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- Leonard Cohen, ‘Ten New Songs’ Leonard Cohen released Ten New Songs in 2001 after a nine-year period that included depression and seclusion living as a Buddhist monk at Los Angeles' Mount Baldy.
- The Hold Steady, ‘Almost Killed Me’ This Brooklyn-via-Minneapolis bar band took the world by surprise. They bashed out Seventies-style riffs as Craig Finn spluttered his one-liners about killer parties gone bad, from "She gets low in her seat when she gets high in her car" to "Mary got a bloody nose from sniffing margarita mix."
- TV on the Radio, ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’ Defying stereotypes, crossing boundaries, blending styles: the second album by Brooklyn's greatest band whipped indie rock, doo-wop, gospel, soul, punk and a dozen other genres into something magic and new.
- Wilco, ‘Sky Blue Sky’ Wilco's Workingman's Dead is a chilled-out, acoustic guitar-centered set made shortly after leader Jeff Tweedy's rehab stint, but it isn't so chilled-out beneath the surface: "If you're strung out like a kite/Or stung awake in the night/It's alright to be frightened," Tweedy counsels on "What Light."
- Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
- The Xx – Xx
- Mastodon – Leviathan
- U2 – All That You Can’T Leave Behind
- Autechre – Confield
- Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
- Spoon – GA GA GA GA GA
- Elliott Smith – Figure 8
- The Clientele – Strange Geometry
- Maxwell – Blacksummers’Night
It begins with the click of a film reel. Then, it explodes into a manic gospel circus fronted by a multi-octave ringmaster. Two minutes later, 2006’s most infectious single cuts through the cacophony. In case you slept through 2006, that album is St. Elsewhere, and that song is “Crazy” by Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, aka Gnarls Barkley. Who knew that e...
When exhausted keyboardist Baria Qureshi ducked out of the band midway through their European tour, it was the first and thus far only signifier that the xx were anything other than preternaturally self-assured. As rare as it is, however, to discover such poise, grace, and general gorgeousness contained within the unaffected stylings of a group of ...
After emerging from the primordial ooze of the underground with their debut Remission (2002), Mastodon voyaged to the cusp of metal’s mainstream with their conceptually-anchored second studio album, Leviathan (2004). Exploring the mortal conflicts contained within Herman Melville’s legendary tome Moby Dick, Mastodon created elemental music befittin...
After the pompous excesses of U2‘s 1997 album Pop and its gaudy lemon of a tour, U2 hit the reset button to record All That You Can’t Leave Behind in 2000. Turns out the dawn of the decade was an appropriate time for a resolute return to the band’s fundamental songwriting and record-making, shedding everything (electronica, dance tracks, pop irony)...
It’s unlikely that Autechre will ever go as far out as it did on its sixth album, Confield. That’s not to say that there aren’t other Autechre albums with disintegrated rhythms and drone sections (or consisting entirely of drones, as you’ll find in Ae’s collaborations with Hafler Trio). But Confield is a line in the sand in Autechre’s discography. ...
Sam Beam spent the better part of the decade crafting his incarnation of the sensitive singer/songwriter. That type of musician is a dime a dozen and always has been, so it is often that much more difficult for such an artist to separate himself from the pack. Intimate but not unsophisticated, Beam’s whispered vocals and acoustic guitar sound like ...
Quiet excellence is Spoon‘s MO. While we were salivating over Animal Collective, Tame Impala, and other indie darlings, Spoon simply went to work, churning out great album after great album. There were no slip-ups, no sell-out moments, just a refusal to put anything less than fantastic to tape and a good ear for insidious melodies. Ga Ga Ga Ga Gast...
I remember where I was when I found out Elliott Smith had killed himself back in 2003. I was in a dark place personally, lonely and far away from home. Though I didn’t know his music very well at the time, the act of envisioning the grisly details of his final moments latched onto the strands of my initial interest to form a deep connection that ha...
