As a music connoisseur of types, I’ve been overly analytical over the years to sift through music albums to find what’s good out there since I’ve been there. These are some of the best ones over the years of the 2000000000000s.

I love living in the future.

Bolded are my top 5 of any given year…

UPDATE I’ve added lists of newer albums too: what the FUCK was I thinking not including artist names? I was a lot more stupider in 2012… much more sophisticated now, so those are added too.

2000

mutations
nia
like water for chocolate
white ladder
figure 8
quality control
stanktonia
kid a
heartbreaker
reflection eternal
the w
Lift yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
Moon and Antarctia
Relationship of Command
since I left you
Rated R
Masters of the Universe
Lost Souls
Alkaline Trio
The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Parachutes
The W

2001

labor days
drukqs
Feel Good Lost
Discovery
AOI Bionix
Pause
Disposable Arts
In Search Of…
Amnesiac
Agetis Byrnn
Simple Things
brushfire fairytales
blueprint
walk thru walls
ageetis byrjun
drink to get drunk

2002

Sea Change
Blazing Arrow
You Forgot it in People
Food for Thought
A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Private Press
Fantastic Damage
Yoshimi
Turn on the Bright Lights
Power in Numbers
exit
Dead Ringer
By the Way
Songs for the Deaf
( )
Turn on the bright lights
Original Pirate Material
Out of the Fierce Parade

2003

Transatlanticsim
Mechanical Royalty
Lemon of Pink
Deja Entreadu
Rounds
Black Album
New Sacred Cow
Youth and Manhood
Shades of Blue
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Lycanthropy
Give UP
I am the Fun Blame Monster
Hail To The Thief
Love is Hell
Rock and Roll
Logic Will Break your heart
Chutes Too Narrow
Greetings From Michigan
Phrenology
I am the Movie
Out of the Vein
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Take Me To Your Leader

2004

Sung Tongs
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Funeral
Bright Like Neon Love
How it ends
In Tune and On Time
Antics
Futures
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Madvillany
mm food
Alphabetical
Since We Last Spoke
Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes
Antics
The College Dropout
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
ipecac neat
fly or die
futures
a crow left of the murder
motorcylcle diaries
franz ferdinand
how it ends
bee hives
rubber factory

2005

Silent Alarm
Howl
Guero
Takk…
Plans
Alligator
Be
The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Late Registration
Z
s.o.n.o.g.r.a.m.
Demon Days
Gimme Fiction
Broken Social Scene
Wind in the Wires
Illinois
Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV
True and Livin
First Impressions of the Earth
Lullabies to Paralyze
Menos El Olso
Shooting the Breeze
Everything in Transit
In Between Dreams
Demon Days
Some Cities
The Mouse and The Mask
Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV
Downtown Science
Howl
masters of the universe
july heat

2006

donuts
game theory
the devil and god are raging inside me
fishscale
return to cookie mtn
eyes open
freezer burner
the crane wife
hell have no fury
rodrigo and gabriela
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Food & Liquor
the eraser
yellow house
feedback
magnificent city
cum laude!
burial
so this is goodbye
the information
the fountain soundrack

2007

In Rainbows
Boxer
Armchair Acrophobia
A Weekend In The City
Because of the Times
neon bible
For Emma, Forever Ago
untrue
sound of silver
strawberry jam
Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
From Here We Go Sublime
kala
I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
false hopes
there will be blood
era vulgaris
our love to admire
we were dead before the ship even sank
the cool
myth takes
all hour symbols
third hand
preperations
Planet of Ice
Happy Birthday
oracular spectacular
sound of silver
make sure they see my face
graduation
you, you’re a history in rust
alive 2007
uncle tony’s coloring book
baby 81
pocket ypmphone
none shall pass
All of The Sudden, I miss Everyone

2008

Dear Science
The Midnight Organ Fight
fleet foxes
Third
Microcastle, weird era continued
In Ghost Colours
Los Angeles
Shallow Grave
Flight of the Conchords
Alopecia
Meo
Ghosts 1-4
Walking on a Dream
Pretty Dark Things
Only By The Night
Friendly Fires
The Fashion
In Ear Park
Modern guilt
Narrow Stairs
In Ear Park
Narrow Stairs
Viva La Vida
Elephant Shell
Intimacy
Random Album Title

2009

Veckatimest
sometimes I wish I were an eagle
hospice
xx
a brief history of love
wolfgang amadeus phoenix
manners
never better
middle cyclone
no one’s first, and you’re next
miike snow
motm
take my breath away
born like this
only built 4 cuban linx
had the blues but shook them loose
water for mars
xx
never better
begone dull care
born like this
daisy

