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Sadly, it seems that we are too few to have the usual best-of-year lists, but I thought it might be good to have a thread up for best of the decade lists/comments/whatever.

I'll start with my favorite songs of the decade. This was incredibly hard to put together, but it was nice to rediscover some songs that I hadn't gone back to in a while. I'm posting my top-25 (but adding the next 25 under a spoiler tab if anyone is interested). I was surprised when I finally decided on my #1 song. Didn't really expect it, but I don't think there's a song from this decade that I enjoy more than this one.

The only rule I had in my list was just one song per artist.

50. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me
49. Churches - The Mother We Share
48. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
47. Rhye – The Fall
46. Yo La Tengo - Ohm
45. Childish Gambino - This is America
44. Wolf Alice - Bros
43. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blue
42. Lucy Daucus - Night Shift
41. Janelle Monäe - Pynk
40. Girls - Vomit
39. Mitski - Nobody
38. Chromatics - Into the Black
37. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People
36. Spoon - Inside Out
35. Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
34. The National - This is the Last Time
33. D’Angelo - Really Love
32. Car Seat Headrest – Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
31. Kavinski - Nightcall
30. Radiohead - Daydreaming
29. Hop Along - Texas Funeral
28. Deerhunter - Helicopter
27. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
26. Big Thief - Mary
25. Wilco - One Sunday Morning
24. Courtney Barnett - Depreston
23. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
22. David Bowie - Lazarus
21. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
20. Beach House - Myth
19. Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
18. St. Vincent - Cruel
17. Lorde - Green Light
16. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
15. Autre Ne Veut - Play By Play
14. Angel Olsen - Sister
13. Grimes - Realiti
12. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
11. Kanye West - Runaway
10. Frank Ocean - Self Control
9. Los Campesinos! - In Media Res
8. Solange - Cranes in the sky
7. Bon Iver - Holocene
6. Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen
5. Bat for Lashes – Laura
4. Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt
3. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
2. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
1. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
 
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Lol I think I’ve heard of maybe 3 songs on your Top 25. Shows how much my taste is nothing like most people that post here.
 
Thanks for making this. I am going to start a 2019 thread soon, mainly just for people to make recommendations on things we might have missed.
 
Thanks for making this. I am going to start a 2019 thread soon, mainly just for people to make recommendations on things we might have missed.

That's great. I'm still catching up with this year, though I'm pretty sure the new Lana Del Rey will top my list.
 
There are three albums that immediately stand out to me as masterpieces from this decade. I'm sure there are others, but I need to go back and do some digging.

Sufjan - Carrie & Lowell
Nick Cave - Push the Sky Away
Tim Hecker - Virgins
 
i'm with you, out of that list of 50 i think i've heard around a half dozen of them. :lol:



Yeah. I’ve always been a rock guy and what I’ll remember most about tots decade is that you had to look a lot harder for good rock because sites like Pitchfork gravitated more towards hip hop, r&b, and pop.
 
I don’t feel like justifying a personal list, but half of it at least is what I would define broadly as rock (and not particularly obscure). Possibly more.

Maybe the issue is that your conception of rock is pretty narrow?
 
I don’t feel like justifying a personal list, but half of it at least is what I would define broadly as rock (and not particularly obscure). Possibly more.

Maybe the issue is that your conception of rock is pretty narrow?



I wouldn’t say narrower, just harder. For example, that Big Thief album. Complete yawn fest, IMO. I just prefer more of a punch. But to each their own. This decade actually helped me break out of a bit of a music slump, where nothing was really exciting me. I broke out of my comfort zone, discovering bands like Dance Gavin Dance, who happen to be my pick for best band of the decade (after Tilian joined).
 
I’m not sure which Big Thief álbum you are referring to, but if it’s Two Hands, honestly I can’t think of a recent song that packs as much punch as Not (as an aside, Matt Berninger covered it recently and it’s pretty fun).

The other thing I’d say is that it’s not Pitchfork - it’s the music landscape that has changed. Rolling Stone has literally one rock song in its top 20. Rolling Stone!
 
I’m not sure which Big Thief álbum you are referring to, but if it’s Two Hands, honestly I can’t think of a recent song that packs as much punch as Not (as an aside, Matt Berninger covered it recently and it’s pretty fun).

The other thing I’d say is that it’s not Pitchfork - it’s the music landscape that has changed. Rolling Stone has literally one rock song in its top 20. Rolling Stone!


I like to pick on Pitchfork, but you’re right, it’s the general landscape that has made things a bit frustrating personally.

So I just checked out that song and it’s not bad. When I’m referring to packing a punch, I’m referring to something like this:


https://youtu.be/Z-aQrBZ4Duw
 
My first impression of that first Big Thief album to come out this year was similar, it did little for me and I shut it off and didn't go back to it (will at some point, would like to go check out their live show). But I find this "where has all the rock gone" attitude to be a bit tired. Love you Mikal, but you've been running with it for a long time. There's a ton of it out there. Sure it might not be quite as easy to find as it once was, but I'm tired of the trope because a) it isn't true and b) it puts every other genre of music in the same basket and makes it all lesser, because it ain't got firing electric guitar and a consistent drum beat.

Anyway. I'll post my list of stuff soon, as soon as I can get it in order :lol:
 
My first impression of that first Big Thief album to come out this year was similar, it did little for me and I shut it off and didn't go back to it (will at some point, would like to go check out their live show). But I find this "where has all the rock gone" attitude to be a bit tired. Love you Mikal, but you've been running with it for a long time. There's a ton of it out there. Sure it might not be quite as easy to find as it once was, but I'm tired of the trope because a) it isn't true and b) it puts every other genre of music in the same basket and makes it all lesser, because it ain't got firing electric guitar and a consistent drum beat.

