2. While the singles and mixtapes felt inconsistent or overly experimental, “Charli” finds her combining innovation and commercial appeal as brilliantly as Robyn or Solange, and even Beyonce. The mystery associated with this mixtape, which first wormed its way across the Internet in 2011, is hard to imagine now that Abel Tesafaye is a global superstar: Back then, you couldn’t even find a photo of him, and the only info was that he was a Canadian friend of Drake’s. Listen to the best 2010s music on Spotify, and scroll down for our 30 best albums of the 2010s. Noname - Room 256. Here are the best and worst albums of the past decade, according to critics. D’Angelo’s career has followed a fairly straightforward pattern: Release an album, disappear from public sight for a decade or so, then repeat. From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar. A prog-metal album that dethroned Taylor Swift. And not an old soul in the selfie-gazing-wistfully-at-Machu-Picchu-on-your-Tinder-profile sense, but an old soul in the sense that he’d seen enough of the world to know exactly how full of shit it is, and he seemed to regard everything – even, and maybe especially, the vicissitudes of his own music career – with a deservedly skeptical eye. The irony? This section will be updated as new lists are published throughout the end of the year. Reissues and other older material, EPs, live albums, holiday albums, greatest hits albums, multi-artist soundtracks, and other compilations are excluded from the above lists. Black Panther Album - Kendrick Lamar17. Kacey Musgraves, “Same Trailer Different Park” (2013). magazines and CDs), and with the benefit of considerable hindsight, this covers most of my favorites of the 2010s. Their debut, “Give You the Ghost,” had plenty of gems, but it was here that Poliça realized their full potential. Lana Del Rey, “Born to Die: The Paradise Edition” (2012). 5. And in both two list there was no hybrid theory or meteora of linkin park. If you’re the Coathangers, you do it by forging your own unique sound using the same principles as the earliest punks in the 1970s: play hard, play fast, don’t sweat the details, and don’t take anything you’re doing too seriously. D’Angelo’s inimitable, multitracked vocals soar above continually surprising arrangements and ceaselessly sinewy grooves, with drummer Questlove and bassist Pino Palladino easing back into a pocket so deep it’s almost subterranean. At the beginning of the millennium, a trio of Australian DJs calling themselves the Avalanches served up the greatest masterpiece of sampling brilliance since the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique”: “Since I Left You” is a vibrant mashup of densely layered samples that still managed to have actual songs and an album’s arc, all without (as far as I know) a single live vocal or instrument. by The Regrettes, good Kid, m.A.A.d. 1 by Stone Sour, Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here by Alice in Chains, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance, Option Paralysis by The Dillinger Escape Plan, The 20/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It by The 1975, Broke With Expensive Taste by Azealia Banks, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett, Gqom Oh! By D. … Indeed, 2012 contains some of the decade’s standout albums. The Coathangers, “Suck My Shirt” (2014). In sexier songs like “Style,” she was finding that not every mistake has to feel tragic; as Sheryl Crow once said, you can have favorite ones, too. So let’s backtrack for a second, if we still can, to the scary parts of “When We All Fall Asleep,” like deep anxiety, dread, night terrors and suicidal tendencies. Maybe it’s just a beautiful song. Lover - Taylor Swift10. Drake set out on a mission to distinguish himself from all the others. Albums released between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019 with 15 or more reviews in Metacritic's database were eligible for inclusion. This list of the decade’s 100 best albums includes the work of rock revivalists (the Strokes, the White Stripes), dance floor visionaries (M.I.A., LCD … There were moments on the album that were just a little less idiosyncratic and more timeless, too, like the ballads “I Love You” and “When the Party’s Over” — the songs that make you believe she’ll still have everyone’s attention into the 2040s and ‘50s. Posted on December 16, 2019 May 9, 2020; 13 minute read; by Sankhayan Ghosh Lady Gaga didn’t fit the bill as originally expected: the world really wants, or most needs, her to be a new Tony Bennett. As a note, the scores listed throughout the piece were accurate at the time of publication but are subject to change. Billie Eilish, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” (2019). Best Albums Of The 2010s: 30 Classics That Defined The Decade … (I'll also check to see if I can spot any other omissions like that one.). While the list above reflects how critics felt about each album at the time of its release, opinions can change over time. Cohen, of course, was not destined to convey either vigor or anger, whether or not he knew illness would make this album the last he would complete during his lifetime. Oceansize - Self-preserved while the Bodies float up18. Albums are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. “Black Messiah” was worth the wait: All of that obsessing paid off, with a studied form of funk that somehow sounds spontaneous, even though it was years in the making. All I know is that the 2010s offered no mood-brightener as consistently effective as Kacey Musgraves’ third full-length, and its Grammy coronation as Album of the Year forced me into the uncomfortable position of agreeing with the Recording Academy for the first time in decades. Last update: Bicep - Bicep10. (aka Albums that critics loved at the time of their release), List of Movies, TV Shows, Videogames, and Albums Postponed by the Coronavirus. 10. But Musgraves is really at her best when she’s doing something as subtle as noting the transactional nature of a dying relationship in “It is What It Is.” Is it too much to ask her to be our modern-day Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry and John Prine wrapped up into one?