Your Favorite Musician, Artist, or Band of the Decade (2010-19)

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.

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 Thug
Ought
Autechre
Future Islands
Todd Terje
Jlin
Scott Walker

I'll bite, sort of:

Helena Tulve
Mark Andre
Raphaël Cendo
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir
Alberto Posadas

Nico Muhly
Clammbon
De Staat

Mesarthim
Moderat
Nils Frahm
ólafur Arnalds
Ghost

?

Good Throb

Close to DL's list, it seems. Top 5 off the top of my head:

Autechre
William Basinski
Owen P4ll3tt
Jute Gyte
Young Thug

(Scott would be at #6. Or #1, on another day)

What, no Kanye? MBDTF in 2010, Yeezus in 2013.

"Kuniko Kato"

not caught up with her last two releases, but loved the Pärt/Reich stuff she did.

Honest answer would probably be Terreke and Moon B

And LDR I guess

would go club with the late great and karl

LDR a good answer imo

i almost want to say OPN, but i haven't been a huge fan of his latest stuff (Age Of left me cold), and the Rifts comp came out in 2009

Def should have included Laurel Halo on my list, she is a godsend to music imo

Chance of Rain is so great, loving the new one too

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

She has only released one good album and at most three decent singles this decade.

And I’d argue Countdown is the only good single she has released this decade.

ok but surely you realize that's not exactly a widely shared opinion

No one mentioned Swans yet?!

Owen P4ll3tt

His two solo albums from this decade are definitely big for me.

Really great live performer too

Swans
Beach House
King Gizzard
Ty Segall
Kurt Vile
Ariel Pink

not in any order:

Ty Segall
Titus Andronicus
Chance the Rapper
Kendrick Lamar
Jason Isbell
Miranda Lambert
Neko Case

If Anderson .Paak would get a hit, I'd add him.

Overall:

Mica Levi (Micachu, Mica Levi, and her production work)
Total Freedom
Demdike Stare
Grouper
Frank Ocean
Cass McCombs
US Girls
The Knife

Up-and-comers:

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Big Thief
Katie Dey

An album:

Beyonce
Julia Holter

Maybe it's just me:

Alex Cameron

Really enjoy them live:

How To Dress Well
Grimes

First thoughts are Cass McCombs/Kendrick/Miranda Lambert

the 1975
oneohtrix point never

diddy dirty money
dawn richard
beyoncé
young thug
kehlani
miguel
blondes
sabre
omar-s
peter evans
taylor swift
miranda lambert
kacey musgraves
dj nigga fox
one direction

joyce manor

Archy Marshall / King Krule, no contest.

Absolute domination:
unofficial Zoo Kid recordings (2010)
self-titled EP (2011)
Rock Bottom / Octopus 12" (2012)
6 Feet Beneath the Moon (2013)
A New Place 2 Drown (2015)
The OOZ (2017)
Live on the Moon (2018)

yeah i restricted myself to dance / electronic music but if i were picking rock acts it would be ty and archy no contest

The Ooz is one of my favourite albums of the decade for sure

it's pretty great

Earl Sweatshirt

i almost want to say OPN, but i haven't been a huge fan of his latest stuff (Age Of left me cold), and the Rifts comp came out in 2009

― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 13, 2018 8:59 AM (thirteen hours ago)

same

i had a lot of answers that i scratched off the list for similar reasons (madlib comes to mind, for one)

i think the decade is not a particularly natural way for me to think about music ... i definitely have a sense of what i like by decade from the 40s-90s, but i tend to think of recent chunks of my musical listening history more along the lines of ... um, maybe the bush years / obama years / trump years? that probably sounds stupid but i honestly feel like it maps my listening history a little better than drawing a line between what i was listening to in 2009 and what i was listening to in 2011.

which musician/artist/band would you cite as your #1 favorite (or "best," if you prefer)

tbf seems like there's a marked preference for "best" over "favorite", and i suppose if you're into that sort of question the decade makes as much sense as any other division

tend to think of recent chunks of my musical listening history more along the lines of ... um, maybe the bush years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3GiUAvjJ8

re: OPN, I'm not really sure what run of albums in the 2010s is better than Returnal, Replica, R Plus Seven, Garden of Delete, Age Of

execpt maybe Hour Logic, Quarantine, Behind the Green Door, Chance of Rain, In Situ, Dust

*except*

and Raw Silk Uncut Wood

'Garden of delete' is the only one that left me kinda cold.
the best musician i can think of from the last decade, for sure.

Tim Hecker:

Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
Dropped Pianos (2011)
Instrumental Tourist (2012) – with Daniel Lopatin
Virgins (2013)
Love Streams (2016)
Konoyo (2018)

I agree that OPN makes a strong case:

Returnal (2010)
Replica (2011)
Instrumental Tourist (2012) – with Tim Hecker
R Plus Seven (2013)
Garden of Delete (2015)
Age Of (2018)

Four Tet:

There Is Love in You (2010)
Pink (2012)
Beautiful Rewind (2013)
Morning/Evening (2015)
New Energy (2017)

Four Tet, OPN, and Tim are probably my top 3 electronic musicians of the decade.

(or should I say Kieran, Daniel and Tim...)

I mean in terms of raw material Autechre has got to be #1 but it's hard to consider them "of the decade"