| 2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleigh Bells | |
| 2 | Kanye West | |
| 3 | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 4 | Caribou | |
| 5 | Tame Impala | |
| 6 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 7 | Baths | |
| 8 | Fang Island | |
| 9 | Crystal Castles | |
| 10 | Big Boi | |
| 11 | Deerhunter | |
| 12 | Mount Kimbie | |
| 13 | Arcade Fire | |
| 14 | Kid Cudi | |
| 15 | Gonjasufi | |
| 16 | The Morning Benders | |
| 17 | Gold Panda | |
| 18 | Girls | |
| 19 | Radio Dept., The | Clinging to a Scheme |
| 20 | Black Keys, The | |
| 21 | Flying Lotus | |
| 22 | Matthew Dear | |
| 23 | Abe Vigoda | |
| 24 | Titus Andronicus | |
| 25 | Bear Hands | |
| 26 | of Montreal | |
| 27 | Broken Bells | |
| 28 | Alcest | Écailles de Lune |
| 29 | CocoRosie | |
| 30 | Four Tet | |
| 31 | Bonobo | |
| 32 | Holy Fuck | |
| 33 | Junip | |
| 34 | Yakuza | Of Seismic Consequences |
| 35 | Beach House | |
| 36 | Vampire Weekend | Contra |
| 37 | Delorean | |
| 38 | Menomena | Mines |
| 39 | Jonsi | |
| 40 | Foals | Total Life Forever |
| 41 | Roots, The | |
| 42 | Gorillaz | |
| 43 | Earl Sweatshirt | Earl |
| 44 | Toro Y Moi | |
| 45 | Kylesa | Spiral Shadow |
| 46 | Naked and Famous, The | |
| 47 | Matt & Kim | Sidewalks |
| 48 | Teebs | |
| 49 | deadmau5 | |
| 50 | Dead Weather, The | |
| 2010 | 41/50 | 82% |
| 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foster the People | |
| 2 | Tom Waits | |
| 3 | M83 | |
| 4 | SBTRKT | |
| 5 | Youth Lagoon | |
| 6 | Deafheaven | |
| 7 | tUnE-yArDs | |
| 8 | Shabazz Palaces | |
| 9 | WU LYF | |
| 10 | Cults | |
| 11 | Modeselektor | |
| 12 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | |
| 13 | White Denim | |
| 14 | Tycho | |
| 15 | Radiohead | |
| 16 | James Blake | |
| 17 | Bibio | |
| 18 | Yuck | |
| 19 | Liturgy | |
| 20 | Black Keys | |
| 21 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| 22 | St. Vincent | |
| 23 | The Rapture | In The Grace of Your Love |
| 24 | TV on the Radio | |
| 25 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | |
| 26 | Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring for My Halo |
| 27 | Little Dragon | |
| 28 | Toro Y Moi | |
| 29 | Balam Acab | |
| 30 | Battles | |
| 31 | Mastodon | |
| 32 | Cold Cave | |
| 33 | I Break Horses | Hearts |
| 34 | Phantogram | Nightlife |
| 35 | Young Galaxy | |
| 36 | Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise |
| 37 | Panda Bear | |
| 38 | David Wax Museum | Everything Is Saved |
| 39 | Tyler, the Creator | |
| 40 | The Field | Looping State of Mind |
| 41 | Girls | |
| 42 | Shlohmo | Bad Vibes |
| 43 | Real Estate | Days |
| 44 | Fucked Up | David Come To Life |
| 45 | Braids | |
| 46 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhythms |
| 47 | Umphrey’s McGee | |
| 48 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Celestial Lineage |
| 49 | Korallreven | |
| 50 | Danny Brown | |
| 2011 | 37/50 | 74% |
| 2012 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kendrick Lamar | |
| 2 | Fiona Apple | |
| 3 | Cloud Nothings | |
| 4 | Purity Ring | |
| 5 | Men, The | |
| 6 | Sleigh Bells | |
| 7 | Grimes | |
| 8 | El-P | |
| 9 | Baroness | |
| 10 | DIIV | |
| 11 | Tame Impala | |
| 12 | Hot Chip | |
| 13 | Crystal Castles | |
| 14 | Weeknd, The | Trilogy |
| 15 | Japandroids | |
| 16 | Flume | |
| 17 | Swans | |
| 18 | The xx | |
| 19 | Cat Power | |
| 20 | iamamiwhoami | |
| 21 | alt-J | |
| 22 | Dan Deacon | America |
| 23 | Matthew Dear | |
| 24 | Frank Ocean | Channel Orange |
| 25 | Animal Collective | |
| 26 | Fang Island | |
| 27 | Holy Other | Held |
| 28 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
| 29 | Sharon Van Etten | Tramp |
| 30 | Porcelain Raft | |
| 31 | Fort Romeau | Kingdoms |
| 32 | Flying Lotus | |
| 33 | Swearin’ | |
| 34 | Killer Mike | R.A.P. Music |
| 35 | Liars | |
| 36 | Beach House | |
| 37 | Clark | |
| 38 | Menomena | |
| 39 | How To Dress Well | |
| 40 | Django Django | |
| 41 | Tanlines | Mixed Emotions |
| 42 | Alabama Shakes | |
| 43 | Four Tet | |
| 44 | Torche | |
| 45 | The Evens | |
| 46 | Big Boi | |
| 47 | Matthew E. White | Big Inner |
| 48 | Rocket Juice and the Moon | |
| 49 | Aesop Rock | |
| 50 | C2C | Tetra |
| 2012 | 40/50 | 80% |
| 2013 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jai Paul | Demos |
| 2 | Autre Ne Veut | |
| 3 | Deafheaven | |
| 4 | Fuck Buttons | |
| 5 | Blue Hawaii | |
| 6 | Run the Jewels | |
| 7 | Jon Hopkins | |
| 8 | Artic Monkeys | |
| 9 | And So I Watch You From Afar | |
| 10 | Uncluded | |
| 11 | Baths | Obsidian |
| 12 | Disclosure | |
| 13 | CocoRosie | |
| 14 | Darkside | |
| 15 | The Naked and Famous | |
| 16 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | |
| 17 | Daft Punk | |
| 18 | Danny Brown | Old |
| 19 | Arcade Fire | |
| 20 | Giraffage | Needs |
| 21 | Chance the Rapper | Acid Rap |
| 22 | BRAIDS | Flourish / Perish |
| 23 | Junip | |
| 24 | Toro Y Moi | |
| 25 | Wavves | |
| 26 | James Blake | |
| 27 | Moderat | |
| 28 | 65daysofstatic | Wild Light |
| 29 | Youth Lagoon | |
| 30 | Volcano Choir | Repave |
| 31 | Rhye | Woman |
| 32 | CHVRCHES | The Bones of What You Believe |
| 33 | Bonobo | |
| 34 | Cults | Static |
| 35 | Drake | Nothing Was the Same |
| 36 | Atoms For Peace | |
| 37 | Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze |
| 38 | Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City |
| 39 | Earl Sweatshirt | Doris |
| 40 | Men, The | |
| 41 | Four Tet | Beautiful Rewind |
| 42 | Majical Cloudz | |
| 43 | Swearin’ | |
| 44 | Sleigh Bells | |
| 45 | A$AP Rocky | LongLiveA$AP |
| 46 | AlunaGeorge | Body Music |
| 47 | Washed Out | |
| 48 | Postiljonen | Skyer |
| 49 | Forest Swords | |
| 50 | Field, The | Cupid’s Head |
| 2013 | 30/50 | 60% |
| 2014 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FKA Twigs | |
| 2 | White Lung | |
| 3 | Future Islands | |
| 4 | Caribou | |
| 5 | Electric Youth | |
| 6 | Wye Oak | |
| 7 | Foster the People | |
| 8 | Sylvan Esso | |
| 9 | Run the Jewels | |
| 10 | SOHN | |
| 11 | ODESZA | |
| 12 | Perfume Genius | |
| 13 | Mastodon | |
| 14 | Spoon | |
| 15 | Clark | Clark |
| 16 | SBTRKT | |
| 17 | The War on Drugs | |
| 18 | Chet Faker | Built on Glass |
| 19 | Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else |
| 20 | TV On the Radio | Seeds |
| 21 | Aphex Twin | Syro |
| 22 | Thom Yorke | |
| 23 | Phantogram | |
| 24 | King Tuff | |
| 25 | Swans | Be Kind |
| 26 | Thou | Heathen |
| 27 | alt-J | |
| 28 | Sharon Van Etten | Are We There |
| 29 | Banks | Goddess |
| 30 | A Sunny Day in Glasgow | |
| 31 | Iceage | Plowing Into the Field of Love |
| 32 | Sun Kil Moon | Benji |
| 33 | clipping | |
| 34 | Tinashe | Aquarius |
| 35 | Leon Vynehall | Music for the Uninvited |
| 36 | Tycho | Awake |
| 37 | Glass Animals | |
| 38 | Agalloch | The Serpent & The Sphere |
| 39 | Hundred Waters | |
| 40 | How To Dress Well | “What Is This Heart?” |
| 41 | Flying Lotus | You’re Dead! |
| 42 | Little Dragon | Nubuma Rubberband |
| 43 | St. Vincent | St. Vincent |
| 44 | Real Estate | Atlas |
| 45 | tUnE-yArDs | |
| 46 | Reigning Sound | Shattered |
| 47 | Mac Demarco | Salad Days |
| 48 | Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty |
| 49 | Strand of Oaks | HEAL |
| 50 | Lykke Li | I Never Learn |
| 2014 | 25/50 | 50% |
| 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolf Alice | |
| 2 | Deafheaven | |
| 3 | Algiers | |
| 4 | Dan Deacon | |
| 5 | Tame Impala | |
| 6 | Courtney Barnett | |
| 7 | Jamie xx | |
| 8 | Grimes | |
| 9 | Vince Staples | Summertime ’06 |
| 10 | Pinkshinyultrablast | Everything Else Matters |
| 11 | Mas Ysa | Seraph |
| 12 | Braids | |
| 13 | Petite Noir | La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful |
| 14 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | |
| 15 | Kendrick Lamar | |
| 16 | US Girls | |
| 17 | Empress Of | Me |
| 18 | Purity Ring | |
| 19 | Baroness | |
| 20 | Eskimeaux | O.K. |
| 21 | Big Grams | |
| 22 | And So I Watch You From Afar | Heirs |
| 23 | Hop Along | Painted Shut |
| 24 | Made In Heights | Without My Enemy What Would I Do |
| 25 | Hot Chip | |
| 26 | Title Fight | Hyperview |
| 27 | Sleater-Kinney | No Cities to Love |
| 28 | The Weeknd | Beauty Behind the Madness |
| 29 | LA Priest | Inji |
| 30 | Miguel | Wildheart |
| 31 | Autre Ne Veut | |
| 32 | Fort Romeau | Insides |
| 33 | CHVRCHES | Every Open Eye |
| 34 | Beach House | Depression Cherry |
| 35 | Alabama Shakes | Sound & Color |
| 36 | Dawn Richard | Blackheart |
| 37 | Jack Ü | |
| 38 | Menace Beach | Ratworld |
| 39 | Drake | If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late |
| 40 | Hiatus Kaiyote | Choose Your Weapon |
| 41 | Django Django | Born Under Saturn |
| 42 | Battles | La Di Da Di |
| 43 | Krallice | Ygg Huur |
| 44 | Oh Wonder | Oh Wonder |
| 45 | JR JR | JR JR |
| 46 | Goodbye Tomorrow | A Journey Through the Mind of a Non-Believer |
| 47 | Ibeyi | Ibeyi |
| 48 | Youth Lagoon | Savage Hills Ballroom |
| 49 | Modest Mouse | |
| 50 | Shamir | Ratchet |
| 2015 | 19/50 | 38% |
| 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bon Iver | |
| 2 | DIIV | |
| 3 | Whitney | |
| 4 | The Range | |
| 5 | Minor Victories | |
| 6 | Cross Record | |
| 7 | Astronoid | |
| 8 | Radiohead | |
| 9 | Danny Brown | Atrocity Exhibition |
| 10 | Kaytranada | |
| 11 | Amber Arcades | |
| 12 | Leonard Cohen | |
| 13 | Anderson .Paak | |
| 14 | PUP | The Dream Is Over |
| 15 | Violet Cold | Magic Night |
| 16 | White Lung | |
| 17 | Yeasayer | Amen & Goodbye |
| 18 | A Tribe Called Quest | |
| 19 | Oathbreaker | Rheia |
| 20 | pinkshinyultrablast | Grandfeathered |
| 21 | Wild Beasts | |
| 22 | Blood Orange | Freetown Sound |
| 23 | Phantogram | Three |
| 24 | Lost Under Heaven | |
| 25 | Jessy Lanza | Oh No |
| 26 | Leon Vynehall | Rojus |
| 27 | Hinds | Leave Me Alone |
| 28 | The Avalanches | |
| 29 | Childish Gambino | |
| 30 | Cobalt | Slow Forever |
| 31 | Michael Kiwanuka | |
| 32 | Aesop Rock | The Impossible Kid |
| 33 | Glass Animals | How to Be a Human Being |
| 34 | Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam | I Had A Dream That You Were Mine |
| 35 | James Blake | The Colour in Anything |
| 36 | Jenny Hval | Blood Bitch |
| 37 | Kendrick Lamar | |
| 38 | The Weeknd | Starboy |
| 39 | Wussy | Forever Sounds |
| 40 | School of Seven Bells | SVIIB |
| 41 | Vince Staples | Prima Donna |
| 42 | Chance the Rapper | Coloring Book |
| 43 | Angel Olsen | My Woman |
| 44 | DJ Shadow | The Mountain Will Fall |
| 45 | Crystal Castles | |
| 46 | Chairlift | Moth |
| 47 | Kevin Morby | Singing Saw |
| 48 | Modern Baseball | Holy Ghost |
| 49 | M83 | |
| 50 | Andy Shauf | The Party |
| 2016 | 22/50 | 44% |
| 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slowdive | Slowdive |
| 2 | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | |
| 3 | LCD Soundsystem | |
| 4 | Kendrick Lamar | |
| 5 | Elder | |
| 6 | War on Drugs, The | |
| 7 | Wolf Alice | |
| 8 | All Them Witches | |
| 9 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 10 | Knox Fortune | Paradise |
| 11 | Kelly Lee Owens | |
| 12 | Public Service Broadcasting | |
| 13 | Big Thief | |
| 14 | Run the Jewels | |
| 15 | Vince Staples | Big Fish Theory |
| 16 | Samsara Blues Experiment | |
| 17 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Rest |
| 18 | The xx | |
| 19 | Allison Crutchfield | |
| 20 | Sevdaliza | Ison |
| 21 | Photay | Onism |
| 22 | Amir Obè | None of the Clocks Work |
| 23 | Jacques Greene | Feel Infinite |
| 24 | Ex Eye | |
| 25 | Frankie Rose | |
| 26 | Tyler the Creator | Scum Fuck Flower Boy |
| 27 | Girlpool | Powerplant |
| 28 | Do Make Say Think | |
| 29 | And So I Watch You From Afar | The Endless Shimmering |
| 30 | Rational | Rational |
| 31 | Sylvan Esso | What Now |
| 32 | St. Vincent | MASSEDUCTION |
| 33 | Perfume Genius | No Shape |
| 34 | Future Islands | The Far Field |
| 35 | ODESZA | |
| 36 | Blanck Mass | |
| 37 | Four Tet | New Energy |
| 38 | Dirty Projectors | Dirty Projectors |
| 39 | Washed Out | Mister Mellow |
| 40 | GoldLink | At What Cost |
| 41 | Foster the People | Sacred Hearts Club |
| 42 | alt-J | |
| 43 | Arcade Fire | |
| 44 | Cults | |
| 45 | Vagabon | Infinite Worlds |
| 46 | Hundred Waters | Communicating |
| 47 | The I.L.Y’s | Bodyguard |
| 48 | (Sandy) Alex G | Rocket |
| 49 | Aminé | Good for You |
| 50 | Big Boi | Boomiverse |
| 2017 | 23/50 | 46% |
| 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deafheaven | |
| 2 | U.S. Girls | |
| 3 | Jon Hopkins | |
| 4 | Khruangbin | |
| 5 | MGMT | |
| 6 | Superorganism | |
| 7 | Hookworms | |
| 8 | Let’s Eat Grandma | |
| 9 | Young Fathers | |
| 10 | Hop Along | |
| 11 | Rolo Tomassi | |
| 12 | Saba | |
| 13 | Kamasi Washington | Heaven and Earth |
| 14 | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | King of Cowards |
| 15 | Beach House | |
| 16 | Fucked Up | |
| 17 | DJ Koze | Knock Knock |
| 18 | Ty Segall | Freedom’s Goblin |
| 19 | Richard Swift | |
| 20 | Snail Mail | Lush |
| 21 | Matthew Dear | |
| 22 | Rival Consoles | Persona |
| 23 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | |
| 24 | Tirzah | Devotion |
| 25 | Zeal & Ardor | |
| 26 | Yves Tumor | |
| 27 | Yo La Tengo | |
| 28 | SOPHIE | Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides |
| 29 | Pusha T | DAYTONA |
| 30 | Mr Twin Sister | Salt |
| 31 | Adrianne Lenker | abysskiss |
| 32 | Maribou State | Kingdoms in Colour |
| 33 | Swearin’ | |
| 34 | Flatbush Zombies | Vacation in Hell |
| 35 | Amen Dunes | Freedom |
| 36 | Hinds | |
| 37 | JID | DiCaprio 2 |
| 38 | Beak> | >>> |
| 39 | Vince Staples | FM! |
| 40 | SALES | Forever and Ever |
| 41 | Leon Bridges | Good Thing |
| 42 | Death and the Maiden | Wisteria |
| 43 | Mitiski | Be the Cowboy |
| 44 | Iceage | Beyondless |
| 45 | Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino |
| 46 | Anderson .Paak | Oxnard |
| 47 | Pinkshinyultrablast | Miserable Miracles |
| 48 | J.Cole | KOD |
| 49 | AAL | 2012-2017 |
| 50 | of Montreal | White is Relic/Irrealis Mood |
| 2018 | 22/50 | 44% |
| 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | |
| 2 | The Comet Is Coming | |
| 3 | Thom Yorke | |
| 4 | Tool | Fear Inoculum |
| 5 | Angel Olsen | |
| 6 | Denzel Curry | |
| 7 | 100 Gecs | |
| 8 | Blanck Mass | |
| 9 | Big Thief | |
| 10 | Sharon Van Etten | |
| 11 | W.H. Lung | |
| 12 | Men I Trust | |
| 13 | Floating Points | |
| 14 | Black Midi | |
| 15 | James Blake | |
| 16 | Deerhunter | |
| 17 | DIIV | |
| 18 | (Sandy) Alex G | House of Sugar |
| 19 | Danny Brown | |
| 20 | Orville Peck | |
| 21 | Chon | |
| 22 | FKA Twigs | |
| 23 | Broken Social Scene | |
| 24 | Baroness | |
| 25 | Big Thief | |
| 26 | Blut Aus Nord | Hallucinogen |
| 27 | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | |
| 28 | Bon Iver | |
| 29 | Heaven’s Club | |
| 30 | Whitney | |
| 31 | Karen O & Danger Mouse | Lux Prima |
| 32 | Teen Daze | Bioluminescence |
| 33 | Quelle Chris | Guns |
| 34 | Lost Under Heaven | |
| 35 | FIDLAR | |
| 36 | Alcest | Spiritual Instinct |
| 37 | Wand | Laughing Matter |
| 38 | Malibu Ken | Malibu Ken |
| 39 | Chromatics | Closer to Grey |
| 40 | Jay Som | Anak Ko |
| 41 | Vanishing Twin | The Age of Immunology |
| 42 | Great Granda | Four of Arrows |
| 43 | Purple Mountains | |
| 44 | Battles | Juice B Crypts |
| 45 | Freddie Gibbs & Madlib | Bandana |
| 46 | Better Oblivion Community Center | Better Oblivion Community Center |
| 47 | Aldous Harding | Designer |
| 48 | Vampire Weekend | Father of the Bride |
| 49 | Billie Eilish | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? |
| 50 | Beck | Hyperspace |
| 30/50 | 60% |