Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2019 • Page 8

1. Drei Affen - Seguimos Ciegxs (technically an EP but idc)
2. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
3. Periphery - Periphery IV: HAIL STAN
4. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
5. Bayside - Interrobang
6. Cloudkicker - Unending
7. City and Colour - A Pill for Loneliness
8. Rosie Tucker - Never Not Never Not Never Not
9. Judah & the Lion - Pep Talks
10. Future Teens - Breakup Season

HM:
Franky Everlong - Till the Dance Do Us Part
Rotting Christ - The Heretics
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties - Routine Maintenance
Jade Bird - Jade Bird
Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
Bad Suns - Mystic Truth
Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
Emarosa - Peach Club
The Devil Wears Prada - The Act
Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Wild Gods

 

1. Hammerfall - Dominion
2. Amon Amarth - Berserker
3. Beast In Black - From Hell With Love
4. Sabaton - The Great War
5. Battle Beast - No More Hollywood Endings
6. Majestica - Above The Sky
7. Thornbridge - Theatrical Masterpiece
8. Gloryful - Cult Of Sedna
9. Eluveitie - Ategnatos
10. Freedom Call - M.E.T.A.L.
11. Cyhra - No Halos In Hell
12. Gloryhammer - Legends from beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex
13. Forgotten North - Kinder des Zorns
14. Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra - Legacy Of The Dark Lands
15. Bloodbound - Rise Of The Dragon Empire
16. Dragonforce - Extreme Power Metal
17. Iron Savior - Kill Or Get Killed
18. Within Temptation - Resist
19. Northtale - Welcome To Paradise
20. Steel Prophet - The God Machine
21. Rhapsody Of Fire - The Eigth Mointain
22. The Ferrymen - A New Evil
23. Lacuna Coil - Black Anima
24. Frozen Crown - Crowned In Frost
25. Avantasia - Moonglow
26. The Dark Element - Songs The Night Sings
27. Equilibrium - Renegades
28. Turilli/Lione Rhapsody - Zero Gravity
29. Metalite - Biomechanicals
30. Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods
31. Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Divination
32. Metal De Facto - Imperium Romanum
33. Twilight Force - Dawn Of The Dragonstar
34. Saltatio Mortis - Klassik & Krawall
35. Schandmaul - Artus
36. Skillet - Victorious
37. Versengold - Nordlicht
38. Subway To Sally - Hey!
39. Cellar Darling - The Spell
40. Majesty - Legends
41. Volbeat - Rewind, Replay, Rebound
42. Sonata Arctica - Talvyiö

The ranking is not 100% accurate though, but the first 10 and the last 4 may be on the right position -at least for now. The ranking was quite hard...

 

my list is complete

 

CHAI!

 

Contributor list: Chorus.fm's Top 25 Albums of 2019 • chorus.fm

My list: Jason Tate’s Top Albums of 2019 • chorus.fm

Apple Music playlist of my favorite songs from my 30 favorite albums: https://chr.us/37HO6Cd
Spotify version: https://chr.us/2FrSSYi

 

1. La Dispute - Panorama (Epitaph)
Panorama. There couldn't possibly be a better or more proper title for La Dispute's Epitaph Records debut, as the Grand Rapids, Michigan quintet bring that wide-angled view of their art, creating the most astute and immersive work of their decade-plus long career.

However, as La Dispute takes their sound to a higher astral plane, Jordan Dreyer looks inward. Panorama features Dreyer's most personal introspective lyrics ever; his pensive whispers and frantic yelps meshing perfectly with the hesitant spontaneity of the "Fulton Street" suite and "Footsteps At The Pond." The album's ten tracks flaunt the band's continued excellent musicianship - from the jazzy "Rhodonite and Grief" (propelled by the rhythmic duo of bassist Adam Vass and drummer Brad Vander Lugt) to the anguished anxiety emulating from the sparse "There You Are(Hiding Place)" (exquisitely paced by guitarists Chad Sterenberg and Corey Stroffolino).

It's extremely difficult to follow up a post-hardcore classic - much less two - but La Dispute (just like their peers in Pianos Become The Teeth and Touché Amoré) continue to zig when others would zag. On these prior records, La Dispute would build up the tension and release it in frenzied cathartic fashion, rapidly moving to the next moment. Whereas Panorama reveals fullyrealized compositions, choosing to stay within these fleeting moments (the seven-minute closer "You Ascendant" exemplifies this best) and living within that totality.

2. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (Dark Descent)
Blood Incantation delivered on the hype created by their very good debut Starspawn and delivered tenfold in 2019 with Hidden History of the Human Race - taking their extreme metal sound into a higher stratosphere and incorporating exciting sonicspheres. It's equally psychedelic as it is jazzy - "Inner Paths (to Outer Space)" is exactly that while "The Giza Power Plant" is a brainy as it is brawny. The eighteen-minute finale "Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)" is truly some of the dopest shit to release in the last decade - a wild ride through a multitude of styles - exploring the complete spectrum that is metal.Obviously Death metal is a tough sell to the average listener but when it's this advanced, nuanced, and focused it becomes irresistible, as Blood Incantation has placed their stake into the ground as the most exciting modern metal band in the world.

3. Big Thief – Two Hands (4AD)
4. Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (4AD)
Big Thief kicked off a spectacular year with their ethereal third album U.F.O.F. - an intimate journey into the band's supernatural psyche. It's equally breezy as it is sinister as vocalist Adrianne Lenker lulls you in with her gentle vocals (the swelling allure of "Cattails," the profound "From") before it decimates you on tracks like "Contact," while Buck Meek's simmering guitar work highlights the breathtaking "Jenni." It's the type of career-defining album that takes musicians years to conjure - Big Thief did it twice in 2019.

Two Hands is the band-aid being ripped off of U.F.O.F. - it's visceral; a recording that's intimate in its proximity to each member, unleashing Big Thief's most primal work yet. The record's more physical moments duel between its louder and quieter moments - paced by Lenker's focused, heavy guitar tones and JamesKrivchenia’s meticulous, cerebral drumming ("The Toy" and "Shoulders") - with it all coming to a head on the fiery song of the year candidate (and Obama favorite) "Not." Two Hands feels loose throughout, as Big Thief's leave 2019 behind cemented as one of the most important rock bands today.

5. Baroness – Gold & Grey (Abraxan Hymns)
John Baizley wrote Purple nearly five years ago it felt like a visceral reaction to the catastrophic van accident he and his band Baroness went through – as if the band were still in “shock” – it’s very go-go-go and aggressive, rarely taking time to catch its breath. With Gold & Grey, Baizley is processing all the emotional and physical pain he and his bandmates experienced, slowing down the record in certain parts to showcase the duality of therecord’s themes while expanding its sonic palette. Make no mistake, Gold & Grey gets incredibly heavy, unnerving, and often hallucinatory – drummer Sebastian Thomson and bassist Nick Jost contributions smartly exist in the front of the mix throughout, while Gina Gleason’s backing vocals and gargantuan riffs elevate this particular Baroness record to new highs("Borderlines" and "Seasons" for starters). Baroness continue to persevere and beat the odds, as Baizley’s earnestness still shines through even in the darkest of moments.

6. Lingua Ignota - Caligula (Profound Lore)
"I’m the fucking death dealer/I'm the butcher of the world," roars Kristin Hayter on the third track off her project Lingua Ignota's second album Caligula, "If you don't fear me yet, you will." This isn't a warning, it's a threat as Hayter unleashes a swarming 66-minutes of fire and brimstone against misogyny and its Judeo-Christian foundation. Caligula spares zero wrongdoers, as death will be the easiest thing her abusers encounter (the grim sinister crawl of "Do You Doubt Me Traitor” and the vicious "Spite Alone Holds Me Aloft" are just a sampling). There is no pleasure on Caligula's elevenbrutal hymns - it rips, tears, deconstructs and ultimately creates an ugly medley of folk, noise, and metal - resulting in one of 2019's most empowering and brutal records.

7. Orville Peck - Pony (Sub Pop)
The masked cowboy seems ominous at first but Orville Peck isn't hiding anything on his Sub Pop debut Pony - the stories he tells are tender and intense - a reflection of the realities and emotions he and many others have encountered. Relishing in the country-pop of the 1960s, Peck recounts former lovers ("Big Sky") and indulges in nostalgia ("Kansas (Remembers Me Now)") as his gruff, radiant vocals carries the slow-burn Badlands lullaby "Buffalo Run." Pony is a mythology building album for Orville Peck, a delicious and much-needed palette cleanser from the current rehashed and tired "yeehaw" imposters.

