Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Best Albums of 2019

I'm adding less of an intro or labels for this year's list because I've been working on something bigger that I'll post sometime in the next week---but wow so much good music came out this year! 

Support the artists, go to shows, but their records and merch, and share the ones you love with those you love. Happy New Years, all my friends :)


1. Sondra Sun-Odeon - “Desyre” 
2. Lana Del Rey - “Norman Fucking Rockwell” 
3. The Caretaker - “Everywhere, an empty bliss”
4. Doomsquad - “Let Yourself Be Seen” 
5. Lightning Bug - “October Song” 
6. DIIV - “Deceiver” 
7. Sharon Van Etten - “Remind Me Tomorrow” 
8. Benoît Pioulard - “Sylva” 
9. Purple Mountains - “s/t” 
10. Tempers - “Private Life” 
11. Hana Vu - “Nicole Kidman/Anne Hathaway”
12. House and Land - “Across the Field” 
13. Loscil - “Lifelike”
14. The National - “I Am Easy To Find” 
15. Nivhek - “After its own Death...”
16. Blankenberge - “More” 
17. Angel Olsen - “All Mirrors” 
18. The Warlocks - “Mean Machine Music” 
19. A Winged Victory for the Sullen “Undivided Fifth” 
20. Lillie Mae - “Other Girls” 
21. Wand - “Laughing Matter” 
22. Boy Scouts - “Free Company” 
23. Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” 
24. Dolphin Midwives - “Liminal Garden”
25. Kim Gordon - “No Home Record” 
26. FKA Twigs - “Magdalene” 
27. Julia Jacklin - “Crushing” 
28. Tara Jane O’Neill - “Yoake”
29. Flaming Lips - “King’s Mouth” 
30. Anna Tivel - “The Question” 
31. Ana Roxanne - “~~~”
32. Pi Ja Ma - “Nice to Meet U” 
33. Death & Vanilla - “Are You A Dreamer” 
34. Daniel Norgren - “Woah Dang” 
35. Dustin Wong - “Seasons” 
36. Cate Le Bon - “Reward” 
37. Foxes in Fiction - “Trillium Killer” 
38. Laura Stevenson - “The Big Freeze” 
39. Ruby Haunt - “The Middle of Nowhere” 
40. Yohuna - “Mirroring” 
41. Wished Bone - “Sap Season” 
42. Chromatics - “Closer to Grey” 

43. Saariselka - “The Ground Our Sky” 
44. Cellar Doors - “s/t” 
45. Fleeting Joys - “Speeding Away to Someday”
46. Purple Pilgrims - “Perfumed Earth”
47. Cosey Fanni Tutti - “Tutti”
48. Little Scream - “Speed Queen”
49. Florist - “Emily Alone”
50. Credit Electric - “s/t”
51. Jason Lytle - “Nylonandjuno”
52. The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard - “Honesty”
53. Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox - “Myths 2”
54. Jamila Woods - “Legacy! Legacy!”
55. Sasami - “s/t”
56. Living Hour - “Softer Faces”
57. Common Holly - “When I Say to you Black Lightning”
58. Dives - “Teenage Years are Over”
59. Aldous Harding - “Designer”
60. Hand Habits - “Placeholder”
61. Kazu - “Adult Baby” 
62. Whitney - “Forever Turned Around”
63. Vivian Girls - “Memory”
64. Jake Xerxes Fussell - “Out of Sight”
65. Primal Wound - “Flesh Bound World”
66. Big Thief - “U.F.O.F.”
67. Hotel Neon - “Vanishing Forms”
68. Daughter of Swords - “Dawnbreaker”
69. Bodywash - “Comforter” 
70. Froth - “Duress”
71. Field Medic - “Fade Into Dawn”

72. Kedr Lavinsky - “Your Need”
73. The Jeanines - “s/t”
74. Dope Lemon - “Smooth Big Cat”
75. Patio - “Essentials”
76. Holly Herndon - “Proto”
77. Greys - “Age Hasn’t Spoiled You”
78. Yeule - “Serotonin II”
79. Joan Shelley - “Like the River Loves the Sea”
80. Jenny Hval - “The Practice of Love”
81. Shana Cleveland - “Night of the Worm Moon”
82. Devendra Banhart - “Ma”
83. Girlpool - “What Chaos Is Imaginary”
84. Loscil - “Equivalents”
85. Slow Glows - “Stargaze Rock N’ Roll”
8. Chelsea Wolfe - “Birth of Violence”
87. Mercury Rev - “Delta Sweete Revisited”
88. Eerie Wanda - “Pet Town”
89. Esther Rose - “You Made It This Far”
90. Cross Record - “s/t”
91. Mister Lies - “s/t”
92. The Telescopes - “Exploding Head Syndrome”
93. Frankie Cosmos - “Close It Quietly”
94. Félicia Atkinson - “The Flower & the Vessel”
95. Campfires - “Fare Trax”
96. Lina Tungren - “Free Cell”
97. Seablite - “Grass Stains & Novocaine”
98. Foghorn - “Thanatos”
99. Lambchop - “This (is what I wanted to tell you)”
100. Viul - “Bright Decline”
101. Duster - “s/t”
102. Spellling - “Mazy Fly”
103. Sneaks - “Highway Hypnosis”
104. Bill Callahan - “Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest”
105. Westkust - “s/t”
106. Justus Proffit - “LA’s Got Me Down”
107. Drowse - “Light Mirror”
108. Yves Jarvis - “The Same but by Different Means”
109. Steven Malkmus - “Groove Denied”
110. Kevin Morby - “Oh My God”
111. Munya - “s/t”
112. Marissa Nadler & S. Brodsky - “Droneflower”
113. Fawns of Love - “Permanent”
114. Deerhunter - “Why hasn’t Everything already Disappeared?”
115. Jordan Moser - “Long Night”
116. Molly Sarlé - “Karaoke Angel”
117. Kelsey Lu - “Blood”
118. Benoît Pioulard & Sean Curtis Patrick ‎- “Avocationals”
119. Pan American - “A Son”

120. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - “ Echo Delay Fuzz Reverb”
121. Gliss - “In Utopia”
122. Solange - “When I Get Home”
123. Iggy Pop - “Free”
124. Julian Lynch - “Rat’s Spit”
125. Operators - “Radiant Dawn”
126. Wurve - “Memory Bleach”
127. Jay Som - “Anak Ko”
128. Ohtis - “Curve of Earth”
129. Bear Call - “Fancy Acid”
130. Emily Reo - “Only You Can See It”
131. Oh Sees - “Face Stabber”
132. Tearjerker - “Faded”
133. Lower Dens - “The Competition” 
134. Cherry Glazerr - “Stuffed & Ready”
135. Jackie Cohen - “Wagg”
136. Billow - “Seascape”
137. 3 Leafs - “Four Blind Men”
138. Underground Youth - “Montage Images of Lust & Fear”
139. Palm Haze - “Rêve Blue”
140. Smileswithteeth - “Care”
141. R Beny - “Echo’s Verse”
142. Eerie Family - “s/t”
143. Shitkid - “Detention”
144. Rakta - “Falha Comum”
145. Night Beats - “Myth of a Man”
146. Mike Donovan - “Exurbian Quonset”
147. Machinefabriek - “With Voices”
148. Evan Caminiti - “Coiling”
149. Panda Bear - “Buoys”
150. Toro Y Moi - “Outer Peace”
151. Dido - “Still on my Mind”
152. Lisel - “Angels on the Slope”


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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Best Albums of 2018


Here is my best of 2018 albums list!

This is by far the longest best-of I’ve ever posted; as always, they’re in my order from top favorites down. Enjoy friends!

     Note: The following symbols indicate:

                > The artist's debut album
                + The artist's been producing for over 2 decades, wow!

