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What's been the best music of this decade?

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    #32
    Sorry about that
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    Foals , specifically Total Life Forever.
    Tom Odell.
    Great Van Fleet.
    Slowdive.


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    #33
    Quantum Erasure
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    Skrillex, Deadmau5, good stuff from the early part of the decade


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    #34
    Beanntraigheach
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    Little known, but the best artists IMO:

    Luminous Water
    Voss Jefferson
    The Broken Giraffes
    D'Lomi Mfungwe
    Störmknyfe7
    Los Quejitos


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    #35
    Say Your Number
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    For me Cellar Darling are the best band to emerge over the last few years, easily one of the worst band names I've ever heard, but their music is fantastic, just waiting for them to get mainstream success so I can whinge about how they've sold out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU54MDtzrVU


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    #36
    Das Reich
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    Went to seach on youtube what is Kendrick Lamar and other anglophone "musicians" mentioned here. What a rubbish is that english music died on the 80's.


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    #37
    ErnestBorgnine
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    Das Reich wrote: »
    Went to seach on youtube what is Kendrick Lamar and other anglophone "musicians" mentioned here. What a rubbish is that english music died on the 80's.

    More likely your interest in listening to anything that doesn't sound familiar died in the 80s.


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    #38
    Anesthetize
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    Some good albums released this decade.

    The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
    The National - High Violet
    Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
    Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
    Slowdive - Slowdive
    My Bloody Valentine - m b v
    Lana Del Rey - Norman ****ing Rockwell!
    Julia Holter - Have You in my Wilderness
    Grimes - Art Angels
    Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
    Beach House - Teen Dream
    Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
    Turnover - Peripheral Vision
    Alvvays - Antisocialites
    Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
    Jon Hopkins - Immunity
    Gorguts - Colored Sands
    Anathema - Weather Systems


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    #39
    mollser
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    The Nal wrote: »
    The idea of radio being a way to discover good new stuff has been over for 20+ .

    Mainstream fm radio for sure. For full disclosure I like all things modern rock (80/90's up to today) and stream kerrang radio via tune in when I'm on the move. Have come across heaps of new bands through it, it is also great to have music presented by people who care for it, provide anecdotes etc and add a bit of 'colour' to the music. The spotify experience leaves me very cold tbh.

    Hearing a DJ play say fangclub across the uk feels much better than just streaming it myself, gives a sense that they are starting too be noticed etc. Maybe I'm old fashioned but that station has brought back my love for radio! Now I see why people speak highly of planet rock also, similar station (same owners) just a bit more classic rock. Spotify meh


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    callaway92
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    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Most overrated artist IMO.

    Guessing you’re not into hip-hop?

    In fairness though, his two best albums were out before 2012 and hasn’t been as good since


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    #41
    eyerer
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    I got into Drake this decade, I liked all his albums and he just churns them out too.
    Also agree with Ed Sheeran, huge success for him and I do like some of his stuff myself.

    Otherwise lots of random stuff off spotify, since FM radio is crap, I never would have heard this stuff only for streaming.
    Spotify wins :pac:


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    Arghus
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    mollser wrote: »
    Mainstream fm radio for sure. For full disclosure I like all things modern rock (80/90's up to today) and stream kerrang radio via tune in when I'm on the move. Have come across heaps of new bands through it, it is also great to have music presented by people who care for it, provide anecdotes etc and add a bit of 'colour' to the music. The spotify experience leaves me very cold tbh.

    Hearing a DJ play say fangclub across the uk feels much better than just streaming it myself, gives a sense that they are starting too be noticed etc. Maybe I'm old fashioned but that station has brought back my love for radio! Now I see why people speak highly of planet rock also, similar station (same owners) just a bit more classic rock. Spotify meh

    I still enjoy, on the very odd occasion that I do listen to the radio, hearing something new. I used to listen to Paul McClune from time to time and Kelly Anne Bryne at the weekends on Today FM - don't even know if she's still on - was really good, genuinely passionate about the music she played.

    Personally, as a user, I think music streaming services just open up how much music is available to you exponentially. Since I started using them, I've been able to hear and enjoy so much more than I would have previously. More or less everything is right there, ready to be heard. It's never been easier to hear good new music than it is right now. People who say "all music is crap these days" haven't been looking hard enough.

    Though, I'm also aware that from an artist's perspective streaming may not the best thing to happen to music. People making fck all money from streams etc, etc.


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    #43
    ILoveYourVibes
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    There is no definitive answer but i nominate father john misty.


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    #44
    buried
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    Was some very good LP's Ep's and works from the last decade by all these

    Autechre
    Lee Gamble
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
    Danny Brown
    RP Boo
    Oneohtrix Point Never
    The Bug vs Earth
    Jasss
    Vatican Shadow
    Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
    Wolves in the Throne Room
    Sunn O)))

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #45
    Beanntraigheach
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    Beanntraigheach wrote: »
    Little known, but the best artists IMO:

    Luminous Water
    Voss Jefferson
    The Broken Giraffes
    D'Lomi Mfungwe
    Störmknyfe7
    Los Quejitos
    A few more I overlooked earlier:

    Rhymejob
    The Busted Hindoos
    Epididymis
    Franjo & the Tudjmen
    4-Skynn

    Only a select few music connoisseurs would ever have heard of them.


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    #46
    seligehgit
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    Agnes Obel


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    #47
    BDI
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    Tranquility base hotel and casino by arctic monkeys

    New band twisted wheel sound good

    Kurt Vile

    Tidal and Spotify helped me find good music I’ve never heArd before.

    Might be the decade where people in Ireland discover bands like King Crimson and Captain Beefheart but they won’t. Yong people are afraid to admit to liking things unless somebody else tells them to like them first.


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    #48
    Bigbagofcans
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    callaway92 wrote: »
    Guessing you’re not into hip-hop?

    In fairness though, his two best albums were out before 2012 and hasn’t been as good since

    I like some hip-hop but don't see the appeal with him.


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    #49
    Ferris_Bueller
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    In terms of pop music, I think the very start of this decade was an all time low for chart music. It was like a eureka moment where all big artists realised that they could make some form of 'dance' music that was complete and utter ****e and you would hear it in every night club and every radio station. Pitbull, Black Eyed Peas, Flo Rida, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Lady Gaga etc all very much remind me of this period. Somehow the very same music is still being played in some night clubs in Ireland and always seems to be playing in nightclubs abroad for some reason.

    Outside of pop music, a very good decade for music and some great albums posted already in this thread. Some of my favourites: Arcade Fire - Reflector, Slowdive - Slowdive, The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream, Bicep - Bicep, Black Marble - It's Immaterial, Todd Terje - It's Album Time, M83 - Hurry up we're Dreaming.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    ILoveYourVibes
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    #52
    thebaz
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    The internet killed the Radio star - along with X Factor culture - apart from Hip Hop . music this century has been in sharp decline , in comparison to the 50s, 60s , 70s and the 90s - regards modern rock - Arctic Monkeys/Queens of the stone age/ Radiohead and Damon Albarn are the only ones I rate these days - maybe I'm just getting old


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    #53
    Shady Grady
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    So these are the best music from this decade so far suggested? Lord have mercy..Ha!


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    #54
    Capt'n Midnight
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    KungPao wrote: »
    ‘80s or nothing for me. Lousy stuff these days.
    Nah.

    Late 70's to late 80's


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    #55
    bodhrandude
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    A lot of interesting electronica this decade, Aphex Twin has made an amazing comeback with Syro and recently the Collapse EP, excellent artists like Daniel Avery and Jon Hopkins have tapped into the HD lush soundtrack of techno and beyond. The same with James Holden and the recent stuff from Four Tet too.









    OK the James Holden one is from 2006 but there ya go.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #56
    Stacksofwacks
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    I've sort of checked out of the Alternative music scene in the last decade, my period would be the 90's and early 00's. I must catch up on whats been happening and listen through some of the music posted here, Im sure there is some good stuff out there still, shame that the days of going down to the record store and looking through the records are gone, was a pleasurable ritual of mine once


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    #57
    smilerf
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    The Dead South


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    #58
    hellsing101
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    smilerf wrote: »
    The Dead South


    Yes, great band. A bit of banjo never hurt any band, except Mumford & Sons which are sh1te.


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    smilerf
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    hellsing101 wrote: »
    Yes, great band. A bit of banjo never hurt any band, except Mumford & Sons which are sh1te.
    I run a fan group on Facebook of The Dead South


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    #60
    nkl12xtw5goz70
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    I think the only album I actually bought for myself in the 2010s was Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker, released a couple of weeks before his death.

    My wife gave me Black Radio by the Robert Glasper Experiment — it's not the kind of music I'd normally listen to (piano jazz/hip hop fusion) but I like it a lot.

    That said, I'm not especially inspired by current music. Much of it just sounds derivative to me — recycled, repackaged, and bland.


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    #61
    Sleepy
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    For me, the 10's mainly represent the decade I stopped listening to new music and switched from listening to Phantom FM to Radio Nova (who pretty much exclusively play classic rock).

    The only artists "current" albums I can remember buying in the past decade would be Villagers and Bastille. I paid for some of Ed Sheeran's and Imagine Dragons albums for our kids but almost everything I bought for myself or Mrs Sleepy would have been recorded sometime between 1960 and 1999.


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