favorite albums for each year

I’m a music nerd and always make music summaries. (suggested genres referenced from RateYourMusic)

2023:

• Amaarae, Fountain Baby (Alt R&B, Alté)
• Lana Del Rey, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Singer-Songwriter, Art Pop)
• Caroline Polachek, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Alt-Pop, Art Pop)
• James Blake, Playing Robots Into Heaven (Future Garage, Electronic Dance Music)
• Mitski, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk)

2022:

• Hatchie, Giving the World Away (Dream Pop, Alt Dance)
• Alvvays, Blue Rev (Indie Pop, Shoegaze)
• Weyes Blood, And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Baroque Pop, Singer-Songwriter)
• Beyoncé, RENAISSANCE (Dance-Pop, House)
• ROSALÍA, MOTOMAMI (Neoperreo, Art Pop)

2021:

• Wolf Alice, Blue Weekend (Alt Rock, Dream Pop)
• SPELLLING, The Turning Wheel (Art Pop, Baroque Pop)
• Erika de Casier, Sensational (Comptemporary R&B)
• Magdalena Bay, Mercurial World (Synthpop, Dance-Pop)
• Iglooghost, Lei Line Eon (UK Bass)

2020:

• Låpsley, Through Water (Art Pop, Ambient Pop)
• Jessie Ware, What’s Your Pleasure? (Dance-Pop, Disco)
• Moses Sumney, græ (Art Pop)
• Róisín Murphy, Róisín Machine (Nu-Disco, House)
• Eartheater, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin (Avant-Folk, Chamber Folk)

2019:

• Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell! (Singer-Songwriter, Art Pop)
• Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising (Baroque Pop, Art Pop)
• FKA twigs, MAGDALENE (Art Pop, Glitch Pop)
• CHAI, PUNK (Dance-Punk, Indie Pop, Pop Rock)
• Flume, Hi This Is Flume [Mixtape] (Wonky)

2018:

• Beach House, 7 (Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia)
• Robyn, Honey (Dance-Pop, Electropop, House)
• Let’s Eat Grandma, I’m All Ears (Synthpop, Art Pop, Electropop)
• Ben Howard, Noonday Dream (Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Ambient Pop)
• Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer (Compemporary R&B, Art Pop)

2017:

• Wolf Alice, Visions of a Life (Dream Pop, Indie Rock)
• Alvvays, Antisocialities (Indie Pop, Jangle Pop)
• St. Vincent, MASSEDUCTION (Art Pop, Indie Rock)
• SZA, Ctrl (Alt R&B, Neo-Soul)
• Loreen, Ride (Alt Rock, Dream Pop, Art Pop)

2016:

• Blood Orange, Freetown Sound (Alt R&B, Synth Funk)
• Shura, Nothing’s Real (Synthpop, Dance-Pop, Alt-Pop)
• Solange, A Seat at the Table (Neo-Soul)
• David Bowie, Blackstar (Art Rock)
• Frank Ocean, Blonde (Alt R&B, Art Pop, Neo-Soul)

2015 (Hardest Choice Ever):

• Jamie xx, In Colour (UK Bass)
• Björk, Vulnicura (Art Pop, Electronic)
• Wolf Alice, My Love Is Cool (Indie Rock, Alt Rock)
• Beach House, Depression Cherry (Dream Pop)
• Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter)

2014:

• FKA twigs, LP1 (Art Pop, Alt R&B., Glitch Pop)
• Alvvays, Alvvays (Twee Pop, Jangle Pop, Indie Pop)
• Freddie Gibbs & Madilb, Piñata (Gangsta Rap)
• Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence (Dream Pop, Art Pop, Neo-Psychedelia)
• Azealia Banks, Broke with Expensive Taste (Hip House, East Coast Hip Hop)

2013 (Really Hard Choice):

• London Grammar, If You Wait (Art Pop, Alt-Pop, Indie Pop)
• James Blake, Overgrown (Art Pop, Alt R&B)
• Beyoncé, BEYONCÉ (Contemporary R&B, Pop)
• Disclosure, Settle (UK Garage, Deep Tech, Deep House)
• CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe (Synthpop, Electropop)

2012:

• Lana Del Rey, Born to Die (and Paradise Edition) (Alt-Pop, Chamber Pop)
• Beach House, Bloom (Dream Pop, Indie Pop)
• Grimes, Visions (Synthpop)
• Frank Ocean, channel ORANGE (Alt R&B, Contemporary R&B)
• Death Grips, The Money Store (Industrial Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Pop, Experimental Hip Pop)

Little summary - most frequently mentioned genres in this list: