Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

~ Release group series

Release Groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	2016	Blonde	Frank Ocean	Album	4.65	5
2	2010	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	Kanye West	Album	4.2	16
3	2013	BEYONCÉ	Beyoncé	Album	4	22
4	2015	To Pimp a Butterfly	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.6	10
5	2012	The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do	Fiona Apple	Album	4	11
6	2016	A Seat at the Table	Solange	Album	5	4
7	2013	Modern Vampires of the City	Vampire Weekend	Album	4.35	7
8	2010	Body Talk	Robyn	Album		7
9	2014	Black Messiah	D’Angelo and The Vanguard	Album	4	6
10	2012	channel ORANGE	Frank Ocean	Album	4.15	10
11	2015	Art Angels	Grimes	Album	4.55	10
12	2016	ANTI	Rihanna	Album	4.4	21
13	2011	Take Care	Drake	Album	4.25	6
14	2017	Melodrama	Lorde	Album	4.35	10
15	2013	Yeezus	Kanye West	Album	3.8	8
16	2010	Have One on Me	Joanna Newsom	Album	4.65	4
17	2015	Carrie & Lowell	Sufjan Stevens	Album	4.6	7
18	2012	good kid, m.A.A.d city	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.35	22
19	2019	Norman Fucking Rockwell!	Lana Del Rey	Album	4.5	39
20	2013	Double Cup	DJ Rashad	Album		3
21	2010	Teen Dream	Beach House	Album	3.5	7
22	2011	Kaputt	Destroyer	Album	3.65	6
23	2018	Golden Hour	Kacey Musgraves	Album	3.4	10
24	2017	Ctrl	SZA	Album		7
25	2015	In Colour	Jamie xx	Album	4.25	7
26	2014	Burn Your Fire for No Witness	Angel Olsen	Album	5	5
27	2018	Some Rap Songs	Earl Sweatshirt	Album	3.75	3
28	2014	LP1	FKA twigs	Album	4.15	7
29	2010	Halcyon Digest	Deerhunter	Album	4.35	7
30	2016	Puberty 2	Mitski	Album	5	11
31	2011	4	Beyoncé	Album	4	12
32	2011	Bon Iver	Bon Iver	Album	4	11
33	2019	U.F.O.F.	Big Thief	Album	4	4
34	2015	Summertime ’06	Vince Staples	Album	3	5
35	2013	Cupid Deluxe	Blood Orange	Album	4.5	2
36	2018	EL MAL QUERER	ROSALÍA	Album	4.15	3
37	2016	★ (Blackstar)	David Bowie	Album	4.45	16
38	2018	Whack World	Tierra Whack	Album	4.25	1
39	2011	Apocalypse	Bill Callahan	Album	3.65	4
40	2017	Pop 2	Charli XCX	Album + Mixtape/Street	4.5	3
41	2016	Lemonade	Beyoncé	Album	4.1	12
42	2010	New Amerykah, Part Two (Return of the Ankh)	Erykah Badu	Album	3.5	3
43	2013	Night Time, My Time	Sky Ferreira	Album	4.5	7
44	2016	We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service	A Tribe Called Quest	Album	3.65	6
45	2017	A Crow Looked at Me	Mount Eerie	Album	4	3
46	2013	Shaking the Habitual	The Knife	Album		13
47	2015	E•MO•TION	Carly Rae Jepsen	Album	4.15	19
48	2016	HOPELESSNESS	ANOHNI	Album	3.75	6
49	2011	Replica	Oneohtrix Point Never	Album	4	8
50	2012	Visions	Grimes	Album	4.3	22
51	2018	Knock Knock	DJ Koze	Album	3.25	3
52	2010	This Is Happening	LCD Soundsystem	Album	4.65	15
53	2017	Black Origami	Jlin	Album	2.5	4
54	2015	Barter 6	Young Thug	Album + Mixtape/Street	3.65	2
55	2011	Strange Mercy	St. Vincent	Album	5	6
56	2015	Vulnicura	Björk	Album	3.8	9
57	2017	DAMN.	Kendrick Lamar	Album	4.15	12
58	2015	The Epic	Kamasi Washington	Album	5	6
59	2012	Red	Taylor Swift	Album	4.5	80
60	2017	The Ooz	King Krule	Album		3
61	2017	Arca	Arca	Album	4	6
62	2014	Ruins	Grouper	Album	2.5	3
63	2011	XXX	Danny Brown	Album	4	3
64	2018	Be the Cowboy	Mitski	Album	2	10
65	2015	DS2	Future	Album	2.5	8
66	2017	Plunge	Fever Ray	Album		7
67	2015	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit	Courtney Barnett	Album	4.5	13
68	2010	Cosmogramma	Flying Lotus	Album	4.2	6
69	2015	If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late	Drake	Album + Mixtape/Street	3.25	7
70	2017	No Shape	Perfume Genius	Album	3.5	3
71	2018	Honey	Robyn	Album		22
72	2015	I Love You, Honeybear	Father John Misty	Album	4.5	7
73	2018	Invasion of Privacy	Cardi B	Album	3.15	5
74	2018	OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN‐INSIDES	SOPHIE	Album	3.6	2
75	2011	House of Balloons	The Weeknd	Album + Mixtape/Street	4.5	7
76	2010	The Suburbs	Arcade Fire	Album	4.15	23
77	2010	There Is Love in You	Four Tet	Album	3.4	5
78	2011	Smoke Ring for My Halo	Kurt Vile	Album	5	6
79	2015	Currents	Tame Impala	Album	3.9	12
80	2014	Syro	Aphex Twin	Album	4.6	8
81	2019	When I Get Home	Solange	Album	3.75	2
82	2011	Father, Son, Holy Ghost	Girls	Album	3.75	9
83	2013	Rival Dealer	Burial	EP	4	5
84	2013	Acid Rap	Chance the Rapper	Album + Mixtape/Street	2.25	5
85	2015	On Your Own Love Again	Jessica Pratt	Album		4
86	2013	Days Are Gone	HAIM	Album	4.75	10
87	2015	SremmLife	Rae Sremmurd	Album		2
88	2015	Apocalypse, girl	Jenny Hval	Album		4
89	2014	Our Love	Caribou	Album	4	8
90	2014	Never Hungover Again	Joyce Manor	Album	2.5	5
91	2016	22, a Million	Bon Iver	Album	3.6	7
92	2011	Watch the Throne	Jay‐Z & Kanye West	Album	3.3	8
93	2018	Devotion	Tirzah	Album	3.5	4
94	2010	Contra	Vampire Weekend	Album	4.3	9
95	2013	Leak 04–13 (Bait Ones)	Jai Paul	Album + Demo	4	2
96	2018	Double Negative	Low	Album	2.5	6
97	2014	Lost in the Dream	The War on Drugs	Album	4.55	3
98	2014	It’s Album Time	Todd Terje	Album	5	3
99	2018	X 100PRE	Bad Bunny	Album	3	2
100	2018	Sweetener	Ariana Grande	Album	4.4	12

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