Anyway. I'll post my list of stuff soon, as soon as I can get it in order :lol:



I actually agree with your point and I’m not running with a “where has all the rock gone” attitude. I found the rock.
 
I found the rock.

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49. Churches - The Mother We Share

44. Wolf Alice - Bros

42. Lucy Daucus - Night Shift

38. Chromatics - Into the Black

20. Beach House - Myth

14. Angel Olsen - Sister
13. Grimes - Realiti

Extremely here for these picks.

Though, much as I love Realiti, my pick for song of the decade is a different Grimes track: Flesh Without Blood. She can cancel herself with Elon Musk as much as she wants, that song still has no rival for me this decade.

A few weeks ago I tried to do a draft of the best albums of the 2010s. It was difficult, and I haven't returned to it since to make revisions, but here's a preview of the top thirty (don't read too much into the precise order just yet):

1. Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas: Mariner
2. Purity Ring: Another Eternity
3. Caspian: Waking Season
4. Midas Fall: Wilderness
5. Alcest: Shelter
6. Eagulls: s/t
7. The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There
8. Death and the Maiden: Wisteria
9. The Hundred in the Hands: Red Night
10. Little May: For the Company
11. Film School: Fission
12. Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool
13. Ethereal Shroud: They Became the Falling Ash
14. Save Ends: Warm Hearts, Cold Hands
15. Turnover: Peripheral Vision
16. Marnie: Crystal World
17. Priest: s/t
18. Thrushes: Exposing Seas
19. The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar
20. Blood Command: Cult Drugs
21. The Jezabels: Prisoner
22. Unison: s/t
23. Mew: Plus Minus
24. The Orbweavers: Deep Leads
25. Infinite Void: s/t
26. Meniscus: War of Currents
27. Memoryhouse: Soft Hate
28. Allo Darlin’: Europe
29. The Chills: Silver Bullets
30. Dorsal Fins: Mind Renovation
 
I don't care much about individual tracks but will definitely compile an albums list.
Same. I just can't be bothered ranking songs when my feelings about them shift so much from moment to moment. Albums have enough content to flatten my opinion out. I could do an unranked list, but there's just too much to cover.
 
Tough to narrow down a decade of discovery, but here are my top 30 albums for the decade.

30. Lady Lamb – Ripley Pine
29. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
28. Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge
27. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
26. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger In The Alps
25. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
24. Lucy Dacus – Historian
23. Los Campesinos! – No Blues
22. Waxahatchee – Out In The Storm
21. Gustavo Santaolalla – The Last of Us
20. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
19. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
18. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
17. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
16. EMA – The Future’s Void
15. Paramore – After Laughter
14. Savages – Silence Yourself
13. Lorde – Melodrama
12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
11. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
10. Mitski – Be The Cowboy
9. Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase.
8. Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights
7. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
6. Florence and the Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful
5. The National – Sleep Well Beast
4. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
3. David Bowie – Blackstar
2. Astronautalis – This Is Our Science
1. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
 
Alright, after poring through previous year end lists, re-listening to hundreds of songs, and much thought and contemplation, here are my top 40 songs of the decade:

40. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
39. Snail Mail - Pristine
38. Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
37. Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
36. Toro Y Moi - Solid Sound
35. Japandroids-The House That Heaven Built
34. Perfume Genius - Queen
33. Big Thief - Shark Smile
32. Neon Indian - Polish Girl
31. Slater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends
30. Real Estate - Its Real
29. Chvrches - The Mother We Share
28. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
27. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
26. Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin'
25. Sylvan Esso - Coffee
24. Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
23. Modest Mouse - Lampshades On Fire
22. Mac DeMarco - Chamber of Reflection
21. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
20. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
19. Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
18. Arctic Monkeys - Why'd YOu Only Call Me When Your High
17. Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery
16. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
15. Beach House - Myth
14. XX - On Hold
13. Bon Iver - Holocene
12. War On Drugs - Red Eyes
11. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardner
10. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
9. Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
8. Radiohead - True Love Waits
7. St. Vincent - Los Ageless
6. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
5. M83 - Midnight City
4. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
3. Vampire Weekend - Step
2. Grimes - Oblivion
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs


This was actually the Sirius/XM XMU station list :D, but I thought it was a good list and represented the decade of indie rock pretty well.
 
Was quite difficult narrowing both lists as much as possible.

Top 25 Albums (in alphabetical order)
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Best Coast – California Nights
Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
Coldplay – Ghost Stories
Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
The Fray – Scars & Stories
The Helio Sequence – Negotiations
The Killers – Battle Born
Kings of Leon – Walls
LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
Lorde – Pure Heroine
Madonna – Rebel Heart
Maroon 5 – Hands All Over
Metric – Art of Doubt
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built the Moon?
OneRepublic – Native
Phantogram – Voices
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
Ryan Adams – Prisoner
Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
U2 – Songs of Innocence
Wild Nothing – Nocturne
Young the Giant – Mirror Master

Top 30 Songs (no specific order)
LCD Soundsystem – All I Want
City and Colour – Fragile Bird
Dawes – Time Spent in Los Angeles
Florence + The Machine – Shake It Out
I Break Horses – Winter Beats
Foals – My Number
The Fray – The Wind
The Helio Sequence – Downward Spiral
The Killers – The Way It Was
Muse – Madness
Wild Nothing – Through the Grass
Arcade Fire – Porno
Lorde – Ribs
OneRepublic – Burning Bridges
The War on Drugs – An Ocean in Between the Waves
Adele – Water Under the Bridge
Beach House – Space Song
Best Coast – California Nights
Carly Rae Jepsen – Run Away with Me
CHVRCHES – Warning Call
Phantogram – Calling All
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Go Robot
The Temper Trap – What If I’m Wrong
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – If Love is the Law
Royal Blood – Don’t Tell
Ryan Adams – Anything I Say to You Now
U2 – The Little Things That Give You Away
Death Cab for Cutie – Near/Far
James Bay – Pink Lemonade
Metric – Now or Never Now
 
It pains me to not be able to include either Shuttlecock LP on my albums list, when just a few additions/subtractions on each would have made both legitimate contenders.

