Post-Punk.com Best of the Decade 2010-2019

Many of us are still adjusting to the post-holiday malaise and the transition into a new decade, let alone the futuristic-sounding year 2020. Though there are many things driving the world apart, a wonderful thing has happened this last decade within the international music community. Artists, musicians, DJs, promoters, and independent label owners have given rise to a new era of post-punk, capturing the same spirit of “the new wave” started in the late 70s and coming into full force at the rise of the 1980s.

Now that we are a few steps into this new year and new decade, our editors at Post-Punk.com have decided to look back at the past ten years with a list of top releases of the 2010s.

Given changes in distribution due to the rise of services such as Bandcamp, We saw a resurgence in EPs the past decade, so thusly we decided to separate the LPs from the EPs and add an additional list of top songs and singles.

While we did, at times, struggle with this list, it seemed we were all in agreement with the top albums/songs of each section, despite our different preferences in music (EBM versus minimal synth, shoegaze versus darkwave, etc). But since “our thing” is so massive and diverse, we tried to cover every sort of genre as well as a few of the legacy bands that started this all. We’ve also amassed everything into a handful of Spotify playlists to enjoy when you’re started to feel nostalgic for the Twenty-tens.

Albums

1. The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon (Captured Tracks, 2010)

2. Linea Aspera – Linea Aspera (Dark Entries, 2012)

3. Drab Majesty – The Demonstration (Dais, 2017)

4. Kaelan Mikla – Nótt Eftir Nótt (Artoffact, 2018)

5. David Bowie – Blackstar (Columbia, 2016)

6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd., 2016)

7. HTRK – Work, Work, Work (Ghostly, 2011)

8. Them Are Us Too – Remain (Dais, 2015)

9. Lebanon Hanover – Tomb for Two (Fabrika, 2013)

10. Kontravoid – Kontravoid (Tarantula X, 2012)

11. Молчат Дома – Этажи (Molchat Doma – Etazhi) (Detriti, 2018)

12. Belgrado – Siglo XXI (La Vida Es Un Mus, 2013)

13. Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans, 2017)

14. Motorama – Alps (Talitres, 2013)

15. She Past Away – Belirdi Gece (Fabrika, 2013)

16. Xeno and Oaklander – Sets & Lights (Wierd, 2011)

17. Have a Nice Life – The Unnatural World (Flenser, 2014)

18. Soft Kill – Choke (Profound Lore, 2016)

19. John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Ribbon Music, 2011)

20. Void Vision – Sub Rosa (Mannequin, 2014)

21. O​.​Children – O. Children (Deadly People, 2010)

22. Tamaryn – Cranekiss (Mexican Summer, 2015)

23. Martial Canterel – You Today (Wierd, 2011)

24. The Horrors – Skying (XL Recordings, 2011)

25. The KVB – Always Then (Clan Destine, 2012)

26. Cold Showers – Love and Regret (Dais, 2012)

27. Lust for Youth – Perfect View (Sacred Bones, 2013)

28. Frank (Just Frank) – The Brutal Wave (Wierd, 2010)

29. Twin Tribes – Shadows (Manic Depression, 2018)

30. High Functioning Flesh – A Unity of Miseries – A Misery of Unities (DKA, 2014)

31. Detachments – Detachments (THISISNOTANEXIT, 2010)

32. The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (FatCat, 2014)

33. Qual – Sable (Avant!, 2015)

34. Wire – Change Becomes Us (Pinkflag, 2013)

35. Chromatics – Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better, 2012)

36. Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years (Matador, 2011)

37. Die Selektion – Die Selektion (Fabrika, 2011)

38. Geneva Jacuzzi – Technophelia (Medical Records, 2015)

39. Be Forest – Cold (We Were Never Being Boring, 2011)

40. DIIV – Oshin (Captured Tracks, 2012)

41. Second Still- Second Still (Manic Depression, 2017)

42. Sally Dige – Hard to Please (NIGHT SCHOOL, 2015)

43. Secret Shame – Dark Synthetics (Self-released, 2019)

44. Led Er Est – The Diver (Sacred Bones, 2012)

45. Ritual Howls – Turkish Leather (Felte, 2014)

46. Wardruna – Runaljod – Ragnarok (By Norse Music, 2016)

47. Altar de Fey – Echoes in the Corridor (Mass Media, 2016)

48. Soviet Soviet – Fate (Felte, 2013)

49. Multiple Man – New Metal (DKA, 2017)

50. Viet Cong/Preoccupations – Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar, 2015)

EPs

1. Light Asylum – In Tension (Mexican Summer, 2011)

2. Boy Harsher – Pain (Oráculo, 2015)

3. Sixth June – Back for a Day (Mannequin, 2011)

4. Zola Jesus – Stridulum (Sacred Bones, 2010)

5. Tropic of Cancer – Permissions of Love (Mannequin, 2012)

6. Inhalt – Vehicle (Cleopatra Records, 2012)

7. Youth Code – A Place to Stand (Dais, 2014)

8. White Car – No Better (Hippos in Tanks, 2010)

9. Whispering Sons – Endless Party (Minimal Maximal, 2016)

10. Rendez Vous – Distance (Avant!, 2016)

11. Anasazi – I Saw the Witch Cry (Sacred Bones, 2012)

12. Schwefelgelb – Dahinter das Gesicht (aufnahme + wiedergabe, 2017)

13. Nine Inch Nails – Not the Actual Events (The Null Corporation, 2016)

14. SΛRIN – Current Conflict (aufnahme + wiedergabe, 2016)

15. CC Dust – CC Dust (Perennial, 2016)

16. Perc & Einstürzende Neubauten – Interpretations (Submit, 2013)

17. Blablarism – Fugue (New Ideals, 2013)

18. Houses of Heaven – Remnant (Felte, 2017)

19. Forces – Newbody (Fleisch, 2017)

20. Actors – Reanimated (Self released, 2017)

Tracks

1. Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith – “Not In Love”, 2010
2. Savages – “Flying to Berlin”, 2012
3. Automelodi – “Schéma Corporel”, 2010
4. Dum Dum Girls – “Rimbaud Eyes”, 2014
5. Bootblacks – “Voices”, 2013
6. Body of Light – “Tremble”, 2016
7. Tempers – “Hell Hotline”, 2015
8. Austra – “Beat and the Pulse”, 2010
9. 2:54 – “Scarlet”, 2012
10. Choir Boy – “Sunday Light”, 2017
11. Just Mustard – “Pigs”, 2018
12. Zanias – ”Follow the Body”, 2016
13. Holograms – “ABC City”, 2012
14. Agent Side Grinder – “Into the Wild”, 2015
15. Suede – “Outsiders”, 2015
16. Blouse – “Into Black”, 2011
17. Silent Em – “Singular Malice”, 2012
18. Deathday – “Dropped Into Obscurity”, 2013
19. Azar Swan – “We Hunger”, 2014
    
20. Chasms – “Beyond Flesh”, 2016
21. Ortrotasce – “World Unrelated”, 2013
22. The Harrow – “Love Like Shadows”, 2015
23. Depeche Mode – “Should Be Higher”, 2013
24. Diät – “W.I.G.T.D.W.M.?”, 2019
25. Soror Dolorosa – “Autumn Wounds”, 2011
26. Killing Joke – “Euphoria”, 2015
27. Cult of Youth – “Lace Up Your Boots”, 2011
28. TR/ST – “Sulk”, 2011
29. Principe Valiente – “The Night”, 2011
30. Public Memory – “The Line”, 2018
31. Cosmetics – “Black Leather Gloves”, 2010
32. Lycia – “A Failure”, 2018
33. Sextile – Visions of You”, 2015
34. //TENSE// – “Turn It Off”, 2010
35. SRSQ – “The Martyr”, 2018
36. Holygram – “Signals”, 2018
37. Selofan – “Give Me a Reason”, 2018
38. A Place to Bury Strangers – “You Are the One”, 2012
39. Isolated Youth – “Warfare”, 2019
40. Winter Severity Index – “Waiting Room”, 2016
41. Desperate Journalist – “Control”, 2014
42. Ash Code – “Empty Room”, 2014
43. Dream Affair – “The Porter”, 2013
44. Skeleton Hands – “Ravage”, 2013
45. Buzz Kull “New Kind of Cross”, 2018
46. Odonis Odonis – “Eraser”, 2017
47. Velvet Condom – “Ice Disco”, 2011
48. Veil of Light – “Pale Eyes”, 2014
49. Hante. – “The Storm”, 2015
50. Shadow Age – “In Snow”, 2018