OPO: Album of the 2010s

As of July 1, the 2010s will be 25% gone. So, what is the best album from the first quarter of the decade that brought us Rebecca Black?

kid a

I don't really know, though. I always think that whatever new thing I've been listening to the last 2 weeks is probably the greatest album of all time

diddy dirty money - last train to paris

http://www.sohh.com/img/Diddy-Last-Train-To-Paris-2010-05-27-300x300.jpg

not even the slightest question about it

^^^

I'll probably change my mind next week, but for now:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Janelle_Mon%C3%A1e_-_The_ArchAndroid_album_cover.jpg/220px-Janelle_Mon%C3%A1e_-_The_ArchAndroid_album_cover.jpg

Bad Boy, I thought I told you that we don't stop

lol

teenage dream

yeah maybe the Janelle Monae one but I guess the new Orbital is pretty tits too

I'd probably go for Konkylie by When Saints Go Machine. Hot Chip, St Vincent and The Chap (Well Done Europe) would be contenders too.

Steve Reich, Double Sextet/2x5
Owen Pallett, Heartland
Destroyer, Kaputt
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Chairlift, Something

Obv. that's a top five. I'd probably single out the Reich.

The Monitor

http://www.sohh.com/img/Diddy-Last-Train-To-Paris-2010-05-27-300x300.jpg

obvs

2nd place: speak now or love me back :D

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

I don't feel reel strong about this, but I just listened to it again this weekend, and it's staying pretty fresh and enjoyable for me.

http://www.sohh.com/img/Diddy-Last-Train-To-Paris-2010-05-27-300x300.jpg

http://www.sohh.com/img/Diddy-Last-Train-To-Paris-2010-05-27-300x300.jpg

http://www.jacksonadvocateonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/diddy.jpg?

http://potholesinmyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/00-diddy-dirty_money-last_train_to_paris-deluxe_edition-2010-front.jpg??!

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal

LTTP would probably be my #2.

Oh, I forgot about Javiera Mena...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qXXs0fj6L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

My appreciation for Cosmogramma has definitely increased on repeated listens (not that I didn't already like it in 2010).

(I am just here to put off putting out trash, doing laundry, and possibly working.)

School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire

How do you tell when it's a joke thread?

Sound Of Silver

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Waka_Flocka_Flame_Flockaveli.jpg/220px-Waka_Flocka_Flame_Flockaveli.jpg

Sorry, I feel like clown now, misunderstanding something so very easy to understand.

SunnO))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

dope choice, rudi

Lots of "really good" or even "solid" albums in the 2010's but nothing that screams "album of the decade" so far.

I guess I'll have to play it safe and also go with Flockaveli.

School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire

This would've been a likely answer for me not too long ago, but I'm really down to liking just a few tracks from it now. "ILU" definitely one of top songs of the decade, though.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DAyfZGunNl8/TVYjKyF1STI/AAAAAAAAAU4/yIARhi0G9Mo/s1600/timheckerave1972.png

lols @ Doran

titus - the monitor

^^ lttp traitor

literally none. steve reich MAYBE.

actually no, none.

What springs to mind (although I'd like to go and check my collection properly as opposed to waiting for a train a I am doing now):
Oversteps
Archandroid
Konkylie
Diamond Mine
Son of Chico Dusty
Let England Shake

2011 seemed like a remarkably strong year for new music whereas this year feels like it's still waiting to kick in for me.

http://media.warp.net/images/WARP217-Packshot_480.jpg

maybe.

I'm inclined to go with Chromatics - Kill for Love.
My one reservation being that it borrows so heavily from the past. Then again, that seems to be a dominant quality of our current music.

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/10/real-estate-days-album-cover.jpg

good pick

i still don't get that rustie album

well my three favorite albums of the 00s were probably discovery and i get wet and the best uk garage anthems in the world....ever. so its no big surprise that i enjoy metal prog-disco garage.

Titus - The Monitor seconded

buuuuuut obvs My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy you silly motherfuckers

i love discovery and ukg too (and have nothing against awk although it's not really something i'd choose to listen to) xp

http://www.grimeforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tropical_2-300x300.jpg

Kaputt

for me it's still Tomorrow, In a Year

I usually tend to be pretty rockiest, but my favorite could be my edit of Robyn Body Talk,

for me it's still Tomorrow, In a Year

Definitely a contender for me too. It's not a record I can listen to casually, on an everyday basis. I either have to set aside two hours at home or listen to it while walking through the wilderness, preferably near sea cliffs.

http://www.metalera.gr/sites/default/files/product_images/In-Solitude-The-World-The-Flesh-The-Devil_1.jpg?1306744029

The Anika album has probably had the most impact on me so far

EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Four_Tet_-_There_Is_Love_in_You_%28CD%29.jpg

I think. It's probably what I've listened to most. But then it did come out in January 2010, I think.

Way beyond the curve these days, so don't recognise half the covers on this thread. But I will throw my hat in for Archandroid, wonderful record.

http://halcyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/Into-Infinity-Portable-Perlon.jpg

I might change my answer to Let England Shake actually...

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Vampire-Weekend-Contra-314x314.jpg

http://prettymuchamazing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kaputt-575x5751.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/modernlove_site/covers/352/love065_dist_preview_medium.jpg

That Portable album completely passed my attention - I only recgonised the name in passing from various remixes, total dilletante - but it stood out as an unusual choice on this thread and a listen tells me it's actually pretty brilliant. Not sure if I'd rate it as an album of the 10s yet but I'm expecting it to open out further and further on repeated listens.

okay listening to the synthetic mewling sounds that close "Architect of Love" I am def thinking that Anika takes the silver and this is the best album of the decade so far:

http://blog.audiocurrent.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/new-young-pony-club.jpg

god, this is hard. i've got a bunch of emerging favorites from the last few years, but most seem relatively minor to me. can't pick an outright favorite.

