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Favorite Albums of the 2010s

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With the decade coming to a close with only a few months left to go, I figured I should start a mega-thread where we can all share our lists of 50+ albums from the past decade and discuss our picks as I am sure there will be some controversial picks. This is my first real thread so please forgive me if it isn't well organized.

I want to do something similar to the recent "All Time Artists" poll that was recently conducted where a massive list is created at the end. The issue is, I don't know how to do that! So PLEASE, if any of you do, please message me.

I will keep this post updated if there are any changes.
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Re: Best/Favorite Album Lists of the 2010s

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This is very provisional, but I've been working on these lists a lot in light of the coming end of the decade...

Top 100 Songs:

1. Inspector Norse- Todd Terje
2. Seasons (Waiting On You)- Future Islands
3. Runaway- Kanye West (featuring Pusha T)
4. Oblivion- Grimes
5. Let It Happen- Tame Impala
6. Get Lucky- Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell)
7. Pyramids- Frank Ocean
8. Dancing On My Own- Robyn
9. Run Away With Me- Carly Rae Jepsen
10. Midnight City- M83

11. Pedestrian at Best- Courtney Barnett
12. Holding On- The War on Drugs
13. Lazarus- David Bowie
14. Reflektor- Arcade Fire
15. Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe- Kendrick Lamar
16. Archie, Marry Me- Alvvays
17. Fuck You- Cee Lo Green
18. Pure Comedy- Father John Misty
19. Space Song- Beach House
20. Shutterbugg- Big Boi

21. The House That Heaven Built- Japandroids
22. Yonkers- Tyler, the Creator
23. Tightrope- Janelle Monáe (featuring Big Boi)
24. All I Want- LCD Soundsystem
25. When a Fire Starts to Burn- Disclosure
26. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)- Arcade Fire
27. Rolling in the Deep- Adele
28. Drone Bomb Me- Anohni
29. Fists of Fury- Kamasi Washington
30. Only Tomorrow- My Bloody Valentine

31. Truth- Kamasi Washington
32. Video Games- Lana Del Rey
33. Make Me Feel- Janelle Monáe
34. Round and Round- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
35. Lonely Boy- The Black Keys
36. Andromeda- Weyes Blood
37. White Noise- Disclosure (featuring AlunaGeorge)
38. Diane Young- Vampire Weekend
39. Power- Kanye West
40. Gosh- Jamie xx

41. Holocene- Bon Iver
42. In Undertow- Alvvays
43. Lake By the Ocean- Maxwell
44. Myth- Beach House
45. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards- Tame Impala
46. Latch- Disclosure (featuring Sam Smith)
47. Retrograde- James Blake
48. Seventeen- Sharon Van Etten
49. Heaven- The Walkmen
50. Odessa- Caribou

51. Calgary- Bon Iver
52. I Never Dream- A.A.L (Against All Logic)
53. Four out of Five- Arctic Monkeys
54. Ravens- Mount Eerie
55. Yet Again- Grizzly Bear
56. Black Skinhead- Kanye West
57. Do I Wanna Know?- Arctic Monkeys
58. Delorean Dynamite- Todd Terje
59. Johnny and Mary- Todd Terje (featuring Bryan Ferry)
60. Realiti- Grimes

61. Love It If We Made It- The 1975
62. Royals- Lorde
63. Need You Now- Cut Copy
64. The Wire- Haim
65. I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)- Jamie xx (featuring Young Thug and Popcaan)
66. Rill Rill- Sleigh Bells
67. Bloodbuzz Ohio- The National
68. Not in Love- Crystal Castles (featuring Robert Smith)
69. I Can Change- LCD Soundsystem
70. Dimed Out- Titus Andronicus

71. King Kunta- Kendrick Lamar
72. Hey Jane- Spiritualized
73. Cold War- Janelle Monáe
74. Never Catch Me- Flying Lotus (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
75. Hold On, We’re Going Home- Drake
76. Vomit- Girls
77. The Wilhelm Scream- James Blake
78. Thinkin Bout You- Frank Ocean
79. Digital Witness- St. Vincent
80. Inside Out- Spoon

81. Can’t Do Without You- Caribou
82. Humble- Kendrick Lamar
83. Only Human- Four Tet
84. I Need a Forest Fire- James Blake (featuring Bon Iver)
85. Holy Shit- Father John Misty
86. Feel You- Julia Holter
87. Hotline Bling- Drake
88. Boys- Charli XCX
89. Movies- Weyes Blood
90. Boyfriend- Tegan and Sara

91. Cranes in the Sky- Solange
92. Red Eyes- The War on Drugs
93. Ultralight Beam- Kanye West (featuring The-Dream, Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price, and Kirk Franklin)
94. Third of May / Ōdaigahara- Fleet Foxes
95. Elephant- Tame Impala
96. Brennisteinn- Sigur Rós
97. Good Intentions Paving Company- Joanna Newsom
98. Dream House- Deafheaven
99. Tighten Up- The Black Keys
100. Unbelievers- Vampire Weekend

Top 100 Albums:

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy- Kanye West
2. Channel Orange- Frank Ocean
3. Good Kid, M.A.A.D City- Kendrick Lamar
4. Modern Vampires of the City- Vampire Weekend
5. Random Access Memories- Daft Punk
6. Blackstar- David Bowie
7. To Pimp a Butterfly- Kendrick Lamar
8. This Is Happening- LCD Soundsystem
9. The Suburbs- Arcade Fire
10. Teen Dream- Beach House

11. Yeezus- Kanye West
12. It’s Album Time- Todd Terje
13. Settle- Disclosure
14. A Crow Looked at Me- Mount Eerie
15. Benji- Sun Kil Moon
16. Currents- Tame Impala
17. Lonerism- Tame Impala
18. Let England Shake- PJ Harvey
19. Cosmogramma- Flying Lotus
20. The ArchAndroid- Janelle Monáe

21. High Violet- The National
22. Reflektor- Arcade Fire
23. James Blake- James Blake
24. A Deeper Understanding- The War on Drugs
25. Kaputt- Destroyer
26. Bon Iver, Bon Iver- Bon Iver
27. The SMiLE Sessions- The Beach Boys
28. Titanic Rising- Weyes Blood
29. 2012 – 2017- A.A.L (Against All Logic)
30. Pure Comedy- Father John Misty

31. St. Vincent- St. Vincent
32. AM- Arctic Monkeys
33. In Colour- Jamie xx
34. The Seer- Swans
35. The Money Store- Death Grips
36. Helplessness Blues- Fleet Foxes
37. Heaven and Earth- Kamasi Washington
38. Treats- Sleigh Bells
39. m b v- My Bloody Valentine
40. Run the Jewels 2- Run the Jewels

41. Bloom- Beach House
42. Shields- Grizzly Bear
43. Contra- Vampire Weekend
44. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty- Big Boi
45. Hopelessness- Anohni
46. I Love You, Honeybear- Father John Misty
47. Carrie & Lowell- Sufjan Stevens
48. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit- Courtney Barnett
49. To Be Kind- Swans
50. Lost in the Dream- The War on Drugs

51. 7- Beach House
52. Melodrama- Lorde
53. Damn- Kendrick Lamar
54. Art Angels- Grimes
55. Dirty Computer- Janelle Monáe
56. Father, Son, Holy Ghost- Girls
57. Halcyon Digest- Deerhunter
58. The 20/20 Experience- Justin Timberlake
59. Sunbather- Deafheaven
60. Have You in My Wilderness- Julia Holter

61. Plastic Beach- Gorillaz
62. 22, A Million- Bon Iver
63. Teens of Denial- Car Seat Headrest
64. Atrocity Exhibition- Danny Brown
65. Body Talk- Robyn
66. House of Balloons- The Weeknd
67. The Idler Wheel…- Fiona Apple
68. 21- Adele
69. Celebration Rock- Japandroids
70. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino- Arctic Monkeys

71. Emotion- Carly Rae Jepsen
72. Kveikur- Sigur Rós
73. Visions- Grimes
74. Crack-Up- Fleet Foxes
75. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)- Car Seat Headrest
76. Kids See Ghosts- Kids See Ghosts
77. The Epic- Kamasi Washington
78. The Monitor- Titus Andronicus
79. Before Today- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
80. Sweet Heart Sweet Light- Spiritualized

81. Minecraft – Volume Alpha- C418
82. ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
83. blackSUMMERS’night- Maxwell
84. Lemonade- Beyoncé
85. Bandana- Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
86. Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)- Jai Paul
87. American Dream- LCD Soundsystem
88. The King of Limbs- Radiohead
89. Have One On Me- Joanna Newsom
90. Strange Mercy- St. Vincent

91. Brothers- The Black Keys
92. Kill for Love- Chromatics
93. You’re Dead!- Flying Lotus
94. There Is Love In You- Four Tet
95. Swim- Caribou
96. The Magic Whip- Blur
97. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love- Deafheaven
98. Vulnicura- Björk
99. Crazy for You- Best Coast
100. The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden- LCD Soundsystem
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This is my Top 50. I am hoping that Post Malone's new album or any new releases can fill in the missing spot.

1. Post Malone – Beerbongs & Bentleys [2018]
2. Depeche Mode – Spirit [2017]
3. Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes [2014]
4. Depeche Mode – Delta Machine [2013]
5. Post Malone – Stoney [2016]
6. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? [2019]
7. XXXTENTACION - ? [2018]
8. Lil Peep – Come Over When Your Sober, Pt. 1 [2017]
9. Travis Scott – ASTROWORLD [2018]
10. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool [2016]

11. Juice WRLD – Goodbyes & Good Riddance [2018]
12. Wavves – Afraid of Heights [2013]
13. Tyla Yaweh – Heart Full of Rage [2019]
14. Tame Impala – Lonerism [2012]
15. Lil Nas X – 7 EP [2019]
16. Bad Religion – Age of Unreason [2019]
17. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [2010]
18. The Drums – The Drums [2010]
19. Radiohead – The King of Limbs [2011]
20. David Bowie – Blackstar [2016]

21. Green Day – UNO [2012]
22. Drab Majesty – The Demonstration [2017]
23. Lil Peep – Come Over When Your Sober, Pt. 2 [2018]
24. Keane – Strangeland [2012]
25. XXXTENTACION – 17 [2017]
26. The Front Bottoms – The Front Bottoms [2011]
27. Kanye West – Yeezus [2013]
28. Fun. – Some Nights [2012]
29. The Offspring – Days Go By [2012]
30. Wavves – King of The Beach [2010]

31. Foster The People – Torches [2011]
32. Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts [2015]
33. Bright Eyes – The People’s Key [2011]
34. C418 – Minecraft – Volume Alpha [2011]
35. Kanye West – Ye [2018]
36. Thom Yorke – ANIMA [2019]
37. Juice WRLD – Death Race For Love [2019]
38. Young Thug – Beautiful Thugger Girls [2017]
39. The Raconteurs – Help Me Stranger [2019]
40. Young Lean – Stranger [2017]

41. Keane – Night Train [2010]
42. Young Thug – Jeffrey [2016]
43. Mac Miller – GO:OD AM [2015]
44. Lorne Balfe – Assassin’s Creed III OST [2012]
45. CJ Ramone – Last Chance To Dance [2014]
46. Avicii - True [2013]
47. Roger Daltrey – As Long As I Have You [2018]
48. Drab Majesty – Careless [2015]
49. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Who Built The Moon? [2017]
50.
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In 2020 I'm planning on doing a big decade listening tournament with my top 20 from each year. Here's my current top 20:

1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2
4. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
5. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
6. Stone Jack Jones - Love & Torture
7. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
8. Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint
9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
10. Jenny Scheinman - Mischief & Mayhem
11. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
12. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
13. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
14. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
15. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
16. Frankie Rose - Interstellar
17. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
18. The National - High Violet
19. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
20. Anais Mitchell - Hadestown

Almost surprised to see three jazz albums in my top ten.
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I’d like to share a list of my favorites so far but I guess I wouldn’t consider it my “official” list until 2019 is over since I only have albums through 2018, how long will you have the poll open for?
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FrankLotion wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2019 11:24 pm I’d like to share a list of my favorites so far but I guess I wouldn’t consider it my “official” list until 2019 is over since I only have albums through 2018, how long will you have the poll open for?
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Here's the top 7 from the list I made a year ago (the full list will certainly change whenever I finally get around to redoing it). The 2010s is the decade with which I have the deepest musical familiarity, and is also my favorite decade in music. I think this list shows my musical personality.

