Best Albums of 2019: Discussion Thread

[pigs]

Pigs' Best Albums of 2019:

1. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
   
2. Deerhunter - Why Haven't Everything Already Disappeared?
3. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
4. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
5. Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - De Facto
6. Swervedriver - Future  Ruins
7. Beirut - Gallipoli
8. James Blake - Assume Form
9. The Declines - The Imperial
10. Little People - Landloper
11. Married Man - Hard Bargain
12. Joshua Burnside - Wear Bluebells In Your Hat If You're Going That Way
13. Angelo De Augustine - Tomb
    
14. Sungazer - Sungazer, Vol. 2
15. Chrome Sparks - Be On Fire
    
16. Pedro The Lion - Phoenix
17. Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken
    
    

Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
CHAI - PUNK
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Blaqk Audio - Only Things We Love
Desperate Journalist - In Search of the Miraculous
Adia Victoria - Silences
Candlemass - The Door To Doom
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
Gary Clark Jr. - This Land
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 1 & 2
Modeselektor - Who Else
X - Los Angeles
Murray A. Lightburn - Hear Me Out
Overkill - The Wings Of War
And The Kids - When This Life Is Over
Smif-n-Wessun - The All
Tierra Whack - Only Child
Thom Yorke - Suspiria - Unreleased Material
Markers - Heaven in the Dark Earth
Avenade - You'd Think So but You'd Be Wrong
Lily & Madeleine - Canterbury Girls
Good Fuck - Good Fuck
HEALTH - HATE YOU
Emilie Kahn - Outro
R. Stevie Moore - Afterlife
Simon Scott - Soundings
Celestial Trax - Serpent Power
Martin Frawley - Undone At 31
Julian Lage - Love Hurts
Mykele Deville - Maintain
Half Japanese - Invicible
The Glaoming - 3
The National Lights - Whom the Sea Will Keep
Minors - Abject Bodies
Dead Witches - The Final Exorcism
Good Moaning - The Roost
Aldous Harding - The Barrel
John Mayer - I Guess I Just Feel Like
D.L. Blando - Mad World
Tik Tu - Ulitakis
Anthony Moore - Arithmetic in The Dark
Boulevard Depo - Stay Ugly
The Twilight Sad - It Won/T Be Like This All the Time
Blood Red Shoes - Get Tragic
Steve Mason - About The Light
DAWN - new breed
Spielbergs - This Is Not the End
William Tyler - Goes West
Boogie - Everythings For Sale
Sneaks - Highway Hypnosis
Sarah Louise - Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars
Rustin Man - Drift Code
Tim Presley & White Fence - I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk
Croatian Amor - Isa
Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
Girlpool - What Chaos Is Imaginary
TOY - Happy in the Hollow
Pavo Pavo - Mystery Hour

[Tweet]

Oh god

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im quitting the board again.

[Deleted]

Bumping this before someone creates a new one.

In no specific order, here's what I've heard so far and liked.

Deerhunter (reviewing)
Steve Gunn
Lost Under Heaven (reviewing)
Swervedriver (reviewing)
Beirut
Jessica Pratt
Cherry Glazerr
Girlpool (reviewing)


I have but have not listened to: 

Cass McCombs (reviewing)

Only 1 listen so undetermined

HEALTH

[teekoh]

So far I've listened to the Serengeti and Krallice EPs and both were very good. The 'geti EP is a bit goofy at times, but there's some really catchy shit on there.

[sthubbins]

completely forgot about HEALTH

[andrewvb]

really can't wait to hear the whole steve gunn record.

[Deleted]

Krallice is the only thing i've listened to so far.

Health isn't out yet right? just a leak?

[Deleted]

Hasn't leaked as far as I know. I have an advanced copy.

[Deleted]

oooooooooh fancy.

aight cool just checking

[pigs]

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - De Facto

This is a very good album that won't make anybody's top 25 by the end of the year

[teekoh]

Dec 14, 2018 14:40:44 GMT -6 pigs said:

Pigs' Best Albums of 2019:

Angelo De Augustine - Tomb

I've liked this one a decent amount. It's on Asthmatic Kitty and sounds like it should be, but there are some really catchy moments in there. 

[pigs]

Jan 15, 2019 9:56:36 GMT -6 teekoh said:

Dec 14, 2018 14:40:44 GMT -6 pigs said:

Pigs' Best Albums of 2019:

Angelo De Augustine - Tomb

I've liked this one a decent amount. It's on Asthmatic Kitty and sounds like it should be, but there are some really catchy moments in there. 

I'm usually all about AK releases, but this one bored me.  I'll hit it again later.

[teekoh]

It took three (3) listens for me to not think it was as boring as I initially thought. Still not life-changing, but I think it's a very solid effort.

[rango420]

Ireally like a few of the songs on that album and was surprised by the tepid response

[teekoh]

Agreed. There are a few dull spots, but the highlights are really good.

[teekoh]

IT BEGINS

1. Solange - When I Get Home
2. Yugen Blakrok - Anima Mysterium
3. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
4. Seer - Vol. 6
5. Better Oblivion Community Center - S/T
6. Adia Victoria - Silences
7. Malibu Ken - S/T
8. Duendita - Direct Line To My Creator
9. Dreezy - Big Dreezy
10. Juan Wauters - La onda de Juan Pablo
11. MONO - Nowhere, Now Here
12. Dawn Richard - New Breed
    
13. Toro y Moi - Outer Peace
14. Czarface - Czarface Meets Ghostface
15. Kehlani - While We Wait
16. Moy'noq - Dreaming in a Dead Language
17. Judiciary - Surface Noise
    
18. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?
    
19. Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
20. William Tyler - Goes West
21. Angelo De Augustine - Tomb
    
22. Rotting Christ - Heretics
23. Downfall of Gaia - Ethic of Radical Finitude
24. Buke & Gase - Scholars
25. Mike Krol - Power Chords
26. Say Anything - Oliver Appropriate
27. Soilwork - Verkligheten
28. Pulchra Morte - Divina Autem Et Aniles
29. Pedro The Lion - Phoenix
30. Festerday - Iihtallan
31. James Blake - Assume Form
32. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - De Facto
33. Ossuarium - Living Tomb
    
34. Tallies - S/T
35. IAMDDB - Swervvvvv.5
36. Maestus - Deliquesce
37. Boogie - Everythings For Sale
38. Maggie Rogers - Heard it in a Past Life
39. Future - The WIZRD
40. Tim Presley - I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk
41. LUH - Love Hates What You Become
42. Lillake - Memory Lies
43. Nedarb - Amity

EPs

1. Krallice - Wolf
2. Dua Saleh - Nur
3. Serengeti - Kaleidoscope
4. Qari - Operation Hennessy
5. Torso - Build and Break

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1. Tallies - s/t

Maybe I should treat this like the movie list and then I'll actually have a year end list to share.

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Get ready for tomorrow.

[mookie]

Jan 17, 2019 16:12:12 GMT -6 @tima said:

Get ready for tomorrow.

LUH is one of my most anticipated albums of the year, so I am ready

[thebosma]

1. James Blake- Assume Form
2. Maggie Rogers- Heard it in a Past Life
3. Sharon Van Etten- Remind Me Tomorrow
4. Tallies- S/T
5. Angelo De Augustine- Tomb
6. Panda Bear- Buoys
7. Juliana Hatfield- Weird
8. Toro y Moi- Outer Peace


I've liked most of what I've heard so far, though LUH is gonna need another listen from me to be sure

[andrewvb]

Jan 17, 2019 16:08:55 GMT -6 scoots said:

1. Tallies - s/t

Maybe I should treat this like the movie list and then I'll actually have a year end list to share.

i tried doing a running aoty list one time and it kind of ruined the experience for me bc all year i would try to be ranking albums that sound nothing alike against each other and coming up with likes and dislikes that ultimately served no useful purpose. i wouldn't recommend it.

just throwing something together at the end of the year after i've already had the listening experience with each album seemed better.

[Deleted]

True. It might be good for me to at least keep a running list of albums so I can remember what I listened to, but you're right it's probably not a good idea to rank them right off the bat.

[Deleted]

I'm going to continue my trend of aiming for 15-20 favorites per month, and then a quarterly list.

[rango420]

I should make a list of albums that i want to listen to vs have listened to cuz i listened to like 20 new albums last year

[thebosma]

Jan 17, 2019 16:28:00 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

Jan 17, 2019 16:08:55 GMT -6 scoots said:

1. Tallies - s/t

Maybe I should treat this like the movie list and then I'll actually have a year end list to share.

i tried doing a running aoty list one time and it kind of ruined the experience for me bc all year i would try to be ranking albums that sound nothing alike against each other and coming up with likes and dislikes that ultimately served no useful purpose. i wouldn't recommend it.

just throwing something together at the end of the year after i've already had the listening experience with each album seemed better.

I kept mine in the order that I listened to them and then did rankings at the end of the year, which is probably what I should do here again.  It made the experience enjoyable

[rango420]

Albums I'd Like to listen to 2019:
The Delines
James Blake
Pedro the Lion
Steve Gunn
Sharon Van Etten
Deerhunter
Steel Woods
Greensky Bluegrass
Randy Houser


Albums I have Listened to:
Angelo De Augustine

[thebosma]

Good thing is that most of those come out tomorrow rango, so you've got the whole year!

[rango420]

there are also like 12 notable country albums coming out tomorrow but this northern boy has a hard time knowing which ones are gonna be good so i gotta wait a week

[thebosma]

I don't think I've ever listened to Greensky Bluegrass on record, just saw them before Phil Lesh last summer. It was a lot of fun, they had one of the guys from Moe. come out and jam with them and then another guy who I couldn't identify came out and jammed with them and an old deadhead offered me a joint that came out of his extremely sweaty crotch on the hottest day of the year, at a fest where you don't have to hide your drugs (I declined because yuck).