Wednesday, August 26, 2026

My Highest RATED Albums of Each Decade: The 2010s

The 2010s:

The Decade's Masterpieces:

1. BENT KNEE Shiny Eyed Babies (2014) - 100.0
2. VANETA Antimemory (2017) - 97.50
3. SETNA Guérison (2013) - 97.25
4. HOMUNCULUS RES Limiti all'eguaglianza della Parte con il Tutto (2013) - 97.22
5. BATTLESTATIONS Vixit (2017) - 96.67
6. UNAKA PRONG Salinity Now! (2018) - 96.25
7. LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO La notte anche de griorno (2015) - 95.79
8. THE AMAZING Gentle Stream  (2011) - 95.67
9. MOTHER TURTLE II (2016) - 95.65
10. VYLET PONY Mystic Acoustics (2017) - 95.55
11. GHOST MEDICINE Discontinuance (2016) - 95.0
      (tie) THE GHOSTS OF JUPITER The Great Bright Horses (2016) - 95.0
      (tie) EDISON'S CHILDREN The Final Breath Before November (2013) - 95.0
      (tie) AIRBAG The Greatest Show on Earth (2013) - 95.0
      (tie) KOTEBEL Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble (2013) - 95.0
16. IAMTHEMORNING Lighthouse (2016) - 94.76
17. CICADA White Forest (2017) - 94.69
18. MONOBODY Raytracing (2018) - 94.6875
19. MONOBODY Monobody (2015) - 94.61
20. BROTHER APE A Rare Moment of Insight (2010) - 94.54
      (tie) METHEXIS Suiciety (2015) - 94.54
22. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Not That City (2013) - 94.50
      (tie) CORDE OBLIQUE A Hail of Bitter Almonds (2011) - 94.50
24. TIRILL Said the Sun to the Moon (2019) - 94.44
      (tie) SEVEN IMPALE City of The Sun (2014) - 94.44
      (tie) ANATHEMA Falling Deeper (2011) - 94.44
27. MICE ON STILTS Hope for a Mourning (2016) - 94.35
28. DEMEN Nektyr (2017) - 94.11
29. ANTOINE FAFARD Ad Perpetuum (2014) - 94.0
      (tie) FAUN Eden (2011) - 94.0
      (tie) MIDLAKE Antiphon (2013) - 94.0 
32. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Dream of the Magic Jongleur (2011) - 93.91
33. WOBBLER Rites at Dawn (2011) - 93.78
34. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF Dead Magic (2018) - 93.70
35. I KNOW YOU WELL MISS CLARA Chapter One (2012) - 93.70
36. TREE TOPS Ghosts Don't Dance With Shoes (2017) - 93.69
37. CICADA Light Shining Through the Sea (2015) - 93.63
38. FAUNS Awaiting the Sun (2011) - 93.62
39. BIG BIG TRAIN English Electric, Part 1 (2012) - 93.60
40. LAGARTIJA Particelle (2011) - 93.58
41. ALL TRAPS ON EARTH A Drop of Light (2018) - 93.46
42. PROMENADE Noi al dir di Noi (2016) - 93.42
43. LATTE E MIELE Passio Secundum Mattheum - The Complete Work (2014) - 93.39
44. KANT FREUD KAFKA No tengas miedo (2014) - 93.33
      (tie) UTOPIANISTI The Third Frontier (2016) - 93.33
      (tie) JAGA JAZZIST Sunfire (2015) - 93.33
      (tie) TIRILL Um Himinjǫður (2013) - 93.33
      (tie) CICADA Pieces (2011) - 93.33
49. WESERBERGLAND Sehr Kosmish Ganz Progisch (2017) - 93.29
50. THIEVES' KITCHEN Genius Loci (2019) 93.18
51. ANEKDOTEN Until the Ghost Have All Gone Away (2015) - 93.16
52. TIGER MOTH TALES Cocoon (2014) - 93.15
53. FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE Night en Face (2017) - 93.125
54. VITRAL Entre as Estrelas (2017) - 93.08
55. OZRIC TENTACLES Technicians of the Sacred (2015) - 93.07
56. WOBBLER From Silence to Somewhere (2017) - 93.06
57. YVES POTIN/JAZZCOMPUTER.ORG Forest Stairways (2017) - 93.0
58. MOTORPSYCHO Behind The Sun (2014) - 92.99
59. CHEER-ACCIDENT Putting Off Death (2017) - 92.94
60. AXON-NEURON Metamorphosis (2016) - 92.93
61. AMOEBA SPLIT Dance of the Goodbyes (2010) - 92.88
62. MEER Meer (2016) - 92.86
63. LOST WORLD BAND Of Things and Beings (2016) - 92.80
64. KOTEBEL Cosmology (2017) - 92.78
65. FUNIN Unsound (2010) - 92.73
66. MONKEY3 Sphere (2019) - 92.65
67. ÄNGLAGÅRD Viljans Ôga (2012) - 92.61
68. JAMBINAI Onda (2019) - 92.5
      (tie) BELIEVE Seven Widows (2017) - 92.50
      (tie) ELECTRIC ORANGE Volume 10 (2014) - 92.50
      (tie) MAGMA Slag Tanz (2015) - 92.50
      (tie) METHEXIS The Fall of Bliss (2012) - 92.50