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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