Ten Favorite Albums of the Decade (2010-2019)

Kris said:
I've been wanting to make this thread so I'll start it new here.

We all love lists...what are your 10 favorite albums of this decade, subject to modification of course.
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Yes! I was thinking of making a thread like this later in the year and had already started making and editing my list. It would be cool if in December we tallied everyone's final lists like in @Woob_woob's thread and made a forum-wide list.
 
Yeah, I fucking suck at sticking to the rules. Been meaning to begin working on this anyways. After a quick dig through my lists I'm at something like:

EDIT: VERSION WITH 220 ALBUMS IS ON PAGE 10 AND IS THE VERSION THAT I'LL KEEP UP TO DATE

1) Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) Hip-Hop
2) Nicholas Jaar: Space is Only Noise (2011) Left-Field House/ Downtempo Electronic
3) Grimes: Visions (2012) Indie Electronic
4) LCD Soundsystem: American Dream (2017) Indie Rock/Electronic
5) Anderson .Paak: Malibu (2016) R&B/Hip-Hop
6) Brockhampton: Saturation Trilogy (2017) Left-Field Rap
7) Kaytranada:‭ ‬99.9% (2016) Electronic/Dance
8) Courtney Barnett:‭ ‬Sometimes I Sit and Think,‭ ‬Sometimes I Just Sit (2015) Indie Rock
9) Vince Staples:‭ ‬Summertime‭ ‬06‭‘ (2015) Rap
10) ‬David Bowie:‭ ‬Blackstar (2016) Experimental Rock

11) Arcade Fire: Reflektor (2013) Indie Rock
12) Darkside: Psychic (2013) Left-Field House/ Downtempo Electronic
13) LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening (2010) Indie Rock/Electronic
14) ‬Blood Orange:‭ ‬Freetown Sound (2016) Left-Field R&B
15) Grimes:‭ ‬Art Angels (2015) Experimental Pop
16) OPN: Age Of (2018) Experimental Electronica
17) Deafhaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (2018) Experimental Metal
18) Courtney Barnett: The Double EP- A Sea of Split Peas (2013) Alternative Rock
19) Tyler the Creator: Flower Boy (2017) Rap/R&B
20) ‬Carseat Headrest:‭ ‬Teens of Denial (2016) Indie Rock

21) ‬Radiohead:‭ ‬A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) Alternative Rock
22) Kendrick Lamar: Section 80 (2011) Hip-Hop
23) Run the Jewels: II (2014) Underground Rap
24) Sbtrkt:‭ ‬Wonder Where We Land (2014) Experimental Electronica
25) Low: Double Negative (2018) Art Rock
26) A.A.L: 2012-2017 (2018) Deep House
27) Priests: Nothing Feels Natural (2017) Post-Punk
28) Julien Baker: Sprained Ankle (2015) Indie Singer/Songwriter
29) Ryley Walker: Primrose Green (2015) Singer/Songwriter
30) Hop Along: Painted Shut (2015) Indie Rock

31) Disclosure: Settle (2013) House/Dance
32) Jamie XX: In Colour (2015) Left Field House
33) Alabama Shakes: Sound and Colour (2015) Alternative Rock
34) Saba: Care for Me (2018) Hip-Hop
35) Kendrick Lamar: Damn (2017) Hip-Hop
36) Chance the Rapper: Acid Rap (2013) Hip-Hop
37) Alex G: Rocket (2017) Indie Rock / Experimental Folk
38) Throwing Muses: Purgatory/Paradise (2013) Indie Rock
39) James Blake: Overgrown (2013) Indie Electronic
40) Jessie Ware: Devotion (2012) Pop / R&B

41) Janelle Monae: The ArchAndroid (2010) Left-Field R&B
42) EMA: Past Life Maryred Saints (2011) Indie Rock
43) Mac DeMarco: 2 (2012) Indie Rock
44) Crystal Castles: II (2010) Indie Electronic
45) Yeasayer: Fragrant World (2012) Indie Electronic
46) Hundred Waters:‭ ‬The Moon Rang Like a Bell‭ (2014) Indie Electronic
47) Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugur (2018) Left Field Hip-Hop
48) Caribou: Swim (2010) Indie Electronic
49) Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory (2012) Pop-Punk
50) DJ Koze: Knock Knock (2018) Experimental / Downtempo Techno

51) Brockhampton: Iridescence (2018) Left-Field Rap
52) Let’s Eat Grandma: I’m All Ears (2018) Experimental Pop
53) Moses Sumney: Aromanticism‬ (2017) Left-Field R&B
54) Warpaint: The Fool (2010) Indie Rock
55) Deafhaven: New Bermuda (2015) Experimental Metal
‭56) ‬Isaiah Rashad:‭ ‬Cilvia Demo (2014) Underground Hip-Hop
57) Tune-Yards: Who Kill (2011) Experimental Pop
58) Local Natives: Gorilla Manor (2010) Indie Rock
59) Kelly Lee Owens: Kelly Lee Owens (2017) Indie Electronica
60) Nilufer Yanya: Miss Universe (2019) Indie Pop

