My Favorite Music of the 2010s
2010
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti | Before Today |
| Brother Android | October November December |
| Cacaw | Cacaw |
| Caribou | Swim |
| Chris Staples | Badlands |
| Discover America | Future Paths |
| Eskimo Spy | So Kimpsey |
| Gotta Write a Song | Isaac Halvorson |
| Liars | Sisterworld |
| Mount Kimbie | Crooks & Lovers |
| Nails | Unsilent Death |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | The Wild Hunt |
| Ty Segall | Melted |
2011
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| A$AP Rocky | Live.Love.A$AP |
| Big Nils | Sibling |
| Bok Bok | Southside |
| Cacaw | Bat Skin Robes |
| Dave Monolith | Welcome |
| Dawes | Nothing is Wrong |
| Death Grips | Exmilitary |
| Eskimo Spy | Plastic Snacks |
| Eskimo Spy | This is Hennepin |
| Glassjaw | Coloring Book |
| Housepet | Oh, Fuck It |
| James Blake | James Blake |
| Wagon Christ | Toomorrow |
| The Midnight Eez | The Midnight Eez |
| Morgan Greenwood | winter |
| MRR-ADM | Archive |
| New Lows | Harvest of the Carcass |
| Nimmo | Nimmo |
| Slim the Mobster | War Music |
| Tame Impala | Innerspeaker |
| Victor Shores | People |
| Weird Wives | Some Motherfucker’s Gonna Be Walking ’Round with a Size 9 Diehard up Their Ass, ’Cause Apparently They Ain’t Never Seen a Short A/C Man Get Bad Ass on Methadone |
2012
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Andy Stott | Luxury Problems |
| Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes |
| Datassette | People Without Mouths |
| MNLTH | Ages Sound |
| Eskimo Spy | Ear Weevil |
| ESPRIT 空想 | virtua.zip |
| Fur | Cocoon |
| Fur | Yonder |
| Holy Other | With U |
| Kendrick Lamar | good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kowloon Walled City | Container Ships |
| Mac DeMarco | 2 |
| Nell | 90s Mentality ’94 |
| Scuba | Personality |
| The Staves | Dead & Born & Grown |
| Steinvord | Steinvord |
| Ultraísta | Ultraísta |
| Vessel | Order of Noise |
| Victor Shores | Sports in General |
| Voices from the Lake | Voices from the Lake |
2013
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| A$AP Ferg | Trap Lord |
| A$AP Rocky | Long.Live.A$AP |
| Amber London | Tru 2 tha Phonk |
| Ariel Pink & Jorge Elbrecht | Hang On to Life / No Real Friend |
| Atoms for Peace | Amok |
| Ceephax | Cro Magnox |
| Chance the Rapper | Acid Rap |
| Chelsea Light Moving | Chelsea Light Moving |
| Daft Punk | Random Access Memories |
| Dawes | Stories Don’t End |
| Dead in the Dirt | The Blind Hole |
| Deafheaven | Sunbather |
| Emptyset | Recur |
| Faye Webster | Run & Tell |
| Frank Ocean | Channel Orange |
| Frankie Teardrop | Tough Guy |
| Fuzz | Fuzz |
| Jai Paul | Jai Paul |
| James Blake | Overgrown |
| Jim James | Regions of Light and Sound of God |
| Kelela | Cut 4 Me |
| The Knife | Shaking the Habitual |
| Kurt Vile | Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| Machinedrum | Vapor City |
| My Bloody Valentine | m b v |
| Nails | Abandon All Life |
| Paul Keeley | Fragmented |
| Shigeto | No Better Time Than Now |
| 宇宙コンビニ (Uchu Conbini) | 廻る景色のなかに (demo) |
| 宇宙コンビニ (Uchu Conbini) | 染まる音を確認したら |
2014
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| A$AP Ferg | Ferg Forever |
| Adrianne Lenker | Hours Were the Birds |
| Alix Perez | U |
| Aphex Twin | Syro |
| Ariel Pink | pom pom |
| Bok Bok | Your Charizmatic Self |
| Bop | Punk’s Not Dead |
| Caribou | Our Love |
| Chris Staples | American Soft |
| Dean Grenier, Max Ulis, Sergio Levels | The Face you Wear is Not Your Own |
| Dretti Franks | Land of Waves |
| Fracture | Loving Touch |
| Jack Ventimiglia | Transdigital |
| Joseph | Native Dreamer Kin |
| Lord RAJA | A Constant Moth |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days |
| Nothing | Guilty of Everything |
| Ramona Lisa | Arcadia |
| Ryan Adams | Ryan Adams |
| Taylor Swift | 1989 |
| Thurston Moore | The Best Day |
| 宇宙コンビニ (Uchu Conbini) | 月の反射でみてた |
| The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream |
| Weezer | Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
2015
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| A$AP Rocky | At.Long.Last.A$AP |
| DJ Akoza | Greatest Hits 94–99 |
| AFX | Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006–2008 |
| Aphex Twin | Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments, Part 2 |
| Art Pepper | Neon Art (Volumes 1–3) |
| Chris Stapleton | Traveller |
| Cloakroom | Further Out |
| MNLTH | Time |
| Dawes | All Your Favorite Bands |
| Fuzz | II |
| George FitzGerald | Fading Love |
| Jamie xx | In Colour |
| José González | Vestiges & Claws |
| Kelela | Hallucinogen |
| Kowloon Walled City | Grievances |
| Kurt Vile | b’lieve i’m goin down… |
| Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Lil B, Chance the Rapper | Free: Based Freestyles Mixtape |