                ~ I discovered the artist this year


A. The Meaning of Life (top 42 infinities) 

1. U.S. Girls - “In a Poem, Limited”
2. Phosphorescent - “C’est La Vie”
3. Mirah - “Understanding”
4. Chris Reimer - “Hello People”
5. Bitchin Bajas / DSR Lines - “Encyclopedia of Civilization, Vol. 2: Atlantis”
6. Joan of Arc - “1984”
7. >Rose Droll - “Your Dog”
8. Low - “Double Negative”
9. Cindy Lee - “Model Express
10. Mitski - “Be the Cowboy”
11. Tim Hecker - “Konoyo”
12. Thomas Fehlmann - “1929: Das Jahr Babylon”
13. >Hana Vu - “How Many Times Have You Driven By”
14. >Hilary Woods - “Colt”
15. The Innocence Mission - “Sun on the Square”
16. Kurt Vile - “Bottled Up”
17. Chris Carter - “Chemistry Lessons Volume One”
18. Marissa Nadler - “For My Crimes”
19. Yves Tumor - “Safe in the Hands of Love”
20. Hamish Kilgour - “Finklestein”
21. Haerts - “New Compassion”
22. Mr. Airplane Man - “Jaracanda Blue”
23. V/A - “Dreams” (Cascine Records)
24. Still Corners - “Slow Air”     
25. Machinefabriek - “Engel”
26. Big Joanie - “Sistahs”
27. Robot Koch - “Sphere”
28. Ought - “Room Inside the World”
29. Neko Case - “Hell-On”
30. >Mint Field - “Pasar de las Luces” 
31. Oneida - “Romance”
32. >Vive La Void - “s/t”
33. >SRSQ - “Unreality”
34. Amen Dunes - “Freedom”
35. Saint Seneca - “Pillar of Na”
36. Grouper - “Grid of Points”
37. Beach House - “7”
38. Julia Holter - “Aviary”
39. >Ruby Haunt - “Blue Hour”
40. Yowler - “Black Dog in My Path”
41. >Lump - “Lump”
42. OST - “A Star Is Born”


B. Larger than Life (63 Orders of Magnitude)

43. Tempers - “Junkspace (feat. Rem Koolhaas)”
44. Lumerians - “Call of the Void”
45. Public Memory - “Demolition” 
46. The Ophelias - “Almost”
47. MGMT - “Little Dark Age”
48. Mount Eerie - “Now Only”
49. Girls Names - “Stains on Silence”
50. Lorn - “Remnant”
51. Rothko - “Blood Demands More Blood”
52. Cat Power - “Wanderer”
53. Laura Gibson - “Goners”
54. Adrianne Lenker - “Abysskiss”
55. H. Takahashi - “Escapism”
56. Deerhunter - “Double Dream of Spring”
57. oOoOO x Islamiq Girls - “Feminine Mystique”
58. Oh Sees - “Smote Reverser”
59. Matchess - “Sacracorpa”
60. Mountain Movers - “Pink Skies”
61. Lucy Dacus - “Historian”
62. >The Beths - “Future Me Hates Me”
63. Parquet Courts - “Wide Awake!”
64. Gia Margaret - “There’s Always Glimmer”
65. Oneohtrix Point Never - “Age Of”
66. Jon Hassell - “Listening to Pictures”
67. Hermit & the Recluse - “Orpheus vs the Sirens”
68. >Loma - “s/t”
69. Ian Sweet - “Crush Crusher”
70. W. Basinski & L. English - “Selva Oscura”
71. Library Tapes - “Patterns (Repeat)”
72. Wooden Shjips - “V.”
73. >Haley Heyndrickx - “I Need to Start a Garden”
74. Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - “Wow and Flutter”
75. The Dakota Suite - “What Matters Most”
76. Anna Calvi - “Hunter”
77. Frankie Cosmos - “Vessel”
78. Vera Sola - “Shades”
79. Melody’s Echo Chamber - “Bon Voyage”
80. Spiritualized - “And Nothing Hurt”
81. Lera Lynn - “Plays Well with Others”
82. Exploded View - “Obey”
83. Hotel Neon - “Means of Knowing”
84. Ray Lamontagne - “Part of the Light” 
85. La Luz - “Floating Features”
86. Kikagaku Moyo - “Masana Temples”
87. Caroline Says - “No Fool Like an Old Fool”
88. Liela Moss - “My Name is Safe in your Mouth”
89. Lykke Li - “so sad so sexy” 
90. Control of the Going - “ I Love you but it’s Gonna Rain”
91. Deaf Wish - “Lithium Zion”
92. Anna Von Hausswolf - “Dead Magic”
93. Interpol - “Marauder”
94. Fluxion - “Ripple Effect”
95. Odeon - “Galaxies”
96. Daydream Machine - “The Show must not Go on”
97. Lala Lala - “The Lamb” 
98. Jess Williamson - “Cosmic Wink”
99. King Tuff - “The Other”
100. Film School - “Bright to Death”
101. Tomberlin - “At Weddings”
102. Air Formation - “Near Miss”
103. Half Waif - “Lavender” 
104. Orchid Mantis - “Yellow House”
105. Hater - “Siesta”