61) Floating Points:‭ ‬Elaenia‭ (2015) Experimental Techno / Jazz
62) Flume: Skin (2016) Experimental EDM
63) Childish Gambino:‭ ‬Awaken,‭ ‬My Love (2017) R&B
64) Sky Ferreria: My Time, Night Time (2013) Experimental Pop
65) U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited (2018) Experimental Pop
66) Tei Shi: Crawl Space (2017)Indie Pop
67) Queens of the Stone Age: Like Clockwork (2013) Alternative Rock
68) Joey BadA$$: 1999 (2012) Hip-Hop
69) Cunninlyguists:‭ ‬Strange Journey Volume‭ ‬3 (2014) Underground Hip-Hop
70) Homebrew: Homebrew (2012) Underground (NZ) Hip-Hop

71) Angel Olsen:‭ ‬My Woman (2017) Indie Rock
72) Liars:‭ ‬Mess (2014) Left-Field Electronica, Indie Rock
73) Autolux:‭ ‬Pussy’s Dead (2016) Indie Rock /Electronic
74) Azaelia Banks:‭ ‬Broke With Expensive Taste (2014) Experimental Rap / Electronic
75) These New Puritans: Field of Reeds (2013) New Wave, Post-Rock
76) St. Vincent: Masseduction (2017) Indie Electronic
77) Spoon: They Want Our Soul (2014) Indie Rock
78) ‬Danny Brown:‭ ‬Atrocity Exhibition (2016) Left Field Rap
79) Earl Sweatshirt: Doris (2013) Hip-Hop
80) Little Simz: Grey Area (2019) Hip-Hop

81) Japanese Breakfast: Soft Sounds From Another Planet (2017) Indie Rock
82) Amen Dunes: Freedom (2018) Indie Folk
83) Kali Uchlis: Isolation (2018) R&B
84) Caribou: Our Love (2014) Indie Electronic
85) Yves Tumor: Safe in the Hands of Love (2018) Experimental Electronic
86) Andy Stott: Luxury Problems (2012) Experimental Techno
87) ‬Flying Lotus:‭ ‬You‭’‬re Dead‭! (2014) Experimental Electronic /Jazz
88) Forest Swords: Endgravings (2013) Electronic
89) Jorja Smith: Lost and Found (2018) Singer/Songwriter, R&B
90) The Roots: How I Got Over (2010) Hip-Hop

‭91) ‬Donnie Trumpet:‭ ‬The Social Experiment (2015) Experimental Hip-Hop / Jazz
92) Earl Sweatshirt: I Don't Like Shit,I Don’t Go Outside (2015) Left Field Hip-Hop
93) Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact (2011) Experimental Pop
94) ‬Julia Holter: Loud City Song (2013) Experimental Singer/Songwriter
95) The Comet is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (2019) Jazz
95) DIIV:‭ ‬Is The Is Are (2016) Shoegaze
‬97) Sharon Van Ettan: Remind Me Tomorrow (2019) Indie Rock
98) Menomena: Mines (2010) Indie Rock
99) King Krule: The OOZ (2017) Indie Rock
100) Kacey Musgrave: Golden Hour (2018) Experimental Country
 
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Off the top of my head, so this may not be accurate. And it changes often. And there’s 20.

1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Swans - To Be Kind
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Grimes - Art-Angels
5. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here....Thank You 4 Your Service
6. The National - High Violet
7. Deafheaven - Sunbather
8. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
9. DIIV - Oshin
10. Swervedriver - I Wasn’t Born to Lose You

11. Beyonce - Lemonade
12. Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
13. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
14. Liars - Mess
15. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
16. Swans - The Seer
17. Scott Walker - Bish Bosh
18. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
19. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
20. Alex Cameron - Forced Witness
 
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OK, Ten albums is brutal...but these truly are albums that have stood the test of time for me. I cut anything newer, but I gotta fit Phoebe Bridgers and Weyes Blood back in there somehow.

  1. Robyn - Body Talk
  2. Brandi Carlile - Bear Creek
  3. Ashley Monroe - The Blade
  4. Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
  5. Alvvays - Antisocialites
  6. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
  7. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
  8. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
  9. Agnes Obel - Aventine
  10. Katy B - On a Misson
 
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These aren't in order but these are just ones i have in rotation all the time:

Queens of the Stone Age- ...Like Clockwork
David Bowie- Blackstar
Opeth- Heritage
Arcade Fire- Reflektor
Arctic Monkeys- AM
Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
Ghost- Opus Eponymous
MGMT- Little Dark Age
Lana Del Rey- Born to Die
Lady Gaga- Joanne
 
I couldn’t do ten. Not because there weren’t ten but because there was a clear top five and the difference between 6 and 26 were soooo close I couldn’t decide. I also didn’t want to do a list of like 100 because it would take a long ass time. Instead here’s my top 5 and yes I know it’s basic middle-aged dude with a beard indie rock but I have accepted who I am.

My Top Five
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The War on Drugs - Lost In A Dream
Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Radiohead - A Moon Shape Pool
The National - Sleep Well Beast
 
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