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

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