Picking a #1 album this year was more difficult than usual — there wasn't an "Embryonic" this year that really made me sit up and take notice. That said, Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest is pretty damn great. Here are my top 10, see the whole top 25 here.

Deerhunter — Halcyon Digest

Mighty Clouds — Mighty Clouds

Mount Eerie — Song Islands, Vol. 2

Madlib — Medicine Show #7: High Jazz

Poison Control Center — Sad Sour Future

Tame Impala — Innerspeaker

Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Thee Oh Sees — Warm Slime

MGMT — Congratulations

Fred Thomas — Night TImes