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
2. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (2010)
3. Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation (2016)
4. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (2010)
5. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 (2011)
6. Swans - To Be Kind (2014)
7. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park (2013)
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Best of the decade so far minus 2019 albums, if the poll is somehow open in early 2020 I’ll update it again:

1. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE (2012)
2. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
4. Beyoncé - Lemonade (2016)
5. Kendrick Lamar - Damn. (2017)
6. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
7. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
8. D’Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)
9. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot, The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)
10. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013)
11. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (2014)
12. St. Vincent - St. Vincent (2014)
13. Swans - To Be Kind (2014)
14. Deafheaven - Sunbather (2013)
15. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (2017)
16. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour (2018)
17. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... (2012)
18. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love (2015)
19. Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
20. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead! (2014)
21. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
22. The Roots - undun (2011)
23. Tame Impala - Lonerism (2012)
24. The Weeknd - House of Balloons (2011)
25. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
26. FKA Twigs - M3LL155X (2015)
27. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016)
28. Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L (2011)
29. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (2012)
30. Noname - Room 25 (2018)
31. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your Service (2016)
32. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
33. Aphex Twin - Syro (2014)
34. SZA - Ctrl (2017)
35. Kali Uchis - Isolation (2018)
36. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
37. Björk - Vulnicura (2015)
38. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book (2016)
39. Grimes - Art Angels (2015)
40. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer (2018)
41. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 (2016)
42. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (2013)
43. Solange - A Seat at the Table (2016)
44. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer, Different Park (2013)
45. Kanye West - Yeezus (2013)
46. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening (2010)
47. Mitski - Be the Cowboy (2018)
48. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
49. FKA Twigs - LP1 (2014)
50. Behemoth - The Satanist (2014)
51. Burial - Kindred (2012)
52. Robyn - Body Talk (2010)
53. Christine and the Queens - Chris (2018)
54. St. Vincent - Masseduction (2017)
55. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels (2013)
56. Idles - Joy As an Act Of Rebellion (2018)
57. Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told (2011)
58. Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN (2016)
59. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
60. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (2017)
61. Jamie xx - In Colour (2015)
62. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)
63. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (2010)
64. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (2012)
65. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (2013)
66. Tom Waits - Bad As Me (2011)
67. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011)
68. Grizzly Bear - Shields (2012)
69. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
70. Danny Brown - XXX (2011)
71. The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014)
72. Jay-Z - 4:44 (2017)
73. Lorde - Melodrama (2017)
74. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy (2018)
75. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (2011)
76. Swans - The Seer (2012)
77. The Roots - How I Got Over (2010)
78. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat (2015)
79. Mitski - Puberty 2 (2016)
80. The National - High Violet (2010)
81. Nils Frahm - Spaces (2013)
82. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)
83. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (2012)
84. Perfume Genius - No Shape (2017)
85. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (2018)
86. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (2017)
87. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (2013)
88. Vijay Iyer - Accelerando (2012)
89. The Black Keys - El Camino (2011)
90. Tim Hecker - Virgins (2013)
91. David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)
92. Vince Staples - Summertime ‘06 (2015)
93. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual (2013)
94. Beyoncé - Beyoncé (2013)
95. Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (2010)
96. Sampha - Process (2017)
97. Bon Iver - 22, A Million (2016)
98. Perfume Genius - Too Bright (2014)
99. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (2014)
100. James Blake - James Blake (2011)
101. The National - Trouble Will Find Me (2013)
102. Brockhampton - Saturation 1, 2, and 3 (2017)
103. Converge - The Dusk in Us (2017)
104. Julia Holter - Loud City Song (2013)
105. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf (2015)
106. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (2017)
107. The Black Keys - Brothers (2010)
108. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2018)
109. Ashley Monroe - Sparrow (2018)
110. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (2014)
111. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (2014)
112. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass (2015)
113. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (2013)
114. Jason Isbell - Southeastern (2013)
115. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa (2015)
116. Drive-By Truckers - American Band (2016)
117. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (2016)
118. Hop Along - Painted Shut (2015)
119. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus (2018)
120. Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us (2016)
121. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (2016)
122. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (2018)
123. Dr. John - Locked Down (2012)
124. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
125. Jessie Ware - Devotion (2012)
126. The National - Sleep Well Beast (2017)
127. Jlin - Black Origami (2017)
128. Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest (2018)
129. Rosalía - El Mal Querer (2018)
130. Arca - Arca (2017)
131. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)
132. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016)
133. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (2012)
134. Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want (2018)
135. Anderson .Paak - Malibu (2016)
136. Vampire Weekend - Contra (2010)
137. Sleigh Bells - Treats (2010)
138. Jack White - Blunderbuss (2012)
139. Marmozets - The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets (2014)
140. Baroness - Purple (2015)
141. Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
142. My Bloody Valentine - MBV (2013)
143. Danny Brown - Old (2013)
144. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (2018)
145. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence (2011)
146. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 (2011)
147. Jeff Rosenstock - -Post (2018)
148. Pusha T - Daytona (2018)
149. Brand New - Science Fiction (2017)
150. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011)
151. Iceage - New Brigade (2011)
152. The Game - The Documentary 2.5 (2015)
153. Disclosure - Settle (2013)
154. Algiers - The Underside Of Power (2017)
155. Big K.R.I.T. - Cadillactica (2014)
156. Miranda Lambert - Platinum (2014)
157. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent (2017)
158. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism (2017)
159. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2015)
160. Bedouine - Bedouine (2017)
161. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (2015)
162. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010)
163. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (2012)
164. Death Grips - The Money Store (2012)
165. Charly Bliss - Guppy (2017)
166. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo (2016)
167. Floating Points - Elaenia (2015)
168. The XX - I See You (2017)
169. Ital Tek - Hollowed (2016)
170. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger (2016)
171. Paul Weller - A Kind Revolution (2017)
172. Jon Hopkins - Singularity (2018)
173. Ashley Monroe - The Blade (2015)
174. Miguel - Wildheart (2015)
175. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too (2015)
176. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What (2011)
177. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides (2018)
178. Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation (2011)
179. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (2014)
180. La Dispute - Rooms of the House (2014)
181. Pusha T - King Push: Darkest Before Dawn (2015)
182. Deafheaven - New Bermuda (2015)
183. Milo - Things That Happen at Day / Things That Happen at Night (2013)
184. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (2018)
185. The Field - Looping State of Mind (2011)
186. Ab-Soul - Control Systems (2012)
187. Charli XCX - Pop 2 (2017)
188. Paul Weller - Wake Up the Nation (2010)
189. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (2012)
190. Fever Ray - Plunge (2017)
191. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz (2010)
192. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (2012)
193. Caribou - Our Love (2014)
194. Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre is Evil (2012)
195. Russian Circles - Memorial (2013)
196. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather (2014)
197. Twin Shadow - Forget (2010)
198. Arctic Monkeys - AM (2013)
199. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace is There (2014)
200. Touché Amoré - Is Survived By (2013)
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Just updated my all-time list recently, so I can partake. A few new albums to me might make the list now, but it's more or less set. I've added some albums at the end that were close to making my all-time list.

[1] Jenny Wilson - EXORCISM (2018): All-time #10
[2] Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (2010): All-time #23
[3] Bat for Lashes - The Bride (2016): All-time #26
[4] Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer (2018): All-time #30
[5] Javiera Mena - Mena (2010): All-time #54
[6] Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010): All-time #57
[7] LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (2010): All-time #103
[8] iamamiwhoami - kin (2012): All-time #106
[9] Chromeo - Business Casual (2010): All-time #110
[10] LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (2017): All-time #119

[11] Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady (2013): All-time #140
[12] Jenny Wilson - Trauma (2019): All-time #144
[13] Björk - Biophilia (2011): All-time #151
[14] Prince - Art Official Age (2014): All-time #180
[15] Janet Jackson - Unbreakable (2015): All-time #182
[16] Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010): All-time #185
[17] !!! - Thr!!!er (2013): All-time #201
[18] St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011): All-time #206
[19] Chromeo - White Women (2014): All-time #213
[20] Twin Shadow - Forget (2010): All-time #227

[21] St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION (2017): All-time #234
[22] U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (2018): All-time #239
[23] Mylène Farmer - Bleu noir (2010): All-time #249
[24] Grimes - Art Angels (2015): All-time #267
[25] Mylène Farmer - Désobéissance (2018): All-time #323
[26] Yelle - Safari Disco Club (2011): All-time #338
[27] Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite (2010): All-time #342
[28] Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1 (2010): All-time #347
[29] Mitski - Be the Cowboy (2018): All-time #361
[30] Kali Uchis - Isolation (2018): All-time #366

[31] The Strokes - Angles (2011): All-time #369
[32] David Bowie - (2016): All-time #388
[33] Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man (2012): All-time #404
[34] Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 2 (2010): All-time #405
[35] Hot Chip - One Life Stand (2010): All-time #412
[36] M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011): All-time #421
[37] Charli XCX - True Romance (2013): All-time #433
[38] Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once (2014): All-time #436
[39] Harts - Smoke Fire Hope Desire (2016): All-time #437
[40] Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION (2015): All-time #447

[41] Christine and the Queens - Chris (2018): All-time #449
[42] Madonna - MDNA (2012): All-time #481
[43] Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen (2018): All-time #482
[44] Chromatics - Kill for Love (2012): All-time #487
[45] Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito (2013): All-time #488
[46] Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (2011): All-time #493
[47] Timecop1983 - Night Drive (2018): All-time #494
[48] Jenny Wilson - Demand the Impossible! (2013): All-time #500
[49] Allie X - Super Sunset (Analog) (2019)
[50] Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (2018): All-time #507

