This isn't a publication, just a collection of music writers collective thoughts on the year. Just posting it as it was a good list.
1. Portishead - Third
2. Weezer - Weezer
3. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
4. Harvey Milk - Life… The Best Game In Town
5. The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow
6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
7. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
8. Sun Kil Moon - April
9. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
10. Fennesz - Black Sea
11. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
12. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
13. Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
14. Young Jeezy - The Recession
15. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
16. Drumm, Kevin - Imperial Distortion
17. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
18. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
19. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
20. Lindstrøm - Where You Go, I Go Too
21. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
22. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager
23. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
24. Dream, The- - Love/Hate
25. Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
26. Boris - Smile
27. Luomo - Convivial
28. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
29. Emeralds - Solar Bridge
30. Krallice - Krallice
31. Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive
32. Air France - No Way Down EP
33. Melvins - Nude With Boots
34. Matmos - Supreme Balloon
35. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
36. Opeth - Watershed
37. Booka Shade - The Sun & The Neon Light
38. Westerberg, Paul - 49:00
39. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
40. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
41. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
42. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
43. These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
44. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
45. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
46. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
47. Bug, The - London Zoo
48. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
49. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours
50. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
51. Fall, The - Imperial Wax Solvent
52. Black Elk - Always A Six, Never A Nine
53. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
54. Skeletons - Money
55. Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego - The Sinking of The Titanic
56. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
57. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco
