bands of the 2010s

RD. Deftones - Diamond Eyes (2010) (Image credit: Reprise) Diamond Eyes marked 15 years since Deftones’ 1995 debut, Adrenaline. This was pop music, but nothing like before. In their own words: “At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. ‘Hold My Liquor’, 6. MN, After straying into weirder territories on fourth album ‘Velociraptor!’, the Leicester louts remembered exactly what they’re best at on its follow-up. We want to hear from you! Goosebump moment: All of ‘Bad Guy’, which rightly secured her first chart-topper, and acted as a crowning moment of the phenomenon. Together they made a gnarly, wise, outrageous, sex-and-death obsessed album which stands as one of the greatest achievements of Iggy’s life. And yet the Teignmouth trio’s seventh album was the most vulnerable, primal AND human record they’d made in years. But it paid off: her first two albums, ‘Geidi Primes’ and ‘Halfaxa’ – inspired by Frank Herbert’s Dune and medieval mysticism respectively – grew a cult following, and for her third, she was snapped up by 4AD, spiritual home of electronic goths. Eight albums and almost two decades into her career, we thought we knew who PJ Harvey was: a cult dramatist of interpersonal battles, a glib critical by-word for describing a certain kind of sound (raw, ragey, usually female). Please don’t make us wait until 2027 for the next one. ‘Forrest Gump’. After a disappointing end of the 2000s, he returned very strong in 2010 with the smash album Recovery.It moved over 17 million units to make it the 9th strongest record of the … They were signed by Simon Cowell, and their manager was Louis Walsh of The X-Factor. Goosebump moment: Lead single ‘Unsainted’ sounded exactly as you’d hope Slipknot would sound in 2019. Where now he’s making music purely for the big guy in the sky, here, ‘Ye was declaring himself a deity on the urgent rush of ‘I Am A God’. ‘Paris’. The album is like an aural depiction of the Impressionists. ‘…Pablo’, West’s most confounding masterwork, is a pornographic kaleidoscope of sound, shifting between high and low culture as abruptly as one jarring sample interrupts another. Before he went all-out gospel with ‘Jesus Is King’, Kanye combined elements of praise music – a soaring choir here, a religious lyric there – with filthy dispatches from the front line of celebrity. Copied to clipboard. She’d just emerged victorious from a Royal Rumble of superstar rappers involving Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Kanye himself. Moving on from the hipster Hollywood bars of his debut ‘Fear Fun’ and the sanctity of his marital bed on ‘I Love You, Honeybear’, Father John Misty delivered big themes and even bigger tunes on his elegantly elegiac third album. Somehow the record also finds space for – deep breath – Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Jake Shears, Alex Turner, James Lavelle, Brody Dalle and Elton John. Although many punk rock bands of the ‘90s and pop punk bands of the 2000s did not have considerable mainstream success in the 2010s, the decade has witnessed a resurgence in ethnic punk and garage punk. Imagine seeing your mate shamelessly taking a pouty selfie and posting it online 10 years ago. Ready To Start 3. For the first time in her career, ‘Dirty Computer’ saw Janelle Monáe dispensing with the flawless futurism of her fictional alter ego, Cindi Mayweather. As the guitar bands of the 2000s fell out of favour, all eyes on what was next. Try this: Richard Dawson – ‘Peasant’ EM, Tracklisting: 1. Originally from Vancouver, she moved to Montreal to study Russian literature before switching to neuroscience, but never finished either course, lured instead to the city’s underground music scene. If you’re Kendrick Lamar, you don’t even try. And their one and only album ‘Go Tell Fire To The Mountain’ was a hungering slab of supercharged indie rock, lorded over by Ellery Roberts’ feral and unholy snarl. “I can’t get enough space,” howled frontman Yannis Philippakis on the call-to-arms ‘Inhaler’, capturing the 21st Century anxiety that drove ‘Holy Fire’ and defined the era. With their obscure moniker (it stands for World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) and smoke-obscured photoshoots in grey car parks, Manchester’s WU LYF were 2011’s most mysterious outfit. The sound of iconic band becoming a legendary one. Million Dollar Man 11. ‘Nana’. The list is based solely on studio releases (albums, EPs, demos, etc.) Send us a tip using our anonymous form. ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’ teems with massive anthems (‘Shut Up’ is a timeless riposte to anyone who’d talk you down) and breath-taking honesty, an indication that Michael Omari – 23 years old when he put out the album – was an icon in waiting. 20 Times Boy Bands Were The Most Important Thing About The 2010s "What Makes You Beautiful" will never stop being a BOP. On it, the band tackled the entire millennial condition, from our reliance on technology (featuring an appearance by Siri) to the global politics haunting our existence, penned love songs to heroin, and renounced postmodernism in favour of sincerity. The Best Metal Albums of the 2010s. Why Don’t We; Pop boy band Why Don’t We definitely has big plans. We tried the diplomatic approach among our network of contributors, which largely we stuck to (apart from the people who were just wrong). ‘Visiting Statue’ 8. ‘Bitter Branches 10. It’s still hard to get over the elegantly sketched scene in the car in ‘Arabella’, which ends with the phenomenal line: “The horizon tries but it’s just not as kind on the eyes.” The man can chirpse. Lana was the first contemporary sad girl who sang. 10. And then, of course, there was ‘Get Lucky’… still the sound of the summer. ‘Thinking About You’. She laid rich and hypnotic vocals over sirens, attacking the clutches of fame and celebrating the nighttime dreams of house parties going nowhere. ‘Bumblebee’ and ‘Eez-Eh’ are undoubted world-beaters, and came as a timely reminder that when Kasabian are on form, no-one goes harder. Goosebump moment: The tinkling piano chords signalling a jump back to the future, after the vocalised introduction of ‘I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)’. As a companion piece to my recent post on my ten favorite albums of the 2010s, I thought it would be fun to also list my ten favorite bands of the decade.Of course you can expect some overlap between the two lists. ‘Hard Feelings / Loveless’. Bolstered by an even more eclectic bunch of sounds (snarling rock, country twangs, folky fingerpicking), ‘Visions Of A Life’ was miles more adventurous and self-assured than its predecessor, and even more astonishing for frontwoman Ellie Rowsell’s poetic but razor-sharp lyrics. Its fireworks sound dangerous. ‘Perfect Places’. What made the 2010s so interesting is that a lot of the indie bands who dominated the discussion around the genre in in the 2000s were, for the most part, out of the picture. ‘Bad Religion’. It was a brave, mysterious release, thrusting a confident identity into the mainstream before anyone knew what to do with it. Here it is: the ultimate guide to the 100 essential albums of the 2010s, picked, ranked and dissected by NME experts. WR, James Blake’s debut album was created for melancholy and dark nights. KP. Witchy interludes were sprinkled throughout ‘48:13’, but it’s best remembered for its gargantuan singles. Then album six dropped, a record that was an aural assault equal to anything they’ve ever done, as well as containing some of the bands most innovative moments. How do you begin to distil a decade’s worth of music into any kind of list? 7. It was a bright start but the follow-up was really what set them apart from every other guitar-wielding group on the Radio 1 playlist. 15. And two: his lack of focus. Muse has definitely won their crown now as top band in the 21st century! An existential crisis haunted by the ticking clock of mortality, it was the sound of indie-pop’s smart alec’s facing the sobering realisation they didn’t know it all. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.” – Kendrick Lamar, The Guardian, December 2012. The Irish band was short lived, having only been in existence for four years. I started to feel like I was channelling spirits. Monáe went from being “the cybergirl without a face” to a flesh-and-blood human proudly declaring her pansexuality – “let the rumours be true!” Channelling her late mentor, Prince, via funk, electro, R&B and futurism, she urged us to celebrate humanity as dirty computers, recognising all genders, races and sexualities as equal. 12. RD, Kanye West’s ‘Wyoming Sessions’ brought together an array of big-name talent to record at his Jackson Hole ranch, but none of them were able to match the heights scaled over 21 mere minutes by King Push. 10. In the summer of 2012, as the end of Barack Obama’s first term as the President of the United States of America came to a close, Christopher Breaux held a listening party for his debut studio album, ‘channel ORANGE’. Odds: 9/4 Beyoncé is the most respected and beloved artist of the 2010s. Arcade Fire have never shied away from a grandiose expression of emotions, but while on subsequent albums like 2013’s bloated ‘Reflektor’ and 2017 misfire ‘Everything Now’ they let their loftiness bog them down, ‘The Suburbs’ tempers the group’s preachier tendencies with a powerful injection of humanity. Key track: ‘Never Fight A Man With A Perm’, Goosebump moment: “I’m a real boy, boy, and I cry, ”stutters Joe on ‘Samaritans’. EH, After hiding behind a cartoon facade for two albums, Gorillaz became that much more real on ‘Plastic Beach’. The latter spared for the former’s life in a robbery and, two decades later, they all reaped the rewards. On ‘Bad Religion’, Ocean uses a fictional back-and-forth with a cab driver as a personal therapy session while on ‘Super Rich Kids’, he admonishes the wealthy and privileged. Try this: Halsey – ‘Hopeless Fountain Kingdom’, Tracklist: 1. If this list celebrates the music defining the previous decade, ‘When We All Fall Asleep…’ sets the agenda for the future. 2012 was a time where people could go viral online just because they were good. After getting their desert kicks with Joshua Homme on 2009’s divisive ‘Humbug’, for their fourth album, Arctic Monkeys made an effortless swagger back towards the intoxicating, surrealist indie sound that made them. We’ve also seen a new-gen of US hip-hop artists dominating the charts, leading the old guard to ask if the culture was losing some of its cred. ‘Know The Way (Outro)’. For instance, David Bowie had been making music for nearly 50 years when Kendrick Lamar released his sprawling, self-interrogating hip-hop masterwork To Pimp a Butterfly, but Bowie, eternally living in the moment, still took major influence from Kendrick in crafting his incredible farewell album Blackstar; and it’s thanks to mutable pop visionaries like Bowie that the world can even imagine a pop context for something as challenging and multi-faceted as To Pimp a Butterfly. It’s been a complicated time for British music, and in truth, for us here at NME, too. Shooting music videos around the world while on tour, Bey wore in-ear headphones throughout filming to keep the material under wraps. There are fantasies of fleeing fruitlessly from the sprawl, nostalgic daydreams laced with sorrow, and straight-up denial that anything is even wrong. The Harlem-born and raised rapper had a few false starts with this record, one that was supposedly the product of an eye-watering $3million deal. The lyrics of ‘Let England Shake’ took almost two years to perfect, as she digested works on the First World War, the Bosnian conflict and the war on terror, trying to make the words work as standalone poetry. Goosebump moment: The aural nectar of every time those luscious three-way harmonies kick in. For instance, David Bowie had been making music for nearly 50 years when Kendrick Lamar released his sprawling, self-interrogating hip-hop masterwork, Watch Bruce Springsteen’s First Commercial Appearance in Jeep Super Bowl Ad, ‘Framing Britney Spears:’ How to Watch the New Britney Spears Documentary on Hulu for Free, Morgan Wallen’s Sales Skyrocket After Racial Slur Controversy, Wilson Drops Limited-Edition Super Bowl Football Collaboration With The Weeknd, ‘SNL’: Weekend Update Covers Morgan Wallen, Marjorie Taylor Greene, ROLLING STONE’S BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE LIST. It’s testament to how successfully the sisters lived up to the promise of their raucous live shows and early ‘Fleetwood Mac meets Destiny’s Child’ billing with this debut that by the end of the year nobody was mispronouncing their name. Here are the 11 bands from the 2010s who put listeners on one side of the line or the other. Their most fully-formed record yet, it was a deep-delve into all things absurd. 3. Heavy metal thrived in the 2010s, thanks to a wide-range of stellar albums from an eclectic mix of bands. ‘National Anthem’ sits a little differently now. This is scientific fact. The roll-call of featured artists read like a who’s-who of popular music at the time (Sam Smith, Jessie Ware, Friendly Fires), all of whom took a back seat to the wunderkind producers; it’s amazing to think that Howard and Guy Lawrence were 18 and 21 respectively when they made ‘Settle’. SM, After lingering in the shadows of cult cool, ‘Currents’ was Tame’s stepping-out-into-the-spotlight moment – a huge album featuring some of mastermind Kevin Parker’s biggest pop songs yet. Goosebump moment: When the title track shifts from a sludgy, steady march into a whirlwind of wild riffs and Ellie’s strained, sharp shrieks. Fiery, funny, and incredibly sexually free, the record saw Cardi shooting down haters with rapid-fire flow and inventive, brash bars, and securing her crown as the new Queen of Rap. ‘Oblivion’ 4. ‘R U Mine?’. Touching on both pain and healing, there’s an intense warmth to the soundscape of ‘A Seat At The Table’. This disparate collection of pilfered genres and stolen sounds came together seamlessly with Turner’s too-clever-by-half lyrics about love, lust and the grey area in-between. National Anthem 7. The album’s success – her first Top 10 record, album of the year in NME and her second Mercury prize win, making Harvey the only artist ever to do the double –  also decisively secured her place as a top-tier songwriter, one you’d be wise not to underestimate. Surprise surprise, it was another suit that fitted perfectly. Test your knowledge on this music quiz and compare your score to others. John Mayer backs away from the spotlight entirely, his guitar solos on ‘Pyramids’ and ‘White’ his only prominent contribution and he brings Andre 3000 out of semi-retirement to deliver a stand-out verse on ‘Pink Matter’. It sold more copies than One Direction’s ‘Up All Night’. It’s no surprise that he belongs to the very best selling acts of all-time.He scores nearly 40 million units with his 2010s material only. Afterwards thousands of fans were selling out his shows, dressing like their hero and smoking endless Viceroys. Despite comparisons to Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’, it was an album that stood proudly unique – social commentary wrapped up in sounds that pushed boundaries and spanned genres. There have been rows aplenty putting this together. She’s never stopped getting weirder and thinking bigger since: her forthcoming ‘Miss_Anthropocene’ is “a concept album about the anthropomorphic goddess of climate change: a psychedelic, space-dwelling demon/beauty queen who relishes the end of the world.” You better believe she’ll be going Method for it, too. More on Meet Me @ The Altar Meet Me @ The Altar had quite the breakout year in 2020 . On it, they stepped into the daylight and made something to match – a dreamy, bright pop album that still featured the moments of weirdness that made Joe Mount’s outfit special in the first place. 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