The ADM Albums Of The Decade (2010-2019)
The most critically-acclaimed albums of the 2010s
AnyDecentMusic has been in existence now for just over ten years
so it's the perfect time to look back at the most
critically-acclaimed albums from 2010-2019. From Anais Mitchell's
Hadestown to Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' Ghosteen we have had some
remarkable and diverse albums albums top the ADM Chart both on a
week-to-week basis and in our annual round-ups. So here are the
best albums of this decade.
(We have excluded from the rankings any albums with fewer than
10 reviews from our list of sources from the UK, US, Canada,
Australia and Ireland, and the formula we apply to arrive at the
ADM rating takes the number of reviews into account)
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9.26
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
"A celebration of the audacity to wake up each morning to try to
be better, knowing it could all end in a second, for no reason at
all" - Pitchfork
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Kendrick Lamar
Damn.
"A masterpiece fuelled by anxiety and contemplation" - DIY
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D'Angelo And The Vanguard
Black Messiah
"The album would be vital in any time, but in 2014, it's
downright restorative" - Slant Magazine
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen
"The most beautiful songs he has ever recorded" - The
Guardian
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Skeleton Tree
"From an unspeakable event a remarkable record has come. One
that sits amongst Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' best. Skeleton
Tree is full of grief, but full of heart too" - music
OMH
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8.91
Frank Ocean
Channel Orange
"Channel Orange is so arrestingly smooth that all of its
unusually shaped pieces fit together as a seamless whole" - The AV
Club
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Anaïs Mitchell
Hadestown
"The songs are pithy, their arrangements sliding between
country, gospel, Dixieland and string sextet." - Uncut
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Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
"Kanye's man-myth dichotomy is at once modern and truly classic"
- Pitchfork
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Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker
"Accomplishes isn't just powerful instrumentation in minimalism,
or strong poeticism, but that of an artist baring their soul, and
the sharing of sincere truth" - PopMatters
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Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
"The sincerity in Stevens's voice is what elevates Carrie &
Lowell from sermonizing drivel" - No Ripcord
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And the next 90
11. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
12. Deafheaven - Sunbather
13. Dave - Psychodrama
14. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
15. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
16. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
17. Beyonce - Lemonade R
18. Lorde - Melodrama -
19. Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit
Down
20. St Vincent - St Vincent
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21 Joanna Newsom - Divers
22 Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
23 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
24 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
25 Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the
Human Race
26 Swans - To Be Kind
27 Solange - Seat at the Table
28 FKA Twigs - MAGDALENE
29 Patty Griffin - American Kid
30 Future Of The Left - How to Stop Your Brain in
an Accident
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31 Bon Iver - 22, A Million
32 Tom Waits - Bad As Me
33 Little Simz - Grey Area
34 Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
35 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3
36 Noname - Room 25
37 Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser…
38 Father John Misty - I Love You,
Honeybear
39 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
40 FKA Twigs - Lp1
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41 Julia Holter - Have You In My
Wilderness
42 Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
43 Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
44 Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
45 Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The
Harvest
46 Tame Impala - Lonerism
47 Karine Polwart - With Pippa Murphy A Pocket Of
Wind Resistance
48 Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
49 Brand New - Science Fiction
50 Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
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51 Drive-By Truckers - American Band
52 Angel Olsen - My Woman
53 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
54 Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
55 Vince Staples - Summertime '06
56 St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
57 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
58 Nils Frahm - Spaces
59 Frank Ocean - Blonde
60 Burial - Kindred
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61 A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From
Here...
62 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
63 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
64 Jenny Hval - Innocence Is Kinky
65 Death Grips - The Money Store
66 Baroness - Gold & Grey
67 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
68 Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
69 Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
70 Perfume Genius - Too Bright
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71 David Bowie - Blackstar
72 Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
73 Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth
74 Robyn - Honey
75 Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability
76 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
77 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali
And Toumani
78 Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
79 Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
80 Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
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81 Daughters - You Won't Get What You
Want
82 John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
83 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think,
and Sometimes I Just Sit
84 Christine and the Queens - Chris
85 Bon Iver - Bon Iver
86 Aphex Twin - Syro
87 Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love
88 Richard Dawson - Peasant
89 Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
90 Danny Brown - Old
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91 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
92 Fever Ray - Plunge
93 Big Thief - Two Hands
94 Swans - The Seer
95 Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To
Earth
96 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
97 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels
98 Emma Pollock - In Search Of Harperfield
99 tUnE-YaRdS - w h o k i l l
100 Mount Eerie - Now Only