Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
Ranked. One album per band. LPs only |
100 | | torche Harmonicraft
Inventors of sludge pop
Best Song: In Pieces |
99 | | Weatherbox Flies In All Directions
Artsy and wordy emo
Best Song: Radio Hive |
98 | | Tigers Jaw Charmer
A staple in pop punk and emo
Best Song: Frame You |
97 | | Bossk Audio Noir
Sludge and post-metal
Best Song: Atom Smasher |
96 | | Car Bomb Meta
Chaotic mathy metalcore
Best Song: From the Dust of This Planet |
95 | | Polyphia Renaissance
Progressive rock and metal
Best Song: Light |
94 | | Angel Du$t Rock The Fuck On Forever
Hardcore that's tons of fun
Best Song: Rectify |
93 | | The Beths Future Me Hates Me
Indie rock from New Zealand
Best Song: Future Me Hates Me |
92 | | Dangers Messy, Isn't It?
Scrappy punk and hardcore with a lot to say
Best Song: Stay-at-Home Mom |
91 | | The Number Twelve Looks Like You Wild Gods
The craziest mathcore band's comeback album
Best Song: Of Fear |
90 | | Deafheaven New Bermuda
Blackgaze champions
Best Song: Brought to the Water |
89 | | A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece
Melodic mathcore
Best Song: Think Dirty Out Loud |
88 | | You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing
Emo
Best Song: Match & Tinder |
87 | | Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling
Glitchy math rock
Best Song: Engrams |
86 | | Heart Attack Man The Manson Family
Emo with a bit of power pop
Best Song: Carbon Copies |
85 | | Rotting Out Street Prowl
Hardcore punk about growing up in a rough place
Best Song: Street Prowl |
84 | | Spraynard Funtitled
Punk and emo
Best Song: O.R. They? |
83 | | Five Iron Frenzy Engine of a Million Plots
Ska band that reinvents themselves
Best Song: Against a Sea of Troubles |
82 | | Greyhaven Empty Black
Chaotic but melodic metalcore
Best Song: Mortality Rate |
81 | | This Will Destroy You Another Language
Post-rock staples
Best Song: Dustism |
80 | | Conjurer (UK) Mire
Post-metal that is difficult to put into one box
Best Song: Hollow |
79 | | Cloakroom Time Well
Spacey indie metal
Best Song: Seedless Star |
78 | | Charmer Charmer
ARE YOU HAVING FUN SPENDING SPRING BREAK AT HOME FOR A MONTH
Best Song: Nurse Joy |
77 | | Camp Cope How to Socialise and Make Friends
Feminist indie rock
Best Song: The Opener |
76 | | Free Throw Those Days Are Gone
Emo sing along songs
Best Song: Good Job, Champ |
75 | | Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Progressive metal rock opera
Best Song: A Home |
74 | | thou Heathen
Scary sludge and doom
Best Song: Into the Marshlands |
73 | | Westkust Westkust
Engaging dream pop and shoegaze
Best Song: On The Inside |
72 | | Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit
Spiritual black metal
Best Song: Don't You Dare |
71 | | Pile Magic Isn't Real
Indie and post-hardcore
Best Song: Came as a Glow |
70 | | Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet
Mellow indie pop rock
Best Song: Road Head |
69 | | Listener Wooden Heart
Spoken word
Best Song: Failure is Not Just For Failures |
68 | | Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park
Hardcore punk inspired by the genre at its beginnings
Best Song: M.C.D.F. |
67 | | Cleft Bosh!
Groovy math rock
Best Song: Pudendal |
66 | | Birds in Row We Already Lost The World
Post-hardcore and screamo
Best Song: Love is Political |
65 | | Lingua Ignota Caligula
Screaming and church music
Best Song: If the Poison Won't Take You My Dogs Will |
64 | | AJJ Knife Man
A folk punk staple
Best Song: Gift of the Magi 2: Return of the Magi |
63 | | Origami Angel Somewhere City
Carrying the torch that Remo Drive dropped
Best Song: Doctor Whomst |
62 | | Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction
Metallic hardcore
Best Song: Radial Lacerations |
61 | | Candy (USA) Good To Feel
Metallic hardcore
Best Song: Joy of Life |
60 | | Cloudkicker Beacons
Post-djent
Best Song: Push It Way Up! |
59 | | Turnstile Nonstop Feeling
Upbeat hardcore
Best Song: Gravity |
58 | | Drug Church Hit Your Head
Punk and post-hardcore band with unique vocals and lyrics
Best Song: Aleister |
57 | | Pelican Nighttime Stories
Post metal staples do it right this time
Best Song: Full Moon, Black Water |
56 | | God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus
Post rock and post metal
Best Song: Vetus Memoria |
55 | | '68 Two Parts Viper
Groovy and bluesy punk
Best Song: This Life is Old, New, Borrowed and Blue |
54 | | Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing
Emo and grunge
Best Song: Relfection |
53 | | Intronaut The Direction of Last Things
Post-metal and progressive metal
Best Song: The Direction of Last Things |
52 | | As Cities Burn Scream Through The Walls
Comeback album from post-hardcore staples
Best Song: Chains |
51 | | Have Mercy The Earth Pushed Back
Emo through and through
Best Song: Ancient West |
50 | | Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks
Metallic hardcore
Best Song: Deadringer |
49 | | Every Time I Die Low Teens
Metalcore staples
Best Song: Awful Lot |
48 | | Fontaines D.C. Dogrel
Post-punk
Best Song: Big |
47 | | The Dirty Nil Master Volume