2010:
anika - anika
big boi - sir lucious left foot
christian mistress - agony and opium
currensy - pilot talk I & II
demdike stare - liberation through hearing
earl sweatshirt - EARL
erykah badu - new amerykah part two
ghost - opus anonymous
mark mcguire - living with yourself
my chemical romance - danger days
oh sees - warm slime
scissor sisters - night work
sun city girls - funeral mariachi
the-dream - love king

2011:
death grips - exmilitary
frank ocean - nostalgia ultra
hammers of misfortune - 17th street
king creosote & jon hopkins - diamond mine
nicolas jaar - space is only noise
oh sees - carrion crawler/the dream & castlemania
pj harvey - let england shake
shabazz palaces - black up
st. vincent - strange mercy
sun araw - on patrol
total control - henge beat
tuneyards - whokill
uncle acid and the deadbeats - blood lust

2012:
baroness - yellow and green
beak> - >> ("beak 2" or whatever)
christian mistress - possession
death grips - the money store
frank ocean - channel orange
killer mike - r.a.p. music
the men - open your heart
screaming females - ugly
sun araw / m. geddes gengras / the congos - icon give thank
ty segall band - slaughterhouse (grumped elsewhere abt this, but it's good)
ulver - childhood's end

10 bon iver - bon iver
09 miguel - art dealer chic EPs
08 real estate - days
07 vampire weekend - contra
06 frank ocean - channel orange
05 drake - take care
04 erykah badu - return of ankh
03 waka flocka - flockaveli
02 diddy/dirty money - last train
01 titus - the monitor

Rough sketch ranking, esp fast and loose towards the bottom, lots of stuff from this year at least that I have yet to hear:

New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
Anika - s/t
Le1f - Dark York
White Moth - s/t
Sungod - The First Matter
Belong - Common Era
Obake - s/t
Peaking Lights - 936
Windhand - s/t
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare 2: Judges
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV
Diddy Dirty-Money - Last Train to Paris
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
White Hills - Frying on the Rock
Katy B - On a Mission
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Hollow Mirrors - s/t
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Bardo Pond - s/t
Acid Mothers Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade You're From Inner Space
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Hills - Master Sleeps
Erykah Badu - NuAmerykah pt. 2 Return of the Ankh
Pocahaunted - Make it Real
Moon Duo - Escape
MIA - MAYA
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

Oh right the Cosmic Dead - Cozmik Tape I os supposed to be underneath GGD: got a little carried away there...

Swans.

Lindstrom & Christabelle

Javiera Mena - esquemas juveniles is just about a perfect pop record and i still can't get too much of it

Lindstrom & Christabelle

dunno how i missed this in making my list of 45 or so favorites. it's gotta be near (and maybe at) the top.

nice lists contenderizer...

^^^^

also:

boris - new album & attention please (2011)

zola jesus - stridulum II (2010)
zola jesus - conatus (2012)

kaputt
heartland
the wild hunt
steeldrivers- reckless
i speak because i can

Stridulum II is probably lurking just below the cutoff point on my list tbh

Nobody has mentioned Glasser's Ring so let me do that.

My personal two favorites so far this decade are The War on Drug's Slave Ambient and Yellowbirds' The Color, both from last year.

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs

Just ahead of Kaleidoscope Dream.

some utterly hideous and borderline risible choices upthread lol

he said, opting for Richard Dawson - Nothing Important

death grips 1st album still is one of the best things

Still hoping we do a "Best of ILM 2010-2014" rollout one day. No idea what my choice would be, though.

Man, this decade has SUCKED so far.

black messiah

Mmm my top 3 albums per year 2010/2015

2010
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD, 2010)
Jatoma - s/t (Kompakt, 2010)
Zs - New Slaves (Social Registry, 2010)
2011
EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions, 2011)
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation, 2011)
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop, 2011)
2012
Barbara Morgenstern – Sweet Silence (Monika, 2012)
Chromatics – Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better, 2012)
Moon Duo – Circles (Sacred Bones, 2012)
2013
Haim - Days are gone (Columbia, 2013)
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (XL, 2013)
Widowspeak - Almanac (Captured Tracks, 2013)
2014
FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks, 2014)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (ANTI-, 2014)
D'Angelo - Black Messiah (RCA, 2014)
2015
Grimes - Artangels (4AD, 2015)
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (Interscope, 2015)

The only acceptable answers are Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One or Yellow Swans - Going Places.

can a mod delete moka's post pls, and any other such post upthread

carl burridge - dog track days

right now my (predictable) answer is To Pimp A Butterfly

I'll go with Echolyn's 2012 self-titled album. Seems like something I could listen to endlessly.

I dunno can't really pick one out of those. Right now I'd pick Fka Twigs.

EMA's Past Life Martyred Saints still holding on firmly to this title for me.

wye oak - civilian

not a big record but one that i hold close

A|A - Grouper (2011)
Strange Days - Eric Copeland (2010)
pom pom - Ariel Pink (2014)
America - Dan Deacon (2012)
Rest in Paradise - Co La (2011)
Yeezus - Kanye West (2013)
R Plus Seven - Oneohtrix Point Never (2013)
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - Panda Bear (2015)
Visions - Grimes (2012)
Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira (2013)

xp Civilian is fantastic

Zamknęły sie Oczy siemi
To Pimp a Butterfly
Black Up

(The Optimist is like fifth now)

you're almost as bad as moka lol

no respect for the opo

ha

Right now, it's this:

http://www.megbowlesmusic.com/img/Shimmer1000px.jpeg

Lovely soothing synth drones, Meg Bowles is a genius who remains to be uncovered by a larger audience because she's in the (admittedly self-chosen) "new age" category. But seriously, if this (or some of her previous albums) had been released by a "cool" ambient label, they would be lauded as masterpieces.

sold

the eventual championing of OPO over POO makes me very sad

Granda by Monika Brodka. She won the Polish version of Pop Idol in 2004 and released two reasonably good albums before disappearing for four years and coming back with a masterpiece. That was six years ago so the next one should be even better if it ever arrives.

ah fuck, I'd swap out something for Bowie's Blackstar.

only one you berk

SV going for some eastern european pop huh lol

You need more Shabazz Palaces in your life, imago

https://youtu.be/RA73FuKhi3k

(Even though its a OPIII choice)

iirc i heard & rly liked that

Beyoncé - 4
Boy Better Know - Tropical 2
Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris
One Direction - Take Me Home
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Paramore - Paramore
Patrick Cowley - School's Daze
Rangers - Pan Am Stories
The-Dream - Love King
The 1975 - The 1975
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Dawn Richard - Blackheart
Taylor Swift - 1989 | Red
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended

aaaaaahhhhhhhh ban

wins scaruffibomb in 3..2...

buffer overrun

at least strikethru the ones that aren't your opo eh

each subsequent answer overwrites the previous one, this is the only possible interpretation

what these culture vultures aren't taking into account is that people might check out, say, the Tuomas and ShariVari recommendations, enshrined in their isolation

I hope so, nobody's topping the Farrah Abraham disc

jon viači - elevator boxes

gaz kingsnorth uber alles

whoa, this brodka album actually sounds kind of promising

Come on people. It is easy. After twenty years there has been a new album of
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71SP14ih2PL._SX355_.jpg

whoooa the last track of the brodka is wonderful

ikr?

jon viači - elevator boxes

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 12:28 PM (2 hours ago)

totally forgot about this ... i really like the production on it, though i'm a sucker for literal industrial noises. Total subtle homage to Robert Rental and Frieder Butzman if you listen properly

the esplendor geometrico and plan b hommages of 'ilm años' help to intersect notions of class and gender within interstitial social spaces more acutely than anything since 'the flowers of indie' by filth riemann

i think plan b ripped off jon viaci ... tbrr w/u

I don't know if it's my favorite, but the Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth is on the short list. That is a ridiculously underrated record.

yeah that one's certainly become my favorite mountain goats record over time

Autre ne Veut - Autre ne Veut

Only been listening to this record for two weeks or so, but so far it does more for me than any other favorites from this decade.

Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

It would be a great disgrace to the glorious bounty of this, possibly the best half-decade of music, to not detail at length the many notable and worthy runners-up, including of course...imago? What a surprise to see you here! What are you doing with that Dyson, imago? No. No! Please god no! Arrrg. Moan. Gurgle. I regret that I could only...pick...one. *dies*

My list would be a bit like:

Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One
Corrupted, Garten der Unbewusstheit
The Lowland Hundred, Under Cambrian Sky
Hallock Hill, A Hem of Evening
Blues Control & Laraaji, Frkwys, Vol.8
Wooden Wand, Blood Oaths of the New Blues
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - Perils of the Sea

*coldly glares at chinaski, twitchily pats hoover hose*

Hehe. Um, was it meant to be one?

In which case: Matana, all the way.

told you

so far ShariVari is winning 'best discovery made in this thread' but will check out Matana Roberts obv

i think

Steve Moore – Pangaea Ultima

or

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

I could do a pretty solid OPO (only pick one hundred), this decade's been awesome so far

I have only heard chapter 3 by Matana and I loved it. I guess I need to listen to the first one.

The Defiled Daggers Industrial metal, metalcore Nuclear Blast Jason Suecof
August
5 Buckethead Teeter Slaughter Experimental, avant-garde Bucketheadland Dan Monti and Albert [183]
Pike 20 [184]
Swim Deep Where the Heaven Are We Indie rock Chess Club Charlie Hugall
August
6 Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny Heavy metal, metalcore Sumerian Joey Sturgis
The Civil Wars The Civil Wars Americana, folk, indie folk Sensibility Music LLC Charlie Peacock
Black City Lights Another Life Coldwave, Electronic music, Synthpop Stars & Letters Records Black City Lights
The Polyphonic Spree Yes, It's True Psychedelic pop, pop rock, symphonic rock Good (UMG) [185]
August
7 Zebrahead Call Your Friends Punk rock, rapcore, alternative rock, pop punk MFZB Records Cameron Webb
August
12 White Lies Big TV Indie rock, post-punk revival Fiction (UMG), Harvest (UMG), Universal Music Canada Ed Buller
August
13 Sam Phillips Push Any Button Alternative rock Littlebox Recordings Sam Phillips [186]
Parachute Overnight Pop rock Mercury (UMG) Oren Yoel [187]
Luke Bryan Crash My Party Country Capitol Nashville (UMG) Jeff Stevens
K. Michelle Rebellious Soul R&B, soul Warner Bros., Atlantic (WMG) Oak, Pop Wansel, Claude Kelly, Chuck Harmony, Rico Love, Jerry Wonda, Tank, Jack Splash, Eric Hudson, Earl & E
August
14 Travis Where You Stand Alternative rock, indie rock Red Telephone Box, Kobalt Fran Healy, Michael Ilbert
August
16 Buckethead Telescape Progressive rock, heavy metal Bucketheadland Dan Monti and Albert [188]
Stromae Racine Carrée House, synthpop, Eurodance Mosaert Stromae
August
20 John Mayer Paradise Valley Pop rock, blues rock, acoustic rock, blue-eyed soul, alternative rock Columbia (SME) John Mayer, Don Was
Earl Sweatshirt Doris Alternative hip hop Columbia (SME), Tan Cressida Earl Sweatshirt, Christian Rich
Blue October Sway Alternative rock, post-grunge Up/Down Records David Castell
Jimmy Buffett Songs from St. Somewhere Tropical rock Mailboat [189]
Blessthefall Hollow Bodies Metalcore Fearless Joey Sturgis [190]
ASAP Ferg Trap Lord Hip hop ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds (SME), RCA (SME)
Lee DeWyze Frames Folk rock, indie rock Vanguard (Welk) Toby Gad, Drew Pearson, Matthew Wilder, Phil Allen, Jim Scott [191]
Zola Jesus Versions Experimental, indie rock, indietronica Sacred Bones
Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die ∆live Heavy metal Sumerian
August
23 Ellie Goulding Halcyon Days Indie pop, dream pop Polydor (UMG) [192]
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King Hard rock, heavy metal Warner Bros. Mike Elizondo [193]
Michael Monroe Horns and Halos Hard rock, punk rock, glam punk Spinefarm (UMG) [194][195]
Naughty Boy Hotel Cabana Bollywood, orchestral, pop Naughty Boy, Virgin EMI (UMG) Naughty Boy
ReVamp Wild Card Symphonic metal, progressive metal, gothic metal Nuclear Blast [196]
August
26 Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action Indie rock, post-punk revival Domino Franz Ferdinand [197]
Money The Shadow of Heaven Dream pop, indie pop Bella Union
August
27 Goodie Mob Age Against the Machine Hip hop [198]
Big Sean Hall of Fame Hip hop Good (UMG), Def Jam (UMG) Kanye West, Da Internz, DJ Camper, DJ Mano, Hit-Boy, KeY Wane, No I.D., REO, Rob Kinelski, Young Chop
Juicy J Stay Trippy Hip hop Taylor Gang, Kemosabe (SME), Columbia (SME) Wiz Khalifa (exec.), Juicy J (also exec.), Dr. Luke (also exec.) et al.
August
30 Tarja Turunen Colours in the Dark Symphonic metal earMUSIC Tarja Turunen
John Legend Love in the Future R&B, hip hop soul, soul, neo soul, jazz fusion Good (UMG), Columbia (SME) [199]
Sounds of the Cosmos Journey: Voyager Sounds of the Cosmos Remixed Dark Ambient Sarasota Dreams Philip Graham [200]
September
Release date Artist Album Genre Label Producer Ref.
September
2 The 1975 The 1975 Indie rock Polydor (UMG), Dirty Hit Mike Crossey, The 1975
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords Progressive metal Inside Out (Century) Derya Nagle [201]
September
3 Ariana Grande Yours Truly R&B, pop Republic (UMG) Ariana Grande, Harmony Samuels, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Antonio Dixon, Patrick "J. Que" Smith, The Rascals, Khris Riddick-Tynes, Leon Thomas III, Matt Squire, Mika Penniman, Scooter Braun, Greg Wells
Buckethead Pike 21 Experimental, avant-garde Bucketheadland Dan Monti and Albert [202]
Pike 22 [203]
The Lettermen It Feels Like Christmas (Reissued version of the 1987 album) Holiday, Pop, Traditional pop, Vocal MVD Records
Natalia Kills Trouble Pop will.i.am, Cherrytree, Interscope Jeff Bhasker, Guillaume Doubet, Emile Haynie, Glass John
Neko Case The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You Indie rock, alternative country Anti- (Epitaph) Tucker Martine [204]
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks Alternative rock, Industrial rock, experimental rock, instrumental Columbia (SME) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder [205]
Saliva In It to Win It Rap metal, hard rock, alternative rock, post-grunge Rum Bum Records Bobby Huff [206]
Tamar Braxton Love and War R&B, pop, soul Streamline (UMG), Interscope (UMG) Vincent Herbert, L.A. Reid, Angela Hunte, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Brandon Sewell, Bryan-Michael Cox, Da Internz, Diplo, DJ Camper, Eric Mobley, Kuk Harrell, Michael Daley, Patrick "J. Que" Smith, K.E. on the Track, Kyle "K2" Stewart II, Kendrick A.J. Dean, Rico Beats, SCMG, Tamar Braxton, Troy Oliver, TC, The Underdogs, Young Fyre
Vista Chino Peace Stoner rock Napalm Brant Bjork [207]
September
4 Buckethead Slug Cartilage Experimental metal, heavy metal Bucketheadland Dan Monti, Albert [208]
September
5 Buckethead Pancake Heater Experimental rock, progressive metal, groove metal Bucketheadland Dan Monti, Albert [209]
September
6 Emilíana Torrini Tookah Indie pop Rough Trade Dan Carey [210]
Múm Smilewound Electronica, experimental Morr múm
Tonight Alive The Other Side Pop punk, alternative rock Fearless Dave Petrovic
September
9 Arctic Monkeys AM Indie rock Domino James Ford, Ross Orton [211]
The Clash Sound System Punk rock Sony Legacy The Clash, Micky Foote, Sandy Pearlman, Bill Price, Guy Stevens, Jose Unidos, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Julien Temple, Don Letts [212]
The Clash Hits Back [213]
Delorean Apar Alternative dance, Balearic beat True Panther (Matador) Delorean, Chris Zane, Van Rivers [214]
Goldfrapp Tales of Us Electronic Mute (BMG) Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory [215]
London Grammar If You Wait Electronic, indie pop Metal & Dust Tim Bran, Roy Kerr, London Grammar [216]
The Strypes Snapshot

Oh shit how could I have forgotten Gaz Coombes' Marador?

POX albums of the 2010s

diddy-dirty money - last train to paris
paul buchanan - mid air
brand new - science fiction
titus andronicus - the monitor
the 1975 - i like it when you sleep

...rest tbd

Good list Kevin

We Are King

obergruppenfuhrer tim there, inspecting the work of an underling

OPO
My Bloody Valentine - mbv

OPX(8 up till now the rest is for the next two years)
Aidan Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
The Apartments - No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Nick Cave - Push the Sky Away
Pumarosa - The Witch
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Mirror Traffic
Tindersticks - The Something Rain

sorry for repeating myself but it is the bloody truth!

Good decade so far. Up there with the previous four imo.

too many from 2010 and I'm probably forgetting something, but for now:

Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
HAIM - Days Are Gone
Robyn - Body Talk
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Young Thug - Barter 6
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife 2
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Beyonce - s/t
The National - High Violet

Paramore - After Laughter
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
Diddy-Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Miguel - Wildheart
Paramore - Paramore
Dixon - Live at Robert Johnson Vol. 8
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Beyoncé - Beyoncé

To Pimp a Butterfly

Unless sonething utterly spectacular comes out in either 2018 or 2019.

off the top o' my head

James Ferraro - On Air
Echolyn - s/t
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Metafive - META
Dan Deacon - America
Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap
Autechre - Exai
Zammuto - Anchor
Chemical Brothers - Further
Orbital - Wonky

why did the POO thread become a POX thread? Take that wishy-washy can't decide on one shit elsewhere.

yeah.

Blueberry Boat, btw

Oh shit I though it was post-2000, scratch that

it started when Kevin made it a pox

this is ILXOR.com, you can do what you want!

I can't actually decide my 2010s OPO. It's between Jute Gyte - Perdurance and Richard Dawson - Nothing Important and it's basically a dead heat. Let the wish be washy

this is ILXOR.com, you can do what you want!

Speak for yourself, we do things differently at www.ilx.fiy, fiy

Perdurance is a good call though

When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
John Talabot - Fin
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
St Vincent - St Vincent
Console - Herself
Eyvind Kang - The Narrow Garden
Future Islands - The Far Field
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Young Thug - Jeffery
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescaleet - Photographs

that was a very very tough list to make FYI

FREEZE! FYI!

pitilessly censoring himself to just ten there

Tough to think of ten. Easy to think of one.

A|A - Grouper (2011)
Strange Days - Eric Copeland (2010)
pom pom - Ariel Pink (2014)
America - Dan Deacon (2012)
Rest in Paradise - Co La (2011)
Yeezus - Kanye West (2013)
R Plus Seven - Oneohtrix Point Never (2013)
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - Panda Bear (2015)
Visions - Grimes (2012)
Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira (2013)

― flappy bird, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 1:30 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Since I wrote this list nearly two years ago, not much has changed, but I would add a few (don't know what I'd swap out yet):

Before the World Was Big - Girlpool
Blackstar - David Bowie
An Object - No Age

My beautiful dark twisted fantasy

Let England shake

goddamn an ilx best-of-decade poll in 2020 would be suuuuuch a doozy

kassem mosse - (workshop 19)

Autre ne Veut - Autre ne Veut

POX (a-z) but I keep changing my mind every passing month:

Annabel Lee - By the Sea... and Other Solitary Places (2015)
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011)
Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION (2015)
DJ Koze - Amygdala (2013)
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (2011)
Grimes - Art Angels (2015)
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee (2015)
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011)
Todd Terje - It's Album Time (2014)
Zs - New Slaves (2010)

Right now I'd say the top three are 1. Grimes 2. Shabazz and 3. EMA

Had no idea you loved the Caretaker, Moka! Head thee to the (slow) thread :-)

I can get behind that call, too.

Mmm my top 3 albums per year 2010/2015

2010
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD, 2010)
Jatoma - s/t (Kompakt, 2010)
Zs - New Slaves (Social Registry, 2010)
2011
EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions, 2011)
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation, 2011)
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop, 2011)
2012
Barbara Morgenstern – Sweet Silence (Monika, 2012)
Chromatics – Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better, 2012)
Moon Duo – Circles (Sacred Bones, 2012)
2013
Haim - Days are gone (Columbia, 2013)
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (XL, 2013)
Widowspeak - Almanac (Captured Tracks, 2013)
2014
FKA Twigs - LP1 (Young Turks, 2014)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (ANTI-, 2014)
D'Angelo - Black Messiah (RCA, 2014)
2015
Grimes - Artangels (4AD, 2015)
Kamasi Washington - The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (Interscope, 2015)

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Not much has changed except from 2013 and 2014 where I'd currently put Dj Koze and Todd Terje at the top when I didn't consider them in the top 3 of the year back then. 2016 I think top of my mind my top 3 would be Noname, Thee Oh Sees and Nicolas Jaar... 2017 too early to tell but the three I've been listening the most through the year so far are Kelly Lee Owens, Sudan Archives and Big Thief.

Sweet silence is a good call Moka

Had no idea you loved the Caretaker, Moka! Head thee to the (slow) thread :-)

I can get behind that call, too.

― Le Bateau Ivre

Yeah it has grown on me so much! I wasn't particularly interested when it first came out but I play it every now and then while doing some house cleaning and it always makes me feel both calm and sad.

Btw if you like that Caretaker album also check out Annabel Lee which I also mention above! Not ambient per se but it also has the same ghostly quality and is based on jazz piano and string loops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95pfbvC0ASQ

Where is this slow threaD you mention?

"Think of Nina Simone‘s darker moments with Lou Rhodes‘ folkier ones but backed by an orchestra ripped from a 60s Bernard Herrmann score."
-- http://www.djfood.org/anna...olitary-places/

"Annabel (lee) has a voice so smooth and hypnotic it grabs hold and doesn't let go .. The album highlights the charm of Annabel's vocals and Richard's impressive musical designs, which are steeped in jazz while mirroring 1800s classical compositions the album, which combine to deliver a hauntingly gorgeous landscape of sound."
9/10
-- http://exclaim.ca/music/ar...solitary_places

"The 10-track album is gorgeously sophisticated with swirling instrumentation and haunting vocals. It blends soul, folk and jazz, invoking the haunting classicism of Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, intermingled with the quiet folklore of Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell, and tipped with the jazz stylings of Miles Davis and Billie Holiday, it’s bloody amazing. Her eerily dark vocals add a certain rawness to the mysterious soundscapes."
9/10
-- https://twistedsoulboy.com...olitary-places/

'House cleaning' lol... I'm sure Leland Kirby will take it ;-)

Will check out Annabel Lee!

Hahaha don't knock it off until you've tried it I swear it is an amazing house cleaning album!

No knock! But I'll vacuum myself into sweet oblivion! :D

His music demands such focus, flipping it around and just having it on doing dishes and cleaning house might just be the best thing. I'll try it for sure!

(ps. What Annabel Lee album should I listen to first?)

POO: Destroyer - Kaputt

I can just barely get it down to a POX, please don't make me pick one:

Absolute Power - Absolute Power (2016)
Audacity - Mellow Cruisers (2012)
BRONCHO - Just Enough Hip to Be Woman (2014)
Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty (2016)
Ghost - Meliora (2015)
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi (2014)
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (2015)
Kvelertak - Kvelertak (2010)
Tribulation - The Children of the Night (2015)

Deliberately excluding 'classical' or this would be a very different POX:

Elina Duni Quartet - Dallëndyshe (2015)
Aphex Twin - Syro (2014)
FKA twigs - EP2 (2013)
2814 - Birth of a New Day (2015)
Black Swan - Aeterna (2012)
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (2017)
Kangding Ray - Solens Arc (2014)
Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos (2011)
Voices from the Lake feat. Donato Dozzy & Neel - Voices from the Lake (2012)
iamamiwhoami - kin (2012)

I probably listened to these ones the most. Haven't heard most of them in a while, though.

My 10 roughly in order

Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Beyonce - Beyonce
Sky Ferreira - Night Time My Time
Paramore - After Laughter
When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie
iamamiwhoami - Kin
Solange - A Seat At The Table
Twin Shadow - Forget

some albums i really liked from the 2010s, without going into favourites

iam - KIN
janelle monae - arch-android
Erykah Badu - new amerykah part 2
goldfrapp - tales of us
julia holter - ekstasis
fiona apple - idler wheel
marissa nadler - marissa nadler
el perro del mar - pale fire
angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
Hallock Hill - A Hem of Evening
Pelt - Effigy
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
Blues Control & Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8
Destroyer - Kaputt
Richard Skelton - Landings
Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - Perils from the Sea
Wooden Wand - Blood Oaths of the New Blues
Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt
Shirley Collins - Lodestar

A few that have/haven't been mentioned.

People really don't know what OPO means, do they?

tuomas if you look at my revive i said to pick ten

First ones that came to mind

Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
Danny Brown - XXX
Joanna Gruesome - Weird Sister
Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
Vince Staples - Summertime 06
E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift/Graveyard Shift
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Young Thug - 1017 Thug
Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness

Yeah looking at the variety in these top 10s shows it would be a great poll. I'd be tempted to keep ballots to a really low number, like 10 or 20 submissions

Let's rethink that in January 2020 tbh

in honour of the sites that pull out their annual lists in mid november we should really start it now

Black messiah

Deepchord Presents Echospace - Liumin
Death Grips - Exmilitary
James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Machine Girl - Gemini
Sea Nymphs - On the Dry Land

ten is one per year. here's eight, one per year so far.

grass widow - past time
grouper - a i a
billy woods - history will absolve me
beyonce - s/t
d'angelo - black messiah
kendrick lamar - to pimp a butterfly
king - we are king
algiers - the underside of power

diddy-dirty money: last train to paris

paramore: paramore
brand new: science fiction
the 1975: I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

susanne sundfør: ten love songs
lou reed & metallica: lulu
theo parrish: american intelligence
hop along: painted shut
kehlani: sweetsexysavage
taylor swift: red

guess i should do a few more

d'angelo - black messiah
kendrick - to pimp a butterfly
kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
fiona apple - the idler wheel
hop along - painted shut
pinegrove - cardinal
vampire weekend - contra
danny brown - old
tribe - we got it from here, thank you for your service
wild beasts - smother

Whoa there's three for contra so far and none for modern vampires. From their three albums I rate Contra the lowest but I guess it's time to listen to it again.

The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Laurel Halo – Quarantine
Jlin – Dark Energy
Sun Araw – On Patrol
Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty
Yves Tumor – Serpent Music
Shackleton - Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ Eps
Oneotrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

unmentioned since the revive:

owen pallett - heartland
dum dum girls - only in dreams
frida hyvonen - to the soul
perfume genius - put your back n 2 it
grant hart - the argument
neneh cherry - blank project
tamaryn - cranekiss
swervedriver - i wasn't born to lose you
dawn richard - blackheart
esperanza spalding - emily's d+evolution

for me, art angels by grimes (2015) stands apart

the joy was so unexpected given her previous, also amazing record

Scott Walker - Bish-Bosch
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Bob Drake - Lawn Ornaments
Spectral Lore - III
Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...
Kayo Dot - Hubardo
Haco - Secret Garden
Richard Dawson - Peasant (aaaaah probably)

All of which I've basically lived in for a time, I think it's good that I can still get completely obsessed with an album even now. I think.

i've got 6.. i could on tack 4 more but these ones are special to me

kassem mosse - workshop 19
laurel halo - chance of rain
heathered pearls - loyal
oneohtrix point never - replica
actress - r.i.p.
aquarian foundation - mind miniatures

the rest tbd sometime in 2027

or never!!!!!!!!

Giorgio Tuma - this life denied me your love
Giorgio tuma - in the morning we’ll meet
Third eye foundation - the dark
Sound of arrows - voyage
Lanterns on the lake - gracious tides take me home
Gigi - maintenant
The love language - libraries
The thoughts - I won’t keep you here
Orca team -restraint
Moto boy - keep your darkness secret
Angele David guillo - kourouma

Steve Moore – Pangaea Ultima
Pulse Emitter – Planetary Synth Scale Hypnosis
Klara Lewis – Ett
White Out & Nels Cline – Accidental Sky
Matthew Shipp – I've Been to Many Places
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Aphex Twin – Syro
Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
Spacin' – Deep Thuds
Naomi Punk – Television Man

Giorgio Tuma - this life denied me your love
Giorgio tuma - in the morning we’ll meet

Had never heard of this before, but it's good! Chamber pop. The Laetitia Sadier track is lush, too.

This is difficult. I feel very far away from my favorite albums from 2010 in particular. I would still endorse them, but the fact that I don't actually want to hear them makes me doubt my picks.

Matthew Shipp – I've Been to Many Places

would easily make the cut though.

For 2010, I think I'd rather listen to Daddy Yankee's Mundial (which only me, unperson and Frank Kogan liked or even noticed) than Janelle Monae or Marina & the Diamonds at this point, but is it really better? I don't think so.

Giorgio Tuma - this life denied me your love
Giorgio tuma - in the morning we’ll meet
Third eye foundation - the dark
Sound of arrows - voyage
Lanterns on the lake - gracious tides take me home
Gigi - maintenant
The love language - libraries
The thoughts - I won’t keep you here
Orca team -restraint
Moto boy - keep your darkness secret
Angele David guillo - kourouma

― Keythkeythkeyth, m

I like this one! Also Gigi - Maintenant is amazing! completely forgot about it but definitely top 10 material.

off the top of my head maybe these?

angel olsen - my woman
levon vincent - s/t
bill callahan - apocalypse
blood orange - freetown sound
shabazz palaces - lese majesty
lonnie holley - just before music
d’angelo - black messiah
swans - to be kind
beach house - not sure, maybe teen dream
kamasi washington - the epic

no particular order

but the fact that I don't actually want to hear them makes me doubt my picks.

lol yea i looked at some of my ILX ballot picks from the past couple of years and just thought ".......nah"

FINE

fine

fine

here you go

eleven coz these are the eleven albums i've fivestarred on rym from this period. also they're loosely ranked. also 7 of them are from last year. yay

Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Jute Gyte - Perdurance
Richard Dawson - Peasant
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth
The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
Joanna Wang - House Of Bullies
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your service
Clipping - Splendor & Misery
Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone

if u haven't heard these ur sleeping on them honest

jute gyte? who's that

Some guy who refuses to play proper riffs

needs to tune his guitar iirc

When I try to pick only 10 I end up with 26 so instead here are six that I could never not include:

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres
Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt
Yellow Swans - Going Places
Rivulets - I Remember Everything
Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre
Matthew Mulane - Hut Variations

(high five to Chinaski for having two of these on his list)

(just saw that I forgot Bill Callahan's Apocalypse so make that 27, ugh)

Love the Bill Callahan love, but I'd say 'Dream River' is a notch better and I definitely play it more than 'Apocalypse' IMHO

Paul Buchanan – Mid Air
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Lewis – L’Amour
Jute Gyte – Perdurance
Kendrick Lamar – To Kill A Butterfly
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
Young Thug – Barter 6
Chromatics – Kill For Love
The White Birch – The Weight of Spring
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Yasmine Hamdan – Ya Nass
Max Richter – Sleep
Lykke Li – I Never Learn

*To Pimp A Butterfly, damnit

Probably no big surprise here, but King Krule's 2013 album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon is easily my pick for the decade thus far.