[51] FKA Twigs - LP1 (2014): All-time #518
[52] immi - Spiral (2010): All-time #523
[53] The Midnight - Kids (2018): All-time #541
[54] Chromeo - Head Over Heels (2018): All-time #551
[55] Austra - Future Politics (2017): All-time #553
[56] St. Vincent - St. Vincent (2014): All-time #560
[57] Magazine - No Thyself (2011): All-time #569
[58] !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It? (2010): All-time #579
[59] Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013): All-time #580
[60] Chairlift - Something (2012): All-time #584

[61] Yelle - Complètement fou (2014): All-time #588
[62] The Strokes - Comedown Machine (2013): All-time #596
[63] Poppy - Am I a Girl? (2018): All-time #600
[64] Prince - HITnRUN Phase Two (2015): All-time #615
[65] PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011): All-time #618
[66] Prince - 20Ten (2010): All-time #623
[67] Metronomy - The English Riviera (2011): All-time #630
[68] Julia Holter - Aviary (2018): All-time #638
[69] Twin Shadow - Confess (2012): All-time #641
[70] Prince - Plectrumelectrum (2014)

[71] Little Dragon - Ritual Union (2011)
[72] Prince - HITnRUN Phase One (2015)
[73] Duffy - Endlessly (2010)
[74] Björk - Vulnicura (2015)
[75] Sleigh Bells - Treats (2010)
[76] David Bowie - The Next Day (2013)
[77] Julia Holter - Loud City Song (2013)
[78] Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
[79] Grand Blanc - Mémoires Vives (2016)
[80] Gorillaz - The Now Now (2018)

[81] パスピエ Passepied - 幕の内ISM (Makunouchi-Ism) (2014)
[82] Javiera Mena - Espejo (2018)
[83] Hero - VCR Pop (2016)
[84] Clara Luciani - Sainte-Victoire (2018)
[85] Allie X - Super Sunset (2018)
[86] Arcade Fire - Reflektor (2013)
[87] Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (2013)
[88] Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe (2013)
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Cool songbooks are compiled on this forum. I have already seen similar posts here .
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Preliminary top 20 (no 2019 yet):

1. Swans - The Seer (2012)
2. Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
3. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
4. D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)
5. The National - High Violet (2010)
6. Swans - To Be Kind (2014)
7. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (2012)
8. Jon Hopkins - Immunity (2013)
9. Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence (2014)
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
11. Four Tet - There Is Love in You (2010)
12. Goat - World Music (2012)
13. Kangding Ray - OR (2011)
14. Qujaku - Qujaku (2018)
15. Beach House - Bloom (2012)
16. The Roots - Undun (2011)
17. Joanna Newsom - Divers (2015)
18. FKA Twigs - LP1 (2014)
19. Low - Double Negative (2018)
20. John Talabot - Fin (2012)
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The notion of compiling an EoD list while keeping up with all the potential 2019 EoY releases feels like a logistical nightmare. There are so many records from the past decade that I still want to check out (at least 250 by my count) and about as many albums that I loved but lack the time to revisit. Really hoping the next few months slow down to a crawl but I get the feeling that it will all fly by.
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Tentative, too-early lists:

Albums
1 | Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | 2013
2 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 2010
3 | Thrice | Major/Minor | 2011
4 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | 2010
5 | The National | High Violet | 2010
6 | Beyoncé | Lemonade | 2016
7 | Arcade Fire | Reflektor | 2013
8 | The National | Trouble Will Find Me | 2013
9 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | 2011
10 | Beach House | Teen Dream | 2010
11 | Father John Misty | I Love You, Honeybear | 2015
12 | Billie Eilish | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? | 2019
13 | Florence and the Machine | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 2015
14 | Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence | 2014
15 | The Black Keys | Brothers | 2010
16 | The Black Keys | El Camino | 2011
17 | Avenged Sevenfold | Nightmare | 2010
18 | Spoon | They Want My Soul | 2014
19 | Sufjan Stevens | Carrie & Lowell | 2015
20 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | 2019
21 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange | 2012
22 | Beach House | Bloom | 2012
23 | The National | Sleep Well Beast | 2017
24 | Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour | 2018
25 | Vampire Weekend | Father of the Bride | 2019
26 | Lucy Dacus | Historian | 2018
27 | Father John Misty | God's Favorite Customer | 2018
28 | Lana Del Rey | Born to Die | 2012
29 | The xx | I See You | 2017
30 | LCD Soundsystem | This Is Happening | 2010
31 | Lorde | Melodrama | 2017
32 | Adele | 21 | 2011
33 | Sturgill Simpson | A Sailor's Guide to Earth | 2016
34 | Foo Fighters | Wasting Light | 2011
35 | Michael Kiwanuka | Love & Hate | 2016
36 | The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream | 2014
37 | Fiona Apple | The Idler Wheel… | 2012
38 | Temples | Sun Structures | 2014
39 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | 2016
40 | Jamie xx | In Colour | 2015
41 | Father John Misty | Pure Comedy | 2017
42 | SZA | Ctrl | 2017
43 | First Aid Kit | The Lion's Roar | 2012
44 | Tame Impala | Lonerism | 2012
45 | First Aid Kit | Ruins | 2018
46 | St. Vincent | Masseduction | 2017
47 | The National | I Am Easy to Find | 2019
48 | Florence and the Machine | Ceremonials | 2011
49 | Hurray for the Riff Raff | The Navigator | 2017
50 | Arcade Fire | Everything Now | 2017
51 | Wolf Alice | Visions of a Life | 2017
52 | Kesha | Rainbow | 2017
53 | Lana Del Rey | Lust for Life | 2017
54 | Brand New | Science Fiction | 2017
55 | Maren Morris | Hero | 2016
56 | LCD Soundsystem | American Dream | 2017
57 | Lorde | Pure Heroine | 2013
58 | Angel Olsen | My Woman | 2016
59 | Weezer | Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 2014
60 | Spoon | Hot Thoughts | 2017
61 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d city | 2012
62 | Vampire Weekend | Contra | 2010
63 | First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | 2014
64 | Original Broadway Cast of 'Hamilton' | Hamilton | 2015
65 | Kacey Musgraves | Same Trailer Different Park | 2013
66 | Mitski | Puberty 2 | 2016
67 | Foo Fighters | Concrete and Gold | 2017
68 | Laura Marling | Semper Femina | 2017
69 | Laura Marling | I Speak Because I Can | 2010
70 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 2011
71 | Beck | Colors | 2017
72 | Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | 2010
73 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 2011
74 | Arctic Monkeys | AM | 2013
75 | Bon Iver | 22, A Million | 2016
76 | Bruce Springsteen | Wrecking Ball | 2012
77 | Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | 2015
78 | Sharon Van Etten | Remind Me Tomorrow | 2019
79 | Hozier | Hozier | 2014
80 | Sia | This Is Acting | 2016
81 | Muse | The 2nd Law | 2012
82 | St. Vincent | St. Vincent | 2014
83 | Of Monsters and Men | My Head Is an Animal | 2012
84 | Of Monsters and Men | Beneath the Skin | 2015
85 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs | 2011
86 | Janelle Monáe | The Electric Lady | 2013
87 | Grimes | Art Angels | 2015
88 | Lana Del Rey | Honeymoon | 2015
89 | Laura Marling | Short Movie | 2015
90 | Kacey Musgraves | Pageant Material | 2015
91 | Mitski | Be the Cowboy | 2018
92 | Tame Impala | Currents | 2015
93 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 2015
94 | Kanye West | The Life of Pablo | 2016
95 | Maggie Rogers | Heard It in a Past Life | 2019
96 | James Blake | Assume Form | 2019
97 | Mitski | Bury Me at Makeout Creek | 2014
98 | Thrice | To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 2016
99 | Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. | 2017
100 | Lizzo | Cuz I Love You | 2019

Songs
1 | Arcade Fire | Reflektor (feat. David Bowie)
2 | FKA twigs | Cellophane
3 | Thrice | Words in the Water
4 | Adele | Rolling in the Deep
5 | First Aid Kit | Emmylou
6 | Lorde | Green Light
7 | Florence and the Machine | Ship to Wreck
8 | Beach House | Zebra
9 | Florence and the Machine | Shake It Out
10 | Spoon | Do You
11 | M83 | Midnight City
12 | Daft Punk | Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
13 | The National | Bloodbuzz Ohio
14 | Arcade Fire | Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
15 | Alabama Shakes | Hold On
16 | Phosphorescent | Song for Zula
17 | Perfume Genius | Queen
18 | Future Islands | Seasons (Waiting on You)
19 | Arcade Fire | Everything Now
20 | The War on Drugs | Red Eyes
21 | Lorde | Royals
22 | Father John Misty | Please Don't Die
23 | Kanye West | Runaway (feat. Pusha T)
24 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
25 | Broken Bells | The High Road
26 | Arcade Fire | Afterlife
27 | The Strokes | Under Cover of Darkness
28 | Beyoncé | All Night
29 | The War on Drugs | An Ocean in Between the Waves
30 | Vampire Weekend | This Life
31 | David Bowie | Lazarus
32 | Angel Olsen | Shut Up Kiss Me
33 | Kanye West | Ultralight Beam (feat. Chance the Rapper & The-Dream)
34 | King Princess | 1950
35 | Sam Smith | Stay with Me
36 | Miley Cyrus | Wrecking Ball
37 | Kesha | Praying
38 | Radiohead | Present Tense
39 | St. Vincent | Fast Slow Disco
40 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs
41 | Temples | Shelter Song
42 | The National | Sea of Love
43 | Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment | Sunday Candy (feat. Jamila Woods)
44 | Kacey Musgraves | Follow Your Arrow
45 | Blur | Ong Ong
46 | Foo Fighters | Walk
47 | Vampire Weekend | Unbelievers
48 | Sia | Cheap Thrills
49 | Kanye West | Only One (feat. Paul McCartney)
50 | Vampire Weekend | Diane Young
51 | The National | The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
52 | St. Vincent | Cruel
53 | Taylor Swift | Shake It Off
54 | Major Lazer | Get Free (feat. Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors)
55 | St. Vincent | Los Ageless
56 | Frank Ocean | Bad Religion
57 | CeeLo Green | Fuck You
58 | Twin Shadow | Five Seconds
59 | First Aid Kit | Fireworks
60 | LCD Soundsystem | Dance Yrself Clean
61 | Mitski | Washing Machine Heart
62 | The Black Keys | Little Black Submarines
63 | Puscifer | Monsoons
64 | Avenged Sevenfold | Fiction
65 | Ariana Grande | thank u, next
66 | Lady Lamb | Bird Balloons
67 | Middle Kids | Edge of Town
68 | Leon Bridges | Coming Home
69 | Car Seat Headrest | Bodys
70 | Kendrick Lamar | The Blacker the Berry
71 | Japandroids | The House That Heaven Built
72 | PJ Harvey | All and Everyone
73 | Kamasi Washington | Truth
74 | Arcade Fire | Creature Comfort
75 | The Tallest Man on Earth | Love Is All
76 | Mitski | Your Best American Girl
77 | Tame Impala | Patience
78 | Kacey Musgraves | Rainbow
79 | Azealia Banks | 212 (feat. Lazy Jay)
80 | Vampire Weekend | Harmony Hall
81 | Tame Impala | Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
82 | Laura Marling | Wild Fire
83 | Adele | Someone Like You
84 | Mitski | Fireworks
85 | LCD Soundsystem | All I Want
86 | Lady Lamb | Even in the Tremor
87 | Sharon Van Etten | Seventeen
88 | Young the Giant | My Body
89 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling
90 | Vampire Weekend | Step
91 | Mikal Cronin | Weight
92 | Arcade Fire | Here Comes the Night Time
93 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
94 | Sufjan Stevens | The Only Thing
95 | Of Monsters and Men | Little Talks
96 | Original Broadway Cast of 'Hamilton' | My Shot
97 | Hozier | Take Me to Church
98 | Maren Morris | My Church
99 | Vampire Weekend | Hannah Hunt
100 | Foals | Mountain at My Gates
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

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I've started doing the broad work of sorting and relistening, but won't get around to ranking formally until the end of the year. For now at least, here's a top for each year.

2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011: tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
2012: Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
2013: Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
2014: Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
2015: Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
2016: Mitski - Puberty 2
2017: Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
2018: Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
2019: Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
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I already did my top 100s, but here are my albums and songs of the year...

Albums:

2010: Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011: PJ Harvey- Let England Shake
2012: Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
2013: Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
2014: Todd Terje- It’s Album Time
2015: Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly
2016: David Bowie- Blackstar
2017: Mount Eerie- A Crow Looked at Me
2018: A.A.L. (Against All Logic)- 2012-2017
2019: Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising

Songs:

2010: Kanye West (featuring Pusha T)- Runaway
2011: M83- Midnight City
2012: Todd Terje- Inspector Norse
2013: Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell)- Get Lucky
2014: Future Islands- Seasons (Waiting on You)
2015: Tame Impala- Let it Happen
2016: Anohni- Drone Bomb Me
2017: The War on Drugs- Holding On
2018: Kamasi Washington- Fists of Fury
2019: Weyes Blood- Andromeda
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

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Nick wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2019 1:30 pm I already did my top 100s, but here are my albums and songs of the year...
Me too.

Albums:

2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011: Thrice - Major/Minor
2012: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2013: Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2014: Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
2015: Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
2016: Beyoncé - Lemonade
2017: The National - Sleep Well Beast
2018: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2019: Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Songs:

2010: Adele - Rolling in the Deep
2011: Thrice - Words in the Water
2012: First Aid Kit - Emmylou
2013: Arcade Fire - Reflektor (feat. David Bowie)
2014: Spoon - Do You
2015: Florence and the Machine - Ship to Wreck
2016: Beyoncé - All Night
2017: Lorde - Green Light
2018: Father John Misty - Please Don't Die
2019: FKA twigs - Cellophane
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

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Just saying, the decade in music isn’t over yet. This is a wonderful idea for a poll, it’s just that there’s four months left of music to still hear. Remember, the highest ranking album of the 1970s came out in the decade’s last month :mrgreen:

I’d suggest to you that you keep this poll open into next year, and that maybe by March or April 2020 you close it and start tabulating the results, based on the lists that were submitted. And use a reasonable point spread to count the results! It’d also be pretty cool if you did a presentation similar to the all time lists as well, where you’d find out the results too.

I’m not gonna submit a list until the year is over, so I can have time to digest the rest of this year’s releases, and how they rank in my end of decade list. Like i said, it’s a wonderful idea for a poll, just a little premature.

I do feel confident enough to submit by AOTY’s and SOTY’s for this decade, so far. The only year I can see being changed is 2019, because it all depends on how the entire year matches up for me. For 2015 and 2017, i’ve included two songs, because of my undecidedness in those years for what my SOTY is, as of now.

Albums:

2010: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2011: Drake - Take Care
2012: Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
2013: Disclosure - Settle
2014: St. Vincent - St. Vincent
2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
2016: Beyonce - Lemonade
2017: Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2018: Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
2019: Ariana Grande - thank u, next

Songs:

2010: Kanye West ft. Pusha T - Runaway
2011: Kendrick Lamar - A.D.H.D.
2012: Frank Ocean - Pyramids
2013: Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky
2014: Sia - Chandelier
2015: Tame Impala - Let It Happen / Drake - Hotline Bling
2016: Beyonce - Formation
2017: Lorde - Green Light / KALLITECHNIS - Come Up
2018: Childish Gambino - This Is America
2019: Billie Eilish - bad guy
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Songs:

2010: Sharon Van Etten - "One Day"
2011: Julia Holter - "Tragedy Finale"
2012: Japandroids - "The House That Heaven Built"
2013: Julianna Barwick - "The Harbinger"
2014: Sharon Van Etten - "Tarifa"
2015: Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best"
2016: Mitski - "Your Best American Girl"
2017: Phoebe Bridgers - "Scott Street"
2018: Caroline Rose - "Jeannie Becomes a Mom"
2019: Fidlar ft. K. Flay - "Called You Twice"
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Songs:

2010: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2011: The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
2012: Mumford & Sons - Babel
2013: Arcade Fire - Reflektor
2014: First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining
2015: Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
2016: Elbow - Magnificent (She Says)
2017: MGMT - Little Dark Age
2018: White Lies - Time To Give
2019: Sports Team - M5
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Obviously this is VERY preliminary, looking forward to the rest of 2019 (Anna Meredith, Matana Roberts, Sky Ferreira, etc.)

Here's 200 ranked albums, and a boatload of honorable mentions...

