whoa i missed a lot in this topic. here's some scattered thoughts!
TLOP and KSG are both great and writing that down makes me think that I under-rated Kanye's decade slightly. I'd take his 2010s over his 2000s, I think!
the lack of mainstream rock bands this decade is admittedly pretty unprecedented but I really don't worry about it. maybe it's just my nerdiness, but when I think about massively influential bands my mind goes first to stuff like the velvet underground and joy division, neither of whom were commercially successful in their time at all really. there are as many inspirational bands like that around now as ever, and I think enough people are hearing them to safeguard the future of rock and roll or whatever.
everything everything are ridiculously fun and creative and absolutely one of those bands - check them out for sure. since foals decided they'd rather be U2 they've taken up their mantle and sprinted away from every other semi-mainstream british indie band
not gonna massively argue with Ivy or MBDTF, neither are my picks but both are great and feel representative enough.
Nelson_Mandela posted...
@Giggsalot tell me what albums and songs I'm sleeping on
christ, where to start? I have no idea how to even begin to summarize a decade of music! if you narrow me down on genre or something, maybe I can begin to talk more precisely.
that said, here's a quickly thrown together list of albums I utterly adore. (I made it just long enough to sneak a bona fide indie rock record on there!)
nicolas jaar - nymphs
a winged victory for the sullen - s/t
gris - a l'ame enflamee, a l'ame constellee
mark kozelek and jimmy lavalle - perils from the sea
matana roberts - coin coin chapter one: gens de couleur libres
burial - kindred
mutual benefit - love's crushing diamond
danny brown - xxx
swans - the seer
kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
kendrick lamar - good kid maad city
flying lotus - cosmogramma
lorde - melodrama
rome - der aesthetik der mannschaftsfreiheit
lana del rey - norman fucking rockwell
earl sweatshirt - some rap songs
mount eerie - a crow looked at me
the weeknd - trilogy
tropical fuck storm - a laughing death in meatspace