Best Rock Album in 2010

Deerhunter "Halcyon Digest". Digest is correct as it's stylistically slipperier than Microcastle, ranging from anticipated alt. psychedelia to Conner Oberst-style crooning(but with less angst and a better sense to melody) to only slightly bent surprisingly strong pop and R&B song structures with just a halo of trippiness. Probably the most fertile imaginations of all of the newer bands. Excellent SQ with production values suggested by an illustration of a RTR tape hub on the LP label. Add to that the supplicant transvestite dwarf in a communion dress on the cover and we've got a big winner.

And OH YEAH, Neil Young "Le Noise" is his best in decades. Excellent if expensive Reprise vinyl.

Le Noise!

Just listened to it last night
Neil's rocking.

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (will be a record people talk about for years)
Broken Bells - Interesting The Shins meets Danger Mouse
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
No Age - Everything In Between

No Age comes out with their third effort but it comes up short to their last one 'Nouns' but there is something I just love about this band and they're my guilty pleasure for sure.

Check out the link to give you an idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7_SolIcIY&feature=related

Agree with Dgarretson: Add Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest to you list.