Contact Risk's 40 best records of 2010 so far

1. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me


2. Beach House – Teen Dream


3. Wu Lyf – Concrete Gold / Heavy Pop 12”


4. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma


5. How to Dress Well – Can’t See My Own Face EP


6. Wavves – King of the Beach


7. Baths – Cerulean


8. These New Puritans – Hidden


9. Damien Jurado – Saint Barlett


10. Cloud Nothings – Turning On LP


11. The National – High Violet


12. Gayngs – Relayted


13. Twin Sister – Color Your Life


14. Liars – Sisterworld


15. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers


16. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today


17. Best Coast – Crazy For You


18. Pavement – Quarantine the Past


19. jj – jj n° 3


20. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul

21. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
22. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
23. Spoon – Transference
24. Women – Public Strain
25. Lonely Galaxy – EP One
26. Johnny Cash – Ain’t No Grave
27. Zola Jesus – Stridulum EP
28. Julian Lynch – Mare
29. Green Gerry – Odd Tymes
30. Herzog - Search

31. Wild Nothing – Gemini
32. Best Coast – Something in the Way 7”
33. Wolf Parade – Expo 86
34. Roky Erickson with Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
35. Cults – Go Outside 7”
36. Pocahaunted – Make It Real
37. Small Black – Small Black EP
38. LA Vampires & Zola Jesus – LA Vampires & Zola Jesus
39. The Magic Lantern – Platoon
40. The Besnard Lakes – Are the Roaring Night