i had a lot of answers that i scratched off the list for similar reasons (madlib comes to mind, for one)
― the late great, Friday, 14 December 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
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
― the late great, Friday, 14 December 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Friday, 14 December 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Friday, 14 December 2018 07:05 (five years ago) link
execpt maybe Hour Logic, Quarantine, Behind the Green Door, Chance of Rain, In Situ, Dust
*except*
― Dan S, Friday, 14 December 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
and Raw Silk Uncut Wood
― Dan S, Friday, 14 December 2018 07:11 (five years ago) link
'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.
― Nourry, Friday, 14 December 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link
Tim Hecker:
Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)Dropped Pianos (2011)Instrumental Tourist (2012) – with Daniel LopatinVirgins (2013)Love Streams (2016)Konoyo (2018)
― ilxor, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
I agree that OPN makes a strong case:
Returnal (2010)Replica (2011)Instrumental Tourist (2012) – with Tim HeckerR Plus Seven (2013)Garden of Delete (2015)Age Of (2018)
― ilxor, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Four Tet:
There Is Love in You (2010)Pink (2012)Beautiful Rewind (2013)Morning/Evening (2015)New Energy (2017)
― ilxor, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
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"
― frogbs, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
GHOST.
― mark e, Friday, 14 December 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
hey hatrack had an album out this year iirc. not heard it tho
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
Cate Le BonThee Oh Sees/Oh Sees/OCS
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
autechremarc baronolivia blockjürg freylaurel halograham lambkinmichael pisarojohn tilburyxuiqen
(if i had to choose one)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
xp to Robert I think there's a new HTRK full length coming soon, FYI
― brimstead, Friday, 14 December 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 14 December 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Really excited about the new Deluge Grander album. Havent heard it yet.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 14 December 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
Grouper
AIA: Dream Loss / Alien Observer"Water People" b/w "Moving Machine"Violet ReplacementThe Man Who Died in His BoatRuinsThe Original Faces (w/ Helen)"Headache" b/w "I'm Clean Now"Grid of PointsAfter its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house (as Nivhek)
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 March 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
Adrian Younge
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Friday, 8 March 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
Mary Halvorson
― Rad Macca (Craig D.), Friday, 8 March 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
(maybe tied with Mica Levi)
― Rad Macca (Craig D.), Friday, 8 March 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
Julia Holter and Colin Stetson.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Friday, 8 March 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
I think Diddy Dirty Money/Kalenna/Dawn Richard if I can consider them one.
― Will (kruezer2), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:40 (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)
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