Best Albums of 2019
Heh, I made this and didn’t even post it last year. Anyways.
As always, every album has a Spotify link in the title. I picked 4 songs off each album to have an even 100-song playlist for you to shuffle through. Key tracks are all gathered in a playlist, here. Hit shuffle and enjoy the year that was.
Key tracks: “Diamond Skull,” “In the Wonder,” “I’ll Never Know,” “Fentanyl Freddy”
Better Oblivion Community Center // Better Oblivion Community Center
Key tracks: “Didn’t Know What I Was in For,” “Sleepwalkin’,” “Dylan Thomas,” “My City”
Sam Cohen // The Future’s Still Ringing in My Ears
Key Tracks: “I Can’t Lose,” “Something’s Got a Hold on Me,” “Dead Rider,” “Spinning Love”
Lana Del Rey // Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Key Tracks: “Mariners Apartment Complex,” “Venice Bitch,” “Doin’ Time,” “Bartender”
William Doyle // Your Wilderness Revisted
Key Tracks: “Millersdale,” “Nobody Else Will Tell You,” “Design Guide,” “Continuum”
Jake Xerxes Fussell // Out of Sight
Key Tracks: “The River St. Johns,” “Michael Was Hearty,” “Jubliee,” “Drinking of the Wine”
Great Grandpa // Four of Arrows
Key Tracks: “Dark Green Water,” “Digger,” “Bloom,” “Spilt Up the Kids”
Key Tracks: “Circles of Hell,” “Do You Feel Nothing?,” “You’re Gonna Hate What You’ve Done,” “New Hell”
Steve Gunn // The Unseen In Between
Key tracks: “Vagabond,” “Chance,” “New Familiar,” “Paranoid”
Hiss Golden Messenger // Terms of Surrender
Key tracks: “I Need a Teacher,” “Bright Direction (You’re a Dark Star Now),” “Cat’s Eye Blue,” “Terms of Surrender”
Key tracks: “1999,” “Catherdral,” “Ruin (my ride),” “Keep It Up”
Damien Jurado // In the Shape of a Storm
Key tracks: “Newspaper Gown,” “South,” “Where You Want Me to Be,” “The Shape of a Storm”
Key tracks: “You Ain’t the Problem,” “I’ve Been Dazed,” “Piano Joint (This Kind of Love),” “Solid Ground”
Mandolin Orange // Tides of a Teardrop
Key tracks: “Golden Embers,” “The Wolves,” “Late September,” “Time We Made Time”
Local Natives // Violet Street
Key tracks: “When Am I Gonna Lose You,” “Megaton Mile,” “Someday Now,” “Garden Of Elysian”
Key tracks: “No Halo,” “Nothing Sacred / All Things Wild,” “Hail Mary,” “O Behold”
Ian Noe // Between the Country
Key tracks: “Irene (Ravin’ Bomb),” “Barbara’s Song,” “Letter to Madeline,” “Between the Country”
Key tracks: “Yellow Bike,” “Quietest Friend,” “Black Canyon,” “My Pheonix”
Purple Mountains // Purple Mountains
Key tracks: “That’s Just the Way That I Feel,” “All My Happiness Is Gone,” “Margaritas at the Mall,” “Maybe I’m the Only One For Me”
Key tracks: “Old Black Magic,” “I Still Love You (Now and Then),” “The Torch Committee,” “All Some Kind of Dream”
Sturgill Simpson // SOUND & FURY
Key tracks: “Remember to Breathe,” “A Good Look,” “Make Art Not Friends,” “Fastest Horse in Town”
Key tracks: “If You Want It,” “Peace Out,” “Tenderness,” “Anak Ko”
Key tracks: “Olympic Girls,” “School of Design,” “Holograms,” “One Million Flowers”
Vampire Weekend // Father of the Bride
Key tracks: “Harmony Hall,” “This Life,” “How Long?,” “Sympathy”
Faye Webster // Atlanta Millionaires Club
Key tracks: “Room Temperature,” “Jonny,” “Come to Atlanta,” “What Used to Be Mine”