BEST OF 2019/ TOP 50 ++

BEST OF 2019

1.  Chris Forsyth  / ALL TIME PRESENT (No Quarter)
 

    2.   Mdou Moctar / ILANA (THE CREATOR) (Sahel Sounds)

    3.   75 Dollar Bill / I WAS REAL (Thin Wrist)

        4.  Sunwatchers / ILLEGAL MOVES (Trouble In Mind)

      5. Fire! Orchestra / ARRIVAL (Rune Grammofon)

6. Low Life / DOWNER EDN (Goner)

 
7. Oiseaux-Tempête / FROM SOMEWHERE INVISIBLE (Sub Rosa)

  8.     Major Stars / ROOTS OF CONFUSION SEEDS OF JOY (Drag City)

         9.     Bill Orcutt / ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW

       10.  Kendra Amalie / INTUITION (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)

11.  Writhing Squares / OUT OF THE ETHER (Trouble in Mind)

12.  Kid Millions & Sarah Bernstein / BROKEN FALL (577)

13.  Maurice Louca / ELEPHANTINE (Northern Spy)

14.  Sir Richard Bishop & Ed Yazijian / s/t (Unrock)

15.  Swervedriver / FUTURE RUINS (Dangerbird)

16.  Fox Millions Duo / Biting Through (Infinite Limbs)

17.  Tropical Fuck Storm / BRAINDROPS (Joyful Noise)

18.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / GHOSTEEN (Ghosteen Ltd. / Bad Seed Ltd)

19.  Eugene S. Robinson & Philippe Petit / CHAPEL IN THE PINES (Lumberton Trading Company)

20.  Merzbow + Vanity Productions / COASTAL EROSION (iDEAL)

21.  Nivhek / AFTER ITS OWN DEATH / WALKING IN A SPIRAL TOWARDS THE HOUSE (Yellowelectric)

22.  Letha Rodman Melchior MARE AUSTRALE (Feeding Tube)

23.  Jaimie Branch / FLY OR DIE II: BIRD DOGS OF PARADISE (International Anthem)

24.  Public Interest / BETWEEN (Erste Theke Tontraeger)

25.  The Messthetics / ANTHROPOCOSMIC NEST (Dischord)

26.  Purple Mountains / PURPLE MOUNTAINS (Drag City)

27.  The Gotobeds / DEBT BEGINS AT 30 (Sub Pop)

28.  ISS / ALLES 3^rd GUT (Sorry State)

29.  Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Balazs Pandi / BECOME THE DISCOVERED, NOT THE DISCOVERER (RareNoise)

30.  Carl Stone / HIMALAYA / BAROO (Unseen Worlds)

31.  Liturgy / H.A.Q.Q. (YLYLCYN)

32.  Fred Lane and His Disheveled Monkeybiters / ICEPICK TO THE MOON (Feeding Tube)

33.  Heavy Metal / LP 4 (Static Shock // Static Age)

34.  Eric Copeland / TROGG MODAL, VOL. 2 (dfa)

35.  Vanishing Twin / THE AGE OF IMMUNOLOGY (Fire)

36.  Ill Considered  / 8 (Ill Considered Music)

37.  The Dead C / RARE RAVERS (Ba Da Bing!)

38.  Have A Nice Life / SEA OF WORRY (The Flenser)

39.  Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble / WHERE FUTURE UNFOLDS (International Anthem)

40.   Zebra Hunt / TRADE DESIRE (Tenorio Cotobade)

41.  Olden Yolk / LIVING THEATRE (Trouble In Mind)

42.  Spiral Wave Nomads / Sprial Wave Nomads

43.  Lambchop / THIS (IS WHAT I WANTED TO TELL YOU) (Merge)

44.  Pile / GREEN AND GRAY (Exploding In Sound Records )

45.  Tomeka Reid Quartet / OLD NEW (Cuneiform)

46.  Leafcutter John / YES! COME PARADE WITH US (Border Community)

47.  Keiji Haino & Charles Hayward / A LOSS PERMITTED TO OPEN ITS EYES FOR BUT THREE HOURS AND THERE GLIMPSED, FINALLY IN FOCUS A MYSTERY THAT BEGS EARNESTLY, "ASK ME NOTHING" NOW, ONCE MORE THE PROBLEM IS YOURS ALONE (ThirtyThree ThirtyThree)‎

48.  MADMADMAD / MADMADMAD (Ill Considered)

49.  Ecstatic Vision / FOR THE MASSES (Heavy Psych)

50.  Lightning Bolt / Sonic Citadel (Thrill Jockey)

Here's a bunch more I liked a whole lot:

Ahmed Ag Kaedy / Akaline Kidal (Sahel Sounds)

Arthur Russell / Iowa Dream (Audika)

Ausmuteants / ...Present The World In Handcuffs (Anti Fade)

Bendik Giske / Surrender (Smalltown Supersound)

Big Brave / A GAZE AMONG THEM (Southern Lord)

Big Thief / Two Hands (4AD)

Boy Harsher / Careful (Nude Club)

Carla dal Forno / Look Up Sharp (Kallista)

Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet / Orange (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch)

Cherubs / Immaculada High (Relapse)

Chromatics / Closer To Grey (Italians Do It Better)

Chuck Cleaver Send Aid (Shake It)

Comet Gain / Fireraisers Forever! (Tapete)

Control Top / Covert Contracts (Get Better)

Dan Friel Fanfare (Thrill Jockey)

Dark Blue / Victory Is Rated (12XU)

David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights / Bobbie's a girl (Merge)

Dommengang / No Keys (Thrill Jockey)

Drugdealer  / Raw Honey (Mexican Summer)

Elizabeth Colour Wheel / Nocebo (The Flenser)

Endless Column  / s/t (Erste Theke Tontraeger)

Faye Webster / Atlanta Millionaires Club (Secretly Canadian)

Fennesz / Agora (TOUCH)

Fir Cone Children / Fog Surrounds Us (Blackjack Illuminist)

Foster Care / El Abuso (Florida’s Dying)

Galcher Lustwork / Information (Ghostly International)

Gong Gong Gong / Phantom Rhythm (Wharf Cat)

Hedvig Mollestad Trio / Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon)

Holly Herndon / PROTO (4AD)

Institute / Readjusting The Locks (Sacred Bones)

Jim O'Rourke & CM von Hausswolff / In, Demons, In! (iDEAL)

JR Bohannon / Dusk (Figureight)

Julie’s Haircut / Music From The Last Command (42)

Julie's Haircut / In The Silence Electric (Rocket)

Ka Baird / Respires (Infinite Limbs)

Kim Gordon / No Home Record (Matador)

L'Epee / Diabolique (A)

Lee “Scratch” Perry / Rainford/ Heavy Rain (On U Sound)

Lindstrøm / On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever (Smalltown Supersound)

Madteo / Dropped Out Sunshine (DDS)

Meetsysteem Green Signal (Nous'klaer)

Negativland / TRUE FALSE (Seeland)

Omni / Networker (Sub Pop)

Oozing Wound / High Anxiety (Thrill Jockey)

Paint Thinner / The Sea of Pulp (OBLEK)

People Like Us / The Mirror (Discrepant)

Possible Humans / Everybody Split (Trouble In Mind )

Purple Pilgrims / Perfumed Earth (Flying Nun)

Ratso / Stubborn Heart (Lucky Number)

Robert Forster / Inferno (Tapete)

Russ Waterhouse / 1 Minute 2 Midnight (Drag City)

Rustin Man / Drift Code (Domino)

Sheer Mag / A Distant Call (Sheer Mag LLC)

Simon Bonney / Past, Present, Future (Mute)

Sir Richard Bishop & W.David Oliphant / Karkhana with Nadah El Shazly / CARTE BLANCHE (Unrock)

Skull Practitioners / s/t (In The Red)

Sturgill Simpson / Sound & Fury (Elektra)

Swans / leaving meaning (Young God)

Sunn 0))) / LIFE METAL  / PYROCLASTS (Southern Lord)

Tavishi / Voices In My Head (Chinabot)

TENGGER / Spiritual 2 (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)

The Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra / Songs From the Sun Ra Cosmos(Modern Harmonic)

The Budos Band / V (Daptone) 

The Comet Is Coming / Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (Rough Trade)

The Future Eve feat. Robert Wyatt / Kitsune / Brian The Fox (Flau)

The Hecks / My Star(Trouble in Mind)

The Pheromoans / County Lines (ALTER)

The Resonars / No Exit (Trouble In Mind)

The Stroppies / Whoosh! (Tough Love)

Thigh Master / Now For Example (Goner)

Tiger & Woods / AOD (Running Back)

Uzeda / Quocumque jeceris stabit (Temporary Residence)

Various Artists / Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Africa Continent (Unexplained Sounds)

Various Artists / Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Middle East (Unexplained Sounds)

Various Artists / Persian Experimental Underground Survey (Unexplained Sounds)

Various Artists Sad About The Times (Anthology)

Violent Bullshit / Into The Murk (Violent Responsibility)

Wild Yaks / Great Admirer (Ernest Jenning)

Xetas / The Tower (12XU)

Yin Yin / The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers (Bongo Joe)