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 ThugOughtAutechreFuture IslandsTodd TerjeJlinScott Walker
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
I'll bite, sort of:
Helena TulveMark AndreRaphaël CendoAnna S. ÞorvaldsdóttirAlberto Posadas
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Nico Muhly ClammbonDe Staat
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
MesarthimModeratNils Frahmólafur ArnaldsGhost
?
― StanM, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Good Throb
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Close to DL's list, it seems. Top 5 off the top of my head:
AutechreWilliam BasinskiOwen P4ll3ttJute GyteYoung Thug
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
(Scott would be at #6. Or #1, on another day)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
What, no Kanye? MBDTF in 2010, Yeezus in 2013.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
"Kuniko Kato"
not caught up with her last two releases, but loved the Pärt/Reich stuff she did.
― calzino, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
Honest answer would probably be Terreke and Moon B
― brimstead, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
And LDR I guess
― brimstead, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
would go club with the late great and karl
― brimstead, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
LDR a good answer imo
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
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, 13 December 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Def should have included Laurel Halo on my list, she is a godsend to music imo
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
Chance of Rain is so great, loving the new one too
― brimstead, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
And I’d argue Countdown is the only good single she has released this decade.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
ok but surely you realize that's not exactly a widely shared opinion
― rob, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
No one mentioned Swans yet?!
― nostormo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Owen P4ll3tt
His two solo albums from this decade are definitely big for me.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
Really great live performer too
SwansBeach HouseKing GizzardTy SegallKurt VileAriel Pink
― nostormo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
not in any order:
Ty SegallTitus AndronicusChance the RapperKendrick LamarJason IsbellMiranda LambertNeko Case
If Anderson .Paak would get a hit, I'd add him.
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
Overall:
Mica Levi (Micachu, Mica Levi, and her production work)Total FreedomDemdike StareGrouperFrank OceanCass McCombsUS GirlsThe Knife
Up-and-comers:
Kaitlyn Aurelia SmithBig ThiefKatie Dey
An album:
BeyonceJulia Holter
Maybe it's just me:
Alex Cameron
Really enjoy them live:
How To Dress WellGrimes
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
First thoughts are Cass McCombs/Kendrick/Miranda Lambert
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
the 1975oneohtrix point never
diddy dirty moneydawn richardbeyoncéyoung thugkehlanimiguelblondessabreomar-speter evanstaylor swiftmiranda lambertkacey musgravesdj nigga foxone direction
― Nourry, Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
joyce manor
― devvvine, Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
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)
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
yeah i restricted myself to dance / electronic music but if i were picking rock acts it would be ty and archy no contest
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
The Ooz is one of my favourite albums of the decade for sure
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 14 December 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
it's pretty great
― Dan S, Friday, 14 December 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
Earl Sweatshirt
― billstevejim, Friday, 14 December 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 13, 2018 8:59 AM (thirteen hours ago)
same
― the late great, Friday, 14 December 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
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