Het is zo ver iedereen, 2040 is dichterbij dan 2010. We zijn ondertussen zo ver in het decennium dat we de eerste toplijstjes kunnen droppen. Benieuwd naar die van jullie, hier die van mij:

1. Adrianne Lenker - Songs (2020)
2. Charli XCX - brat (2024)
3. Ichiko Aoba - Adan no Kaze (2020)
4. Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There (2022)
5. Cristóbal Avendaño & Silvia Moreno - Lancé Esto al Otro Lado del Mar (2024)
6. Natalia Lafourcade - De Todas las Flores (2022)
7. caroline - caroline (2022)
8. Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now (2020)
9. Adult Jazz - So Sorry So Slow (2024)
10. JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes (2023)

11. caroline - caroline 2 (2025)
12. Gilla Band - Most Normal (2022)
13. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (2021)
14. underscores - Wallsocket (2023)
15. Low - HEY WHAT (2021)
16. Eefje de Visser - Heimwee (2024)
17. billy woods - Aethiopes (2022)
18. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (2023)
19. Perfume Genius - Ugly Season (2022)
20. Mei Semones - Animaru (2025)

21. Geese - Getting Killed (2025)
22. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (2023)
23. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020)
24. A. G. Cook - Britpop (2024)
25. Patrick Shiroishi - Hidemi (2021)
26. black midi - Hellfire (2022)
27. Approaching Mountains - Ley (2023)
28. Ethel Cain - Perverts (2025)
29. Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals (2020)
30. Floating Points - Cascade (2024)

5x 2020, 3x 2021, 7x 2022, 5x 2023, 6x 2024, 4x 2025.

Ik zal ook maar een eerste gooi doen. Met genre-aanduidingen erbij, om een algemene indruk te geven van de muziek, want volgens mij heeft een aantal (m.n. de meer electronic / dance georiënteerde releases) nog te weinig aandacht gekregen op de site. Alles met 10 of minder stemmen heb ik gemarkeerd met een *.

1. billy woods - Aethiopes (2022) ~ abstract hip hop
2. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? (2020) ~ pop / disco
3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (2021) ~ ambient / jazz
4. Martinou - Rift (2021) ~ ambient techno / deep house
5. JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life for You (2024) ~ experimental hip hop / rock rap
6. Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1 (2021) ~ uk bass / deep house
7. JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes (2023) ~ experimental hip hop
8. Leafar Legov - Mirror (2020) ~ ambient house / downtempo *
9. billy woods - GOLLIWOG (2025) ~ abstract hip hop
10. Natalia Lafourcade - De Todas las Flores (2022) ~ folk / jazz

11. Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix (2021) ~ experimental hip hop / glitch
12. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps (2023) ~ abstract hip hop
13. JPEGMAFIA - LP! (2021) ~ experimental hip hop
14. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (2021) ~ jazz / ambient
15. Skee Mask - Pool (2021) ~ idm / techno
16. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu (2025) ~ jazz
17. Ana Frango Elétrico - Me Chama de Gato Que eu Sou Sua (2023) ~ mpb / funk
18. Call Super - A Rhythm Protects One (2025) ~ deep house / techno *
19. Loidis - One Day (2024) ~ ambient house *
20. Sampha - Lahai (2023) ~ r&b / pop

21. Space Ghost - Private Paradise (2022) ~ dream house *
22. Avalon Emerson - & the Charm (2023) ~ dream pop / downtempo
23. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (2024) ~ psychedelic pop / rock
24. Dawuna - Glass Lit Dream (2021) ~ soul / r&b *
25. Calibre - Feeling Normal (2021) ~ uk bass / techno *
26. cv313 - Live at Elixir (2022) ~ techno / dub techno *
27. Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark (2020) ~ soul / pop
28. Rod Modell & Taka Noda - Glow World (2023) ~ ambient / dub techno *
29. Tim Bernardes - Mil Coisas Invisíveis (2022) ~ mpb / folk
30. Eletun Selona - Infinita Series (2025) ~ techno / deep house *

