This week, Pitchfork shared lists featuring the best albums and tracks of the decade so far. We asked Pitchfork writers and editors to share a favorite song and album that didn't make the list, along with a music highlight and their personal Top 20s. Check back for more installments of My Decade in Music So Far.
Sic Alps: Sic Alps [Drag City]
Mike Donovan and co. cleaned up their noise right when their songs got better, making an instant lost classic that sounds like it should fill dusty jukeboxes, worn-out used bins, and cracked iPods.
Musical Highlight of the Last Five Years: My favorite band of the '00s was Yellow Swans, so even though their 2008 breakup was a bummer, a continuing highlight of the '10s has been the ongoing great work done by each of their members separately—Pete Swanson's forays into blown-out EDM, and Gabe Saloman's experiments in abstract soundtracking.
Favorite Albums of 2010-2014:
- Pete Swanson: Man With Potential
- Bill Orcutt: A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- Wolf Eyes: No Answer : Lower Floors
- Sun City Girls : Funeral Mariachi
- Jack Rose: Luck in the Valley
- Aaron Dilloway: Modern Jester
- Motion Sickness of Time Travel: Motion Sickness of Time Travel
- Sic Alps: Sic Alps
- Sun Araw: Ancient Romans
- Duane Pitre: Feel Free
- Jason Urick: I Love You
- Real Estate: Days
- Obnox: Louder Space
- Alvarius B: Baroque Primitiva
- The Psychic Paramount: II
- Okkyung Lee: Ghil
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Mature Themes
- Rashad Becker: Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I
- Jason Lescalleet: Songs About Nothing
- Blank Realm: Go Easy