Apologies for the December hiatus, everyone. Here’s hoping the next handful of posts will make up for that! Wild Tonic’s end of the year lists start now with my favorite top 40 albums of 2010 below!

40.  Baths – Cerulean

39. Sleigh Bells – Treats

38. Blair – Die Young

37. Warpaint – The Fool

36. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

35. Fran Healy – Wreckorder

34. Cee-Lo Green – The Lady Killer

33. Sharon Van Etten – Epic

32. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

31. Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks

30. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma

29. Sia – We Are Born

28. Stars – Five Ghosts

27. Aloe Blacc – Good Things

26. The Thermals – Personal Life

25. Kissed Her Little Sister – HIGHandLOW

24.  Gorillaz – Plastic Beach

23. The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt

22. Woods – At Echo Lake

21. VV Brown – Travelling Like the Light

20. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way

19. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

18. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor

17. Superchunk – Majesty Shredding

16. Julian Lynch – Mare

15. The Morning Benders – Big Echo

14. Phantogram – Eyelid Movies

13. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – Record Collection

12. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

11. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo

10. Glasser – Ring

09. Beach House – Teen Dream

08. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me

07. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker

06. The Love Language – Libraries

05. Local Natives – Gorilla Manor

04. Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III)

03. Robyn – Body Talk

02. Wild Nothing – Gemini

01. The National – High Violet