Top 70 Music Albums of the 2010s
by 
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Best Tracks Of The 2010’s:
1. she found now - MY BLOODY VALENTINE (2013 MBV Records)
2. Slomo - SLOWDIVE (2017 Dead Oceans)
3. Ivy - FRANK OCEAN (2016 Boys Don’t Cry)
4. Out of Control - LUSH (2016 Edamame Records)
5. For Everything - THE MURDER CAPITAL (2019 Human Season)
6. Stupid In The Dark - XIU XIU (2013 Bella Union)
7. Zebra - BEACH HOUSE (2010 Sub Pop)
8. Mr Peterson - PERFUME GENIUS (2010 Organs)
9. Samaritans - IDLES (2018 Partisan)
10. Do You Really Want To Know - PAPERCUTS (2011 Sub Pop)
11. Wonderful Life - HURTS (2010 RCA)
12. Micheline - SUN KIL MOON (2014 Caldo Verde)
13. Landing Cliffs - EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY (2016 Temporary Residence)
14. Cali - RIDE (2017 Wichita)
15. You Stopped Making Sense - THE RADIO DEPT. (2010 Labrador)
16. Roy’s Tune - FONTAINES DC (2019 Partisan)
17. ‘77 Life Ain’t All Bad - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS (2017 Nonesuch)
18. GMF - JOHN GRANT (2013 Bella Union)
19. Black - MONEY (2013 Bella Union)
20. Post Break-Up Sex - THE VACCINES (2011 Columbia)
21. Nightcrawler - PATRICK COWLEY (2013 Dark Entries)
22. Everlastingly Yours - PIROSHKA (2018 Bella Union)
23. Prefab Castle - GIRL BAND (2019 Rough Trade)
24. How Long Have You Known - DIIV (2012 Captured Tracks)
25. The Undoing - INTERPOL (2010 Matador)
26. It's Real - REAL ESTATE (2011 Domino Recording Co.)
27. Flytipping - SUEDE (2018 Warner Music)
28. My Terracotta Heart - BLUR (2015 Parlophone)
29. International Blue - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (2017 Columbia)
30. Lost Bliss - CARTER TUTTI (2015 Conspiracy International)
31. Anhedonia - THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION (2010 Ici, d’ailleurs)
32. March of Progress - VIET CONG (2015 Jagjaguwar)
33. Japan To Jupiter - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION (2013 3 Loop Music)
34. A Little God In My Hands - SWANS (2014 Young God/Mute)
35. Husbands - SAVAGES (2013 Pop Noire)
36. A Cold Cell - COIL (2015 Cold Spring)
37. Against Breaking Heart of a Breaking Heart Beauty - TRUPA TRUPA (2017 Ici, d’ailleurs)
38. Judas - LADY GAGA (2011 Interscope)
39. Whitechapel - S.C.U.M (2011 Mute)
40. Flesh War - TOTAL CONTROL (2014 Iron Lung)
41. 2013 - PRIMAL SCREAM (2013 Ignition)
42. Not A Priority - BLANCMANGE (2018 Blanc Cheque Records)
43. Motoring - TOY (2012 Heavenly)
44. Anxiety’s Door - MERCHANDISE (2013 Night People)
45. Lots Sometimes - GLASVEGAS (2011 Sony)
46. Right Action - FRANZ FERDINAND (2013 Domino Recording Co.)
47. Inclosed - ANJOU (2014 Kranky)
48. You & Me - DAMON ALBARN (2014 XL)
49. I’m Not A Man - MORRISSEY (2014 Harvest)
50. Sleepwalking - WIRE (2015 Pink Flag)
51. Blackstar - DAVID BOWIE (2016 Columbia)
52. Plastic - NEW ORDER (2015 Mute)
53. What's In It For - AVI BUFFALO (2010 Sub Pop)
54. Free-bird II - PARQUET COURTS (2018 Rough Trade)
55. F Choir - HIS NAME IS ALIVE (2019 Disciples)
56. Weekend - SMITH WESTERNS (2010 Fat Possum)
57. Waiting For You - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEED’S (2019 Mute)
58. Who’s In Control - BRITISH SEA POWER (2011 Rough Trade)
59. Please Don’t Go Away - THE MEN (2012 Sacred Bones)
60. Instrumental 4 - FLYING SAUCER ATTACK (2015 Domino Recording Co.)
61. Shoom - P.I.L. (2015 P.I.L. Official)
62. Gun To The Head - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN (2018 Studio 13)
63. K. - CIGARETTES AFTER SEX (2017 Partisan)
64. Little Dark Age - MGMT (2017 Columbia)
65. Watch Me - ANOHNI (2016 Rough Trade)
66. The Metal East - LIGHTNING BOLT (2015 Thrill Jockey)
67. There’s A Little Cloud Passing In You - ULRIKA SPACEK (2016 Tough Love)
68. No Future/No Past - CLOUD NOTHINGS (2012 Carpark Records)
69. The Killing Of America - UNIFORM (2017 Sacred Bones)
70. All Women Love Me - INSECURE MEN (2018 Fat Possum)
- Chart updated: 04/29/2025 02:45
- (Created: 01/03/2012 21:30).
- Chart size: 70 albums.
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"After all these years, Slowdive still sound like a miracle occurring. They've lost nothing and have instead turned out an album that like before, shows no sign of them compromising their vision. The material, is perhaps more deep-set and knottier than before, especially so on the second half where it sounds like something approaching a frown is crossing Neil Halsteads' mighty countenance.
There are even some echoes of the past, with Go Get It featuring the burnt out coda of Souvlaki Space Station and Falling Ashes' simple piano motif being oddly reminiscent of Sigur Ros, one of their many admirers. The experimentation of Pygmalion also features in most of the material, particularly the use of repetition not unlike the use of loops on that album.
What more is there to say? As a comeback album it's a resounding success and easily their best since Souvlaki.
'Tis beautiful." May 2017 [First added to this chart: 05/05/2017]
There are even some echoes of the past, with Go Get It featuring the burnt out coda of Souvlaki Space Station and Falling Ashes' simple piano motif being oddly reminiscent of Sigur Ros, one of their many admirers. The experimentation of Pygmalion also features in most of the material, particularly the use of repetition not unlike the use of loops on that album.
What more is there to say? As a comeback album it's a resounding success and easily their best since Souvlaki.
'Tis beautiful." May 2017 [First added to this chart: 05/05/2017]
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"Sunday, the 3rd of February 2013, 6:00 a.m. is forever going to be burned indelibly on my memory not least because it was my first listen to m b v, but because it's release was a genuine event and more importantly because it was fucking brilliant.
Here, like their previous releases, was music that had very little to do with the real world, it was (whisper it) incorporeal. Wasn't 'who see's you' the soundtrack to your soul bursting through the clouds to arrive at heaven's gate, or 'in another way' perfect for that scene where everything gets heavily psychedelic in '2001', or 'wonder 2' My Bloody Valentine at their most bonkers and their most bafflingly disorientating.
m b v was the soundtrack to February 2013, scratch that, 2013 and it was fucking great." February 2013 [First added to this chart: 02/03/2013]
Here, like their previous releases, was music that had very little to do with the real world, it was (whisper it) incorporeal. Wasn't 'who see's you' the soundtrack to your soul bursting through the clouds to arrive at heaven's gate, or 'in another way' perfect for that scene where everything gets heavily psychedelic in '2001', or 'wonder 2' My Bloody Valentine at their most bonkers and their most bafflingly disorientating.
m b v was the soundtrack to February 2013, scratch that, 2013 and it was fucking great." February 2013 [First added to this chart: 02/03/2013]
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"I don't know, is everyone listening to the same album as me? Cos everyone's complaining how difficult a listen it is, lacking any discernable singles etc etc, when it just sounds like a perfectly smooth listen with subtle but obvious earworm pop songs all the same.
In fact, I'll go to say Blond has so many of the qualities missing from white music these days: balls; new ideas; sonic innovation; and the ability to take the listener to new places. Just as much as this is a modern, 21st Century R'n'B album it's also a spiritual heir to works such as Closer or Loveless - it's that good. Simply put, Frank Ocean makes everyone else look like a bunch of clueless, ungainly fools. Wow." August 2016 [First added to this chart: 08/25/2016]
In fact, I'll go to say Blond has so many of the qualities missing from white music these days: balls; new ideas; sonic innovation; and the ability to take the listener to new places. Just as much as this is a modern, 21st Century R'n'B album it's also a spiritual heir to works such as Closer or Loveless - it's that good. Simply put, Frank Ocean makes everyone else look like a bunch of clueless, ungainly fools. Wow." August 2016 [First added to this chart: 08/25/2016]
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2016
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"It's true, it's Merritt's best since '69 Love Songs' with some monster, killer songs on offer that easily rank as his best - even if it includes some of his oddest arrangements to date. There is one big difference though, where '69 Love Songs' favoured a more spartan instrumentation 'Memoir' is a hell of a lot more colourful, even at times psychedelic, befitting his familial background. Even so, he still finds room for the kind of piano-led compositions last seen on '69' or 'i'. Whatever, he's on top form here and this is gonna be glued to my stereo for a long, long time." March 2017
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"Vicious and unrelenting, this album's portrayal of domination, S & M, torture, and serial murder couldn't be more overwhelming if it's auteur's blood-smeared face were to rise up out of the hell it leaves in it's wake. As an artistic statement it's brave, whether it's healthy is debatable. " February 2014
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“As time goes by it becomes more and more apparent how Suede were one, if not THE most important band of the nineties. So after a few dodgy lps, it’s with some relief to report how this new album finds a re-energised, more vital Suede.
Although the tunes are not as instant as before, a pop heart still strongly beats within even if this is a more mature, wiser, darker Suede than ever. There’s even a return to some of the art-rock madness of Dog Man Star - and if that isn’t cause for celebration, I don’t know what is.
Simply put this is the best Suede have sounded since their heyday and no one can hold a candle to them when they’re on this form” September 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/28/2018]
Although the tunes are not as instant as before, a pop heart still strongly beats within even if this is a more mature, wiser, darker Suede than ever. There’s even a return to some of the art-rock madness of Dog Man Star - and if that isn’t cause for celebration, I don’t know what is.
Simply put this is the best Suede have sounded since their heyday and no one can hold a candle to them when they’re on this form” September 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/28/2018]
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"Well, thankfully it's not a return to the follys of Carnival Of Light or Tarantula. They're still the same band that made those records, but more importantly they're still the same band that made Nowhere or Going Blank Again. To be specific, this is the direction Ride should have taken in 1993, with one eye on the classic records of the past and a foot in the sounds of tomorrow.
Their hippy past still lingers, for instance, if Weather Diaries were an item of clothing it'd be a brown corduroy pair of bell-bottoms but it's a fine album and it's damn good to have one of the best bands of the 90s back." June 2017 [First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
Their hippy past still lingers, for instance, if Weather Diaries were an item of clothing it'd be a brown corduroy pair of bell-bottoms but it's a fine album and it's damn good to have one of the best bands of the 90s back." June 2017 [First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
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"Albums this special only come along once in a while, how it's managed to remain relatively ignored since it's release is criminal. What does it sound like? Imagine the Mama's & the Papa's or the Loving Spoonfull jamming with Slowdive and your nearly there, and yes it does sound better than that. A forgotten classic, Fading Parade's seamless dream-pop updates classic West Coast psychedelia for the 2010's." February 2011
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"It's easy to see why Viet Cong are so suited to a genre such as post-punk considering it came with the promise of heralding a 'limitless future' - for music at the very least. Songs often stop, take unexpected de-tours, and to paraphrase the Young Marble Giants constantly change. Like Interpol with 'Turn on the Bright Lights' Viet Cong is a re-boot of a classic sound with frequent and obvious spot-the-influence moments (Gang of Four, This Heat, Wire etc etc) with some of the quirks and eccentricities that half the band shared in their previous incarnation as Women still clearly on show.
It is very much an albums album, with it's only one real concession to pop-music being the single 'Continental Shelf', all the while conjuring an oppressive Orwellian atmosphere where the buildings are healthy...even if the people aren't, it is rarely predictable even if it is a jarring, bumpy ride but it is also excellent. " January 2015 [First added to this chart: 01/07/2015]
It is very much an albums album, with it's only one real concession to pop-music being the single 'Continental Shelf', all the while conjuring an oppressive Orwellian atmosphere where the buildings are healthy...even if the people aren't, it is rarely predictable even if it is a jarring, bumpy ride but it is also excellent. " January 2015 [First added to this chart: 01/07/2015]
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"Studio reworkings of live Chris & Cosey tracks that are no less engaging - or thrilling for that matter. Putting the sensual into the sexual; hedonistic, paganistic, pugilistic, and clearly enjoying itself, it is (ahem) hot on the heels of love." February 2015
[First added to this chart: 03/02/2015]
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Top 70 Music Albums of the 2010s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | 11% | |
| 2011 | 6 | 9% | |
| 2012 | 6 | 9% | |
| 2013 | 12 | 17% | |
| 2014 | 7 | 10% | |
| 2015 | 6 | 9% | |
| 2016 | 6 | 9% | |
| 2017 | 9 | 13% | |
| 2018 | 5 | 7% | |
| 2019 | 5 | 7% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Xiu Xiu | 5 | 7% | |
| Perfume Genius | 3 | 4% | |
| The Magnetic Fields | 3 | 4% | |
| Depeche Mode | 2 | 3% | |
| Blancmange | 2 | 3% | |
| John Grant | 2 | 3% | |
| Total Control | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 70 Music Albums of the 2010s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
|---|
| Up 9 from 53rd to 44th Typical System by Total Control |
| Up 7 from 52nd to 45th Dear God, I Hate Myself by Xiu Xiu |
| Up 4 from 56th to 52nd We Are Millionaires by Pete Fij / Terry Bickers |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 21 from 47th to 68th Love At The Bottom Of The Sea by The Magnetic Fields |
| Down 21 from 49th to 70th Always by Xiu Xiu |
| Down 15 from 46th to 61st Folly by Kitchens Of Distinction |
| Leavers |
|---|
| Clinging To A Scheme by The Radio Dept. |
| Artpop by Lady Gaga |
| The Dark by The Third Eye Foundation |
| No Shape by Perfume Genius |
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From Johnnyo 06/14/2024 12:33 | #303962
Nice chart
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From Timooosterink 03/04/2020 10:44 | #248479
I do not fully agree with everything, but nice chart
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From johnner 10/12/2018 12:44 | #222399
johnner 10/12/2018 12:44 | #222399
OK, so why have I included so many Perfume Genius lps? Well, I think this guy is great and he’s been consistently excellent with each release. Definitely one of the best artists of the 10’s. Give him a chance you might be pleasantly surprised.
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Purplepash 09/04/2018 12:42 | #220573
Purplepash 09/04/2018 12:42 | #220573
Haven't heard many of these, or heard of some of them, but your descriptions make me want to hear them all!
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ForegroundNoise 09/04/2018 11:04 | #220571
ForegroundNoise 09/04/2018 11:04 | #220571
I wasn't personally a big fan of your overall chart, and though maybe I don't agree with many of the picks (four PG albums and a total absence of hip hop are my main gripes) the inclusion of the mini reviews are a joy to read. Great stuff!!
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From panapsal 09/04/2018 09:04 | #220565
very nice approach, though I feel that 4 albums of Perfect Genius is a bit exaggerate !!
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From tim0505 09/19/2017 07:51 | #198268
Good chart..love the'at length' details
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HoldenM 09/18/2017 17:04 | #198191
HoldenM 09/18/2017 17:04 | #198191
Earlier CotD comment still stands.
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From platus 09/18/2017 13:57 | #198180
Nice one!
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Davy 03/03/2017 18:07 | #186754
Really love the descriptions :D
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