Still mulling this over as I'm catching up with a few prominent titles I missed this year.
 
Just so everyone is clear, you are not required to shoehorn U2 onto your lists just because we are on Interference.

In fact, if U2 is on your list, please listen to more music.
 
Seriously, the Joshua Tree Tour just made me laugh all the more at the albums U2 put out this decade. Remember when this band was good, eh.
 
I'm old and have 2 kids

The top 5 songs in my profile are

1. Motzart's Lullaby - Baby Motzart
2. Seranade No. 13 - Baby Motzart
3. Wheels in the Bus - Roger Daltrey
4. Baby Shark - Pinkfong
5. Drive My Car - Elmo
 
Extremely here for these picks.

Though, much as I love Realiti, my pick for song of the decade is a different Grimes track: Flesh Without Blood. She can cancel herself with Elon Musk as much as she wants, that song still has no rival for me this decade.

A few weeks ago I tried to do a draft of the best albums of the 2010s. It was difficult, and I haven't returned to it since to make revisions, but here's a preview of the top thirty (don't read too much into the precise order just yet):

1. Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas: Mariner
2. Purity Ring: Another Eternity
3. Caspian: Waking Season
4. Midas Fall: Wilderness
5. Alcest: Shelter
6. Eagulls: s/t
7. The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There
8. Death and the Maiden: Wisteria
9. The Hundred in the Hands: Red Night
10. Little May: For the Company
11. Film School: Fission
12. Wolf Alice: My Love Is Cool
13. Ethereal Shroud: They Became the Falling Ash
14. Save Ends: Warm Hearts, Cold Hands
15. Turnover: Peripheral Vision
16. Marnie: Crystal World
17. Priest: s/t
18. Thrushes: Exposing Seas
19. The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar
20. Blood Command: Cult Drugs
21. The Jezabels: Prisoner
22. Unison: s/t
23. Mew: Plus Minus
24. The Orbweavers: Deep Leads
25. Infinite Void: s/t
26. Meniscus: War of Currents
27. Memoryhouse: Soft Hate
28. Allo Darlin’: Europe
29. The Chills: Silver Bullets
30. Dorsal Fins: Mind Renovation

Apple Music actually recommended Alcest to me not even a week ago and I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve heard so far.
 
I’m thinking at this point, the album “Mothership” by Dance Gavin Dance is my #1 closely followed by Biffy Clyro’s “Opposites” double album.

Dance Gavin Dance is probably my favorite music discovery in a long time. Probably too heavy for most people here but the guitar talent alone is worth a listen.
 
After spending the last few months catching up on a bunch of music I'd missed out on from the decade, I've compiled top 10 album lists for every year. I wrote little tidbits about a lot - but not all - of the albums. Sometimes you like an album but just don't have much to say about it.

Keep in mind that these things are always fluid(and that there is still a lot of stuff I haven't gotten around to listening to yet), my opinions my change next year or next week, but this is as it is now.

Cobbler will be happy to know I've finally gotten into LCD and Nick Cave(though, sadly, not The National, despite trying over and over).

Without further ado...

2010
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
3. Beach House - Teen Dream
4. Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid
5. Robyn - Body Talk
6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
7. Sufjan Stevens - Age Of Adz
8. Eminem - Recovery
9. MGMT - Congratulations
10. Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
Honorable Mentions: Black Keys - Brothers, Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

The decade started with one of its stronger years.

The Suburbs is classic - I mean, the title track, "Ready To Start", "City With No Children", "Half Light II", We Used To Wait", "Sprawl II", and more? I miss this Arcade Fire and can't believe how far they've strayed.

I got into Tame Impala with Lonerism, and Innerspeaker is of a piece with that. Currents is good too, but this and Lonerism is the TI that I fell in love with.

Beach House quietly worked themselves into being one of the bands of the decade imo, and Teen Dream is the beginning of a pretty remarkable streak.

ArchAndroid was Monae's first full-length record, right? It's fantastic. She was so wonderfully weird on this record, and the neo-Motown sound she employs filtered through her own offbeat personality is just such an awesome thing to hear. Highlights include "Cold War", "Oh Maker", "Mushrooms & Roses", "Wondaland", "57821", and the closer "BaBopByeYa".

Body Talk is probably still my favorite pure pop record of the decade. From "Dancing On My Own" to "Indestructible" to "Call Your Girlfriend" to "Hang With Me" and beyond, Robyn had a zeitgeist moment here, and this may well be the record she is remembered for the most. Plus, she made a Back To The Future reference in "Time Machine". Win.

For the longest time, I could never get into LCD Soundsystem outside of a few isolated tracks. But I revisited American Dream earlier this year, and it finally clicked for me. I had always been thinking of LCD as an electronic/dance band, but I had a lightbulb moment - and I know I'm late to the party here - that underneath all of that they're really a post-punk band. The influence of Talking Heads, Berlin/Scary Monsters-era Bowie, and stuff like that is pretty common, and pretty obvious, in LCD's stuff, and once that clicked for me, I had a much easier type appreciating them. This Is Happening has some filler, but the high points - All I Want, I Can Change, You Wanted A Hit, Somebody's Calling Me, Home - are good enough to elevate the album. Especially All I Want.

I got into Carrie & Lowell first, so Age of Adz is obviously a lot different, more psychedelic and epic in nature, as opposed to the quiet and intimate nature of the former record, but I found myself really digging it.

I don't have much hip-hop on any of these lists, but Eminem's Recovery is his best work this decade imo and more than worth a listen.

Cee-Lo's record is just a fun, light, bright listen. "Wildflower" is still a song I come back to pretty often.

2011
1. REM - Collapse Into Now
2. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You
4. Feist - Metals
5. Radiohead - King Of Limbs
6. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
7. Noel Gallagher - High Flying Birds
8. Adele - 21
9. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
10. Lady Gaga - Born This Way

REM's swan song is a really solid, feel-good record. It's a good musical synthesis of what they were about for 30 years. Stuff like "Uberlin", "Oh My Heart", "It Happened Today", "Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I" sound like the band circa Out Of Time/Automatic For The People; "Mine Smell Like Honey" reminds me of Green; "Every Day Is Yours To Win" sounds like the band circa Up; and the crunchier stuff like "Discoverer", "All The Best", and "Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter" harkens back to the band's I.R.S. days. The finale, "Blue", sounds very much like "Country Feedback" in spirit, but it's still a moving, poignant last statement from the band - the moody atmospherics, Stipe's lyrics, Patti Smith's background vocals - it's kind of chilling to be honest. I think it's just a really strong record for such a legendary band to go out on.

Lykke Li is a special, unique artist, and in Wounded Rhymes' beautiful tracks like "Youth Knows No Pain", "Rich Kid Blues", "I Know Places", and the sublime closer "Silent My Song", she sounds like some kind of spirit from another world.

RHCP, as always, is not very popular here in B&C, and this, their first record with Josh Klinghoffer, didn't click with me at the time, but it's grown on me and has some really enjoyable material on it, even if it's not up to the standards they'd set with Frusciante.

Feist is an often-overlooked artist, but I think she's the real deal. This is a challenging but rewarding listen.

It says something about both the greatness of Radiohead that my least favorite album of theirs in the last 20 years is still my fifth favorite of the year. Honestly, the second half is pretty good and so were the non-album singles that surrounded it. It's just anemic in length, has a couple ill-fitting tracks imo, and lacks the overt emotion that characterizes much of RH's work(even Kid A).

I just got into the High Flying Birds - nothing mind-blowing, but if you like Oasis, this is a very enjoyable pop-rock record.

Adele's record is one of the biggest of the decade, and it's singles are good enough to elevate it for me. I know she's not for everyone though.

2012
1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Beach House - Bloom
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
5. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
6. Sigur Ros - Valtari
7. Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
8. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
9. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
10. Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel
Honorable Mention: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Lonerism is an all-timer for me. One of those albums that made me flip for an artist right away. Apocalypse Dreams, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards, Why Won't You Talk To Me, Elephant, it's all so good.

On some days, Bloom might be Beach House's best record.

I am a big Grizzly Bear fan. I love their impassioned yet intimate style. They make such beautiful, melodic, melancholic music. Shields is gorgeous.

I am perplexed at why Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox doesn't get talked about more. It's not particularly heavy or anything, but he's channeling Off-The-Wall-era Michael Jackson for much of it, and doing it really well. One of the most exciting pop albums of the decade.

Valtari has become one of my favorite Sigur Ros albums - so beautiful and ethereal.

Regina Spektor's record is soulful, kooky, and a lot of fun. Regina is always fun.

I think Laz said once that he respects Fiona Apple's "Idler..." more than he enjoys it, and think I agree with that. I appreciate her artistry, there are certainly a few tracks that I enjoyed the first time through, and the album warrants future listens.

2013
1. David Bowie - The Next Day
2. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
3. John Frusciante - Outsides
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
5. Janelle Monae - Electric Lady
6. Atoms For Peace - AMOK
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm Beside You
8. Justin Timberlake - 20/20 Experience Part 1
9. Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
10. Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Honorable Mentions: Arcade Fire - Reflektor, Haim - Days Are Gone, Katie Melua - Ketevan, Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

2013 is, imo, the second strongest year of the decade for music, second only to 2016. One of the few years of the decade where my top 10 is just rock solid top to bottom.

I don't know if The Next Day is Bowie's best late-era album - Blackstar and Heathen are probably greater, more cohesive artistic statements on the whole - but it's the one I come back to the most. It stands out in his late-career, because he was such a forward-looking artist, always trying new things, but this album is looking back. It's the sound of Ziggy Stardust(the persona, not the album) 40 years later. It's like he's trying an old outfit on, seeing if it still fits, if he can still do that thing. And boy does he. "The Stars(Are Out Tonight)", ""Love Is Lost", "Valentine's Day", "I'd Rather Be High", "How Does The Grass Grow"(with its Apaches sample), "Set The World On Fire" are all bangers, and "Where Do We Go" is one of the most beautiful songs he ever wrote.

MBV picked up right where they left off in 1991, and this long-awaited follow-up is an aural feast; transportive, evocative, and powerful. MBV is really a unique group whose work often defies description, so I won't waste too many characters trying.

I know most of you have probably never listened to any of John Frusciante's solo stuff, and Outsides is actually an EP, but screw it, I'm leaving it that high because the 10-minute guitar instrumental "Same" is that fucking good. Seriously, listen to it.

I've been listening to these last three Nick Cave albums, since everyone here's been singing their praises - and I'm really enjoying them...well, Push The Sky Away and Skeleton Tree anyway, Ghosteen is taking a little longer to get into. Anyway, these records are so heavy and dense that I feel like I need to listen to them ten or twenty more times before I can really say anything intelligent about them. Push The Sky Away seems to be the most direct of the three, and it didn't take much effort to get absorbed in it. I particularly like "Jubilee Street", the title track, "Mermaids", and "Water's Edge. Title track is probably my favorite here.

