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

kendrick, future, thug in some order

Wire:
Red Barked Tree (2010)
Change Becomes Us (2013)
Wire (2015)
Nocturnal Koreans (2016)
Silver/Lead (2017)
...and maybe one more in 2019?

The Black Watch:
Led Zeppelin Five (2011)
The End Of When (2013)
Sugarplum Fairy (2014)
Highs And Lows (2015)
The Gospel According To John (2017)
Witches! (2018)

Neko Case:
The Worse Things Get (2013)
Case/Lang/Veirs (2016)
Hell-On (2018)
...and all her appearances with New Pornographers

Wussy:
Strawberry (2011)
Duo EP (2013)
Attica! (2014)
Public Domain Vol. 1 EP (2015)
Forever Sounds (2016)
Getting Better EP (2018)
What Heaven Is Like (2018)

Probably between Kendrick, Future, Dan Snaith/Caribou, Adrienne Lenker/Big Thief

Probably Julia Holter.

Tragedy (2011)
Ekstasis (2012)
Loud city song (2013)
Have you in my wilderness (2015)
In the same room (2017)
Aviary (2018)

Gareth Liddiard (Drones/solo/TFS), Joyce Manor, Kendrick, and assuming the next record keeps the streak up, Baroness.

vektroid

I have no idea tbh.

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

mewithoutyou, the 1975, paramore, deftones

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

Ha, I was thinking Jute Gyte might be my answer as well.

oh Deftones is a good answer

KRALLICE

jamal moss
ingrid laubrock
tim berne

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.

This thread has made me realize with bemusement that albums have mattered far more to me than bands over the past decade.

Can't forget Greta van Fleet

That one goes without saying.

"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 Montreal
Young fathers
White Denim

> 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.

I have absolutely nothing to contribute to this thread.

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.

Oneohtrix Point Never

though Vektroid and George Clanton are up there too

Le Butcherettes, Hedgehog.

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.

Steven R. Smith
Cate Le Bon
Heron Oblivion
Mats Gustafsson
Marisa Anderson

Death Grips

Gareth Hulse

dreesen, svn, sw, pg sounds and the rest of the acido / sued crew
sotofett, fett burger, jayda g, lns and the rest of the extended sex tags / wania family
kyle hall, jay daniel, big strick, generation next and the rest of the latest detroit wave
roza terenzi, dj zozi, and everyone else revitalizing the 90s breaks sound
kassem mosse

what pomenitul said

everyone gets their own answer but this is objectively Kendrick

Laurel Halo, Oneohtrix, Autechre

Parquet Courts

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

lol jimmy eat world

this might actually be Beach House for me:

Teen Dream (2010)
Bloom (2012)
Depression Cherry (2015)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (2015)
7 (2018)

Miranda Lambert
Vince Staples
Vampire Weekend
Eric Church
Kendrick Lamar

Janelle Monae
The Mountain Goats
Laura Marling
CHVRCHES

Vampire Weekend
Rihanna
Future
Frank Ocean
Ty Dolla Sign
The 1975
Chief Keef
Deerhunter
Grouper
Miranda Lambert
Kendrick Lamar

baby shark

Telepath
2814
Mindspring Memories

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.

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 !

1-future
2-frank ocean
3-lana del rey
4-young thug

My top 10:

Janelle Monáe
Kuniko Kato
Recondite
Unsuk Chin
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Donato Dozzy
TBA
Meg Bowles
Galina Grigorjeva

Beach House
Grimes
Shabazz Palaces

Other good ones off the top of my head:

Shabazz Palaces
Anderson Paak
Kendrick Lamar
Grouper
Nicolas Jaar
J Balvin
Mac DeMarco
Dj Koze
Thee oh sees
Robyn

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.

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

(maybe tied with Mica Levi)

Julia Holter and Colin Stetson.

I think Diddy Dirty Money/Kalenna/Dawn Richard if I can consider them one.

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.

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

oh i forgot ELDER

and wye oak i guess

mitski

Lush (2012)
Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013)
Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014)
Puberty 2 (2016)
Be the Cowboy (2018)

Kanye

It's not even close

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...

Mica Levi easy

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

dawn richard definitely the answer to this whatever i said upthread

Wussy, no one else close (even if 3/7 of their 6/7 near-perfect discography goes back to the previous decade).

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

but the actual answer is The Radio Dept.

Robert Glasper.

The bloom may be off him but Drake had an exceptional decade.

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

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?

Overall though been a pretty wack fucking decade musically imo

Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo, Joanna Newsom

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 Puritans

I’m sure there are others if I go looking through the collection.

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.

Kanye

It's not even close

kanye sucked ass this decade

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 Experience
Guerilla Toss: Gay Disco, Smack The Brick
Death Grips: Government Plates
Jane Ira Bloom: Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson
David Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole En Espaňol
Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes Complete
Rough Guide To Ethiopian Jazz
Rough Guide To African Disco
Willie Nelson
Miranda Lambert
Pistol Annies
Jlin
Harriet Tubman

but the actual answer is The Radio Dept.

― geoffreyess, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:57 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Clinging to a Scheme is all-time great. I had to stop listening to that album for fear of burning out on it.

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.

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)

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.

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 Segall
Susanne Sundfør
Jane Weaver

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.

(I know, there are exceptions I like who still maintain that pace)

I agree, I chose artists who have most affected me during that time, not some quantum of achievement or untarnished greatness.

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.

"Sad Song" is one of my favorite songs by anybody

"Slow Song" i mean