My Albums of the Decade - 2010-2019

As we approach the end of 2019 I've been looking thought my year end reviews for the last few years with a certain amount of interest. I started doing these reviews in 2011, but that year's was very general in its approach. I started publishing a ranked list in 2012, and have done so every year since.

Looking at my Top 3 albums for those 8 years certain bands cropped up on more than one occasion - unsurprisingly to me Big Big Train and The Tangent. As there wasn't any 'list' for 2010 or 2011, I looked through my collection and came up with some albums from those years that I could include, to make a decade-wide list possible.

Three major criteria were used in drawing up this list: they had to be albums in my collection; they had to have featured in my Top 3 in the year they were released; and I would only include one album by any one band. I'm not going to try and rank these albums in any order of merit - simply alphabetically. But these are the bands/ artists & albums that have particularly appealed to me over the last 10 years.

Abel Ganz - Abel Ganz (2014)
Anderson Stolt - Invention of Knowledge (2016)
Anglagard - Viljans Oga (2012)
Big Big Train - English Electric (2012/13)
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow (2011)
Echolyn - Echolyn (2012)
Freedom to Glide - Rain/ Fall/ Seed trilogy (2013/ 16/ 19)
John Hackett & Nick Fletcher - Beyond The Stars (2018)
Lazuli - 4063 Battements (2011)
Pat Metheney - Orchestrion (2010)
Moon Safari - Lover's End (2010)
Oak - False Memory Archive (2018)
Opeth - Heritage (2011)
Chris Potter - Circuits (2019)
Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here (2014)
The Tangent - Proxy (2018)
Colin Tench Project - Hair on a G String (2016)
Tiger Moth Tales - The Depth of Winter (2017)
Andy Tillison Diskdrive - Electric Sinfonia No 2 (2014)
Tinyfish - The Big Red Spark (2010)
Theo Travis Doubletalk - Transgression (2015)
Unitopia - Artificial (2010)
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)
Wintergatan - Wintergatan (2013)

There's obviously much I've missed out, but that's my stab at a Decade list from my eclectic and at times quite strange taste in music. Do let me know what you think... (but please be kind...)