Punk n' roll
Best Song: Super 8 |
46 | | Culture Abuse Bay Dream
Summery punk
Best Song: Rats in the Walls |
45 | | CHON Grow
Chill math metal
Best Song: Fall |
44 | | Oso Oso The Yunahon Mixtape
Summery emo
Best Song: Great Big Beaches |
43 | | If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest
Heavy post-rock
Best Song: Red Forest |
42 | | Hopesfall Arbiter
Spacey metalcore
Best Song: Indignation and the Rise of the Arbiter |
41 | | State Faults Clairvoyant
Atmospheric screamo
Best Song: Planetary |
40 | | Hot Mulligan Pilot
Pop punk and emo
Best Song: Good Ol' Mr. Rags |
39 | | Gleemer Anymore
Shoegaze with some heavier moments
Best Song: Cooler Pt. 2 |
38 | | A Great Big Pile of Leaves You're Always on My Mind
Indie and pop punk
Best Song: Flying Fish |
37 | | Higher Power Soul Structure
90s inspired harcore
Best Song: Can't Relate |
36 | | Holy Fawn Death Spells
Shoegaze and post-metal
Best Song: Drag Me Into the Woods |
35 | | Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz
Menzingers-inspired punk rock
Best Song: Buffalo Buffalo |
34 | | Russian Circles Memorial
Post-metal
Best Song: Deficit |
33 | | fiddlehead Springtime And Blind
Indie hardcore
Best Song: USMA |
32 | | mewithoutYou Ten Stories
Indie and post-hardcore staples
Best Song: February 1878 |
31 | | Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled
Passionate emo and punk
Best Song: Montreal |
30 | | The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore
Wordy Australian punk rock
Best Song: I Ain't Safe |
29 | | Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
Post-metal titans
Best Song: The Fall |
28 | | Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You
It took me a very long time for this to grow on me. I even got into Wait for Love before this. But now I realized what a great album this is
Best Song: Repine |
27 | | Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World
Progressive rock and stoner rock journey
Best Song: Sanctuary |
26 | | Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep
The technical metal album I've always wanted to hear
Best Song: Phoenix IV: Levitation |
25 | | Vasudeva No Clearance
Dancey post-rock
Best Song: Turnstile |
24 | | Title Fight Floral Green
Emo, grunge, and pop-punk
Best Song: Numb, But I Still Feel It |
23 | | Remo Drive Greatest Hits
Emo that is loads of fun
Best Song: Strawberita |
22 | | Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living
This album brings me back to my first winter at college
Best Song: Always Focused |
21 | | Basement Colourmeinkindness
Emo and grunge
Best Song: Whole |
20 | | Swain The Long Dark Blue
Hardcore and grunge
Best Song: Punk Rock Messed You Up, Kid! |
19 | | Microwave Stovall
Pop punk with lyrics that tug at all your emotions
Best Song: Grass Stains |
18 | | blis. No One Loves You
Highly underrated emo album
Best Song: Pathetic |
17 | | Daughters Daughters
Their newest album is good, but their self-titled is jam packed with eccentric vocals and riffs
Best Song: The Theater Goer |
16 | | Amenra Mass VI
Scariest post-metal album
Best Song: Diaken |
15 | | Alcest Kodama
Gorgeous piece of black metal
Best Song: Eclosion |
14 | | The Chariot Long Live
Original hardcore and metalcore
Best Song: David De La Hoz |
13 | | Gouge Away , Dies
Ferocious hardcore tunes each with a different message
Best Song: Calloused |
12 | | Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve
The best ska band incorporates some folk (among several other) influences
Best Song: The Three of Us |
11 | | Caspian Dust and Disquiet
The first pure post-rock band I ever saw. They were touring this album, and it was a transcendant experience I will never have again
Best Song: Darkfield |
10 | | The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt
Every song on here is a pop-punk banger
Best Song: Closure |
9 | | IDLES Brutalism
"Why don't you get a degree, even Tarquin has a degree, Mary Berry's got a degree" is on my college graduation cap
Best Song: Well Done |
8 | | Rosetta A Determinism of Morality
The best post rock or post metal album of the decade. It's beautiful and it's crushing
Best Song: A Determinism of Morality |
7 | | Vein Errorzone
Best work of metalcore or hardcore in a while
Best Song: Broken Glass Complexion |
6 | | Pup PUP
Sing-along snarky pop punk tunes
Best Song: Dark Days |
5 | | Single Mothers Negative Qualities
Highly underrated hardcore punk album. It's fast, wordy, dense and can't be missed
Best Song: Marbles |
4 | | The Menzingers On the Impossible Past
Punk rock anthems
Best Song: Burn After Writing |
3 | | Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Emotional, vulnerable, loud, fast. Probably the best album here to see live
Best Song: The Great Repetition |
2 | | Turnover Peripheral Vision
My first introduction to more patient and emotional music.
Best Song: Cutting My Fingers Off |
1 | | The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There
I had little doubt this would be here. Listening to this is an emotional journey that no other album can match
Best Song: Dendron |
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