
And she does so wide-eyed and full-heartedly, even painstakingly. On Kate Bush’s only studio album of the decade, she sings about catching a snowflake out of the sky, warning a hunted yeti, and sleeping with a dissolving snowman. Listen to selections from this list on our Spotify playlist and Apple Music playlist.Īnti-/Fish People 191.

When you buy something through our retail links, however, Pitchfork may earn an affiliate commission.) (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. And check out all of Pitchfork’s 2010s wrap-up coverage here. Here are our top 200 albums of the decade.įor more about how we put together this list, read this letter from our editor-in-chief Puja Patel. So the form endures, and at the end of a turbulent decade, it is thriving.

They pioneered the visual album, perfected the surprise drop, and stretched running times as long as they pleased, no longer beholden to physical media. But great artists will always want to create works that expand their visions, and this decade, they found new ways to push the LP forward. In the 2010s, as playlists swelled with unrelated tracks and algorithms shot listeners off in all directions, the full-length release started to feel on the verge of becoming an antique.
