Albums of 2019

[LetMeSleep]

There’s a good 20-30 minute playlist I’m sure. The whole lot is very smart. And I felt the same with the last Tool and also Nick Cave.

[bodysnatcher]

ITS STILL GOING AND HAS A FEW MORE TRACKS.

Where’s that Tool meme with The Rock.

Exact same feeling I had

[Rangi Guy]

ITS STILL GOING AND HAS A FEW MORE TRACKS.

Where’s that Tool meme with The Rock.

Exact same feeling I had

Sounds like too much of a slog for me

[Jorge]

I like a couple of songs, but I generally don't find Lana Del Rey's music that interesting or compelling, and this album doesn't change that.

[epilogue]

Man this Lana Del Ray album goes on a bit.

I mean it's no Nick Cave but yeah.

[bodysnatcher]

I like a couple of songs, but I generally don't find Lana Del Rey's music that interesting or compelling, and this album doesn't change that.

#MeToo

[LetMeSleep]

Man this Lana Del Ray album goes on a bit.

I mean it's no Nick Cave but yeah.

I did include NC in my comment.

[Higgs]

I have always been interested in checking out new albums that interest me and have actively done so for the past few years. I've just had a count through my "2019" albums folder and I have 128 albums in there. Far out.

I have a few still to listen to but have listened to most. I really should keep an excel spreadsheet going or something.

[epilogue]

Man this Lana Del Ray album goes on a bit.

I mean it's no Nick Cave but yeah.

I did include NC in my comment.

I was agreeing with your comment.

[Brett]

This came out earlier in the year, but I just recently found out about it. Min is a live composition for electronics and synthesizer by Sam Shalabi. He normally works with oud, guitar, patchwork compositions, and large ensembles, so this more minimal approach is relatively new for him.

[surfndestroy]

The albums that I still listen to regularly;

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs
Tedeschi Trucks Band - High & Mighty
Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY (by far my favorite release of the year)
The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

Discoveries of the year, Marcus King Band and Ocean Alley.

[Kevin Davis]

Whatever criticisms of the Lana Del Rey album I've heard, and some are probably perfectly valid, I just can't get over how pleasing it is to my ears. Some of the downright prettiest melodies I've heard in a long time, and not "pretty" in the damning-with-faint-praise sense -- I mean stuff that feels, to me, really and truly elite from a compositional standpoint. I can't bring myself to care to analyze it beyond that. It's just beautiful music.

There have been a few other albums that have stuck with me this year (Weyes Blood, Springsteen, Angel Olsen), but mostly I've spent the year listening to a lot of old jazz, even more than usual. That's where the mystery is for me these days

[liebzz]

The albums that I still listen to regularly;

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Signs
Tedeschi Trucks Band - High & Mighty
Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY (by far my favorite release of the year)
The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

Discoveries of the year, Marcus King Band and Ocean Alley.

I discovered Marcus King this year too! Got to see him twice, including a show where he played only material around his first album. They are a killer band and I am looking forward to El Dorado in January.

[Brett]

Somehow I've forgotten to post about my favorite find of 2019, Kiefer Shackelford, who performs under the name Kiefer. He makes a jazzy kind of instrumental funk/hip-hop driven by piano and bass synthesizer. He put out two EPs this year, Bridges and Superbloom.

Bridges


Superbloom

[pnjguy]

Michael Kiwanuka's new one "Kiwanuka" is a really tough one to beat. Sturgill is right up there though.

[kreng]

top tier, in alphabetic order:

Bill Calahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Bill MacKay - Fountain Fire
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm
Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
Glen Hansard - The Wild Willing
Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏 (幽霊リズム)
Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die II
John Zorn - Nove Cantici Per Francesco D'Assisi
Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance
Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
Matmos - Plastic Anniversary
Not Waving/Mark Lanegan - Downdwelling
Pharmakon - Devour
Pile - Green And Grey
Steven R. Smith - A Sketchbook Of Endings
Teeth Of the Sea - WRAITH
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
The Quiet Temple - The Quiet Temple
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Uboa - The Origin Of My Depression
Ustad Saami - God is not a terrorist
Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit!


Also good, in alphabetic order:

Abul Mogard - And We Are Passing Through Silently
Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah - Al Hadaoui
Bersarin Quertett - Methoden und Maschinen
federico mosconi - dark not dark
Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir
ILL CONSIDERED - V
Jesca Hoop - STONECHILD
Jozef van wissem & Jim Jarmusch - an attempt to draw aside the veil
Julia Kent - Temporal
Julia Reidy - Brace, Brace
Kel Asouf - Black Tenere
Kirin J Callinan - Return To Center
LINGUA IGNOTA - CALIGULA
Lighting Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Lustmord - First Reformed
Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier - Corpse Flower
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Pan-American - A Son
Purple Mountains - S/T
Richard Hawley - Further
Richard Youngs - Dissident
Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold
SPAZA - SPAZA
Steve Moore - Beloved Exile
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
The Dead C - Rare Ravers
The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
Tinariwen - Amadjar
Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope
Ulaan Passerine - New Evening
VA- Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990
Xylouris White - The Sisypheans

[kreng]

Forgot about the national, that would be in the second tier too

[Jorge]

What was a good loud, aggressive rock album from this year? Preferably not metal

[Jorge]

I guess the Black Midi album sort of counts, but I'm looking for something more visceral, less cerebral

[tragabigzanda]