Year-End Lists

Albumism: The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s

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• 21
  Adele
• Everyday Robots
  Damon Albarn
• Testament
  All Saints
• The Suburbs
  Arcade Fire
• We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
  A Tribe Called Quest
• Turn Out the Lights
  Julien Baker
• Goddess
  Banks
• The Bride
  Bat for Lashes
• Morning Phase
  Beck
• El Camino
  The Black Keys
• The Colour in Anything
  James Blake
• 22, A Million
  Bon Iver
• Blackstar
  David Bowie
• Stranger in the Alps
  Phoebe Bridgers
• All the Beauty in This Whole Life
  Brother Ali
• Dice GAme
  Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown
• case/lang/veirs
  case/lang/veirs
• Kill for Love
  Chromatics
• The Bones Of What You Believe
  Chvrches
• Every Hero Needs a Villain
  Czarface
• Black Messiah
  D’Angelo and The Vanguard
• Rome
  Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi
• Cheers to the Fall
  Andra Day
• and the Anonymous Nobody…
  De La Soul
• Settle
  Disclosure
• Rosecrans
  DJ Quik & Problem
• When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
  Billie Eilish
• The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
  Elbow
• Wanderlust
  Sophie Ellis Bextor
• Similes
  Eluvium
• Introducin'
  Willie Evans Jr.
• Pure Comedy
  Father John Misty
• Stay Gold
  First Aid Kit
• Piñata
  Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
• Black Radio
  Robert Glasper Experiment
• thank u, next
  Ariana Grande
• Let England Shake
  PJ Harvey
• Bones + Longing
  Gemma Hayes
• H.E.R.
  H.E.R.
• Choose Your Weapon
  Hiatus Kaiyote
• Hozier
  Hozier
• Ego Death
  The Internet
• Interpol
  Interpol
• 4:44
  JAY-Z
• E•MO•TION
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• Khrysis & Elzhi Are Jericho Jackson
  Jericho Jackson
• Integrity Blues
  Jimmy Eat World
• Doubleback: Evolution of R&B
  Joe
• Grief Pedigree
  Ka
• Food
  Kelis
• From the Westside With Love, II
  Dom Kennedy
• R.A.P. Music
  Killer Mike
• Vows
  Kimbra
• Born This Way
  Lady Gaga
• To Pimp A Butterfly
  Kendrick Lamar
• Gravity
  Lecrae
• The Voyager
  Jenny Lewis
• In the Days of Jupiter
  Lights Out Asia
• A Thousand Suns
  Linkin Park
• Nabuma Rubberband
  Little Dragon
• If You Wait
  London Grammar
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• YU
  Rosie Lowe
• Tetsuo & Youth
  Lupe Fiasco
• Wounded Rhymes
  Lykke Li
• Madame X
  Madonna
• Ella Mai
  Ella Mai
• A Breukelen Story
  Masta Ace & Marco Polo
• Beat Tape 2
  Tom Misch
• The Electric Lady
  Janelle Monáe
• Golden Hour
  Kacey Musgraves
• Life Is Good
  Nas
• High Violet
  The National
• A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
  The 1975
• Victory Lap
  Nipsey Hussle
• Beneath The Skin
  Of Monsters and Men
• Malibu
  Anderson .Paak
• Stay Lucky
  Nerina Pallot
• Animal Heart
  Nina Persson
• Electric
  Pet Shop Boys
• PRhyme
  PRhyme
• Voicenotes
  Charlie Puth
• A Moon Shaped Pool
  Radiohead
• Laila’s Wisdom
  Rapsody
• Reloaded
  Roc Marciano
• How I Got Over
  The Roots
• Something’s Changing
  Lucy Rose
• Run the Jewels
  Run the Jewels
• Stone Rollin’
  Raphael Saadiq
• Soldier of Love
  Sade
• Home Counties
  Saint Etienne
• In the Blue Light
  Paul Simon
• In the Lonely Hour
  Sam Smith
• A Seat at the Table
  Solange
• Glory
  Britney Spears
• St. Vincent
  St. Vincent
• One True Vine
  Mavis Staples
• Love Me Back
  Jazmine Sullivan
• Cape Verde
  Super Chron Flight Brothers
• 1989
  Taylor Swift
• Ctrl
  SZA
• Currents
  Tame Impala
• Three Kings
  TGT
• Underneath the Pine
  Toro y Moi
• While I'm Livin'
  Tanya Tucker
• Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
  The Twilight Sad
• Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
  Underworld
• Tough Love
  Jessie Ware
• Flygod
  Westside Gunn
• Coexist
  The xx