Treble's 150 Best Albums of the 2000s

The '00s, aughts or noughties — whatever you want to call it — saw an absurd number of genre hyphenations and sub-categorizations. From "blog-house" to "shitgaze," "glo-fi" to "electroclash" and "dubstep," a lot of different sounds came and went, sometimes with brief periods of deafening hype. Tried-and-true sounds were re-contextualized and re-introduced in an oddly fresh way. A handful of artists managed to exist outside of genre altogether. And more than a few artists who rose to prominence in the '90s made an even bigger noise in the '00s.