Yesterday, we began our year-end countdown of the 75 albums Drowned in Sound staff recommends for the year twenty-ten. Or two zero one zero, if you haven't learnt to count above 5 stars.

Whilst one big site-defining list, with somewhat arbitrary positionings, full of compromises and a whiff of fair-play politics is all well and good, the far more fascinating thing is the ONE album people believe stands on a column, far above all others. Over the past 10 years, this has usually been pretty much the same four or five albums topping people's list, making the job of picking the top five albums of the year, somewhat easier. Not in tweeny-ten, oh no. This year, as you'll see below, has been the least lacking in consensus since records began (ok, as we're sure you know as we keep banging on about it, it was only 10 years ago we launched, so this clearly isn't the most scientific of research!).

Anyhoo, I found this really interesting, symptomatic of our times perhaps, and I thought you all might find it interesting too. Feel free to share your number one album of the year in the comments section down below and check back tomorrow for our albums of the year 50-11, and the top 10 will be revealed on Friday afternoon.

Senior Staff

Sean Adams, DiS Founder: Deftones Diamond Eyes
Andrzej Lukowski, Reviews Editor: The Knife w/ Mt Sims & Planningtorock Tomorrow, In A Year
Luke Slater, News Editor: White Hinterland Kairos
Dom Gourlay: Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Wendy Roby, Singles Columnist: James Blake CMYK EP
Cate Blanche, Features Editor: Perfume Genius Learning Mike Diver, Former Editor: Drake Thank Me Later
Rob Webb, DrownedinEvents: Arcade Fire The Suburbs

Contributors

Rory Gibb, Columnist: Forest Swords Dagger Paths
Billy Hamilton: Pantha du Prince Black Noise
Kevin E.G. Perry: John Grant Queen of Denmark
Jonathan Falcone: Neil Hamburger Hot February Night
Thomas Perry: The National High Violet
Bruce Porter: Menomena Mines
Brad Barrett: Deftones Diamond Eyes
Dave Kerr: Deftones Diamond Eyes
Jazz Monroe: Roky Erickson & Okkervil River True Love Cast Out All Evil
Gideon Brody: Four Tet There Is Love in You
William Grant: Caribou Swim
Sean Thomas: Hot Chip One Life Stand
Hayden Wooley: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today
Nick Neyland: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti Before Today
James Lawrenson: Los Campesinos! Romance is Boring
Paul Brown: Los Campesinos! Romance is Boring
David Pott-Negrine: Drake Thank Me Later
David Renshaw: LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening
Philip Bloomfield: Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Alexander Tudor: Shearwater The Golden Archipelago
James Skinner: Shearwater The Golden Archipelago
Neil Ashman: These New Puritans Hidden
Robert Ferguson: Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Sam Lewis: Woods At Echo Lake
Kyle Ellison: Mount Kimbie Crooks and Lovers
Dannii Leivers: Blood Red Shoes Fire Like This
Finn Scott-Delaney: Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
Si Truss: Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Christoper Nicolls: The Besnard Lakes ...Are The Roaring Night
Alex Hegazy: Liars Sisterworld
David Edwards: Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Sam Cleeve: Sufjan Stevens Age of Adz
Michael Wheeler: Sufjan Stevens Age of Adz
Ally Brown: Joanna Newsom Have One On Me
Tom Edwards: High on Fire Snakes for the Divine
Thom Gibbs: Wavves King of The Beach
Alex Baker: Caribou Swim
Dan Cooper-Gavin: Sharon Van Etten Epic
Adam Johns: Drake Thank Me Later
Noel Gardner: Extra Life Made Flesh
Paul Davey: Helen Stellar If The Stars Could Speak, They Would Have Your Voice
Brianna Saraceno: Happy Birthday Happy Birthday
Paul Clarke: Four Tet There Is Love in You