Music Best albums of the 2010s

[HarlanEiffler]

Yeah that's fair. Just saw it while scrolling through my Spotify albums and had to stick it in there

Why not take one of the earlier PUP albums, which are, as any sensible hipster fan will tell you, much better than their more recent stuff?

 

[HarlanEiffler]

No particular order, and in no way, shape or form complete:

Ceremony - Rohnert Park (2010)
La Dispute - Wildlife (2011)
La Dispute - Panorama (2019)
Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks (2016)
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue (2019)
RVIVR - RVIVR (2010)
Loma Prieta - Life/Less (2010)
Killing the Dream - Lucky Me (2010)
Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me (2011)
Zugezogen Maskulin - Alle gegen Alle (2017)
Antilopen Gang - Aversion (2014)
Worthwhile - Carry on Kid (2012)
Tony Sly - Sad Bear (2011)

 

[sullydnl]

Hah, all these lists have a lot of "artistic and underground"-esque pop / electro / rock band albums but all the rap stuff is just the commercially successful ones. Utter bollocks.

Feel free to post more rap-centric lists, seeing recommendations I don't already know would be great.

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

Why not take one of the earlier PUP albums, which are, as any sensible hipster fan will tell you, much better than their more recent stuff?

Because I'm not hipster enough and prefer Morbid Stuff

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

 

[Maagge]

These, though not in this order:

Spoiler

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. Grimes - Art Angels
3. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
4. The Antlers - Familiars
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. US Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
7. Kanye West - MBDTF
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
10. David Bowie - Blackstar
11. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
12. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
13. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
14. Frank Ocean - Blonde
15. Caribou - Our Love
16. Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
17. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
18. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
19. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
20. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
21. Kendrick Lamar - Damn.
22. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
23. Foals - Holy Fire
24. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle - Perils From the Sea
25. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
26. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
27. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
28. Angel Olsen - My Woman
29. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here
30. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
31. Wild Beasts - Smother
32. The National - High Violet

Controversial to pick those albums by Wild Beasts and The Antlers I would think. Oh and High Violet as well.

 

[sullydnl]

Controversial to pick those albums by Wild Beasts and The Antlers I would think. Oh and High Violet as well.

Familiars definitely isn't the standard Antlers pick but is Smother that controversial?

I know TWFM seems to be the National album of choice this decade but I never entirely got why that has the edge over the others....

 

[Maagge]

Familiars definitely isn't the standard Antlers pick but is Smother that controversial?

I know TWFM seems to be the National album of choice this decade but I never entirely got why that has the edge over the others....

I actually thought Two Dancers were from 2010 which for me means at least Present Tense and the former ranking above Smother. But now that Two Dancers is actually from 2009 I can see why it's less controversial.

I like High Violet but I like Trouble Will Find Me way more. And it seems to be a general trend. Don't ask me why though.
That said I know one music writer who might place I Am Easy to Find above both even though he's a fan of all of them.

 

[HarlanEiffler]

Because I'm not hipster enough and prefer Morbid Stuff

Touché

 

[Acole9]

Because I'm not hipster enough and prefer Morbid Stuff

They're all good but Morbid Stuff is the best.

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

They're all good but Morbid Stuff is the best.

Amen!

 

[Acole9]

No particular order, and in no way, shape or form complete:

Ceremony - Rohnert Park (2010)
La Dispute - Wildlife (2011)
La Dispute - Panorama (2019)
Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks (2016)
Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue (2019)
RVIVR - RVIVR (2010)
Loma Prieta - Life/Less (2010)
Killing the Dream - Lucky Me (2010)
Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me (2011)
Zugezogen Maskulin - Alle gegen Alle (2017)
Antilopen Gang - Aversion (2014)
Worthwhile - Carry on Kid (2012)
Tony Sly - Sad Bear (2011)

 

[HarlanEiffler]

Finally, someone on redcafe who appreciates KL!! Sickest live band around atm, and different shade just blew me away when it dropped.

 

[Dante]

AM - Arctic Monkeys
22, A Million - Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Kindred - Burial
Rival Dealer - Burial
Old - Danny Brown
I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
Crack Up - Fleet Foxes
Engravings - Forest Swords
Art Angels - Grimes
James Blake - James Blake
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
m b v - My Bloody Valentine
High Violet - The National
Trouble Will Find Me - The National
Cardinal - Pinegrove
Valtari - Sigur Ros
A Sailor's Guide To Earth - Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds In Country Music - Sturgill Simpson
House of Balloons - The Weeknd
Dive - Tycho
Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs
I See You - The xx

What kind of a psychopath puts the artist name after the album title?

 

[Stobzilla]

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Run The Jewels - Self Titled
Run The Jewels - RTJ 2
Run The Jewels - RTJ 3
Rapsody - Lalia's Wisdom
JID - The Never Story
BIG K.R.I.T - 4 eva is a mighty long time
Tyler The Creator - Scum feck Flower Boy
Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great.
Oddisee - The Iceberg
Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge
Beans - Wolves Of The World.
Phonte - No News Is Good News
PRhyme - Self Titled
PRhyme - PRhyme 2
Black Milk - FEVER
Evidence - Weather Or Not

Off the top of my head.

 

[Acole9]

Finally, someone on redcafe who appreciates KL!! Sickest live band around atm, and different shade just blew me away when it dropped.

I've got to be honest I'm late to the party with Knocked Loose. I heard Counting Worms last year on my recommended Spotify playlist by chance, listened to Laugh Tracks not long after and then bought it on vinyl.

I saw them at Slam Dunk Festival this year and they were brilliant. A Different Shade of Blue is going to feature pretty high on my album of the year list.

This might be a bit of a controversial thing to say but I'd go as far as saying they're the best hardcore band on the planet right now.

 

[Roosney]

Feel free to post more rap-centric lists, seeing recommendations I don't already know would be great.

I was talking about the lists by professional journalist, not the ones posted by caftards. I'll try to come up with a list when on PC.

 

[BootsyCollins]

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Snoh Alegra - Ugh, Those Feels Again
Jim Jones - El Capo
Big K.R.I.T - Cadillactica
The Game - The Documentary 2 & 2.5
Dr.Dre - Compton
The Weeknd - Trilogy
Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
St.Paul & The Broken Bones - Half The City
Payroll Giovani & Cardo - Big Bossin vol 2
Kanye West - MBDTF
CyHi The Prynce - No Dope On Sundays
Tech N9ne - All 6´s And 7´s
Suga Free - The Resurrection
Anderson. Paak - Malibu
The Dream - Terius Nash : 1977
Future - Honest
Big K.R.I.T - Return of 4eva

 

[Dirty Schwein]

AM - Arctic Monkeys
Tranquility Based Hotel And Casino - Arctic Monkeys
22, A Million - Bon Iver
Wasteland, Baby! - Hozier
Kamikaze - Eminem
Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars
24k Magic - Bruno Mars
Lighting Matches - Tom Grennan
DNA - Backstreet Boys
Good Kid Maad City - Kendrick
James Blake - James Blake
My Hurricane - Jamie Scott
Following My Intuition - Craig David
Delta - Mumford and Sons

Forgive me, I have bad taste

 

[BootsyCollins]

Forgive me, I have bad taste

There is no such thing in music.

 

[HarlanEiffler]

I've got to be honest I'm late to the party with Knocked Loose. I heard Counting Worms last year on my recommended Spotify playlist by chance, listened to Laugh Tracks not long after and then bought it on vinyl.

I saw them at Slam Dunk Festival this year and they were brilliant. A Different Shade of Blue is going to feature pretty high on my album of the year list.

This might be a bit of a controversial thing to say but I'd go as far as saying they're the best hardcore band on the planet right now.

They are definitely strongly staking a claim for that title. I mean, for nostalgic reasons the biggest thing in 2019 for me was the reunion of Have Heart, but other than that nothing has been better than KL, their album and their promo videos. The kerrang-pit video is insane.

 

[sullydnl]

Two more random lists.

Spoiler: Stereogum

1 Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly

2 Kanye West – Yeezus

3 Grimes – Art Angels

4 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

5 Frank Ocean – Blonde

6 Kendrick Lamar – good Kid, m.A.A.d. city

7 Beyoncé – Beyoncé

8 Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time

9 Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION

10 Taylor Swift – Red

11 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

12 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening

13 Frank Ocean – Channel ORANGE

14 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

15 David Bowie – Blackstar

16 Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

17 Lorde – Melodrama

18 My Bloody Valentine – mbv

19 Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…

20 Robyn – Body Talk

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-albums-of-the-2010s-list/

Spoiler: Consequence of Sound

1. Beyonce - Lemonade

2. Kendrick Lamar - TPAB

3. Kanye West - MBDTF

4. Lorde - Melodrama

5. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampire of the City

6. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

7. Robyn - Body Talk

8. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC

9. St Vincent - Strange Mercy

10. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

11. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel

12. Kanye West - Yeezus

13. Tame impala - Currents

14. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

15. Billie Eilish - When we All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

16. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream

17. David Bowie - Blackstar

18. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

19. Adele - 21

20. SZA - CTRL

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/11/top-albums-of-the-2010s/

Rarely see anything I haven't heard in these big outlet lists but it's interesting to see the albums mainstream opinion coalesces around.

 

[Pink Moon]

Drive-By Truckers - American Band

 

[HTG]

Any list that has St. Vincent on it is a good list.

 

[Acole9]

1. Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
2. The Menzingers - After the Party
3. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
4. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
5. Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
6. Employed to Serve - The Warmth of a Dying Sun
7. Turnstile - Time & Space
8. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
9. Tool - Fear Inoculum
10. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
11. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
12. Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit
13. The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven
14. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
15. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
16. Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks
17. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
18. Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis
19. Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
20. London Grammar - If You Wait

 

[Mrs Smoker]