Your Personal Top 10 of the 2010s

Quote:I was listening to the Horrible Crowes' Elsie tonight and thinking about how it's easily one of my favorite albums of the decade, when I decided to try a simple and complicated exercise:

• List your favorite ten albums of the decade thus far (alphabetical order, no pictures please)
  
• Write at least one sentence about why you like it so much (keep it short!)
  

There's no thread for something like this, so I thought I'd make one. Meant to be a fun album discovery option for folks... if you absolutely love 8/10 of someone's list, there's probably 2 other albums you should give a shot.

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Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Oblique poetry set to folk music that sounds like it was made from a dorm room in space.

Damian Rice - My Favorite Faded Fantasy
Delicate songwriting that builds and builds until there's nothing left in your heart.

The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
The heart of a late night epitomized in song.

Japandroids - Celebration Rock
All-time perfect roaring down the highway music.

Jason Isbell - Southeastern
A songwriter who's been through hell finds his way out.

Jens Lekman [b]- Life Will See You Now[/b]
Idiosyncratic, joyful storytelling thats somehow about nothing and everything.

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle
A deeply empathetic soul reaches heavenward with a voice that can actually get there.

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The sound of a collaborative genius on the ledge trying everything at once and succeeding.

Strand Of Oaks - HEAL
Purgative roars from the eye of a rock maelstrom.

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Romance and hysteria and loss and triumph, often at the same time.


Honorable Mentions:
[b]The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There[/b]
Catharsis.

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
The world's best rapper turns the world inside out and back again.

Noah Gundersen - Lover
A mirror turns into a prism, combining everything he loves into a suite of hyper-personal songs.