31. Jack J - Blue Desert (2024) ~ psychedelic pop *
32. Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me (2023) ~ soul
33. Lb Honne - Present Future / Here There (2024) ~ ambient house / techno *
34. Dora Morelenbaum - Pique (2024) ~ mpb / folk
35. DJ Metatron - Loops of Infinity (A Rave Loveletter) (2020) ~ breakbeat / ambient house *
36. Kelela - In the Blue Light (2025) ~ r&b / jazz *
37. Martinou - Chiral (2023) ~ ambient techno / deep house
38. Miljon - Don't They Know (2021) ~ dream pop *
39. Mioclono - Cluster I (2023) ~ tribal house / idm *
40. Kenny Beats - Louie (2022) ~ instrumental hip hop

41. James Holden - Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities (2023) ~ idm / trance
42. Quelle Chris - DEATHFAME (2022) ~ abstract hip hop
43. Marlon Williams - Te Whare Tīwekaweka (2025) ~ folk / pop
44. Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind (2020) ~ psychedelic pop / glam rock
45. Naked Flames - Miracle in Transit (2022) ~ ambient techno / house
46. Off the Meds - Off the Meds (2020) ~ uk bass / electro *
47. Sau Poler - Nocturno (2021) ~ deep house / ambient techno *
48. The House in the Woods - The Spectral Corridor (2021) ~ ambient *
49. The Ironsides - Changing Light (2023) ~ psychedelic soul *
50. William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - “ . . . on Reflection “ (2022) ~ ambient / neoklassiek

6x 2020, 12x 2021, 9x 2022, 11x 2023, 6x 2024, 6x 2025

Heb een aantal lijsten met songs en albums die ik zo in de jaren 20 beluisterd heb, heb ook nog enkele andere andere lijsten geraadpleegd, heb per jaar 5 albums per jaar geselecteerd, albums van enige impact, essentiële albums.., me ervan bewust dat de keus iets ‘fictiefs’ of toevalligs kan hebben… en de keus voor de een, ook ten koste van de ander gaat.
Om hieruit nog een ‘toplijst’ te maken (1,2,3) kan altijd nog maar vind ik eigenlijk op dit moment niet zo relevant dit alles nog eens tegen elkaar af te wegen.

2020 sault - untitled
2020 perfume genius set my hearh on fire immediatly
2020 the soft pink truth - shall we go on dinning, so that macy grey increase
2020 fiona apple - fetch the bolt cutters
2020 fountains dc - a hero ‘s death

2021 floating points faraoh sanders - promises
2021 pino palladino blake mills - notes with attachments
2021 little simz - sometimes i mignt be introvert
2021 arooj aftab - vulture prince
2021 mdou moctar - afrique victime

2022 fountaines dc - skinty fia
2022 the smile - a light for attracting attention
2022 caroline - caroline
2022 sirom - the liquified throne of simplicity
2022 angel olsen - big time

2023 lankum - false lankum
2023 arooi aftab, vijay iyer, shazad ismaily - love in exile
2023 hania rani - ghosts
2023 speakers corner quartet - further out than the rest
2023 craven faults - standers

2024 the cure - songs of a lost world
2024 the smile - wall of eyes
2024 helado negro - PHASOR
2024 ex-easter island head - norther
2024 nala sinephro - endlessness

2025 gogo penguin - necessary fictions
2025 caroline - caroline 2
2025 rosalia - lux
2025 natalia lafourcade - apertura concionara
2025 ?

1. Kali Malone - All Life Long (2024)
2. Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (2023)
3. Kelly Moran - Don't Trust Mirrors (2025)
4. Ye - Bully V1 (2025)
5. Autechre - AE_LIVE 2022－ (2023)
6. Clairo - Charm (2024)
7. Sara Minelli - New Resonances (2021)
8. Kali Malone - Studies for Organ (2020)
9. Camila Bañados - Viento 1. (2024)
10. Park Jiha -The Gleam (2022)
11. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (2025)
12. Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings (2024)
13. Cœur de Pirate - Perséides (2021)
14. Kali Malone - Living Torch (2022)
15. 浮 - あかるいくらい (2022)

1. The Haunted Youth - Dawn of the Freak (2022)
2. Ren - Sick Boi (2023)
3. Florence + the Machine - Dance Fever (2022)
4. Model/Actriz - Pirouette (2025)
5. Spinvis - Be-Bop-A-Lula (2023)
6. Headache - The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth (2023)
7. Lausse the Cat - The Mocking Stars (2025)
8. Muse - Will of the People (2022)
9. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple (2023)
10. Joost - Fryslân (2022)

1. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (2024)
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God (2024)
3. The National - Laugh Track (2023)
4. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (2022)
5. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor (2024)
6. Turnstile - Never Enough (2025)
7. Lankum - False Lankum (2023)
8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes (2023)
9. Junodream - Pools of Colour (2024)
10. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time (2021)

11. ØXN - Cyrm (2023)
12. The Clockworks - Exit Strategy (2023)
13. Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore (2024)
14. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison (2020)
15. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive (2023)
16. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us (2024)
17. Sivert Høyem - On an Island (2024)
18. Sam Lee - Old Wow (2020)
19. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes (2024)
20. dEUS - How to Replace It (2023)

21. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia (2022)
22. The Smile - Wall of Eyes (2024)
23. The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein (2023)
24. Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (2023)
25. Exit North - Anyway, Still (2023)
26. Matt Elliott - Farewell to All We Know (2020)
27. Katatonia - City Burials (2020)
28. The Apartments - In and Out of the Light (2020)
29. DEADLETTER - Hysterical Strength (2024)
30. Shearwater - The Great Awakening (2022)

31. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark (2021)
32. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown (2024)
33. Boris Blank - Resonance (2024)
34. Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (2025)
35. David Keenan - A Beginner's Guide to Bravery (2020)
36. The Swell Season - Forward (2025)
37. Bony Man - Cinnamon Fields (2021)
38. Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS (2022)
39. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas (2024)
40. Bambara - Birthmarks (2025)

41. The Veils - ...And Out of the Void Came Love (2023)
42. Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage (2023)
43. Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa (2022)
44. Christian Kjellvander - About Love and Loving Again (2020)
45. The Delines - The Sea Drift (2022)
46. Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (2025)
47. Curse of Lono - People in Cars (2021)
48. Taylor Swift - folklore (2020)
49. Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You (2020)
50. Voices from the Lake - II (2025)

Omdat het kan: ook nog even een top-30 aan nummers van dit decennium. Benieuwd hoe ik hier over vier-jaar-min-een-beetje naar kijk!

1. Adrianne Lenker - ingydar (2020)
2. Ichiko Aoba - Sagu Palm Song (Live At Milton Court) (2023)
3. Patrick Shiroishi - The Long Bright Dark (2021)
4. Adult Jazz - Marquee (2024)
5. Black Country, New Road - The Place Where He Inserted the Blade (2022)
6. caroline - Total Euphoria (2025)
7. A.G. Cook - Silver Thread Golden Needle (2024)
8. Charli xcx - Visions (Live At Appleville) (2020)
9. Adrianne Lenker - Real House (2024)
10. Colin Stetson - Strike Your Forge and Grin (2024)

11. Denzel Curry - Walkin’ (2022)
12. Cristóbal Avendaño y Silvia Moreno - VI - Desde El Otro Lado del Mar (2024)
13. Charli xcx - Von Dutch (2024)
14. DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Next To Me (2020)
15. caroline - Skydiving Onto The Library Roof (2021)
16. Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter (2023)
17. Black Country, New Road - Nancy Tries to Take the Night (2025)
18. Little Simz - Gorilla (2022)
19. Horse Lords - Against Gravity (2020)
20. Natalia Lafourcade - Muerte (2022)

21. JPEGMAFIA feat. Danny Brown - God Loves You (2023)
22. Wednesday - Bull Believer (2022)
23. FKA twigs - Striptease (2025)
24. Sufjan Stevens - Shit Talk (2023)
25. Approaching Mountains - Weeping in Radiance (2023)
26. underscores - Johnny Johnny Johnny (2023)
27. Low - The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off) (2021)
28. hemlocke springs - girlfriend (2023)
29. San Salvador - La Grande Folie (2021)
30. Four Tet - Three Drums (2023)