Genius The community spent months thinking about the albums we picked and then spent weeks discussing the rankings. The end result is not just an album list, but a worldview provided by the Genius community that considers all the ways music has influenced our lives over the past 10 years. Leave no gossip, here are 81 to 90 of the 100 best albums of the Genius community in the 2010s:
90. Noname - Telefone
Before she was a mysterious figure, with the jig in the booming Chicago rap circle. In 2016, she became famous with her debut "Telefone". The project presents the stream of consciousness and emotional, jazz-style works of Noname in the form of a series of open telephone conversations, while exploring themes of growth, nostalgia, fame and death. This is a poetic growth record that stares at the past, present and future of Noname through kaleidoscope irony and whimsy. Noname's style is almost entirely introspective, although the song "Bye Bye Baby" finds her telling the story of a real and imaginary woman having a genuine abortion. After working with celebrities for the first time with Chance the Rapper's "Lost", Noname entered her own inner world in Telefone, not just dancing Diddy Bop with her neighbors.
—@slightly_senile, Ethan R.
89. Kali Uchis - Isolation
After giving voice to Tyler, The Creator The well-received "Flower Boy", Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis came out of her life with her debut album "Isolation". Kali quotes Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday as a source of inspiration, combining retro visual aesthetics with smoky piano folk , Latin pop music, funk music and more. She pondered a love that was doomed to fail in "Flight 22" , escaped her relationship with poison in "Killer", and even used "Your Teeth In My Neck" to explain socialist politics.
songs produced by Thundercat, BADBADNOTGOOD and others. "Isolation" established Uchis as an artist, so she is not afraid of taking risks, making her from the style of contemporary pop music. After all, not many artists have become famous French actresses like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Uchis Unapologetically defending this position, she said, “I think accepting this isolation and taking risks and making something that doesn’t sound like anything else will make the music exciting.”
—@noufi, Gauthier Chombart
88. Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise
In Big Sean’s third studio album, he finally found the balance between the boastful side that made him a star and his heartfelt lyrics. "Blessings" and "I Don't F**k With You" show Sean's confident attitude, while songs such as "One Man Can Change The World" and "Win Some, Lose Some" show his introspective side. There are Jhene Aiko and Chris Brown’s Featuring and of course there are a few others, the rapper combines Smooth’s Hook with his endless stream of rap and stands out with his extraordinary word game. Dark Sky Paradise is Sean's most successful business and art work, with fans and critics giving high praise, cementing Sean's position as one of the most successful rappers in a decade.
—@SupaDupajay, Jack Diaz
87. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
"Complexity" is not the only appropriate description of Japanese-American singer-songwriter Mitski's fifth studio album "Be the Cowboy". It is also a creative, lyrical, and ultimately thought-provoking effort to push the boundaries.Mitski is an indie rock singer with a passion for experimentation and abstraction, and she pours her most creative impulses into this music, creating a peaceful, soothing atmosphere for songs such as “Come Into the Water,” “A Horse Named Cold Air,” and “Blue Light.” She also shows a synth-oriented and dance-music sound in "Why Didn't You Stop Me?" and "Nobody", which explores the depths of her own manic tendencies. The longest song "Two Slow Dancers" depicts the duel between musical personality. This is also a slow-burning folk song, summarizing the beauty of the album "Be the Cowboy".
—@theillestmanalive05, Logan Zutter
86. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
With the album "Sound & Color", Alabama Shakes successfully combined blues rock and classic R&B to expand his musical horizons. Lead singer-guitarist Bu Brittany Howard sounds tougher and more affectionate than ever before, especially in the song “Don't Wanna Fight,” which explores struggles in an unhealthy relationship. Meanwhile, the band prepares for the main songs "Future People" and "Gimme All Your Love", which are journeys that go deep into the deepest part of soul music. More peaceful is the “This Feeling”, a semi-acoustic figure slanted into the thin line between pure ballads and feel-good R&B, with a festive and wanted feeling. Meanwhile, "Shoegaze" embodies the purity of touching the value of friendship between fast-paced, vague rock music. When everything is put together, Sound & Color is a heartfelt experience and you should have enough courage and soul power to support it.
—@theillestmanalive05, Logan Zutter
85. Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
When this Waka Flocka, who was born in Queens and raised in Atlanta, became an incredible trap visionary, he released his debut album - "Flockaveli". Waka inherited the mantle of Crunk Music invented by Lil Jon and others and laid the foundation for the next decade; ATL’s street Trap, Chicago’s Drill, and more rap forms. This album gave birth to electric butt songs like "No Hands", as well as "Hard in da Paint" and "Grove St. Party" that you can hear when you go to a nightclub. Most importantly, the song "Hard in da Paint" made the producer Lex Luger famous in one fell swoop - he is also the main producer of the album. Soon, Luger started making for Rick Ross and Soulja Boy Tell 'Em , while a group of producers began to scramble for the music he and Waka invented.
Waka is by no means a lyrical MC, but no matter what his skill flaws are, he will make up for it with pure instinct – in every song, he will burst out with passion, stomp those dark spots, and ignite the passion with improvisation. Sometimes the album is stressed (severely homogenized) with a long list of bland lyrics, but that doesn’t remove the chaotic feeling on nearly every song. Waka never regains the momentum of his first album to be successful, but his influence remains even as his hits dwindle.
—Insanul Ahmed
84. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
After her 2014 album of the same name was a success, St. Vincent, AKA Annie Clark, created MASSEDUCTION, an inciting, charming release with some of her best works to date."MASSEDUCTION" deviates from the style of Baroque pop music and guitar smashing rock in her previous works, including experimental folk ballads "Hang on Me" and "New York", synthetic rock "Pills" and "Masseduction", and even a combination of the two "Los Ageless". The tense but passionate feeling created by Clark throughout, with the sounds produced by Jack Antonoff and Sounwave reminiscent of the new wave and synthetic popularity of the 80s. Besides that, the lyrical style of Clark effortlessly ranges from deep personal emotions and melancholy “Happy Birthday, Johnny” to witty and obscene “Savior”. Speeds range from the fast-paced "Sugarboy" to the softer "Slow Disco". "MASSEDUCTION" brings these different styles together to "generate" an excellent album, a neon-glittering gem on a crown full of gemstones in the recording world.
—@theillestmanalive05, Logan Zutter
83. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
The rough, noisy, and nearly mentally ill "You Won't Get What You Want", is the fourth studio album of Daughters, and their first album after eight years of silence. It is a satisfying dark album. Going to industrialized sounds, you won't get what you want to find singer Alexis Marshall paired with his weird sounds with Jonathan Syverson's weird drum mode, Nicholas Andrew Sadler 's weird guitar chords, and Samuel Walker's charming bass line. Songs like “Satan in the Wait” touch on hatred and extremism, while “City Song” and “Long Roads, No Turns” find the band peaking in a creative, chaotic chemistry between each other. Sometimes, however, songs like “The Reason They Hate Me” sound similar to the old and simple metal version. In "You Won't Get What You Want", you will find the carefully produced by the most daring musician who is completely dissonant with the content of this album.
—@theillestmanalive05, Logan Zutter
82. Migos - Culture
In 2010, after Migos released "Culture", he finally began to get the reward he deserved for helping to create rap music. Early in their careers, critics quickly mocked the trio for igniting the industry’s interest in the once quiet trio – some even called them a miracle that came after the hit July 2013 “Versace”, but the album’s title single “Bad and Boujee”, which was guest starring Lil Uzi Vert, forever changed the trajectory of the group. The song is their first hit single, catchy and a bit weird, highlighting their tricks to capture the spirit of the cultural era through memorable music. Of course, there are music like "T-Shirt", "Get Right Witchah" and "Slippery" in the album, showing the extension of the Migos style, diving into darker and simpler sounds.
The most important thing is that the album has only 13 songs and it was recorded in less than an hour - for Migos who likes 20 songs and 90-minute albums (The Spirit of Atlanta), it is a rare "feat".
shortened album length highlights the biggest advantages of Migos: Quavo, Offset and Takeoff complement each other while retaining their own style and personality. This is a common feature of all great hip-hop groups.
—@GnarlingtonTX, Alex Wu
81. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
"Big Fish Theory" is an innovative and outgoing album that is different from any music you have played before in Vince Staples.But what makes this album stand out from the album of Vince is not the rap itself, but the sole production from Flume, Sophie and Justin Vernon and others. The album has been influenced by various influences, especially from European electronic music genres, such as the UK garage style "Crabs In A Buckettml5" and the Homage style "Yeah Rig" in the Grime style.
part of this attempt can be attributed to producer Zack Sekoff, who spent some time in the UK and explored the music scenes there, but that doesn't mean Big Fish is just imitating. Instead, they re-arranged the original sound into a unique hip-hop style.
—@Madbrad200, Bradley Marshall
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