Seems like every music blog, website, and critic’s doing one of these, so I might as well, too. I dove into it expecting results much different than I came up with. These are the records from this decade I’ve played the most often with the most delight, simple as that.
2010
Pierced Arrows: Descending Shadows
Elizabeth Cook: Welder
M.I.A.: Maya
2011
Polystyrene: Generation Indigo
Wussy: Strawberry
2013
Live from Festival au Desert Timbuktu
Martha Redbone Roots Project: The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake
Mariem Hassan: El Aaiún Egdat
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba: Jama Ko
Jason Isbell: Southeastern
2014
Wussy: Attica!
Withered Hand: New Gods
Young Thug and Bloody Jay: Black Portland
Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie: December Day
Chris Butler: Easy Life
2015
Joe McPhee and Paal Nilssen-Love: Candy
Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly
Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: Manhattan
Jinx Lennon: 30 Beacons of Light for a Land Full of Spite, Thugs, Drug Slugs, and Energy Vampires
John Kruth: The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujevic
Miguel: Wildheart
79rs Gang: Fire on the Bayou
Africa Express: Terry Riley’s In C – Mali
2016
A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here
Jinx Lennon: Past Pupil Stay Sane
Rihanna: Anti
Beyonce: Lemonade
Elza Soares: Woman at the End of the World
Saul Williams: Martyr Loser King
Solange: A Seat at the Table
2017
Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me
Princess Nokia: 1992
Orchestra Baobab: Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng
Zeal & Ardor: Devil is Fine
JLin: Black Origami
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: So It Is
Various Artists: Miracle Steps (Music from The Fourth World 1983-2017)
2018
Bettye LaVette: Things Have Changed
Pistol Annies: Interstate Gospel
Noname: Room 25
The Mekons 77: It Is Twice Blessed
Tracey Thorn: Record
Makaya McCraven: Universal Beings
Rosalia: El Mal Querer
John Prine: The Tree of Forgiveness
Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive
2019
Little Simz: Grey Area
Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains
Living To Listen 