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The Best 3 Albums of the Last Decade
From the day I started this list I knew what the top three albums were going to be. I started working on it at the start of 2019. I decided that I would try to relisten to every single album I had saved on Apple Music that was released over the past decade over 10 or so months. Despite the huge project I was undertaking, I knew exactly where it would end up.
These three albums (and one other, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, which tragically did not make the list because of the one per artist rule but I still feel like I needed to mention here) have dominated my listening over the past decade. All three of these artists were extremely important to me and carried me throughout important moments in my life.
There is no doubt in my mind that these are the best, most important, albums to be released in the past 10 years. All three are absolute masterpieces.
Also, for this part of the list there is no favorite song listed. This is not a mistake, I just can not choose one singular song from each of these to highlight.
Here are the best three albums of the most important decade of my life:
3. Rodeo
Travis Scott — 2015
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