
5. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
6. Manic Street preachers - Postcards from a Young Man
7. Kelis - Flesh Tone
8. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
9. Vampire Weekend - Contra
10. MGMT - Congratulations

Songs
1. The Count and Sinden ft Mystery Jets - After Dark
2. The Mummers - Fade Away
3. Lady Gaga & Beyonce - Telephone
4. Courteener - You Overdid it, Doll
5. Rihanna - Rude Boy

Caspar Llewellyn Smith

Albums
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Various - Tradi-Mods vs Rockers
3. These New Puritans - Hidden
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. Bellowhead - Hedonism
6. Die Antwoord - $O$
7. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
8. The Chemical Brothers - Further
9. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
10. Alasdair Roberts and Friends - Too Long in this Condition

Songs
1. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
2. Baloji - Karibu Ya Bintou
3. Zinc feat Ms Dynamite - Wile Out
4. the XX - VCR (Four Tet remix)
5. Cee Lo Green - Fuck You

Charlotte Richardson Andrews

Albums
1. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
2. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III)
3. Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
4. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
5. Lower Dens – Lower Dens
6. Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
7. Strong Arm Steady - In Search Of Stoney Jackson
8. Ginderman - Grinderman 2
9. Yelawolf - Trunk Muzic 0-60
10. Bilal – Airtight's Revenge

Songs
1. Paul White – Pride
2. Frankie Rose - Girlfriend Island'
3. Cocorosie – SmokeyTaboo
4. Lowkey - Terrorist
5. Laura Viers – July Flame

Chris Salmon

Albums
1. The National - High Violet
2. Tunng - ...And Then We Saw Land
3. Steve Mason - Boys Outside
4. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
5. Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
6. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
7. Marina and the Diamonds - Family Jewels
8. Ash - A to Z Vol 1
9. Foals - Total Life Forever
10. The Crayonettes - Playing Out

Songs
1. Kanye West - Runaway
2. Gorillaz - Melancholy Hill
3. Tunng - Santiago
4. Eminem - Not Afraid
5. the xx - VCR (Matthew Dear remix)

Dan Hancox

Albums
1. The Dream – Love King
2. Ikonika – Contact, Love, Want, Have
3. Jazmine Sullivan – Love Me Back
4. Wiley – Zip Files
5. Various Artists - Night Slugs Allstars Volume 1
6. Darkstar – North
7. The Creole Choir of Cuba – Tande-La
8. Omar Souleyman – Jazeera Nights
9. Ciara – Basic Instinct
10. Mount Kimbie – Crooks and Lovers
Tracks:
1. Girl Unit – Wut
2. The-Dream – Yamaha
3. Gyptian – Hold Yuh
4. Jam City – Ecstasy Refix
5. Willow Smith – Whip My Hair

Dave Simpson:

Albums
1. Steve Mason - Boys Outside
2. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
3. John Grant Queen Of Denmark
4. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
5. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
6. The National - High Violet
7. I Am Kloot - Sky At Night
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Arcade Fire - the suburbs
10. Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Songs
1. The Vaccines - Blow It Up
2. The Fall - Bury pts 1-3
3. Yeasayer - Madder Red
4. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
5. Robyn - Dancing on my Own

Dorian Lynskey

Albums
1. John Grant – Queen of Denmark
2. These New Puritans – Hidden
3. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
4. Vampire Weekend – Contra
5. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
6. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
7. Caribou – Swim
8. Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot… The Son of Chico Dusty
9. Plan B – The Defamation of Strickland Banks
10. The Chemical Brothers – Further

Songs
1. Robyn – Dancing on My Own
2. These New Puritans – We Want War
3. Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
4. Gorillaz – Stylo
5. Tracey Thorn – Oh! The Divorces

Ian Gittins:

Albums
1. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
2. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III)
3. Kelis - Fleshtone
4. Kanye West - My beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
6 Sleigh Bells - Treats
7. CocoRosie - Grey Oceans
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9 Stornaway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
10 Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

Songs
1 Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
2 Eminem ft Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie
3 Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
4 Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars
5 Jungle – Professor Green

