𓇳 my top 10 2010s indie pop albums of all time

This is part 2 of this genre, focusing on 2010–2019.

This list was really hard to narrow down. the 2010s shaped so much of my taste, every album in this list is one i still revisit constantly. This was the decade where indie pop stopped feeling like a niche.. albums were pulling from synth pop, dream pop, electronic, r&b, even funk, but still holding onto that emotional, slightly off-center core that makes the genre what it is.

A lot of these albums feel like worlds of their own. ‘Melodrama’ captures that late night, coming-of-age feeling so perfectly. ‘Bloom’ and ‘Wounded Rhymes’ leaning into atmosphere and emotion, I used to play these two back to back for years! ‘Body Talk’ and ‘ The Bones of What You Believe’ pushed indie pop forward and still sound very modern to this day.

And then you have records like ‘Cupid Deluxe’ and ‘99 Cents’ that bring in completely different textures, but to me just show how far the genre could stretch without losing its identity.