Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s by 
FlorianJones 
Anything with a write-up was in my top 50 at the end of the decade, in December of 2019.
As of today (June 14, 2022), 6 of those original top 50 have dropped into 51-100. None of them have dropped off the list entirely.
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Top Tracks: Fly, Always Trying To Work It Out, Dancing and Fire
Over twenty years into their careers, new Low music comes with expectations. You don’t exist in the music scene for that long without having a reputation of some sort or another, and since the beginning Low have been known to be quiet. Double Negative’s first impression was that of an outlier. This is music that was clearly intended to be loud. The production is heavy with static and feedback to the point that it often drowns out vocalists Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. These are the kind of sounds that make you question the condition of your speaker cones. Sonically, Double Negative appears to be a sharp left turn for Low, but ideologically the production is a perfect fit. Making music dubbed (to the band’s dismay) slowcore, Low has always been methodical, subdued, and prolonged. Their music asserts that negative space is an instrument unto itself. On previous recordings, that negative space was silence. But silence as an ideal is never perfect. As evidenced by John Cage, silence becomes whatever surrounds you – the hum of a fan or the cough of a passerby. Double Negative is a new interpretation of that silence. Here the spaces are filled with excess. We’re hearing chaff typically left on the cutting room floor – the sound of maxed out monitors and guitar strings left to vibrate between the notes. Loops of sound swell and collapse with each beat. Low find expressive beauty in this noise, and moments of clarity hit with greater catharsis than ever before. [First added to this chart: 04/26/2020]
Over twenty years into their careers, new Low music comes with expectations. You don’t exist in the music scene for that long without having a reputation of some sort or another, and since the beginning Low have been known to be quiet. Double Negative’s first impression was that of an outlier. This is music that was clearly intended to be loud. The production is heavy with static and feedback to the point that it often drowns out vocalists Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. These are the kind of sounds that make you question the condition of your speaker cones. Sonically, Double Negative appears to be a sharp left turn for Low, but ideologically the production is a perfect fit. Making music dubbed (to the band’s dismay) slowcore, Low has always been methodical, subdued, and prolonged. Their music asserts that negative space is an instrument unto itself. On previous recordings, that negative space was silence. But silence as an ideal is never perfect. As evidenced by John Cage, silence becomes whatever surrounds you – the hum of a fan or the cough of a passerby. Double Negative is a new interpretation of that silence. Here the spaces are filled with excess. We’re hearing chaff typically left on the cutting room floor – the sound of maxed out monitors and guitar strings left to vibrate between the notes. Loops of sound swell and collapse with each beat. Low find expressive beauty in this noise, and moments of clarity hit with greater catharsis than ever before. [First added to this chart: 04/26/2020]
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Top Tracks: Nowhere2Go, Ontheway!, Riot!
Some Rap Songs is just about the least presumptuous album title imaginable; but if a title is meant to indicate what underlying nature ties an album together, then I suppose this one does so accurately. These songs are most definitely raps. Curiously, they are nearly exclusively raps. The beats, as fresh and distinctive as they are, are not here to stand on their own. The raps are the centerpiece. When Earl concludes his verse on any given track, the track ends. He doesn’t let the beat run, and he’s not making room for choruses, breaks, or bridges. This album is a tight listen. Earl delivers fifteen songs in a mere twenty-five minutes. You have to wonder if there’s a tie to his subject matter an all of this. It’s no secret that Some Rap Songs is about Earl’s late father. Growing up, his relationship with his father was tenuous at best. Raised by his mother in Los Angeles, Earl had almost nothing in common with his father, who lived thousands of miles away in South Africa. But his father wasn’t just any South African, Keorapetse Kgositsile was the country’s poet laureate. That could explain how purely rap focused this album is. Beyond DNA, poetry is the biggest connection these two men share. Focusing on wordplay is Earl’s way of reconciling this dissonance between him and his father.
Earl is looking back to the past and finding ways to move forward. He’s accepting that in the wake of his father’s death, reconciliation will never come the way he may have wanted it to, but he can still find ways to reconcile for himself. The darkness found on Earl’s previous work still lurks in the shadows of these tracks, but for the first time, it’s met with a contrasting brightness. On Veins, he revisits his 2015 lyric “You could see it in my face. I ain’t been eatin’. I’m just wastin’ away.” with a new reassurance “I’ve been eatin’ good. You can see it in my tummy.” He’s had a couple years out of the spotlight, and things are turning around for his mental and physical health. In an inspired change of pace, Earl closes out Some Rap Songs with Riot!, the album’s sole instrumental. Riot! doesn’t need to say anything to make its point clear. It’s a jubilant celebration, and by borrowing a sample from Earl’s uncle – South African musician Hugh Masekela, who passed just weeks after Earl’s father – it also functions as a resolute capstone for the album. After eight years in the spotlight with a reputation for adolescent rebellion, Earl has finally reconciled who he is with who he came from. He’s at peace with his heritage, and for once, things are looking up. [First added to this chart: 04/26/2020]
Some Rap Songs is just about the least presumptuous album title imaginable; but if a title is meant to indicate what underlying nature ties an album together, then I suppose this one does so accurately. These songs are most definitely raps. Curiously, they are nearly exclusively raps. The beats, as fresh and distinctive as they are, are not here to stand on their own. The raps are the centerpiece. When Earl concludes his verse on any given track, the track ends. He doesn’t let the beat run, and he’s not making room for choruses, breaks, or bridges. This album is a tight listen. Earl delivers fifteen songs in a mere twenty-five minutes. You have to wonder if there’s a tie to his subject matter an all of this. It’s no secret that Some Rap Songs is about Earl’s late father. Growing up, his relationship with his father was tenuous at best. Raised by his mother in Los Angeles, Earl had almost nothing in common with his father, who lived thousands of miles away in South Africa. But his father wasn’t just any South African, Keorapetse Kgositsile was the country’s poet laureate. That could explain how purely rap focused this album is. Beyond DNA, poetry is the biggest connection these two men share. Focusing on wordplay is Earl’s way of reconciling this dissonance between him and his father.
Earl is looking back to the past and finding ways to move forward. He’s accepting that in the wake of his father’s death, reconciliation will never come the way he may have wanted it to, but he can still find ways to reconcile for himself. The darkness found on Earl’s previous work still lurks in the shadows of these tracks, but for the first time, it’s met with a contrasting brightness. On Veins, he revisits his 2015 lyric “You could see it in my face. I ain’t been eatin’. I’m just wastin’ away.” with a new reassurance “I’ve been eatin’ good. You can see it in my tummy.” He’s had a couple years out of the spotlight, and things are turning around for his mental and physical health. In an inspired change of pace, Earl closes out Some Rap Songs with Riot!, the album’s sole instrumental. Riot! doesn’t need to say anything to make its point clear. It’s a jubilant celebration, and by borrowing a sample from Earl’s uncle – South African musician Hugh Masekela, who passed just weeks after Earl’s father – it also functions as a resolute capstone for the album. After eight years in the spotlight with a reputation for adolescent rebellion, Earl has finally reconciled who he is with who he came from. He’s at peace with his heritage, and for once, things are looking up. [First added to this chart: 04/26/2020]
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Top Tracks: Commes Des Garcons, Rushes / Rushes To, Higgs
Much of art history isn’t a story of who did what in the best way possible, but who was in the right place at the right time. Audiences crave the narrative as much as they crave the work. At times I fault myself for perpetuating this. When given the opportunity to pick between writing about why a narrative works and why a specific guitar tone works, I’ll pick the narrative nearly every time. It’s easier. But sometimes picking narrative first comes at the expense of the music. Endless had the narrative. It was Frank Ocean’s triumphant return. He had pushed it back for years, something he wryly joked about with a repeatedly stamped overdue library card. This is the album we watched days worth of woodworking livestream for. That’s where Endless stood upon its August 19th release – for 24 hours. On August 20th, Frank released Blonde, and it took the wind right out of Endless’ sails. Blonde has a longer runtime. Blonde‘s songs are mostly conventional concrete units contrasting with Endless’ ebb and flow of hazy track divisions. Endless was Frank’s final release with Def-Jam records allowing him to go independent with Blonde, fueling hypotheses that Endless was nothing more than a contractual obligation. Endless opened with an Isley Brothers cover and ended with a song that wasn’t Frank’s in any way. Blonde was entirely original. The narrative was stacked against Endless. But Endless is beautiful music. The vocal cuts here are some of the most raw and inviting work we’ve seen from Frank. The flow of Endless is sumptuously smooth. Upon original release as a visual album, it didn’t even have finite track breaks. It’s not made to be mixed into your summer playlist, but experienced on the whole. That really opens up the way an audience listens. Little moments become critical as the listener builds their own track breaks out of the minutiae. Songs like the infectious Commes Des Garcons have a chance to stand in the foreground – an uncommon position for anything with a runtime under a minute. Endless’ looseness doesn’t make it an inferior Blonde. It makes it the perfect companion album, and it’s every bit as worthy of your attention. [First added to this chart: 10/24/2017]
Much of art history isn’t a story of who did what in the best way possible, but who was in the right place at the right time. Audiences crave the narrative as much as they crave the work. At times I fault myself for perpetuating this. When given the opportunity to pick between writing about why a narrative works and why a specific guitar tone works, I’ll pick the narrative nearly every time. It’s easier. But sometimes picking narrative first comes at the expense of the music. Endless had the narrative. It was Frank Ocean’s triumphant return. He had pushed it back for years, something he wryly joked about with a repeatedly stamped overdue library card. This is the album we watched days worth of woodworking livestream for. That’s where Endless stood upon its August 19th release – for 24 hours. On August 20th, Frank released Blonde, and it took the wind right out of Endless’ sails. Blonde has a longer runtime. Blonde‘s songs are mostly conventional concrete units contrasting with Endless’ ebb and flow of hazy track divisions. Endless was Frank’s final release with Def-Jam records allowing him to go independent with Blonde, fueling hypotheses that Endless was nothing more than a contractual obligation. Endless opened with an Isley Brothers cover and ended with a song that wasn’t Frank’s in any way. Blonde was entirely original. The narrative was stacked against Endless. But Endless is beautiful music. The vocal cuts here are some of the most raw and inviting work we’ve seen from Frank. The flow of Endless is sumptuously smooth. Upon original release as a visual album, it didn’t even have finite track breaks. It’s not made to be mixed into your summer playlist, but experienced on the whole. That really opens up the way an audience listens. Little moments become critical as the listener builds their own track breaks out of the minutiae. Songs like the infectious Commes Des Garcons have a chance to stand in the foreground – an uncommon position for anything with a runtime under a minute. Endless’ looseness doesn’t make it an inferior Blonde. It makes it the perfect companion album, and it’s every bit as worthy of your attention. [First added to this chart: 10/24/2017]
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2010 | 11 | 11% | |
| 2011 | 6 | 6% | |
| 2012 | 7 | 7% | |
| 2013 | 5 | 5% | |
| 2014 | 9 | 9% | |
| 2015 | 15 | 15% | |
| 2016 | 13 | 13% | |
| 2017 | 12 | 12% | |
| 2018 | 7 | 7% | |
| 2019 | 15 | 15% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Kendrick Lamar | 4 | 4% | |
| Frank Ocean | 3 | 3% | |
| Tame Impala | 3 | 3% | |
| Spoon | 2 | 2% | |
| LCD Soundsystem | 2 | 2% | |
| Vampire Weekend | 2 | 2% | |
| Tyler, The Creator | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 41 from 52nd to 11th Black Up by Shabazz Palaces |
| Up 34 from 82nd to 48th Reflections by Hannah Diamond |
| Up 26 from 99th to 73rd Moth by Chairlift |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 35 from 26th to 61st Pom Pom by Ariel Pink |
| Down 28 from 21st to 49th The Age Of Adz by Sufjan Stevens |
| Down 24 from 48th to 72nd Benji by Sun Kil Moon |
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From weston 06/28/2017 17:15
Nice! I agree 2015 was the strongest year so are. And I like the stuff you've thrown at the end.
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