Best Music of the Decade: 2010-2019

First thing that comes to mind is Autechre : discovered them in 2003 but I was not a fan until 2010. Then, oversteps and everything suddenly makes sense.

Next thing, the second coming of ginger Jesus : Syro is a solid come back album , the new EPS goes from good to excellent and the SoundCloud dump was a fanboy wet dream.can’t wait to hear what’s next.

third thing, lots of good electronic music : Arca, Gabor lazar, Iglooghost, Rian treanor, EOD, MNLTH, Aleksi in colundi mode, Gerald Donald still on point, Objekt and I can’t list them all.

I'm definitely not into new music as much as I used to be. I can't tell whether that's an age thing or because of the music? But I do wonder why.

The hardcore tribal music fan in me is still there but only with artists who still release music but I've liked for years (like Autechre and Aphex) I seem to spend a lot of time, on Spotify discovering older stuff from the (late) 60's all the way to 2005/6. Then my interest really drops off.

I still listen to new stuff all the time, but don't go all full moon about it. 

Best thing I've heard lately is the stunning Agora by Fennesz (again an artist that's been around for years)

above all Ae oc (duh) - particularly LIVE & Elseq

Satan reunion albums

Wytch Hazel I & II

Low - Double Negative

Krallice - Years Past Matter / Ygg Huur

Hecker - Speculative Solution

Mick Barr  / Ocrilim - Coiled Malescence / Purging Trilogy

Gridlink - Longhena

Mithras - On Strange Loops

No one knows what the dead think - st (probably... not out yet)

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Dunno. Maybe some more stuffs i forgot. Certainly not much tho.

  On 9/8/2019 at 5:15 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

i saw them live 3 times i think woow

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hf. onezero, onefour and onesix represent yo.

awesome decade of music:)

caustic window - caustic window - 2014

aphex twin - syro - 2014

aphex twin - computer controlled acoustic instruments pt2 - 2015

user18081971 - soundcloud dump - 2015

aphex twin - marchromt30a edit 2b 96 - 2015

afx - orphaned deejay selek 2006-2008 - 2015

aphex twin - cheetah - 2016

afx - orphans - 2017

afx - london 03.06.17 [field day] - 2017

afx - korg trax + tunings for falling asleep - 2017

afx - houston, tx 12.17.16 [day for night] - 2019

aphex twin - collapse - 2018

  On 9/8/2019 at 2:53 AM, fringerviv said:

Avalanches - Wildflower
Beak - (all time relevant releases)
Low - Double Negative
AFX - Orphaned DeeJay Selects
Hot Snakes - Six Wave Hold Down
Dungen - That one
Chemical Brothers - Gravity Drops track
Thundercat - Drank (Chopped and Screwed)
All my soundcloud mixes.
Goat - I Sing In Silence
Chevron - Britain ( or whatever the albums called)
Total Control - all albums
Palms Trax - Sumo Acid Crew
Now I Am Become Death - NIABMovement
Slowmile Swift - 4 Keeps
Part Chimp - IV
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Good Time - OST (OPN)
NMW - World Inside
BOC - Mixtape
Ross From Friends - whatever
Ralomomdo Simmons Quest - whatever
Great God Pan
LFO Tribute Set at Warp 30
AE Tapes at Warp 30




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  On 9/8/2019 at 1:26 PM, dr lopez said:

yeah that’s gonna be a yikes from me

  On 9/8/2019 at 1:26 PM, dr lopez said:

yeah that’s gonna be a yikes from me

Anything by Rrose
Egyptrixx - A/B til Infinity (and everything else really)
Anything by Ae 
Whatever RDJ releases
Gabor Lazar - Unfold (and his Boiler Room set)
Barker - Debiasing / Utility
Ryan Treanor - Ataxia
FKA Twigs - M3LL155X
Kelela - Hallucinogen / Take Me Apart
Anything by Jam City
Kuedo - Severant
OPN - Replica
True Widow - Circumambulation / AVVOLGERE
Patronen - A/B/C/D
Donnacha Costello - Love From Dust
Orval Carlos Sibelius - Super Forma
Amnesia Scanner
Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness
And last but not least, anything by Hiele and Ssaliva

