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

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.

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

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