1 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 2015
2 | Julia Holter | Loud City Song | 2013
3 | Janelle Monae | The ArchAndroid | 2010
4 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 2011
5 | Wadada Leo Smith | Ten Freedom Summers | 2012
6 | Swans | The Seer | 2012
7 | Burial | Kindred EP | 2012
8 | John Luther Adams | Become Ocean [Seattle Symphony / Ludovic Morlot] | 2014
9 | David Bowie | Blackstar | 2016
10 | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | 2010
11 | Unsuk Chin | Three Concertos: Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Su for Sheng and Orchestra [Sunwook Kim, Alban Gerhardt, Wu Wei, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung] | 2014
12 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.D. city | 2012
13 | Gurrumul | Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) | 2018
14 | Kamasi Washington | The Epic | 2015
15 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | 2019
16 | Missy Mazzoli | Vespers for a New Dark Age | 2015
17 | Andy Stott | Passed Me By/We Stay Together | 2011
18 | Joanna Newsom | Have One on Me | 2010
19 | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | Skeleton Tree | 2016
20 | John Luther Adams | Become Desert [Seattle Symphony / Ludovic Morlot] | 2019
21 | Julia Wolfe | Anthracite Fields | 2015
22 | William Parker | For Those Who Are, Still | 2015
23 | D'Angelo and The Vanguard | Black Messiah | 2014
24 | Anna Meredith | Varmints | 2016
25 | Oranssi Pazuzu | Värähtelijä | 2016
26 | Kaija Saariaho | D'OM LE VRAI SENS; Laterna magica; Leino Songs [Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo / Kari Kriikku / Anu Komsi] | 2011
27 | Tim Hecker | Ravedeath 1921 | 2011
28 | Deafheaven | Sunbather | 2013
29 | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | The Kid | 2017
30 | John Adams | Scheherazade.2 [St. Louis Symphony / David Robertson / Leila Josefowicz] | 2016
31 | Fire! Orchestra | Exit | 2013
32 | Julia Holter | Ekstasis | 2012
33 | Ben Lamar Gay | Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun | 2018
34 | Actress | Splazsh | 2010
35 | Jlin | Dark Energy | 2015
36 | Flying Lotus | You're Dead! | 2014
37 | Björk | Vulnicura | 2015
38 | A Tribe Called Quest | We Got It from Here…Thank You 4 Your Service | 2016
39 | Sean McCann | Music for Private Ensemble | 2013
40 | Holly Herndon | Platform | 2015
41 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact | 2011
42 | Burial | Rival Dealer EP | 2013
43 | Kelly Lee Owens | Kelly Lee Owens | 2017
44 | The Roots | undun | 2011
45 | Andrew Norman | Play [Boston Modern Orchestra Project / Gil Rose] | 2015
46 | Sons of Kemet | Your Queen is a Reptile | 2018
47 | Anna Thorvaldsdottir | Aerial [Caput Ensemble / Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Duo Harpverk / Nordic Affect / Guðni Franzson / Ilan Volkov / Frank Aarnink / Sigurður Þorbergsson / Stefán Jón Bernharðsson / Tinna Þorsteinsdottir] | 2015
48 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | 2011
49 | Nicole Mitchell | Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds | 2017
50 | Michel van der Aa | Violin Concerto / Hysteresis | 2016
51 | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Out of Nowhere [Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen / Leila Josefowicz] | 2012
52 | Ted Hearne / Andrew Norman | Law of Mosaics [A Far Cry] | 2014
53 | Kamasi Washington | Heaven & Earth | 2018
54 | Jenny Wilson | EXORCISM | 2018
55 | Black Midi | Schlagenheim | 2019
56 | Anna von Hausswolff | Dead Magic | 2018
57 | Julia Holter | Have You in My Wilderness | 2015
58 | Laurel Halo | Quarantine | 2012
59 | Wadada Leo Smith | Najwa | 2017
60 | Tim Hecker | Virgins | 2013
61 | Jane Weaver | Modern Kosmology | 2017
62 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 2010
63 | Ondatrópica | Ondatrópica | 2012
64 | Holly Herndon | PROTO | 2019
65 | Sunn O))) | Life Metal | 2019
66 | Jenny Hval | Innocence Is Kinky | 2013
67 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange | 2012
68 | Susanne Sundfør | Ten Love Songs | 2015
69 | Caroline Shaw | Partita for 8 Voices [Roomful of Teeth] | 2013
70 | Africa Express | …Presents In C Mali | 2014
71 | Jamila Woods | Legacy! Legacy! | 2019
72 | Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | 2013
73 | Kelly Moran | Ultraviolet | 2018
74 | Jim O'Rourke | Simple Songs | 2015
75 | Yugen Blakrock | Anima Mysterium | 2019
76 | Beyoncé | Lemonade | 2016
77 | Queens of The Stone Age | …Like Clockwork | 2013
78 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee | 2015
79 | Esa-Pekka Salonen | Cello Concerto [Los Angeles Philharmonic / Yo Yo Ma] | 2019
80 | Laura Marling | Once I Was an Eagle | 2013
81 | Emeralds | Does It Look Like I'm Here? | 2010
82 | Owen Pallett | Heartland | 2010
83 | Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer | 2018
84 | Solange | A Seat at the Table | 2016
85 | Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble | Where Future Unfolds | 2019
86 | St. Vincent | St. Vincent | 2014
87 | Gil Scott-Heron | I'm New Here | 2010
88 | Julia Holter | Tragedy | 2011
89 | Mary Halvorson | Code Girl | 2018
90 | Mythic Sunship | Another Shape of Psychedelic Music | 2018
91 | Actress | R.I.P. | 2012
92 | Sharon Van Etten | Remind Me Tomorrow | 2019
93 | Scott Walker & Sunn O))) | Soused | 2014
94 | Jenny Hval & Susanna | Meshes of Voice | 2014
95 | Wayne Shorter | Emanon | 2018
96 | Jlin | Black Origami | 2017
97 | Tristan Perich | Surface Image [Vicky Chow] | 2014
98 | Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | 2010
99 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | 2016
100 | Swans | To Be Kind | 2014
101 | Senyawa | Sujud | 2018
102 | Jane Weaver | The Silver Globe | 2014
103 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Allelujah! Don't Bend, Ascend! | 2012
104 | Pan Daijing | Lack | 2017
105 | Denzel Curry | Imperial | 2016
106 | Jenny Wilson | TRAUMA | 2019
107 | Nadah El Shazly | Ahwar | 2017
108 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Ibibio Sound Machine | 2014
109 | Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. | 2017
110 | The Art Ensemble of Chicago | We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration | 2019
111 | Rosalía | El mal querer | 2018
112 | Jaga Jazzist | One Armed Bandit | 2010
113 | Xenia Rubinos | Black Terry Cat | 2016
114 | Sturgill Simpson | Metamodern Sounds in Country Music | 2014
115 | Andy Stott | Faith in Strangers | 2014
116 | Avantdale Bowling Club | Avantdale Bowling Club | 2018
117 | Deafheaven | New Bermuda | 2015
118 | Scott Walker | Bish Bosch | 2012
119 | Sarah Kirkland Snider | Penelope | 2010
120 | Metá Metá | MetaL MetaL | 2012
121 | Todd Terje | It's Album Time! | 2014
122 | Swans | My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 2010
123 | SOPHIE | Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides | 2018
124 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica | 2011
125 | Anaïs Mitchell | Hadestown | 2010
126 | The Comet Is Coming | Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery | 2019
127 | Labelle | Orchestre univers | 2019
128 | Billy Woods and Kenny Segal | Hiding Places | 2019
129 | Lupe Fiasco | Tetsuo & Youth | 2015
130 | Melody's Echo Chamber | Bon Voyage | 2018
131 | Fucked Up | Dose Your Dreams | 2018
132 | Frank Ocean | Blonde | 2016
133 | Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty | 2010
134 | Hans Abrahamsen | Let Me Tell You [Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Andris Nelsons / Barbara Hannigan] | 2016
135 | The Haxan Cloak | Excavation | 2013
136 | Neneh Cherry and The Thing | The Cherry Thing | 2012
137 | Maja Ratkje | Crepuscular Hour | 2016
138 | Sean McCann | The Capital | 2011
139 | Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels 2 | 2014
140 | Sarah Davachi | All My Circles Run | 2017
141 | Shabazz Palaces | Black Up | 2011
142 | Julia Holter | Aviary | 2018
143 | Roscoe Mitchell | Bells for the South Side | 2017
144 | Maisha | There Is a Place | 2018
145 | Fiona Apple | The Idler Wheel… | 2012
146 | Flying Lotus | Flamagra | 2019
147 | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | Push The Sky Away | 2013
148 | Chance the Rapper | Acid Rap | 2013
149 | Dean Blunt | Black Metal | 2014
150 | Bat for Lashes | The Bride | 2016
151 | Yellow Swans | Going Places | 2010
152 | Lea Bertucci | Resonant Field | 2019
153 | Tame Impala | Lonerism | 2012
154 | Waste of Space Orchestra | Syntheosis | 2019
155 | Prefab Sprout | Crimson/Red | 2013
156 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Garden of Delete | 2015
157 | Tim Hecker | Konoyo | 2018
158 | Qujaku | Qujaku | 2018
159 | Kanye West | Yeezus | 2013
160 | Gorillaz | Plastic Beach | 2010
161 | Tyler, The Creator | Igor | 2019
162 | Steve Reich | Double Sextet; 2x5 [Eighth Blackbird / Bang on a Can] | 2010
163 | Various Artists | Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010 | 2011
164 | My Bloody Valentine | m b v | 2013
165 | Mbongwana Star | From Kinshasa | 2015
166 | Krzysztof Penderecki / Jonny Greenwood | Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; Polymorphia / Popcorn Superhet Receiver; 48 Responses to Polymorphia [Aukso orkiestra kameralna / Krzysztof Penderecki / Marek Moś] | 2012
167 | Georgia Anne Muldrow | Ocotea | 2010
168 | Children of Alice | Children of Alice | 2017
169 | Noname | Room 25 | 2018
170 | Du Yun | Dinosaur Scar [International Contemporary Ensemble] | 2018
171 | Peter Evans Quintet | Ghosts | 2011
172 | Caterina Barbieri | Ecsatic Computation | 2019
173 | Michael Kiwanuka | Love & Hate | 2016
174 | Sleater-Kinney | No Cities to Love | 2015
175 | Makaya McCraven | Universal Beings | 2018
176 | Stara Rzeka | Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem | 2013
177 | Helen Grime | Night Songs | 2014
178 | Lorde | Melodrama | 2017
179 | Juana Molina | Halo | 2017
180 | Waclaw Zimpel | Lines | 2016
181 | Marissa Nadler | July | 2014
182 | Eiko Ishibashi | The Dream My Bones Dream | 2018
183 | Kadjha Bonet | Childqueen | 2018
184 | Kyary Pamyu Pamyu | Nanda Collection | 2013
185 | Fire! Orchestra | Arrival | 2019
186 | Kate Tempest | Let Them Eat Chaos | 2016
187 | Nihiloxica | Biiri EP | 2019
188 | Aphex Twin | Syro | 2014
189 | Shiina Ringo | Sandokushi | 2019
190 | Arvo Part | Symphony No. 4 [Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Esa-Pekka Salonen] | 2010
191 | John Grant | Queen of Denmark | 2010
192 | Nils Frahm | Spaces | 2013
193 | Ceu | Tropix | 2016
194 | Kelan Philip Cohran and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble | Kelan Philip Cohran and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble | 2012
195 | U.S. Girls | In a Poem Unlimited | 2018
196 | Floating Points | Elaenia | 2015
197 | Sharon Van Etten | Are We There | 2014
198 | Irreversible Entanglements | Irreversible Entanglements | 2017
199 | Sungazer | Sungazer Vol. 2 | 2019
200 | DJ Spooky with Kronos Quartet | Rebirth of a Nation | 2015


