A week or two back I was reading the AV Club’s “Best Music of the Decade” list and it brought on the dismaying notion that maybe there had been no good music for the last decade! But I couldn’t believe that, so I sorted through my music “library” and made a list of the 25 albums I enjoyed the most these last ten years, in rough order:

25. Joanna Newsom – Ys
24. The Black Mages (self-titled)
23. New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
22. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
21. The Blow – Paper Television
20. The Knife – Deep Cuts
19. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
18. MIA – Arular
17. Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
16. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
15. Outkast – Stankonia
14. The Advantage – Elf Titled
13. Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
12. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
11. Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
10. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
9. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
8. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Greatest Palace Music
7. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
6. The Decemberists – Picaresque
5. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
4. The White Stripes – Elephant
3. Deltron 3030 (self-titled)
2. Of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins
1. Madvillian – Madvillainy