Suburban Light, the Clientele‘s full-length debut, landed with a whisper, a gentle breeze of unfiltered ’60s pop that was definitively English. Four years, Strange Geometry, their third LP, sounded like a full-formed realization of every nuance the band was capable of but just couldn’t coalesce for their debut or sophomore releases. (The Clientele ...
Maxwell is a magician. He left the spotlight for eight long years, cut off his hair, and returned with an album that is nothing like what made him a star — and everyone still loves him. I bet lots of stars would like to take that kind of break and still have a career when they come back. The thing is, BLACKsummers’night is the best work of Maxwell’...
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen - The Good, the Bad & the Queen. January 22, 2007. Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Indie Rock. Critic Score 74 25 reviews. For all its weird beauty, this is very much Damon's record - much more so than Gorillaz.
- Rufus Wainwright - Poses. June 5, 2001. Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Pop, Pop Rock, Baroque Pop. Critic Score 78 10 reviews. Like the works of other great swooners from Cole Porter to The Divine Comedy, 'Poses' is held together by its maker's maniacal attention to detail and conceptual strength.
- Jamie T - Panic Prevention. August 28, 2007. Indie Rock, Indie Pop, UK Garage. Critic Score 77 14 reviews. Amazon. iTunes. Music. Spotify.
- The Golden Virgins - Songs of Praise. May 31, 2004. Critic Score 70 1 review. Amazon. iTunes. Music. Spotify.
- OutKast, Stankonia. Though OutKast’s “B.O.B.” seems prescient now for other, more specifically historical reasons, Stankonia as a whole seemed to forecast the mood of this past decade by its very nature.
- Radiohead, Kid A. One of the watershed albums of the last 10 years, Radiohead’s Kid A is really more of a ’90s album, capping off that decade’s alienated computer angst in a wave of post-Y2K catharsis, a chillingly detached work that signaled a newfound ambivalence with the omnipresence of machines.
- Björk, Vespertine. Vespertine finds everyone’s favorite shrieker barely rising above a whisper. Backed by subtle clicks and bloops from Matmos and some elegantly unobtrusive strings, Björk sings the praises of solitude, monogamy, and quiet days at home—all topics that would seem out of character if they weren’t brightened by her uniquely glamorous oddness.
- Arcade Fire, Funeral. In fall of 2004, in the middle of a frustrating election season, the Montreal bleeding hearts in Arcade Fire appeared out of nowhere (back when a nascent hype cycle still allowed such things to happen) with an album of emotionally stunning, death-afflicted, pitch-perfect pop songs.
- Spoon - Kill The Moonlight. August 20, 2002. Indie Rock. Critic Score 78 8 reviews. Amazon. iTunes. Music. Spotify. Next. Related. Rolling Stone Lists. Comments (1) Connect with AOTY.
- M.I.A. - Arular. March 22, 2005. UK Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Electropop. Critic Score 86 22 reviews. M.I.A.’ s long-awaited full-length debut, Arular, is every bit as stunning as “Galang”: weird, playful, unclassifiable, sexy, brilliantly addictive.
- Kings of Leon - Only By The Night. September 23, 2008. Alternative Rock, Southern Rock. Critic Score 65 26 reviews. Only by the Night is long on astral, arena-ready largeness, with blippy keyboards, droney guitars and whoa-oh-oh backing vocals.
- Norah Jones - Come Away With Me. February 26, 2002. Vocal Jazz, Jazz Pop. Critic Score 76 5 reviews. She sings in an earthy growl that can send chills, or a conspiratorial whisper that suggests she's sharing sworn secrets, or a weary sigh that exudes the kind of quiet, easygoing intimacy that doesn't come around in songs too much anymore.
100 Best Albums of the 2000s is a chart from Rolling Stone, created in 2011. This chart consists of 100 entries and the top-ranked entry in this chart is Kid A by Radiohead. BestEverAlbums.com brings together over 60,000 charts and calculates an overall ranking of the best albums of all time.
Nov 2, 2009 · More than trying to create a canon for the ’00s (that’d be so last millennium), we’re just hoping you use these lists to reflect on some of the artists who shaped your decade and discover others...