8. PUP – Morbid Stuff (Little Dipper / Rise)
Following up a breakout record is tough enough, butPUP decided to add the extra label of doing so on their own label imprint, Little Dipper (courtesy of Rise Records). Morbid Stuff takes the band down even darker roads - the anxious intensity of "Scorpion Hill" highlights a record that features the band's heaviest ("Full Blown Meltdown" features Stefan Babcock and SteveSladkowski guitars reigning down hellfire) and most infectious ("Free At Last" showcases some of Babcock's most frantic deliverys yet alongside Nestor Chumak and Zack Mykula's breakneck rhythms) effort yet.

9. Greet Death - New Hell (Deathwish)
New Hell - the Deathwish debut from the Flint, Michigan trio Greet Death - is a luscious cornucopia of blackened shoe gaze and grunge revivalism, highlighted by Sam Boyhtari and Logan Gaval very different, very distinct vocal deliveries - giving the multi-hyphenated record a truly diverse sound throughout. The album's nine tracks cover a lot of ground - the furious "Do You Feel Nothing?" proceeds the crushing nine-minute opus "You're Gonna Hate What You've Done" while the excellently fuzzy "Entertainment" drives home NewHell's thesis: there's always beauty in the apocalypse.

10. Peaer - A Healthy Earth (Tiny Engines)
Peaer's third album is a fascinating look into howterrifying ordinary life is. Peter Katz rarely sings above a whisper but his anxieties are deafening. The music on A Healthy Earth is prickly and effortless in nature - theenergy of "Ollie" (based on Katz's dog) is paced by a bass clarinet solo while the colorful "Multiverse" shows off the album's dynamic layering and "Don't" shows off the band's technical wizardry, effectively changing time signatures at the drop of a hat. A Healthy Earth's lackadaisical surface is just cover for how sophisticated it truly is.

11. Have A Nice Life - Sea of Worry (The Flenser)
Have A Nice Life's first album in five years, Sea of Worry, is an answer of sorts to the questions poised on 2014's The Unnatural World - life is still fairly unsettling and anxiety-ridden, presented over the course of seven of Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga's most ambitious work. The title track and "Lords of Tresserhorn" paces the gothic new-wave vibe, flowing abstractly throughout the shape-shifting Sea of Worry.

12. Chris Farren - Born Hot (Polyvinyl)
Chris Farren emerged from the Side One Dummy purge of 2018 like a very hot and sexy Phoenix from theashes, releasing his Polyvinyl debut Born Hot. Featuring his finest pop songs ("Love Theme From Born Hot" and "Domain Lapse") and catchiest hooks ("Search 4 Me"), Farren straddles the line between self-deprecation and honest vulnerability flawlessly.

13. Full of Hell – Weeping Choir (Relapse)
On their Relapse debut, the East Coast collective Full of Hell aim to dismantle and dissect their brand of extreme metal. Weeping Choir rarely takes any moments to breathe - usually it's dual vocalists Dylan Walker and Samuel DiGristine unleashing rabid back and forth's on suffocating death metal slashers like "Burning Myrhh"and "Angels Gather Here." But when they do Full of Hell is adding more complex and experimental moments, as the slow-burn colossal "Armory of Obsidian Glass" suggests. A career highlight - it ominously builds off of haunting guest vocals from Lingua Ignota’s Kristin Hayter before delving into one of the band's most chaotic and brutal flourishes ever.

14. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving (RCA)
Surviving is probably the most apt title for Jimmy Eat World's 10th album - the band has outlasted every flavor of the day in music, continuously releasing music that pushes their boundaries. This record is no different as the band take some new musical risks (the pulsating "555") along with a new set of fist-pumping anthems("Criminal Energy" and "One Mil").

15. Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life (The Flenser)
Don't let the lack of screaming fool you - Absolute Still Life is undoubtedly the darkest, bleakest and most ambitious collection of noise from the Wreck & Reference duo. "Eris Came To Me At Night" - one of 2019's most grisly songs - still chills me to the bone.

16. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! (Polydor / Interscope)
17. The National – I Am Easy To Find (4AD)
18. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue (Pure Noise)
19. Better Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center (Dead Oceans)
20. State Faults - Clairvoyant (No Sleep)
21. Tyler The Creator – IGOR (Columbia)
22. Mannequin Pussy – Patience (Epitaph)
23. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains (Drag City)
24. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner)
25. DIIV - Deceiver (Captured Tracks)
26. Drowse – Light Mirror (The Flenser)
27. Oso Oso - basking in the glow (Triple Crown)
28. Harmony Woods - Make Yourself At Home (Skeletal Lightning)
29. clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop)
30. Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold (Mom +Pop)
31. Gatecreeper - Deserted (Relapse)
32. Great Grandpa - Four of Arrows (Double Double Whammy)
33. Prince Daddy & The Hyena – Cosmic Thrill Seekers (Counter Intuitive)
34. Georgia Maq - Pleaser (Run For Cover)
35. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
36. Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated (School Boy / Interscope)
37. Thom Yorke – ANIMA (XL)
38. Angel Du$t – Pretty Buff (Roadrunner)
39. Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam (Deathwish)
40. Bellows - The Rose Gardener (Topshelf)
41. Bon Iver - i,i (Jagjaguwar)
42. Wilco - Ode to Joy (dBpm)
43. Copeland – Blushing (Tooth & Nail)
44. Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond The Dark (Blood Music)
45. Field Mouse - Meaning (Topshelf)
46. Somos - Prison on a Hill (Tiny Engines)
47. Torche - Admission (Relapse)
48. Queen of Jeans - If You're not afraid, I'm not afraid (Topshelf)
49. Sunn O))) - Life Metal (Southern Lord)
50. Harry Styles - Fine Line (Columbia)

 

the absolute best

 

1. Sakanaction - 834.194
2. Montaigne - Complex
3. Holy Holy - My Own Pool of Light
4. Polish Club - Iguana
5. half alive - Now, Not Yet
6. Bugs - Self Help
7. Microwave - Death is a Warm Blanket
8. Four of Arrows - Great Grandpa
9. Hobo Johnson - The Fall of Hobo Johnson
10. Matt Maeson - Bank On The Funeral

 

1. The Tallest Man On Earth - I Love You. It’s A Fever Dream
2. Sticky Fingers - Yours To Keep
3. As Cities Burn - Scream Through The Walls
4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
5. Microwave - Death Is A Warm Blanket
6. Big Thief - Two Hands
7. City and Colour - A Pill For Loneliness
8. Flor - Ley Lines
9. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life
10. Penny and Sparrow - Finch

 

10. Pop. 1280 - Way Station
9. Ritual Howls - Rendered Armor
8. Lite - Multiple
7. Maria Taylor - Maria Taylor
6. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest
5. Fever 333 - Strength in Numb333rs
4. Devin Townsend - Empath
3. Rammstein - Rammstein
2. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - End of Suffering
1. Silver Snakes - Death and the Moon

 

Here's my list:

1. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
2. The Dangerous Summer - Mother Nature
3. Noah Gundersen - Lover
4. The Menzingers - Hello Exile
5. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
6. Josh Ritter - Fever Breaks
7. Taylor Swift - Lover
8. Tyler Hilton - City on Fire
9. Miranda Lambert - Wildcard
10. Kalie Shorr - Open Book
11. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury
12. Old Dominion - Old Dominion
13. Maren Morris - GIRL
14. Coldplay - Everyday Life
15. The Maine - You Are OK
16. Cassadee Pope - Stages
17. Grace Potter - Daylight
18. Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
19. Emily Scott Robinson - Traveling Mercies
20. Thomas Rhett - Center Point Road
21. Maybe April - The Other Side
22. Austin Jenkes - If You Grew Up Like I Did
23. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors - Dragons
24. Jade Bird - Jade Bird
25. Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life
26. Yola - Walk Through Fire
27. The Highwomen - The Highwomen
28. Riley Green - Different ‘Round Here
29. Canyon City - Bluebird
30. Runaway June - Blue Roses

Wrote about them all here: Craig Manning's Top Albums of 2019 • chorus.fm

Plus re-ranks for 2009 and 2018.

 

1. Arrange – Blood Dust
2. Charly Bliss – Young Enough
3. Big Thief – UFOF
4. Bon Iver – I,i
5. Big Thief – Two Hands
6. German Error Message – Mend
7. Strange Ranger – Remembering the Rockets
8. Hovvdy – Heavy Lifter
9. I Love Your Lifestyle – The Movie
10. Club Night - What Life
11. Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow
12. Default Genders – main pop girl 2019
13. Tha God Fahim x Stack Skrilla – Dump Gawd: The Divine Brotherhood
14. Earl Sweatshirt – Feet of Clay
15. Prince Daddy & the Hyena – Cosmic Thrill Seekers
16. TRST – The Destroyer 2
17. Wiki – Oofie
18. Aldous Harding – Designer
19. The Dangerous Summer – Mother Nature
20. Clairo - Immunity

Ranking is pretty arbitrary. Check out the stuff you haven't heard before

 

@Craig Manning the 2009 re-ranking is pretty fun. I haven't gone back and re-visited any lists that I made at the time, but I thought it would be fun to look at my 2009 list from 2009. If I went back and re-made my 2009 list, there would definitely be some albums that would swap around (how did Raditude get on this list???), but a fair amount would stay on my list. Interesting that our two lists only have 5 overlapping albums.

1 fun. - Aim & Ignite
2 Brand New - Daisy
3 Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
4 Metric - Fantasies
5 Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
6 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
7 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
8 Closure In Moscow - First Temple
9 Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
10 Big D & The Kids Table - Fluent In Stroll
11 Mute Math - Armistice
12 Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending
13 Rx Bandits - Mandala
14 Say Anything - Say Anything
15 Weezer - Raditude
16 A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage
17 All Time Low - Nothing Personal
18 Emmy The Great - First Love
19 Set Your Goals - This Will Be The Death of Us
20 Destry - It Goes On

 

I don’t know if I have my initial 2009 list anywhere, so I was mostly just re-ranking the albums as I see them now. I do think my top 10 was fairly comparable though.

I remember liking Raditude the first time I listened to it...really don’t at all now!

 

I can stand by like, 50% of that album now, so that's something haha.

I have all my Top 10 lists in a google doc since 2004-ish, I still like/love the majority of what was on my lists

 

I’ve got all of mine since 2010, and then I have 2008, but for some reason couldn’t find 2009. I’m not sure I ever finished it/was ever completely happy with it.

 

I'm sure somewhere, in the depths of the internet, it's somewhere that you posted it once... I found some of my earliest ones on old Myspace blog posts hah

 

I found my 2005 and 2006 lists on MySpace a few years back. That was a trip. Speaking of Weezer, I apparently thought very highly of Make Believe.

 

Looks like Make Believe wasn't on my list for that year. Over the years I have ranked...

Weezer (2016) @ #10
EWBAITE (2014) @ #20
Hurley (2010) @ #17
Raditude (2009) @ #15
Weezer (2008) @ #15

retroactively:

Maladroit (2002) @ #2
Weezer (2001) @ #12
Pinkerton (1996) @ #2
Weezer (1994) @ #1

 

Did you listen to Glass Beach? Feels like something you would be into.

 

I have not! I'll look into it!

 

I’ll second that rec for you. I shut it off after the first few tracks when I heard it months ago but went back only like a week ago and I’ve been obsessed since. Easily the most inventive album under the wider emo umbrella to come out last year.

 

Oh wow yeah this opener rules. I’m into it!

 

This is mine. It's pretty much in order. Not a bad year...

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
Flying Lotus - Flamagra
Junius Paul - Ism
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
Theon Cross - Fyah
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood
wiki - Oofie
Jamael Dean - Black Space Tapes
Battles - Juice B Crypts
LINGUA IGNOTA - Caligula
The Alchemist - Yacht Rock 2
Brother Ali - Secrets & Escapes
The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
Jaimie Branch - FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall
Skinny Pelembe - Dreaming is Dead Now
Kassa Overall - Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz
Denzel Curry - ZUU
Rapsody - Eve
Gang Starr - One of the Best Yet
Joel Ross - KingMaker
MIKE - Tears of Joy
Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 7
Your Old Droog - It Wasn't Even Close/Transportation/Jewelry
Free Nationals - Free Nationals
Roc Marciano - Marcielago
Alfa Mist - Structuralism
Cave In - Final Transmission
Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken
Steve Lacy - Apollo XXI
Yazz Ahmed - Polyhymnia
Injury Reserve - Injury Reserve
OG Keemo - Geist
Ahzumjot - 19QT01: RECORDINGS
Gaika - HEATERS 4 THE 2 SEATERS
James Blake - Assume This
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Samiyam - I Got Shit To Do/One On Each Planet
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain
Young Thug - So Much Fun
Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons
Thom Yorke - Anima
Common - Let Love


Honourable mentions:

Ariana Grande - Thank u, Next
Skepta - Ignorance is Bliss
Loraine James - For You and I
Boogarins - Sombrou Duvida
Solange - When I Get Home
Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire - Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
Shafiq Husayn - The LooP
Bon Iver - i,i
Billy Woods - Terror Management
YBN Cordae - The Lost Boy


Needs more listens:

Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
Sudan Archives - Athena
Megan Thee Stallion - Fever
Wreck & Reference - Absolute Still Life
Gnaw Their Tongues - Genocidal Majesty/An eternity of suffering, an eternity of pain
L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Complicate Your Life With Violence
Refused - War Music
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Xiu Xiu - Girl with Basket of Fruit
Nas - The Lost Tapes II
Deantoni Parks - AUGUSTA
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Nate Young - Vol. 1/2/3
Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts/Life Metal
Moor Mother - Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes

 

My favorites from last year.

1. Purple Mountains - S/T
2. Ian Noe - Between the Country
3. Rapsody - Eve
4. Kevin Morby - Oh My God
5. Yazz Ahmed - Polyhymia
6. Erika de Casier - Essentials
7. Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
8. Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
9. Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die II: bird dogs of paradise
10. Wiki - Oofie
11. Bonnie Prince Billy - I Made A Place
12. Big Thief - Two Hands/U.F.O.F.
13. Simon Joyner - Pocket Moon
14. Hiss Golden Messenger - Terms of Surrender
15. Joel Ross - KingMaker
16. Grace Cummings - Refuge Cove
17. Tomeka Reid Quartet - Old New
18. Brittany Howard - Jaime
19. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Mandatory Reality
20. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
21. Wilco - Ode To Joy
22. Neal Francis - Changes
23. Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
24. Skarbo Skulekorps - s/t
25. Maxo Kream - Brandon Banks
26. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
27. Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four
28. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
29. Crumb - Jinx
30. Aldous Harding - Designer
31. Kali Malone - The Sacrifical Code
32. The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce
33. Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
34. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
35. Chris Forsyth - All Time Present
36. The Delines - The Imperial
37. Little Simz - GREY Area
38. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
39. SAULT - 5 & 7
40. Modern Nature - How To Live
41. Joan Shelley - Like the River Loves the Sea
42. Olden Yolk - Living Theatre
43. Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow
44. White Reaper - You Deserve Love
45. Muriel Grossman - Reverence
46. EARTHGANG - Mirrorland
47. Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
48. Jason Hawk Harris - Love & the Dark
49. Richard Dawson - 2020
50. Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA


HM

Steve Gunn - The Unseen in Between
Cate le Bon - Reward
Twain - Adventure
Daniel Norgen - Wooh Dang
Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
Ohtis - Curve of Earth
Tim Presley - I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk
Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury
Lambchop - This(Is What I Wanted To Tell You)
Pedro The Lion - Phoenix
Moodyman - Sinner: KDJ-48
Junius Paul - Ism
Cass McCombs - Tip of the Sphere
Nerija - Blume
Vincent Neil Emerson - Fried Chicken & Evil Women
Hand Habits - placeholder
Freddie Gibbs - Bandana
Nick Cave - Ghosteen
Sudan Archives - Athena
James Matthew VII - Stoned When I Pray
Yugen Blakrok - Anima Mysterium
Jeff Tweedy - WARMER
Yola - Walk Through Fire
The Tallest Man On Earth - I Love You, It's a Fever Dream
Angel Bat Dawid - The Oracle
Gang Starr - One of the Best Yet
Jake Xerxes Fussel - Out of Sight
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears