Best Music of 2019

2019 has been a somewhat slow year for me so far in terms of new releases I really like, although I am a bit behind (my Spotify library is full of albums from this year I'm still trying to get around to lol). From what I've heard, some of my favorites are

Girl With Basket of Fruit by Xiu Xiu (possibly my AOTY)
Beware of the Dogs by Stella Donnelly
Assume Form by James Blake
Walk Through Fire by Yola
GREY Area by Little Simz
The Big Freeze by Laura Stevenson
Tasmania by Pond
Stuffed & Ready by Cherry Glazerr
ARIZONA Baby by Kevin Abstract
 
Kinda drunk so I’ll keep the list short for now. Will edit later if I need to ;)


Aldous Harding - Designer

Beirut - Gallipoli (weaker than the previous albums — still pretty solid overall though).

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Durand Jones & the Indications - American Love Call

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

Nilufer Yanya - Miss Universe

Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

I’m also looking forward to fka twigs and hoping for a second album. The video for Cellophane is surreal af and the song itself is top notch.
 
2019 has been VERY slow for me so far. Here's another recommendation for Malibu Ken which is probably my favorite album of the year at this point.

"The Barrel" by Aldous Harding is my favorite track but couldn't really get into Designer.

I got the VMP pressing of Barrie and that's a good one. I need to give it a few more spins.
 
thisunfolds said:
Kinda drunk so I’ll keep the list short for now. Will edit later if I need to ;)


Aldous Harding - Designer

Beirut - Gallipoli (weaker than the previous albums — still pretty solid overall though).

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Durand Jones & the Indications - American Love Call

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

Nilufer Yanya - Miss Universe

Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

I’m also looking forward to fka twigs and hoping for a second album. The video for Cellophane is surreal af and the song itself is top notch.
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That Aldous album is underrated!
 
Woob_woob said:
My favorite albums of 2019 so far (alphabetical order)
  1. Avey Tare - Cows on Hourglass Pond
  2. Beirut - Gallipoli
  3. Better Oblivion Community Center- BOCC
  4. Billy Woods - Hiding Places
  5. The Comet is Coming - Trust in The Lifeforce of Deep Mystery
  6. Crimeapple- Wet Dirt
  7. Dave - Psychodrama
  8. Empath - Active Listening: Night on Earth
  9. Flee Lord - Gets Greater Later
  10. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
  11. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies
  12. Little Simz - Grey Area
  13. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
  14. Panda Bear - Buoys
  15. Pivot Gang - You Cant Sit With Us
  16. Pup - Morbid Stuff
  17. Rap - Export
  18. Spelling - Mazy Fly
  19. Theon Cross - Fyah
  20. White Denim - Side Effects
  21. Yugen Blakrok - Anima Mysterium
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Man, that Flee Lord record is great. I still think Butcher Lords is one of the best Griselda cuts to date.
 
chrb98 said:
I get that, his early catalog has some absolute classics. I feel as if Aesop has been on a very clear trajectory throughout his career. He's still hardly an easy MC to keep up with but his lyrics have become noticeably less coded over the past decade or so. In that regard, Malibu Ken is hardly a shock, but I think he and Tobacco really hit a stride on tracks like Acid King and 1 + 1 = 13
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If somebody is pressing me for my favorite rappers, Aesop is near the very top. It's him, Kendrick and Outkast as far as being closest to my heart. But I haven't liked his post-Blockhead work nearly as much. Just finished Malibu Ken for the first time. Think there's a good chance it becomes a favorite.

Edit: This Flee Lord is solid too.
 
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Copying over my list from the old place


  1. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
  2. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
  3. The Mountain Goats - In League With Dragons
  4. Beirut - Gallipoli
  5. Wallows - Nothing Happens
  6. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
  7. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
  8. Jenny Lewis - On the Line
  9. Kyle Bobby Dunn - From Here to Eternity
  10. The Drums - Brutalism
  11. Celer - Xièxie
  12. American Football - LP3
  13. Girlpool - What Chaos Is Imaginary
  14. Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
  15. Mike Krol - Power Chords
  16. Pup - Morbid Stuff
  17. Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
  18. Lady Lamb - Even in the Tremor
  19. Fawns of Love - Permanent
  20. Tamaryn - Dreaming in the Dark
  21. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
  22. Bob Mould — Sunshine Rock
  23. The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time, Stage 6
 
Rock
Crypt Trip - Haze County
Murlocs - Manic Candid Episode
King Gizzard - Fishing for Fishies
Rap
Crimeapple - Wet Dirt
Yer Old Droog - It Wasn’t Even Close
Woods+Segal - Hiding Places
Metal
Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore
Inculter - Fatal Visions
Giant Dwarf - S/T (FFO: QotSa and White Denim imo)

No order, just things I’ve listened to the most lately.
 
Here is my Q1 list. So far in April and May I'd add Ruby Rushton - Ironside, Cykada, Alfa Mist - Structuralism, and Ezra Collective - Steal My Joy. Crazy how jazz my current listening has become, but then again 70s African vinyl doesn't count here...

1. Theon Cross - Fyah
2. Dave - Psychodrama
3. Seed Ensemble - Driftglass
4. Bassekou Kouyate - Miri
5. Little Simz - Grey Area
6. Sarah Tandy - Infection in the Sentence
7. Nerija - Nerija
8. Ibibio Sound Machine - Doko Mien
9. Songs of Our Native Daughters
10. Kokoroko - Kokoroko

As for best songs, two stand out head and shoulders above the rest for me

Dave - Lesley
Black Flower - Future Flora
 
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