These were my votes for best albums of the second decade of the 21st Century in the Pitchfork poll of critics
Placement-wise, there was some strategic voting going on here - and at the bottom I've added some things I thought of later that I either should have included but forgot, or got into after the decade ended.
A lot of these albums, when I look them, especially as we get further down beyond the Top 30 - they're really there for one, or maybe two, tracks that are so immense in my mind that they bring the rest of the record along with them. And although I do my best to fight against it (occupational hazard of the professional critic this), a few have managed to creep in there that are admirations, rather than things that induce voluptuous delight and are actively listened to repeatedly.
1 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today
2 Migos: Culture
3 Haim: Days Are Gone
4 Future: Dirty Sprite 2
5 Metronomy : The English Riviera
6 eMMplekz: Rook To TN34
7 Various: Bangs and Works Vol 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation
8 Travis Scott: Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight
9 Rangers: Suburban Tours
10 Migos : Culture II
11 Vampire Weekend: Contra
12 Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal
13 Maria Minerva: Tallinn At Dawn
14 Gonjasufi: A Sufi and a Killer
15 Ariel Pink: Pom Pom
16 Moon Wiring Club: When A New Trick Comes Out, I Do An Old One
17 Rae Sremmurd: SremmLife
18 Rustie: Glass Swords
19 Kanye West: Yeezus
20 Let's Eat Grandma: I, Gemini
21 Assembled Minds: Creaking Haze and Other Rave Ghosts
22 Moon Wiring Club: A Fondness For Fancy Hats ~ Soft Confusion
23 Hybrid Palms: Pacific Image
24 D.D. Denham: Electronic Music in the Classroom
25 Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman
26 Young Thug: Barter 6
27 Future: Purple Reign
28 eMMplekz Your Crate Has Changed: Your Crate Has Changed
29 Future: Future
30 Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city
31 Ekoplekz: Four Track Mind
32 Moon Wiring Club: Cateared Chocalatiers
33 Amnesia Scanner: Another Life
34 eMMplekz: You Might Also Like
35 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid
36 D'Angelo / The Vanguard: Black Messiah
37 Proc Fiskal: Insula
38 Mica Levi: Under the Skin OST
39 Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica
40 David Bowie: Blackstar
41 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Mature Themes
42 Moon Wiring Club: Today Bread, Tomorrow Secrets
43 Actress: Splazsh
44 The Knife: Shaking the Habitual
45 Moon Wiring Club: Playclothes from Faraway Places
46 Future: Evol
47 Baron Mordant: Mark of the Mould
48 Young Echo: Nexus
49 Jlin: Black Origami
50 Die Antwoord: $O$
Should have added;
Eartheater – Isiris
Lo Five - Geography of the Abyss
The Caretaker end of time epic
Ekoplekz, Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1
KWJAZ, s/t
Kang Ding Ray, Or
Jon Brooks, Music for Thomas Carnacki
More Moon Wiring Club!
More Ekoplekz!
Any eMMplekz records I didn't include above!
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus 7
Arca - Xen (impressively mutated and unpleasant!)
some Lee Gamble - the jungle-revenant one certainly
Chino Amobi - Paradiso
David Bowie, The Next Day (mostly for the first single off it really)
