YEAR END! – Top Records Of 2019

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I made a spreadsheet of new releases in 2019. I tried my best to listen to as much as I could. I managed to listen to about 30% of it. Not super great. Anyway, in alphabetical order, these are records I liked this year. Also, a Spotify playlist of 2019 stuff. Alright.

beabadoobee – “Space Cadet” (but, also “Loveworm”)
Ceremony – “In The Spirit World Now”
The Coathangers – “The Devil You Know”
Dowsing – “Sky Coffin”
Elton John Cena – “All Rats Go To Heaven”
Faye Webster – “Atlanta Millionaires Club”
Foie Gras – “Holy Hell”
Funeral Advantage – “Nectarine”
Girl K – “For Now”
Haybaby – “They Get There”
Jay Som – “Anak Ko”
Jetty Bones – “-”
Kitty Kat Fanclub – “Dreamy Little You”
Lettering – “Harbinger / Less Violent”
Lili Trifilio – “Book Club”
Lilith – “Safer Off”
Long Knives – “The Subject”
Murs – “The Illiad Is Dead and The Odessey Is Over”
Otoboke Beaver – “ITEKOMA HITS”
Overo – “Overo”
Pedro The Lion – “Phoenix”
Perennial – “Food For Hornets”
Petite League – “Rattler”
Pivot Gang – “You Can’t Sit With Us”
Quelle Chris – “Guns”
Ramona – “Deals, Deals, Deals”
Sheena, Anika And Augusta – “Simple Pleasures”
Slow Pulp – “Big Day”
Strangers – “Good Enough”

Song Of The Week (07/26/19) // Lilith – “Vacation”

Lilith – “Vacation”

Usually I post these with some press blurb from an email or something. I was not sent any press release for this particular one. Safer Off is a record I’ve been looking forward to, and I just really like this band. I’ll always love some good pop rock.

Lilith
Disposable America
Take This To Heart Records

YEAR END! – Top Records Of 2018

Hey, 2018 sure was thing. After almost a year away, I brought this blog back a few months ago. I plan on actually updating on a more regular schedule in 2019. But, that is a problem for 2019 Joe. Anyway, here are my top records of 2018. In alphabetical order, because it just makes sense.

BEST RECORDS:

Dessa – “Chime”
Dogbite – “True Lofi Will Find You In The End”
Drug Church – “Cheer”
Gouge Away – “Burnt Sugar”
Headlines – “MMXVII”
Heavy Mantle – “Weights & Measures”
Hop Along – “Bark Your Head Off, Dog”
Krimewatch – “Krimewatch”
La Luz – “Floating Feature”
Lala Lala – “The Lamb”
Late Bloomer – “Waiting”
Lilith – “I’ll Come Over B/W In Real Life”
Miranda Winters – “Xobeci, What Grows Here?”
Miserable – “Loverboy”
Mitski – “Be The Cowboy”
Mothers – “Render Another Ugly Method”
Nectar – “Knocking At The Door”
Ogikubo Station – “We Can Pretend Like”
Open Mike Eagle – “What Happens When I Try To Relax”
Restorations – “LP5000”
Tancred – “Nightstand”
Tanukichan – “Sundays”
There’s Talk – “Bathed Water Moon”
V.V. Lightbody – “Bathing Peach”
Worlds Greatest Dad – “Get Well Soon”

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Absinthe Father – “Jane”
Ivy Sole – “Overgrown”
Petal – “Magic Gone”
Roy Kinsey – “Blackie: A Story By Roy Kinsey”
Smol Data – “Smol Data: An EP”
Snail Mail – “Lush”
Steady Holiday – “Nobody’s Watching”
Swearin’ – “Fall In The Sun”
Tony Molina – “Kill The Light”
Young Animals – “Disposition”

All things considered, Be The Cowboy was my favorite record this year. Or, at the very least, the one I listened to the most.

So, yeah. There you go. Here’s a Spotify playlist