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Writer's pictureAqil Syakir

Best Rock and Albums of The Decade

Updated: Feb 22, 2020

By Aqil Syakir


2019 was a year that made everyone remember everything from the beginning of 2010 to 2019. At this decade, there are many best rock albums from alternative rock genres to pop rock. A name, music that has an element of experimental and solo guitars is a matter of evaluated and also interested in all rock genre enthusiasts. The writing and compilation of lyrics for each song in the album is also an important element in producing the best album. Thus, there are many albums that can be found based on the Internet.


AM (Arctic Monkeys)


If you know the song "Do I want Know" Surely you will find out the album "AM". Arctic Monkeys is a British rock group that has many experimental elements in every album that converts their music genre and guitar sounds in a rather different song in every album they create. AM was the fifth album from those published in 2013, this album was also recorded at Sage & Sound Recording and Rancho De La Luna.


Do I want Know is a well-known song produced by them for the start of their song prefix with an impressive solo guitar and voice from Alex Turner's great. The song also caused many people who love playing guitars as they love to play solo guitar from this song. In addition, there are many songs interested in the listener among "R U Mine?", Arabella, I Want Be Yours, Snap Out Of It and Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?.


Arctic Monkeys broke a record with AM, making it the first independent label band to make their first five albums in the United Kingdom at number one. The record is also a success for the band in America. AM is also one of the UK's top-selling vinyl albums, with 73,000 units sold in the decade.








MYLO XYLOTO (Coldplay)


Although the album was the best sales album in 2011, but vocalist Coldplay, Chris Martin did not like the album because many people could not say the album's name. The album is a fifth album from them and the genre of this album is rock opera. The album tells the story of a supremacist government's war against sound and color set in Silencia's world, an Orwellian society. A government led by Major Minus, which controls the population through media and propaganda, has overtaken Silencia.


The goal is to take off the streets sound and color in the hope of drawing away "feeders," creatures that use such energy to hunt their prey. Mylo Xyloto has received mixed feedback from critics, some of which has found that the album's uplifting sounds and new electronics to be overproduced and others praise. "Paradise" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" received three nominations for the 2012 Grammy Award. Mylo Xyloto became Coldplay's fifth album, which first sold 208,000 units and a one-week digital record sales of 83,000 copies.








Blurryface (Twenty One Pilots)



Blurryface is the 4th American studio album, released by Fueled by Ramen on 17 May 2015, by the American duo Twenty One Pilots. The album is influenced by different genres, including hip Hop, rock, folks, reggaes and indie, just like their previous album Vessel (2014). The album includes themes such as mental health, doubt and religion, lyrically speaking. It contains the "Stressed Out" and "Ride," both successfully rated at the top five on the Hot 100 billboard.


The album is named according to a Blurryface character. He "represents, Joseph points out, all the things about which I as an individual and everyone is unsure." In his live shows and music videos, Joseph wears black-colored paint in his hands and neck, representing Blurryface, and saying:"Very dramatic, I know, but it helps me get into that character."








Sempiternal (Bring Me The Horizon)


Sempiternal is the UK metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon's fourth studio album. It appeared worldwide on 1 April 2013 via Sony Music Entertainment's subsidiary label RCA and 2 April 2013 through Epitaph in the US and in Canada. It's the first collaboration with Jordan Fish, and is expected to be the last record with Jona Weinhofen as a singer.


The Horizon's Bring Me has buildupted their first three albums with impressive results, but if justice is served their new release' Sempiternal.' The Group strives to redefine the genre using Sempiternal while fully embracing their metalcore origins.










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