Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

1. Kanye West
   My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Kendrick Lamar
   To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Lana Del Rey
   Norman Fucking Rockwell!
4. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
5. Robyn
   Body Talk
6. Vampire Weekend
   Modern Vampires of the City
7. Frank Ocean
   Channel Orange
8. Kendrick Lamar
   Damn
9. Courtney Barnett
   Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
10. Taylor Swift
    1989
11. PJ Harvey
    Let England Shake
12. Radiohead
    A Moon Shaped Pool
13. Janelle Monáe
    The ArchAndroid
14. Jessie Ware
    Devotion
15. Grimes
    Art Angels
16. Chromatics
    Kill for Love
17. Lorde
    Melodrama
18. Lana Del Rey
    Born to Die
19. FKA twigs
    LP1
20. Lady Gaga
    Born This Way
21. Beyoncé
    Lemonade
22. Carly Rae Jepsen
    E•MO•TION
23. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
24. Beach House
    Teen Dream
25. Charli XCX
    True Romance
26. D’Angelo and The Vanguard
    Black Messiah
27. Janelle Monáe
    Dirty Computer
28. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    Ghosteen
29. Solange
    A Seat at the Table
30. Robyn
    Honey
31. Lorde
    Pure Heroine
32. Spoon
    They Want My Soul
33. Bat for Lashes
    The Haunted Man
34. SZA
    Ctrl
35. Sufjan Stevens
    Carrie & Lowell
36. HAIM
    Something To Tell You
37. A Tribe Called Quest
    We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
38. Vince Staples
    Summertime ’06
39. David Bowie
    Blackstar
40. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
41. Kanye West
    Yeezus
42. FKA twigs
    Magdalene
43. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
44. Arcade Fire
    The Suburbs
45. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
46. Kacey Musgraves
    Golden Hour
47. LCD Soundsystem
    This Is Happening
48. Thom Yorke
    Anima
49. Lucinda Williams
    The Ghosts of Highway 20
50. Frank Ocean
    Blond
51. Disclosure
    Settle
52. The Internet
    Hive Mind
53. The War on Drugs
    Lost in the Dream
54. Drake
    Take Care
55. Father John Misty
    I Love You, Honeybear
56. Dirty Projectors
    Swing Lo Magellan
57. Blood Orange
    Cupid Deluxe
58. Cardi B
    Invasion of Privacy
59. Björk
    Utopia
60. Sturgill Simpson
    A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
61. Jessie Ware
    Tough Love
62. The Black Keys
    Brothers
63. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Skeleton Tree
64. JAY-Z
    4:44
65. Sleigh Bells
    Treats
66. Sheer Mag
    Need to Feel Your Love
67. Tune-Yards
    Whokill
68. Miguel
    Wildheart
69. Crystal Castles
    (II)
70. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
71. Mitski
    Be the Cowboy
72. The Knife
    Shaking the Habitual
73. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
74. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
75. Chance The Rapper
    Coloring Book
76. Titus Andronicus
    The Most Lamentable Tragedy
77. Pistol Annies
    Hell on Heels
78. The National
    Trouble Will Find Me
79. Leonard Cohen
    You Want It Darker
80. Björk
    Vulnicura
81. Santigold
    Master of My Make-Believe
82. The Magnetic Fields
    50 Song Memoir
83. Wild Beasts
    Smother
84. The Weeknd
    House of Balloons
85. Jenny Hval
    The Practice of Love
86. DJ Koze
    Knock Knock
87. Run the Jewels
    Run the Jewels 2
88. Taylor Swift
    Reputation
89. M83
    Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
90. Destroyer
    Kaputt
91. Mariah Carey
    Caution
92. Katy B
    On A Mission
93. Kamasi Washington
    The Epic
94. Tyler, The Creator
    Flower Boy
95. Aphex Twin
    Syro
96. James Blake
    James Blake
97. Lindstrøm & Christabelle
    Real Life Is No Cool
98. Pet Shop Boys
    Electric
99. Big Thief
    U.F.O.F.
100. Bright Light Bright Light
     Life Is Easy