2010

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
High Violet
Cosmogramma
This Is Happening
Tourist History
The Social Network
The Wild Hunt
The Age of Adz
How I Got Over
Mines
Maximum Balloon
MOTM 2
Relayted
Halycon Digest
The Way Out
Sir Lucious Left Foot the Son of Chico Dusty
Teen Dream
The Suburbs
Cant
The Boxer
Flaws
Forgiveness Rock Record
Nothing
Subiza

2011

ASAP Rocky – Live. Love. ASAP. (can’t believe I almost forgot this one)
James Blake – ST
TV On The Radio – 9 Types of Light
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Death Cab – Codes and Keys
Bibio – Mind Bokeh
Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine (almost made the cut)
Friendly Fires – Pala
Kendrick Lamar – Section 88
The Antlers – Burst Apart
Destroyer – Kaputt
Wild Beasts – Smother (should have prolly made the cut)
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Washed Out – Within and Without
Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts (reminds me of sea change)
Dale Earnheart Jr Jr – It’s A Corporate World
Roots – The Undun
Raphael Saddiq – Stone Rollin
Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
TKOL FTB
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapitol
M83 – hurry up we’re dreaming
Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Ghost Poet – PBJ…
SBTRKT – SBTRKT
Bon Iver – ST
DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Jay-Z and Kanye – Watch The Throne
Modeselektor – Monkeytown
Tennis – Cape Dory
Thundercat – The Golden Age of the Apocalypse
Radiohead – The King of Limbs

2012

Here We Go Magic – A different Ship
Menomena – Moms
Frank Ocean
Ultrista – Ultrista
Tennis – Young and Old
Deftones – Koi No Yokan
Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
DIIV – OSHIN
Kingdom Crumbs
Schoolboy Q – Habits and Contradictions
El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
Bloc Party – Four
Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Passion Pit – Gossamer
Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
Andrew Bird – Break it Yourself
Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
Paul Banks – Banks
Divine Fits – A thing Called the Divine Fits
Beach House – Bloom
POS – We Don’t Even Live Here
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Tame Impala – Lonerism

2013

THUNDERCAT – APOCALYPSE
CHILDISH GAMBINO – BECAUSE THE INTERNET
KID CUDI – INDICUD
TYLER, THE CREATOR – WOLF
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB – SPECTOR THE FEAST
PHOENIX – BANKRUPT
DRAKE – NOTHING WAS THE SAME
MOUNT KIMBE – COLD SPRING FAULT LESS YOUTH
THE STROKES – THE COMEDOWN MACHINE
A$AP FERG – TRAP LORD
DAVID BOWIE – THE NEXT DAY
VOLCANO CHOIR – REPAVE
KANYE WEST – YEEZUS
EARL SWEATSHIRT – DORIS
CUT COPY – FREE YOUR MIND
NEKO CASE – THE WORSE THINGS GET, THE HARDER I FIGHT, THE HARDER I FIGHT, THE MORE I LOVE YOU
BLOOD ORANGE – CUPID DELUXE
A$AP ROCKY – LONG LIVE A$AP.
COLLEEN – THE WEIGHING OF THE HEART
GOLD PANDA – HALF OF WHERE YOU LIVE
SIGUR ROS – KVEIKUR
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – LIKE CLOCKWORK
TORO Y MOI – ANYTHING IN RETURN
!!! – TRI!!!ER
BOARDS OF CANADA – TOMORROW’S HARVEST
LOCAL NATIVES – HUMMINGBIRD
DAFT PUNK – RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
WASHED OUT – PARACOSM
KEVIN DEVINE AND THE GODDAMN BAND – BUBBLEGUM
RUN THE JEWELS – RUN THE JEWELS
THE NATIONAL – TROUBLE WILL FIND ME
BILL CALLAHAN – DREAM RIVER
KURT VILE – WAKIN ON A PRETTY DAZE
DANNY BROWN – OLD
MODERAT – II

2014

The Black Keys – Turn Blue
Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere else
Coldplay- Ghost Stories
Cyne – All my Angles are Right
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Pinata
Interpol – El Pintor
Kid Cudi – Satelite Flight
Pharrell – G I R L
TV ON THE RADIO – SEEDS
The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream
Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron
Run The Jewels – RTJ2
JMSN – JMSN
Future Islands – Singles
Blockhead – Bells and Whistles
Sun Kil Moon – Benji
Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
Kele – Trick

