Mannequin Pussy – Patience (Epitaph)
Girl Band – Going Norway (Rough Trade)
PUP – Morbid Stuff (Little Dipper)
Fontaines DC – Dogrel (Partisan)
Black Belt Eagle Scout – At the Party With My Brown Friends (Saddle Creek)
Show Me the Body – Dog Whistle (Loma Vista)
Hikes – Mahal Kita (Community)
Heavy Lungs – Straight to CD (Balley)
Tacocat – This Mess is a Place (Sub Pop)
Black Midi – Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)
Empath – Active Listening: Night on Earth (Fat Possum)
Orville Peck – Pony (Sub Pop)
On Drugs – Uckhole Futah (Postmark)
The Highmarts – あなたが欲しいの(I Want You Bad) (Radio Underground)
Locals Only! (get out of here tourists)
Sarchasm – Beach Blanket Bummer Pop (Asian Man Records)
Grumpster – Underwhelmed (Asian Man Records)
Deseos Primitivos – Existir (S/R)
Dirty Boyz – Junk Dog (Lavasocks)
Slumped – Slumped (Lavasocks)
Wayfairy – See You There (Rerelease) (S/R)
The Breeze – Top Albums of 2019
Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (Sub Pop Records)
(Sandy) Alex G – House of Sugar (Domino Recordings)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana (RCA Records)
Jpegmafia – All My Heroes Are Cornballs (EQT Recordings)
Little Simz – Grey Area (AWAL Recordings)
Jai Paul – Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) (XL Recordings)
Thom Yorke – ANIMA (XL Recordings)
Big Thief – U.F.O.F. (4AD)
Vegyn – Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds (PLZ Make it Ruins)
Erika de Casier – Essentials (Independent Jeep Music)
Moodymann – Sinner: KDJ-48 (Moodymann)
Baltra – Ted (Baltra)
Galcher Lustwerk – Information (Ghostly International)
Arbeit Macht Nicht Frei
a couple armfuls of tracks vibrating beneath the wheels,
from shortest to longest, a non-exhaustive list of highlights (mostly) from 2019:
0:47 Negativland – “Either Or” – True False (Seeland) RELEASE DATE: 10.25.19
1:04 Surfbort – “New World Hoarder” – You Don’t Exist (Modern Sky) – RELEASE DATE: 5.24.19
1:54 The Briefs – “Underground Dopes” – Platinum Rats (Poor and Weird Inc.) RELEASE DATE:
4.19.19
1:56 Guided by Voices – “Cold Cold Hands” – Zeppelin Over China (GBV Inc.) RELEASE DATE:
2.1.19
1:57 Charger – “All Kings Must Die” – Charger (Pirates Press) RELEASE DATE: 5.10.19
2:27 Dean Hurley – “Dissension” – Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond (Sacred
Bones) RELEASE DATE: 7.12.19
2:15 Ezra Furman – “Rated R Crusaders” – Twelve Nudes (Bella Union) RELEASE DATE:
8.30.19
2:32 Bleu Nuit – “La Meme Discours” – Le Jardin Des Memoires (Michel) RELEASE DATE:
4.12.19
2:34 Subhumans “Follow the Leader” – Crisis.Point (Pirates Press) RELEASE DATE: 9.13.19
2:40 Olivia Neutron-John “Beguine” – Olivia Neutron-John (Sister Polygon) RELEASE DATE:
5.10.19
2:45 Oceans of the Moon – “Blowin’ My Mind” – Oceans of the Moon (Castle Face) RELEASE
DATE: 7.19.19
3:02 Automatic – “Signal” – Signal (Stones Throw) RELEASE DATE: 9.27.19
3:18 Marbled Eye – “Laughing Sound” – Leisure (Digital Regress) RELEASE DATE: 9.12.18
3:28 Autogramm – “Peter Pan” – What R U Waiting 4? (Nevado) RELEASE DATE: 9.21.18
3:35 Giuda – “Space Go” – E.V.A. (Rise Above) RELEASE DATE: 3.23.19
3:37 Nun – “Immersion III” – The Dome (HoZac) RELEASE DATE: 11.2.18
3.39 Mikey Young – “You Feelin’ Me?” – You Feelin’ Me (Castle Face) RELEASE DATE: 8.30.19
(1st cd/vinyl re-issue of cassette-only release from 8.23.17)
3:40 Eddy Current Suppression Ring – “Human Race” – All in Good Time (Castle Face)
RELEASE DATE: 12.13.19
3:49 Zamilska – “Hospital” – Uncovered (Untuned) RELEASE DATE: 5.10.19
3:57 Metz – “Automat” – Automat (Sub Pop) RELEASE DATE: 7.12.19
3:58 Meat Puppets – “Warranty” – Dusty Notes (Megaforce) RELEASE DATE: 3.8.19
3:59 Prettiest Eyes – “It Costs to be Austere” – Vol. 3 (Castle Face) RELEASE DATE: 6.24.19
4:12 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – “Mars for the Rich” – Infest the Rats’ Nest (Flightless)
RELEASE DATE: 8.16.19
4:17 Cate Le Bon – “Mother’s Mother’s Magazines” – Reward (Mexican Summer) RELEASE
DATE: 5.24.19
4:22 Amyl and the Sniffers – “Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)” – Amyl and the Sniffers (Rough
Trade) RELEASE DATE: 5.24.19
4:30 Bush Tetras – “There is a Hum” – There is a Hum (Third Man) – RELEASE DATE: 7.26.19
4:34 Neutrals – “Swiss” – Kebab Disco (Emotional Response) RELEASE DATE: 6.7.19
4:45 Moon Duo – “The World and the Sun” – Stars Are the Light (Sacred Bones) RELEASE
DATE: 9.27.19
5:08 Inhalt – “Commerce (instrumental)” – Commerce (Dark Entries) RELEASE DATE: 6.25.18
5:22 Entracte Twist – “Les Esses” – Entracte Twist (Requiem Pour Un Twister) RELEASE DATE:
1.18.19
6:00 Swans – “What is This?” – leaving meaning. (Young God) RELEASE DATE: 10.25.19
8:15 Chester Hawkins – “91044” – K516156/91044 (Intangible Arts) RELEASE DATE: 6.16.19
12:58 Föllakzoid – “IIII” – I (Sacred Bones) RELEASE DATE: 8.1.19
16:35 Bvdub – “Disappearing in the Sun” – Explosions in Slow Motion (n5MD) RELEASE DATE:
3.23.19
19:36 Thomas Carnacki – “Canessa Fantastique” – The Museum of Lost Species (Alethiometer)
RELEASE DATE: 5.24.19
55:41 Thurston Moore – “Galaxies” – Spirit Counsel (The Daydream Library Series) RELEASE
DATE: 9.20.19
Your Mom’s Favorite Albums of 2019
A$AP Ferg – Floor Seats (RCA)
Aldous Harding – Designer (4AD)
All Your Sisters – Trust Ruins (The Flenser)
Arrange – Blood Dust (arranged recordings)
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Hiding Places (Backwoodz Studioz)
Black Marble – Bigger Than Life (Sacred Bones)
Boy Harsher – Careful (Nude Club)
Chris Cohen – Chris Cohen (Captured Tracks)
Danny Brown – uknowhatimsayin¿ (Warp)
Devendra Banhart – Ma (Nonesuch)
FKA Twigs – Magdalene (Young Turks)
Freddie Gibbs – Bandana (Keep Cool/RCA)
Girl Band – The Talkies (Rough Trade)
Have A Nice LIfe – Sea of Worry (The Flenser)
Kim Gordon – No Home Record (Matador)
Lana del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor)
Little Simz – Grey Area (Age 101)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (Ghosteen Ltd.)
Nickelus F – The Goldmine Volume 1 (The Late Bloomer Club)
Nickelus F – The Goldmine Volume 2 (The Late Bloomer Club)
Orville Peck – Pony (Sub Pop)
Pan Amsterdam – Straight To Tape (Def Presse)
Pharmakon – Devour (Sacred Bones)
Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City)
Rob Sonic – Defriender (Skypimps)
Robyn – Honey (Interscope)
Ruby Haunt – The Middle of Nowhere (S/R)
Sadistik – Haunted Gardens (Clockwork Grey)
Serengeti – Dennehy (geti enterprises)
Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
TR/ST – The Destroyer 1 (Grouch)
TR/ST – The Destroyer 2 (Grouch)
Tyler, The Creator – Igor (Columbia)
Vivian Girls – Memory (Polyvinyl)
VR Sex – Human Traffic Jam (dais)
Wreck and Reference – Absolute Still Life (The Flenser)
Your Mom’s Favorite Songs of 2019
Blood Orange – “Dark & Handsome” – Angel’s Pulse (Domino)
Chromatics – “The Sound of Silence” – Closer To Grey (Italians Do It Better)
clipping. – “Nothing Is Safe” – There Existed An Addiction To Blood (Sub Pop)
Iggy Pop – “Love’s Missing” – Free (Loma Vista/Concord)
Julia Jacklin – “Don’t Know How To Keep Loving You” – Crushing (Polyvinyl)
Lizzo & Missy Elliot – “Tempo” – Cuz I Love You (Atlantic)
Missy Elliot – “Throw It Back” – Iconology (Atlantic)
Open Mike Eagle – “Woke As Me” – The New Negroes (Season 1 Soundtrack) (Comedy Central)
Priests – “I’m Clean” – The Seduction of Kansas (Sister Polygon)
Sasami – “Turned Out I Was Everyone” – Sasami (Domino)
sir Was – “Deployed featuring Little Dragon)” – Single (Memphis Industries)
Thee Oh Sees – “The Daily Heavy” – Facestabber (Castle Face)
Twin Shadow – “Crushed” – Crushed Single (Cheree Cheree)
Uniform & The Body – “Penance” – Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back (Sacred Bones)
yan yan’s real nice albums of 2019 round-up
100 gecs – 1000 gecs (Dog Show Records)
Boy Scouts – Free Company (Anti)
Cate le Bon – Reward (Kemado Records)
Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated (Schoolboy)
Corridor – Junior (Sub Pop)
Dorian Electra – Flamboyant (s/r)
glass beach – the first glass beach album (Run For Cover)
Glitterer – Looking Through The Shades (s/r)
Greet Death – New Hell (Deathwish Inc.)
Julia Jacklin – Crushing (Polyvinyl)
Mannequin Pussy – Patience (Epitaph)
NYAI – HAO (s/r)
Pendant – Through a Coil (Tiny Engines)
Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow (Triple Crown)
Woolworm – Awe (Mint Records)
The only true false release of 2019:
Negativland – True False (Seeland)