OPO: Album of the 2010s

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.

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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

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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.

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

EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

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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.

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

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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:

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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)

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.