It’s that time of year! Lots of stuff to love in 2019. Rather than ruminate on how to distill this into ten releases, then somehow organize them like usual, I decided to break it all up by genre, then just make it alphabetical.
I’ve put all of these records (and more) into a 2019 playlist:
I’d love to know what new stuff you’ve discovered this year, so send ‘em if you got ‘em!
Top 20 (Rock/Pop)
Caroline Polachek, Pang
Chelsea Wolfe, Birth of Violence
DIIV, Deceiver
Drab Majesty, Modern Mirror
Fontaines D.C., Dogrel
Hatchie, Keepsake
Honeyblood, In Plain Sight
Issues, Beautiful Oblivion
Karyyn, The Quanta Series
Liam Gallagher, Why Me? Why Not.
The Milk Carton Kids, The Only Ones
The Murder Capital, When I Have Fears
Nilfufer Yanya, Miss Universe
The Specials, Encore
Spelling, Mazy Fly
Stella Donnelly, Beware of the Dogs
The Twilight Sad, It Won’t Be Like This All the Time
Vanishing Twin, The Age of Immunology
Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising
White Lies, FIVE
Top 20 (Metal/Metal-ish)
Alcest, Spiritual Instinct
Candlemass, The Door to Doom
Darkthrone, Old Star
Dead To A Dying World, Elegy
Demon Hunter, Peace
Demon Hunter, War
Dreadnought, Emergence
False, Portent
Hermodr, Forest Sky
Idle Hands, Mana
Misbyrming, Algleymi
Mizmor, Cairn
Morne, Rust
Obsequiae, The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Opeth, In Cauda Venenum
Overkill, The Wings of War
Spirit Adrift, Divided by Darkness
Swallow The Sun, When a Shadow is Forced Into the Light
Torche, Admission
Vastum, Official Purge
Top 5 Hip-Hop
Big K.R.I.T., K.R.I.T. IZ HERE
Czarface, Czarface Meets Ghostface
The Game, Born 2 Rap
Gang Starr, One of the Best Yet
Slaine, One Day
Top 5 (Dungeon Synth)
Darksol, Darksol III
Diplodocus, Slow and Heavy
Monastery, The Garden of Abandon
Ornatorpet, Vid Himinsenda
Vaelastransz, Medivh’s Tower
Top 10 Reissues, Live, Covers, Etc.
Cradle of Filth, Cruelty & The Beast - Re-Mistressed
Hank Williams, The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings
Machine Head, Burn My Eyes (Live in the Studio)
Mike McCready, The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Morrissey, California Son
Nas, The Lost Tapes 2
Nekromantix, 3 Decades of Darkle - Live
Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York (25th Anniversary - Live)
Tribulation, Alive & Dead at Sodra Teatern
White Lies, To Lose My Life… (10th Anniversary Edition)
Top 5 Music Videos
Black Veil Brides, “The Vengeance”
Falling In Reverse, “Popular Monster”
Morrissey, “Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets”
Sleeping With Sirens, “How it Feels to Be Lost”
A big 2019 thank you to everyone who has joined up with the new subscription model. Why am I asking a dollar-ish per week for the emails? I’m so glad you asked.