2010s
Music
Posts
Please Don't Feed The Model
Rom / Schaerer / Eberle
vocal madness with guitar and horn
Stone Rollin'
Rafael Saadiq
retro dance fest
Clear Language
Balmorhea
post-ambient-gaze
A Universe That Roasts Blossoms For A Horse
Sirom
extraterrestrial folk
Quiet Signs
Jessica Pratt
ghostly beauty
Blood & Mathematics
Pulshar
in the chillout rooms of your mind
Tomorrow Was The Golden Age
Bing & Ruth
masterfully ambient classical
Cenotes
Giant Squid
love this thing
Transcendental Youth
Mountain Goats
like nothing else
Rest In Space
Islandman
groovy as hell
Animal Choir
Her Name Is Calla
Beauty and menace
Arrival
Fire! Orchestra
weirdly cool
Omnisphere
Medeski Martin & Wood with Alarm Will Sound
a great journey
Philharmonics
Agnes Obel
single-minded clarity
La Di Da Di
Battles
meaty and mathy
No Cities To Love
Sleater-Kinney
a new era
Convex
Nym
eco-chill
15 Shades of White
various
audio snowfall
Omnion
Hercules & Love Affair
Dance Dance Think
Strands
Steve Hauschildt
relentlessly calm
Dance of the Demons
Web Web
north meets south
Sometimes I Sit And Think...
Courtney Barnett
pure indie rock joy
Vodka & Ayahuasca
Gangrene
a trip
The Mountain
Haken
prog metal masterpiece
Man Made Object
GoGo Penguin
three is a magic number
Ballroom Ghosts
Jim Copperthwaite
a wonderfully single-minded project
Until We Meet The Sky
Solar Fields
full-spectrum beauty
Suzi Ecto
Call Super
ectotechnic
Planet Shhh!
Human Pyramids
Bliss on a Bandcamp budget
Anima Mysterium
Yugen Blakrok
shamanic sojourn
Band Of Joy
Robert Plant
In which Robert pretends he's in a band
In Spades
Afghan Whigs
whiggy
Patience
The Invisible
London cosmopolitan cool
Lore
Elder
stein auf!
Hologram Plaza
Disconscious
mallchillvibewavecoresoft
Yawn Zen
Mndsgn
maybe too zen?
Interstellar Interlude
Tomoki Kanda
beauty ex nihilo
Deep Time
Deep Time
pretty deep, I guess
Hope
Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke
guitar and piano
August
Still Lost Bird Music
classic poetry set to bluegrassy music
Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars
Sarah Louise
glitch-calm folk
You Will Not Die
Nakhane
a unique voice
Tahoe
Dedekind Cut
the dedekindest cut
Lungs
Florence + The Machine
Not calling you a liar.
Awaken, My Love
Childish Gambino
we're awake
Gallery
Jizue
post-jazz
Pucker
Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola
8-string goodness
Wildness
Snow Patrol
life on earth
Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
Moby
a late-career gem
Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Do Make Say Think
ballsy post rock
Yacht Rock Breaks
Camino 84
kind of amazing
Flight Of The Ancient
Shaolin Afronauts
Australian Afrobeat
Deaden The Fields
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving
GoGo Wallaby
Summation
Apstolos Sideris
jazz bassist
The Branches
Long Arm
the algorithm gets one right
Baralku
Emancipator
comfort food.
Night Walks
Hidden Orchestra
jazzy chill
The Book Room
Kilchhofer
verchillen
Melodrama
Lorde
less mellow, more drama
Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
a lovely blast of beautiful sadness
Mechanical Fair Live
Ola Kvernberg
unjazzy jazz
Dream In Blue
Bronwyn Davies
lovely
VII
Blitzen Trapper
hooking a roadhouse jukebox up to a marshall stack
The Cold Testament
Book Of Black Earth
cold, black
Poison Season
Destroyer
an oblique, soulful oddball
Greatest Possible Tenderness
Often The Thinker
Post-Americana
Sour Soul
Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD
ACTUALLYPRETTYGOOD
Ultraviolet
Kelly Moran
ambient prepared piano
Leave No Bridge Unburned
Whitehorse
in which bridges are burned
Burst Apart
The Antlers
watch your teeth
Kveikur
Sigur Ros
post-post
Documerica
Ethel
pictures at an exhibition
The Tourist
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
blog rock
Onda
Jambinai
curb-stomping post-rock goodness
Arrival (Original Soundtrack)
Johann Johannsson
a flat circle
Obsidian
Baths
dark and shining
50 Words For Snow
Kate Bush
You shouldn't be stunned but it's still stunning
Welcome Oblivion
How To Destroy Angels
get destroyed
B'lieve I'm Going Down
Kurt Vile
Mac The Knife at the bathroom sink
Black Origami
Jlin
a dancefloor breakthrough
High Desert Low Tide
Clutchy Hopkins & Fat Albert Einstein
a music you can put in your ears
Good Luck And Do Your Best
Gold Panda
dance panda dance
Sorceress
Opeth
a kick in the head
Hell Can Wait
Vince Staples
finna go to hell anyway
An Awesome Wave
Alt J
math pop
Excavation
Haxan Cloak
metal-AF ambient doom
Wild Light
65daysofstatic
a post rock tour de force
Tempo
Olga Bell
dancable and adventurous
Proto
Holly Herndon
ok, computer
Filament
Eighth Blackbird
Dessner, Muhly, Glass
Traveller
Chris Stapleton
have some whiskey
Virgins
Tim Hecker
Dense, creepy, and gorgeous
Mini World
Indila
c'est bon
In The Wilderness
Pekoe
gorgeous, twee chamber pop
Ed Buys Houses
Sidney Gish
balls hard
Visions Of Us On The Land
Damien Jurado
a pleasant little diversion
Oxymoron
Schoolboy Q
LA cool
Fellow Traveller
Attacca Quartet
String quartets are cool
A Church That Fits Our Needs
Lost In The Trees
grief and beauty
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monae
ultra-eclectic afro-futurism
In For A Penny, In For A Pound
Henry Threadgill & Zooid
Pulitzer-winning compositional chamber jazz
Igor
Tyler The Creator
a very grown up record
Anti
Rihanna
work
Safe In The Steep Cliffs
Emancipator
an explosion of calm and lucidity in my brain
Phantom Radio
Mark Lanegan
gone too soon
21
Adele
As if she needs my help selling records
Good Kid m.A.A.D City
Kendrick Lamar
A short film by Kendrick Lamar
Familiaris
Snooze
fun, if inconsequential, math prog
Filha De Mil Mulheres
Clau Aniz
Languid, organic pop
Planetary Clairvoyance
Tomb Mold
bottomlessly filthy blackened death metal
Henki
Richard Dawson and Circle
folk metal about plants. For real.
Trouble Will Find Me
The National
cici nes pas REM
Dusk
JR Bohannon
gorgeous solo guitar
Your Queen Is A Reptile
Sons Of Kemet
A fierce statement
Loma
Loma
a dark, beautiful gem
Cocoa Sugar
Young Fathers
Their best yet
First Weapon Drawn
CZARFACE
hard instrumental hip-hop beats, and wrestlers in space
Edition 1
King Midas Sound and Fennesz
foggy electronic pop
Let Them Eat Chaos
Kae Tempest
Tempest's Masterpiece
B4.DA.$$
Joey Bada$$
muscular hip hop
Guitar In The Space Age
Bill Frisell
nostalgic surf safari
Muchacho
Phosphorescent
literate, grandiose modern country-rock
We Don't Even Live Here
POS
Angry Minneapolis rap
Odd Soul
Mutemath
suburban hipster funk
Arvo Pärt: Portrait
Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà
Spotlighting a towering 20th century composer
Navigator
Her Name Is Calla
A post-y approach to lush, organic folk rock
...and they have escaped the weight of darkness
Olafur Arnalds
orchestral slowcore ambient
Life & Livin It
Sinkane
a little of everything
The Paranoia Party
Unnatural Ways
avante-punk-prog noise
The Dancers At The Edge Of Time (2015)
Greg Foat Group
understated modern cosmic jazz
Chalice Hymnal
Grails
doomy, gloomy, roomy, and boomy
Forward / Return
The Album Leaf
v. chill but interesting on a deep listen
All That Divides
Black Peaks
An accessible, air-guitar-enabled scream-along
Brutalism
Idles
An ass-kicking
Other Towns Than Ours
Last Leaves
jangly, upbeat, witty
Savage Times
Hanni El Khatib
a fun distraction
Rosalia
Los Angeles
Not what you might expect
WHO
The Who
Old dogs and new tricks
Rays Of Darkness
MONO
dark post rock
The Last Dawn
MONO
pretty post rock
Engravings
Forest Swords
a moody instrumental jam
New Bodies
Tangents
new directions in sound
Singing Saw
Kevin Morby
no srsly. it's morbin' time
The OOZ
King Krule
only sounds lazy and disjointed at first
Alive
Hiromi
an under-recognized genius
