It's DIS Poll time! ... Your Albums of the Decade please

Regardless of if you decide tallying up the results is worth it, I’m very interested in seeing people’s lists. If I’m remembering correctly the century poll on the social board ended up being unsurprisingly biased towards 2000-2009 albums and heavily dominated by albums like Is This It, Turn on the Bright Lights, and Funeral. I think we can get a lot of hidden gems out of this.

This is going to be a really tough, interesting exercise. In the past year or so I’ve discovered some all-time classics that I had missed (Deafheaven, Alcest, Mark Kozelek, etc.) and that are exactly my thing, and then there are albums (like Titus Androncus’s The Monitor) which I was absolutely obsessed with but have since lost much of their impact due to feeling like they’re from a different time. I’m not sure how to work that out in a list, but trying will be a nice distraction from everything. At the moment I can’t imagine leaving the three I mentioned out of my top 5.

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  1. Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie
  2. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die & Love Will Bury It
  3. The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to Be Here…
  4. Ought - Sun Coming Down
  5. The Icarus Line - Slave Vows
  6. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
  7. Big Thief - Masterpiece
  8. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
  9. Low - Ones & Sixes
  10. Self Esteem - Compliments Please

Didn’t have as diverse a taste in the first half of the decade hence 90% “rock”. Might’ve been different if I’d found DiS before 2015

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The rest were supposed to be numbered 11-30. Dunno what happened there

I think I need to finally give Girl Band a shot. Also I keep forgetting about Icarus Line, I’ve been meaning to give them a serious try for ages. A couple weeks ago I finally watched their movie, I forgot what a great song Solar Plexus is.

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I don’t think you will be disappointed with Girl Band. I really should’ve seen the IL movie by now but, as far as I am aware, it’s not on any convenient UK streaming/downloading sites (for me anyway). Love that band, love everything they ever did

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they’re the best

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Try this on for size too

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Try this too.

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I don’t like Girl Band but Paul is a belter of a song.

1:40 is so satisfying

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Yup, love each section where they ratchet up the intensity, 2:41 when the snare batters in is another. Reckon 5:08 onward is possibly my favourite section of music… ever. The long build and then that throbbing, staggering bass and just all hell breaks loose. Music to walk through walls to

Can I clarify the timeline of this before sharing it on our social channels? Might be worth editing the OP

  1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
  2. Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America
  3. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
  4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
  6. Field Music - Plumb
  7. Teebs - Arbor
  8. St Vincent - St Vincent
  9. Big Thief – Capacity
  10. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest

Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I’m definitely very intrigued by this despite it being slightly more abrasive than I’m used to. I’m derailed by the Pumpkins thread today, but I got two listens of How to Hold Hands with Jamie in yesterday and it’s already growing on me quickly. My initial impression is that it’s almost like a nightmare version of the Pixies that replaced Kim Deal with a wall full of malfunctioning car alarms, in a good way. That Paul outro is ridiculous.

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Maybe give The Talkies a spin if you find HHWJ too jarring. I’d say it’s the less abrasive of the two

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this is a good description

more terrifying in some ways but less chaotic. also a more complete piece of work. the better of the two imo but i know not everyone would agree

