Best Music of 2019

[DownIsTheNewUp]

Thanks to the people who recommended The Comet Is Coming.

Heads up to those same people-- Kate Tempest (who has a cameo on Blood of the Past) is worth checking out. Her album Let Them Eat Choas from a couple year back is one of the weirdest, headiest "hip-hop" albums of the decade. Her lyrics are always on point, she tells vivid stories and the production on the album is super unique.

 

[Biscuit]

Thanks to the people who recommended The Comet Is Coming.

Heads up to those same people-- Kate Tempest (who has a cameo on Blood of the Past) is worth checking out. Her album Let Them Eat Choas from a couple year back is one of the weirdest, headiest "hip-hop" albums of the decade. Her lyrics are always on point, she tells vivid stories and the production on the album is super unique.

I remember Kate! I didn't realize she is on the CIC album.

 

[Biscuit]

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I don't know what it is but this year for me hasn't been great so far. I think the only two albums I've really enjoyed are Malibu Ken and Barry. At this point I doubt I'll even be able to put together a list at the end of the year.

Several people around my area dig that Tobacco and Aesop Malibu Ken record.

 

[Bohnjaggs]

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Several people around my area dig that Tobacco and Aesop Malibu Ken record.

I've been playing a few songs from it in our JQBX room. It's

 

[Nee Lewman]

Here’s my top ten as of right now:
1. Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari
2. Durand Jones & the Indications - American Love Call
3. Little Simz - Grey Area
4. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
5. Daniel Norgren - Wooh Dang
6. Kelly Finnigan - The Tales People Tell
7. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies
8. Mandolin Orange - Tides of a Teardrop
9. The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
10. Cochemea - All My Relations

 

[Joyless Division]

The new Cate Le Bon is spinning right now and is pretty effing great.

 

[gaporter]

I am so behind on new releases

 

[McGlam]

The new Cate Le Bon is spinning right now and is pretty effing great.

Can’t stop spinning this all week

 

[Carden]

Eluvium's new album is releasing in my timezone in an hour

Pianoworks, by Eluvium

25 track album

eluvium.bandcamp.com

Am I going crazy or is the piano slightly out of tune on this album

 

[Believer101]

Just went thru these lists and now I know beyond a doubt nothing good has released so far in 2019 with the except of maybe simz.
What a bum year! I hope some big drops happen before the end.
2018 had a ton of great drops.

 

[whatwhatsaywhat]

Skepta sounds goodly based on first listen

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

have you actually listened to anything on any of our lists or did you just skim through one song from a few albums on a few of our lists

He's strictly a hip-hop head. And other than Billy Woods and Little Simz, it's been a bad year for hip-hop. Granted those albums are fucking great so...

 

[Believer101]

if you don't actively look for new hip hop music.

NEW? what is this scary word. haha ill check it out later tonight

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

Unless you genuinely dislike everything I've posted, you have no ground to say that "hip hop has been bad this year" if you don't actively look for new hip hop music.

Hey now. I definitely do actively look.

A lot of the year's more acclaimed albums have done nothing for me. Included in that grouping would be Dave: Pyschodrama, Slothai: Nothing Great About Britain (only one play-through though so I'll need to re-examine), Lizzo (which was great in places and too poppy in others), the disappointing Schoolboy Q and Loyle Carner's. Meanwhile, I don't need to listen to 2 Chain's album to know it ain't for me despite the love it's receiving.

Rico Nasty's LP, Chris Clark's Never Hated and Malibu Ken are all solid, but haven't hooked me to the point where I'm sure I won't just stop listening to them when the year turn's ala releases like Cormega: Mega Philosophy and String Theory: String Theory from earlier in the decade.

Thanks for reminding me to check out that Injury Reserve album though. Digging it a lot. It's dense but strikes me as a grower that will probably sit alongside Woods and Simz as albums that I wind up purchasing on wax.

Btw, you should PM me your username on Redacted.

 

[Woob_woob]

 

[Woob_woob]

Also how can you say it's a bad year for rap when Chris Crack puts out a new album like every month?

Also I feel like Yugen Blakrok needs a mention right about now. Anima Mysterium is fantastic.

Anima Mysterium, by Yugen Blakrok

12 track album

yugenblakrok.bandcamp.com

Finally Wet Dirt by Crimeapple is one of the best albums of the year.

Hip hop is having a good year for me.

 

[RowBearToe]

Here’s my top ten as of right now:
1. Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari
2. Durand Jones & the Indications - American Love Call
3. Little Simz - Grey Area
4. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
5. Daniel Norgren - Wooh Dang
6. Kelly Finnigan - The Tales People Tell
7. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies
8. Mandolin Orange - Tides of a Teardrop
9. The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
10. Cochemea - All My Relations

I absolutely love Durand, but the more I listen to that Kelly Finnigan album, the more I think it's going to pass ALC for me.

 

[spilledleche]

New Sleater-Kinney single produced by St. Vincent is

 

[gaporter]

Unless you genuinely dislike everything I've posted, you have no ground to say that "hip hop has been bad this year" if you don't actively look for new hip hop music.

God damn, @sorcerer, I could hear the mic drop all the way from here.

 

[Dark Star Boogie]

Probably missing something, but here’s my tentative list, in alphabetical order.

Budos Band - V
Crypt Trip - Haze County
Durand Jones & the Indications - American Love Call
Flying Lotus - Flamagra
Kevin Morby - Oh My God
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing For Fishies
Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!
Little Simz - GREY Area
The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
Theon Cross - Fiyah
Tyler, The Creator - Igor (this would be 11)