Consequence of Sound
Year Artist Album Top 5 Albums
2008 TV on the Radio Dear Science Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend The Hold Steady - Stay Positive Portishead - Third Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
2009 Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Passion Pit - Manners The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2010 Vampire Weekend Contra Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
2011 St. Vincent Strange Mercy Bon Iver - Bon Iver Shabazz Palaces - Black Up PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
2012 Frank Ocean Channel Orange Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel… Kendrick Lamar - good kid , m.A.A.d city Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Swans - The Seer
2013 Kanye West Yeezus Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City My Bloody Valentine - m b v CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
2014 The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Caribou - Our Love
2015 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Grimes - Art Angels Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete Tame Impala - Currents
2016 Beyoncé Lemonade Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book David Bowie - Blackstar Frank Ocean - Blonde Anohni - Hopelessness
2017 Lorde Melodrama Kendrick Lamar - DAMN . Ryan Adams - Prisoner Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory Slowdive - Slowdive
2018 Mitski Be the Cowboy Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer Saba - Care for Me Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth Pusha T - Daytona
2019 Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep , Where Do We Go ? Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Jamila Woods - Legacy ! Legacy ! Angel Olsen - All Mirrors Ariana Grande - Thank U , Next
Annual Report -- Top 50 Albums
Consequence of Sound (CoS) is an independently owned Chicago-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook micro-site, which serves as an online database for music festival news and rumors. In 2019, Consequence of Sound launched Consequence of Sound Radio, a 24/7-hour, 365-day online radio station on TuneIn. The website takes its name from the Regina Spektor song, Consequence of Sounds.