Megasoup’s 25 Favorite Ambient & Synth Albums from 2019
Amma Ateria – Vague Pure Affection (Bimodal Press)
Andrew Pekler – Sounds From Phantom Islands (Faitiche)
Anthene – Weightless (Home Normal)
ASC – The Waves (Silent Season)
Ashan – Transfigurations (Inner Islands)
Benoît Pioulard – Sylva (Morr Music)
Channelers – For Being (Not Not Fun)
Daniel Guillén – Inner Vision (Muzan Editions)
Deradoorian – Disembodied Improvisations Vol. 1 (S/R)
Emily A. Sprague – Water Memory / Mount Vision (RVNG)
Günter Schlienz – Lissajous (Cosmic Winnetou)
HRNS – Naomi (Warm Winters Ltd.)
Inner Travels – Nature Spirit (Inner Islands)
Kenji Kihara – Dawn (Eilean)
Malibu – One Life (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan – New Rain Duets (Three Lobed)
N. Chambers – Air Example (Love All Day)
Saariselka – The Ground Our Sky (Temporary Residence)
Soda Lite – Vale & Stone (Inner Islands)
Sofie Birch – Planetes (Seil)
Softest – In A Way (Inner Islands)
Sunhiilow – Whispers Of A Dream Wind (S/R)
SUSS – High Line (Northern Spy)
Valotihkuu – Spring and All (S/R)
Young Marco – Bahasa (Island Of The Gods)
Megasoup’s 25 Favorite Non-Ambient Albums from 2019
Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy – Mam Yinne Wa (Philophon)
Amon Tobin – Long Stories (Ninja Tune)
Anne Muller – Heliopause (Erased Tapes)
Ariwo – Quasi (MANANA)
Aukai – Reminiscence (aukaimusic)
Cochemea – All My Relations (Daptone)
Dax Pierson – Live in Oakland (Ratskin)
Dengue Dengue Dengue – Zenit & Nadir (Enchufada)
Felicia Atkinson – The Flower And The Vessel (Shelter Press)
Golden Ivy – Kläppen (Malmö Inre)
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Mandatory Reality (Eremite)
Komodo Kolektif – Sundada (Invisible, Inc)
Matmos – Plastic Anniversary (Thrill Jockey)
Nicola Cruz – Siku (ZZK)
Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie, Sam Shalabi – Oglon Day (ThirtyThree ThirtyThree)
Popp – Laya (Squama)
Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (Drag City)
Robag Wruhme – Venq Tolep (Pampa)
Saba Alizadeh – Scattered Memories (Karlrecords)
Shafiq Husayn – The Loop (Nature Sounds)
Sunny Balm – Eucalypt (Sacred Summits)
Thomas Carnacki – The Museum of Lost Species (Alethiometer)
Topdown Dialectic – Vol. 2 (Peak Oil)
Vanishing Twin – The Age Of Immunology (Fire)
Vieo Abiungo – The Dregs (Lost Tribe Sound)
15 More Artists Whose 2019 Albums Almost Cracked My Top 25:
Aldous Harding, Altın Gün, Breathe Blow Burn, Canalon de Timbiqi, Cate Le Bon, Choosey & Exile, Claude Fontaine, Donato Dozzy, Jamila Woods, Kassel Jaeger, Kilchhofer Anklin, Meitei, Sarah Davachi, Sault, Segue.
15 Excellent New EPs from 2019
Ancestral Voices – Samhain (The Fifth Kingdom)
BXP – Islands (Random Numbers)
Brainwaltzera – Epi-Log (Film)
Danny Paul Grody – Sunrise, Looking East (Longform Editions)
Lau Nau – Amphipoda (Longform Editions)
Lo Kindre – Chlorophytum (12th Isle)
Lo Kindre – Private Worlds (ByrdOut)
Plants Army Revolver – Yguana (Avian)
Red Axes – Trips #2: In Vietnam (K7)
Spacetime Continuum / Scanner / Ross 154 / Leo Anibaldi – DE:10.07 (De:tuned)
Sunda Arc – Flicker (Gondwana)
Toki Fuko – Spring Ray (Silent Season)
Utopia Cloak – Movement (Forklang)
VVD WNDWS – Blue Landscape (Gold Dagger)
Wolf Müller Meets The Nile Project – Wolf Müller Meets The Nile Project (Nouvelle Ambiance)
15 Great Reissues / Archival Releases from 2019
Chelique Sarabia – Revolución Electrónica En Música Venezolana (Pharaway Sounds)
Daniel Schmidt & The Berkeley Gamelan – Abies Firma (Recital Program)
Elite Beat – Selected Rhythms (Research)
Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren – Tea Notes (Ekster)
Josiah Steinbrick – Meeting of Waters (Hands In The Dark)
Los Destellos – Sicodélicos (Vampi Soul)
Michael Stearns – Planetary Unfolding (Emotional Rescue)
Minoru Muraoka – Bamboo (Mr Bongo)
Mort Garson – Mother Earth’s Plantasia (Sacred Bones)
Paul Spheeris / Chris Voudouris – Passage (Emotional Rescue / Mountains in the Sea)
Quiet Village – Silent Movie (Studio !K7)
Various Artists – Kankyō Ongaku : Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 – 1990 (Light In The Attic)
Various Artists – Sad About The Times (Anthology Recordings)
x.y.r. – Robinson Crusoe (Mixed Up)
Yutaka Hirose – Nova + 4 (WRWTFWW Records)
