1. Shattered Darlings & Liquid Kisses - S/T (Nana's Records)
2. The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter (Domino) 2LP
3. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disingenuity / Disingenuousness (Pan) LP
4. The Depreciation Guild – Spirit Youth (Kanine) LP
5. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope to the Sky (Young God) LP
6. Whirl – Distressor (Self-Released) EP
7. Evan Caminiti - West Winds (Three Lobed) LP
8. Gary War - Police Water (Sacred Bones) EP
My list of 2010 runners-up appears in the comments
+ some records not published in 2010 i've listened to over and over :
Flying Saucer Attack - All LPs
Moose - All LPs, all EPs
Pale Saints - The Comforts Of Madness, In Ribbons
The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles, Heaven Up... , Porcupine, Ocean Rain
The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street, Across The Kitchen Table
East Village - Hotrod Hotel
Swans - Children Of God, Soundtracks for the Blind, The Great Annihilator
Felt - All LPs
Ride - Nowhere
