Best albums of the 2010s
 

I realized that so many of my favourite albums are from before 2010 ;_;

it gave me a bit of a mid life crisis

What do you all think??

Tame Impala - Currents from 2015
sample track:
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars 2015
sample track:
Hail the Sun - Wake from 2014
sample track:

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Oooo, now this will be neat. Time to go through all of my favourite stuff and see what actually came out in the '10s.

Hail the Villain - Population: Declining (Alternative Rock) [2010]


Marionette - Nerve (Melodic Death Metal) [2011]


Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows (Melodic Death Metal) [2011]


Protest the Hero - Volition (Progressive Metal) [2013]


Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I: Neohumanity) (Melodic Death Metal) [2014]


Helion Prime - Helion Prime (Power Metal) [2016]


The Unguided - Lust and Loathing (Melodic Death Metal) [2016]


Unleash the Archers - Apex (Power Metal) [2017]


Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (Progressive Rock) [2018]


Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold (Melodic Death Metal) [2018]




Iiiiiiiii might have some genre preferences...

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1. Yodaka - Betrayal and Reincarnation (2016)
2. Tim Hecker - Konoyo (2018)
3. 36 - Memories in Widescreen (2010)
4. Totorro - All Glory to John Baltor (2011)
5. 36 - Fade to Grey (Reinterpreted) (2019)
6. Lord Snow - Solitude (2013)
7. William Basinski - Cascade (2015)
8. 2814 - Birth of a New Day (2015)
9. Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 3 (2015)
10. Ling tosite sigure - i'mperfect (2013)
11. KASHIWA Daisuke - 88 (2011)
12. Kiasmos - S/T (2014)
13. Uboa - The Origin of My Depression (2019)
14. Celer - Xièxie (2019)
15. Tim Hecker - Anoyo (2019)
16. Prurient - Through the Window (2013)
17. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is a Stream (2010)
18. Youth Novel - Turned Around Abruptly Beside a Mirror and Jumped at My Own Reflection (2014)
19. Frail Hands - S/T (2017)
20. Tokyo Shoegazer - Turnaround (2013)

Mostly ambient and drone because I like the sound of glaciers moving. 2013, 2015, and 2019 were the best years of the decade for me. Konoyo/Anoyo is easily my favourite ambient project of the decade.

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Intervals - The Shape of Colour (Instrumental Prog) [2015]
Sample Track: Libra

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I tried to remember the albums I listened to this decade and came up with this

1_The Caretaker_An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
2_Frank Ocean_Blonde
3_Grouper_A I A: Alien Observer
4_Janelle Monae_The ArchAndroid
5_Kacey Musgraves_Golden Hour
6_Beach House_Bloom
7_A Tribe Called Quest_We got it from here...thank you 4 your service
8_Flying Lotus_Cosmogramma
9_Beyonce_Beyonce
10_Julia Holter_Loud City Song
11_Drake_Thank Me Later
12_JPEGMAFIA_All My Heroes Are Cornballs
13_SOPHIE_Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
14_D’Angelo_Black Messiah
15_A$AP Rocky_Live.Love.A$AP
16_Real Estate_Days
17_Joanna Newsom_Have One On Me
18_Sun Kil Moon_Admiral Fell Promises
19_DJ Rashad_Double Cup
20_Tame Impala_Lonerism
21_Kendrick Lamar_Good Kid, m.A.A.d city
22_King Krule_The OOZ
23_James Blake_James Blake
24_Das Racist_Sit Down, Man
25_Deerhunter_Halcyon Digest
26_Lily Allen_It’s Not Me, It’s You
27_Paysage D’Hiver_Das Tor
28_Virtual Information Desk_札幌コンテンポラリー
29_Jai Paul_Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
30_Big Thief_U.F.O.F.
31_The Tallest Man on Earth_The Wild Hunt
32_Oneohtrix Point Never_Replica
33_Women_Public Strain
34_Miguel_Kaleidoscope Dream
35_Chance the Rapper_Acid Rap
36_Kanye West_My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
37_Saint Pepsi_Hit Vibes
38_Pistol Annies_Hell On Heels
39_G-Side_The One...Cohesive
40_Braids_Native Speaker
41_Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti_Before Today
42_Wolves In the Throne Room_Celestial Lineage
43_Swans_To Be Kind
44_Converge_All We Love We Leave Behind
45_TIm Hecker_Konoyo
46_The Knife_Shaking the Habitual
47_Big Boi_Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
48_Curren$y_Pilot Talk
49_Echospace_Liumin
50_Teebs_Ardour
51_Emeralds_Does It Look Like I’m Here?
52_Nails_Unsilent Death
53_Aphex Twin_Syro
54_Azealia Banks_Broke With Expensive Taste
55_Playboi Carti_Die Lit
56_Big K.R.I.T._Return of 4Eva
57_Elle Varner_Perfectly Imperfect
58_Blood Incantation_Hidden History of the Human Race
59_Andy Stott_Luxury Problems
60_Earl Sweatshirt_Some Rap Songs
61_Zahava Seewald and Michael Grebil_From My Mother’s House

