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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