BOC soundtracking the world going to shit

Ae somehow having a better decade than the one before and giving us the AAA and lots of free stuff

The return of AFX, the Caustic Window Kickstarter, the dump

Nightwind rising from the ashes of Strange Life records, also L.I.E.S. and Ilian Tape

Four Tet kind of reinvented himself and had a great run in the first half of the decade, some of his radio shows were a real treat too in terms of exposing me to stuff I would never have heard otherwise

Ishome made a decent "witch house" album

The vaporwave aesthetic and its kind of surprisingly far-reaching influence

I wanted to say something about how brostep died, but then I remembered there's still plenty of parties with shitty dubstep and drum & bass, it's just that they're mostly invisible to me because I'm old

I turned 21 just prior to this decade starting. The albums that have meant the most to me (leaving aside archivals):

1. Honey - Robyn (2018)

2. NTS Sessions 1-4 - Autechre (2018)

3. The Fool - Warpaint (2010)

4. Suck it and See - Arctic Monkeys (2011)

5. Exai - Autechre (2013)

^all in my top 50 favourite albums

6. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead (2016)

7. AM - Arctic Monkeys (2013)

8. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (2011)

9. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus (2010)

10. The Electric Lady - Janelle Monae (2013)

11. One Breath - Anna Calvi (2013)

12. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae (2010)

13. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey (2011)

14. We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves - John Maus (2011)

15. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens (2010)

16. Tomorrow's Modern Boxes - Thom Yorke (2014)

17. Keepsake - Hatchie (2019)

18. Warpaint - Warpaint (2014)

19. Black Up! - Shabazz Palaces (2011)

20. AE_LIVE - Autechre (2015; 2019)

21. How I Got Over - The Roots (2010)

22. Until the Quiet Comes - Flying Lotus (2012)

23. Dedicated - Carly Rae Jepsen (2019)

24. good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar (2012)

25. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae (2018)

26. m b v - My Bloody Valentine (2013)

27. The Whole Love - Wilco (2011)

28. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar (2015)

29. Flying Microtonal Banana - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (2017)

30. Grace for Drowning - Steven Wilson (2011)

31. Oversteps - Autechre (2010)

32. The King of Limbs - Radiohead (2011)

33. channel ORANGE - Frank Ocean (2012)

34. Rings Around Saturn - Rings Around Saturn (2018)

35. Seefeel - Seefeel (2011)

36. Wildflower - The Avalanches (2016)

37. Art Angels - Grimes (2015)

38. Have One on Me - Joanna Newsom (2010)

39. You Want it Darker - Leonard Cohen (2016)

40. Depression Cherry - Beach House (2015)

HM: Lese Majesty (Shabazz Palaces), Elseq 1-5 (Ae), Lovelaws (Theresa Weyman), Move of Ten (Ae)

Best of the big hit singles around the world were Work (Rihanna), Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye), Love Yourself (Justin Bieber), One Kiss (Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa) and God's Plan (Drake).

Autechre definitely had my favourite output of the decade. I latched on to Warpaint, Janelle Monae, FlyLo and Anna Calvi as newish faves at the start of the decade, and feel Janelle Monae has been the most reliable of them. George Michael passing was the only time a celebrity death has really devastated me, as he had been a big, persistent part of my life since early teens. Crap news at xmas time, cut me tender.

At the start of the decade the first new releases I bought were Broken Bells (S/T), Heligoland & Oversteps, but Cosmogramma (simultaneous to new city & new car) was when the decade started to come into its own for me. I've obviously grown a lot as a twentysomething throughout this decade so tastes have changed somewhat, but fundamentally I still crave the same cornerstones.

serious playbynumbers vibes

Sorted by year, no particular order, just the stand-outs for me

2010
Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates
Susumu Yokota - Kaleidoscope
Tobacco - Maniac Meat
VHS HEAD - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

2011
Marconi Union - Beautifully Falling Apart
James Ferraro - Far Side Virtual
Nils Frahm - Felt
Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure
Seefeel - Seefeel
Fishing - Hookz 4 (Lophiiforme)
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Darwin Deez - Wonky Beats

2012
Death Grips - The Money Store
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy
Mark van Hoen - The Revenant Diary

2013
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Autechre - Exai

2014
Bibio - The Green EP
Wold - Postsocial
Bloom - Hydraulics

2015
...

