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Very little metal here! My favorite albums from each year of the 2010s, roughly in order of preference annually. I include several albums from the same artists because some of them (e.g. Susanne Sundfør, SubRosa and Litku Klemetti) released pretty much AOTYs every time they released anything.

Created by: IronAngel | 25.01.2020


1. 2010
2. Owen Pallett - Heartland (Chamber pop/violin indie)
3. Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel (Art pop)
4. Robyn - Body Talk (Electropop)
5. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (Harp-plucking chamber folk)
6. Sleigh Bells - Treats (Blissful noise pop)
7. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (IDM/Glitch hop)
8. Peter Broderick - Three Film Score Intakes (Modern classical (EP))
9. Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown (Chamber folk musical)
10. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (R&B)
11. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Progressive Electronic)
12. Four Tet - There Is Love in You (Microhouse)
13.
14. 2011
15. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Artsy singer/songwriter rock)
16. SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones (Doom)
17. Eleonoora Rosenholm - Hyväile minua pimeä tähti (Apocalyptic art pop)
18. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (Angular art pop)
19. Giles Corey - Giles Corey (Creepy slowcore)
20. Low - C'mon (Slowcore)
21. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen (Modern classical/ambient)
22. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (Ambient/drone)
23. Silent Whale Becomes A Dream - Canopy (Post-rock)
24. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (Sort-of-doomy)
25.
26. 2012
27. Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil (Art pop)
28. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser? (Singer-songwriter piano pop)
29. Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes (Drone/folky darkwave)
30. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon (Fuzzy folk)
31. Anna Von Hausswolff - Ceremony (Arty organ pop)
32. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock (...occult rock? (Noisy, psychedelic krautrock))
33. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Traditional doom)
34. Grimes - Visions (Synthpop/electropop)
35.
36. 2013
37. Torres - Torres (Americana-tinged indie rock)
38. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods (Doom)
39. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (Art rock)
40. Moonface - Julia With Blue Jeans On (Singer-songwriter piano balladry)
41. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Nanda Collection (J-pop)
42. tricot - T H E (Math rock)
43. Magic Circle - Magic Circle (Traditional Doom)
44.
45. 2014
46. Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Chamber pop/violin indie)
47. Menace Ruine - Venus Armata (Drone/folky darkwave)
48. Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io (Progressive rock)
49. Tuomas Henrikin Jeesuksen Kristuksen Bändi - Käkkyrällään (Alternative rock)
50. FKA twigs - LP1 (Alternative R&B)
51. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep (Microhouse)
52. Scandinavian Music Group - Terminal 2 (AOR)
53. Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World (Post-punk/shoegaze)
54.
55. 2015
56. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (Pure pop bliss)
57. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (Synthpop)
58. Torres - Sprinter (Indie rock)
59. Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material (Country pop)
60. Joanna Newsom - Divers (Chamber folk)
61. Grimes - Art Angels (Synthpop/electropop)
62. Clarence Clarity - No Now (Glitch pop/R&B)
63. Suiyoubi no Campanella - Zipangu (Hip hop/J-pop)
64.
65.
66. 2016
67. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (Art rock)
68. SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages (Doom)
69. Klô Pelgag - L'étoile thoracique (Baroque Pop)
70. Litku Klemetti & Tuntematon numero - Horror '15 (Indie rock)
71. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion: Side B (Pop)
72. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (Art rock)
73. Yndi Halda - Under Summer (Post-rock)
74.
75. 2017
76. Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble (Singer-songwriter art/chamber pop)
77. Litku Klemetti - Juna Kainuuseen (Lo-fi indie pop)
78. Charly Bliss - Guppy (Power pop with grunge edge)
79. GFOTY - GFOTYBUCKS (Bubblegum bass)
80. Mikko Joensuu - Amen 3 (Singer-songwriter doing progressive electronic)
81. Pagan Altar - The Room Of Shadows (Traditional doom)
82. Natalia Lafourcade - Musas vol. 1 (Nueva canción latinoamericana)
83.
84. 2018
85. Low - Double Negative (Glitch pop/slowcore)
86. Litku Klemetti - Taika tapahtuu (Psychedelic pop)
87. Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (Darkwave/drone)
88. Park Jiha - Communion (Jazzy Korean post-minimalism)
89. Robyn - Honey (Dance pop)
90. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] (Post-hardcore/indie rock)
91. Ruusut - Ruusut (Electropop)
92. Clarence Clarity - Think: Peace (Glitch pop)
93. Natalia Lafourcade - Musas vol. 2 (Nueva canción latinoamericana)
94.
95. 2019
96. FKA twigs - Magdalene (Art pop)
97. Litku Klemetti - Ding ding dong (Psychedelic pop)
98. Charly Bliss - Young Enough (Power pop)
99. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated (Pop)
100. Hannah Diamond - Reflections (Electropop/Bubblegum bass)
101. 100 gecs - 1000 gecs (Bubblegum bass/emo/noise pop)
102. Caroline Polachek - Pang (Art pop)


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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25.01.2020 - 15:31
IronAngel

If I had to distill this into a top-11 and keep it to one album per artist, it would look something like:
Owen Pallett - Heartland (2010)
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
Eleonoora Rosenholm - Hyväile minua pimeä tähti (2011)
Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil (2012)
SubRosa - More Constant Than the Gods (2013)
Moonface - Julia With Blue Jeans On (2013)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion (2015)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Skeleton Tree (2016)
Low - Double Negative (2018)
Litku Klemetti - Taika tapahtuu (2018)
FKA Twigs - Magdalene (2019)

These are all at least 9/10 albums and you should check them out.
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24.04.2020 - 15:55
Moose

Only just found this list, but will be working my way through it for sure. I used to follow your lists quite closely after your 2012 one introduced me to Susanne Sundfør! Can't thank you enough for that. Any plans to get back into annual list-making?
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24.04.2020 - 16:01
IronAngel

Written by Moose on 24.04.2020 at 15:55

Only just found this list, but will be working my way through it for sure. I used to follow your lists quite closely after your 2012 one introduced me to Susanne Sundfør! Can't thank you enough for that. Any plans to get back into annual list-making?

Thanks, that's awesome to hear.

I dunno, I keep lists for myself but the effort of assigning meaningful ratings or writing something cool about all those albums every year began to seem like a chore. And since I listen to fewer albums annually, these days (maybe really only about 50 properly), there are very few new metal albums - and those are stuff that everybody knows anyway. Like this year, it's Sweven, Oranssi Pazuzu and Ulcerate that have interested me so far, and nobody here needs to be told about those. So it felt like spamming the wrong forum. We'll see, though!
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