Top albums of the decade: Charles Greenley

1. Radiohead, “Amnesiac” - This album is crazy good and plays with a more diverse palette than the more celebrated “Kid A.” From “Pyramid Song” all the way to the flawless B-sides, “Amnesiac” is paranoid, twitchy genius.

2. Black Moth Super Rainbow, “Start a People” - What can I say that “I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too” doesn’t already say about this mind-melting lo-fi psychedelic masterpiece?

3. Animal Collective, “Strawberry Jam” - Rarely do I align myself so completely with a band and its ethos or lyrical content as I do with Animal Collective.

4. Caribou, “Up In Flames” - Good God, this makes me feel 12 and 50 at the same time—light and free, yet filled with regret for days gone by. Blissful electronic greatness.

5. Of Montreal, “Sunlandic Twins” - The most likeable album of this or nearly any other decade, provided you like swift, bouncy tunes and Beatles-esque sunshine harmonies.

6. Stereolab, “Sound-Dust” - Laetitia Sadier and Co. churned out an effortlessly breezy mod platter that pings and swings in true retro-futurist fashion. French crypto-socialism has never sounded this groovy.

7. Serena Maneesh, S/T - The most intense and faithful shoegazer album since the genre’s early-1990s heyday, with menacing walls of guitars and dour, muffled lyrics.

8. Fugazi, “The Argument” - I admit that I spectate at times, but when “Ex-Spectator” comes on, I’m ready to tear the ennui of the world into 1,500 pieces.

9. Atelia, “Formal Sleep” - Easily the sparsest album on this list—it’s entirely instrumental, and very stingy with the notes, if you can call them notes. Underrated ambient heaven.

10. PJ Harvey, “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea” - From start to finish, Polly Jean Harvey rocks my world with these moody, terse, fist-pumping tunes. Every bit as stylish and sexy as the album cover suggests.

 

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