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| Johnny's Decade: Honourable Mentions
The doors are shut on my final 100, but some (most) of these were albums I was sad not to include. List is loosely ranked, the real deal should be up sometime soon | | 1 |  | Do Make Say Think
Stubborn Persistent Illusions
One of the better post-rock albums of the last few years | | 2 |  | Daughters
Daughters
[changed my mind and cancelled this from the top 100, this was the draft write-up]
Daughters’ combination of rock ’n’ roll swagger with noise rock pyrotechnics and creative guitar stylings is one of the more fun sounds to have come out of the ’10s. While the group’s decision to refine the wildfire energy of their early work into darker, more expansive territory on the ever-acclaimed You Won’t Get What You Want won many over, they sound a good deal more convincing when operating on full throttle. Their self-titled album is a fat-free set of hard rocking freakfests, groovy and jarring when appropriate and crafted with a careful sensitivity to each track’s pacing, particularly impressive given how its waveform is invariably LOUD. Unrelentingly maximalist albums have to work hard to carry their momentum, but Daugthers whipped up a storm worthy to the task on this one. | | 3 |  | Julia Holter
Loud City Song
I'm a fan of this, but the tone is so damn dry in parts I end up wanting to love it more than I do | | 4 |  | Dir En Grey
Dum Spiro Spero
Heavy Diru is good Diru but damn, some of this is dense | | 5 |  | Bjork
Vulnicura
Half of this is grade-A Bjork, half is an absolute slog. Notget and Black Lake>>> | | 6 |  | Two People
First Body
Lots more dream pop to come on the real thing, but a handful of slightly stronger releases made this hard to include | | 7 |  | Polyenso
One Big Particular Loop
Best Radiohead of the decade | | 8 |  | Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
Second best Radiohead of the decade | | 9 |  | Otoboke Beaver
Itekoma Hits
Still fun as hell, definitely top ten 2019 materual | | 10 |  | Phoebe Bridgers
Stranger In The Alps
Definitely among the better indie folk albums I've heard, but the final three tracks fall off hard | | 11 |  | Women
Public Strain
Mainly included because this keeps growing on me very slightly and I feel that it'll probably be a 5 in about seven years' time | | 12 |  | 100 Gecs
1000 gecs
ADHD AOTD mayb? | | 13 |  | SikTh
Opacities
Maybe best Sikth | | 14 |  | Thrice
To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
Cute comeback record with a sad quantity of stale cheese onboard :[ Great stuff for the most part though | | 15 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
We Drift Like Worried Fire is top tier Godspeed but I barely ever return to this | |
JohnnyoftheWell
12.09.19 | Hype up! | Gnocchi
12.09.19 | Right. Imma patiently wait for you to drop da real thang | luci
12.09.19 | glad you're covering for yourself with that public strain line ;)
| JohnnyoftheWell
12.10.19 | @Nocte real thing is one write-up, a proof read and a ton of copying and pasting away
@luci hehe yeah, I feel like if I'd heard that one a year or so earlier it'd probably make the cut. One day... | heyadam
12.10.19 | needs moar Imari Tones (unless ur saving it for the big list cheers) | budgie
12.10.19 | wait what year is it | JohnnyoftheWell
12.10.19 | All of them (and every year is Imari Tones year) | heyadam
12.10.19 | oh ok have a blessed day | Rowan5215
12.10.19 | Opacities best SikTh?
u wylin. at least it's not that dogshit album without Justin tho | Dewinged
12.10.19 | Argh 9 and 6 hurt but I get it.
Hope you have o'summer on your decade list or I will have to unfriend you in FB Johnny lol | Sunnyvale
12.10.19 | 1 slays for days | budgie
12.10.19 | no what is the current year
| JohnnyoftheWell
12.10.19 | *frantically looks for an album to delete and replace with o'summer and accidentally takes out [dewi favourite to be revealed]*
Also this list is still albums I think are fab! You should see how many didn't make it this far... | JohnnyoftheWell
12.10.19 | Year of the pig, budg | mynameischan
12.10.19 | you don't like phoebe's "you missed my heart" cover? | Dewinged
12.10.19 | "[dewi favourite to be revealed]*" Oohashi! :D | Aerisavion
12.10.19 | 14 is fucking exquisite I won’t lie I love that album | JohnnyoftheWell
12.10.19 | Don't make this harder than it needs to be Dewi ;] Imma have to do a 2019 list just for you
14 is a charm Aeri, always love coming back to it | MO
12.10.19 | "We Drift Like Worried Fire is top tier Godspeed but I barely ever return to this"
yes, yes it is
also been jamming 1 a lot recently as well. good shit johnny | JohnnyoftheWell
12.10.19 | Ah hell yeah lovely to see the love for 1 here! Really hoping they pull a follow-through together sometime
And sorry chan missed that comment - no not a huge fan of it as a closer :/ | dedex
12.10.19 | Cool list. Apart from 11 and maybe 15, none of this will make the cut for me. | Slex
12.10.19 | 14 sucks |
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