Best Albums of the 2010s

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221.

Sun Structures 

 Temples

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"It sounds like a poppier, less enjoyable Lonerism. Oh and it's samey as fuck. I guess it's interesting at times though."  Reply

- SuedeSwede | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (8 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

246 charts

Rank Score:

1,163

Rank in 2014:

23

Rank in 2010s:

221

Overall Rank:

1,467

Average Rating:

 75 (371 votes)

Comments:

31

222.

The Ooz 

 King Krule

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"post punk jazz trip hop rnb gothic and more extraordinaire genres are blurred bent and twisted effortlessly his lyricism has improved his stories are more compelling and this has rounded up to the strangest and most original rock album of this decade"  Reply

- Sisterray24 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

237 charts

Rank Score:

1,162

Rank in 2017:

23

Rank in 2010s:

222

Overall Rank:

1,469

Average Rating:

 75 (260 votes)

Comments:

11

223.

Broken Bells 

 Broken Bells

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"Revisited Broken Bells recently, when I was going through a whole Danger Mouse walkthrough thing. I think it's actually aging pretty well. My initial opinion a couple of years ago was that despite my wanting to be attached to it, it really has a case of the wallpaper and the samey wameys and I ev...""Revisited Broken Bells recently, when I was going through a whole Danger Mouse walkthrough thing. I think it's actually aging pretty well. My initial opinion a couple of years ago was that despite my wanting to be attached to it, it really has a case of the wallpaper and the samey wameys and I eventually just moved on. So I came back just now and there's actually a lot to pull from this record. It's mainly agreed that The High Road was a top tier song. The Ghost Inside is almost a throwback to Demon Days era Gorillaz. Finally, the closing two songs work so well together and seems to have been the seed to his later LP Rome. Still a lot of filler I suppose, but I liked it again enough to bump it up a few places."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2010

Appears in:

235 charts

Rank Score:

1,154

Rank in 2010:

22

Rank in 2010s:

223

Overall Rank:

1,478

Average Rating:

 74 (414 votes)

Comments:

22

224.

Anima 

 Thom Yorke

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"Honestly, I wasn't all that excited to listen to this. As a Radiohead-head, I often found Thom's solo work (Atoms For Peace included) to be not much more than self-administered homework between Radiohead sessions. ANIMA changes this. Instead of coming off sounding like a bored music student arbit...""Honestly, I wasn't all that excited to listen to this. As a Radiohead-head, I often found Thom's solo work (Atoms For Peace included) to be not much more than self-administered homework between Radiohead sessions. ANIMA changes this. Instead of coming off sounding like a bored music student arbitrarily fiddling with keys and knobs, here Thom sounds like he has an objective, a narrative (both musically and conceptually) that he wants to see through. From the groovy opening "Traffic" right through to the hauntingly layered "Runwayaway", the music is poised, diverse, feverish and constantly keeping you guessing. This isn't "side-project Thom", this is a master of his craft sitting down and taking time to sketch out and construct at once an earnest and euphoric collection of music. It's no secret Radiohead's previous two albums left some die-hards dissatisfied. This will not."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

289 charts

Rank Score:

1,153

Rank in 2019:

17

Rank in 2010s:

224

Overall Rank:

1,484

Average Rating:

 78 (385 votes)

Comments:

30

225.

XXX 

 Danny Brown

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"I don't care what anyone says, this album has absolutely no filler. Every song here is awesome."  Reply

- Hayden | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

224 charts

Rank Score:

1,151

Rank in 2011:

29

Rank in 2010s:

225

Overall Rank:

1,487

Average Rating:

 79 (335 votes)

Comments:

15

226.

Drones 

 Muse

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"Why are people already rating the whole album? We've (as of today) only heard 3 of the tracks people."  Reply

- makerofbuckets | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +20 votes (22 helpful | 2 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

198 charts

Rank Score:

1,149

Rank in 2015:

22

Rank in 2010s:

226

Overall Rank:

1,488

Average Rating:

 62 (547 votes)

Comments:

75

227.

Ten Love Songs 

 Susanne Sundfør

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"This album. Wow. It's hard for me to accurately articulate the experience that I had with this album. This album took me through a range of emotions, it showed me the entire life experience of a human being. People talk about albums being life-affirming, this is it. Susanne Sundfør just kills it....""This album. Wow. It's hard for me to accurately articulate the experience that I had with this album. This album took me through a range of emotions, it showed me the entire life experience of a human being. People talk about albums being life-affirming, this is it. Susanne Sundfør just kills it. Perhaps the most accurate genre to classify it as is synthpop, though it's so much more than that. The thing that sticks out the most are the vocals. Vocally, this album is arranged so incredibly well it's mind blowing. Sundfør's voice is fantastic and everything she does with her voice, all the harmonies, the layers, all of it, is just awesome. This album is perfect, I mean I genuinely cannot find a flaw in it. The songwriting, the arrangements, all of it, it's perfect. This album is so many things, it unrequited love, it's heartbreaking abandonment, it's loneliness, it's redemption, it's everything. If "Memorial" (a song that, instrumentally, sounds like the soundtrack to a sunset) doesn't make you feel a wealth of emotions just in and of itself, then you need to re-examine yourself. This album is magical, there's no other way to describe the experience I had with it, this is one of those rare albums that inserts itself into your life, that burns itself into your very being that it feels like it knows you personally, like it's something you've been waiting for for so long. I don't even know if any of this makes sense, but all I can say is, listen to this album because you will not, for even a second, regret it."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2015

Appears in:

193 charts

Rank Score:

1,148

Rank in 2015:

23

Rank in 2010s:

227

Overall Rank:

1,491

Average Rating:

 78 (233 votes)

Comments:

20

228.

It's Album Time 

 Todd Terje

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"Catchy, Fun, Clever, Funky. This is the album Random Access Memories should have been."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

224 charts

Rank Score:

1,148

Rank in 2014:

24

Rank in 2010s:

228

Overall Rank:

1,492

Average Rating:

 75 (278 votes)

Comments:

20

229.

Swing Lo Magellan 

 Dirty Projectors

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"Really starting to warm up to this record more-so than Bitte Orca. Whilst Longstreth retains his seemingly throat-straining vocals and the background female harmonies remain, Swing Lo Magellan differs much from it's predecessor in the sense that it sounds as though the band aren't focusing too he...""Really starting to warm up to this record more-so than Bitte Orca. Whilst Longstreth retains his seemingly throat-straining vocals and the background female harmonies remain, Swing Lo Magellan differs much from it's predecessor in the sense that it sounds as though the band aren't focusing too heavily on being intentionally difficult (or seeming to otherwise). This album is a far more minimalized and pop-influenced effort (don't get too excited just yet), with also just a hint of country. The strongest tracks in my opinion are those that represent the more minimal sound, such as Impregnable Question (a sweet folksy/country love song) and the Socialites (Amber Coffman's beautiful voice over childishly-fun guitar picking and ambient production). Dirty Projectors may not have fully reinvented their sound but one should never fully expect that when it comes to listening to a band as unpredictable as this (don't call them Indie Rock!!!!) 7.5-8/10 "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2012

Appears in:

234 charts

Rank Score:

1,146

Rank in 2012:

20

Rank in 2010s:

229

Overall Rank:

1,493

Average Rating:

 76 (274 votes)

Comments:

22

230.

Capacity 

 Big Thief

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"It seems every release from Lenker and Meek kind of resets my expectations and introduces something new to consider. This second Big Thief album is, on its face, perhaps a similar experience to Masterpiece. But there is something barely noticeable that kept pulling me back to listen and listen ag...""It seems every release from Lenker and Meek kind of resets my expectations and introduces something new to consider. This second Big Thief album is, on its face, perhaps a similar experience to Masterpiece. But there is something barely noticeable that kept pulling me back to listen and listen again and again. There are many more shades to this album even than their amazing debut. This album continues Lenker’s and Big Thief’s trend toward how I think of them. I first heard Lenker’s newest solo album as well as the 2 2019 Big Thief albums. On those albums there is a strange and subtle weirdness to the way the melodies are sung and how the songs are written. On Masterpiece there are shades of that unorthodox style already shining through, but with this album it seems that Big Thief have found their own sound much more fully. The big, Luconda-levels of badass rock star singing moments are mostly gone here. As are the more obvious and direct reminders of music I have heard before (even if on their debut these were done as well as imaginable and were never distractingly derivative). Instead this album is chilly, and even when there are some good rocking moments, those moments are shrouded in a sort of hazy, cold, and slightly weird atmosphere. The songwriting lyrically is different as well. Lenker has become by this point a master of abstract, poetic phrasing and word play. On tracks like “Mary” the momentum of the lines and the evocative words are almost overwhelming the further you go in. This, despite me not really fully understanding the allusions and the words. Just gorgeous. As for specific track standouts here, I love the icey groove and the bookending noisy outburst of track “Shark Smile” I also really get a kick out of the super simple chorus that sounds like it bottles so much classic rock music romance and power. “Oooh, baby, take me. And you say ‘Oooh, baby, take me too’” just lovely. There is a similar icey coolness on the other “rocking” moments and tracks on this album, such as “Objects” or the closing track “Black Diamonds”. I put rocking in quotes because there are no songs here that really kick ass in a rock way. The songs here have a distinct groove achieved by the consistently excellent and stripped down and patient bass playing and drumming. As a result even the songs that perhaps don’t have the same emotional punch as the slower and more dramatic tunes, still have a motion or a deep and alluring … something. I don’t know how to explain it and instead of sitting here searching for the words for another minute I decided to just abandon it. ? The soft, brittle, fragile tunes here such as the opener “Pretty Things” or “Watering” have a timeless sound. They are excellently recorded and enveloping and gorgeous. The more trippy and divergent tracks such “Mythological Beauty” and “Capacity” are for me just absolutely gorgeous and, when I dig into the words and the melodies and the parts of these seemingly simple songs, my appreciation of this band grows and grows. This album may not be as immediately ear-catching or “badass” as their excellent debut, but every inch and corner of this album has something beautiful and subtle and lovely going for it. Of course this album also features 2 of my favorite Lenker or Big Thief songs in “Mary” and “Coma”. I have touched on “Mary” before in this comment but I want to say again that the way the song builds and builds and the way the poetic lyrics sort of flow and fall out of Lenker’s mouth and the emotion of the delivery everything is just so gorgeous. As for “Coma”, words can’t do the chorus justice and the way that chorus is built up to and the way it is all so purposeful… man that track is genius. Not going to lie, when I first heard this I was thinking “Okay, I feel I have a grip on what this is and what I wanna say”. I thought I could listen a couple times and move on to the next albums. But then each time through (up to listen 7 or 8 now) a little more revealed itself. Now here I am listening again and I am just a fan and that is all it comes down to. I thought their debut was probably as good as Big Thief would get, based on my sampling of their later albums and knowing that they never would make an album quite as folk rockin’ and anthemic as that one. But, nah, this is in many ways a development and improvement. At the very least this makes Big Thief 2 for 2 on making just absolutely beautiful, well written, performed, recorded, consistent, addictive modern indie rock and folk rock gems. As for Masterpiece, I initially gave it a 9.2/10. I reduced that to 8.7/10. Then I proceeded to think yet again that giving a number to these pieces of art seems silly and pointless. But I am 5 albums in and I won’t remove the numbering grade system now. Just know that depending on the day, Masterpiece or those Meek/Lenker EPs or this could be the best Big Thief/Lenker project in my opinion. This bad boy gets a 9.2/10. Just a fantastic album with only a couple songs that don’t blow me away (“Objects”, “Pretty Things” and perhaps “Great White Shark”) but with 6 songs that, in isolation, I can say are some of my new favorites. Also looking at the tracks individually misses the point for me, because what makes this album special is the whole package and how it all weaves its way together in a beautiful way. Check out this album 3 or 4 times if you have a little time. Its great. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

197 charts

Rank Score:

1,144

Rank in 2017:

24

Rank in 2010s:

230

Overall Rank:

1,495

Average Rating:

 77 (192 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of the 2010s composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
2010	91	9%
2011	122	12%
2012	103	10%
2013	115	12%
2014	94	9%
2015	106	11%
2016	85	9%
2017	114	11%
2018	91	9%
2019	81	8%

Artist	Albums	%
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	8	1%
Drake	6	1%
Lana Del Rey	6	1%
Death Grips	6	1%
The Weeknd	5	0%
Julia Holter	5	0%
Brockhampton	5	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	558	56%
	213	21%
	70	7%
	34	3%
	28	3%
	20	2%
	11	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	991	99%
Yes	11	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	996	99%
Yes	6	1%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	997	100%
Yes	5	0%