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?

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

kid a

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

diddy dirty money - last train to paris

not even the slightest question about it

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^

― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

teenage dream

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Monitor

― monster_xero, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

obvs

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

― uberweiss, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

― sisilafami, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

?

??!

― poxen, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal

LTTP would probably be my #2.

― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, I forgot about Javiera Mena...

― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Saturday, 19 May 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire

― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Sound Of Silver

― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

― flopson, Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

SunnO))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

dope choice, rudi

― The Reverend, Saturday, 19 May 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― billstevejim, Saturday, 19 May 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― billstevejim, Saturday, 19 May 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

lols @ Doran

― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

titus - the monitor

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^ lttp traitor

― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

literally none. steve reich MAYBE.

― dextor ellis bextor, Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

actually no, none.

― dextor ellis bextor, Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

maybe.

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― azaera, Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Evan, Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

good pick

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

i still don't get that rustie album

― The Reverend, Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Titus - The Monitor seconded

buuuuuut obvs My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy you silly motherfuckers

― caulk the wagon and float it, Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― The Reverend, Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Tim F, Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kaputt

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

for me it's still Tomorrow, In a Year

― silverfish, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― azaera, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 21 May 2012 09:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 21 May 2012 09:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― thomasintrouble, Monday, 21 May 2012 09:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Jedmond, Monday, 21 May 2012 09:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 21 May 2012 12:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 21 May 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

― poxen, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

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:

― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 26 July 2012 07:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― contenderizer, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:37 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 27 July 2012 05:08 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 27 July 2012 05:10 (9 months ago) Permalink

Swans.

― Oblique Strategies, Friday, 27 July 2012 18:59 (9 months ago) Permalink

Lindstrom & Christabelle

― skip, Friday, 27 July 2012 19:09 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Friday, 27 July 2012 19:20 (9 months ago) Permalink

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.

― contenderizer, Friday, 27 July 2012 20:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

nice lists contenderizer...

― skip, Friday, 27 July 2012 20:52 (9 months ago) Permalink

^^^^

― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 27 July 2012 21:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

also:

boris - new album & attention please (2011)

― contenderizer, Friday, 27 July 2012 23:55 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― contenderizer, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:37 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 July 2012 01:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 28 July 2012 03:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 29 July 2012 15:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― musicfanatic, Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:51 (9 months ago) Permalink