Top 50 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: 06/13/2021 02:15
- (Created: 01/03/2012 21:30).
- Chart size: 50 albums.
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"Influenced by Judy Collins folk albums of the 60s Realism is deceptively synthetic in it's response to 2008's Distortion. Moreover, You Must Be Out Of Your Mind, Interlude, Painted Flower, I Don't Know What to Say, and From a Sinking Boat all display a significant depth and elegance to Merritt's songcraft who seems to get better and better with time." January 2010
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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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“Throughout this decade I’ve been moaning about how bad a state rock’n’roll is in. How it seems to be in irreversible decline, how it appears to be dying. No more, IDLES not only resurrect punk rock but breathe new life in to rock’n’roll. Anger of the phlegmatic kind is the tone, Snowflake Oi is the charge - less a flurry and more an avalanche.
If you hate how the 2010’s have turned out, you need this record, IDLES are an oasis of common-sense in a world slowly but surely going to pot.” August 2019 [First added to this chart: 08/04/2019]
If you hate how the 2010’s have turned out, you need this record, IDLES are an oasis of common-sense in a world slowly but surely going to pot.” August 2019 [First added to this chart: 08/04/2019]
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"A hazy, dazed atmosphere permeates this album coating every lovelorn sigh with a golden-sun drenched hue. Do I like it? Umm, yeah." January 2010
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“The 2010’s have been a particularly rough decade for Indie Rock and Rock in general. It’s been easy to become weary of UK/US artistes with nothing interesting to say no matter how many ideas are thrown at the wall.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man and the most engaging and idiosyncratic frontman is a North county Dublin man who’s calling time on the bullshit we’re all floating in. Tunes, this band have them, some with the ability to make you go weak at the knees (Roy’s Tune, Dublin City Sky).
The future’s bright, the future’s Irish.” July 2019 [First added to this chart: 07/19/2019]
Cometh the hour, cometh the man and the most engaging and idiosyncratic frontman is a North county Dublin man who’s calling time on the bullshit we’re all floating in. Tunes, this band have them, some with the ability to make you go weak at the knees (Roy’s Tune, Dublin City Sky).
The future’s bright, the future’s Irish.” July 2019 [First added to this chart: 07/19/2019]
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2019
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"The world's introduction to Perfume Genius. Whilst not as cohesively structured as 'Put Your Back N 2 It' it is nonetheless a touching collection of songs that end all too quickly, as well as being a promising foretaste of what he can deliver." June 2012
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"Excellent 2nd album that rewards with repeated listens. Perfume Genius' delicately poised reflections are the perfect balm to the clamour of the outside world. Beautiful." February 2012
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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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"Electronic soundscapes produced 1973-81, sexual and luxurious, the shadow of San Francisco's bathhouses looms large on these recordings. Originally used by gay porno company Fox Studio to soundtrack their movies and posthumously released from an artist who died in 1982; it is surprising how advanced and innovative School Daze is, as well as the undeniable similarity it bears to ambient-era Aphex Twin - more shocking is the fact that it has spent over 30 years gathering dust. Sounding all the more like the future getting lost in the post, School Daze is essential listening for all technophiles." December 2013
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"To Be Kind rages, surges, and swells with all the fury of a storm ready to flatten an entire continent - presided over by some kind of possessed, demonic slave driver with all the forces of hell behind him. In full force, this is the musical equivalent of being slammed in the face, repititively, with a shovel. It's good." May 2014
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Top 50 Music Albums of the 2010s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2010 | 8 | 16% | |
| 2011 | 4 | 8% | |
| 2012 | 5 | 10% | |
| 2013 | 7 | 14% | |
| 2014 | 7 | 14% | |
| 2015 | 4 | 8% | |
| 2016 | 3 | 6% | |
| 2017 | 6 | 12% | |
| 2018 | 3 | 6% | |
| 2019 | 3 | 6% |
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| Perfume Genius | 4 | 8% | |
| Xiu Xiu | 4 | 8% | |
| The Magnetic Fields | 3 | 6% | |
| Lady Gaga | 2 | 4% | |
| My Bloody Valentine | 1 | 2% | |
| Public Image Ltd. | 1 | 2% | |
| Idles | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 50 Music Albums of the 2010s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 19 from 43rd to 24th Days by Real Estate |
| Up 15 from 23rd to 8th Weather Diaries by Ride |
| Up 12 from 32nd to 20th To Be Kind by Swans |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 26 from 22nd to 48th No Shape by Perfume Genius |
| Down 20 from 19th to 39th Too Bright by Perfume Genius |
| Down 16 from 5th to 21st Rub by Peaches |
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| 90/100 | 03/04/2020 10:44 | Timooosterink | | 90/100 |
| 90/100 | 03/04/2020 10:33 |  ssteve | | 92/100 |
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| 100/100 | 10/15/2019 23:36 | DJENNY | | 100/100 |
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From Timooosterink 03/04/2020 10:44
I do not fully agree with everything, but nice chart
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From johnner 10/12/2018 12:44
johnner 10/12/2018 12:44
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
Purplepash 09/04/2018 12:42
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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From ForegroundNoise 09/04/2018 11:04
ForegroundNoise 09/04/2018 11:04
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
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
Good chart..love the'at length' details
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HoldenM 09/18/2017 17:04
Earlier CotD comment still stands.
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From platus 09/18/2017 13:57
Nice one!
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Davy 03/03/2017 18:07
Really love the descriptions :D
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alexgagne 01/21/2016 17:24
alexgagne 01/21/2016 17:24
MY OH MY! This 2010s is better than mine! I'll follow your chart until December 31th, 2019.
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