20 Favourite Albums of the 10s

I wanted to make a decade best-of list for albums but I didn't feel like going through EVERYTHING from the past ten years. So I decided to adopt the Decadeology rules, two albums for each year, making for a concise 20 album list. Tough choices were made, I can tell you that. Some of these, you'll obviously know. Others, maybe not so much. In any case, I know there are any number of ways I could have gone, but these are the ones that sing my heart at this writing.

2010: LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening 

2010: Robyn - Body Talk

2011: Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

2011: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

2012: Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

2012: Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

2013: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

2013: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

2014: Javiera Mena - Otra Era

2014: The CRY! - Dangerous Game

2015: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion

2015: Joanna Newsom - Divers

2016: David Bowie - Blackstar

2016: Beyoncé - Lemonade

2017: Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness

2017: Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps

2018: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

2018: The Beths - Future Me Hates Me

2019: Charly Bliss - Young Enough

2019: Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains