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.
Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz [Asthmatic Kitty]
Because I love it when artists build up greatness, trash it, and then make something even better.
NDF: "Since We Last Met" [DFA]
Because it's all about endings, but goes on forever.
Favorite Albums of 2010-2014:
- Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
- Drake: Take Care
- Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
- Kanye West: Yeezus
- Destroyer: Kaputt
- LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
- Japandroids: Celebration Rock
- Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
- Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz
Favorite Tracks of 2010-2014:
- Rich Kidz: "My Life" [ft. Waka Flocka Flame]
- Katy Perry: "Teenage Dream"
- Drake: "Worst Behavior"
- Kanye West: "POWER" [ft. Dwele]
- Japandroids: "Younger Us"
- Drake: "Hold On, We're Going Home" [ft. Majid Jordan]
- Disclosure: "Latch" [ft. Sam Smith]
- Vampire Weekend: "Hannah Hunt"
- DJ Khaled: "I'm On One" [ft. Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne]
- LCD Soundsystem: "Dance Yrself Clean"
Favorite Concerts of 2010-2014:
Beyoncé [Barclays Center; Brooklyn, NY; 08.04.13]
Drake [Jones Beach Theater; Wantagh, NY; 06.16.12]
Frank Ocean [Terminal 5; New York, NY; 07.26.12]
Japandroids [Pitchfork Music Festival; Chicago, IL; 07.13.12]
Jay-Z [Yankee Stadium; Bronx, NY; 09.13.10]
Kanye West [Barclays Center; Brooklyn, NY; 11.20.13]
LCD Soundsystem [Madison Square Garden; New York, NY; 04.02.11]
Lil B [New Museum; New York, NY; 04.12.12]
Sufjan Stevens [Beacon Theater; New York, NY; 11.14.10]
The xx [Park Avenue Armory; New York, NY; 03.29.14]
TNGHT [Music Hall of Williamsburg; Brooklyn, NY; 11.30.12]
Watch the Throne [Izod Center; East Rutherford, NJ; 11.06.11]