The 2019 end of the year music lists thread

https://variety.com/2020/music/reviews/best-country-albums-2019-year-and-decade-1203454923/

http://citypages.com/music/the-75-best-albums-of-2019/

keith harris in a SHOW OF DOMINANCE

was struggling with City Pages Keith Harris link

http://citypages.com/music/the-75-best-albums-of-2019/566638161

1. Sir Babygirl
2. Julia Jacklin
3. Billie Eilish
4. Adia Victoria
5. 100 Gecs
6. Hama
7. DaBaby
8. Dawn
9. Big Thief
10. Kim Gordon
11. Danny Brown
12. Lana Del Rey
13. The Comet is Coming
14. Kokoko!
15. Mannequin Pussy

great personal list, great writing, keith delivers again

oh sorry curmudgeon, sic's lurking presence strikes fear into the hearts of all men

I like Keith’s love for both current pop and indie as well as old-school style afropop Like Salif Keita and punk era vets like Kim Gordon & Wire / Bandcamp faves like 75 Dollar Bill.

https://www.b9.com.br/119034/os-10-melhores-albuns-nacionais-de-2019/

Brazil top 10 with Emacita , Elza Soares and others

https://latinosunidosonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/el-condado-de-la-salsa-y-jazz-latino-the-best-latin-jazz-cds-of-2019-by-nelson-rodriguez/

A 2019 Latin Jazz top 30 album list at bottom after writer tells history of the genre

Interesting - Eddie Palmieri's name appears nowhere in that article. Personal bias on the writer's part? 'Cause it's kinda hard to tell the story of Latin jazz without him.

Good point. Weird that so many names are mentioned, but not his.

My end of year compilation:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mkWcqt5wQM6yNKnomWqco

In all honesty, I've had one of those years where I've felt like I've not heard enough and bought music by "bands I know I like" in a way that ... isn't that good.

Voting is open in our very own ILM poll: ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

As well as in our annual metal poll: 2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 7th of February)

Paste Shoegaze 2019
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/12/best-shoegaze-albums-2019.html

Ended up doing 4 all-2019 mixes:

'The Ice' (Best of 2019)
Download/stream: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/best-of-2019-the-ice/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_the-ice_best-of-2019_cover-front.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_the-ice_best-of-2019_cover-rear-3.jpg?w=1024

'Like Tears in Rain' - A Tribute to Blade Runner's Los Angeles, November, 2019
Download/stream: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/blade-runner-like-tears/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/musicophilia_00_various_-_like-tears-in-rain_2019_cover.jpg

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/musicophilia_00_various_-_like-tears-in-rain_2019_cover-back.jpg?w=1024

'Old Souls Part VII'
Download/stream: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/old-souls-pt-vii/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_old-souls-part-vii_2019_cover-a.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/musicophilia_00_various_-_old-souls-part-vii_2019_cover-b.jpg?w=1024

'Old Souls Part VIII - London'
Download/stream: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/old-souls-pt-8-london/

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/musicophilia_00_various_-_old-souls-part-viii-london_2019_cover-a.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/musicophilia_00_various_-_old-souls-part-viii-london_2019_cover-b-1.jpg?w=1024

All in all, continuing the streak of really excellent years through the latter half of the 2010s, my favorite new-music period since the 1980s. Did a Top 75 albums, and have since discovered another 10+ that would easily have made the list--including Sault's two LPs that would probably both make the top 5 if I'd heard them in time.

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/musicophilia_2019-top-75_list.jpg?w=1024

Nice graphic design.

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