The 2019 end of the year music lists thread

Piccadilly Records:

Top 100 Albums

Top 20 Compilations

I have a perverse enjoyment of WPSE but they have absolutely no place on a) a top 25 list b) a "metal"/"hard rock" list. I do like all the records brad cited tho (and Spirit Adrift and obviously Baroness)

Probably 80% of that Piccadilly list unfamiliar to me

Their compilations lists are always worth checking out. Usually find 3 or 4 amazing ones every year.

<3 Piccadilly but they have some strange affections - I checked out the W. H. Lung (#1) and Andrew Wasylyk (#3) albums off the back of the list and yeah those are not the best albums of 2019. Good point on the comps though.

Musicophilia's Top 75 LPs & EPs of 2019:

75. Tim Hecker - Anoyo
74. Death & Vanilla - Are You A Dreamer
73. Seahawks - Eyes of the Moon
72. Old Man Saxon - Goldman Sax EP
71. Charles Hayward - Begin Anywhere
70. Free Snacks - Fast Food
69. Yosuke Tokunaga - 8 Furnitures
68. ePP - There’s a PLace for People Like You
67. Husmo HAV - Ripples
66. Malci - Papaya!

65. Abdu Ali - FIYAH!!!
64. Mike - Tears of Joy
63. Femdot - Camry 94 Music EP
62. Ensemble Entendu - Music For the Densely Populated/Pastoral Dusk Themes EPs
61. Dominique Fils-Aime- Stay Tuned
60. Andrew Wasylyk - The Paralian
59. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Vweto II
58. Laraaji & Log(m) - The Onrush of Eternity
57. Yatta - Wahala
56. Wilma Vritra - Burd

55. Hama - Houmeissa
54. Lealani - Fantastic Planet
53. SB The Moor - Spirit Realm
52. Kassa Overall - Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz
51. Nelson Bandela - Fantastic/TMT Love Lois Louise EPs
50. Joshua Virtue - Post Faith Dialogues
49. Spellling - Mazy Fly
48. Shamir - Be the Yee, Here Comes the Haw EP
47. Angel-Ho - Death Becomes Her
46. Bells Atlas - The Mystic

45. Nappy Nina - The Tree Act
44. Blood Orange - Angel’s Pulse
43. Highest Low - Underdogs
42. K.Raydio - 1:11/2:22/3:33/4:44/5:55 EPs
41. Vagabon - Vagabon
40. Black Pumas - Black Pumas
39. BluMoon - Slow Burn
38. Symphny, The - Vol. 1/Vol. 2/Moments EPs
37. These New Puritans - Inside the Rose
36. Sudan Archives - Athena

35. Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
34. Elucid - Every Egg I Cracked Today Was Double Yoked EP
33. Mourning A BLKstar - Reckoning
32. Thom Yorke - Anima
31. SOL Development - The SOL of Black Folk
30. The Lasso - The Sound of Lasso
29. Billy Woods - Hiding Places
28. Hildur Gudnadottir - Chernobyl
27. Debby Friday - Bitchpunk EP
26. Dave - Psychodrama

25. AhMerAhSu - Incandescent Body EP
24. Fran & Flora - Unfurl
23. Solange - When I Get Home
22. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
21. Hejira - Thread of Gold
20. Rustin Man - Drift Code
19. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestral Recall
18. Angel Olson - All Mirrors
17. Pete Sayke - Gold & Rue
16. Rapsody - Eve

15. Lafawndah - Ancestor Boy
14. Tony Njoku - Your Psyche’s Rainbow Panorama
13. Floating Points - Crush
12. Earthgang - Mirrorland
11. Sequoyah Murray - Before You Begin
10. Sampa The Great - The Return
09. Boogie - Everything’s For Sale
08. Tyler, The Creator - Igor
07. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
06. Quelle Chris - Guns

05. Corey King - A Loveless Sunken Sun
04. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
03. Tawiah - Starts Again
02. Ed Balloon - The Dubs
01. Little Simz - Grey Area

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/musicophilia_2019-top-75_list.jpg

Also made a 'best of 2019' mix:

Various – ‘The Ice‘
Best of 2019

Part I

01 [0:00:00] Floating Points – “Falaise” (‘Crush’ 2019)
02 [0:03:35] Ed Balloon – “Dreamworld” (‘The Dubs’ 2019)
03 [0:07:40] Tony Njoku – “Confident” (‘Your Psyche’s Rainbow Panorama’ 2019)
04 [0:10:25] Hildur Gudnadottir – “Hours Before” (‘Chernobyl’ 2019)
05 [0:12:45] Corey King – “Size of the World” (‘A Loveless Sunken Sun’ 2019)
06 [0:18:45] Earthgang – “Swivel” (‘Mirrorland’ 2019)
07 [0:21:55] Sampa the Great – “Dare To Fly” (‘The Return’ 2019)
08 [0:26:15] Pete Sayke – “Heirs” (‘Gold & Rue’ 2019)

Part II

09 [0:30:45] Dave – “Black” (‘Psychodrama’ 2019)
10 [0:34:30] Solange – “I’m A Witness” (‘When I Get Home’ 2019)
11 [0:36:15] Rapsody – “Maya” (‘Eve’ 2019)
12 [0:39:55] Christian Scott – “Forevergirl” (‘Ancestral Recall’ 2019)
13 [0:45:20] K.Raydio – “Destiny” (‘2:22’ EP 2019)
14 [0:49:30] TheSymphny – “Back To You” (‘Moments’ EP 2019)
15 [0:52:55] Boogie – “Skydive II” (‘Everything’s For Sale’ 2019)
16 [0:55:45] Michael Kiwanuka – “Final Days” (‘Kiwanuka’ 2019)

Part III

17 [0:59:55] Hejira – “Ribs” (‘Thread of Gold’ 2019)
18 [1:05:30] Lafawndah – “Joseph” (‘Ancestor Boy’ 2019)
19 [1:09:30] Angel Olsen – “All Mirrors” (‘All Mirrors’ 2019)
20 [1:14:05] Sequoyah Murray – “Sublime” (‘Before You Begin’ 2019)
21 [1:18:30] Tyler, The Creator – “Earfquake” (‘Igor’ 2019)
22 [1:21:40] Tawiah – “Don’t Hold Your Breath” (‘Starts Again’ 2019)
23 [1:25:20] Fran & Flora – “Departures” (‘Unfurl’ 2019)
24 [1:29:50] Billy Woods – “A Day In A Week In A Year” (‘Hiding Places’ 2019)

Part IV

25 [1:34:50] Little Simz – “Selfish” (‘Grey Area’ 2019)
26 [1:38:35] Quelle Chris – “WYRM” (‘Guns’ 2019)
27 [1:41:25] These New Puritans – “Anti-Gravity” (‘Inside the Rose’ 2019)
28 [1:45:45] Husmo HAV – “East In North” (‘Ripples’ 2019)
29 [1:50:00] The Lasso – “Oscilations” (‘The Sound of Lasso’ 2019)
30 [1:53:45] FKA Twigs – “Sad Day” (‘Magdalene’ 2019)
31 [1:57:55] AhMerAhSu – “Little Bird” (‘Incandescent Body’ EP 2019)

[Total Time: 2:01:30]

Download/stream here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/best-of-2019-the-ice/

Drift Record Shop: Top 100 Albums of 2019
Totnes,Devon. England

Written and compiled by The Drift Record Shop
https://driftrecords.com/

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https://deluxenewspaper.com/deluxe-19

summary via: Acclaimed Music
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100 Tycho - Weather
99 Wovoka Gentle - Start Clanging Cymbals
98 Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm
97 Flamingods - Levitation
96 Qasim Naqvi - Teenages
95 Julia Kent - Temporal
94 Unloved - Heartbreak
93 sir Was - Holding On To a Dream
92 Clark - Kiri Variations
91 Bodega - Shiny New Model
90 Black Peaches - Fire in the Hole
89 Matthew Shaw - Among the Never Setting Stars
88 FEWS - Into Red
87 Nivhek - After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house
86 Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
85 Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
84 The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe
83 Richard Norris - Abstractions Vol. 1 & 2
82 Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light
81 Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold
80 Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
79 Maps - Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss.?
78 Drugdealer - Raw Honey
77 Whitney - Forever Turned Around
76 (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar
75 Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
74 Portico Quartet - Memory Streams
73 Metronomy - Metronomy Forever?
72 SASAMI - SASAMI
71 You Tell Me - You Tell Me
70 Steve Gunn - The Unseen in Between
69 Julia Jacklin - Crushing
68 William Tyler - Goes West
67 Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
66 Ezra Collective - You Can't Steal My Joy
65 Here Lies Man - No Ground to Walk Upon
64 Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
63 Flying Lotus - Flamagra
62 Penelope Isles - Until the Tide Creeps In
61 Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied
60 Bibio - Ribbons
59 Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
58 Leafcutter John - Yes! Come Parade With Us
57 Jesca Hoop - STONECHILD
56 Tim Hecker - Anoyo
55 Keel Her - With Kindness
54 Sarathy Korwar - More Arriving
53 Carwyn Ellis & Rio18 - JOIA!
52 Daniel O'Sullivan - Folly
51 Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury
50 Pottery - No. 1
49 Laurence Pike - Holy Spring
48 Richard Dawson - 2020
47 White Denim - Side Effects
46 Pom Poko - Birthday
45 Sarah Davachi - Pale Bloom
44 Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
43 Gia Margaret - There's Always Glimmer
42 Kim Gordon - No Home Record
41 Pozi - PZ1
40 Little Simz - Grey Area
39 Girl Band - The Talkies
38 Holly Herndon - Proto
37 Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
36 Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
35 Floating Points - Crush
34 Lee "Scratch" Perry - Rainford
33 Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
32 Alexander Tucker - The Guild of The Asbestos Weaver
31 Theon Cross - Fyah
30 Shannon Lay - August
29 Mega Bog - Dolphine
28 Aldous Harding - Designer
27 Rozi Plain - What a Boost
26 Sun O))) - Life Metal
25 Pip Blom - Boat
24 Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
23 Daniel Thorne - Lines of Sight
22 Thom Yorke - ANIMA
21 Nérija - Blume
20 Gruff Rhys - Pang!
19 Trash Kit - Horizon
18 Modern Nature - How to Live
17 Cate le Bon - Reward
16 Oh Sees - Face Stabber
15 School of Language - 45
14 Cool Maritime - Sharing Waves
13 Ibibio Sound Machine - Doko Mien
12 Will Burns and Hannah Peel - Chalk Hill Blue
11 Kevin Morby - Oh My God
10 The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
09 Ty Segall - First Taste
08 black midi - Schlagenheim
07 Wand - Laughing Matter
06 Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
05 Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
04 Big Thief - U.F.O.F./Two Hands
03 Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
02 W.H. Lung - Incidental Music
01 Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

Bleep Top 10 Albums of the Year

https://bleep.com/Bleeps-Top-10-Albums-of-the-Year-2019

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hmmm, couldn't really get into a few of those (treanor, klein, twigs) but the caterina barbieri is the best thing i've heard from her (wasn't much of a fan before tbh). that nathan micay is good fun too!

spent the afternoon trawling through the piccadilly list and now i mostly hate music btw

really enjoying your mix, Soundslike !

I have been going through the rolling threads and after listening to half of the uk grime etc thread I already love 2019. Not looking forward to exploring the disinterested synth tracks which seem to do well in the hip polls, but sure there will be a few gems amongst the meh

will reserve a spot at the weekend to listen to the musicophilia mix, cheers!

the 2018 musicophilia list had loads of really excellent just-under-radar stuff to dig into and 2019 list looks likewise - thanks for putting the hours in, Soundslike!

Monorail Music
Albums: https://www.monorailmusic.com//news.html?cmsnews_method=view&cmsnews_id=eddc707c-120a-11ea-8305-1298a0617e72
Compilations/reissues: https://www.monorailmusic.com//news.html?cmsnews_method=view&cmsnews_id=0dc7dd99-11d2-11ea-8305-1298a0617e72

the 2018 musicophilia list had loads of really excellent just-under-radar stuff to dig into and 2019 list looks likewise - thanks for putting the hours in, Soundslike!

― technopolis, Friday, November 29, 2019 bookmarkflaglink

I second this. Discovered some great hip hop last year through that list.

the 2018 musicophilia list had loads of really excellent just-under-radar stuff to dig into and 2019 list looks likewise - thanks for putting the hours in, Soundslike!

