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    I pulled this list together when this thread was first started. It's basically the 50 albums I had actually listened to and enjoyed last decade. I've definitely become one of those people who have set music tastes, and just go back to albums by the same artists.

    In no particular order:

    Los Campesinos - Romance is Boring
    Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
    Los Campesinos - No Blues
    Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes
    Taylor Swift - Red
    Taylor Swift - 1989
    Noah Gundersen - Ledges
    Noah Gundersen - Carry the Ghost
    Noah Gundersen - White Noise
    Noah Gundersen - Lover
    Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
    Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
    Florence and the Machine - High as Hope
    The National - High Violet
    The National - Trouble Will Find Me
    The National - I Am Easy to Find
    Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
    Band of Skulls - Himalayan
    Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
    Augustana - Augustana
    Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
    Hey Rosetta - Seeds
    Hey Rosetta - Second Sight
    The Jezabels - Synthia
    James Vincent McMorrow - Early in the Morning
    James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
    James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
    Ed Sheeran - +
    Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away
    CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
    CHVRCHES - Every Eye Open
    Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
    Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
    Laura Stevenson - Sit Resist
    Laura Stevenson - Wheel
    The xx - I See You
    Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!
    Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
    Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
    The Antlers - Burst Apart
    The Antlers - Familiars
    Torres - Torres
    Torres - Sprinter
    Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
    Destroyer - Kaputt
    Sigrid - Sucker Punch
    Lorde - Melodrama
    Maggie Rogers - Heart It in a Past Life
    Matt Corby - Rainbow Valley
    Adele - 21
    Dodie - Human
    Mallrat - Driving Music

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Some entry level Joanna, for the uninitiated.

    Baby Birch kills me every time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hfswjyr View Post
    I pulled this list together when this thread was first started. It's basically the 50 albums I had actually listened to and enjoyed last decade. I've definitely become one of those people who have set music tastes, and just go back to albums by the same artists.

    In no particular order:

    Los Campesinos - Romance is Boring
    Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness
    Los Campesinos - No Blues
    Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes
    Taylor Swift - Red
    Taylor Swift - 1989
    Noah Gundersen - Ledges
    Noah Gundersen - Carry the Ghost
    Noah Gundersen - White Noise
    Noah Gundersen - Lover
    Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
    Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
    Florence and the Machine - High as Hope
    The National - High Violet
    The National - Trouble Will Find Me
    The National - I Am Easy to Find
    Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
    Band of Skulls - Himalayan
    Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
    Augustana - Augustana
    Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
    Hey Rosetta - Seeds
    Hey Rosetta - Second Sight
    The Jezabels - Synthia
    James Vincent McMorrow - Early in the Morning
    James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
    James Vincent McMorrow - We Move
    Ed Sheeran - +
    Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away
    CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
    CHVRCHES - Every Eye Open
    Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
    Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
    Laura Stevenson - Sit Resist
    Laura Stevenson - Wheel
    The xx - I See You
    Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!
    Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
    Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
    The Antlers - Burst Apart
    The Antlers - Familiars
    Torres - Torres
    Torres - Sprinter
    Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
    Destroyer - Kaputt
    Sigrid - Sucker Punch
    Lorde - Melodrama
    Maggie Rogers - Heart It in a Past Life
    Matt Corby - Rainbow Valley
    Adele - 21
    Dodie - Human
    Mallrat - Driving Music
    We have quite similar taste in music and I think I got some very good recommendations back in the old board (or is that the new old board). That said I’m a busy modern man and instead of doing the leg work myself I would really appreciate a Spotify playlist link. Could you sort me out with one?

    @-james-I don’t recognize as many artists from your list, but would like to give them a go as well if you have a Spotify playlist as I really like some bands from your top 50.

    Edit:hsfwjyr There are actually quite a few on your list I’ve probably found through you in the first place 👍

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    Were those Antlers albums anywhere near as good as Hospice? I see they’re releasing a new album in March, but I don’t know if I even gave their other works a go, just based off reviews.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    We have quite similar taste in music and I think I got some very good recommendations back in the old board (or is that the new old board). That said I’m a busy modern man and instead of doing the leg work myself I would really appreciate a Spotify playlist link. Could you sort me out with one?

    @-james-I don’t recognize as many artists from your list, but would like to give them a go as well if you have a Spotify playlist as I really like some bands from your top 50.

    Edit:hsfwjyr There are actually quite a few on your list I’ve probably found through you in the first place ��
    Which ones in particular? I know I got into James Vincent McMorrow after a recommendation from someone on this forum, and more recently Big Thief.
    I'm going to make one, because I'm deathly bored on a Saturday night in, and it's a nice trip down memory lane. Stay tuned.



    Quote Originally Posted by CJay View Post
    Were those Antlers albums anywhere near as good as Hospice? I see they’re releasing a new album in March, but I don’t know if I even gave their other works a go, just based off reviews.
    I thought they were both great. Hospice is the most depressing one, but the other two are equally melancholy - just not pure depression material.
    Last edited by hfswjyr; 16-01-2021 at 09:17 AM.

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    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I...Rjay9hnL8myjew
    Ended up picking 2 of my favourite tracks from each album. Hope you discover something cool from these!

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    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2u...T2GAJUEWCNEbgw

    A couple of things from this thread regrettably not on Spotify.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CJay View Post
    Baby Birch kills me every time.
    Yeah the Melkweg performance of that gets played a lot. Sometimes just the last four minutes if I'm cheating.

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    What did you make of To Pimp a Butterfly, James? (Good Kid in your top 15.)

    A couple of things in the list has me intrigued, I'll check out some of the ones I've not heard of.

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    Oh it's phenomenal. I think I find it harder to dive in or out of than GKMC, though, so I've listened to it a lot less.

    Good Kid Maad City has this incredible immediacy about it. Every track is an absolute banger while also being incredibly lyrically dense and rewarding of revisits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hfswjyr View Post
    Which ones in particular? I know I got into James Vincent McMorrow after a recommendation from someone on this forum, and more recently Big Thief.
    I'm going to make one, because I'm deathly bored on a Saturday night in, and it's a nice trip down memory lane. Stay tuned.




    I thought they were both great. Hospice is the most depressing one, but the other two are equally melancholy - just not pure depression material.
    Jezabels, Los Campesinos (don’t remember if that was from you, but from TTH anyway), Hey Rosetta and Antlers I think.

    Cheers for the playlist to both. I saved them and will give them a listen next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    Oh it's phenomenal. I think I find it harder to dive in or out of than GKMC, though, so I've listened to it a lot less.

    Good Kid Maad City has this incredible immediacy about it. Every track is an absolute banger while also being incredibly lyrically dense and rewarding of revisits.
    Understandable. A lot of the tracks work best as part of a mood piece / whole album experience, and my favourite track (Wesley's Theory) was most exciting on the first listen and when hyping the rest of the album. I don't know Good Kid as well but can imagine that might be easier to dip in and out of.

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    I'd put Flower Boy down as my rap album of the decade. Laughable that DAMN pipped it for the Grammy.

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    I'd have Killer Mike's RAP Music down for that but then I'm barely up to speed on modern stuff.

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    You can't really argue against MBDTF. Everything about that album is just brilliant. Every story is gold.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    My album of this decade is Big Thief - Masterpiece. Amazing emotion in it. The follow up wasn't as good but they never are.
    Adrianne Lenker

    You should check out her solo work.

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    On that post spoonsky quoted immediately above, I have recently been reappraising this topic and would like to renounce the above post - the second album (Capacity) is a thing of incredible beauty. Maybe I needed to be a year older, or a year more locked down, to get it. No one does melody like she does.

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    I was lucky enough to discover all their albums at the same time, and am happy to report they are all outstanding. I need to give her solo stuff another listen, as I'm sure it'll be great too.

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    I haven't even approached the most recent two albums yet. I can only do one thing at a time with music, if there's something good I tend to milk the fuck out of it in quite a narrow way.

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    This is my favourite of theirs:


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    At the moment mine is the preceding track 'Haley' but I get a new one every week.

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    Ended up doing this the other day. Harder than expected but managed to keep it to no more than one album per artist.

    Some random entries (hello, Sheeran) but nostalgia scores high.

    Number Artist Album Year
    1 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2010
    2 Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell 2015
    3 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly 2015
    4 Hamilton Hamilton 2015
    5 Bon Iver 22, A Million 2011
    6 Book of Mormon Book of Mormon 2011
    7 Florence and the Machine Ceremonials 2011
    8 Billie Eilish WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? 2019
    9 The Roots How I Got Over 2010
    10 Ben Howard Every Kingdom 2011
    11 London Grammar If You Wait 2013
    12 Nas Life is Good 2012
    13 Rainbow Kitten Surprise How to: Friend, Love, Freefall 2018
    14 Rapsody Laila's Wisdom 2017
    15 Oddissee The Good Fight 2015
    16 Lorde Melodrama 2017
    17 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell 2019
    18 Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition 2016
    19 The Game Documentary 2 & 2.5 2015
    20 Frank Ocean Channel Orange 2012
    21 Chance the Rapper Coloring Book 2016
    22 Ed Sheeran + 2011
    23 J Cole The Sideline Story 2011
    24 Freddie Gibbs Pinata 2014
    25 Taylor Swift Reputation 2017
    26 Halsey Hopeless Fountain 2017
    27 Common Black America Again 2016
    28 Dave Psychodrama 2019
    29 Action Bronson Blue Chips 2 2013
    30 Bears Den Red Earth and Pouring Rain 2016
    31 Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 2016
    32 Novo Amor & Ed Tullett Heiress 2017
    33 Jay-Z 4:44 2017
    34 Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth 2015
    35 Anderson Paak Malibu 2016
    36 Noname Telefone 2016
    37 Earl Sweatshirt I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt 2015
    38 Daughter If You Leave 2013
    39 Arctic Monkeys AM 2013
    40 The Civil Wars The Civil Wars 2013
    41 Young Fathers White Men are Black Men Too 2015
    42 Saba Care For Me 2018
    43 Destroyer Kaputt 2011
    44 Benjamin Francis Leftwich Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm 2011
    45 Foreign Fields Anywhere But Where I Am 2012
    46 David Bowie Blackstar 2016
    47 A Tribe Called Quest We Got It From Here 2016
    48 Smino blkswn 2017
    49 Sleeping At Last Atlas (Space) 2017
    50 Yann Tiersen EUSA 2016

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    Solid list. Channel Orange being released in 2012 has really thrown me.

    I'd have Islands above RE&PR personally.

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    Reputation is your favourite Taylor Swift album? Interesting. That one was pretty much unlistenable for me, and I really like all her other stuff.

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    hey @-james- I saw Caribou back when they went by Manitoba

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    Settled on a top ten, then trying to sort the rest gave me a headache so I put in in alphabetical order. Surprised at how much I struggled to even come up with fifty albums. I kept on coming up with stuff that felt somewhat recent to me but wasn't. Getting old(er) is weird.

    1. Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace (2018)
    2. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual (2013)
    3. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (2010)
    4. of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks (2012)
    5. Kendrick Lamar - good Kid, m.A.A.d City (2012)
    6. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (2010)
    7. The Drones - I See Seaweed (2013)
    8. Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. (2016)
    9. MGMT - Little Dark Age (2018)
    10. Alex Cameron - Forced Witness (2017)


    Agnes Obel - Aventine (2013)
    Algiers - The Underside of Power (2017)
    Anderson .Paak - Malibu (2016)
    Avey Tare - Down There (2010)
    Beach House - Bloom (2012)
    black midi - Schlagenheim (2019)
    Caribou - Swim (2010)
    Caroline Rose - Loner (2018)
    Clarence Clarity - No Now (2015)
    Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
    Dan Deacon - America (2012)
    Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want (2018)
    Deakin - SLEEP CYCLE (2016)
    Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
    Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (2010)
    Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE (2012)
    Idles - Brutalism (2017)
    Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (2010)
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe (2017)
    Kirin J Callinan - Bravado (2017)
    Melt Yourself Down - Melt Yourself Down (2013)
    Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate (2016)
    of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (2013)
    Perfume Genius - No Shape (2017)
    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)
    Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (2019)
    Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork (2013)
    Sault - 5 (2019)
    SBTRKT - SBTRKT (2011)
    St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011)
    Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (2010)
    Swans - The Seer (2012)
    Swans - To Be Kind (2014)
    The Kills - Blood Pressures (2011)
    Tim Hecker - Virgins (2013)
    Tune-Yards - w h o k i l l (2011)
    Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
    Woods - At Echo Lake (2010)
    Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat (2016)
    Yonathan Gat - Director (2015)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    hey @-james- I saw Caribou back when they went by Manitoba
    I've never listened to any of his stuff before Swim. Maybe I should. The stuff after it was always pretty meh I thought.
    Last edited by -james-; 11-11-2021 at 02:52 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    I've never listened to any of his stuff before Swim. Maybe I should. The stuff after it was always pretty meh I thought.
    oh shit

    I was just going for a useless flex, but Up in Flames is pretty good stuff

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