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1-100
1. Ian William Craig Centers 2016
2. Kedrick Lamar Good Kid MAD City 2012
3. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell 2015
4. Joanna Newsom Have One On Me 2010
5. Jenny Hval Apocalypse Gril 2015
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree 2016
7. Mount Eerie Now Only 2018
8. Destroyer Kaputt 2011
9. FKA Twigs LP1 2014
10. Masayoshi & Jan Jelniek Bird, Lake, Objects 2010
11. Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar 2018
12. Kanye West My Twisted Beatiful Fantasy 2010
13. NoName Telefone 2016
14. Shackleton Music For The Quite Hour 2012
15. Tim Hecker Virgins 2013
16. Sophie Oil of every Pearls un-insides 2018
17. Jenny Hval Blood Bitch 2016
18. Purple Mountains Purple Mountains 2019
19. Kedrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 2014
20. Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs 2015
21. Young Fathers White Men Are Black Men Too 2015
22. Arca Arca 2017
23. Francis Harris Minutes of Sleep 2014
24. Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At me 2017
25. Todd Terje Its Album Time 2014
26. Parquet Courts Wide Awake 2018
27. Leonard Cohen You Want It Draker 2016
28. Vince Staples Big Fish Theory 2017
29. King Crestoe & John Hopkins Diamond Mine 2011
30. NoName Room 25 2018
31. Little Simz Grey Area 2019
32. Angel Olsen My Woman 2016
33. Dominik Eulberg Diorama 2011
34. Lets Eat grandma I’m All Ears 2018
35. Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial 2016
36. Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think 2015
37. A Tribe Called Quest We Got it from here 2016
38. DJ Python Dulce Compannia 2017
39. Floating Points Elaine 2015
40. Skee Mask Compro 2018
41. Andy Stott Luxuary Problems 2012
42. Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet 2017
43. Objekt Cocoon Crush 2018
44. Joanna Newsom Divers 2015
45. Darkside Psychic 2013
46. Arcade Fire The Suburbs 2010
47. Nicolas Jaar Space is only Noise 2011
48. Songhoy Blues Music in Exile 2015
49. Grizzly Bear Shields 2012
50. Daniel Avery Drone Logic 2013
51. Fennez Agora 2019
52. Martha Blisters in the pit of my heart 2016
53. Parquet Courts Human Preformance 2016
54. Iceage Ploughing into the fields 2014
55. Bon Iver Bon Iver 2011
56. Father John Misty I love You HoneyBear 2015
57. Lau Race The Loser 2012
58. These New Puritans Fields of Reed 2013
59. Motion Sickness of Time Travel Motion Sickness of time travel 2012
60. Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs 2019
61. Jenny Hval The Practice of Love 2019
62. Jon Hopkins Immunity 2013
63. Grimes Visions 2012
64. Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins 2017
65. Anohni Hopelessness 2016
66. Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory 2012
67. Hype Willliams One Nation 2011
68. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Ghosteen 2019
69. Biblo Phantom Brickworks 2017
70. Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy 2018
71. GoGo Penguin v2.0 2014
72. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away 2013
73. Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibtion 2016
74. Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid 2010
75. Jlin Dark Energy 2015
76. Rosalia El Mal Querer 2018
77. Forest Swords Engravings 2013
78. Metronomy The English Riviera 2011
79. Tinarwain Elwan 2017
80. Ian William Craig A Turn of Breath 2014
81. Future of the Left How to stop your brain 2013
82. Aphex Twin Syro 2014
83. Slowdive Slowdive 2017
84. Jane Weaver Modern Kosmology 2017
85. FKA Twigs Magdalene 2019
86. Martha Courting Strong 2014
87. Olafur Arnalds re:member 2018
88. Kiasmos Kiasmos 2014
89. PUP Morbid Stuff 2019
90. Tim Hecker Love Streams 2016
91. Parquet Courts Light Up Gold 2012
92. Iceage Beyondless 2018
93. PJ Harvey Let England Shake 2011
94. Lawrance English Cruel Optimism 2017
95. Mario Batkovic Mario Batkovic 2017
96. H Leithauser I had a Dream that you were mine 2016
97. Boards of Canada Tomorrows Harvest 2013
98. Villaboas & Max Loderbauer Re:ECM 2011
99. FFS FFS 2015
100. Samaris Silkdranger 2014
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See post 79. Tallying up these has been knocked on the head as a similar exercise was carried out on the social board.

The Antlers: Burst Apart

Teeth of the sea: Responder

Eths: Ankaa

Dvne: Asheran

Run the Jewels 3

Arcane Roots: Melancholia Hymns

Caspian: dust and disquiet

Eyre Llew: Aleto

65daysofstatic: We were exploding anyway

The National High Violet.

I think I’m going to stick with it for awhile before moving onto the next one, it’s probably good to push myself out of my usual zone. I’m excited to get back to it tomorrow now that the thread is winding down.

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