2015

Amazing – Picture You
Pfarmers – Gunnera
Miguel – Wildheart
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
ASAP Rocky – At Long Last ASAP
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
Joey Bada$$ – B4.DA.$$
Earl Sweatshirt – I don’t like Shit, I don’t go outside
Passion Pit – Kindred
Death Cab For Cutie – Kinstugi
Freddie Gibbs – Pronto
Modest Mouse – Strangers To Ourselves
Braille – Mute Swan
Third Eye Blind – Dopamine
BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul
Shamir – Ratchet
Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
The Velvet Teen – All is Illusory
Jamie XX – In Colour
Tanlines – Highlights
Mick Jenkins – Wave[s]
Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m going down
Here We Go Magic – Be Small
Young Fathers – White Men are Black Men too
!!! – As if
Hunter Hunted – Ready for You
Tyler, the Creator – Cherry Bomb
El Vy – Return to the Moon
Small Black – Best Blues
Dr. Dre – Compton
The Shoes – Chemicals
Raury – All We Need
The Underachievers – Evermore – The art of Duality
Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams
The Wombats – Glitterbug
Heems – Eat Pray Thug
The Internet – Ego Death
Ryan Adams – 1989
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
Pusha T – King Push
Father John Misty – I love you, Honeybear

2016

MODERAT – III
RADIOHEAD – A MOON SHAPED POOL
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST – WE GOT IT FROM HERE… THANK YOU 4 YOUR SERVICE
FRANK OCEAN – BLOND
PLANTS AND ANIMALS – WALTZED IN FROM THE RUMBLING
KAYTRANADA – 99.9%
PUP – THE DREAM IS OVER
BADBADNOTGOOD – IV
THE DREAM – THE CROWN
THE AMAZING – AMBULANCE
AESOP ROCK – THE IMPOSSIBLE KID
THE INVISIBLE – PATIENCE
KINGS OF LEON – WALLS
MODERAT – LIVE
BLOC PARTY – HYMNS
ANDERSON.PAAK – MALIBU
DELOREAN – MUSIK
DIIV – IS THE IS ARE
MICK JENKINS – THE HEALING COMPONENT
DANNY BROWN – ATROCITY EXHIBITION
MIIKE SNOW – III
PHANTOGRAM – THREE
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY – THE WILDERNESS
JEREMIH – LATE NIGHTS: EUROPE
CHILDISH GAMBINO – AWAKEN, MY LOVE
BON IVER – 22, A MILLION
DEFTONES – GORE
LOCAL NATIVES – SUNLIT YOUTH
WYE OAK – TWEEN
EMPIRE OF THE SUN – TWO VINES
BLOOD ORANGE –
DRAKE – VIEWS
FRANK OCEAN – ENDLESS
KANYE WEST – THE LIFE OF PABLO
SBTRKT – SAVE YOURSELF
BAND OF HORSES – WHY YOU ARE OK
M83 – JUNK
JMSN – IT IS
DJ SHADOW – THE MOUNTAIN WILL FALL
ASAP FERG – ALWAYS STRIVE AND PROSPER

