Best albums: 2010-2014

Over at Pitchfork today, our list of the top 100 albums of the first half of the decade, 2010-2014, has been posted. I got to write the entries for #60 (PJ Harvey's Let England Shake), #50 (Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend!), and #28 (My Bloody Valentine's mbv). Along with the rest of Pitchfork's contributors, I submitted a ballot of my own personal top 100 albums from 2010-2014 before the master list was made. In the interest of transparency, discourse, and why-the-fuck-not, here's my ballot:

1. Deafheaven: Sunbather
2. Swans: The Seer
3. Jesu: Ascension
4. The Men: Open Your Heart
5. Locrian: Return to Annihilation
6. White Lung: Deep Fantasy
7. Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction
8. Iceage: New Brigade
9. My Bloody Valentine: mbv
10. Fucked Up: David Comes to Life
11. Cult of Youth: Love Will Prevail
12. Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
13. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
14. Circle Takes the Square: Decompositions: Volume Number One
15. Sunn O))) / Ulver: Terrestrials
16. Prurient: Bermuda Drain
17. Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
18. Liturgy: Aesthethica
19. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
20. Chelsea Wolfe: Pain Is Beauty
21. Ty Segall: Sleeper
22. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
23. Mamiffer: Mare Decendrii
24. Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt
25. Metz: Metz
26. SubRosa: More Constant Than the Gods
27. Protomartyr: Under Color of Official Right
28. Bill Callahan: Dream River
29. Deafheaven: Roads to Judah
30. Speedy Ortiz: Major Arcana
31. Merchandise: Children of Desire
32. Loma Prieta: I.V.
33. David Bowie: The Next Day
34. Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
35. Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit
36. Marissa Nadler: July
37. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
38. Code Orange Kids: Love is Love/Return to Dust
39. No Age: Everything in Between
40. Destruction Unit: Deep Trip
41. Ceremony: Rohnert Park
42. Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
43. Inter Arma: Sky Burial
44. Pianos Become the Teeth: The Lack Long After
45. Perfect Pussy: Say Yes to Love
46. YOB: Atma
47. Lower: Seek Warmer Climes
48. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
49. Self Defense Family: Try Me
50. Lycus: Tempest
51. Japandroids: Celebration Rock
52. Trap Them: Darker Handcraft
53. Kinit Her: The Poet & the Blue Flower
54. Cult Ritual: LP1
55. Screaming Females: Ugly
56. The Haxan Cloak: Excavation
57. Tombs: Path of Totality
58. Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years
59. Krallice: Diotima
60. Priests: Bodies and Control and Money and Power
61. The Body: I Shall Die Here
62. P.S. Eliot: Sadie
63. Thursday: No Devolucion
64. Swans: To Be Kind
65. Tigers Jaw: Charmer
66. Arctic Flowers: Reveries
67. Year of the Goat: Angels’ Necropolis
68. York Factory Complaint: Lost in the Spectacle
69. Savages: Silence Yourself
70. Horseback: Half Blood
71. White Suns: Totem
72. Total Abuse: Mutt
73. Cloud Rat: Moksha
74. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong
75. Emma Ruth Rundle: Some Heavy Ocean
76. High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
77. Have a Nice Life: The Unnatural World
78. Amebix: Sonic Mass
79. Wild Flag: Wild Flag
80. Barn Owl: Ancestral Star
81. Touche Amore: Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
82. Neil Young / Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill
83. Fear of Men: Loom
84. Windhand: Soma
85. The Saddest Landscape: You Will Not Survive
86. Barren Harvest: Subtle Cruelties
87. Pissed Jeans: Honeys
88. La Dispute: Rooms of the House
89. Taurus: No/Thing
90. The Soft Moon: The Soft Moon
91. Pig Destroyer: Book Burner
92. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks
93. Rush: Clockwork Angels
94. Baroness: Yellow & Green
95. Bob Mould: Silver Age
96. Oranssi Pazuzu: Velonielu
97. Planning For Burial: Desideratum
98. Blood and Sun: White Storms Fall
99. Russian Circles: Empros
100. Ex Hex: Rips