In attempting to understand the spirit of a generation, the significance of the music which spoke to its youth cannot be over-emphasised.
It’s through songs that we come to understand the personality of a culture, distilling the themes and attitudes that have characterised our collective identity.The '60s had The Beatles, while the '70s had Bowie, and we had. . . well, it’s difficult to say who will be remembered in decades to come as the masthead (or, dare I say, ‘best’) artist of the 2010s.
Though it is impossible to speak for everyone, it can be said that the '10s was an era of progressive and genre-bending attitudes in pop, with artists borrowing heavily from our shared musical past, from their contemporaries across genre boundaries.
Click here to read our favourite albums 2010-2019.
In lieu of the '10s death, let’s celebrate with a playlist featuring a few of the best tunes 2010-2019 had to offer.
In no particular order:
Tune-Yards - 'Water Fountain'
Sahara Beck - 'Queen Of Hearts'
Father John Misty - 'When You’re Smiling And Astride Me'
St. Vincent - 'Neutered Fruit'
Queens Of The Stone Age - 'Smooth Sailing'
Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar - 'Never Catch Me'
Anderson .Paak - 'Yada Yada'
Death Grips - 'Warping'
Fleet Foxes - 'The Shrine/An Argument'
Tame Impala - 'Apocalypse Dreams'
David Bowie - 'Blackstar'
D’Angelo - 'Ain’t That Easy'
of Montreal - 'Bassem Sabry'
Radiohead - 'Decks Dark'
Pond - 'Giant Tortoise'
MGMT - 'When You Die'
Cate le Bon - 'Magnificent Gestures'
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - 'Hot Water'
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - 'Can’t Keep Checking My Phone'
Connan Mockasin - 'I’m The Man, That Will Find You'
