We went back and looked at all the year-end lists of great records since we opened the record store in 2012. Wow, there’ve been some great records that have come through our shop. Lots of records that we’ve played over and over again on the store turntable. It’s been an amazing decade of music and now we’re sharing our favorite LPs.
Here are our top 40 favorite records of the decade (or since we opened in 2012) in no particular order:
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Khruangbin “Con Todo El Mundo” (Dead Oceans) 2018
Yo La Tengo “There’s A Riot Going On” (Matador) 2018
Kendrick Lamar “Damn.” 2017
Spiritualized “Sweet heart, sweet light” (Fat Possum) 2012
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds “Push the Sky Away” (Bad Seeds Records) 2013
Water Liars “Wyoming” (Big Legal Mess / Fat Possum) 2013
Angel Olsen “Burn You Fire for No Witness” (Jagjaguwar) 2014
Bill Callahan “Apocalypse” (Drag City) 2011 * (we weren’t open yet)
Sturgill Simpson “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music” (Thirty Tigers) 2014
Jake Xerxes Fussell s/t (PoB) 2015
Parquet Courts “Human Performance” (Rough Trade) 2016
William Tyler “Modern Country” (Merge) 2016
David Bowie “Blackstar” (SONY) 2016
Hailu Mergia “Lala Belu” (Awesome Tapes from Africa) 2018
Kacey Musgraves “Same Trailer Different Park” (Mercury) 2013
(Sandy) Alex G “Rocket” (Domino) 2017
Charles Bradley “Changes” (Daptone) 2016
Kevin Morby “Oh My God” (Dead Oceans) 2019
D’Angelo “Black Messiah” (RCA) 2014
Jamie XX “In Colour” (Young Turks) 2015
Purple Mountains s/t (Drag City) 2019
Durand Jones & The Indications s/t (Colemine) 2016
Kamasi Washington “The Epic” (Brainfeeder) 2015
Blood Orange “Freetown” (Domino) 2016
The War on Drugs “Lost in the Dream” (Secretly Canadian) 2014
Beyonce “Lemonade” (Columbia) 2016
Lorde “Pure Heroine” (Universal) 2013
Julien Baker “Sprained Ankle” (6131 Records) 2015
My Bloody Valentine “m b v” (self released) 2013
Soccer Mommy “Clean” (Fat Possum) 2018
Daft Punk “Random Access Memories” (Columbia) 2013
Radiohead “A Moon Shaped Pool” (XL) 2016
Courtney Barnett “Sometimes I Sit and Think…” (Milk Records) 2014
SZA “ctrl” (RCA) 2017
Mitski “Be the Cowboy” (Dead Oceans) 2018
Grouper “Ruins” (Kranky) 2014
Alabama Shakes “Sound & Color” (ATO Records) 2015
Grimes “Visions” (4AD) 2011
Jlin “Black Origami” (Planet Mu) 2017
Phospherescent “Muchacho” (Dead Oceans) 2013