Top 80 Music Albums of the 2010s
by
Jimmy Dread 
I'm really struggling to think of 100 albums from the 2010s I actually really enjoyed to the point of putting them in a chart. A real mixed bag, probably more reflective of the fact that I don't tend to listen to much new stuff at the moment, but every now and then I discover a nugget. If I do, I'll add it to this list... Jimmy, January 2021.
- Chart updated: 01/16/2021 12:45
- (Created: 01/16/2012 15:07).
- Chart size: 80 albums.
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PICK - Open Arms; FIRST HEARD: Via Skatterbrain blog. You'd best look no further than Sweden for beautiful jangly twee pop, and whilst there's a fair bit of Scandanavian chaff to wade through before you get to the Hovis (YES! You too can sound like Bogshed!), The Garlands are an example of the cream at the top of this rather beautiful smorgasbord, and if your heart doesn't melt when you hear their self-titled debut LP then you may as well forget any notions you ever had of being twee as fuck.
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PICK - Tropic Of Cancer; FIRST HEARD: via Animal Collective fixation. As with Tomboy, I was fortunate enough to see Noah perform the bulk of this album live. Whilst it's a great LP, the emotional impact that Tropic of Cancer had on me given my Mum's battle with the most shitty of diseases was both reassuring and cathartic. A truly great record.
[First added to this chart: 08/06/2015]
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2015
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[First added to this chart: 06/30/2014]
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2012
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PICK - Kingfisher; FIRST HEARD: ongoing adoration of Miss Newsom. This LP came out about a month before my trip to hospital to address my little meningitis outbreak. It was probably one of the things that got me through it, especially as being stuck in a hospital bed on morphine saw me halluscinate about attending a gig of hers in the ceiling. Odd.
[First added to this chart: 01/16/2012]
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2010
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PICK - Borrowed Thyme; FIRST HEARD: via anydecentmusic.com. YES! Schuzzed-up 90s indie-rock dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, so fucking exciting that it made my journey up the A3 from Portsmouth a rather troublesome one, with undertaking cars not to be advised when the police aren't that far behind you. Be warned.
[First added to this chart: 04/01/2013]
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2012
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[First added to this chart: 06/07/2016]
[First added to this chart: 08/06/2015]
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Top 80 Music Albums of the 2010s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 2010 | 11 | 14% | |
| 2011 | 6 | 8% | |
| 2012 | 8 | 10% | |
| 2013 | 12 | 15% | |
| 2014 | 7 | 9% | |
| 2015 | 12 | 15% | |
| 2016 | 6 | 8% | |
| 2017 | 7 | 9% | |
| 2018 | 7 | 9% | |
| 2019 | 4 | 5% |
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| Dum Dum Girls | 1 | 1% | |
| Wanderwelle | 1 | 1% | |
| The Goon Sax | 1 | 1% | |
| Macka B | 1 | 1% | |
| Tyneham House | 1 | 1% | |
| Veronica Falls | 1 | 1% | |
| Deafheaven | 1 | 1% | |
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36 | 45% | |
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27 | 34% | |
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4 | 5% | |
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3 | 4% | |
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Top 80 Music Albums of the 2010s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 63 from 79th to 16th Syro by Aphex Twin |
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| Up 23 from 62nd to 39th The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 40 from 22nd to 62nd Lost In A Sea Of Trees by Wanderwelle |
| Down 38 from 42nd to 80th King Of The Beach by Wavves |
| Down 31 from 23rd to 54th Have You In My Wilderness by Julia Holter |
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Absolutely. Assuming your day out is to the seaside rather than an abattoir.
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