My Decade in Music So Far: Andrew Gaerig

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 10s or 20s. Check back for more installments of My Decade in Music So Far.

Jam City: Classical Curves [Night Slugs]

A scheming, conceptual album that sounds like a child banging on pots and pans in the Jetsons' kitchen. It's already been stripped for parts by a generation of grime producers searching for its rare marriage of levitation and violence. This is what electronic body music sounds like in 2014.

Pearson Sound: "Clutch" [Hessle Audio]

With "Clutch" David Kennedy (Pearson Sound) took the house music-staple drum track—literally a track containing multiple, copter-ing rhythms to be  mixed by a DJ—and deconstructed it. What he comes away with is a thicket of tonally complex rhythmic snaps, each run of snares or hats seemingly setting you up for a counter. Like when people compare boxing to chess, we can admit that "Clutch" is cerebral so long as we don't forget that there's still lots of face-punching.

Musical Highlight of the Last Five Years: An evening spent touring the clubs of East London, which bloomed from a plan to visit the legendary Fabric club on a night when it was not, in fact, open. The evening crested when the bouncer at Dalston's Dance Tunnel looked at my passport and openly laughed at my old age in front of the cool smokers. Jungle Wonz, were right: time marches on.

Favorite Albums of 2010-2014:

1. Vampire Weekend: Contra
2. Jam City: Classical Curves
3. The Caretaker: An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
4. Robyn: Body Talk
5. Rustie: Glass Swords
6. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
7. Nicolas Jaar: Space Is Only Noise
8. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
9. James Holden: The Inheritors
10. Various Artists: Bangs & Works, Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation
11. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
12. Bill Callahan: Apocalypse
13. Kanye West: Yeezus
14. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
15. DJ Koze: Amygdala
16. Livity Sound: Livity Sound
17. Mount Kimbie: Crooks & Lovers
18. Sun Araw: On Patrol
19. Various Artists: Night Slugs: Allstars Volume 2
20. Todd Terje: It's Album Time

Favorite Tracks of 2010-2014:

1. Todd Terje: "Inspector Norse"
2. Sophie: "Bipp"
3. Pearson Sound: "Clutch"
4. EMA: "California"
5. Glass Candy: "Warm in the Winter"
6. Robyn: "Call Your Girlfriend"
7. Girl Unit: "Wut"
8. Autre Ne Veut: "Play by Play"
9. Rich Kidz: "My Life" [ft. Waka Flocka Flame]
10. Soulja Boy: "Zan With That Lean"
11. Vampire Weekend: "Step"
12. Blawan: "Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage"
13. Jacques Greene: "Another Girl"
14. DJ Rashad: "Let It Go"
15. Tiger & Woods: "Gin Nation"
16. Robyn: "Dancing on My Own"
17. Nicki Minaj: "Super Bass" [ft. Ester Dean]
18. Hot Chip: "Flutes"
19. The Mole: "Lockdown Party (DJ Sprinkles' Crossfaderama)"
20. A$AP Ferg: "Shabba (Remix)" [ft. Shabba Ranks, Busta Rhymes and Migos]