There's tons of great, well recorded music out there. Unfortunately, the high end press tends to have a rather limited musical palate. Just this decade:
2010
Great Jazz Trio - Hank Jones' Last Recording
Tom Jones - Praise & Blame
Los Lobos - Tin Can Trust
Menomena - Mines
Mimicking Birds
Trentmoller - Into The Great Wide Open
2011
Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi - Rome
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Head & The Heart
2012
Amadou & Mariam - Folia
Black Prairie - A Tear in the Eye is a Hole in the Heart
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Dave Douglas - Be Still
Vijay Iyer - Accelerando
Jamey Johnson - Living for a Song
Shearwater - Animal Joy
Geoffrey Williams - Yes Is The Answer
2013
Katatonia - Dethroned & Uncrowned
Mark Lanegan - Imitations
Los Lobos - Disconnected in New York
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer, Different Park
Omaha Diner
Rhye - Woman
Wolf People - Fain
2014
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
Stanton Moore - Conversations
Opeth - Pale Communion
Spoon - They Want My Soul
2015
Balthazar - Thin Walls
Eilen Jewell - Sundown Over Ghost Town
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Bird
2016
The Bad Plus - It's Hard
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
CloZee - Revolution
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Brad Mehldau - Blues and Ballads