2017

THE XX – I SEE YOU
THUNDERCAT, DRUNK
GRIZZLY BEAR, PAINTED RUINS
VINCE STAPLES, BIG FISH THEORY
SYD – FIN
TYLER, THE CREATOR, FLOWER BOY
SPOON, HOT THOUGHTS
BRAND NEW, SCIENCE FICTION
FLEET FOXES, CRACK-UP
MOSES SUMNEY, AROMANTICISM
THE NATIONAL, SLEEP WELL BEAST – AND YOU AS WELL BEAST
SZA, CTRL
!!! – SHAKE THE SHUDDER
FATHER JOHN MISTY, PURE COMEDY
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, HUG OF THUNDER
RYAN ADAMS, PRISONER
SAMPHA, PROCESS
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, VILLAINS
MIGUEL – WAR & LEISURE
N.E.R.D. – NO_ONE EVER REALLY DIES
KAMASI WASHINGTON, HARMONY OF DIFFERENCE
KELE – FATHERHOOD
IRON AND WINE – BEAST EPIC
MAYA JANE COLES – TAKE FLIGHT
BIG KRIT – 4EVA IS A MIGHTY LONG TIME
BIG THIEF, CAPACITY
LIARS – TFCF
GALANTIS – THE AVIARY
J RODDY WALSTON AND THE BUSINESS – DESTROYERS OF THE SOFT LIFE
UNDERACHEIVERS – RENAISSANCE
BROCKHAMPTON, SATURATION II
MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, A BLACK MILE TO THE SURFACE
RUN THE JEWELS, RUN THE JEWELS 3 – 2016 ALBUM BUT IT CAME OUT SO LATE IT DESERVES JUSTICE AGAIN IN 2017 LISTS. WHATEVER.
THE DRUMS – ABYSMAL THOUGHTS
JAY-Z, 4:44
ARCADE FIRE, EVERYTHING NOW
PERFUME GENIUS, NO SHAPE
TENNIS – YOURS CONDITIONALLY
ST. VINCENT, MASSEDUCTION
JAY SOM, EVERYBODY WORKS
LUPE FIASCO – DROGRAS LIGHT
BROCKHAMPTON, SATURATION
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, WHITEOUT CONDITIONS
ROSTAM, HALF-LIGHT
BECK, COLORS
BULLY – LOSING
PROTOMARTYR, RELATIVES IN DESCENT
CLOUD NOTHINGS – LIFE WITHOUT SOUND
JAPANESE BREAKFAST, SOFT SOUNDS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
MOUNT EERIE, A CROW LOOKED AT ME
MAC DEMARCO, THIS OLD DOG
COLD WAR KIDS – LA DIVINE
DAWD – THEORY OF COLORS
KENDRICK LAMAR, DAMN.
TENNIS – WE CAN DIE HAPPY
COURTNEY BARNETT AND KURT VILE, LOTTA SEA LICE
DAN AUERBACH, WAITING ON A SONG
JAPANDROIDS, NEAR TO THE WILD HEART OF FIRE
DNCE – DNCE
HAIM, SOMETHING TO TELL YOU
JOEY BADASS – ALL AMERICAN BADA$$
PORTUGAL. THE MAN, WOODSTOCK
PASSION PIT – TREMENDOUS SEA OF LOVE
JMSN – WHATEVER MAKES U HAPPY
FUTURE ISLANDS, THE FAR FIELD
JOHN MAYER, THE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING
KHALID, AMERICAN TEEN
BJORK, UTOPIA
PHOENIX, TI AMO
ALT-J, RELAXER
THE WAR ON DRUGS, A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
MIGOS – CULTURE

2018

YLEY WALKER – DEAFMAN GLANCE
KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS
AGAINST ALLLLLLLLLL FUCK YOU KEVIN LOGIC – 2012-2017
JAY ROCK – REDEMPTION
YVES TUMOR – SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE
TROPICS – NOCTURNAL SOULS
NEKO CASE – HELL ON
INTERPOL – MARAUDER
GEORGE FITZGERALD – ALL THAT MUST BE
PUSHA T – DAYTONA
BEACH HOUSE – 7
OPEN MIKE EAGLE -WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I TRY TO RELAX
THE AMAZING – IN TRANSIT
MURS – A STRANGE JOURNEY INTO THE UNIMAGINABLE
BIG RED MACHINE – BIG RED MACHINE
THE INTERNET – HIVE MIND
NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHTSWEATS – TEARIN AT THE SEAMS
ANDERSON.PAAK – OXNARD
NONAME – ROOM 25
YOUNG FATHERS – COCOA SUGAR
MAC MILLER – SWIMMING
KURT VILE – BOTTLE IT IN
SABA – CARE FOR ME
VINCE STAPLES – FM! (SHOULD BE HIGHER, I KNOW)
KANYE – YE
THE CARTERS – EVERYTHING IS LOVE
THE 1975 – INTERNET DATING BLAH
EARL SWEATSHIRT – SOME RAP SONGS
JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ – & THE BRITE LITES AT SVENSKA GRAMMOFONSTUDION
JEAN GRAE – EVERYTHING’S FINE
Matthew Dear – Bunny
JID – Dicaprio 2
Third Eye Blind – Thanks For Everything
Adult Karate – Del Mar
Blood Orange – Negro Swan
Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
Arctic Monkeys – that hotel one
ASAP Rocky – Testing
Jon Hopkins – Singularity
Mitski – Be the Cowboy
Hippo Campus – BAMBI
The National – Boxer Live in Brussels
Aphex Twin – Collapse EP
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures
Bahamas – Earthtones
PRhyme – PRhyme 2
Wild Nothing – Indigo
Death Cab – Thanks n shit

-In Tune & On Time-

word, dawg. Good stuff over the past decade.