2 8 1 4 | 新しい日の誕生 (Birth of a New Day) | 2015
Actress | Ghettoville | 2014
Adele | 21 | 2010
Aesop Rock | Skelethon | 2012
Agalloch | Marrow of the Spirit | 2010
Alcest | Les Voyages de l'Âme | 2012
Aldous Harding | Designer | 2019
Alvvays | Antisocialities | 2017
Ambrose Akinmusire | The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint | 2014
Amon Tobin | ISAM | 2011
Anderson .Paak | Malibu | 2016
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra | Bum Bum | 2012
Andy Stott | Luxury Problems | 2012
Angles 9 | Injuries | 2014
Anna Calvi | One Breath | 2013
Anna Thorvaldsdottir | In the Light of Air [International Contemporary Ensemble] | 2015
Ariel Pink | pom pom | 2014
Autechre | Exai | 2013
The Avalanches | Wildflower | 2016
The Bad Plus | Made Possible | 2012
Baroness | Purple | 2015
Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba | Ba Power | 2015
Battle Trance | Palace of Wind | 2014
Beach House | Teen Dream | 2010
Beach House | 7 | 2018
Ben Lamar Gay | Confetti in the Sky Like Fireworks | 2019
Beyoncé | Beyoncé | 2013
Big Thief | U.F.O.F. | 2019
Bill Fay | Life Is People | 2012
Black to Comm | Seven Horses for Seven Kings | 2019
Blanck Mass | World Eater | 2017
Boards of Canada | Tomorrow's Harvest | 2013
boygenius | boygenius EP | 2018
Burial | Truant / Rough Sleeper EP | 2012
C L E A N E R S | Real Raga Shit, Vol. 1 | 2014
The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World | 2011
The Caretaker | Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 6) | 2019
Carly Rae Jepsen | E-MO-TION | 2015
Carly Rae Jepsen | Dedicated | 2019
Caroline Shaw | Orange [Attacca Quartet] | 2019
case/lang/veirs | case/lang/veirs | 2016
Caterina Barbieri | Patterns of Consciousness | 2017
Chance the Rapper | Coloring Book | 2016
Charles Gayle | Streets | 2012
Chaya Czernowin | Shifting Gravity | 2011
Chelsea Wolfe | Hiss Spun | 2017
Childish Gambino | Awaken, My Love | 2016
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah | Stretch Music | 2015
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah | Ancestral Recall | 2019
The Cinematic Orchestra | To Believe | 2019
Circuit des Yeux | Reaching for Indigo | 2017
Clau Aniz | Filha de Mil Mulheres | 2018
Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light | 2013
Converge | All We Love We Leave Behind | 2012
Danny Brown | Old | 2013
Danny Brown | Atrocity Exhibition | 2016
Daughters | You Won't Get What You Want | 2018
David Bowie | The Next Day | 2013
Dawn Richard | Redemption | 2016
Deafheaven | Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 2018
Dean Blunt | The Redeeemer | 2013
Death Grips | The Money Store | 2012
Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest | 2010
Denzel Curry | TA3OO | 2018
Destroyer | Kaputt | 2011
Earth | Primitive and Deadly | 2014
Elza Soares | Mulher do fin do mundo | 2016
EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints | 2011
Erykah Badu | New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | 2010
Ex Eye | Ex Eye | 2017
Fatoumata Diawara | Fenfo | 2018
Fennesz | Agora | 2019
Fever Ray | Plunge | 2017
Fire! Orchestra | Enter | 2014
First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | 2014
FKA twigs | LP1 | 2014
Floating Points | Kuiper | 2016
Four Tet | There Is Love in You | 2010
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib | Pinata | 2014
Fuck Buttons | Slow Focus | 2013
Fucked Up | David Comes to Life | 2011
Gas | Narkopop | 2017
Gazelle Twin | Pastoral | 2018
Georgia Anne Muldrow | Overload | 2018
Goat | World Music | 2012
Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress | 2015
Goldfrapp | Tales of Us | 2013
Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet | Photographs | 2013
Greg Foat | The Mage | 2019
Grimes | Visions | 2012
Grimes | Art Angels | 2015
Grouper | Ruins | 2014
Haru Nemuri | 春と修羅 (Haru to Shura) | 2018
Hatchie | Keepsake | 2019
Helena Hauff | Qualm | 2018
Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl | We Are Not the First | 2015
iamamiwhoami | Kin | 2012
Ibibio Sound Machine | Uyai | 2017
IDLES | Joy as an Act of Resistance | 2018
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids | We Be All Africans | 2016
Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, and Matthew Garrison | In Movement | 2016
Jaimie Branch | Fly or Die | 2017
James Ferraro | Far Side Virtual | 2011
James Ferraro | NYC, Hell 3:00 AM | 2013
Janelle Monae | The Electric Lady | 2013
Jason Moran | Ten | 2010
Jenny Hval | Apocalypse, girl | 2015
Jenny Hval | Blood Bitch | 2016
Jeremiah Cymerman | Sky Burial | 2013
Joanna Newsom | Divers | 2015
Joel Ross | KingMaker | 2019
John Adams | City Noir [St. Louis Symphony / David Robertson] | 2014
John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | 2013
John Luther Adams | The Wind in High Places [JACK Quartet / The Northwestern University Cello Ensemble / Hans Jørgen Jensen] | 2015
Jon Hopkins | Immunity | 2013
Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society | Simultonality | 2017
Juana Molina | Wed 21 | 2013
Jucara Marcal | Encarnado | 2014
Julia Kent | Temporal | 2018
Julia Wolfe | Steel Hammer | 2014
Kacey Musgraves | Same Trailer Different Park | 2013
Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour | 2018
Kaija Saariaho | True Fire; Trans; Ciel d'hiver [Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu / Gerald Finley / Xavier de Maistre] | 2019
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | Ears | 2016
Kamaal Williams | The Return | 2018
Kamasi Washington | Harmony of Difference EP | 2017
Kasai Allstars | Beware the Fetish | 2014
Kashiwa Daisuke | Re: | 2012
Kate Tempest | The Book of Traps and Lessons | 2019
Kayo Dot | Coffins on Io | 2014
Kendrick Lamar | Section .80 | 2011
Kikugaku Moyo | Masana Temples | 2018
Killer Mike | R.A.P. Music | 2012
The Knife | Shaking The Habitual | 2013
Lambchop | Mr. M | 2012
Lambchop | FLOTUS | 2016
Laura Marling | Semper Femina | 2017
Laurel Halo | Chance of Rain | 2013
Laurel Halo | Dust | 2017
Laurie Anderson | Homeland | 2010
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet | Landfall | 2018
LCD Soundsystem | This Is Happening | 2010
LCD Soundsystem | American Dream | 2017
Lea Bertucci | Metal Aether | 2018
Leonard Cohen | You Want It Darker | 2016
Liars | WIXIW | 2012
Lightning Bolt | Fantasy Empire | 2015
Little Simz | Grey Area | 2019
Lizzo | Cuz I Love You | 2019
Lonnie Holley | MITH | 2018
Low | Double Negative | 2018
Lubomyr Melnyk | Rivers and Streams | 2015
Machinedrum | Room(s) | 2011
Maja Ratkje | Sult | 2019
Malibu Ken | Malibu Ken | 2019
Maria Schneider | The Thompson Fields | 2015
Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky | Droneflower | 2019
Mastodon | The Hunter | 2011
Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile | 2013
Matmos | Plastic Anniversary | 2019
Matthew Shipp | I've Been to Many Places | 2014
Mdou Moctar | Ilana (The Creator) | 2019
Melanie de Biasio | Blackened Cities | 2016
Melody's Echo Chamber | Melody's Echo Chamber | 2012
Metá Metá | Metá Metá | 2010
Mid-Air Thief | 무너지기 (Crumbling) | 2018
Missy Mazzoli | Songs from the Uproar | 2012
Mitski | Be the Cowboy | 2018
Mount Eerie | A Crow Looked at Me | 2017
Myra Melford and the Snowy Egret | The Other Side of Air | 2018
The Necks | Unfold | 2017
Nico Muhly | Drones | 2012
Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise | 2011
Nicole Mitchell | Maroon Cloud | 2018
Nils Frahm | All Melody | 2018
Oneohtrix Point Never | Returnal | 2010
Oneohtrix Point Never | R Plus Seven | 2013
OOIOO | Gamel | 2014
Oranssi Pazuzu | Valonielu | 2013
Orchestra Baobab | Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng | 2017
Oren Ambarchi | Hubris | 2016
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics | Jaiyede Afro | 2014
Orquestra Akokan | Orquestra Akokan | 2018
Owen Pallett | In Conflict | 2014
Paal Nilssen-Love | New Brazilian Funk | 2019
Pallbearer | Sorrow and Extinction | 2012
Panopticon | Roads to the North | 2014
Park Jiha | Communion | 2018
Pepe Deluxe | Queen of The Wave | 2012
Perfume Genius | Too Bright | 2014
Peter Evans | Zebulon | 2013
Pusha T | Daytona | 2018
Quelle Chris | Guns | 2019
Rapsody | Laila's Wisdom | 2017
Rashad Becker | Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I | 2013
Rob Mazurek Octet | Skull Sessions | 2013
Robyn | Body Talk Part 1 | 2010
The Roots | How I Got Over | 2010
Run The Jewels | Run The Jewels | 2013
Run The Jewels | RTJ3 | 2016
Rush | Clockwork Angels | 2012
Rustie | Glass Swords | 2011
Saba Alizadeh | Scattered Memories | 2019
Sarah Davachi | Gave in Rest | 2018
Sean McCann | Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings | 2015
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 | From Africa with Fury: Rise | 2011
Shabaka and the Ancestors | Wisdom of Elders | 2016
Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | 2014
Sharon Van Etten | Tramp | 2012
Sky Ferreira | Night Time, My Time | 2013
Slowdive | Slowdive | 2017
Solange | When I Get Home | 2019
Soundcarriers | Entropicalia | 2014
Spiritualized | Sweet Heart Sweet Light | 2012
Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | 2018
St. Vincent | Strange Mercy | 2011
St. Vincent | MASSEDUCTION | 2017
Stara Rzeka | Zamknely sie oczy ziemi | 2015
Steve Coleman and The Council of Balance | Synovial Joints | 2015
Steve Lehman Octet | Mise en Abîme | 2014
Sturgill Simpson | A Sailor's Guide to Earth | 2016
Suede | The Blue Hour | 2018
Sufjan Stevens | Carrie and Lowell | 2015
Susanne Sundfør | Music for People in Trouble | 2017
Szun Waves | New Hymn to Freedom | 2018
Tame Impala | Currents | 2015
Tanya Tagaq | Toothsayer EP | 2019
Taylor Swift | 1989 | 2014
These New Puritans | Field of Reeds | 2013
These New Puritans | Inside the Rose | 2019
Thundercat | Apocalypse | 2013
Tim Hecker | Anoyo | 2019
Tom Waits | Bad as Me | 2011
Tony Allen | The Source | 2017
TV on the Radio | Nine Types of Light | 2011
Tyler, The Creator | Flower Boy | 2017
Ulver | Messe I.X–VI.X | 2013
Ustad Saami | God Is Not a Terrorist | 2019
Vijay Iyer Trio | Accelerando | 2012
Vince Staples | Summertime '06 | 2015
Wadada Leo Smith | The Great Lakes Suite | 2014
Wadada Leo Smith | Rosa Parks: Pure Love | 2019
Weyes Blood | Front Row Seat to Earth | 2016
William Parker | I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield | 2010
William Parker | Voices Fall from the Sky | 2018
Wolf Alice | Visions of a Life | 2017
YOB | Clearing the Path to Ascend | 2014
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

Post by Jirin »

Next year I'm going to do a listening tournament with 20 albums from each year. These are the 180 albums already in, the other 20 will be the result of my 2019 year end list:

2010:
The National - High Violet
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
The White Stripes - Under The Great Northern LIghts
Charlotte Giansbourg - IRM
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two
Dungen - Skit I Allt
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?
Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
LIndstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Sleigh Bells - Treats
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot…The Son Of Chico Dusty
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Beach House - Teen Dream
These New Puritans - Hidden
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Arcade Fire - The Surburbs
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz


2011:
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Bibio - Mind Bokeh
St Vincent - Strange Mercy
Ambrose Akinmusire - When The Heart Emerges Glistening
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
Amon Tobin - ISAM
Laura Marling - A Creature I Don’t Know
Dalriada - Igeret
Anna Jarvinen - Anna sjalv tredje
Josh T Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
The Black Keys - El Camino
James Blake - James Blake
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming


2012:
Jenny Scheinman - Mischief & Mayhem
Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
The 2 Bears - Be Strong
Ondatropica - Ondatropica
Mi and L’au - If Beauty Is A Crime
Grimes - Visions
Kaki King - Glow
Lindstrom - Six Cups Of Rebel
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Pepe Deluxe - Queen of the Wave
Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
Swans - The Seer
Auktyon - Top
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
Ewert and the Two Dragons - Good Man Down
The Chromatics - Kill For Love
Screaming Females - Ugly


2013:
My Bloody Valentine - m b v
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Mountains - Centralia
Agnes Obel - Aventine
Asaf Avidan - Different Pulses
Roy Harper - Man And Myth
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic
Nils Frahm - Spaces
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Matthew E White - Big Inner
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
Jenny Hval - Innocence is Kinky
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Janelle Monae - Electric Lady
Deerhunter - Monomania
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze


2014:
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imaged Savior Is Easier To Paint
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Squarepusher x Z Machines - Music For Robots EP
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Flying Lotus - You’re Dead
Fennesz - Becs
Black Prairie - Fortune
Beck - Morning Phase
Quilt - Held In Splendor
Neneh Cherry - The Blank Project
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Todd Terje - It’s Album Time
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Somi - The Lagos Music Salon
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Mac Demarco - Salad Days
The 2 Bears - The Night Is Young
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah

2015:
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Royal Headache - High
Rhiannon Giddens - Tomorrow Is My Turn
Stone Jack Jones - Love & Torture
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp
Viet Cong - Viet Cong
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Mount Eerie - Sauna
Floating Points - Elaenia
Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Grimes - Art Angels
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
Tame Impala - Currents
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Algiers - Algiers

2016:
David Bowie - Blackstar
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Cowtown - Paranormal Romance
Myrkur - Mausoleum
Gogo Penguin - Man Made Object
Savages - Adore Life
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
The Pirouettes - Carrement Carrement
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Ben Harper - Call it What It Is
Luclinda Williams - The Ghosts Of Highway 20
Preoccupations - Preoccupations
The Pines - Above The Prairie
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
Gemini Eye - The Is Of Being
Mi and L’au - Four Pair Of Wings
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

2017:
St Vincent - Masseduction
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Fever Ray - Plunge
Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Offa Rex - The Queen Of Hearts
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Mout Eerie - A Crow Looked AT Me
Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm
Algiers - The Underside Of Power
Destroyer - Ken
Juana Molina - Halo
Sheer Mag - Need To Feel Your Love
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
Big Thief - Capacity

2018:
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - With Animals
Eels - The Deconstruction
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden
Noname - Room 25
Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet
Julia Holter - Aviary
Slaves - Acts Of Fear And Love
Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
Preoccupations - New Material
Beach House - 7
Tirzah - Devotion
Kacey Musgraves - The Golden Hour
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

Post by Jackson »

sonofsamiam wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:46 pm Obviously this is VERY preliminary, looking forward to the rest of 2019 (Anna Meredith, Matana Roberts, Sky Ferreira, etc.)

