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Best drone 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 drone album in the 2010s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

  1. 2Oneohtrix Point NeverOneohtrix Point Never4 albums here4.24.3 avg · 15 ratings
  2. 3Sunn O)))Sunn O)))6 albums here4.14.1 avg · 25 ratings
  3. 4SwansSwans1 album here4.04.0 avg · 12 ratings
  4. 5Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsNick Cave & The Bad Seeds1 album here4.04.0 avg · 22 ratings
  5. 6John CaleJohn Cale2 albums here4.04.0 avg · 3 ratings
  6. 7The BodyThe Body1 album here4.04.0 avg · 3 ratings
  7. 8The Flaming LipsThe Flaming Lips2 albums here3.93.9 avg · 11 ratings
  8. 9MobyMoby1 album here3.83.8 avg · 44 ratings
  9. 10Tim HeckerTim Hecker1 album here3.83.6 avg · 4 ratings
  10. 11UlverUlver2 albums here3.73.6 avg · 6 ratings
  11. 12William BasinskiWilliam Basinski1 album here3.73.3 avg · 3 ratings
  12. 13Mount EerieMount Eerie2 albums here3.63.5 avg · 17 ratings
  13. 14GrouperGrouper3 albums here3.63.1 avg · 4 ratings
  14. 15MessaMessa1 album here3.53.3 avg · 8 ratings
  15. 16MainMain1 album here2 ratings
  16. 17Alessandro CortiniAlessandro Cortini11 albums here1 rating
  17. 18The Mount Fuji Doomjazz CorporationThe Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation4 albums here
  18. 19James FerraroJames Ferraro10 albums here
  19. 20EmeraldsEmeralds3 albums here
  20. 21BadaBada9 albums here
  21. 22Andrew ChalkAndrew Chalk19 albums here
  22. 23Occurrences in RainOccurrences in Rain8 albums here
  23. 24Mark CliffordMark Clifford1 album here
  24. 25Flavour SperimentaleFlavour Sperimentale12 albums here
  25. 26WallsWalls2 albums here

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