Just so you know, I've been thinking about this too much. Seeing Pitchfork + Paste + Uproxx all publish their own lists this week made me feel like it's okay to overthink music lists and just throw something out there. Even if it's a couple months too soon.
Also, this list was really hard to compile. I was going to write a blurb for each album, but I don't trust my journalism skills nearly as much as I let on. And why try harder?
I think my top 4 is pretty unimpeachable. I think my top 10 should have 11 albums in it, but numbers are stupid. It was pretty hard to come up with 100 albums, no more/no less, because I simultaneously care too much yet don't care at all about what's gonna be #88 as opposed to #87 and whatnot. I like lists. This kind of stuff is therapeutic to me.
Feel free to bark at me about my terrible music taste, or entirely base your newfound musical opinions on this, or whatever. I wouldn't mind sparking some conversation!
Rosalia
El Mal Querer
2018
Andy Stott
Luxury Problems
2012
YG
Still Brazy
2016
Erykah Badu
New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh)
2010
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
2016
DJ Rashad
Double Cup
2013
Noname
Room 25
2018
U.S. Girls
In A Poem Unlimited
2018
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Skeleton Tree
2016
Flying Lotus
You're Dead!
2014
Dean Blunt
Black Metal
2014
Beach House
Bloom
2012
Janelle Monae
The ArchAndroid
2010
Killer Mike
R.A.P. Music
2012
My Bloody Valentine
m b v
2013
Big Boi
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
2010
Pusha T
DAYTONA
2018
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
2012
Oneohtrix Point Never
Garden Of Delete
2015
Women
Public Strain
2010
Earl Sweatshirt
Some Rap Songs
2018
SZA
Ctrl
2017
Savages
Silence Yourself
2013
Kanye West
The Life Of Pablo
2016
Tune-Yards
w h o k i l l
2011
75
Low
Double Negative
2018
Caribou
Swim
2010
Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
2016
Scott Walker
Bish Bosch
2012
The Caretaker
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
2011
Ariel Pink
Pom Pom
2014
The Knife
Shaking The Habitual
2013
Perfume Genius
Too Bright
2014
Shabazz Palaces
Black Up
2011
Grouper
Ruins
2014
Anderson .Paak
Malibu
2016
Colin Stetson
New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
2011
Tim Hecker
Virigins
2013
Beyonce
Lemonade
2016
Titus Andronicus
The Monitor
2010
Car Seat Headrest
Teens Of Denial
2016
Lana Del Rey
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
2019
Four Tet
There Is Love In You
2010
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
Pinata
2014
Bjork
Vulnicura
2015
Japandroids
Celebration Rock
2012
Tame Impala
Lonerism
2012
Darkside
Psychic
2013
Vampire Weekend
Contra
2010
Kurt Vile
Wakin On A Pretty Daze
2013
PJ Harvey
Let England Shake
2011
Daughters
You Won't Get What You Want
2018
D'Angelo And The Vanguard
Black Messiah
2014
Bon Iver
Bon Iver
2011
Perfume Genius
No Shape
2017
The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream
2014
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
2017
Jamie xx
In Colour
2015
Angel Olsen
All Mirrors
2019
41
Chance The Rapper
Coloring Book
2016
40
Angel Olsen
MY WOMAN
2016
Solange
A Seat At The Table
2016
38
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
2013
37
David Bowie
Blackstar
2016
Disclosure
Settle
2013
St. Vincent
Strange Mercy
2011
Julia Holter
Have You In My Wilderness
2015
Danny Brown
XXX
2011
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
2010
Deafheaven
Sunbather
2013
Swans
The Seer
2012
Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
2012
Joanna Newsom
Have One On Me
2010
Mount Eerie
A Crow Looked At Me
2017
Iceage
Plowing Into The Field Of Love
2014
FKA Twigs
LP1
2014
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Before Today
2010
Weyes Blood
Titanic Rising
2019
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell
2015
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
2015
Fleet Foxes
Helplessness Blues
2011
Death Grips
The Money Store
2012
James Blake
James Blake
2011
SOPHIE
OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
2018
Flying Lotus
Cosmogramma
2010
15 Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica
2011
Swans
To Be Kind
2014
Run The Jewels
Run The Jewels 2
2014
Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
2016
Frank Ocean
Channel Orange
2012
LCD Soundsystem
This Is Happening
2010
Destroyer
Kaputt
2011
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires Of The City
2013
Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
2010
Sun Kil Moon
Benji
2014
Beach House
Teen Dream
2010
Frank Ocean
Blonde
2016
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Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
2012
Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2010
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp A Butterfly
2015
