I have no idea tbh.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
it's absolutely Wednesday Campanella for putting out something like 8 albums of consistently inventive and exciting pop since 2013
second place is probably The 1975, then Gang Gang Dance, Paramore, and Sufjan Stevens as far as less prolific but consistently great acts go
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
mewithoutyou, the 1975, paramore, deftones
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
Two stand clear above the rest: some Geordie roustabout with a gift for the old magics, and some Missourian ultrapessimist who thinks nothing of adding frets to his guitars or letting dice share his compositional duties
― imago, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
Ha, I was thinking Jute Gyte might be my answer as well.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
oh Deftones is a good answer
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
KRALLICE
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
jamal mossingrid laubrocktim berne
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
This thread has made me realize with horror how very, very little music I've even listened to from the past decade. Dear god, I'm officially old.
― my hand is finally unglued from my face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
This thread has made me realize with bemusement that albums have mattered far more to me than bands over the past decade.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
Can't forget Greta van Fleet
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
That one goes without saying.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
"albums have mattered far more to me than bands over the past decade"
yep, and individual songs also, plus I'm the least loyal person I know, so this is hard.
I'll say Possessed by Paul James
over:Of MontrealYoung fathersWhite Denim
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
> Gareth Liddiard (Drones/solo/TFS)
Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist (2010)The Drones - I See Seaweed (2013)The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free (2016)Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace (2018)
Good call, an incredible body of work, and a reminder to revisit his solo album.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Susanne Sundfør. She's made four beautiful albums including my album of the decade.
Miguel, Charli XCX, Julia Holter, Lana Del Rey and Jessie Ware are some of my other favourites.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Oneohtrix Point Never
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
though Vektroid and George Clanton are up there too
Le Butcherettes, Hedgehog.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
It’s Wizkid for me (and this one’s totally about single(s) tracks - his few albums so far have been largely afterthoughts).From 2011 onwards (although I would pick up on Afropop and him only the next year) he’s been a never-drying well of fantastic dance tracks and love jams, with great melodies, hooks and vibes, drawing from a large pool of homegrown and foreign influences, both with his own releases and through his contributions on other people’s songs, and after all this time he’s still only getting better. The past year has been his best ever. A true provider of musical happiness if there ever was one.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
Steven R. SmithCate Le BonHeron OblivionMats GustafssonMarisa Anderson
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Death Grips
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
Gareth Hulse
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
dreesen, svn, sw, pg sounds and the rest of the acido / sued crewsotofett, fett burger, jayda g, lns and the rest of the extended sex tags / wania familykyle hall, jay daniel, big strick, generation next and the rest of the latest detroit waveroza terenzi, dj zozi, and everyone else revitalizing the 90s breaks soundkassem mosse
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
what pomenitul said
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
everyone gets their own answer but this is objectively Kendrick
― alpine static, Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Laurel Halo, Oneohtrix, Autechre
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
Parquet Courts
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
what tlg said. off the top of my head i'd add pender steet and mood hut, blondes, demdike stare, dj sprinkles, and prince of denmark et al
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
lol jimmy eat world
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
this might actually be Beach House for me:
Teen Dream (2010)Bloom (2012)Depression Cherry (2015)Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015)7 (2018)
― Bee OK, Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
Miranda LambertVince StaplesVampire WeekendEric ChurchKendrick Lamar
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
Janelle Monae The Mountain GoatsLaura Marling CHVRCHES
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 13 December 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
Vampire WeekendRihannaFutureFrank OceanTy Dolla SignThe 1975Chief KeefDeerhunterGrouperMiranda LambertKendrick Lamar
― austinb, Thursday, 13 December 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
baby shark
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
Telepath2814Mindspring Memories
― calstars, Thursday, 13 December 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
If Drive-By Truckers release a great record in 2019 they’re on list. If you count Jason Isbell solo then the 2004 version of DBT is fer sure the best rock act of 2010s.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 04:24 (five years ago) link
I love VW but the problem is my favourite album wasn’t released this decade and I don’t like Contra much. So it’s just one (great) album this decade...I might go with Drake actually !Thank me later (2010) Take care (2011)Nothing was the same (2013)If you’re reading this / what a time (2015)Views (2016)More life (2017)Scorpion (2018)he’s been pretty productive and constantly solid !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 13 December 2018 06:50 (five years ago) link
1-future2-frank ocean3-lana del rey4-young thug
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
My top 10:Janelle MonáeKuniko KatoRecondite Unsuk ChinKaitlyn Aurelia SmithAnna ThorvaldsdottirDonato DozzyTBAMeg BowlesGalina Grigorjeva
― Tuomas, Thursday, 13 December 2018 07:49 (five years ago) link
Beach HouseGrimesShabazz Palaces
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 13 December 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link
Other good ones off the top of my head:
Shabazz Palaces Anderson PaakKendrick LamarGrouperNicolas JaarJ BalvinMac DeMarcoDj KozeThee oh sees Robyn
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 13 December 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
Oops Shabazz Palaces twice but they’re that good.
That no one so far has mentioned Beyoncé is unexpected, to say the least. If I hadn’t taken the thread title literally and had listed my top 3 instead, she would have been in it.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 13 December 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
This is hard. I don't know why. Are we including acts that released music prior to 2010 though?
For me, contenders would include:
Young ThugOughtAutechreFuture IslandsTodd TerjeJlinScott Walker
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
I'll bite, sort of:
Helena TulveMark AndreRaphaël CendoAnna S. ÞorvaldsdóttirAlberto Posadas
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Nico Muhly ClammbonDe Staat
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
MesarthimModeratNils Frahmólafur ArnaldsGhost
?
