Favourite Albums of the 2010’s

I’m clearly two years late on this, but when I recently looked back at my post of favourite albums of the previous decade, I couldn’t help doing this again, if only to leave myself something to look back on in another 10 years.

1. 12 Bit Blues - Kid Koala (2012)
2. The Navigator - Hurray for the Riff Raff (2017)
3. Lonerism - Tame Impala (2012)
4. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West (2010)
5. Trouble Will Find Me - The National (2013)
6. Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka (2016)
7. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae (2010)
8. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead (2016)
9. Art Angels - Grimes (2015)
10. I Am Easy to Find - The National (2019)

Bonus List - Favourite Songs That Aren’t on the Aforementioned Albums

In no particular order:

• “begin again” - Purity Ring, Another Eternity (2015)
• “Piss Crowns are Trebled” - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015)
• “Wide Open” - Chemical Brothers (feat. Beck), Born in the Echoes (2015)
• “The Heart Wants What it Wants” - Selena Gomez, For You (2014)
• “Blood and Rockets - Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons - Movement II, Too the Moon” - The Claypool Lennon Delirium, South of Reality (2019)
• “Good Intentions Paving Company” - Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me (2010)
• “Optimist” - David Byrne & St. Vincent, Love This Giant (2012)
• “Time” - Hans Zimmer, Inception (2010)
• “Do I Wanna Know?” - Arctic Monkeys, AM (2013)

Bonus Bonus List - A couple of artists who have been incredibly prolific during the 2010’s, and who don’t have any specific works that I especially love, but still, I like almost everything they do

• Lana Del Rey
• Run the Jewels