Top Albums of 2010s

20-Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012)

Post-Rock

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applemusic

19-Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (2011)

Electronic

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applemusic

18-Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011)

Hip-Hop

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applemusic

17-Behemoth - The Satanist (2013)

Blackened Death-Metal

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16-Steve Reich - WTC 9/11 (2011)

Modern Classical / “Serious” Music

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15-IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance (2017) 

Punk

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14-Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (2019) 

Folk / Indie-Rock

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applemusic

13-Demdike Stare - Forest of Evil (2011) 

Electronic

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applemusic (first 2 tracks on this compilation)

12-Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) 

Alternative

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applemusic

11-Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (2010)

Singer-Songwriter

not on spotify since Joanna hates this platform passionately 

applemusic

10-David Bowie - Blackstar (2016)

Art-Rock / Jazz-Rock

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applemusic

9-My Bloody Valentine - MBV (2013)

Shoegaze

not on spotify or applemusic

go buy or pirate it 

8-John Luther Adams - Become Ocean (2014) / Become Desert (2019)

Modern Classical 

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applemusic

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7-Sun Kil Moon - Benji (2014)

Folk / Singer-Songwriter 

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applemusic

6-Frank Ocean - Blond(e) (2016)

R&B

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5-Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)

Hip-Hop

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applemusic

4-Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want (2018)

Noise Rock

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3-Tim Hecker - Virgins (2013)

Experimental 

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2-Swans - To Be Kind (2014)

Noise Rock 

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applemusic

1-Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) 

Noise-Hop

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applemusic

shoutout to another 30 records that came out this decade: 

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2014) 

Hip-Hop

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (2017)
Singer-Songwriter

Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels (2014)
Electronic

Steve Reich - Double Sextet / 2X5 (2010) 

Modern Classical 

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (2012)

Metalcore

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... (2012)
Singer-Songwriter 

Deafheaven - Sunbather (2013)
Shoegazey Black-Metalish Rock

Kneebody- Anti-Hero (2017)
Jazz 

DJ Rashad - Double Cup (2013)
Footwork 

Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (2018)

Hip-Hop 

Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over (2017) 
Jazz

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Mad City (2012)
Hip-Hop

Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest (2011)
Country

Jon Hopkins - Immunity (2013)
Electronic  

Tim Hecker - Rave Death, 1972 (2011)
Ambient / Drone

Flying Lotus - Cosmogram (2010)
Electronic

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here (2016) 
Hip-Hop

Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2011)
Indie-Rock

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2 (2011)
Experimental

Death Grips - Steroids (2017)
Noise-hop

Matmos - Ultimate Care II (2016)
Electronic / Experimental

Commit is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (2019)
Jazz

Nik Bartsch Ronin - Awase (2017)
Jazz / Ritual Groove Music

D’Angelo - Black Messiah  (2014)
R&B

Vijay Iyer - Accelerando (2012)
Jazz

Jai Paul - Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (2013 leaked / 2019 released) 
R&B / Electronic 

Steve Coleman - Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume 1 (2018)
Jazz

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (2016)
Hip-Hop

Sam Amidon (Nico Muhly Orchestration) - I See the Sign (2010)
Folk

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Much love
<3
Mike Sim