Electric Lady is the album that got me into Janelle, and I think her neo-Motown wearing-the-Stevie-Wonder-and-Diana-Ross-influences-on-her-sleeve sound on a lot of it is on-point, she's got a lovely voice, and the songs just work. "Look Into My Eyes", "Ghetto Woman", "It's Code", "Sally Ride", "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes", among others, are killer.

I always loved the Atoms For Peace album. I think Flea and Waronker's presence gave Thom's stuff a liveliness that is sometimes lacking in his solo stuff. "Ingenue", "Default", and "Reverse Running" are favorites of mine.

I'm Beside You is technically a compilation of b-sides from the I'm With You sessions, but it's really a distinct album in its own right, and it contains some of RHCP's best work with Josh - "How It Ends", "Pink As Floyd", to name a couple.

It's possible that 20/20 Experience Part 1 could go down as Timberlake's greatest solo album. B&C is usually not big on him, but this album definitely made some noise here. "Mirrors" is one of the biggest singles of the decade, and other favorites include the Marvin Gaye-ish "That Girl", the atmospheric "Blue Ocean Floor", the latin-flavored "Let The Groove Get In", and "Pusher Love Girl".

Queens Of The Stone Age, like Foo Fighters, carry a torch for mainstream rock music in these times. "Like Clockwork" is a thoroughly enjoyable, refreshing rock record. The single "My God Is The Sun" and the closing title track are highlights.

Kveikur shows a harder, darker, more rock side of Sigur Ros, as opposed to the previous year's Valtari, which was much more ambient and atmospheric. It's really impressive that Sigur Ros can do both things and make them both so distinctly Sigur Ros. "Brennisteinn" is a highlight here, it's incredible.

2014
1. U2 - Songs Of Innocence
2. Beck - Morning Phase
3. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
4. John Frusciante - Enclosure
5. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
6. Ryan Adams - Self-titled
7. D'Angelo - Black Messiah
8. Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear
9. St. Vincent - Self-titled
10. War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Honorable Mention: Sun Kil Moon - Benji

Yes, I have SOI #1. Look down on me all you want. I've loved the album since the day it came out, and taken with non-album tracks like "Crystal Ballroom" and "Invisible", I still think it might be their best work of the 21st century.

I am not familiar with much Beck has done since his 90s/early 00s heyday, but I always heard good things about Morning Phase, so I gave it a try a few months back when I had started this project. You were all right, it is fully deserving of the praise. I was surprised at the, sort of, earnestness of it. Beck was never as emotionally naked as he is here. It's a really beautiful album.

I Never Learn is, imo, Lykke's best work to date. Perhaps her most emotionally direct as well. Stuff like "Love Me Like I'm Not Made Of Stone" and "Gunshot" are songs I will always come back to.

Enclosure is another Frusciante solo effort - this time is a full LP, and probably his best, most complete release post-RHCP departure. Would rank this high for "Cinch" alone.

I'm still bummed Ryan Adams turned out to be a creep. This is still a really solid record that I found by way of the song "I Just Might", a brooding, moody, tension-building rock song that is still my favorite on the record.

Black Messiah is a really good, interesting record, and "The Charade" is certainly one of the decade's more memorable singles, but it never reached the top echelons for me the way it did for others. Still good though.

Sia is one of my favorite pop artists of the decade, just a really unique, authentic voice and some huge, unforgettable zeitgeist singles.

2015
1. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
2. Beach House - Depression Cherry
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
4. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterly
5. Kamasi Washington - The Epic
6. Tame Impala - Currents
7. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
8. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
9. Joanna Newsom - Divers
10. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Honorable Mention: Adele - 25

Like I said before, Beach House has quietly been one of the bands of the decade, having crafted a totally unique sound, accentuated by her vocals which act more as an additional instrument rather than a vehicle for lyrics, similar to MBV. It is perhaps symbolic of how their stature had increased by 2015 that they felt confident enough to put out two albums in one year. I prefer Thank Your Lucky Stars to Depression Cherry - and "Elegy To The Void" is one of their very greatest songs - but both albums are beautiful additions to their legacy.

Sufjan had been a favorite here for many years, but I'd never really gotten into him. Several years ago, I gave C&L a listen based off your recommendations. TBH, it didn't really do much for me the first time through, until the very last track, "Blue Bucket Of Gold". That one floored me and stayed with me enough to give the rest of the album another try earlier this year, and this time the album as a whole clicked for me. A beautiful, almost painfully honest and intimate portrait of grief. I sometimes felt like I was intruding on someone's therapy session.

But back to "Blue Bucket Of Gold" - I honestly think "Raise your right hand/Tell me you want me in your life/or raise your red flag/just when I want you in my life" might be the most emotionally affecting musical moment of the entire decade(in popular music, anyway). Literally breath-taking.

TPAB is obviously the most important hip-hop record of the decade, and for good reason. Kendrick's lyricism against the jazz and art-rock flavored musical backdrops make for a potent and engaging listen. By far his best work imo.

Kamasi is just a really enjoyable, accessible, super-talented jazz artist. This album is a bit over-long and bloated, but the high points are many.

Even though I prefer their earlier, more psychedelic stuff, Tame Impala does well in their new dance-oriented direction on Currents. I need to be in the right mood, but if I am, it really works.

Wolf Alice seems like a pretty solid up-and-coming rock band; this record got a lot of buzz around here back then.

Joanna Newsom is crazy talented, and Divers must be the most lyrically dense album I've ever come across, by anybody. This record is an adventure that requires 110% of your attention. It is NOT background music.

CRJ's Emotion isn't as good as Robyn's Body Talk imo, but it's a surprisingly enjoyable pop record. I wasn't expecting anything good after "Call Me Maybe", so, yeah, I was surprised. The title track, "Making The Most Of The Night", and "Favourite Colour" are favorites.

