Best ambient pop artists of the 2010s
Streaming rewrote every incentive underneath a record: its length, its release date, whether it needed a single at all. Trap production became pop's default rhythm, and a lot of the decade's best artists arrived through a laptop rather than a label.
Everyone who released a ambient pop album in the 2010s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.
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Thom Yorke1 album here4.34.8 avg · 3 ratings
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Radiohead1 album here4.34.3 avg · 259 ratings
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FKA twigs1 album here4.24.4 avg · 14 ratings
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Sigur Rós1 album here4.24.4 avg · 12 ratings
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The xx1 album here4.24.3 avg · 21 ratings
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Air1 album here4.24.5 avg · 4 ratings
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James Blake2 albums here4.04.0 avg · 36 ratings
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M833 albums here3.93.9 avg · 17 ratings
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Bon Iver1 album here3.93.9 avg · 21 ratings
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The Flaming Lips1 album here3.93.9 avg · 11 ratings
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Cigarettes After Sex1 album here3.93.8 avg · 4 ratings
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Low1 album here3.83.7 avg · 3 ratings
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Panda Bear1 album here3.83.6 avg · 4 ratings
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Grimes2 albums here3.83.5 avg · 3 ratings
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Toro y Moi1 album here3.83.6 avg · 7 ratings
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Grouper2 albums here3.63.1 avg · 4 ratings
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The 19751 album here3.32.9 avg · 8 ratings
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Arca1 album here2 ratings
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Steve Hiett1 album here
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