Top 25 Albums of the Decade: 2010-2019

Albums of the Decade

I’m not going to write descriptions for each of these albums, and I also can’t really commit to the way I ordered this. This covers so many different styles of music and albums that had such powerful, yet incredibly unique significances to me over a very challenging decade that saw many different versions of myself with many different tastes. And each of those iterations of myself came together with one of these albums at just the right time to create something incredibly important and in a way, both fleeting in its circumstances and eternally lasting in the feelings that they deliver. As such, I really can’t say with any certainty that Rescue & Restore ranks above The Greatest Generation. But that said, I can separate the top 10 out as being the most significant over this period of time. Even still, I felt I needed to make this list 25 albums long to really do justice to my experience over the past decade and the music that meant the most to me.

1. August Burns Red – Rescue & Restore
2. Every Time I Die – Low Teens
3. The Wonder Years – The Greatest Generation
4. Architects – Lost Together // Lost Forever
5. Silent Planet – When the End Began
6. Caspian – Dust & Disquiet
7. Emarosa – Emarosa
8. The Chariot – Long Live
9. We Lost the Sea – Departure Songs
10. Russian Circles – Memorial
11. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
12. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
14. Currents – The Place I Feel Safest
15. Amenra – Mass VI
16. Converge – The Dusk in Us
17. Dance Gavin Dance – Acceptance Speech
18. Deafheaven – Sunbather
19. The Devil Wears Prada – Dead Throne
20. Norma Jean – Wrongdoers
21. Erra – Drift
22. Texas in July – Bloodwork
23. Greyhaven – Empty Black
24. Go Radio – Do Overs & Second Chances
25. If These Trees Could Talk – Bones of a Dying World