All month long, Record Exchange staffers are sharing their favorite albums from the decade that was. Here’s Mable‘s Top 10 of the 2010s:
DIRTY ART CLUB
Vermillion
MEEK MILL
Championships
A$AP ROCKY
At. Long. Last. A$AP
PURE X
Pleasure
BAD BAD HATS
Psychic Reader
FIDLAR
Fidlar
CARDI B
Invasion Of Privacy
CRAFT SPELLS
Idle Labor
BULLY
Feels Like
MAKE THE GIRL DANCE
Everything Is Gonna Be OK In The End
All month long, Record Exchange staffers are sharing their favorite albums from the decade that was. Here’s Michael’s Top 10 of the 2010s:
THELONIOUS MONK
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
DR. JOHN
Locked Down
LLOYD MILLER AND THE HELIOCENTRICS
Lloyd Miller and the Heliocentrics
BOB DYLAN
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
JESSE SYKES AND THE SWEET HEREAFTER
Marble Son
ALL THEM WITCHES
Sleeping Through the War
JAMES MCMURTRY
Complicated Game
THE WAR ON DRUGS
Lost in the Dream
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
CURTIS STIGERS
Let’s Go Out Tonight
All month long, Record Exchange staffers are sharing their favorite albums from the decade that was. Here’s John O‘s Top 10 of the 2010s along with a few words:
SLEAFORD MODS
Divide And Exit
CURTIS STIGERS
Let’s Go Out Tonight
VINCE STAPLES
Big Fish Theory
LYDIA LOVELESS
Real
MATT MUNISTERI
Still Running ‘Round In The Wilderness
MARGO PRICE
Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
PORCHES
Pool
BEACH HOUSE
Teen Dream
RYAN BINGHAM
Junky Star
THOMAS PAUL
Goodbye, Waterloo
2010 to 2019. A hundred records across 10 year-end Top 10 lists, plus other favorites that didn’t make the lists, or weren’t discovered until later. And that’s just the music released in the last decade. I’ve spent a lot of time combing our used bins for interesting things from the past, like Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. The world of music rewards constant reevaluation, and this exercise in list-making brings things into focus. We are always looking to the future in this business. It’s fun to look backwards sometimes.
Everything listed in this Top 10 is tied for first, but you have to make a decision sometimes. Any one of the records listed above is a potential No. 1 for me. It’s all personal. The older I get, the less categories mean to me. Dilettante that I am, it’s all fair game.
All month long, Record Exchange staffers are sharing their favorite albums from the decade that was. Here’s Chad From Marketing‘s Top 10 of the 2010s:
THE NATIONAL
High Violet
WASHED OUT
Within and Without
KELLY LEE OWENS
Kelly Lee Owens
CHROMATICS
Kill for Love
POSSE
Soft Opening
BONOBO
The North Borders
SLOWDIVE
Slowdive
PEAKING LIGHTS
936
LLOYD MILLER AND THE HELIOCENTRICS
Lloyd Miller and the Heliocentrics
FORT ROMEAU
Insides
All month long, Record Exchange staffers are sharing their favorite albums from the decade that was. Here’s John Parsell‘s Top 10 of the 2010s:
JANELLE MONAE
Dirty Computer
DAVID BOWIE
Black Star
SLEATER-KINNEY
The Center Won’t Hold
KENDRICK LAMAR
DAMN.
JOANNA NEWSOM
Have One on Me
D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD
Black Messiah
BEYONCE
Lemonade
PHOSPHORESCENT
Muchacho
COURTNEY BARNETT
Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
KANYE WEST
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy