Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

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#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	2015	To Pimp a Butterfly	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.4	23
2	2013	Yeezus	Kanye West	Album	3.85	9
3	2015	Art Angels	Grimes	Album	4.45	10
4	2010	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West	Album	4.25	19
5	2016	Blonde	Frank Ocean	Album	4.35	5
6	2012	good kid, m.A.A.d city	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.3	73
7	2013	BEYONCÉ	Beyoncé	Album	4	28
8	2013	Night Time, My Time	Sky Ferreira	Album	4.5	10
9	2015	E•MO•TION	Carly Rae Jepsen	Album	4.4	59
10	2012	Red	Taylor Swift	Album	4.4	97
11	2017	DAMN.	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.2	54
12	2010	This Is Happening	LCD Soundsystem	Album	4.65	18
13	2012	channel ORANGE	Frank Ocean	Album	3.8	12
14	2010	The Suburbs	Arcade Fire	Single	4	4
15	2016	★ (Blackstar)	David Bowie	Album	4.15	16
16	2015	Carrie & Lowell	Sufjan Stevens	Album	4.2	12
17	2017	Melodrama	Lorde	Album	4.2	33
18	2013	m b v	my bloody valentine	Album	3.65	7
19	2012	The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do	Fiona Apple	Album	4.1	11
20	2010	Body Talk	Robyn	Album	4.5	14
21	2016	A Seat at the Table	Solange	Album	3.75	5
22	2011	Bon Iver, Bon Iver	Bon Iver	Album	4.2	15
23	2015	Summertime ’06	Vince Staples	Album	3	7
24	2014	Lost in the Dream	The War on Drugs	Album	4.35	3
25	2013	Sunbather	Deafheaven	Album	3.55	6
26	2013	Modern Vampires of the City	Vampire Weekend	Album	4.15	10
27	2016	Puberty 2	Mitski	Album	4.8	12
28	2011	Strange Mercy	St. Vincent	Album	5	6
29	2014	Burn Your Fire for No Witness	Angel Olsen	Album	5	5
30	2013	Old	Danny Brown	Album	4.35	5
31	2015	I Love You, Honeybear	Father John Misty	Album	4	8
32	2010	Teen Dream	Beach House	Album	3.5	7
33	2016	Lemonade	Beyoncé	Album	3.8	24
34	2018	Golden Hour	Kacey Musgraves	Album	3.15	16
35	2017	A Crow Looked at Me	Mount Eerie	Album	4	4
36	2014	LP1	FKA twigs	Album	3.9	8
37	2016	22, a Million	Bon Iver	Album	3.7	7
38	2011	Take Care	Drake	Album	4.35	11
39	2010	Have One on Me	Joanna Newsom	Album	4.7	5
40	2011	Born to Die	Lana Del Rey	Single	4.65	9
41	2013	Acid Rap	Chance the Rapper	Album + Mixtape/Street	3.4	9
42	2018	Sweetener	Ariana Grande	Album	3.85	23
43	2017	No Shape	Perfume Genius	Album	3.5	3
44	2017	Slowdive	Slowdive	Album	4.4	7
45	2018	DAYTONA	Pusha T	Album	2.65	4
46	2016	ANTI	Rihanna	Album	4.55	22
47	2013	Cerulean Salt	Waxahatchee	Album	4	4
48	2018	Lush	Snail Mail	Album	4	6
49	2011	Tomboy	Panda Bear	Album	2.5	4
50	2014	Run the Jewels 2	Run the Jewels	Album	3.25	14
51	2014	Are We There	Sharon Van Etten	Album	5	4
52	2015	Currents	Tame Impala	Album	3.95	16
53	2013	Shaking the Habitual	The Kniфe	Album		15
54	2010	The Monitor	Titus Andronicus	Album	5	5
55	2018	EL MAL QUERER	ROSALÍA	Album	3.65	3
56	2018	Invasion of Privacy	Cardi B	Album	3.95	13
57	2013	Doris	Earl Sweatshirt	Album	5	6
58	2016	We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service	A Tribe Called Quest	Album	4	8
59	2016	A Moon Shaped Pool	Radiohead	Album	4.2	13
60	2015	The Epic	Kamasi Washington	Album	4.35	6
61	2016	I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it	The 1975	Album	4.1	15
62	2011	Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming	M83	Album	3.9	12
63	2011	David Comes to Life	Fucked Up	Album	5	2
64	2013	Cupid Deluxe	Blood Orange	Album	4.5	3
65	2011	James Blake	James Blake	Album	4.05	11
66	2015	Apocalypse, girl	Jenny Hval	Album	4	5
67	2019	Norman Fucking Rockwell!	Lana Del Rey	Album	4.45	39
68	2019	Purple Mountains	Purple Mountains	Album	4.4	3
69	2014	1989	Taylor Swift	Album	4.05	97
70	2014	Black Messiah	D’Angelo and The Vanguard	Album	2.65	6
71	2018	Double Negative	Low	Album	3.35	6
72	2019	Ghosteen	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Album	3.2	5
73	2015	Vulnicura	Björk	Album	3.8	9
74	2017	Sleep Well Beast	The National	Album	3.6	12
75	2017	Pop 2	Charli XCX	Album + Mixtape/Street	4.65	6
76	2014	DSU	Alex G	Album	4	9
77	2017	Ctrl	SZA	Album	4.4	9
78	2010	Halcyon Digest	Deerhunter	Album	4.35	8
79	2019	U.F.O.F.	Big Thief	Album	4.25	6
80	2012	Light Up Gold	Parquet Courts	Album	4.65	3
81	2012	Celebration Rock	Japandroids	Album	4.5	3
82	2013	Slow Focus	Fuck Buttons	Album	2.85	3
83	2017	Nothing Feels Natural	Priests	Album		3
84	2019	Father of the Bride	Vampire Weekend	Album	3.8	9
85	2010	Treats	Sleigh Bells	Album	3.75	5
86	2014	The Outsiders	Eric Church	Album	4	5
87	2011	Replica	Oneohtrix Point Never	Album	4	9
88	2016	Slow Forever	Cobalt	Album		2
89	2014	Tha Tour, Part 1	Rich Gang	Album + Mixtape/Street		2
90	2017	Guppy	Charly Bliss	Album	2.65	5
91	2017	Soft Sounds From Another Planet	Japanese Breakfast	Album	4.35	3
92	2015	Simple Songs	Jim O’Rourke	Album	4	2
93	2015	Painted Shut	Hop Along	Album	2	2
94	2012	Shrines	Purity Ring	Album	5	7
95	2011	Civilian	Wye Oak	Album	5	6
96	2015	I Want to Grow Up	Colleen Green	Album		2
97	2015	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit	Courtney Barnett	Album	4.5	19
98	2016	The Dream Is Over	PUP	Album	4.5	33
99	2016	Teens of Denial	Car Seat Headrest	Album	4.5	11
100	2012	Pluto	Future	Album	4	8

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