My idea is the decade from 2015 -2024, which works out at 10 albums…but if you want to do from 2010 onwards…it’s a free country. Just based on @Prob500’s great selection of additional lists in the 2024 album results thread, I thought it’s be good to get an overview of everyone’s tastes.
I’d say go for your top album AT THE TIME OF WRITING. I’m not gonna scour previous AOTY threads to check for consistency, plus it’s interesting to see how things change. If you know what you voted as No.1 initially before changing it, that would be doubly interesting. Anyway, mine’s below:
2015 - Everything Everything / Get to Heaven
2016 - Solange / A Seat at the Table
2017 - Gorillaz / Humanz (seriously)
2018 - Halo Maud / Je suis une Île
2019 - Little Simz / GREY Area
2020 - The Avalanches / We Will Always Love You
2021 - Leonie Pernet / Le Cirque de Consolation
2022 - Nilufer Yanya / PAINLESS
2023 - Caroline Rose / The Art of Forgetting
2024 - Madgalena Bay / Imaginal Disk
I don’t think it’s as ‘immediate’ as Gist Is (which I also absolutely love), but it has fully wormed its way under my skin in a way even that record didn’t (and that’s my fave album of 2014). It’s an exceptionally good album, it just requires a little more time to unlock, but it has been so satisfying and rewarding to feel it unfurl over the year. I adore it.
2015 Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
2016 David Bowie - Blackstar
2017 Brand New - Science Fiction
2018 Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy
2019 Du Blonde - Lung Bread for Daddy
2020 Taylor Swift - folklore
2021 TORRES - Thirstier
2022 Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
2023 Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here
2024 Los Campesinos! - All Hell
15 - Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
16 - Frank Ocean - Blonde
17 - Charli xcx - POP2
18 - SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
19 - Caroline Polachek - Pang
20 - Taylor Swift - Folklore
21 - Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power
22 - Beyoncé - Renaissance
23 - Boygenius - The Record (Chappell, I’m so sorry bb)
24 - Los Campesinos! - All Hell
2015: Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper
2016: Parquet Courts - Human Performance
2017: Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
2018: Low - Double Negative
2019: Solange - When I Get Home
2020: DJ Python - Mas Amable
2021: Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
2022: Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
2023: Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
2024: Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
2015: Cindy Lee – Act of Tenderness
2016: Frank Ocean – Blonde
2017: Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent
2018: Mitski – Be the Cowboy
2019: Aldous Harding – Designer
2020: Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
2021: Sophie – OIL OF EVERY PERSON’S UN-INSIDES
2022: Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
2023: Osees – Intercepted Message
2024: Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
(as recently as a couple of weeks ago it was Jessica Pratt’s Here in the Pitch, but the Cindy Lee is somehow still unfolding)
2015: Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space
2016: Mitski - Puberty 2
2017: Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
2018: Field Music - Open Here
2019: Self Esteem - Compliments Please
2020: Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
2021: Lucy Dacus - Home Video
2022: Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
2023: Lanterns on the Lake - Versions of Us
2024: Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
2018 onwards is from my album of the year lists done in year that I kept a record of and playlist for, 2015-17 are picks from stuff I had saved in a ‘pre 2018 favourites’ folder that I made a snap decision on just now