The Board Dot's Best Releases of 2019

[Timbo]

And here we are folks. We close out the decade with this list. This is the 4th year end album list that I've ran, having taken it over from fishkingpies who last did it in 2015. As usual, here's the first 50 in list format with pointage.





100. The Hu - The Gereg (61)
99. Oh Sees - Face Stabber (62)
98. Alex Lahey - The Best of Luck Club (65)
97. Cate Le Bon – Reward (66)
96. ((Tie)) Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (67)
96. ((Tie)) Jay Som- Anak Ko (67)
94. ((Tie)) Full of Hell - Weeping Choir (68)
94. ((Tie)) Taylor Swift - Lover (68)
94. ((Tie)) Torche - Admission (68)
91. BROCKHAMPTON - Ginger (71)

90. Brittany Howard - Jaime (72)
89. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze (73)
88. ((Tie)) Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror (75)
88. ((Tie)) Whitney - Forever Turned Around (75)
86. ((Tie)) Batushka - Hospodi (76)
86. ((Tie)) Jade Bird - Jade Bird (76)
84. Cass McCombs- Tip of the Sphere (79)
83. ((Tie)) Oozing Wound - High Anxiety (81)
83. ((Tie)) Sleater Kinney - The Center Won't Hold (81)
81. ((Tie)) Crumb - Jinx (84)
81. ((Tie)) Ex Hex - It's Real (84)
81. ((Tie)) Maxo Kream- Brandon Banks (84)

78. Tool - Fear Inoculum (86)
77. American Football - American Football (LP3) (92)
76. ((Tie)) JS Ondara - Tales of America (93)
76. ((Tie)) Sheer Mag - A Distant Call (93)
74. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated (94)
73. Ian Noe- Between the Country (96)
72. Earl Sweatshirt - Feet of Clay EP (104)
71. Mike Krol - Power Chords (109)

70. J Balvin and Bad Bunny - Oasis (110)
69. Chemical Brothers - No Geography (120)
68. Caroline Polachek - Pang (123)
67. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (124)
66. (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar (126)
65. Bad Bunny - X 100pre (128)
64. Seer - Vol. 6 (130)
63. Mikal Cronin - Seeker (131)
62. ((Tie)) Stef Chura - Midnight (132)
62. ((Tie)) Toro y Moi - Outer Peace (132)

60. Kevin Morby - Oh My God (137)
59. ((Tie)) Empath - Active Listening: Night on Earth (138)
59. ((Tie)) Hand Habits- Placeholder (138)
57. Sudan Archives- Athena (139)
56. Denzel Curry- Zuu (140)
55. ((Tie)) Lingua Ignota - Caligula (142)
55. ((Tie)) The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger (142)
53. Avey Tare - Cows on Hourglass Pond (143)
52. 100 gecs - 1000 gecs (144)
51. Pronoun- I’ll Show Your Stronger (145)

[neader]

100 gecs at 52 in before the inevitable riot

[Xamnam]

Jan 3, 2020 10:38:18 GMT -6 Timbo said:

100. The Hu - The Gereg (61)

[dij22]

I am dumb. How do points work?

[sthubbins]

Jan 3, 2020 10:38:18 GMT -6 Timbo said:

And here we are folks. We close out the decade with this list. This is the 4th year end album list that I've ran, having taken it over from fishkingpies who last did it in 2015. As usual, here's the first 50 in list format with pointage.


66. (Sandy) Alex G - House of Sugar (126)

kind of surprising? i don't really know anything anymore though

[Xamnam]

Jan 3, 2020 10:44:40 GMT -6 dij22 said:

I am dumb. How do points work?

If it's straight totals, #1 on a list is worth 50 points, #50 is worth 1 point. 

[andrewvb]

a lot of things i would have expected in the top 50 in that bottom 50. it seemed like avey tare's record had enough mentions to place. i guess there must be a lot of consensus top albums though?

[neader]

Seems like it. None of the ones I listed on my list of 21 were included so far.

edit: except ginger

[mookie]

Jan 3, 2020 10:38:55 GMT -6 neader said:

100 gecs at 52 in before the inevitable riot

I told you guys I was going to hate this list

[Timbo]

50. Hot Chip - A Bath Full of Ecstasy (146)



49. Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (147)



48. Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love (148)


*this was the only Jenny Hval meme that made sense and it's a reference to her last album so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mookie]

And Lingua didn't even make the top 50. Come on people

[Tweet]

Jan 3, 2020 10:46:38 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

a lot of things i would have expected in the top 50 in that bottom 50. it seemed like avey tare's record had enough mentions to place. i guess there must be a lot of consensus top albums though?

High chance we have the only list I find remotely interesting this year not named Vice

[teekoh]

We've managed to eliminate enough people that wretched and I can finally get some dang metal albums on a list.

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2020 10:49:14 GMT -6 teekoh said:

We've managed to eliminate enough people that wretched and I can finally get some dang metal albums on a list.

lol i was gonna say Teekoh and i clearly dominated that 51-100 portion this year and i love it 

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2020 10:48:04 GMT -6 mookie said:

And Lingua didn't even make the top 50. Come on people

you get used to it, i promise  

[Deleted]

oh wow i wasnt expecting a Wrestlemania 13 meme on this list but here we are. i approve

[Timbo]

47. PUP - Morbid Stuff (150)



46. The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (153)



45. Oso Oso - Basking in the Glow (156)

[Timbo]

44. Wilco - Ode to Joy (158)



43. The Mountain Goats - In League with Dragons (160)



42. Stella Donnelly - Beware of the Dogs (166)



41. Fontaines DC - Dogrel (167)

[mookie]

I don't even remember seeing Stella Donnely on a list

[Xamnam]

Jan 3, 2020 10:58:01 GMT -6 mookie said:

I don't even remember seeing Stella Donnely on a list

TAKE. ME. OFF. BLOCK. 

[Xamnam]

Respectable, if still disappointing, placement for the best tMG album in years.

[dij22]

Jan 3, 2020 10:58:01 GMT -6 mookie said:

I don't even remember seeing Stella Donnely on a list

It was my #7 album.  Loved it

[Deleted]

...there was a new Wilco album??

i call shenanigans.

[wanny]

Dam, PUP needs to be higher

[goodson]

5 of my top 10 didn't crack the top 50?

LOL

[Timbo]

40. Panda Bear - Buoys (170)



39. Ariana Grande - thank u, next (175)



38. Holly Herndon - PROTO (176)


*not really a meme, this was a backdrop from one of her shows.

[Timbo]

37. Charli XCX - Charli (184)



36. ((Tie)) Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin (194)



36. ((Tie)) Priests - The Seduction of Kansas (194)

[Timbo]

34. Tyler Childers - Country Squire (195)



33. Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between (196)



32. Jenny Lewis - On The Line (197)



31. Mannequin Pussy - Patience (206)

[andrewvb]

how are some of these albums in the top 50 lol

[teekoh]

Jan 3, 2020 11:16:48 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

how are some of these albums in the top 50 lol

F'real. I'm mostly being reminded of all the shit that I didn't get to.