Here's 200 ranked albums, and a boatload of honorable mentions...

1 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 2015
2 | Julia Holter | Loud City Song | 2013
3 | Janelle Monae | The ArchAndroid | 2010
4 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 2011
5 | Wadada Leo Smith | Ten Freedom Summers | 2012
6 | Swans | The Seer | 2012
7 | Burial | Kindred EP | 2012
8 | John Luther Adams | Become Ocean [Seattle Symphony / Ludovic Morlot] | 2014
9 | David Bowie | Blackstar | 2016
10 | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | 2010
I was happy to see this as a reference for my listening over the next few months heading into EOD poll season. Surprised that Loud City Song got beaten out for the top spot! I have your 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10 in my T10. I've still never heard Ten Freedom Summers - wish that one was available on Spotify.
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

Post by Toni »

My preliminary top 50, with lots of listening still to do... I will edit this one in the following months until I get a definitive list.

1. Arcade Fire - Reflektor (2013)
2. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (2010)
3. Janelle Monàe - The Archandroid (2010)
4. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride (2019)
5. Tame Impala - Currents (2015)
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
7. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (2017)
8. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010)
9. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012)
10. Arctic Monkeys - A.M. (2013)
11. Blur - The Magic Whip (2015)
12. The National - High Violet (2010)
13. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino (2018)
14. Daft Punk - Random Acess Memories (2013)
15. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City (2012)
16. Robyn - Honey (2018)
17. SZA - Ctrl (2017)
18. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
19. D'Angelo and the Vanguart - Black Messiah (2014)
20. Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
21. Janelle Monàe - Dirty Computer (2018)
22. White Denim - Last Day of Summer (2010)
23. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (2011)
24. Jamie XX - In Colour (2015)
25. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot (the Son of Chico Dusty) (2010)
26. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden (2018)
27. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
28. David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)
29. Julia Holter - Have You in my Wilderness (2015)
30. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (2013)
31. Beyoncé - Lemonade (2016)
32. Siba - De Baile Solto (2015)
33. Caribou - Swim (2010)
34. The Beach Boys - The SMilE Sessions (2011)
35. Grimes - Art Angels (2015)
36. Janelle Monàe - The Electric Lady (2013)
37. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (2014)
38. Sondre Lerche - Please (2014)
39. Portugal. the Man - Woodstock (2017)
40. A.A.L. (Against All Logic) - 2012-2017 (2018)
41. MGMT - Little Dark Age (2018)
42. Tame Impala - Lonerism (2012)
43. Thom Yorke - Anima (2019)
44. Pusha T - Daytona (2018)
45. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (2017)
46. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
47. Calexico - Edge of the Sun (2015)
48. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood (2015)
49. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (2010)
50. Sudan Archives - Sink (EP) (2018)
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My roommate just made a top 50 list and, even though I've been trying to hold out and wait for the proper end of the decade, I decided to make a provisional list. This one is definitely inaccurate, something I kind of like about it, but it's a fine list nonetheless. I took my top 8 albums from each year and then sorted them, although I can tell some years will definitely get more than eight in the actual top 80 when I compile my final list of 200 in January 2020.

1. Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek
2. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
3. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
4. Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
5. tune-yards - w h o k i l l
6. Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
7. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
8. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
9. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
10. Mitski - Puberty 2
11. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. Caroline Rose - Loner
13. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
14. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
15. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
16. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss beyond this world
17. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
18. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
19. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
20. Weezer - The White Album
21. Sharon Van Etten - Epic
22. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
23. Best Coast - Crazy for You
24. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
25. Death Grips - Exmilitary
26. Big Thief - Capacity
27. Soccer Mommy - Clean
28. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
29. Angel Olsen - My Woman
30. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
31. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
32. The Avalanches - Wildflower
33. Haim - Days Are Gone
34. Tame Impala - Lonerism
35. Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music II
36. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
37. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, Maad City
38. Karen O - Crush Songs
39. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
40. Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends
41. William Tyler - Goes West
42. Lady Lamb - Even in the Tremor
43. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
44. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
45. Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
46. Alvvays - Antisocialites
47. Lady Lamb - After
48. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
49. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
50. Mothers - When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
51. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
52. Deafheaven - Sunbather
53. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
54. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
55. Big Thief - Masterpiece
56. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
57. Wacka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
58. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
59. Angel Olsen - Strange Cacti
60. Death Grips - The Money Store
61. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
62. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
63. Original Broadway Cast - Hamilton
64. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
65. Mitski - Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
66. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
67. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
68. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
69. Death Grips - The Powers That B
70. SZA - Ctrl
71. The National - I Am Easy to Find
72. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
73. Fidlar - Almost Free
74. Jay Som - Anak Ko
75. Grouper - Alien Observer
76. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
77. Adele - 21
78. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
79. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
80. Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
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Still working on mine. It's very hard to narrow down and I only have 2 albums from 2016-2019.
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Not going to number them yet as I am discovering new albums constantly.

Heartless Bastards - Arrow 2012
Girls in Hawaii - Everest 2013
Zeus - Say Us 2010
Analog Rebellion - Ancient Electrons 2010
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots 2011
Pepe Deluxé - Queen Of The Wave 2012
Woods - With Light And With Love 2014
Marble Sounds - Dear Me. Look Up 2013
Erland & The Carnival - Erland & The Carnival 2010
Menomena - Mines 2010

Marble Sounds - Nice Is Good 2010
Of Monsters And Men - My Head Is An Animal 2011
Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt 2014
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar 2012
Viva Voce - The Future Will Detroy You 2011
Wussy - Strawberry 2011
Woods - At Echo Lake 2010
Friska Viljor - Remember Our Name 2013
Freelance Whales - Diluvia 2012
Ramona Falls - Prophet 2012

Smiles And Frowns - The Smiles & Frowns 2010
Cloud Cult - The Seeker 2016
Vampire Weekend - Contra 2010
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream 2010
Sea Of Bees - Songs For The Ravens 2010
Electric Guest - Mondo 2012
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Branches 2013
Analog Rebellion - Full Frontal 2013
James - La Peite Mort 2014
Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh 2011

Wild Belle - Isles 2013
Hudson Bell - Out of the Clouds 2010
Woods - Bend Beyond 2012
Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic 2013
Black Angels - Indigo Meadow 2013
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City 2013
The Men - Tomorrow's Hits 2014
Angus Stone - Broken Brights 2012
Erland & The Carnival - Nightingale 2011
Temples - Sun Structures 2014

Black Keys - Brothers 2010
Lily & Madeleine - Lily & Madeleine 2013
Junip - Junip 2013
Birth Of Joy - Prisoner 2014
Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way 2010
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II 2013
Murlocs - Loopholes 2014
Angus & Julia Stone - Angus & Julia Stone 2014
Tess Parks - Blood Hot 2013
Electric President - The Violent Blue 2010

Birth Of Joy - Life in Babalou 2012
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness 2014
First Aid Kit - The Big Black & the Blue 2010
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit 2015
King Tuff - Black Moon Spell 2014
Woods - City Sun Eater in the River of Light 2016
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity 2016
Broken Bells - Broken Bells 2010
Donkeys - Ride The Black Wave 2014
Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday 2013

Beach House - Teen Dream 2010
Human Eye - They Came From the Sky 2011
Soundcarriers - Entropicalia 2014
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz 2014
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker 2010
Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples 2018
Zeus - Classic Zeus 2014
Jack Drag - 2018 2018
Dope Lemon - Honey Bones 2016
Cloud Cult - Love 2013

Radio Moscow - The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz 2011
Paperhead - The Paperhead 2011
Ty Segall - Manipulator 2014
Wooden Shjips - Back To Land 2013
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light 2012
Say Hi - Bleeders Digest 2015
People's Temple - Sons Of Stone 2011
Beirut - The Rip Tide 2011
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion 2011
Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last 2015

Mikal Cronin - MCII 2013
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze 2013
Heartless Bastards - Restless Ones 2015
Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion 2016
Summer Fiction - Himalaya 2015
Lindi Ortega - Tin Star 2013
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Chambers 2014
Earthless - From The Ages 2013
Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger 2016
Keaton Henson - Birthdays 2013

Passenger - Whispers 2014
Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst 2010
Wavves - Afraid of Heights 2013
Electric Eye - From the Poisonous Tree 2017
Flotation Toy Warning - The Machine that Made Us 2017
Fuzz - Fuzz 2013
Soundcarriers - The Other World Of The Soundcarriers 2013
Torres - Torres 2013
Midlake - The Courage Of Others 2010
Volcano Choir - Repave 2013
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sonofsamiam wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:46 pm Obviously this is VERY preliminary, looking forward to the rest of 2019 (Anna Meredith, Matana Roberts, Sky Ferreira, etc.)

Here's 200 ranked albums, and a boatload of honorable mentions...

1 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 2015
2 | Julia Holter | Loud City Song | 2013
3 | Janelle Monae | The ArchAndroid | 2010
4 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 2011
5 | Wadada Leo Smith | Ten Freedom Summers | 2012
6 | Swans | The Seer | 2012
7 | Burial | Kindred EP | 2012
8 | John Luther Adams | Become Ocean [Seattle Symphony / Ludovic Morlot] | 2014
9 | David Bowie | Blackstar | 2016
10 | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | 2010
11 | Unsuk Chin | Three Concertos: Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Su for Sheng and Orchestra [Sunwook Kim, Alban Gerhardt, Wu Wei, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung] | 2014
12 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.D. city | 2012
13 | Gurrumul | Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) | 2018
14 | Kamasi Washington | The Epic | 2015
15 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | 2019
Jackson wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:56 pm I was happy to see this as a reference for my listening over the next few months heading into EOD poll season. Surprised that Loud City Song got beaten out for the top spot! I have your 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10 in my T10. I've still never heard Ten Freedom Summers - wish that one was available on Spotify.
I've begun my listening to catch-up with the 2010s in order to prepare for the next year poll. And, copying Jackson, I've begun on the best possible departure point, sonofsamiam's list. I've listened so far to the Top 15 and it has been a rewarding music experience. Lots of black artists, lots of female artists, lots of styles usually set aside on end-of-year lists (especially jazz and modern classical), lots of adventurous and ambitious albums and, the fact I liked the most, lots of artists pushing the boundaries between styles and creating fascinating hybrid genres. Among the albums I listened these weeks for the first time I would like to point at are:
- "Djarimirri," a tight and brilliant integration of folk (Australian Aboriginal traditional chants) and classical (with minimalistic arrangements Glass or Reich-style). A truly excellent album that was a big success in his native Australia (it went to number one, only the second Aboriginal album to do so) but it went unnoticed in the rest of the world, being only #482 in the AM critics list and only appearing on one list (Australian of course). Oh well…
- "Become Ocean," an impressive listening experience (I should say that I've listened to these albums while driving on my way to work and listening to this sometimes I got the feeling of ingravity), moreover when I learned later that the work is a palindrome, the piece reaches a climax at the midpoint and from then it’s played in reverse. The review by Alex Ross is enlightening.
- But the album I enjoyed the most was "Ten Freedom Summers," the only one I haven't listened while driving (it's not on Spotify). This time for the better since I read the Wikipedia entries for the names and historical facts mentioned in the song titles (Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Emmett Till, Freedom Summer, Little Rock Nine) while listening to the pieces and: a) I learned a lot about history of the struggle of African Americans and b) even if the music is not exactly programmatic the feeling the music tracks transmitted matched the reading. I particularly got shivers reading the story of Emmett Till while listening to the chilling track "Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless."

