This isn't some alternate timeline, or an instance of you waking up from a long Super Mario World 2-esque dream scenario where the last two years were just a really bad movie. We are actually publishing a Best of the 2010s album list two years after almost everyone else did.
A few factors played a part in this, mainly the fact that BPM was resurrected in 2020 after being dormant for some time, but perhaps more importantly, albums from 2016-2019 get a rather unfair assessment compared to those from the first half of the decade, which have had plenty of time to accrue value. On the other hand, some albums from the latter half of the decade that were showered with praise may have dulled since, and some that weren't even on the radar have grown into classics. Truly, we have more honest perspective on the 2010s now than we did in December 2019.