Re: Best albums of the 2010s
 

porter robinson- worlds
kendrick lamar- damn.
taylor swift- 1989
dabin- alive
lights- siberia
halsey- badlands
phoebe ryan- mine ep
daft punk- random access memories
billie eilish- when we all fall asleep, where do we go?
madeon- adventure
tonight alive- what are you so scared of?
monstercat's best of 2013 album (okok ik what you're thinking but that album changed the game for me)

i'll keep updating this as i think

illenium's my fav artist but his songs are hit or miss for me. they're not all contained in an album. and ascend is good but too poppy; not entirely my jam
the phoenix is my favorite song of all time. it's from 2014. i wanted a phoenix tattoo because of that song but now that illenium's more mainstream that sounds tacky, haha.

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anime

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idk i literally stopped reading ur post after i read porter robinson so idk what u have to say but i bet its bad songs

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Off the top of my head The Now Now (Gorillaz) and Unvarnished (Joan Jett) are 2 albums I got brand bloody new this decade and have listened to a metric asston. Well, those and all the Ninja Sex Party albums.

If I had my collection in front of me I'd likely think of at least a few more that I could recommend.

....but I do think I'm old enough that the stereotype of "old man can't dig newer music and is stuck in his youth" is starting to be a thing. I felt kinda down the other day and cheered myself up by listening to Ayu's Rainbow again and its like....dude that shit is 2007. But I still love it, and I'm content with that.

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robertsona where you been at

stop hiding

u have always had good taste in music

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also hard agree with bloom and halcyon digest

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but porter robinson's great

im also unironically a zoomer

oh hey my # posts is my birth year now. YEE

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Dude you don't even know, I listen to old Ayu and BoA so often to the point when I'm drunk I don't want to listen to anything else and everyone around me gets to be subjected to DON'T START NOW! THE FEELING

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also, porter robinson and madeon are 100% cross generational, we got zoomers AND millennials into that shit

when madeon first started making music he wasn't even old enough to get into the club I saw him at he was like 14 lol, everyone who listened to him back then was older than he himself is

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Periphery 4
everything released by monstercat

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It is kind of a bummer that the music I use for junk food has this laungage barrier that makes it hard to share with friends. Although if I'm playing Car DJ, my knowledge of classic rock and obscure euro club music normally saves the day.

You can't really go wrong with The Greatful Dead, although that's no where near current

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So I've been thinking about this and decided to type "Best album of the decade" into Youtube and just clicked a random video and hear the argument and the first video was this where like 4 different dudes just spit hot takes



I have no idea what kind of rep What Culture has because I don't watch them but I was surprised that I was somewhat familiar with a chunk of the ones mentioned---I was fully expecting to have not heard any of them.

I did, however, realize that I never did go back and listen to David Bowie's last album, which is a shame because I do like his older work. Probably need to give that a listen sooner and not later.

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yo robertsona hit vibes hell fukcin yeah

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Errm... The Grateful Dead would like a word.

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I don't know too much about the mainstream but I can say that the 2010s were a GREAT decade for doujin music

Taishi in particular had a meteoric rise after his 2000s work with CODE ZTS LABEL with his new compllege label and it's really hard to choose just a single album... I might pick the original "Phant" album. There's only three songs but you get a showcase from the entire Holy Trinity of Trance: Taishi, zts, and Nhato. "bluefieldcreator" might be Taishi's magnum opus (others might disagree) and "freeflakes" is a great entry from zts, my all-time favorite doujin artist.



zts didn't have an album I'd pick this decade, which is fine since his late 2000s work is enough to pack an entire career, but his work in Umineko is still untouched to this day. He also made some absolute bangers for Mashiro Witch (rip), like blackstarlight and lingering affection:



He also did an absolutely stellar job with "point at infinity" for the Mashiro Witch x Umineko collab... I can't find a good rip on YouTube so I might upload it myself sometime.

Outside of the trance sphere, OPHANIL by KOSZONTO was probably the best doujin album I've come across in the 2010s. It's just... magic. The album is operatic so listen to the songs in order --- the whole thing is only 20mins or so and totally worth it.



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Not a "best album" but I wanted to give a shoutout to yogurtbox for "Tree of Knowledge", an OST for a fake PC-98 game, using the YM2608 soundfont. They were inspired to start the project after listening to Ryu Umemoto's brilliant EVE: BURST ERROR soundtrack and it really shows. I would be really interested to hear a followup to this after they have the time to sit down and play through the entirety of YU-NO, undoubtedly one of the best gaming OSTs ever.

Standouts from "Tree of Knowledge" are Opening, Schedule, and Evil Spirit. 'Opening' in particular reminds me a lot of YU-NO's opening: