(“ If I could have made something good I would have by now.”) On top of that, they’re one of the hardest working bands of the 2010s there’s been an estimated 25 trips in the past decade (“ I emailed Rick/said ‘do you want to play with us some time?’/he emailed me back/said ‘man our summer’s looking pretty busy.’”) If you’ve been sleeping on Pile, now’s your chance to dig in, and Dripping is the perfect hook. Not only are Pile good, they’re so good they’ll make you feel bad, sometimes worthless. “ Did you hear the latest Pile album?/Not a stinker on it” begins the opening title track “Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts into Tears.” Seeing Pile for the first time at Sunnyvale in 2017 was overwhelming-their cultish fanbase shows the fuck up, and their high-octane performances are nothing short of transcendent. The best way to talk about Dripping is to talk about Krill’s Pile-referencing EP. Here are our Top 150 Albums of the 2010s.Įxploding In Sound 150. We hope you enjoy reading it most of all. We hope you discover some albums that might have passed you by the first time. But we can say that we were true to our own perspective, both in the albums we chose and what we had to say about them. (Or in some cases, just a couple months.) Part of what made the past couple decades of music interesting is that the idea of canon was turned on its head, though it does appear that since so many best-of-decade lists have been published, maybe that’s not true anymore. What we ended up with is a list of albums that we stand behind, that we’re still extremely enthusiastic about 3, 5, or 10 years later. Some albums got moved around, some were bumped, some were dropped, and everything ended up being marbled for a more interesting reading (and if you’re following along, listening) experience. Then we each suggested a handful of albums that were worth consideration but maybe didn’t get as many votes. Then we asked ourselves some questions: What’s overrepresented? What’s underrepresented? What’s missing? Could we perhaps swap out a problematic album for one made by The Deftones? Things like that. We voted, tallied, then took a look at where everything shook out. Now, here’s the how: Everybody who contributed to this list made their own personal list of favorites. This wasn’t an effort simply to repost our top 15 albums of every year to have a neat, extensive summary, but rather to see what changed, what endured, and what left an impression well after the fact. It’s an opportunity to see if our tastes have changed, to see what music ended up having the most significant influence both on us and on other music, and to take a look at what made the most ripples, and did so in a way that kept our attention. But we did it anyway.įirst, here’s the why: Much like we do at the end of every year, we took a moment to take stock of where we are now, at the end of the decade rather than while we’re experiencing it. Maybe it’s a futile effort to try to summarize something that’s too broad and abstract to fit into one cohesive list. And while we tried to divide up the albums evenly between years, there’s no doubt that some are represented better than others (2019 has the smallest presence-it’s always hard to evaluate a year in context when it just ended a few days ago). We tried to encompass as many genres as possible, but we won’t even begin to describe our efforts as exhaustive. We didn’t exclusively include American or English albums, but they do comprise a significant majority. To do so is to set an arbitrary limit somewhere-we stopped at 150 albums, but it could have been more. Trying to summarize a decade’s worth of music is complicated.
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