Music: Your Favourite Albums of the Decade (2010-19)

[Saturated Fats]

Iiiiit's coming up on the end of the decade, which means one thing - End of Decade Lists! Everyone loves lists!

Been seeing a bunch of these pop-up across the internet, thought it'd be fun to get input from the HF folk. It can be a list of however many you want: 50, 25, 10, 2 - whatever floats your boat. I did 25.

25. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
24. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
23. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
22. Slowdive - Slowdive
21. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
20. Lana del Rey - Norman F***ing Rockwell
19. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is the Wiser...
18. Grimes - Visions
17. Mgla - Exercises in Futility
16. Arcade Fire - Suburbs

15. HAIM - Days are Gone
14. Mitski - Puberty 2
13. FKA Twigs - LP1
12. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
11. Destroyer - Kaputt
10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
8. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Frank Ocean - Blonde
6. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

5. Deafheaven - Sunbather
4. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
3. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
1. David Bowie - Blackstar

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[Mimsy]

I don't consume too much new music anymore and tend to listen to stuff I've accumulated over the years.

A handful of albums off the top of my head:

Belle & Sebastian -- Write About Love
Teleman -- Breakfast
Alvvays -- self-titled
The Magnetic Fields -- 50 Song Memoir (prefer 90s to early 00s material, but can't not list band)
Sia -- 1000 Forms of Fear
Cigarettes After Sex -- self-titled
God Help the Girl -- self-titled
Ten Fe -- Future Perfect, Present Tense
Aurora -- All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (prefer all online acoustic sessions over electronica album tracks)
Ramin Djawadi -- "Game of Thrones" series

 

[plank]

1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life '17
2. Jason Isbell - Southeastern '13
3. Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking it Easy '10
4. The Delines - Colfax '14
5. Wussy - Attica '14
6. Erika Wennerstrom - Sweet Unknown '18
7. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music '14
8. Israel Nash - Rain Plans '13
9. Doc Feldman & the LD50 - Sundowning at the Station '13
10. Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator '11
11. Houndmouth - From the Hills Below the City '13
12. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice ' 17
13. Purple Mountains -s/t '19
14. Garcia Peoples - Cosmic Cash '18
15. Son Volt - Notes of Blue '17
16. Cracker - Berkeley to Bakersfield '14
17. JD McPherson - Signs & Signifiers '10
18. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness '14
19. The Nude Party -s/t '18
20. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness '18
21. Alejandro Escovedo - Burn Something Beautiful '16
22. Heartless Bastards - Arrow '12
23. Future Birds - Hotel Parties '15
24. Richmond Fontaine - You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to go Back to '16
25. Damien Jurado - Maraqopa '12
26. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold '14
27. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural world '17
28. Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son '18
29. The Black Keys - El Camino '11
30. Trummors - Headlands '17

 

[plank]

31. Glorietta - s/t '18
32. Beck - Morning Phase '14
33. John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns & Hillbillies '17
34. Eilen Jewel - Letters to Sinners & Strangers '14
35. Strands of Oak - Heal '14
36. The National - High Violet '10
37. Wilco - The Whole Love '11
38. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls '12
39. Immigrant Union - Anyway '14
40. Mapache -s/t '17

 

[plank]

41. War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream '14
42 Steve Earle - So You Wanna Be An Outlaw '17
43. Marty Stuart & The Fabulous Superlatives - Way Out West '17
44. Margo Price - Midwestern Farmer's Daughter '16
45. Dave Rawlings Machine - Nashville Obsolete '15
46. Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone '14
47. Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual '12
48. Manx Marriner Mainline - Hell Bound for Heaven '19
49. One Eleven Heavy - Everything's Better '18
50. Roger Daltrey - As Long as I Have You '18

 

[Shareefruck]

I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread and hopefully adding to this list as I go, because the 2010s have been kind of a barren wasteland for me.

These were pretty much the only ones that I got anything out of, personally.

1. Syro by Aphex Twin - 4.0 (Flawless)
2. Ravedeath 1972 by Tim Hecker - 3.5 (Great)
3. Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown - 2.5 (Good)
4. A Moonshaped Pool by Radiohead - 2.5 (Good)
5. Virgins by Tim Hecker - 2.5 (Good)
6. The Magic Place by Julianna Barwick - 2.0 (Positive)
7. Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus - 2.0 (Positive)

---- On the fence about
8. Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada
9. Exmilitary by Death Grips
10. You're Dead! by Flying Lotus
11. MBV by My Bloody Valentine
12. The Money Store by Death Grips

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread, because the 2010s have been kind of a barren wasteland for me.

These were pretty much the only ones that I got anything out of, personally.

1. Syro by Aphex Twin - 4.0 (Flawless)
2. Ravedeath 1972 by Tim Hecker - 3.5 (Great)
3. A Moonshaped Pool by Radiohead - 2.5 (Good)
4. Virgins by Tim Hecker - 2.5 (Good)
5. Velocity: Design: Comfort by Sweet Trip - 2.0 (Positive)
6. The Magic Place by Julianna Barwick - 2.0 (Positive)
7. Tomorrow's Harvest by Boards of Canada - 2.0 (Positive)
8. Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus - 2.0 (Positive)
9. Exmilitary by Death Grips - 2.0 (Positive)

Have you listened to Velocity: Design: Comfort recently (although it was released in '03)? I remember you not liking it. I've been listening to them a lot lately and they keep going up in my favorites. Just beautiful whatever approach they use. They're so versatile. The band's last album is a fantastic album (released in 2009). Here's some of the great songs. Thing to Ponder While Falling was released in 2013, though.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[Shareefruck]

Have you listened to Velocity: Design: Comfort recently (although it was released in '03)? I remember you not liking it. I've been listening to them a lot lately and they keep going up in my favorites. Just beautiful whatever approach they use. They're so versatile. The band's last album is a fantastic album (released in 2009). Here's some of the great songs. Thing to Ponder While Falling was released in 2013, though.

Oh whoops, I thought it was released in the 2010s for some reason. Yeah, I like it a bit more now, but still have minor reservations. I like the musicality a fair bit and can see that growing on me some more, but the twee dream-pop vocals still grate me when they're too front and center. I actually like most of the tracks on the album, but Dsco really gets on my nerves and sours the experience for me (works better when it just gets peppered in as part of the texture, IMO). Colored my first few impressions of the album a lot because it stands out more and I hear bits and pieces of what I don't like about it occasionally pop up in other tracks.

 

[Roo Returns]

In no order:

Bonobo-Black Sands
Xenia Rubinos-Black Terry Cat
Hollie Cook-s/t
Tune yards-whokill
David Byrne and St. Vincent-Love This Giant
Childish Gambino-Awaken My Love
Neneh Cherry-Broken Politics
Inter Arma-Sulphur English and Sky Burial
Blood Ceremony-The Eldritch Dark
Ari Lennox-Shea Butter Baby
Vein-Errorzone
High On Fire-Electric Messiah
Turnstile-Time and Space
Le Butcherretes-bi/Mental
Dr. Octagon-Moosebumps
Hiatus Kaiyote-Choose Your Weapon
Power Trip-Nightmare Logic
Escort-s/t
Deftones-Koi No Yokan

 

[Mikeaveli]

My 15 favourite albums of the decade in no order aside from the rating. Not the greatest decade for music imo

9/10:
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

8/10:
black midi - Schlagenheim
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Aphex Twin - Syro
JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
PRhyme - PRhyme
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

And here's my favourite song of the decade:

 

[Hatfield]

Only one that immediately comes to mind: Albert Hammond Jr - Francis Trouble.

 

[Shareefruck]

9/10:
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

This one's just piqued my interest. Been listening to it and tentatively really liking what it's going for.

For some reason his style/voice doesn't annoy me at all, but I find Kendrick Lamar's style inherently hard to stomach.

 

[Trap Jesus]

This one's just piqued my interest. Been listening to it and tentatively really liking what it's going for.

For some reason his style/voice doesn't annoy me at all, but I find Kendrick Lamar's style inherently hard to stomach.

Danny Brown's voice/cadence is just so unique for hip hop. There's the first shock of WTF is this when you first hear it, but it really does become its own unique instrument.

I think Kendrick's vocal effects become extremely grating after a while.

 

[Shareefruck]

Danny Brown's voice/cadence is just so unique for hip hop. There's the first shock of WTF is this when you first hear it, but it really does become its own unique instrument.

I think Kendrick's vocal effects become extremely grating after a while.

Yeah, I'm into it.

I have an irrational but seething hatred for that almost-sleezy-sounding, lilting vocal emphasis thing that Kendrick (and so many other modern rappers, like Kanye) does on the word at the end of every verse. Every time I hear something like that I'm just instinctively like "Man, **** this guy," for some reason.

 

[Ceremony]

In vaguely chronological order

Acolyte - Delphic
Happiness - Hurts
The Winter of Mixed Drinks - Frightened Rabbit
High Violet - The National
Scatterbrain - The Xcerts
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
In the Pit of the Stomach - We Were Promised Jetpacks
Simple Math - Manchester Orchestra
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
The 2nd Law - Muse
Hello Hum - Wintersleep
Big TV - White Lies
Pedestrian Verse - Frightened Rabbit
Opposites - Biffy Clyro
Trouble Will Find Me - The National
Cope - Manchester Orchestra
Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave - The Twilight Sad
There is Only You - The Xcerts
Music Complete - New Order
Ghost Riding - RNDM
Integrity Blues - Jimmy Eat World
The Great Detachment - Wintersleep
A Black Mile to the Surface - Manchester Orchestra
Every Country's Sun - Mogwai
Sleep Well Beast - The National
Wolves - Rise Against
Dance Music - Mastersystem
Art of Doubt - Metric
Your Church On My Bonfire - PAWS

 

[Sempiternal]

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

There are 14 songs within the link below.

 

[zombie kopitar]

Wow just sitting on it for a few hours, it was hard to get ten albums that I truly loved this decade. (I'm sure there are a few that are slipping my mind, though)

Coexist-The xx (album of the decade for me)
The Head and the Heart- eponymous debut
Celebration Rock-Japandroids
Dead & Born & Grown-The Staves
21-Adele
Jesus is King-Kanye West
The Suburbs- Arcade Fire
A Toothpaste Suburb- Milo
El Camino-The Black Keys
The Heist-Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Joy As an Act of Resistance-Idles


hm
Lost in the Dream-The War on Drugs
1989-Ryan Adams
Dive-Tycho
Channel Orange-Frank Ocean
Blunderbuss-Jack White
Kisses on the Bottom-Paul McCartney
Strangers to Ourselves-Modest Mouse
The Marshall Mathers Lp2-Eminem
Helplesness Blues-Fleet Foxes
More Life-Drake
In Colour- Jamie xx
Hamilton Mixtape/OST (cheating maybe, but it deserves a nod)

 

[Sombastate]

I'm actually working on my top 100 songs of the decade as we speak, but these are my top albums by year:

2010- Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
2011- The Roots- Undun
2012- The Lumineers- The Lumineers
2013- Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
2014- Bleachers- Strange Desire
2015- Sufjan Stevens- Carrie and Lowell
2016- Michael Kiwanuka- Love and Hate
2017- Bleachers- Gone Now
2018- Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Sex and Food
2019- Michael Kiwanuka- Kiwanuka/ Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising/ Lux Prima

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

The few that jump out without thought

NIN - Hesitation Marks
Drive: Original Soundtrack (got me into synthwave)
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Luke Combs - This One's For You

 

[kihei]

Well, um, not much from me:

David Bowie--Blackstar
Alvvays--Alvvays
Radiohead--A Moon Shaped Pool
Leonard Cohen--You Want It Darker
Suuns--Images Du Futur

 

[Hostile Offer]

Some terrific choices in this thread. Just assembled mine today:

1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
2. The National - High Violet
3. Amenra - Mass VI
4. The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
5. Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
6. Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After
7. Giles Corey - Giles Corey
8. Deafheaven - Sunbather
9. The Chariot - One Wing
10. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
11. Swans - The Seer
12. Kayo Dot - Hubardo
13. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
14. State Faults - Resonate/Desperate
15. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
16. Suffocate for f*** Sake - In My Blood
17. Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
18. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever
19. Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas - Mariner
20. Birds in Row - You, Me & the Violence
21. Jakob - Sines
22. Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions: Volume Number One
23. Oathbreaker - Eros/Anteros
24. Vi som älskade varandra så mycket - Den sorgligaste musiken i världen
25. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (hey, same as OP!)

 

[Babe Ruth]

The Devil put Dinosaurs Here. Alice in Chains (2013).

Lots of times these reunited and/or rekindled bands are lame money-grabs.. or depressing efforts to capture former glory. But this is a really good album, independent of the music they made 20 years earlier. Cantrell is still a really good songwriter.

 

[WeThreeKings]

1. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
2. Halsey - Badlands
3. Daughter - If You Leave
4. Eisley - Currents
5. Tool - Fear Inoculum
6. Taylor Swift - 1989
   
7. The National - High Violet
8. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
9. Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
10. Lights - Little Machines
11. Now, Now - Threads
12. Puscifer - Conditions of my parole
13. The Dear Hunter - The Colour Spectrum
14. City and Colour - The Hurry and the Harm
15. Big Wreck - Albatross
16. Flyleaf - New Horizons
17. Chvrches - Love is Dead
18. Daughter - Not to Disappear
19. The National - Trouble will find me
20. Florence & the Machine - Ceremonials
21. Lights - Skin & Earth
22. Taylor Swift - Red
23. Puscifer - Money $hot
24. Gregory Alan Isakov - Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony
25. Bad Meets Evil - Welcome to Hell
26. Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
27. Ed Sheeran - +
28. Flyleaf - Remember to Live
29. Of Monsters and Men - Beneath the Skin
30. The National - Sleep Well Beast
31. Lights - Siberia
32. Neverending White Lights - Act III
33. Now, Now - Saved
34. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
35. City and Colour - Little Hell
36. Ed Sheeran - X
37. The 1975 - Self-Titled
38. Vance Joy - Dream your life away
39. Ellie Goulding - Bright Lights
40. Eminem - Recovery
41. Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming
42. Of Monsters and Men - Fever Dream
43. The Civil Wars - Self-Titled
44. Ellie Goulding - Halcyon
45. Melanie Martinez - Cry Baby
46. The Wooden Sky - Every Child a Daughter, Every Sun a Moon
47. Tegan & Sara - Hey I'm Just like You
48. Anthony Green - Beautiful Things
49. The 1975 - I liked it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
50. Kina Grannis - Elements
51. Hammock - Departure Songs
52. Big Wreck - Ghosts
53. Kina Grannis -Stairwells
54. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
55. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
56. Phoebe Bridgers - A Stranger in the Alps
57. Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour
58. Hammock - Chasing after shadows...living with ghosts
59. The Honey Trees - Bright Fire
60. Chvrches - Every Open Eye
61. Eisley - The Valley
62. Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
63. Crosses (+++) - Self-Titled

 

[davemess]

2. Jason Isbell - Southeastern

I think this is the best album released since the 1970s ended.