Favorite Albums of the 2010s

2009

  1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
  2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  3. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
  4. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
  5. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
  6. The Marked Men - Ghosts
  7. Atlas Sound - Logos
  8. Algernon Cadwallader - Fun
  9. Best Coast - Best Coast
  10. Sleepy Eyes of Death - Dark Signals
  11. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
  12. Girls - Album

2010

  1. The National - High Violet
  2. Grown Ups - More Songs
  3. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
  4. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

2011

  1. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  2. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  3. Real Estate - Days
  4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
  5. iceage - New Brigade
  6. Drake - Take Care
  7. Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
  8. Destroyer - Kaputt
  9. Grouper - Alien Observer/Dream Loss
  10. Friendzone - Kuchibiru Network 2 Mixtape

2012

  1. Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
  2. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
  3. Jessie Ware - Devotion
  4. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
  5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
  6. The XX - Coexist
  7. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
  8. White Lung - Sorry
  9. Beach House - Bloom
  10. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
  11. Cemeteries - The Wilderness
  12. The Babies - Our House On The Hill
  13. Holy Other - held

2013

  1. Kanye West - Yeezus
  2. Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love Is The Devil
  3. The Field - Cupid’s Head
  4. Ta-Ku - Songs To Break Up To
  5. My Bloody Valentine - M B V
  6. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
  7. Ducktails - The Flower Lane
  8. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
  9. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
  10. Classixx - Hanging Gardens
  11. The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
  12. Danny Brown - Old
  13. Vondelpark - Seabed
  14. Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
  15. Holograms - Forever

2014

  1. Sun Kill Moon - Benji
  2. D’Angelo - Black Messiah
  3. Adult Jazz - Gist Is
  4. Todd Terje - It’s Album Time
  5. United Nations - The Next Four Years
  6. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
  7. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
  8. Parkay Quarts - Content Nausea
  9. Geotic - Ocean Shore (Eon Isle)
  10. Christina Vantzou - No.2
  11. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
  12. Mac Demarco - Salad Days
  13. Tom Vek - Luck
  14. Dean Blunt - Black Metal
  15. Gaussian Curve - Clouds

2015

  1. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
  2. Housewives - Work
  3. Bjork - Vulnicura
  4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
  5. Destroyer - Poison Season
  6. Vince Staples - Summertime ’06
  7. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
  8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
  9. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
  10. Grimes - Art Angels
  11. Infinite Body - Avolition
  12. Christina Vantzou - No.3
  13. Joanna Newsom - Divers
  14. Sean Mccann - Ten Impressions For Piano & Strings
  15. Drake - If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
  16. Sun Kil Moon - Universal Themes
  17. Future - DS2
  18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Euclid
  19. Quarterbacks - Quarterbacks
  20. Julien Baker - Sprained Ankles

2016

  1. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
  2. Frank Ocean - Blonde
  3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  4. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
  5. Ken Thomson - Restless
  6. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
  7. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
  8. Frank Ocean - Endless
  9. Lil Yachty - Lil Boat
  10. Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
  11. Eluvium - False Readings On
  12. Angel Olsen - My Woman
  13. Mary Halvorson Octet - Away With You
  14. Noname - Telefone
  15. Skepta - Konnichiwa
  16. Deakin - Sleep Cycle
  17. CFCF - On Vacation
  18. Crying - Beyond the Fleeting Gales
  19. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
  20. 75 Dollar Bill - Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
  21. Georgia - All Kind Music

2017

  1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
  2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
  3. Lorde - Melodrama
  4. S.A.M. - Dream State of a Bellmaker
  5. Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
  6. Arca - Arca
  7. Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti
  8. Glassjaw - Material Control
  9. Bjork - Utopia
  10. King Krule - The OOZ
  11. Travis Scott and Quavo - Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho
  12. Ryuichi Sakamoto - async
  13. DJ Sports - Modern Species
  14. Four Tet - New Energy
  15. Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand
  16. Gorillaz - Humanz
  17. Gaussian Curve - The Distance
  18. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
  19. Patricia - Several Shades Of The Same Color

2018

  1. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
  2. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
  3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
  4. KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
  5. Gigi Masin - Kite
  6. Playboi Carti - Die Lit
  7. Pusha T - DAYTONA
  8. Bernice - Puff: In The Air Without A Shape
  9. Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
  10. Asuka Ando - あまいひとくち
  11. Noname - Room 25
  12. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
  13. Robyn - Honey
  14. Travis Scott - Astroworld
  15. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
  16. Klan Aileen - Milk
  17. Les Halles - Zephyr
  18. Beach House - 7
  19. 21 Savage - i am > i was
  20. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter V
  21. Palm - Rock Island
  22. Iceage - Beyondless
  23. Lamp - Her Watch
  24. Grouper - Grid of Points
  25. Cat Power - Wanderer
  26. Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
  27. Christina Vantzou - No. 4
  28. The Field - Infinite Moment

2019

  1. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
  2. Panda Bear - Buoys