Jude Rogers

Albums:
1. Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Lonelady – Nerve Up
3. Hidden – These New Puritans
4. Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
5. Jane Weaver – The Fallen By Watchbird
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
7. Emily Portman - The Glamoury
8. Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here
9. I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling
10. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid

Songs
1. Beach House - Zebra
2. Fuck You - Cee-Lo Green
3. Sunday Girl - Self Control
4. Rumer - Aretha
5. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II

Keith Cameron

Albums
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
3. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
4. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
5. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
6. Neil Young - Le Noise
7. Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
8. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
9. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
10. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Songs
1. Janelle Monae - Tightrope
2. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
3. No Age - Fever Dreaming
4. Manic Street Preachers - (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
5. Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait

Laura Barton

Albums
1. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
2. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
3. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
4. Mountain Man - Made the Harbor
5. Warpaint - The Fool
6. Beach House - Teen Dream
7. Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill
8. Dylan LeBlanc - Paupers Field
9. Black Keys - Brothers
10. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

Songs
1. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
2. Beach House - Real Love
3. Stornoway - Boats & Trains
4. Hiss Golden Messenger - Isobel
5. The Tallest Man on Earth - Love Is All

Maddy Costa

Albums
1. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
2. Anais Mitchell Hadestown
3. Crayonettes - Playing Out
4. Caribou - Swim
5. Laura Veirs - July Flame
6. Robyn - Body Talk
7. Warpaint - The Fool
8. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
9. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
10. Badly Drawn Boy - It's What I'm Thinking pt 1

Songs
1. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
2. Music Go Music - Just Me
3. Coco Rosie - Lemonade
4. Robyn - Dancing on My Own
5. Belle and Sebastian - I Want the World To Stop

Malik Meer

Albums
1. Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
2. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
3. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
6. MIA - MAYA
7. Caribou - Swim
8. Janelle Monae - Arch Android
9. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
10. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Singles
1. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
2. The Dream - Yamaha
3. Gyptian - Hold Yuh
4. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
5. Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars

Mike Atkinson

Albums
1. These New Puritans - Hidden
2. Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul
3. I Am Kloot - Sky At Night
4. Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ali & Toumani
5. Glasser - Ring
6. Jackie Leven - Gothic Road
7. We Love – We Love
8. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
9. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
10. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig

Songs
1. Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
2. Girl Unit -Wut
3. Janelle Monae ft Big Boi - Tightrope
4. Crystal Castles - Celestica
5. Magnetic Man ft Katy B - Perfect Stranger

Michael Cragg

Albums
1. Robyn - Body Talk
2. Beach House - Teen Dream
3. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III)
4. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
5. MGMT - Congratulations
6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
7. Best Coast - Crazy For You
8. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Rivers
9. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Songs
1. Jai Paul - BTSTU
2. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
3. Tennis - Marathon
4. Niki & The Dove - DJ, Ease My Mind
5. Sky Ferreira - One

Michael Hann

Albums:
1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
2. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
3. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
4. Warpaint - The Fool
5. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
6. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
7. Lindstrøm and Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
8. Tom Jones - Praise and Blame
9. Stornoway - Beachcombers' Windowsill
10. Marina and the Diamonds - Family Jewels

Songs:
1. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
2. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
3. Music Go Music - Light of Love
4. The Jim Jones Revue - Dishonest John
5. Selena Gomez and the Scene - Kiss and Tell

Paul Lester

Albums
1. Drake - Thank Me Later
2.Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3.Ariel Pink - Before Today
4.How To Dress Well - Love Remains
5.Toro Y Moi - Causers Of This
6.Caribou - Swim
7.Gayngs - Relayted
8.DJ Nate - Da Trak Genious
9.Salem - King Night
10.Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Tracks
1.Washed Out - Belong
2.Drake - The Resistance
3.Ariel Pink - Brightlitblueskies
4.How To Dress Well ,- Lover's Start
5.DJ Nate - Free

Paul MacInnes

Albums
1. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
2. Kanye West – My Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Vampire Weekend – Contra
4. Tyler the Creator – Bastard
5. Holly Miranda – The magician's private library
6. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
7. Caribou – Swim
8. Lindstrom and Christabelle – Real Life is no Cool
9. Professor Green – Alive til I'm Dead
10. Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Songs
1. Big Boi – Shutterbug
2. Earl Sweatshirt – Earl
3. Actress – Purple Splazsh
4. Kanye West – All the lights
5. Gucci Mane – Sex in crazy places

Rebecca Nicholson:

Albums:
1. Robyn - Body Talk
2. Kelis - Flesh Tone
3. Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
4. Rihanna - Loud
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Holly Miranda - The Magician's Private Libray
7. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
8. Mark Ronson - Record Collection
9. Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
10. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two

Songs:
1. Kelis - Acapella
2. Kanye - Monster
3. Nicki Minaj - Roman's Revenge
4. Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
5. Katy B - Katy On A Mission

Rob Fitzpatrick

Albums
1. Gil Scott Heron I'm - New Here
2. White Noise Sound - White Noise Sound
3. Hurts - Happiness
4. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
5. Louis Eliot- Kittows Moor
6. Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8. The Bees - Every Step's A Yes
9. Magnetic Man - Magnetic Man
10. Best Coast - Crazy For You
Tracks
1. Gil Scott-Heron - Where Did The Night Go?
2. Hurts - Stay
3. Magnetic Man - I Need Air
4. Louis Eliot - Someone Like You
5. Mystro - Round My Way

Rosie Swash

Albums
1. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
2. Robyn - Body talk
3. Clinic – Bubblegum
4. Kanye West- MBDTF
5. Neil Young – Le Noise
6. Caribou – Swim
7. MIA- MAYA
8. Kelis - Flesh Tone
9. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
10. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid

Songs
Lissie- When I'm Alone
Kelis – Acapella
Gyptian – Hold Yuh
Redlight – Stupid
Adele - Someone Like You

Stevie Chick

Albums
1. The Posies, Blood Candy
2. Erykah Badu, NuAmerykah Pt 2: Return Of The Ankh
3. Male Bonding, Nothing Hurts
4. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
5. Wavves – King Of The Beach
6. Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En A-Free-Ka
7. Aloe Blacc - Good Things
8. No Age - Everything In Between
9. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers
0. Kashmere - galaktus power cosmic

Songs
1. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
2. Part Chimp - You Decide
3. Krut Vile - In My Time
4. the P osies She's Coming Down
5. Erykah Badu- Window Seat

Tim Jonze

Albums:
1. Drake - Thank Me Later
2. Zola Jesus - Stridulum ll
3. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
4. Sleigh Bells - Treats
5. Robyn - Body talk
6. Ariel Pink - Before Today
7. Glasser - Ring
8. Best Coast - Crazy For You
9. Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks
10. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz

Songs:
1. Perfume Genius - Mr Peterson
2. oOOoO - Hearts
3. Aeroplane - We Can't Fly
4. Robyn - Hang With Me
5. These New Puritans - We Want war

Tom Ewing

Albums
1. Sleigh Bells - Treats
2. The-Dream - Love King
3. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
4. These New Puritans - Hidden
5. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
6. Robyn - Body Talk
7. Spoon - Transference
8. Various Artists - Ayobaness!
9. Vampire Weekend - Contra
10. Ellen Allien - Dust
Tracks
1. These New Puritans - We Want War
2. Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone
3. Katy B - Katy On A Mission
4. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
5. Kanye West ft Pusha T - Runaway

Will Dean

Albums:
1 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2 The National - High Violet
3 Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
4 Gayngs - Relayted
5 Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
6 Yeasayer - Odd Blood
7 Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
8 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
9 LCD Soundsytem - This is Happening
10 Arcade Fire - Suburbs

Songs:
1 James Blake - Limit To Your Love
2 Arcade Fire - Sprawl I
3 Kanye - All Of The Lights
4 Gayngs - Cry
5 Robyn - Hang With Me