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

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"

GHOST.

Barely listened to anything new in this period but I guess I should bump Oneohtrix Point Never higher up my shopping list. So Scott Walker is my obvious choice. Cant remember the last HTRK album I listened to.

hey hatrack had an album out this year iirc. not heard it tho

Cate Le Bon
Thee Oh Sees/Oh Sees/OCS

autechre
marc baron
olivia block
jürg frey
laurel halo
graham lambkin
michael pisaro
john tilbury
xuiqen

(if i had to choose one)

xp to Robert I think there's a new HTRK full length coming soon, FYI

I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread.

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

My favorite artist tends to be whoever made the last album I fell in love with. I have a hard time thinking in terms of a decade. I don’t feel like any one artist was that dominant. I guess I’m saying I have nothing to contribute to this thread.

Really excited about the new Deluge Grander album. Havent heard it yet.

Look, I'm old (going to be 40 later this year!), but I definitely try to stay current. I spend hundreds of hours a year, every year, listening to artists’ born in the 90s. And that investment absolutely pays off for me every year with regards to my most listened-to genres: hip hop, pop, electronic, and indie-rock genres. I see no reason to change the way I discover music given the results I always receive.

All that blathering leads me to my favorite artist of the 2010’s - The War on Drugs. Each of their albums from this decade will most likely land in my top 50 for that decade - with Lost in a Dream and A Deeper Understanding landing in my top five.

It’s a strange place for me to be in. Up until this point, my all-time favorite artists have always been pretty universally-endorsed by general audiences. Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Wu Tang, Outkast, Christian Fennesz, Robyn and Junior Boys, just to name a few from the top of my dome.

The War on Drugs - while not totally original - have adopted the styles of some of my favorites, such as Bob Dylan’s singing, Pink Floyd’s more proggy-stylings, Bruce Springsteen’s everyman lyrics (and the E-Street’s keyboards), with a shade of Kevin Shields’ shoegaze production.

I never thought I’d find a band’s record (or records) that fully satiates my needs as a consumer. This may sound absurd, but after 2014’s Lost in a Dream, followed by 2017’s A Deeper Understanding, I can, if I want, stop listening to music altogether. I’ve hit a pivotal point that I didn’t think was possible. I thought I’d already discovered all that I would’ve loved, as far as all-time albums go, but clearly, I’ve still have room to grow.

I just wanted to post this as someone who knows he’s in limbo, or stasis, as far as all-time favorites go.

Grouper

AIA: Dream Loss / Alien Observer
"Water People" b/w "Moving Machine"
Violet Replacement
The Man Who Died in His Boat
Ruins
The Original Faces (w/ Helen)
"Headache" b/w "I'm Clean Now"
Grid of Points
After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house (as Nivhek)

Adrian Younge

Mary Halvorson