2016
1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evoulution
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
6. Solange - A Seat At The Table
7. Lady Gaga - Joanne
8. Norah Jones - Day Breaks
9. Angel Olsen - My Woman
10. Metallica - Hardwired To Self-Destruct
Honorable Mention: See at the bottom of this 2016 section...

Like I said before, this is the strongest year of the decade. I give 2016 the edge, because I think it has two things going for it: a transcendent top two, and stupid depth.

The Radiohead and Bowie albums are top-five-of-the-decade material as far as I'm concerned. A Moon Shaped Pool is an astounding bounce back after the relative disappointment of King Of Limbs, the combination of Greenwood's cinematic string arrangements, beautiful melodies, and probably the most emotionally naked set of lyrics Thom has written making for an absolutely stirring listen.

Blackstar, meanwhile, remains one of the most poignant career-enders we're likely to see, Bowie's writing about his own mortality scored by the fantastic jazz band he employed. Getting these two albums in one year was just very, very special.

Moving on elsewhere, Emily's D+Evolution is the record that got me into Esperanza Spalding. She is ridiculously talented, and songs like "Unconditional Love", Elevate or Operate", and "Ebony and Ivy" show her gift for combining elements of jazz, rock, and pop into something totally unique.

Lady Gaga went in a new stripped-down direction starting with "Joanne"(and continuing two years later with "A Star Is Born"), and I much prefer it to her earlier pure pop material. She's a tremendous vocalist, and songs like "A Million Reasons", "Joanne", "Angel Down", "Diamond Heart", "Sinner's Prayer", "Come To Mama", and the outtake "Just Another Day" allow that voice, as well as some great songwriting, to shine.

RHCP's The Getaway was an improvement over I'm With You. More sonically expansive, It felt like there was an album-wide focus that was lacking on its predecessor. "Dark Necessities" is a genuine RHCP classic, but the rest is good too. From the balladry of "The Longest Wave" to the reggae influence of "Sick Love" to the pop of "Go Robot" to the psychedelia of "This Ticonodrega", it's a solid record throughout. As excited as I am to have Frusciante back in the band, this album had encouraged me about what they could do with Josh going forward.

Again, as with his previous record, not close to ready to say anything too deep about Skeleton Tree, except that it's really good, it musically seems like a bridge between the direct nature of Push The Sky Away and the ambient nature of Ghosteen, and "I Need You" fucking slays me. Maybe my single favorite track of his so far.

Solange just made a great soul record with A Seat At The Table. I just listened again, and this stuff - "Cranes In The Sky", "Don't Touch My Hair", "Where Do We Go", "FUBU", "Scales" - holds up. The combination of her voice, the atmosphere that permeates the record, and the authenticity and relevance of the lyrics makes for a record that will be remembered. I said then and I'll say it now - I think it's better than anything Beyonce has done.

Not too many metalheads here - I wouldn't even call myself one - but Hardwired is Metallica's best record since the Black Album. Perhaps that's not saying much, but a lot of this record is really good. There are moments of 80s Metallica here, moments of Black Album Metallica, and moments of Load/Reload Metallica but, save for a few clunkers, it's as solid as anything they've done in a long time, even if doesn't really get close to their peak work.

Norah Jones returned to her piano pop-jazz roots on Day Breaks, and she's just really good at that. "Day Breaks", "Burn", "Flipside", and "And Then There Was You", among others, show her gifts for this genre.

Angel Olsen's My Woman is home to classic tracks like "Sister", "Woman", and "Shut Up Kiss Me" as well as personal favorites "Pops" and "Intern". She alternates effortlessly between quiet, vulnerable vocals and more direct, aggressive rock vocals, which results in a dynamic record. Still, I think I'm in the minority in that I think the follow-up, All Mirrors, tops this as an artistic statement. More on that later.

Outside my top ten, 2016 also produced:

The Avalanches' "Wildflower"
Bat For Lashes' "The Bride",
Rihanna's "Anti"(the last three tracks are career-best work for her),
Carseat Headrest's "Teens Of Denial",
Tribe Called Quest's "We Got It From Here..."
Wild Nothing's "Life Of Pause",
Sia's "This Is Acting", the follow-up to "1000 Forms Of Fear",
Crying's "Beyond The Fleeting Gales",
Beyonce's "Lemonade", and
Frank Ocean's "Blonde"
Bruno Mars' 24K Magic

You can arguably go 20 deep in quality albums in 2016. The year of the decade.

2017
1. Esperanza Spalding - Exposure
2. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
3. Torres - Three Futures
4. Foo Fighters - Concrete & Gold
5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
6. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon?
7. Slowdive - Self-Titled
8. U2 - Songs Of Experience
9. Lorde - Melodrama
10. St. Vincent - Masseduction
Honorable Mention: Kendrick Lamar - DAMN, War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

Most Disappointing: Arcade Fire - Everything Now

While not reaching the heights of 2013 and 2016, 2017 was a very good year as well.

Esperanza Spalding conducted an experiment where, starting with nothing, she livestreamed herself and her collaborators writing, arranging, and recording the album "Exposure" over a three day period. That she created something so beautiful from nothing in such a short period of time is jaw-dropping. Unfortunately, as part of the experiment, only 7,777 copies of the album were ever released(and it was never released to streaming services), so the only way to get it legally is to pay hundreds of dollars on eBay or elsewhere. But you can still find it online if you know where to look. I think two or three of the tracks are on YT. Here's the best song on the album, "Heaven In Pennies":

Again, I'm a big Grizzly Bear fan, and I think this record might even be better than Shields. "Morning Sound", "Neighbors", and "Sky Took Hold" have permanent places in my heart.

I knew nothing about Torres when "Three Futures" came out, but I liked the album right away, and coming back to it earlier this year after some time away, I fell hard for it. She has a unique, slightly off-kilter voice that I dig, and the way she comes up with these infectious hooks amidst sparse instrumentation just works for me. The title track, "Righteous Woman", "Greener Stretch", "Bad Baby Pie", and "Concrete Ganesha" are all favorites. LOVE this record.

Foo Fighters aren't for everyone, but I love them. There previous two albums in the decade were both solid, and they made my lists, but this is the best album they've made in a long time. It's paying homage to classic rock in a way they never have before - the Beatles and Pink Floyd influences are everywhere, especially in "The Sky Is A Neighborhood", "Arrows", "T-Shirt", and "Concrete & Gold". "Happily Ever After" is a rare acoustic number from Grohl and Co. and it's beautiful.

LCD hadn't clicked with me yet the first time I listened to American Dream. But months ago, when I started the process of catching up, I kept reading peoples' old posts here singing its praises. So I gave it another shot, and the album and band finally clicked with me. It's a great record. Again, the influences are obvious and lovingly paid tribute to. "Call The Police" is a highlight and is wearing "Heroes" all over itself. "Change yr Mind" is another highlight and I can hear some old-school U2 - i.e. Achtung - influence here, the guitar tone is very reminiscent of The Fly imo. Said influence is also present in "I used to", and I even hear just a little "Zoo Station" towards the beginning of "Call The Police". And of course the Talking Heads influence is everywhere. Other highlights include "oh baby", the title track, and "emotional haircut".

Who Built The Moon is perhaps Noel Gallagher's best solo work so far. Not really any new ground or anything, but just a really, really enjoyable, vaguely psychedelic in parts, rock record.

The Slowdive record is a great shoegaze record. The only record of theirs I've heard thus far, I didn't think it was as special as some of you did, but it's great, evocative soundscape-y music. It just starts feeling a little same-y after awhile. I had the same issue with Explosions In The Sky. Fortunately, the record is concise and doesn't drag too long. Good stuff.

Yes, SOE is on my list. I don't like it as much as SOI, but its highlights - "Little Things", "Summer Of Love", "Landlady", "Love Is Bigger", etc, are enough to rank it for me.

I was never a fan of "Royals" and still haven't listened to her first record, so I went into Lorde's Melodrama with low expectations. It's consistent, but there are a handful of memorable tracks here - "Green Light", "Liability", "Writer In The Dark", "Perfect Places", "The Louvre", "Sober II(Melodrama)". I see some similarities with the Torres record in terms of pop hooks played against sparse instrumentation. She surprised me.

Masseduction is a frustrating record for me, because I think half of it is so good and the other half does little for me. I love the softer stuff - "Hang On Me", "Happy Birthday, Johnny", "Savior", "Slow Disco", "Smoking Section", and the best track on the record, the absolutely gorgeous "New York". But the louder stuff, like "Pill", "Los Ageless", just isn't as good, at least not to my ears. Still, the half of the record that's great is absolutely some of the best music of the year.

I know some of you rank DAMN much higher than I do. It's a good record, one of the best hip-hop records of the decade probably, but it just never wowed me the way TPAB did. Still very good though. "DNA" is killer, and "Duckworth" is one of his best tracks, full stop.

2018
1. Beach House - 7
2. Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
3. Kamasi - Heaven And Earth
4. Thom Yorke - Suspiria
5. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
6. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
7. Robyn - Honey
8. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells
9. MGMT - Little Dark Age
10. Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy

Beach House continues their streak, and solidifying their place as one of the important acts of the decade, with 7. It's sort of a grower, but still quintessentially Beach House. "Lemon Glow" in particular is a highlight.

With "A Star Is Born", Gaga continued the stripped-down phase she started with Joanne, and to great effect. "Shallow" is a fantastic song, and her vocal delivery is phenomenal. But it's not the only thing there - "Always Remember Us This Way", "Look What I Found", "Is That Alright", "Before I Cry", and "I'll Never Love Again" are great Gaga showcases as well. She's an incredible voice and I really hope she continues down this road and doesn't go back to the overproduced pop she was making before.

On "Heaven And Earth", Kamasi picks up where The Epic left off. I don't listen to enough jazz, but man this guy is good. "Street Fighter Mas" is my favorite thing here.

I read an article where someone said that if you took the six tracks from Thom Yorke's Suspiria where he sings, they'd make a killer EP. I agree with that - the title track, "Unmade" "Open Again" among others are gorgeous. Outside of the vocal stuff, the record takes some patience, but it's rewarding more often than not. Haunting, absorbing, stuff. Probably Thom's best solo effort imo.

Egypt Station is Macca's best work of the decade, another late-career highlight. "I Don't Know", "Happy With You, and "Hand In Hand" are just a few examples of tracks that add to his legend.

I didn't love Dirty Computer as much as Janelle's previous offerings - I felt like this was more streamlined, more mainstream - but she still creates some beautiful pieces - the title track featuring the legendary Brian Wilson and "I Like That" are gorgeous ambient pieces, "Screwed" and "Don't Judge Me" are quality pop songs, and "So Afraid" has a killer grove and might be favorite track on the record. I don't much care for the single "Django Jane" though.

Robyn's Honey is MUCH different from Body Talk, not at all what I was expecting when it came out, and it took me awhile to adjust to it. Pretty chill and enjoyable record. "Because It's In The Music" and "Missing U" are highlights.

Esperanza Spalding is there out of respect because I love her previous two albums so much and I feel like I should give this one some more listens, but so far, it hasn't clicked with me as much.

The Lykke Li record is alright, but not as strong as her previous efforts imo.

2019

So as not to duplicate text, see my post here.