| Loretta Lynn | Van Lear Rose |
| Mac DeMarco | Another One |
| Machinedrum | Movin’ Forward: A Tribute to DJ Rashad |
| Shigeto | Intermission |
| SIXSET | VOL.3 |
| The Staves | If I Was |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | Dark Bird is Home |
| Tame Impala | Currents |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. | Goon |
2016
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| American Football | American Football (LP2) |
| Aphex Twin | Cheetah EP |
| Beyoncé | Lemonade |
| Car Seat Headrest | Teens of Denial |
| Childish Gambino | “Awaken, My Love!” |
| Chris Staples | Golden Age |
| Dawes | We’re All Gonna Die |
| George Clanton | 100% Electronica |
| Horse Jumper of Love | Horse Jumper of Love |
| James Blake | The Colour in Anything |
| jinsang | life. |
| jinsang | solitude. |
| Joseph | I’m Alone, No You’re Not |
| Kanye West | The Life of Pablo |
| Kendrick Lamar | untitled unmastered. |
| Marie Davidson | Adieux au Dancefloor |
| MRR | Drumetrics-001 |
| Nails | You Will Never Be One of Us |
| Noname | Telefone |
| Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool |
| The Royal They | The Royal They |
| Soulkeeper | Get Well Soon |
| Victor Shores | You’ll Get Better At It |
| Weezer | Weezer (The White Album) |
| Whitney | Light Upon the Lake |
| WVRM | Heartache |
| Young Thug | No, My Name is JEFFERY |
2017
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| ・・・・・・・・・ (Dots) | 「 」 |
| A$AP Twelvyy | 12 |
| Chris Stapleton | From a Room, Volume 1 |
| Chris Stapleton | From a Room, Volume 2 |
| Cloakroom | Time Well |
| Converge | The Dusk in Us |
| Demi Lovato | Tell Me You Love Me |
| Drake | More Life |
| END | From the Unforgiving Arms of God |
| Faye Webster | Faye Webster |
| ESPRIT 空想 | 200% Electronica |
| Jay-Z | 4:44 |
| jinsang | confessions |
| Joseph | Stay Awake |
| Kelela | Take Me Apart |
| Kendrick Lamar | DAMN. |
| Lord RAJA | Amadeus |
| Mac DeMarco | This Old Dog |
| Neil Young | Hitchhiker |
| Shigeto | The New Monday |
| Taylor Swift | Reputation |
| Thurston Moore | Rock n Roll Consciousness |
| Tyler, the Creator | Scum Fuck Flower Boy |
| The War on Drugs | A Deeper Understanding |
| WVRM | Can You Hear the Wind Howl |
2018
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Adrianne Lenker | abysskiss |
| Against All Logic | 2012–2017 |
| Aphex Twin | Collapse |
| Bedlocked | Sprawl |
| Black Thought | Streams of Thought Vol. 1 |
| Cardi B | Invasion of Privacy |
| Childish Gambino | This is America |
| Computer Dating | A New Look at Life on Earth |
| Converge | Beautiful Ruin |
| Cult Leader | A Patient Man |
| Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | Fetti |
| Dawes | Passwords |
| Deafheaven | Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Denzel Curry | TABOO | TA1300 |
| Drake | Scorpion |
| Forest Drive West | Apparitions |
| Forest Drive West | Set Free |
| George Clanton | Slide |
| Groundislava | Groundislava 2 |
| Hatchie | Sugar & Spice |
| Ice Cube | Everythangs Corrupt |
| Joy | No Light Below |
| Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour |
| Kendrick Lamar | Black Panther the Album |
| Kurt Vile | Bottle It In |
| Lilac | Barbed Wire Entanglement |
| Marie Davidson | Working Class Woman |
| Meek Mill | Championships |
| Noname | Room 25 |
| Nostrum Grocers | Nostrum Grocers |
| Options | Vivid Trace |
| Pig Destroyer | Head Cage |
| Saba | Care for Me |
| Shigeto | Weighted |
| Snail Mail | Lush |
| Soulkeeper | Never Better |
| Sprain | Sprain |
| Thou | Magus |
| Tierra Whack | Whack World |
| Wanderer | Abandoned |
2019
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Abigail Williams | Walk Beyond the Dark |
| American Football | American Football (LP3) |
| Andy Stott | It Should Be Us |
| Caroline Polachek | Pang |
| Chastity Belt | Chastity Belt |
| Chat Pile | Remove Your Skin Please |
| Chat Pile | This Dungeon Earth |
| Chris Staples | Holy Moly |
| Computer Dating | To Weave a Wall |
| Deafheaven | Black Brick |
| Denzel Curry | ZUU |
| Duster | Duster |
| Faye Webster | Atlanta Millionaires Club |
| Floating Points | Crush |
| Gang Starr | One of the Best Yet |
| Griselda | WWCD |
| The Highwomen | The Highwomen |
| Horse Jumper of Love | So Divine |
| Ithaca | The Language of Injury |
| James Blake | Assume Form |
| Joseph | Good Luck, Kid |
| Julia Shapiro | Perfect Version |
| La Dispute | Panorama |
| Mac DeMarco | Here Comes the Cowboy |
| מזמור | Cairn |
| Pedro the Lion | Phoenix |
| Phobophilic | Undimensioned Identities |
| Pijn & Conjurer | Curse These Metal Hands |
| Shigeto | Versions |
| Soulkeeper | Gorgeous |
| Spirit Trap | Demo |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | I Love You. It’s a Fever Dream. |
| Taylor Swift | Lover |
| Ty Segal | First Taste |
| Vetiver | Up on High |
| Whirr | Feels Like You |