My Decade in Music So Far: Jamieson Cox

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.

Chris Cohen: Overgrown Path [Captured Tracks]

I'm hoping at least one of my colleagues is going to devote this space to Carly Rae Jepsen's forgotten minor pop masterpiece Kiss—please don't let me down, colleagues!—so I can feel OK about devoting mine to an album that received even less attention. Chris Cohen's Overgrown Path is a knotty, mystical, and ultra-tender collection of mossy folk-pop tunes. Spend time with this album and it starts to feel like a hidden grove just a few steps off a well-worn trail, a safe space that you're happy to keep to yourself.

Eleanor Friedberger: "Roosevelt Island" [Merge] 

I've only been to New York three times, and every time I think about it—the memories I've made there, the prospect of going back sometime soon, anything—I hear Eleanor Friedberger's "Roosevelt Island" on a little loop in the back of my brain. It's one of the greatest "city songs" ever recorded, a funky document of a day spent roaming the Five Boroughs that captures all of the excitement, fear, and wonder the world's greatest cities can inspire in us. I like it best this time of year, when the days are still sticky and sun-drenched but the nights are cool.

Musical Highlight of the Last Five Years: I have a playlist named "Running Stuff"—creative, I know—that I take with me every time I tie up my shoes and hit the pavement. It's filled with songs I know and love, songs I can rely on when I need to dig deep and finish strong or struggle through a hill or blast past someone in a race. When I think about the last half-decade, I remember moments like that: "Inspector Norse" and "Worst Behaviour" and others, carrying me home, helping me realize the best of myself. 

Favorite Albums of 2010-2014:

1. Destroyer: Kaputt
2. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
3. Drake: Nothing Was the Same
4. Kanye West: Yeezus
5. Drake: Take Care
6. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
7. Beyoncé: Beyoncé
8. Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan
9. Miguel: Kaleidoscope Dream
10. Japandroids: Celebration Rock
11. Disclosure: Settle
12. Jay-Z/Kanye West: Watch the Throne
13. Todd Terje: It's Album Time
14. Beyoncé: 4
15. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
16. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream
17. Sun Kil Moon: Benji
18. Robyn: Body Talk
19. Beach House: Teen Dream
20. Carly Rae Jepsen: Kiss

Favorite Tracks of 2010-2014:

1. Deerhunter: "Helicopter"
2. Todd Terje: "Inspector Norse"
3. Drake: "Worst Behavior"
4. Sky Ferreira: "Everything Is Embarrassing"
5. Destroyer: "Bay of Pigs"
6. Katy Perry: "Teenage Dream"
7. Dirty Projectors: "Impregnable Question"
8. Robyn: "Dancing on My Own"
9. Disclosure: "Latch" [ft. Sam Smith]
10. M83: "Midnight City"
11. A$AP Ferg: "Shabba" [ft. A$AP Rocky]
12. Japandroids: "Younger Us"
13. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: "Round and Round"
14. Drake: "Hold On, We're Going Home" [ft. Majid Jordan]
15. Jay-Z & Kanye West: "Niggas in Paris"
16. Miguel: "Adorn"
17. Carly Rae Jepsen: "Call Me Maybe"
18. Panda Bear: "Last Night at the Jetty"
19. Azealia Banks: "212"
20. Ciara: "Body Party"