2016
Carl Finlow - Beckoned EP
H Takahashi - Body Trip
UFOCUS - Guidance For The Puzzled

2017
GAS - Narkopop
Drab Majesty - The Demonstration

2018
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Andrew Tuttle - Andrew Tuttle
Autechre - NTS Sessions

2019
Nathan Micay - Blue Spring
Brainwaltzera - The Kids Are AI
Warp's 30th Anniversary content on NTS

Seefeel S/T is definitely an album I keep coming back to. 

NTS, Elseq, EXAI and Oversteps... Autechre pretty much owned the decade for me.

I really love Snares x Lanois... which was pretty much marmite around here but it did the job for me.  Also his Last Step  - Sleep album, together with the digital bonus tracks.

Prurient - Rainbow Mirror was huge for me, very inspiring in terms of the noisy / experimental sounds I have been making recently.

Seaes - Seaes II

U-ziq - XTLP / EP hit me at the right time and left a lasting impact. Great work.

Ceephax - Cro Magnox / UAE

wAgAwAgA - Pina Kaleida! / Smoke Nettles / Hyper Typewriter etc.... = he went through a massive prolific phase where everything he released was gold. 

It has been a weird decade in that there has been no massive standout breakthrough new "genre" - unless EDM wins it. Which is sad.

  On 9/8/2019 at 8:15 AM, jaderpansen said:

Dunno. Maybe some more stuffs i forgot. Certainly not much tho.

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Marcus Schmickler - Palace of Marvels (queered pitch)

Anything by Lone pretty much. He's really smashed it this decade. His house and rave tracks are awesome!!!

Anything by Silkie too. Love his stuff.

I know there are others but they are my stand out artists.

I'm much more a 90s and 00s guy so this list isn't very long (also can't be arsed to add anything else lol), also a lot of these aren't objectively good but they're special to me.

2010:

Washed Out - Life of Leisure

Small Black - Photojournalist b/w Sun Was High (So Was I)

2011:

Giles Corey - Giles Corey

Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw

2014:

Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs

Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World

Aphex Twin - Syro

Mac Demarco - Salad Days

Cities Aviv - Come to Life

Rudio/mm - Rasura

2015:

Luxury Elite - World Class

George Clanton - 100% Electronica

u-ziq - XTLP

2016:

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - In Summer

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Frank Ocean - Blonde

Bladee - Eversince

2017:

Jesu - Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

2018:

Tim Hecker - Konoyo

Playboi Carti - Die Lit

Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens

JPEGMAFIA - Veteran

Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

Autechre - NTS Session 2

Rival Consoles - Persona

Ciel - Hundred Flowers

Selling - On Reflection

The Empire Line - Rave

2019:

Sunn O))) - Life Metal

Black Midi - Schlagenheim

Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life

For me, listening to music, has really changed the last decade because of streaming and family life. Ten years ago, one of my favourite activities was opening a beer friday evening and browsing through everyting(!) from Boomkat the last week. Then pirating/buying everything I liked. The more obscure the better. 

Nowadays I listen to music at work, travelling and hiking. If it's not available on Spotify, it doesn't exist. New Rolando Simmons? Oh, nothing new on streaming since 2017. I miss out a lot of new stuff, but at the same time, I've always had a foot in alternative rock, which is very accessible on streaming platforms, so there is always more than enough. A new thing is listening to more old classic. Five first Neil Young albums? Five highest RYM rated albums from 1981? Also, listening at work, travelling and hiking=more calm and harmonic sounds are appreciated. More ambient, more piano. Or maybe I'm just getting older.

Great new discoveries since 2010: Beach House, Leyland Kirby, 2814, Swans, Ben Frost, Arca, Grouper, OPN, John Maus, Nils Frahm, Actress, Jon Hopkins, Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten, Agnes Obel. 

