Your Most Important Artists Of The 2010's

Based simply upon the albums in your collection who are your most important artists of the 2010's's? Mine are:

• Bill Frisell
• Charles Bradley
• Dave Alvin
• Eric Bibb
• Gary Clark Jr.
• Justin Townes Earle
• Ryan Adams
• Snarky Puppy
• William Tyler

For this series of threads I just posted for myself I used a minimum of 4 albums per decade to "qualify" as "most important". I don't really care what others may have used I am just interested in your opinions. Certainly the methodology I chose has left a lot of my very favorites off the lists simply because they weren't as prolific in any particular decade.

P.S. I started with the 1950's because that is when I was born and my collection begins.

 

Taylor Swift
Bruno Mars
Ed Sheeran
Adele

 

01 The National
02 LCD Soundsystem
03 Arctic Monkeys
04 Radiohead
05 David Bowie

 

Johnny Marr (ex-Smiths solo career)
Miles Kane (1/2 of The Last Shadow Puppets & former Rascals, solo career)
Spoon
Catfish And The Bottlemen
St. Vincent
Florence And The Machine
Beady Eye
My Morning Jacket
Thomas Rhett
JD McPherson
Melanie C. (former "Sporty-Spice")
Sturgill Simpson
Waxahatchee
Maren Morris
Public Access T.V.
Jenny Lewis
Albert Hammond, Jr. (one of The Strokes guitarists, solo career)
Natasha Bedingfield
Harry Styles
White Lies
The Black Keys

 

Paramore
Taylor Swift
Beach House
The Black Keys
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Jack White

 

Taylor Swift
Cage the Elephant
Kamasi Washington
Adele
Bob Moses
Lana Del Rey

 

The first one that came to my mind, don't even have a place in my CD drawer...but, they're all over my hard drive!
That's the "big story" about the 2000's, so they're not really my favorite group, but they're significant for that.
It's Pomplamoose, a major draw on YouTube, as well as the founder of Patreon. Which is also pretty significant.

You'll find a lot of these in my cabinet - and rotating all over the house:
Tina Dico
Ben Folds
Delerium/Conjure One
Imogen Heap
Above & Beyond
Aurora, Agnes Obel, Sigrid, Maggie Rogers, Birdy & Ingrid Michaelson are newcomers to the forefront.

And I spent most of the 2010's assembling a playlist of discoveries for a radio project, so there's a lot of esoteric stuff in my world these days.
(Also, thanks to renewed efforts of the ZFT, you could/should also qualify a lot of recent purchases of Zappa to the list from this decade! )

 

Obviously not very scientific, just going by the artists/albums on my computer (along with collaborations if they were a main part), four or more releases, somewhat surprisingly looks like this ...

Carla dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
Carla Dal Forno - The Garden EP
Carla Dal Forno - Top of the Pops EP
Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like
F ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out EP

Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death
Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Marriages - Kitsune EP
Marriages - Salome

Jane Weaver - Loops In The Secret Society
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver - The Amber Light
Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe
Jane Weaver Septième Sœur - The Fallen By Watch Bird
Various - Lost Library (Jane Weaver, Virginia Wing, Death and Vanilla and Noveller)

Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Jenny Hval - Innocence Is Kinky
Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep
Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
Jenny Hval and Susanna - Meshes of Voice

Joan Shelley - Electric Ursa
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley
Joan Shelley - Like The River Loves The Sea
Joan Shelley - Over and Even

Julia Holter - Aviary
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
Julia Holter - Loud City Song

Kikagaku Moyo - Forest Of Lost Children
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Kikagaku Moyo - Kikagaku Moyo EP
Kikagaku Moyo - Mammatus Clouds
Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples
Kikagaku Moyo - Stone Garden EP

The Limiñanas - Costa Blanca
The Limiñanas - Crystal Anis
The Limiñanas - Malamore
The Limiñanas - Shadow People
The Limiñanas - The Limiñanas
L'Epee - Diabolique (The Limiñanas with Anton Newcombe and Emmanuelle Seigner)

Virginia Wing - Ecstatic Arrow
Virginia Wing - Forward Constant Motion
Virginia Wing - Measures Of Joy
Virginia Wing - Rhonda EP
Virginia Wing - Pale Burnt Lake
Virginia Wing/XAM Duo - Tomorrow's Gift

 

Julia Holter. No one has accomplished as much or been so consistently adventurous this decade. She is truly one of the greats

 

top 8:
- Kendrick Lamar, the genius of the decade
- Beach House: one of the most consistent: Teen Dream (2010), Bloom (2012), Depression Cherry & Thank You Lucky Stars (2015), 8 (2018)
- Bon Iver
- Frank Ocean
- St. Vincent
- Beyoncé
- Big Thief
- Julia Holter

other:
- Angel Olsen
- Arca
- Arcade Fire (2010-2014)
- Burial
- Grimes
- Grouper
- James Blake
- Joanna Newsom
- Kanye West (only for the period 2010-2013. )
- Nicolas Jaar
- Oneohtrix Point Never
- Paul McCartney
- Radiohead/Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood
- The National

 

These New Puritans. They released three ambitious studio albums in this period, Hidden (2010), Field Of Reeds (2013) and Inside The Rose (2019) as well as live album Expanded (2014). Field Of Reeds would be my suggestion for anyone wishing to check them out.

 

Kendrick Lamar
Kanye West
Ghost
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Tyler, The Creator
Jack White
Arctic Monkeys
FKA Twigs
Kamasi Washington
Anderson .Paak
Fleet Foxes
Anna Von Hausswolff
Kero Kero Bonito

 

Foster The People
The War On Drugs

 

Bjg Big Train

The Dead South

Zervas & Pepper

The Sheepdogs

Green Diesel

 

Caruso.

 

Important is a big word ... so I am going to say important to me.

Devin Townsend
Nick Cave
Neil Morse - Transatlantic, Flying Colors, and others
Mike Portnoy - is there anyone he doesn't play drums with.
Rival Sons - not big picture important, but important in reminding me that some new bands could still write some good rock songs.

Probably some others, but that's all that is coming to mind

 

Oops! Thought it was the the 1910’s.

 

Wilco

Adele

Jenny Lewis / Rilo Kiley

Arcade Fire

Fleet Foxes

and most recently

The Claypool Lennon Delirium

Billie Eilish
.

 

Missed Wilco, good pick up. Cheers

 

I will add to my list quoted here one of my fave songs of the 2010's (which I had heard on the radio and was identified by a kind member on the forum).

Her video is funnier than the total output that her father, the absolutely atrocious Rob Schneider, ever did:

 

Kendrick Lamar
Kanye West
Frank Ocean
Tyler the Creator
Vince Staples
Earl Sweatshirt
Taylor Swift
Janelle Monae
Radiohead/Thom Yorke
F*cked Up
Against Me!
Flying Lotus
Zola Jesus
EMA
Gorillaz
Danny Brown
No Joy
Parquet Courts

 

Seconding Joan Shelley and Julia Holter.

 

Carla dal Forno is incredible, too. Her latest might be my album of 2019

 

Ringo Starr with 5 albums from the decade