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