― StanM, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Good Throb
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Close to DL's list, it seems. Top 5 off the top of my head:
AutechreWilliam BasinskiOwen P4ll3ttJute GyteYoung Thug
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
this might actually be Beach House for me:Teen Dream (2010)Bloom (2012)Depression Cherry (2015)Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015)7 (2018)
Think might be for me too. Which is odd cause I hardly listen to anything else in their genre.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 8 March 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
nicolas jaar / against all logic / darkside
wild nothing
bibio if i can include his 2009 breakout record
theres a lot of acts i like that peaked from like 2007-2013 which makes a strict decade time window awkward
― ciderpress, Friday, 8 March 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
oh i forgot ELDER
and wye oak i guess
― ciderpress, Friday, 8 March 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
mitski
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Friday, 8 March 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
Lush (2012)Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013)Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014)Puberty 2 (2016)Be the Cowboy (2018)
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Friday, 8 March 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
Kanye
It's not even close
― Squamch, Saturday, 9 March 2019 09:19 (five years ago) link
Most likely Kendrick.
I want to make a case for Beach House, but Bloom is the last record of theirs I've enjoyed front to back. That's not to knock the highs that came after, but each album has had fewer deep cuts, more the feel of filler.
If D'Angelo releases another Black Messiah tho...
― KPH, Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Mica Levi easy
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
Oneohtrix Point Never, for all the reasons already stated upthread
Daniel O'Sullivan, for Mothlite, Miracle, Grumbling Fur, and solo (new one out next month)
Tim Bowness has had a strong latter-career run with his four albums in the past five years
― doug watson, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
dawn richard definitely the answer to this whatever i said upthread
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
Wussy, no one else close (even if 3/7 of their 6/7 near-perfect discography goes back to the previous decade).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
looked back at my top tens for names that appear more than once...
Julia Holter, Kelela, Girlpool, Laura Veirs, Dawn Richard, Kendrick, Owen P, Devon Williams, Deerhunter, Joanna Newsom
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
but the actual answer is The Radio Dept.
Robert Glasper.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Friday, 15 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
The bloom may be off him but Drake had an exceptional decade.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 15 March 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
probably st. vincent, which feels weird to say as i didn't really like her last one, but she's probably had the most influence on me as a person over the course of the decade
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 15 March 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
It's Grouper. But it's a weird question for her because we're still not really sure of when this music is coming from right?
― kraudive, Friday, 15 March 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
Overall though been a pretty wack fucking decade musically imo
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo, Joanna Newsom
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:49 (five years ago) link
Shabaka Hutchins - three Sons of Kemet albums, two Comet is Coming, one for the Ancestors, two with Melt Yourself Down, pretty sure he played on the final Polar Bear record, plus numerous guest appearances and is great live in every incarnation. Four Tet - his own albums and his production work, especially the last two Neneh Cherry records. These New PuritansI’m sure there are others if I go looking through the collection.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 March 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
Half of these are unfamiliar to me and that's fine/expected when music is so big but I do worry that my current journeys I'm so engrossed in somehow wont insect with new exciting movements I might like.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 16 March 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 16 March 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
kanye sucked ass this decade
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 March 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
First thought best thought (in this instance):The World of Arthur Russell (reissued several times this decade)Laurie Anderson: Life of a Dog, Landfall (w Kronos)Allen Ginsberg: The Complete Songs of Innocence and ExperienceGuerilla Toss: Gay Disco, Smack The BrickDeath Grips: Government PlatesJane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily DickinsonDavid Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole En EspaňolBob Dylan: The Basement Tapes CompleteRough Guide To Ethiopian JazzRough Guide To African DiscoWillie NelsonMiranda LambertPistol AnniesJlinHarriet Tubman
― dow, Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
but the actual answer is The Radio Dept.― geoffreyess, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:57 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Clinging to a Scheme is all-time great. I had to stop listening to that album for fear of burning out on it.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 16 March 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
I think my vote's gonna have to go to saxophonist JD Allen:
Victory! (Sunnyside, 2011)The Matador and the Bull (Savant, 2012)Grace (Savant, 2013) Bloom (Savant, 2014) Graffiti (Savant, 2015)Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues (Savant, 2016)Radio Flyer (Savant, 2017)Love Stone (Savant, 2018)
Grace and Bloom are the only albums from that list that I don't absolutely love, and that's because he swapped out his regular band (Gregg August on bass, Rudy Royston on drums, and Nir Felder on guitar on Radio Flyer and Love Stone) for some other folks.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
there was quite a lot of good music but only few artists who delivered regularly. especially my old heroes yo la tengo disappointed me totally. my top three:- low- julia holter- jessie ware (when she hit it she hit it)
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
I feel like this isn't a great way to judge the decade. If I try to think of artists who were consistently great through the whole 70s or 90s I would think of one or two for each - and my favourite artists of all time were at their peaks then. For this decade, I only can think of Julia Holter, everyone else started too late, tailed off at the end or simply didn't release enough music.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
Cate Le Bon (in large part based on live performances)(Drinks an unnecessary diversion, much as I love both of them)(new album announced today)and then:Ty SegallSusanne SundførJane Weaver
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
This had to have been a more lively topic in the days when most artists released an album a year or so. You could have a more dazzling track record.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
(I know, there are exceptions I like who still maintain that pace)
― Chris L, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
I agree, I chose artists who have most affected me during that time, not some quantum of achievement or untarnished greatness.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
Jane Weaver has made 3 great albums the second half of the decade but I wasn't into the first 3 between 2010 and 2013.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
"Sad Song" is one of my favorite songs by anybody
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
"Slow Song" i mean
― brimstead, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link