Some gems:

2010: Beach House: Teen Dream, The National: High Violet, Deerhunter: Halycon Digest, Kvelertak: s/t, Four Tet: There is love... Laura Veirs; July Flame, 

2011: PJ Harvey: Let England Shake, Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, Grouper:AIA, OPN: Replica, The Caretaker: Empty Bliss, Bon Iver: s/t, John Maus: We Must..., SQP:Ufalubum, 

2012: Swans: The Seer, Beach House: Bloom, Godspeed: Allelujah, Andy Stott: Luxury Problems, Dinosaur Jr: I bet on sky,

2013: Boc: Tomorrows Harvest, AE: Exai, Tim Hecker: Virgins, Jon Hopkins: Immunity, OPN: R+7, Kurt Vile: Walking, Daft Punk: RAM, Agnes Obel: Aventine, 

2014: Swans: To Be Kind, Aphex Twin: Syro, The War On Drugs: Lost in the Dream, Sharon Van Etten: Are We There, Iceage: Plowing..., Andy Stott: faith in Strangers, Spoon: They want my soul, Plaid: Reachy Prints, Clark: s/t, Ben Frost: Aurora, Arca: Xen.

2015: Sufjan Stevens: Carrie and Lowell, 2814, Jamie XX: In Colour, Balnck Mass: Dumb Flesh, Kurt Vile: believe..., Arca: Mutant.

2016: Bowie: Blackstar, Nick Cave: Skeleton Tree, Swans; The glowing man, Ae:Elseq, Car Seat Headrest: teens of denial,

2017: Mt Eerie: A crow looked at me, Slowdive: s/t, Blanck Mass: World Eater, GAS: Narkopop

2018: Daughters: You won't get, Against All Logic 2012-2017, Beach House: 7, Tim Hecker: Konoyo, Low: Double Negative, Ae:NTS, Skee Mask: Compro, The Caretaker, GAS: Rausch.

2019: So far... Weyes Blood, Blanck Mass, Plaid, Rafael Anton Irissari, 

When I was digging for the WATMM best album of the year lists for the past decade I came across this list by @MaartenVC that actually covers the whole decade

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072

Lots of stuff I had completely forgotten..

More and more lately I’m convinced it’s 

Blood Incantation - Starspawn (2016)

  On 9/10/2019 at 11:12 AM, scumtron said:

If it's not available on Spotify, it doesn't exist

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disgusting 

  On 9/16/2019 at 7:21 AM, MIXL2 said:

disgusting 

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it's sadly kinda true for me as well. I still buy LPs and CDs of stuff, and they get plenty of plays around the house, but when I'm putting together best ofs etc, it's usually done on spotify, and they get left out. It's dumb for the artists to keep stuff of spotify these days, I don't know why some people are still weird about it. Why isn't that new humanoid album on it? or the E.R.M. / convextion stuff. What is the point, it costs nothing, people can find your music and once in a while you get a check for a few cents. In our niche genre I don't see spotify plays as cutting into sales of vinyls or cds.

I guess is a comfort thing maybe, I got all my playlists n formatting done on winamp n stuff and it's just easier for me to find solutions that don't involve streaming, the case for most ppl is probs the reverse.

edit: also for real like would b a p boring best of playlist for me not having the boc old tunes or the sc dumps on there but to each their own I guess...

  On 9/14/2019 at 7:07 AM, zkom said:

When I was digging for the WATMM best album of the year lists for the past decade I came across this list by @MaartenVC that actually covers the whole decade

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072

Lots of stuff I had completely forgotten..

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Ah yes! This is amazing to review and revisit, damn good job @MaartenVC

So Pitchfork has a reader's poll where you can submit your top 10 favorite songs and albums of the 2010s. Ends on the 29th. I used it to hash out my choices for this thread. I'd like to expand on it soon but in the meantime:

Favorite Songs

  On 9/27/2019 at 2:26 PM, joshuatxuk said:

Favorite Albums

1. 1991 - 1991

2. Grimes - Visions  

3. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest  

4. Macintosh Plus -  フローラルの専門店 

5. Washed Out - Within and Without

6. Elite Gymnastics - RUIN    

7. Aphex Twin - Syro

8. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo

9. Darkside - Psychic

10. Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso

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wild but interesting list. don't agree with it at all but i'm glad we can still post together