To celebrate the end of the aught’s, the PBH editorial team convened to put together the definitive list of the ten best albums of the decade. While we may have missed a couple of albums, rest assured we put several minutes into this hastily constructed list.

Who could have predicted that the Francophonic world would be the greatest contributor to the decade in music? While white New York was stuck in second gear of derivative hipster mimicry and LA and London continued their descent into the blackhole of label corporatocracy, Montreal and Paris became the hubs for exceptional musical development in the 2000’s. Our list reflects this dominance: #1, #5, #7, and a handful of our honorable mentions hail from France and Montreal.

*Note: This list does not include any hip-hop albums as the last relevant hip-hop record was released in 1997

Our favorite Fillipino Chef is back with another sweet ass cooking video. (I’m in this one) Also featured is Umi Nom, one of the best Fillipino spots in NYC, also affiliated with Kuma Inn. So if you are in NYC, or want to be, you should check it out. Word.

If you were anything like me, you spent your formative years creating irreversible holes in your brain while listening to the finest of untz untz untz music. While you were experimenting with microns and candy-flipping, you probably were listening to the sweet beats of the Asian Dub Foundation. Asian Dub Foundation is a British electronica band, that plays a mix of breakbeat, dub, dancehall and raggae that has began in 1993. Here are some of their sweet songs:

Bibio is another band you would have been listening to 3 years ago if your life wasn’t a painful exercise in choosing the path of least resistance to conform in the blandest of ways to the normatives opposed from above. While you were busy weaving a tapestry of banality and dysfunctional ignorance, Bibio was smashing their brand of electronic-infused progrock to the teetering masses. Like most bands composed of bearded white people, Bibio explores the kind of topics available only to the navel-gazing bourgeois of consumer-centric Western societies where the simplest daily minutia creates heartache, becoming the rhyme and reason for their artistic vision. Somehow, they also manage to not feel embarrassed about what they look like. Either way, spend some time hating yourself while you spend time enjoying Bibio:

Neutral Milk Hotel is another sweet band that makes a lot of songs the white right people like. They came out in the mid-90’s but you probably never heard of them until you read this sweet blog cause you’re pretty unhip and were too busy thinking Jack White was still relevant. Anyway, it’s a bunch of white dudes who make music that’s all about being emotional while having a beard. Here are some killer tracks that you can listen to while you drift further away from reality so if someone asks you why you’re acting particularly aloof, you can say “I’ve been re-examining the messages of Neutral’s first EP”:

Phoenix is a French alternative rock band started during their childhood by Thomas Mars, Deck D’Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz in the suburb of Versailles. They sound sort of like a grown up MGMT, but they haven’t caught on as much. So you should probably get into them before douchebags that wear backwards hats and drink jagerbombs get into them. Then when the wrong people start liking them, you can claim previous ownership while distancing yourself from the trifling masses.

The best video for them isn’t even by them — it’s a fan video mashup mixing Lisztomania (from the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix album) with clips from famous 80’s movies: