10 of our critics pick their 10 best albums of 2010
Lauren Murphy
1 John Grant
Queen of Denmark
2 Villagers
Becoming a Jackal
3 Laura Marling
I Speak Because I Can
4 Beach House
Teen Dream
5 Cathy Davey
The Nameless
6 Owen Pallett
Heartland
7 Janelle Monáe
The ArchAndroid
8 Jónsi
Go
9 O Emperor
Hither Thither
10 The Drums
The Drums
Tony Clayton-Lea
1 Villagers
Becoming a Jackal
2 Tracey Thorn
Love and Opposite
3 Strands
Strands
4 Oliver Cole
We Albatri
5 Rumer
Seasons of My Soul
6 Teenage Fanclub
Shadows
7 John Grant
Queen of Denmark
8 Jónsi
Go
9 Divine Comedy
Bang Goes the Knighthood
10 Laura Marling
I Speak Because I Can
Ailbhe Malone
1 Everything
Everything Man Alive
2 Hurts
Happiness
3 Rihanna
Loud
4 Best Coast
Crazy for You
5 Villagers
Becoming a Jackal
6 Tinie Tempah
Disc-Overy
7 Music Go Music
Expressions
8 Robyn Body
Talk Trilogy
9 Laura Marling
I Speak Because I Can
10 Joanna Newsom
Have One on Me
Ray Comisky
1 Django Bates
Belovèd Bird
2 Food
Quiet Inlet
3 Tom Harrell
Roman Nights
4 Lee Konitz
Live at the Village Vanguard
5 Loose Tubes
Dancing on Frith Street
6 Charles Lloyd
Mirror
7 Neon Quartet
Catch Me
8 Gwilym Simcock
Blues Vignette
9 Christine Tobin
Tapestry Unravelled
10 Norma Winstone
Stories Yet to Tell
Brian Boyd
1 Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
2 Band of Horses
Infinite Arms
3 Robert Plant
Band of Joy
4 MGMT
Congratulations
5 O Emperor
Hither Thither
6 Jónsi
Go
7 John Legend and The Roots
Wake Up!
8 Gorillaz
Plastic Beach
9 Villagers
Becoming a Jackal
10 Beach House
Teen Dream
Joe Breen
1 Bruce Springsteen
The Promise
2 Richard Thompson
Dream Attic
3 Taylor Swift
Speak Now
4 Willie Nelson
Country Music
5 Robert Plant
Band of Joy
6 Basia Bulat
Heart of My Own
7 Rachel Harrington
Celilo Falls
8 Natalie Merchant
Leave Your Sleep
9 The Duke and the King
Long Live the Duke and the King
10 Neil Young
Le Noise
Sinéad Gleeson
1 Beach House
Teen Dream
2 Caribou
Swim
3 Joanna Newsom
Have One on Me
4 The National
High Violet
5 Tame Impala
Innerspeaker
6 Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz
7 Stornoway
Beachcomber’s Windowsill
8 Villagers
Becoming a Jackal
9 Warpaint
The Fool
10 Pearly Gate Music
Pearly Gate Music
Michael Dervan
1 Mark Padmore (tenor), Paul Lewis (piano)
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
2 Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
3 Freiburger Barockorchester/ Petra Müllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz
Telemann’s Musique de Table
4 La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (violin)
Antonio Vivaldi – Gods, Emperors and Angels
5 Chor der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel/Anthony Rooley
Hayes’s The Passions
6 Nina Janßen (clarinet), Ensemble Modern/Franck Ollu, Johannes Kalitzke
Ensemble Pieces by Arnulf Herrmann
7 Belcea Quartet, Valentin Erben (cello)
Schubert’s String Quintet & Late Quartets
8 Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Thomas E Bauer (bass), Furio Zanani (bass), La Risonanza/ Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord)
Handel’s Italian Cantatas, Vol 7
9 Andreas Scholl (counter tenor,baritone), Shield of Harmony
Oswald Von Wolkenstein – Songs of Myself
10 London Symphony Orchestra/Valery Gergiev
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Jim Carroll
1 Flying Lotus C
osmogramma
2 Villagers
Becoming a Jackal
3 Janelle Monáe
The ArchAndroid
4 Beach House
Teen Dream
5 Gorillaz
Plastic Beach
6 Sleigh Bells
Treats
7 Gil Scott Heron
I’m New Here
8 Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9 Lindstrøm & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool
10 Perfume Genius
Learning
Siobhan Long
1 Peadar Ó Riada, Martin Hayes & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Triúr Sa Draighean
2 Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting
3 Matt Cranitch & Jackie Daly
The Living Stream
4 Louis de Paor & Ronan Browne
Agus Rud Eile/And Another Thing
5 BrendAn Begley & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
Le Gealaigh/A Moment of Madness
6 Nuala Kennedy
Tune In
7 Lunfardia
Acollarados
8 Téada
Ceol Agus Cuimhne/Music and Memory
9 Andy Irvine
Abocurragh
10 Chris Wood
Handmade Life
