10 Essential Albums of 2010: Editors Lists

You've seen our overall list of 10 Essential Albums of 2010, but how did our editors vote? Check out our ballots and let us know your own Top 10!

JASON PETTIGREW, EDITOR IN CHIEF

1. Hot Hot Heat’s Future Breeds (DANGERBIRD)
2. Grinderman’s Grinderman 2 (ANTI-)
3. Motion City Soundtrack’s My Dinosaur Life (COLUMBIA)
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Option Paralysis (PARTY SMASHER/SEASON OF MIST)
5. My Chemical Romance’s Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (REPRISE)
6. The Chariot’s Long Live (GOOD FIGHT)
7. Deftones’ Diamond Eyes (MAVERICK)
8. LCD Soundsystem’s This Is Happening (DFA/VIRGIN)
9. Bear Hands’ Burning Bush Supper Club (CANTORA)
10. OK Go’s Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (PARACADUTE)

RACHEL LUX, MANAGING EDITOR

1. OK Go’s Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky (PARACADUTE)
2. Biffy Clyro’s Only Revolutions (WARNER BROS.)
3. Foxy Shazam’s Foxy Shazam (SIRE)
4. Motion City Soundtrack’s My Dinosaur Life (COLUMBIA)
5. Sleigh Bells’ Treats (MOM+POP/N.E.E.T)
6. Free Energy’s Stuck On Nothing (ASTRALWERKS/DFA)
7. Wavves’ King Of The Beach (FAT POSSUM)
8. The Maine’s Black & White (SIRE/ACTION THEORY)
9. Never Shout Never’s What Is Love? (LOVEWAY/SIRE)
10. The Gaslight Anthem’s American Slang (SIDEONEDUMMY)

SCOTT HEISEL, MUSIC EDITOR

1. LCD Soundsystem’s This Is Happening (DFA/VIRGIN)
2. Motion City Soundtrack’s My Dinosaur Life (COLUMBIA)
3. Terrible Things’ Terrible Things (UNIVERSAL MOTOWN)
4. The Forecast’s The Forecast (EYEBALL)
5. Sleigh Bells’ Treats (MOM+POP/N.E.E.T)
6. The Felix Culpa’s Sever Your Roots (SELF-RELEASED)
7. Free Energy’s Stuck On Nothing (ASTRALWERKS/DFA)
8. Wavves’ King Of The Beach (FAT POSSUM)
9. Foxy Shazam’s Foxy Shazam (SIRE)
10. The Flatliners’ Cavalcade (FAT WRECK CHORDS)

TIM KARAN, WEB EDITOR

1. Norma Jean’s Meridional (RAZOR AND TIE)
2. Circa Survive’s Blue Sky Noise (ATLANTIC)
3. Sleigh Bells’ Treats (MOM+POP/N.E.E.T)
4. Crime In Stereo’s I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone (BRIDGE NINE)
5. Autolux’s Transit Transit (TBD)
6. Deftones’ Diamond Eyes (MAVERICK)
7. Envy’s Recitation (TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LIMITED)
8. The Gay Blades’ Savages (TRIPLE CROWN)
9. Underworld’s Barking (OM)
10. Colour Revolt’s The Cradle (NEW FEAR/DUALTONE)