In a way the thread title should have read "in your informed opinion," since anyone who's naming albums that came out many years or decades ago has clearly given up the hunt, with hardening-of-the-artistic-arteries prejudice. Or has made only fitful and easily discouraged efforts to find brilliant recently released albums. Or is simply trolling. I suppose it's possible that there's a unicorn among us who has made a truly good-faith continual effort to search out and audition promising music from the contemporary canon of popular music in a wide variety of genres, and who, having put in the time, has still concluded, with a generous open mind, that nothing in the 2010s or 2000s has been truly great. But I doubt it.
Great album, but I find myself listening to 'To the Bone' much more since it was released last year. His other Solo Albums are very good, but SW just keeps getting better.
I honestly believe at some of these posters are not only serious, but have also listened to many newer albums. There's simply something about those formative years that they have not been able to recreate yet. As for my pick, it used to be DAMN. but I would probably update that to Low's "Double Negative" now.
It has to be To Pimp a Butterfly for me, it's so stuffed with ideas that it's really long runtime just breezes by. My album of the decade by some margin!
David Bowie's Blackstar is the last album that I would deem a masterpiece. Although I haven't heard every album released since then so...
The last release from the last band I bought a record of. Every one of my purchases fit into this category.
Since I am new to to the thread, I will nominate a CD album that was released in February 2019 (it's out of print already, they only printed 100 copies but hopefully it will get printed again). The album is titled 'Akmé' , and it is by Sageness, an underground (where all of the great Rock is found nowadays!) psych trio from León, Spain. BAND CAMP LINK : Akmé, by SageNESS