C. Life of the Party (36 Dramatic Situations)

106. The Kundalini Genie - “You Are The Resurrection”
107. Christina Vantzou - “No. 4”
108. Preoccupations - “New Material”
109. Bernice - “Puff: In the Air w’out a Shape”
110. Deaf Wish - “Lithium Zion” 
111. Leyya - “Sauna”
112. Jackie O Motherfucker - “Bloom”
113. RAYS - “You Can Get There From Here”
114. Drinks - “Hippo Lite” 
115. Beak> - “L.A. Playback”
116. Mien - “s/t” 
117.First Aid Kit - “Ruins”
118. The Black Dog - “Post-Truth”
119. Sigur Ros - “Route One” 
120. Woolen Men - “Post”
121. Ant’lrd & Benoît Pioulard - “Deck Amber”
122. Smerz - “Have Fun”
123. The Men - “Drift” 
124. The Soft Moon - “Criminal” 
125. Steady Holiday - “Nobody’s Watching”
126. Mike Donovan - “How to Get your Recs Played...”
127. Boys - “Rest in Peace”
128. Camp Cope - “How to Socialise & Make Friends”
129. Lana Del Rabies - “Shadow World”
130. Félicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu - “Limpid as the Solitudes”
131. Thomas Fehlmann - “Los Lagos”
132. Brian Jonestown Massacre - “Something Else”
133. The Durty Wurks - “Ballads of a Psychedelic Soul
134. Pllush - “Stranger to the Pain”
135. Papercuts - “Parallel Universe Blues” 
136. Waveless - “As One More Folded Paper Crane”
137. Laurel Halo - “Raw Silk Uncut Wood” 
138. Luluc - “Sculptor”
139. Sun June - “Years”
140. Tape Waves - “Distant Light” 
141. Protomartyr - “Relatives in Descent”


D.  Box of Chocolates (59 things Life is like...)

142. Gruff Rhys - “Babelsberg”
143. Durand Jones & the Indicators - “s/t”
144. No Age - “Snares Like a Haircut”
145. Actress - “Lageos” 
146. Pram - “Across The Meridian” 
147. The Black Dog - “Black Daisy Wheel”
148. Chemtrails - “Calf of the Sacred Cow” 
149. Helios - “Veriditas”
150. Stars Are Insane - “To Be There” 
151. RF Shannon - “Trickster Blues”
152. Mathew Lee Cothran - “My First Love Mends My Final Days” 
153. Illuminati Hotties - “Kiss Yr Frenemies
154. North Americans - “Going Steady”
155. Vactrol Park - “Music from the Luminous Void”
156. Frankie Teardrop Dead - “All You Need Is Love & Fucking Peace”
157. Rivulets - “In Our Circle”
158. Jim’s Younger Spirit - “No Human Tongue can Tell”
159. The Cult of Boydah - “Electrical Youth”
160. Human People - “Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears”
161. Spirit Fest - “Anohito”
162. Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore - “Ghost Forests”
163. Say Sue Me - “Where We Were Together”
164. Sun Dial - “Science Fiction”
165. Odetta Hartman - “Old Rockhounds Never Die” 
166. Echo Ladies - “Pink Noise”
Seahawks - “Eternal Beams”
Jaye Jayle - “Npo Trail & Other Unholy Paths” 
The Goon Sax - “ We’re Not Talking” 
Black Eagle Child - “Six Lugubrious Airs”
Tony Molina - “Kill the Lights”
James - “Living in Extraordinary Times” 
Forth Wanderers - “s/t”
Courtney Barnett - “Tell Me How You Really Feel” 
Penelope Trappes - “Penelope Two”
Suuns - “Felt” 
Soccer Mommy - “Clean” 
En Attendant Ana - “Lost and Found”
Poemme - “Moments in Golden Light” 
Dead Meadow - “The Nothing They Need”
Slow Mass - “On Watch”
Dustin Wong, Tanako Minekawa, & Good 
         Willsmith - “Exit Future Heart”
Firefriend - “Sulfur”
Bill Ryder-Jones - “Yawn” 
Erin Rae - “Putting on Airs” 
Black Moth Super Rainbow - “Panic Blooms” 
Locus Pocus - “s/t”
Tyler Burkart - “A time for everything”
Bonny Doon - “Longwave”
Black Belt Eagle Scout - “Mother of my Children”
The Black Queen - “Infinite Games”
Another Green World - “Video Ritual”
Erin Rae - “Putting on Airs”Fog Lake - “Captain” 
Eartheater - “Irisri”
Landing - “Bells in New Towns” 
Lotic - “Power”
White Denim - “Magazin”
The Black Delta Movement - “Preservation”
Jacco Gardner - “Somnium”
200. Lucretia Dalt - “Anticlines”


And my top 50 EPs of 2018: 

1. Night Beds - “Dear Jewell”
2. Azure Ray - “Waves”
3. Harmony Rockets w’ Peter Walker - “s/t”
4. Midwife - “Prayer Hands” 
5. The Marías - “Superclean Vol. II”
6. J Baker, P Bridgers, Lucy Dacus - “boygenius”
7. Benoît Pioulard - “May”
8. Waxahatchee - “Great Thunder” 
9. Violet Nox - “Twin Flame”
10. Swim Ignorant Fire - “B/w Blood & Bone”
11. Tone of Arc - “Tropical Western I/II”c
12. Haley Heyndrickx & Max Garcia Conover - “Among Horses III”
13. No Joy / Sonic Boom - “s/t”
14. Munya - “Delano EP”
15. Ulrika Spacek - “Suggestive Listening EP 
16. Jenny Hval - “The Long Sleep”
17. Sunun - “Ooid”
18. Anemone - “Baby Only You & I”
19. Hairband - “S/T”
20. Lannds - “Legends EP”
21. Angel Aura - “Sensum EP”
22. Monster Rally - “Starlight” 
23. beabadoobee - “lice” 
24. Deepchord - “Immersions”
25. LA Witch - “Octubre”
26. Helena Deland - “ (5 ep series)
27. Panda Bear - “A Day with the Homies”
28. Lapalux - “Above Between Below EP”
29. Field Medic - “Little Place” 
30. Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott - “Shape Memory”
31. The Black Dog - “Forgemasters: Shards ov Light”
32. Moses Sumney - “Black in Deep Red, 2014”
33. Belle & Sebastian - “How to Solve Our Human Problems (II/III)”
34. Minus the Bear - “Fair Enough”
35. Shitkid - “This Is It”
36. Bokonon - “Atlast”
37. Negative Gemini - “Bad Baby”
38. Kayla Guthrie - “Falling Star”
39. Munya - “North Hatley”
40. Why Bonnie - “In Water”
41. thanks for coming - “Back at it Again”
42. Launder - “Pink Cloud”
43. Jacques Greene - “Fever Focus” 
44. Anmlplnet - “Fall Asleep”
45. Oneohtrix Point Never - “The Station”
46. Buzzy Lee - “Facepaint EP”
47. James Ferraro - “For Pieces for Mirai”
48. Brabrabra - “Brabrabra-Lagoona”
49. Shapes in Calgary - “Here”

50. Aphex Twin - “Collapse EP”


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