XX's Top Albums of the 2010's
Finally got around to putting this out. Wanted to do some summaries but screw it life's been busy. So many great albums that helped shape my young adult years |
| 1 |  | Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Hip Hop
2010 |
| 2 |  | The National
High Violet
Indie Rock
2010 |
| 3 |  | Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
Hip Hop
2015 |
| 4 |  | Rolo Tomassi
Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
Hardcore, Dream Pop, Black Metal
2018 |
| 5 |  | Sufjan Stevens
Carrie and Lowell
Indie Folk, Folk, Indie Rock
2015 |
| 6 |  | Bon Iver
Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Indie Rock, Indie Folk, Folk
2011 |
| 7 |  | Copeland
Blushing
Dream Pop, Indie Rock
2019 |
| 8 |  | The Hotelier
Home, Like NoPlace Is There
Emo
2014 |
| 9 |  | Gang of Youths
Go Farther in Lightness
Indie Rock
2017 |
| 10 |  | David Bowie
Blackstar
Rock, Pop, Jazz
2016 |
| 11 |  | Typhoon (USA-OR)
White Lighter
Indie Rock, Indie Folk
2013 |
| 12 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
Black Metal, Dream Pop
2013 |
| 13 |  | The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
Indie Rock
2014 |
| 14 |  | The Tallest Man on Earth
The Wild Hunt
Folk, Indie Folk
2010 |
| 15 |  | Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues
Indie Folk, Folk, Indie Rock
2011 |
| 16 |  | State Faults
Clairvoyant
Post Hardcore
2019 |
| 17 |  | Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
Punk
2010 |
| 18 |  | The Wonder Years
The Greatest Generation
Pop Punk
2013 |
| 19 |  | Manchester Orchestra
A Black Mile to the Surface
Indie Rock, Indie Folk
2017 |
| 20 |  | Swans
The Seer
Post Rock, Experimental
2012 |
| 21 |  | Blood Incantation
Hidden History of the Human Race
Death Metal, Psychedelic
2019 |
| 22 |  | Kamasi Washington
The Epic
Jazz
2015 |
| 23 |  | Ne Obliviscaris
Portal of I
Progressive Metal, Death Metal
2012 |
| 24 |  | Gorguts
Colored Sands
Death Metal
2013 |
| 25 |  | Tame Impala
Lonerism
Psychedelic, Indie Rock
2012 |
| 26 |  | Vektor
Terminal Redux
Thrash Metal, Progressive Metal
2016 |
| 27 |  | Bon Iver
22, A Million
Indie Rock, Indie Folk, Folk
2016 |
| 28 |  | Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Hip Hop
2012 |
| 29 |  | Hail the Sun
Wake
Post Hardcore, Math Rock
2014 |
| 30 |  | Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Indie Rock, Indie Folk
2010 |
| 31 |  | Deathspell Omega
Paracletus
Black Metal, Experimental
2010 |
| 32 |  | Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
Alternative Rock
2016 |
| 33 |  | Typhoon (USA-OR)
Offerings
Indie Rock, Indie Folk
2018 |
| 34 |  | Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels
Hip Hop
2013 |
| 35 |  | Parades
Foreign Tapes
Indie Rock
2010 |
| 36 |  | Submotion Orchestra
Finest Hour
Trip Hop, Electronic
2011 |
| 37 |  | Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Electronic, Pop, Rock
2013 |
| 38 |  | Jeff Rosenstock
Worry.
Pop Punk
2016 |
| 39 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dissociation
Metalcore, Math Rock
2016 |
| 40 |  | Flying Lotus
You're Dead!
Electronic, Hip Hop
2014 |
| 41 |  | Killer Mike
R.A.P. Music
Hip Hop
2012 |
| 42 |  | Preoccupations
Viet Cong
Post Punk
2015 |
| 43 |  | Falls of Rauros
Patterns in Mythology
Black Metal, Folk
2019 |
| 44 |  | Hop Along
Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Indie Rock
2018 |
| 45 |  | Fleet Foxes
Crack-Up
Indie Folk, Folk, Indie Rock
2017 |
| 46 |  | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
Death Metal
2016 |
| 47 |  | The National
Sleep Well Beast
Indie Rock
2017 |
| 48 |  | Slugdge
Esoteric Malacology
Death Metal, Progressive Metal
2018 |
| 49 |  | Tyler, the Creator
Flower Boy
Hip Hop
2017 |
| 50 |  | Turnover
Peripheral Vision
Dream Pop, Pop Punk
2015 |
| 51 |  | Blood Cultures
Oh Uncertainty! A Universe Despairs
Indie Pop, Electronic
2019 |
| 52 |  | State Faults
Resonate/Desperate
Post Hardcore
2013 |
| 53 |  | alt-J
An Awesome Wave
Indie Rock
2012 |
| 54 |  | Tim Hecker
Virgins
Ambient
2013 |
| 55 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork
Rock, Stoner Rock
2013 |
| 56 |  | Glen Hansard
This Wild Willing
Folk, Indie Folk
2019 |
| 57 |  | D'Angelo
Black Messiah
R&B, Soul
2014 |
| 58 |  | Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind
Metalcore, Thrash Metal
2012 |
| 59 |  | Ben Howard
Noonday Dream
Indie Folk, Indie Rock
2018 |
| 60 |  | Tame Impala
Innerspeaker
Psychedelic, Indie Rock
2010 |
| 61 |  | Cult of Luna
A Dawn to Fear
Post Metal
2019 |
| 62 |  | O'Brother
Garden Window
Alternative Rock
2011 |
| 63 |  | Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour
Country, Pop
2018 |
| 64 |  | Destroyer
Kaputt
Indie Pop, Indie Rock
2011 |
| 65 |  | Lupe Fiasco
DROGAS Wave
Hip Hop
2018 |
| 66 |  | The Dear Hunter
The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
2011 |
| 67 |  | Thank You Scientist
Terraformer
Progressive Rock, Jazz Fusion
2019 |
| 68 |  | M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Electronic
2011 |
| 69 |  | mewithoutYou
[Untitled]
Indie Rock, Post Hardcore
2018 |
| 70 |  | Pallbearer
Heartless
Doom Metal
2017 |
| 71 |  | Captain, We're Sinking
The Future Is Cancelled
Pop Punk
2013 |
| 72 |  | We Lost the Sea
Departure Songs
Post Rock
2015 |
| 73 |  | La Dispute
Wildlife
Post Hardcore, Indie Rock
2011 |
| 74 |  | Misthyrming
Algleymi
Black Metal
2019 |
| 75 |  | Shai Hulud
Reach Beyond the Sun
Hardcore
2013 |
| 76 |  | Touche Amore
Stage Four
Post Hardcore
2016 |
| 77 |  | Bomb the Music Industry!
Vacation
Pop Punk, Punk
2011 |
| 78 |  | Spectral Lore
III
Black Metal, Folk
2014 |
| 79 |  | Solange
A Seat at the Table
R&B, Soul
2016 |
| 80 |  | Daughters
You Won't Get What You Want
Noise Rock, Post Punk
2018 |
| 81 |  | Panopticon
The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Black Metal, Folk
2018 |
| 82 |  | Against Me!
Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Punk
2014 |
| 83 |  | girls
Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Indie Rock
2011 |
| 84 |  | The National
Trouble Will Find Me
Indie Rock
2013 |
| 85 |  | Counterparts
Nothing Left to Love
Metalcore, Hardcore
2019 |
| 86 |  | Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
Pinata
Hip Hop
2014 |
| 87 |  | Rosetta
A Determinism of Morality
Post Metal, Post Hardcore
2010 |
| 88 |  | Scale the Summit
The Migration
Progressive Metal
2013 |
| 89 |  | Janelle Monae
The ArchAndroid
R&B, Pop
2010 |
| 90 |  | Casey
Love Is Not Enough
Hardcore
2016 |
| 91 |  | J. Cole
2014 Forest Hills Drive
Hip Hop
2014 |
| 92 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen
Post Punk, Alternative Rock
2019 |
| 93 |  | Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience
Pop, R&B
2013 |
| 94 |  | Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
Hip Hop
2016 |
| 95 |  | Esoteric
A Pyrrhic Existence
Funeral Doom Metal
2019 |
| 96 |  | Fen
Winter
Black Metal, Folk
2017 |
| 97 |  | Be'lakor
Vessels
Melodic Death Metal
2016 |
| 98 |  | Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel...
Indie Folk, Folk, Pop
2012 |
| 99 |  | The Smith Street Band
Throw Me in the River
Pop Punk
2014 |
| 100 |  | Cobalt
Slow Forever
Sludge Metal, Black Metal
2016 |
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