Just absolutely crazy how fragmented music is now. Almost no list has any album in common with any other list.

We're getting 10? Then

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Elza - A mulher do fim do mundo
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Llyrìa
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean (probably got the most listens, overall)
ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ
Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Utopia
Grimes - Visions
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears

I can get behind that list, Le Bateau Ivre (fellow Frenchman, right?)

autechre - oversteps
marc baron - hidden tapes
michael pisaro - july mountain
ambarchi / tilbury - the just reproach
lambkin / pisaro - schwarze riesenfalter
jürg frey ‎– untitled (Musiques Suisses)
skogen - ist gefallen in den schnee
women - public strain
klaus lang - SAIS.
beak>>

OPO (only pick one?) - AE_LIVE_DUBLIN, or quarantine by laurel halo

gotta say its fun to read these lists and then try to guess the poster

lovely chevron xp

can someone explain or link to something that explains the appeal of last train to paris

diddy just seems idk not good to me. i never liked him even if he helped some good artists break out

same

it's a vibe

not a particularly interesting one?

I can get behind that list, Le Bateau Ivre (fellow Frenchman, right?)

Mais non! But good you like the list, too :)

Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Polar Bear - Same As You
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
Grimes - Art Angels
Destroyer - Kaputt
Wild Beasts - Smother
Spoon - Transference
Dawn Of Midi - Dysnomia
David Bowie - Blackstar

It would doubtless be a different POX tomorrow.

Something like this:

The Knife - Tomorrow, In a Year
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
of Montreal - False Priest
Destroyer - Kaputt
Kanye West - Yeezus
These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
Autechre - Exai
M.I.A - Matangi
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

pretty good decade

can someone explain or link to something that explains the appeal of last train to paris

diddy just seems idk not good to me. i never liked him even if he helped some good artists break out

― marcos, Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM (three hours ago)

This Dirty Money shit, it ain't for everybody, man. It's a motherfuckin' vibe, it's for motherfuckers that's patient, motherfuckers that like to take their time, and close their eyes, and dream.

― some dude, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:51 PM (four years ago)

xp Scik Mouthy:

Loved Dysnomia too, from the first time I heard it on a Radiolab podcast, and it lead me to search out other minimal jazz. If you like Dawn of Midi, do check out the Zurich scene on the Tonus-Music label (and associated Orbital Garden club): Nik Bärtsch (both Ronin and Mobile), Don Li, Ania Losinger, Mike Keusen, Sha's Banryu, Zimoun. Mid-period Necks (from Aquatic to Mosquito/See Through) is probably a given.

Paul Buchanan – Mid Air
Owen Pallett – Heartland
Lewis – L’Amour
Jute Gyte – Perdurance
Kendrick Lamar – To Kill A Butterfly
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
Young Thug – Barter 6
Chromatics – Kill For Love
The White Birch – The Weight of Spring
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Yasmine Hamdan – Ya Nass
Max Richter – Sleep
Lykke Li – I Never Learn

― Le Bateau Ivre,

Love this one!

[1]Giorgio Tuma - this life denied me your love
Giorgio tuma - in the morning we’ll meet

Had never heard of this before, but it's good! Chamber pop. The Laetitia Sadier track is lush, too.[/1]

laetitia listed 'in the morning we'll meet' as one of her five life changing albums, probably because 'this life has denied me your love' hadn't come out yet. he's wonderful.

whoops, out of practice, it has been a while.

Ty Moka, good to find you on my side <3

opo: joanna newsom - divers

i think i'm good w/that

It might be the wine talking but co-sign on Divers.

marcos need to get on DDM train for full ilx initiation

High five, Dinsdale! (Going to check out the other stuff on your list. Mullane is ace.)

Another vote for Dysnomia, here.

if I'm being real the 2010s album I've listened to most is Jeff Rosenstock's Worry

Destroyer - Kaputt
Burial - Rival Dealer
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Rustie - Glass Swords
Especia - GUSTO
Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Solange - A Seat at the Table

something like this? Kaputt is #1 all time

something like

#1• Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... - 2012
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs - 2015
Julia Holter - Ekstasis - 2012
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid - 2010
My Bloody Valentine - m b v - 2013
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges - 2011
Ghost - Opus Eponymous - 2011
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit - 2015
Mock & Toof - Tuning Echoes - 2010

in my opinion 2017 was a shit year for music and then i gave up looking for new music after that. interesting seeing decades-end lists with the most recent 25% being stuff i've barely heard of.

to round it out, let's say FFS - FFS - 2015

Song: 212

Album: My cd of the first two Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever EPs
Talk Tight/The French Press

All Bitches Die, maybe.

last train to paris
mid air
kaputt
marcberg
science fiction
the monitor
modern vampires
emotion
i like it when you sleep

10 I listened to a lot this decade by artists not already mentioned

Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
Caribou - Swim
Charli XCX - True Romance
GusGus - Arabian Horse
Kindness - Otherness
Martyn - Ghost People
Mr. Twin Sister - Mr. Twin Sister
Neon Indian - Vega Intl. Night School
Tennis - Ritual In Repeat
US Girls - Half Free

i think i'd go with m b v, boring as i am.

I'd maybe go for something leftfield like The Lowland Hundred's Under Cambrian Sky, which is a bit like the Blue Nile on tour in the Welsh desert but not really like anything else at all.

That, or Garten der Unbewusstheit by Corrupted.