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Saturday, March 07, 2020

The Best Albums of the '10s

It's been a pleasure sharing with you our musical discoveries for the past 12 years on this blog, as well as some of our all-time favorite albums and songs. By going through the 686 posts we've managed here since our very first one on March 6th, 2008, I'm sure you can discover plenty of great music from the last four decades and then some.

For our last post here we revisit the 2010s and present our Top 100 favorite albums of the decade. It goes without saying that the choice is tough and the end result can be quite different if we ever decide to revisit the subject at a later date, but the task is made easier with the thought that we have covered extensively the 2010s in this blog and every single album we have loved in the past ten years can be found somewhere in our previous posts.

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Time to sign off and say so long to our blogger site with our final list on this blog! Here are our Top 100 Albums of the 2010s:

Top 100 Albums of the '10s


01.   Your future our clutter - THE FALL (2010)


02.   Let England shake - P.J. HARVEY (2011)



03.   To be kind - SWANS (2014)


04.   Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit - COURTNEY BARNETT (2015)


05.   Sun - CAT POWER (2012)


06.   St. Vincent - ST. VINCENT (2014)


07.   Teens of denial - CAR SEAT HEADREST (2016)


08.   American dream - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (2017)


09.   Factory Floor - FACTORY FLOOR (2013)


10.   In a poem unlimited - U.S. GIRLS (2018)


11.   Dogrel - FONTAINES D.C. (2019)
12.   Wild Flag - WILD FLAG (2011)
13.   Shaking the habitual - THE KNIFE (2013)
14.   Silence yourself - SAVAGES (2013)
15.   High violet - THE NATIONAL (2010)
16.   My woman - ANGEL OLSEN (2016)
17.   Hunter - ANNA CALVI (2018)
18.   Only in dreams - DUM DUM GIRLS (2011)
19.   Manipulator - TY SEGALL (2014)
20.   Hope downs - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER (2018)
21.   Warpaint - WARPAINT (2014)
22.   Nikki nack - TUNE-YARDS (2014)
23.   Visions - GRIMES (2012)
24.   Have you in my wilderness - JULIA HOLTER (2015)
25.   No cities to love - SLEATER-KINNEY (2015)
26.   Blues funeral - MARK LANEGAN BAND (2012)
27.   Bloom - BEACH HOUSE (2012)
28.   Ring - GLASSER (2010)
29.   Currents - TAME IMPALA (2015)
30.   The agent intellect - PROTOMARTYR (2015)
31.   I will be - DUM DUM GIRLS (2010)
32.   Treats - SLEIGH BELLS (2010)
33.   More light - PRIMAL SCREAM (2013)
34.   M B V - MY BLOODY VALENTINE (2013)
35.   Untethered moon - BUILT TO SPILL (2015)
36.   The suburbs - ARCADE FIRE (2010)
37.   Anna Calvi - ANNA CALVI  (2011)
38.   Shrines - PURITY RING (2012)
39.   Masseduction - ST. VINCENT (2017)
40.   Past life martyred saints - EMA (2011)
41.   Adore life - SAVAGES (2016)
42.   Is the is are - DIIV (2016)
43.   Human performance - PARQUET COURTS (2016)
44.   Indigo meadow - THE BLACK ANGELS (2013)
45.   They want my soul - SPOON (2014)
46.   Do to the beast - THE AFGHAN WHIGS (2014)
47.   Purgatory / Paradise - THROWING MUSES (2013)
48.   Push the sky away - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS (2013)
49.  I am easy to find - THE NATIONAL (2019)
50.  The underside of power - ALGIERS (2017)
51.   Kill for love - CHROMATICS (2012)
52.   Ivy tripp - WAXAHATCHEE (2015)
53.   Rips - EX HEX (2014)
54.   Tell me how you really feel - COURTNEY BARNETT (2018)
55.   Holiday destination - NADINE SHAH (2017)
56.   Plunge - FEVER RAY (2017)
57.   Blackstar - DAVID BOWIE (2016)
58.   Loud city song - JULIA HOLTER (2013)
59.   U.F.O.F. - BIG THIEF (2019)
60.   7 - BEACH HOUSE (2018)
61.   Schlagenheim - BLACK MIDI  (2019)
62.   Everything in between - NO AGE (2010)
63.   Attack on memory - CLOUD NOTHINGS (2012)
64.   Silver age - BOB MOULD (2012)
65.   Blunderbuss - JACK WHITE (2012)
66.   Expo 86 - WOLF PARADE (2010)
67.   We are the 21st century ambassadors of peace and magic - FOXYGEN (2013)
68.   Sun structures - TEMPLES (2014)
69.   Waiting for something to happen - VERONICA FALLS (2013)
70.   Platform - HOLLY HERNDON (2015)
71.   Leaving meaning - SWANS (2019)
72.   Purple Mountains - PURPLE MOUNTAINS (2019)
73.   Remind me tomorrow - SHARON VAN ETTEN (2019)
74.   All mirrors - ANGEL OLSEN (2019)
75.   Why hasn't everything already disappeared? - DEERHUNTER (2019)
76.   Run The Jewels 3 - RUN THE JEWELS (2017)
77.   King night - SALEM (2010)
78.   The glowing man - SWANS (2016)
79.   The hope six demolition project - P.J. HARVEY (2016)
80.   Modern kosmology - JANE WEAVER (2017)
81.   Hot thoughts - SPOON (2017)
82.   Relatives in descent - PROTOMARTYR (2017)
83.   Wide awaaaaake! - PARQUET COURTS (2018)
84.   Freedom's goblin - TY SEGALL (2018)
85.   All nerve - THE BREEDERS (2018)
86.   Rock n roll consciousness - THURSTON MOORE (2017)
87.   Damage and joy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN (2017)
88.   Benji - SUN KIL MOON (2014)
89.   A deeper understanding - THE WAR ON DRUGS (2017)
90.   Damn. - KENDRICK LAMAR (2017)
91.   Reflektor - ARCADE FIRE (2013)
92.   Inform - Educate - Entertain - PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING (2013)
93.   Requiem - GOAT (2016)
94.   Heads up - WARPAINT (2016)
95.   Teen dream - BEACH HOUSE (2010)
96.   Sisterworld - LIARS (2010)
97.   Grinderman 2 - GRINDERMAN (2010)
98.   Goat Girl - GOAT GIRL  (2018)
99.   Songs of praise - SHAME (2018)
100. Joy as an act of resistance - IDLES (2018)