Thank you very much, sonofsamiam!
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01 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
02 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
03 Chromatics - Kill for Love (2012)
04 Beyoncé - Lemonade (2016)
05 Beach House - Bloom (2012)
06 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
07 The Black Keys - El Camino (2011)
08 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014)
09 The Horrors - V (2017)
10 Lykke Li - I Never Learn (2014)
11 Arctic Monkeys - AM (2013)
12 The National - High Violet (2010)
13 Primal Scream - More Light (2013)
14 The National - Trouble Will Find Me (2013)
15 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)
16 Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
17 Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth (2016)
18 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (2010)
19 Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
20 Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
21 Adele - 21 (2011)
22 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
23 Jamie xx - In Colour (2015)
24 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity (2016)
25 Real Estate - Days (2011)
26 Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN (2016)
27 Mikal Cronin - MCII (2013)
28 Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate (2016)
29 Whitney - Light Upon the Lake (2016)
30 Japandroids - Celebration Rock (2012)
31 The National - I Am Easy to Find (2019)
32 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
33 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013)
34 Arcade Fire - Reflektor (2013)
35 Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (2019)
36 M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011)
37 Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (2015)
38 Slowdive - Slowdive (2017)
39 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Soul of a Woman (2017)
40 David Bowie - The Next Day (2013)
41 Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (2019)
42 Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (2012)
43 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (2014)
44 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (2014)
45 Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (2012)
46 Rihanna - ANTI (2016)
47 St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Half the City (2014)
48 LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (2017)
49 Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass (2015)
50 Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle (2015)
51 Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth (2016)
52 Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
53 Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool (2015)
54 Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park (2013)
55 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (2016)
56 David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar] (2016)
57 Lorde - Melodrama (2017)
58 Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012)
59 Solomon Burke - Nothing's Impossible (2010)
60 The Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs (2018)
61 My Bloody Valentine - m b v (2013)
62 First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (2012)
63 Snail Mail - Lush (2018)
64 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014)
65 Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels (2011)
66 Caribou - Swim (2010)
67 Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky (2012)
68 Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka (2019)
69 Chromatics - Closer to Grey (2019)
70 Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (2012)
71 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (2019)
72 Lee Fields - Emma Jean (2014)
73 Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (2013)
74 Grimes - Visions (2012)
75 Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter (2016)
76 Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
77 Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)
78 Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now (2018)
79 Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe (2013)
80 Wilco - The Whole Love (2011)
81 Tame Impala - Lonerism (2012)
82 The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (2017)
83 Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (2016)
84 Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt (2018)
85 Perfume Genius - No Shape (2017)
86 Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming (2011)
87 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk (2010)
88 Anderson .Paak - Malibu (2016)
89 Alvvays - Antisocialites (2017)
90 Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex (2017)
91 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (2011)
92 Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (2010)
93 Algiers - Algiers (2017)
94 D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah (2014)
95 Leon Bridges - Coming Home (2015)
96 Chris Stapleton - Traveller (2015)
97 Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' (2011)
98 CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe (2013)
99 Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (2018)
100 Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night (2016)
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MY TOP 100 so far:

Rating 9.5 - 10

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
2. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me (2010)
3. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012)
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
5. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel… (2012)
6. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
7. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014)
8. Kanye West – Yeezus (2013)
9. St. Vincent - St. Vincent (2014)
10. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (2019)
11. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012)
12. Beyoncé – Lemonade (2016)
13. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)
14. Solange - A Seat at the Table (2016)
15. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (2017)
16. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
17. David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar] (2016)
18. Lana Dey Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019)
19. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
20. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (2017)
21. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011)
22. Mitski – Be The Cowboy (2018)
23. Angel Olsen – My Woman (2016)
24. James Blake - James Blake (2011)
25. Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
26. Lorde – Melodrama (2017)
27. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (2018)
28. Grimes - Art Angels (2015)
29. Swans - To Be Kind (2014)
30. Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)

9.0 - 9.5

31. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (2014)
32. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)
33. Grimes - Visions (2012)
34. SZA – CTRL (2017)
35. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (2016)
36. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
37. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
38. FKA twigs - LP1 (2014)
39. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (2019)
40. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (2015)
41. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019)
42. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (2014)
43. Robyn – Honey (2018)
44. St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION (2017)
45. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (2014)
46. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (2014)
47. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love (2015)
48. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (2010)
49. Arcade Fire – Reflektor (2013)
50. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (2012)
51. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (2017)
52. Mitski – Puberty 2 (2016)
53. Charli XCX – Pop 2 (2017)
54. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (2018)
55. D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah (2014)
56. Robyn - Body Talk (2010)
57. Carly Rae Jepsen - E·MO·TION (2015)
58. Low – Double Negative (2018)
59. FOUNTAINES D.C. – Dogrel (2019)
60. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES (2018)

8.5 - 9.0

61. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (2010)
62. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 (2016)
63. Pusha T – DAYTONA (2018)
64. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (2013)
65. Beyoncé – BEYONCÉ (2013)
66. Rosalía - El Mal Querer (2018)
67. Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (2019)
68. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (2013)
69. Rihanna - ANTI (2016)
70. The National - High Violet (2010)
71. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
72. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (2017)
73. Swans - The Seer (2012)
74. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy (2017)
75. Tame Impala - Lonerism (2012)
76. Little Simz – Gray Area (2019)
77. Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book (2016)
78. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
79. Perfume Genius - Too Bright (2014)
81. Tame Impala - Currents (2017)
80. Kali Uchis – Isolation (2018)
82. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (2019)
83. Deafheaven – Sunbather (2013)
84. FKA Twigs - MAGDALENE (2019)
85. Joanna Newsom – Divers (2015)
86. Björk – Vulnicura (2015)
87. Taylor Swift - Red (2012)
88. Haim - Days Are Gone (2013)
89. Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019)
90. Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (2014)
91. Jamie xx - In Colour (2015)
92. Vampire Weekend – Contra (2010)
93. Beach House – Bloom (2012)
94. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth (2016)
95. Ariana Grande – thank you, next (2019)
96. Disclosure - Settle - (2013)
97. James Blake – Overgrown (2013)
98. Drake - Take Care (2011)
99. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (2016)
100. Paramore - After Laughter (2017)
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phdias wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:04 am My Top 50 so far:
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Honorio wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:47 am
sonofsamiam wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:46 pm Obviously this is VERY preliminary, looking forward to the rest of 2019 (Anna Meredith, Matana Roberts, Sky Ferreira, etc.)

Here's 200 ranked albums, and a boatload of honorable mentions...

1 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 2015
2 | Julia Holter | Loud City Song | 2013
3 | Janelle Monae | The ArchAndroid | 2010
4 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 2011
5 | Wadada Leo Smith | Ten Freedom Summers | 2012
6 | Swans | The Seer | 2012
7 | Burial | Kindred EP | 2012
8 | John Luther Adams | Become Ocean [Seattle Symphony / Ludovic Morlot] | 2014
9 | David Bowie | Blackstar | 2016
10 | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | 2010
11 | Unsuk Chin | Three Concertos: Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Su for Sheng and Orchestra [Sunwook Kim, Alban Gerhardt, Wu Wei, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung] | 2014
12 | Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.D. city | 2012
13 | Gurrumul | Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) | 2018
14 | Kamasi Washington | The Epic | 2015
15 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | 2019
Jackson wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:56 pm I was happy to see this as a reference for my listening over the next few months heading into EOD poll season. Surprised that Loud City Song got beaten out for the top spot! I have your 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10 in my T10. I've still never heard Ten Freedom Summers - wish that one was available on Spotify.
I've begun my listening to catch-up with the 2010s in order to prepare for the next year poll. And, copying Jackson, I've begun on the best possible departure point, sonofsamiam's list. I've listened so far to the Top 15 and it has been a rewarding music experience. Lots of black artists, lots of female artists, lots of styles usually set aside on end-of-year lists (especially jazz and modern classical), lots of adventurous and ambitious albums and, the fact I liked the most, lots of artists pushing the boundaries between styles and creating fascinating hybrid genres. Among the albums I listened these weeks for the first time I would like to point at are:
- "Djarimirri," a tight and brilliant integration of folk (Australian Aboriginal traditional chants) and classical (with minimalistic arrangements Glass or Reich-style). A truly excellent album that was a big success in his native Australia (it went to number one, only the second Aboriginal album to do so) but it went unnoticed in the rest of the world, being only #482 on the AM critics list and only appearing on one list (Australian of course). Oh well…
- "Become Ocean," an impressive listening experience (I should say that I've listened to these albums while driving on my way to work and listening to this sometimes I got the feeling of ingravity), moreover when I learned later that the work is a palindrome, the piece reaches a climax at the midpoint and from then it’s played in reverse. The review by Alex Ross is enlightening.
- But the album I enjoyed the most was "Ten Freedom Summers," the only one I haven't listened while driving (it's not on Spotify). This time for the better since I read the Wikipedia entries for the names and historical facts mentioned in the song titles (Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Emmett Till, Freedom Summer, Little Rock Nine) while listening to the pieces and: a) I learned a lot about history of the struggle of African Americans and b) even if the music is not exactly programmatic the feeling the music tracks transmitted matched the reading. I particularly got shivers reading the story of Emmett Till while listening to the chilling track "Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless."

Thank you very much, sonofsamiam!
Sorry this is a bit belated, but I appreciate the call-out, and am especially happy that people are discovering music here from my lists. I feel the 3 you mentioned especially, Honorio, are overlooked masterpieces that may be underappreciated now, but will hopefully stand the test of time.

Jackson, as always, thanks for your nice comments as well. :greetings-waveyellow:
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Re: Favorite Albums of the 2010s

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Is there a minimum/maximum for albums and songs? And is there a better idea now of what the deadline would be?
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