2019

Altin Gün- Gece (album of the year for me, fun af dutch band that refashions anatolian rhythms into psych rock jewels, süpürgesi yonçadan is the banger to begin with and their first album should be consumed in short measure)
Ana Roxanne – ~~~
Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
Arp – Zebra
Automatic – Signal
Boy Harsher – Careful
Helado Negro – This is How You Smile
Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love (Ashes to Ashes, An Accident)
Jesca Hoop – Stonechild
Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (I’m Not Where You Are, All Night)
Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky – Droneflower (Estranged, For the Sun)
Nikola Cruz – Siku (keywords include Ecuador, indigenous studies, electronic)
Wand – Laughing Matter (the whole album may not be ***** but Evening Star is definitely a must listen)
Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (cry to Mirror Forever, Something to Believe) 

Matmos – Plastic Anniversary (Matador)
Battles – Juice B Crypts (Warp)
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy – Whities 023 (Whities)
Föllakzoid – I (Sacred Bones)
Headboggle – Polyphonic Demo (Spectrum Spools)
Jane Weaver – Loops in a Secret Society (Fire)
Laurence Pike – Holy Spring (Leaf)
Norm Chambers – Air Example (Love All Day)
Sofie Birch – Island Alchemy (Constellation Tatus)
Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile (Impulse!)
Pavel Milyakov ‎– La Maison De La Mort (Berceuse Heroique)
Snowdrops – Manta Ray (Gizeh)
Marisa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky – Droneflower (Sacred Bones)
Saba Alizadeh ‎– Scattered Memories (Karlrecords)
bvdub ‎– Explosions In Slow Motion (n5MD)
Rakta ‎– Falha Comum (La Vida Es Un Mus)
Bill Baird ‎– Owl (Arthur King Presents) (Dangerbird)
Aesop Rock And Tobacco ‎– Malibu Ken (Rhymesayers)

The Future Sound of London – “Yage 2019” (fsoldigital.com)
Floating Point – “Crush” (Ninja Tune)
John Shima – “The Lonely Machine” (FireScope)
Yagya – “Stormur” (A Strange Isolated Place)
John Beltran – “Hallo Androiden” (Blue Arts Music)
Lady Midnight – “Death Before Mourning” (Sound Vérité Records)
Cherushii & Maria Minerva – “Cherushii & Maria Minerva” (100% Silk)
Move D – “Building Bridges”
Sven Kossler & Si Matthews – “A Constant State of Flow” (Fantasy Enhancing)
Gold Fields – “Dalawa” (Haven Sounds Inc.)
Eddy Senay – “Step by Step” (Modern Harmonics)
Keb’ Mo’ – “Oklahoma” (Concord)
L’Impératrice – Matahari (Microqlima)
Sarah Beth Nelson – “Weird Glow” (Burger)
Com Truise – “Persuasion System” (Ghostly International)
DJ Yoda – “Homecoming” (Lewis)
Westerman – “Ark” (Blue Flowers Music)
The Cash Box Kings – “Hail to the Kings” (Alligator)
King Tubby & Riley All-Stars – “Concrete Jungle Dub” (Dub Store Records)
Maps & Diagrams – “Get Lost” (Time Released Sound)
Sequoyah Murray – “Before You Begin” (Thrill Jockey)
Scott Hirsch – “Lost Time Behind the Moon” (Scissor Tail)
Rough Sounds – “Roots VIbrations” (s/r)
HELM – “Chemical Flowers” (Pan)
The Alan Lorber Orchestra – In the Lotus Palace” (Modern Harmonics)
Carly Rae Jepsen – “Dedicated” (Schoolboy)
Caravan Palace – “Chronologic” (Le Plan)
Lady Lark – “Permission” (s/r)
Angelique Kidjo – “Celia” (Verve)
The Black Keys – Let’s Rock” (Nonesuch Records Inc.)
Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed – “Son of the Drum Song” (Chaos)
Loscil – “Equivalents” (Kranky)
Belle & Sebastian – “Days of the Bagnold Summer ” (Matador)
Holly Herndon – “Proto” (4AD)
VA – “Night City Life” (Spacetalk Records)
Kassa Overall – “Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz” (s/r)
Mono/Poly – “Monotomic” (Hit+Run)
Lee Scratch Perry – “Rootz Reggae Dub” (Megawave)
Moon Duo – “Stars Are the Light” (Sacred Bones)
Steve Hauschildt – “Nonlin” (Ghostly International)
VA – “No Other Love: Midwest Godspel 1965-1976” (Tompkins Square)
Mathieu Vanasse – “Archipel” (Innova)
A Winged Victory For the Sullen – “The Undivided Five” (Ninja Tune)
Guerilla Toss – “Twisted Crystal” (DFA)
Edna Vasquez & Pink Martini – “Besame Mucho” (Heinz Records)
Burial – “Tunes 2011-2019” (Hyperdub)
VA – “Fela Kuti & the African 70’s Nigeria 70: Funky Lagos” (Strut)
The Good Ones – “Rwanda, You Should Be Loved” (Anti-)
Plaid – “Polymer” (Warp)
RX-101 – “Dopamine” (Suction Records)
Barker – Utility (Ostgut Ton)
Dan Armstrong – “A Long Time Coming” (Reflection Records)
ASC – “The Waves” (Silent Season)
Wanderwelle & Bandhagens Musikforening – “Victory Over the Sun” (Semantica Records)
VA – “001005” (Intellitronic Bubble)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – “Ghosteen” (Ghosteen)
Loscil – “Lifelike” (Frond)
FKA Twigs – “Magdalene” (Young Turks)
Jane Weaver – “Loops in the Secret Society” (Fire Records)
Comit – “Remote Viewing” (A Strange Isolated Place)
Rod Modell – “Captagon” (Trésor)
Octo Octa – “Resonant Body” (T4T LUV NRG)
Cignol – “Syzygy” (Lunar Disko Records)

Amma Ateria – Vague Pure Affection (Bimodal Press)
Auto Da Fe – Hither and Thon (S/R)
Ka Baird – Respires (RVNG Intl)
Kristine Barrett – Cantadora (S/R)
Dire Wolves – Grow Toward the Light (Beyond Beyond Beyond)
Hide – Hell Is Here (Dais)
Land of Kush – Sand Enigma (Constellation)
Maurice Louca – Elephantine (Northern Spy)
Mdou Moctar – Ilana: the Creator (Sahel Sound)
Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia)
Pharmakon – Devour (Sacred Bones)
Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis (Constellation)
Saariselka – The Ground Our Sky (Temporary Residence)
Skyminds – S/T – (Auasca)
Sophia Shen -The Unveiling (S/R)
SPF – Paul’s Mccartney (Digital Regress)
Thomas Carnacki – Museum of Lost Species (Alethiometer)
Blaine Todd – Every Road Is a Good Road (Debacle)
Village of Spaces – Shaped By Place (Feeding Tube)
Emily Jane White – Immanent Fire (Talitres) 

Dakh Daughters – Air (S/R)
Dido – Still On My Mind (BMG)
Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? (Interscope)
Flight of the Conchords – Live in London (Sub Pop)
Jesca Hoop – Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
Matmos – Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey)
Alina Pash – “Pintea:Gory” & “Pintea:Misto” (Hitwonder)
Roksonaki – Dala (S/R)
Third Coast Percussion – Perpetulum (Orange Mountain)
Various Artists – Co-Op Original Cast Album (Lakeshore

Dominique Fils-Aimé- – Stay Tuned! (Ensoul)
Van Morrison – Three Chords and the Truth (Exile)
Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (Pi)
Hildur Gudnadottir – Chernobyl (Music from the Original HBO Series) (Deutsche Grammophon)
Vagabon – Vagabon (Nonesuch)
Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love (Sacred Bones)
Paul Barnes and Brooklyn Rider – Philip Glass: Annunciation (Orange Mountain Music)
Tyler, The Creator – Igor (Columbia)
FKA Twigs – MAGDALENE (Young Turks)
Madonna – Madame X (Maverick)
Danish String Quartet – Prism II (ECM)
The Japanese House – Good at Falling (Interscope)
Betty Who – Betty (Betty Who)
Brittany Howard – Jaime (Columbia)
Rapsody – Eve (Jamla)
Amendola vs. Blades – Everybody Wins (Royal Potato Family)
Andras Schiff – Schubert: Sonatas & Impromptus (ECM)
Rammstein – Rammstein (Universal)
Guillermo Klein – Los Guachos Cristal (Sunnyside)
Santana featuring Buika – Africa Speaks (Columbia)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana (Keep Cool/RCA)
Sudan Archives – Athena (Stones Throw)
Steve Lehman Trio With Craig Taborn – The People I Love (Pi)
Tool – Fear Inoculum (Tool Dissectional)
iLe – Almadura (Sony Music Latin)
Gerald Cleaver and Violet Hour – Live at Firehouse 12 (Sunnyside)
Little Simz – Grey Area (Age 101)
Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – The Undivided – Five (Not On Label)
A-Wa – Bayti Fi Rasi (S-Curve)
Joel Ross – Kingmaker (Blue Note)
Michael Kiwanuka, ‘ – Kiwanuka (Polydor)
Marta Sánchez Quintet – El Rayo de Luz (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons (Republic)
Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (Polydor / Interscope)
Black Midi – Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)
100 gecs – 1000 gecs (Dog Show)
Attaca Quartet – Caroline Shaw: Orange (Nonesuch / New Amsterdam)
Dax Pierson – Live in Oakland (Ratskin)
Our Native Daughters – Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
Angelique Kidjo – Celia (Universal)
French Horn Rebellion – Graduation Compilation (YouTooCanWoo)
A-Wa – Bayti Fi Rasi (S-Curve)
Lea Bertucci – Resonant Field (NNA Tapes)
Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile (RVNG Intl.)
Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)
Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars (Columbia)
Sault – 5 (Forever Living Originals)
3TEETH – Metawar (Century Media)