To finish, I thought about doing a top songs of the decade, but it's just too hard, so instead I'll do a list of my top 10 favorite zeitgeist, i.e. huge hit, singles of the decade:

1. Lady Gaga - Shallow
2. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
3. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
4. Pharrell Williams - Happy
5. Sia - Chandelier/Elastic Heart/Big Girls Cry
6. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky
7. Adele - Rolling In The Deep
8. Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
9. D'Angelo - Charade
10. Haim - The Wire
 
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Here is my albums list. I'm going to break it into chunks for readability and spoiler tag the whole thing so it doesn't make scrolling a pain in the ass on mobile:

1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
2. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel (2012)
3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
5. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (2016)
6. Tame Impala – Lonerism (2012)
7. D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah (2014)
8. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata (2014)
9. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (2015)
10. Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
11. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
12. David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar] (2016)
13. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
14. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
15. Destroyer – Kaputt (2011)
16. The Avalanches – Wildflower (2016)
17. Frank Ocean - Blonde (2016)
18. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. (2017)
19. Jay Som – Everybody Works (2017)
20. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (2010)
21. Jessie Ware – Devotion (2012)
22. Wild Nothing - Nocturne (2012)
23. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (2013)
24. Carly Rae Jepsen - E·MO·TION (2015)
25. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)

26. Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN (2016)
27. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (2019)
28. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011)
29. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010)
30. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2011)
31. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2018)
32. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana (2019)
33. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
34. (Sandy) Alex G – House of Sugar (2019)
35. Phantogram - Eyelid Movies (2010)
36. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014)
37. (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket (2017)
38. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (2017)
39. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (2015)
40. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream (2017)
41. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (2017)
42. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (2016)
43. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring (2010)
44. The Weeknd – House of Balloons (2011)
45. Beach House – Bloom (2012)
46. Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place (2018)
47. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011)
48. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE (2012)
49. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (2014)
50. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (2015)

51. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales (2016)
52. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (2010)
53. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (2018)
54. Anderson .Paak – Malibu (2016)
55. Pusha T – Daytona (2018)
56. Tyler, the Creator - Igor (2019)
57. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011)
58. Washed Out - Within and Without (2011)
59. Danny Brown - XXX (2011)
60. A$AP Rocky - LiveLoveA$AP (2011)
61. Charli XCX - True Romance (2013)
62. Chairlift – Something (2012)
63. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill (2012)
64. Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance (2012)
65. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (2012)
66. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (2012)
67. Swans – The Seer (2012)
68. Kanye West – Yeezus (2013)
69. Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (2014)
70. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016)
71. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. (2016)
72. My Bloody Valentine - m b v (2013)
73. Viet Cong - Viet Cong (2015)
74. St. Vincent - Masseduction (2017)
75. Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams (2014)

76. James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual (2010)
77. Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015)
78. Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold (2012)
79. Beach Fossils – Somersault (2017)
80. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated (2019)
81. CunninLynguists - Oneirology (2011)
82. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker (2010)
83. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)
84. 공중도둑 [Mid-Air Thief] - 무너지기 (Crumbling) (2018)
85. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (2010)
86. MGMT - Little Dark Age (2018)
87. Shura - Forevher (2019)
88. Royal Headache – High (2015)
89. Quelle Chris - Guns (2019)
90. White Denim – D (2011)
91. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (2010)
92. Spoon - They Want My Soul (2015)
93. Wilco – The Whole Love (2011)
94. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (2018)
95. George Clanton – Slide (2018)
96. Little Simz - Grey Area (2019)
97. Brockhampton - Saturation II (2017)
98. Noname – Telefone (2016)
99. Saba – Care For Me (2017)
100. Stella Donnelly - Beware of the Dogs (2019)

101. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color (2015)
102. Robyn – Body Talk (2010)
103. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' (2011)
104. The National – High Violet (2010)
105. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up (2017)
106. Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way (2010)
107. Allo Darlin' – Europe (2012)
108. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (2010)
109. Beach House - Depression Cherry (2015)
110. Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 (2018)
111. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 (2011)
112. Mac DeMarco - 2 (2012)
113. Four Tet – There Is Love In You (2010)
114. Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo (2014)
115. Slowdive - Slowdive (2017)
116. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (2011)
117. Björk – Vulnicura (2015)
118. Tame Impala – Currents (2015)
119. Parquet Courts - Human Performance (2016)
120. Beach House – 7 (2018)
121. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (2013)
122. IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. (2018)
123. DJ Koze – Knock Knock (2018)
124. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011)
125. John Talabot – ƒIN (2012)

126. The Flaming Lips – The Terror (2013)
127. Jon Hopkins – Immunity (2013)
128. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
129. Lupe Fiasco - Tetsuo & Youth (2015)
130. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time (2013)
131. Hookworms - Microshift (2018)
132. Passion Pit – Gossamer (2012)
133. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (2018)
134. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
135. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (2013)
136. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿(2019)
137. Foals – Total Life Forever (2010)
138. Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls (2019)
139. The National - Sleep Well Beast (2017)
140. 春ねむり [Haru Nemuri] - 春と修羅 (Haru to Shura) (2018)
141. Caroline Polachek - Pang (2019)
142. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana (2013)
143. Denzel Curry – Imperial (2016)
144. Jeff Rosenstock – WORRY. (2016)
145. Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon voyage (2018)
146. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (2010)
147. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth (2016)
148. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent (2014)
149. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt (2013)
150. Solange - When I Get Home (2019)

By year:

2010 - 20
2011 - 19
2012 - 16
2013 - 11
2014 - 9
2015 - 14
2016 - 17
2017 - 13
2018 - 16
2019 - 13

Unsurprisingly, Kendrick came away with the most spots in the top 150 (5), as every single release from Section.80 on made the cut. Beach House (4) got close though.
 
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