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Top 10 Albums of the Decade

Based on personal, subjective preference.
11Nicolas Jaar
Space Is Only Noise

2011. Honorable Mention. While I far from enjoy everything Nico has released, this is undoubtedly his masterwork. A perfect, blissed-out, middle-of-the-night kind of album that has lost nothing in replay value.
10Agalloch
Marrow of the Spirit

2010. While Agalloch's high points came during the last decade with the GOAT-level The Mantle and Ashes Against the Grain, Marrow of the Spirit was one of the monumental metal releases of the last 10 years. At times crushingly furious, at times soothingly melodic, MotS is impeccably-crafted. While Agalloch is sadly no more, they have left behind a discography that will outlast us all.
9Dark Time Sunshine
ANX

2012. I have championed this album to anybody and everybody since I first heard it in 2014 and will continue to do so at every opportunity. Plain and simple, this album is nearly flawless. The cinematic beats and productions easily rivals anything hip hop has put out this decade and there isn't a single weak track on the damn thing. Easily sleeper hip hop album of the decade. Check this shit immediately if you haven't already.
8Steven Wilson
Grace for Drowning

2011. The only artist with two albums on this list, and deservedly so. As if Mr. Wilson hadn't already achieved legendary status with Porcupine Tree, he proceeded to absolutely dominate this last decade with astounding solo album after astounding solo album, with this being among his very best. A near-perfect double album that traverses prog, electronic, folk, balladry and everything in between like it's second nature. Raider II will go down as an all-time great prog epic if it hasn't already.
7Kayo Dot
Hubardo

2013. Is it purely coincidence that Hubardo and my number 6 album came out within one week of each other? Quite possibly. While Toby and the boys have lost me with their last few albums, Hubardo is a singular achievement that comes once in a generation. Easily their second best release after Choirs of the Eye, Hubardo masterfully balances unrestrained fury with floating ambience from one track to the next. It takes a special kind of alien to come up with this music, luckily that's why we have Toby Driver here on earth.
6Gorguts
Colored Sands

2013. Colored Sands takes a few listens to appreciate. It took me about five. But then it clicked. Hard. Once you've accustomed yourself to the labyrinths contained within this album, you can't help but marvel at the level of genius possessed by Luc Lemay, not only to perform this music, but to WRITE this music. Not a single weak track to be found, Gorguts announced their comeback with this absolute masterpiece. Special mention to John Longstreth for putting together a drum performance few humans are capable of.
5The Weeknd
House of Balloons

2011. It feels strange putting this album on this list, let alone so high, probably because this is the only release that I enjoy from Abel. And I can comfortably say that this album is levels better than Thursday and Echoes of Silence (I won't mention the rest). House of Balloons basically rewrote the rules on R&B and announced the arrival of a true talent. While Abel's vocals on the album are undeniable, it's the absolutely masterful production that seals the deal. Track after track of nocturnal, mesmerizing, hypnotic soundscapes that sound as peerless today as they did in 2011.
4Protest the Hero
Volition

2013. You forget how good this album is. No really. Go back and listen and see if you aren't surprised that you forgot how fucking consistent this thing is. Protest the Hero never have and never will release a bad album, but on Volition you really got the feeling that they took everything up to 11. The melodies, eclecticism and individual performances surpassed everything they had done up until that point, and I feel moderately comfortable saying that Clarity is the best song they've ever written; it's everything that PtH represent in a dainty 5:32.
3James Blake
The Colour in Anything

2016. This is without a doubt my most-listened-to album on this list. This was the album James Blake was destined to release, his incredible high-water mark. His glitchy, scattered debut left me cold. Overgrown was a massive improvement, but within the parameters of a tight 40 minutes. On TCiA, James spreads his wings and reaches for the sky, all in the name of heartbreak, ironically. Sure, there are a few throwaways (Two Men Down is pretty cringe), but even beyond those, you're still left with over an hour of some of the most immaculately-produced, emotionally-compelling music since the turn of the century. Unfortunately, as evidenced by his last album, happiness doesn't yield nearly the same results for the Londoner.
2Deathspell Omega
Paracletus

2010. Deathspell Omega are one of those bands that once you hear their music, most other metal sounds kinda silly by comparison. Like, these guys operate on a different level than everybody else, almost like they enter a parallel universe when they come up with their mind-boggling dissonance. Every album they've released since Si Monumentum is unfuckwithable, and when it comes to picking their best, just hang their albums on a wall and throw a fucking dart and you probably won't be wrong. When Paracletus came out at the tail end of 2010, it nabbed almost universal metal-AOTY honors, last second no less. I really don't have much more to add. If you've heard this, then you know.
1Steven Wilson
Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2015. Picking an objective album of the decade is pretty difficult and I'm not even sure if Hand. Cannot. Erase is really my favorite. But what one man (Steven Wilson) achieved on this one album (Hand. Cannot. Erase) is about as good as anything achieved by anyone on any one album during the last 10 years. The title track makes you smile. Routine makes you cry. Perfect Life makes you introspective. Home Invasion makes you headbang in odd time signatures. Regret #9 takes you into space. Ancestral makes you wonder how the fuck music this ambitious and creatively-conceived can be written in Two Thousand Fucking Fifteen. Take a bow, Mr. Wilson, you've done it again.
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