― technopolis, Friday, November 29, 2019

I second this. Discovered some great hip hop last year through that list.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, November 29, 2019 5:04 PM

Glad to be of service! So much excellent music being made these last few years, has me more excited about contemporary music than I've been in the 27 years I've been a certifiable music geek.

will reserve a spot at the weekend to listen to the musicophilia mix, cheers!

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, November 28, 2019 7:31 PM

I'm really happy with it as a mix, and as representative of a major facet of what I love about new music these days. Not trying to be comprehensive, but more make a case for a particular feeling and sound-world.

The rian treanor album is fire

The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2019

Top 20
1: Loraine James - For You and I
2: Richard Dawson - 2020
3: Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
4: William Doyle - Your Wilderness Revisited
5: These New Puritans - Inside The Rose
6: Vanishing Twin - The Age Of Immunology
7: Black Midi - Schlagenheim
8: Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
9: Brìghde Chaimbeul - The Reeling
10: Sunn O))) - Life Metal
11: Karenn - Grapefruit Regret
12: Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
13: Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive
14: Harrga - Héroïques Animaux De La Misère
15: The Utopia Strong - The Utopia Strong
16: Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury
17: DEAFKIDS - Metaprogramação
18: Barker - Utility
19: Bill Callahan - Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest
20: Kim Gordon - No Home Record

the caterina barbieri album is p frontloaded but at its best it hits a certain video game music–adjacent sweet spot that, as also noted re the recent cfcf album, is v appealing (& easily recommendable)

Was completely unaware of William Doyle until today. This album is terrific.

Guardian songs list: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/02/the-20-best-songs-of-2019-tracks

20 Fat White Family – Feet
19 Lizzo – Tempo (feat Missy Elliott)
18 Mark Ronson – Late Night Feelings (feat Lykke Li)
17 Normani – Motivation
16 AJ Tracey – Ladbroke Grove
15 Lana Del Rey – The Greatest
14 Stormzy – Vossi Bop
13 Dave – Black
12 Big Thief – Not
11 Rosalía and J Balvin – Con Altura
10 Georgia – About Work the Dancefloor
9 Clairo – Bags
8 Richard Dawson – Jogging
7 Vampire Weekend – Harmony Hall
6 FKA twigs – Cellophane
5 Lizzo – Juice
4 Billie Eilish – Bad Guy
3 Charli XCX – Gone (feat Christine and the Queens)
2 Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen
1 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (remix feat Billy Ray Cyrus)

Uproxx: https://uproxx.com/music/best-albums-2019-ranked/

Loving the Caterina Barbieri album.

I enjoyed it as well but its placement is baffling to me.

In broad terms yes, though I’m not sure that any of the albums quietus list after it are better aside from the These New Puritans album.

Regardless, it's one of the better lists I've seen so far, if only because it features a solid amount of intriguing-sounding records I've yet to hear.

i can't take anyone serious who reps for rinse like Fat White Family - make them go away pls!

haven't been into William Doyle's previous album as East India Youth but this new one is sounding good. the quietus always seem to rep for the same artists over and over, many of which i don't understand the appeal of at all but this time i'm glad it was worthwhile

xp
agree. I'm either missing something or they are legit terrible

quietus have gotten 'looks intriguing but is in fact quite narrow and dull' to an absolute tee tbh

Not wrong, alas.

relative lack of Purple Mountains from many lists is shitty and goes to show how much impact touring/general press activity has on an album's placement - or lack of it - in these lists. David's death so close to the album seemed to have made its impact a lot lower than i would have expected. personally i think its probably one of the best albums about depression and suicide ever written - and almost certainly his best album.

that said I'll probably check out most of the ones I've not heard yet

purple mountains was literally top of a list about twenty posts ago! a lot of albums get released nowadays and it isn't possible to put them all in one list. that said, i feel similarly about weyes blood who is very much alive and currently touring, and certainly not in every list either, so idk really - maybe it really just is a matter of the listmakers having different tastes to us, or just not hearing enough records

yep i spotted that one - was nice to see you - but i've also seen it totally absent from a bunch of lists

'nice to see' that should be, don't know where the 'you' came from

Oh shit, I've been meaning to check out that Stephen Mallinder album!

purple mountains is #3 over at the ringer

https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/12/3/20992882/best-albums-2019-lana-del-rey-megan-thee-stallion-purple-mountains-billie-eilish

RIP DAVID

weird that The Ringer would have precisely two people collaborating on a list rather than just a single critic or everyone relevant on staff. I wonder if Zoladz will do a list, I'm sure hers would be better.

