I am not sure about the best albums of 2010 and won’t say anything about that. This text is only about music that I have enjoyed, that has grasped out to me, in some way.
Gayngs: Related, a great album for pursuing some central pop ideas. Some work out quite good, others so and so.
Tom Petty: Mojo. Graced by its in-room collective playing.
From 2008: Mew: No more stories. Patricia Barber: Mythologies.
Earlier albums enjoyed in2010:
Opeth Blackburry Park, Damnation and others.
Mastodon: Crack the skye, Blood Mountain.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first album.
I also has a bucket of older classics at hand, among these giving good listening last year, e g Steely Dan: The Royal Scam.