Sex 14’s Top 50 Albums of 2019 (in order or ‘essentialism’)

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)