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/155745-purple-mountains-purple-mountains/critic-lists/

that's not linking correctly, but PM is in the top 25 of 9 lists so far.

i'm pleased to be proven wrong, must have been I saw a few WRONG AND BAD lists in a row and extrapolated.

Yeah. Weyes Blood is doing very well too

yep. our sympathies should be with the brilliant records nobody is talking about at all, which obviously vary from fan to fan

^ljago knows what's up.

(imaljo)

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/best-albums-2019/

woo great grandpa love

Hadn't seen this thread w those visuals, wow. curm mentioned Poncho Sanchez Trane trib, which made my Uproxx ballot and is well-covered here: http://downbeat.com/news/detail/poncho-sanchez-provides-percussive-punctuation. I do wish he'd included great gateway "Afro Blue," but it's probably already on his Mongo Santamaria.

https://www.quartzcity.net/2020/01/01/listening-to-2019/

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795888693/the-2019-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll

NPR Jazz Critics poll

Plus separate lists for Latin Jazz, Jazz vocals and more

The only predictable winner was in Latin Jazz: Miguel Zenon's Sonero, the alto saxophonist's fifth victory in this category. But Eric Dolphy's Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions upset a "new" John Coltrane album in Reissue/Discovery. Relative newcomer Jazzmeia Horn's Love and Liberation won in Vocal. The winner in Debut is annually a newcomer, of course, and in 2019 this was Joel Ross, for KingMaker. But the biggest surprises of all were in the voting for Album of the Year, with an unprecedented five women in the Top 10, all for the first time, and Kris Davis finishing on top, for her self-released Diatom Ribbons.

Kris Davis winning surprised me, and I voted in that poll. As I said on Twitter, it's a good album (I interviewed her about it in September), but it doesn't strike me as "critics' poll jazz."

https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/cover-story/article/21110119/20th-annual-country-music-critics-poll-the-results?fbclid=IwAR0oPWndhVjodGIHt-4tizD7OUO8szYPMsrdHw2FOItde-Wh61I45ltC5P4

Tanya Tucker is #1.
2. Highwomen
3. Miranda Lambert

A friend and I did a Skype on our favourite songs of the decade. The analysis--"I love this song...it sounds great!"--is first-rate.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_one.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_two.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_three.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_four.mp3

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/sw_etc/2010_2019_dellio_woods_bonus_beats.mp3

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2019.cfm

Blogger Daddy B Nice best of 2019 Southern soul broken down in various categories including ballads, etc

Critic Robert Christgau list:

Dean's List 2019
The 76 best albums of the last year (or so) Posted.

1Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Darkroom/Interscope)
2Todd Snider: Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 (Aimless)
3Chance the Rapper: The Big Day (self-released)
4Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains (Drag City)
5Carsie Blanton: Buck Up (Carsie Blanton)
6Kim Gordon: No Home Record (Matador)
7Danny Brown: uknowwhatimsayin? (Warp)
8Sonic Youth: Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 (Matador)
9Kalie Shorr: Open Book (Kalie Shorr)
10
The Paranoid Style: A Goddamn ....

Oh, here’s a link for the Christgau list.

He’s got old-school singer Salif Keita at 12. I like that album too.

https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/deans-list-2019

Oh hey, Austim Music Poll still open 'til midnight tonight! Many more categories than expected. I know some artists in each, but lots more are prob mainly known to Austinians etc. Maybe I'll vote.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/vote-austin-music-awards/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=daily&utm_campaign=musicpoll&utm_source=DAILY+NEWS&utm_campaign=850afe03f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_28_08_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ae90959245-850afe03f2-60022363&mc_cid=850afe03f2&mc_eid=d26b96d866

Jayce Clayton /DJ Rupture ‘S top 10 is in December 2019 Artforum magazine and behind a paywall online