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

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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:

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I just got to around the 5 minute mark on your first video and this shit bops, hard

I feel like I recognize this melody from somewhere

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Some Rap Songs/Solace - Earl Sweatshirt
TA13OO - Denzel Curry
Everything from Octo Octa since 2017
SATURATION I/II - Brockhampton
Flower Boy - Tyler
Everything from Pile since 2011
Gay Disco - Guerilla Toss
2012-2017 - AAL
Veteran - JPEGMAFIA
The Sciences - Sleep
Collapse EP - Aphex Twin
Most Fire!/Orchestra releases
Sonic Citadel - Lightning Bolt
Trading Basics - Palm
Prom King - Skylar Spence
Memories in Widescreen - 36
Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven - Kid Cudi

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10. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
9. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
8. Death Grips - The Powers That B
7. Young Thug - Jeffery
6. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
5. Keiichi Okabe & Keigo Hoashi - Nier:Automata Soundtrack
4. Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
3. Celer - Xiexie
2. Autechre - elseq 1-5
1. The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time

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Looking at my last.fm listening history makes me realize I need to really broaden my music tastes to more recent albums.

Death Grips - The Money Store
Between the Buried and Me - Automata I & II
Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2

The only other one I can think of is off Metallica’s Master of Puppets box set. Cliff Burton’s final show was released on it and that was a great thing to experience for the first time.

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The recordings of Ben Johnston's String Quartets by the Kepler Quartet

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The Marshal Mathers LP 2 goes hard as fuck for me. That's absolutely one of my favourite records

As a Dream Theater fan I can say A Dramatic Turn of Events and their self titled album are also incredible as well

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came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain
asshole, that role i think i succeeded in fillin

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Ayyyyyyyyyy! That's my favourite song off that record

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Ok fixed but the image is humongous LMAO

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link the full size version I can't read that one

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This work? https://i.imgur.com/jQOiulN.jpg

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Nope. Still just 654x548.

I see Volition though. :eyes:
Looks like Pacific Myth, and Scurrilous are also there; maybe Arboreal, and Opus At the End of Everything by The Flashbulb?

I don't recognize any other album covers.

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Really bro

We gonna call me out in Chit Chat no less?

I see how it is man and after that time I voted for Funny, too.

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Okay THERE we go

https://imgur.com/cZkDF7N

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v1rt and some guests - Shovel Knight OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frce...X0yRRHP242XH0f

(It'S ViDeO GaMe MuSiC!!)!)

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death grips - the money store
kanye west - mbdtf
frank ocean - channel orange
chance - acid rap
childish gambino - Because the Internet
flying lotus - cosmogramma
tame impala - lonerism (sorry but this album is way better than fucking currents, currents has a handful of tracks that are bops tho)
james blake - james blake


this is based on my last.fm mostly so i'm sure theres some that arent coming to mind, tho i guess if they didnt impact me well enough to leave that lasting impression then they deserve to be omitted, i guess. a lot of these are hip-hop or aligned with hip-hop in some way but in my opinion they all helped shaped the genre into something completely different and more "emotionally open" for lack of a better term rn. Before 2010 it wasn't really cool to show emotions or deep shit in your rap. A lot of those albums also brought new techniques and styles into the production game. Death Grips was cited by a lot of people in the community as a possible influence on Kanye West's "Yeezus" being so filled with loud and abrasive production for example.


and just for the sake of it, here is my 5x5 Last.FM All-time Collage:

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yes

yeah I kinda forget about the shittier tracks but the bops stick out so much to me they are like, catchy impactful bops you know? but yeah I can't say I disagree with this opinion rofl

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Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka - Silfra
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
clipping. - CLPPNG
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Death Grips - The Money Store
Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
The Flashbulb - Arboreal
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
The Middle East - I Want That You Are Always Happy

There's probably more and there's a lot I missed out on, but these are personally some of the most important to me.

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Now that an alarmingly sophisticated bot has bumped this thread I can pitch in with my own irrelevant picks:
1. Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker
2. Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never
3. Agora - Fennesz
4. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
5. Upstream Color (Original Motion Picture Score) - Shane Carruth

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stand by it

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real talk wtf this is scary

or is it a real person just spamming random shit to seem legit before posting spam? I have heard of these type of jobs

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THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS

best debut of all time or

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also features not one, but two beach house samples

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Sleep Cycle by Deakin is my favorite album of the 2010s.

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Todd Terje - Strandbar
Grimes - Art Angels
So Inagawa ‎– Logo Queen
Younha - Supersonic
C418 - Minecraft - Volume Alpha

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THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS

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Good Night and Good Morning - Narrowing Type
Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
２８１４―新しい日の誕生
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Stream
わたしのココー愛してるって言われたいの
Ovlov - am
Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
DJ Rozwell - NONE OF THIS IS REAL


pretty solid decade

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Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks

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Phant 1, 2, and 3 --- compllege (Taishi)



been a long-time fan of Taishi and the other [code zts label] alums (like Nhato, who also has songs in the Phant series)

Phant is a must-listen if you like uplifting trance, especially doujin trance

edit: ok rip I apparently already recc'd this earlier. Good news is that zts's [point at infinity] song is available from Square Enix, he really outdid himself this time:



"Beatrice the Golden Witch" boss battle from the Umineko collab event.

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You know Pachinko's "lost" ep D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>E>L was discovered and remastered this year. It's from 2000 so it doesnt count but like no one heard until recently so like, I'll throw that suggestion around

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Behemoth - The Satanist
Between the Buried and Me - Parallax II: The Future Sequence
Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
The Contortionist- Language
Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don’t like Shit I Don’t Go Outside
Fit For an Autopsy - Sea of Tragic Beasts
Ghost Bath - Moonlover
Gojira - L’enfant Sauvage
J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Native Construct - Quiet World
The Ocean - Phanerozoic 1
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Tyler the Creator - Igor
Whitechapel - The Valley