2019 Albums • Page 11

february + march updates. barely listened to any music while moving across the country and starting a new job. gonna be a different story from now on though

 

Congrats on the job and the move!!

 

thanks! it's been wild. menzingers' after the party and the new american football are hitting especially hard right now.

 

Favorites from this month: Laura Stevenson, 2 Chainz, Foals, Hand Habits, and Pander Sera

 

MARCH

11. gnash - we (2019) +
12. Weezer - The Black Album (2019) +
13. Little People - Landloper (2019) -
14. Radar State - Strays (2019) +
15. Randy Houser - Magnolia (2019) +
16. Soilwork - Verkligheten (2019) --
17. Tallies - Tallies (2019) +
18. The Jon Hill Project - Rebirth (2019) ++
19. You Tell Me - You Tell Me (2019) *
20. Alice Merton - Mint (2019) *
21. Cub Sport - Cub Sport (2019) --
22. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (2019) *
23. dodie - Human (EP) (2019) *
24. FEVER 333 - STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS (2019) +
25. Simple Creatures - Strange Love (EP) (2019) ++

I mostly started looking through past New Releases posts.

 

Quarter 1 Summary:
Favorite albums:
1. The Maine: You Are OK
2. The Japanese House: Good At Falling
3. Say Anything: Oliver Appropriate
4. Tierra Whack: Singles (the 5 songs she released basically function as an EP for me)
5. Ariana Grande: thank u, next

6. SWMRS: Berkley's On Fire
7. Jenny Lewis: On the Line
8. Wallows: Nothing Happens
9. Sigrid: Sucker Punch
10. Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

I haven't listened to Simple Creatures EP yet, but I imagine it ends up in the top half of this list somewhere based on the first 3 singles.

 

March had my top two releases of the year so far in La Dispute and Dave. Missed quite a bit last month though.

 

March

13. Poppin' Party - poppin' on! ++

April

14. Millencolin - SOS +
15. THE NOVEMBERS - angels +
16. Suchmos - the anymal +
17. PassCode - clarity ++

 

124. PUP - Morbid Stuff (2019)
125. Max Bemis & The Painful Splits - Song Shop Double LP (2019)
126. Cautious Clay - Table of Context (2019)
127. Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors (1985)
128. David Lee Roth - Crazy From The Heat (1985)

 

Just updated my list today. 98 albums and its only the first week of April.

January:
1. Out of Service - "Morning" (2018)
2. Palisades - "Erase the Pain" (2018)
3. Bleed American - "It Probably isn't" (2018)
4. Bleed American - "Figure it out" (2015)
5. Bleed American - EP (2014)
6. Switchfoot - "Fading West" (2013)
7. Post Malone - "Stoney" (2016)
8. Vertical Horizon - "Echoes from the underground" (2013)
9. Vertical Horizon - "The lost Mile" (2019)
10. Yellowcard - "Where we stand" (1999)
11. Yellowcard - "One for the kids" (2001)
12. Yellowcard - "Lights and Sounds" (2006)
13. Alice Merton - "Mint" (2019)
14. James Blake - "Assume Form" (2019)
15. Mike Posner - "A real good kid" (2019)
16. Sharon Van Etten - "Remind me tomorrow" (2019)
17. Maggie Rogers - "Heard it in a past life" (2019)
18. Papa Roach - "Who do you trust?" (2019)
19. Fever 333 - "STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS" (2019)
20. Switchfoot – “Native Tongue” (2019)
21. Pedro The Lion – “Phoenix” (2019)
22. Steve Gunn – “The Unseen In Between” (2019)
23. Guster – “Look Alive” (2019)
24. The Twilight Sad – “It won’t be like this all the time” (2019)
25. Frances Cone – “Late Riser” (2019)
26. Young Culture – “(This is) Heaven” EP (2019)
27. Young Culture – “You” (2016)
28. The Maine – “Can’t Stop Won’t stop (2008)
29. The Maine – “Black & White” (2010)
30. The Maine – “Pioneer” (2011)
31. The Maine – “Forever Halloween” (2013)
32. Deerhunter - "Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?" (2019)
33. The Maine - "Lovely Little Lonely" (2017)
34. Yellowcard - "Paper Walls" (2007)
35. Yellowcard - "When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes" (2011)
36. Papa Roach - "Crooked Teeth" (2017)
37. As Tall as Lions – "As Tall as Lions" (2006)
38. Weezer - "Teal Album" (2019)
39. The Regrettes – "Feel Your Feelings Fool!" (2017)
40. The Regrettes - "Attention Seeker" EP (2018)
41. Lydia - "Assailants" (2010)
42. Lydia - "Paint It Golden" (2011)
43. Lydia – “Devil” (2013)
44. Backstreet Boys – “DNA” (2019)
45. Say Anything – “Oliver Appropriate” (2019)
46. Problem Addict – “Stayed in Bed all Weekend” EP (2019)
47. Driver Friendly – “Ceremony” EP (2019)
48. FIDLAR – “Almost Free” (2019)
49. Bring Me The Horizon – “amo” (2019)
50. The Dandy Warhols – “Why You so Crazy” (2019)
51. Better Oblivion Community Center - "Better Oblivion Community Center" (2019)
52. Julia Michaels - "Inner Monologue Part 1" (2019)
53. Lydia - "Run Wild" (2015)
54. Lydia - "Liquor" (2018)
55. Frank Turner - "Don't Worry" EP (2018)
56. Julia Michaels - "Nervous System" (2017)

February:
57. Cassadee Pope - "stages" (2019)
58. Girlpool - "What Chaos Is Imaginary" (2019)
59. See Through Dresses - "Horse of the Other World" (2017)
60. Chase Atlantic - "DON'T TRY THIS (EP)" (2019)
61. Ariana Grande - "thank u, next" (2019)
62. Emarosa - "Peach Club" (2019)
63. Bob Mould - "Sunshine Rock" (2019)
64. Head Above Water – Avril Lavigne
65. Betty Who - "Betty" (2019)
66. Copeland - "Blushing" (2019)
67. Bellows - "The Rose Gardener" (2019)
68. Lil Pump - "Harverd Dropout" (2019)

March:
69. The Japanese House - "Good At Falling" (2019)
70. Gary Clark Jr. - "This Land" (2019)
71. Kehlani - "While We Wait" (2019)
72. Tom Walker - "What a Time to Be Alive" (2019)
73. The Hunna - "Dare" (2018)
74. Greyson Chance - "portraits" (2019)
75. Mansionair - "Shadowboxer" (2019)
76. The Hotelier - "Home, Like NoPlace Is There" (2014)
77. The Hunna - "100" (2016)
78. Pinegrove - "Skylight" (2018)
79. Title Fight - "Spring Songs" (2013)
80. Bad Suns - "Mystic Truth" (2019)
81. Wallows - "Nothing Happens" (2019)
82. PUP - "Sibling Rivalry / Scorpion Hill" (2019)
83. Jenny Lewis - "On The Line" (2019)
84. Hold Close - "Time" (2019)
85. Dean Lewis - "A Place We Knew" (2019)
86. La Dispute - "Panorama" (2019)
87. Montana Modderman – "For the Record" (2019)
88. Wallows - "Spring EP" (2018)
89. The Maine - "You Are OK" (2019)
90. Ben Platt - "Sing To Me Instead" (2019)
91. Simple Creatures - "Strange Love" EP (2019)

April:
92. Billie Eilish - "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" (2019)
93. Laura Stevenson - "The Big Freeze" (2019)
94. Maren Morris - "GIRL" (2019)
95. I Prevail - "TRAUMA" (2019)
96. Lee Fields & The Expressions - "It Rains Love" (2019)
97. PUP - "Morbid Stuff" (2019)
98. Khalid - "Free Spirit" (2019)

 

129. Miguel - Te Lo Dije (2019)
130. Khalid - Free Spirit (2019)
131. Dominic Fike - Don't Forget About Me (2018)
132. Lissie - When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective (2019)
133. Heart - Heart (1985)
134. INXS - Listen Like Thieves (1985)
135. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required (1985)
136. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze (2019)
137. Tayla Parx - We Need To Talk (2019)

 

highly recommended!

 

Look at you livin' in the 80's!

 

I've been going backwards year by year and creating 20-song mixes for each year, I've made it to 85 now!

 

138. Prince and the Revolution - Around The World In A Day (1985)
139. R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction (1985)

 

March In Review:
After a month of revisiting the classics with #MWE, I was ready to get back to more current tunes. Luckily, some really incredible music came out this month, including a few projects that I'm sure will be sticking with me for years to come. (I've included my top ten albums of Q1 2019 at the bottom of this post.)

March kicked off with two artists that couldn't be more different: Solange and The Japanese House. The more avant-garde Knowles sister released her project When I Get Home after years of anticipation, somehow subverting expectations by delivering a potpourri of freestyle jazz, rap, and ambience that feels more similar to Frank Ocean's pastiche project Endless than a traditional R&B/pop album. It's a challenging listen, and one that I'm not sure I love so much as appreciate after a dozen tries. Wayyyy away from Houston in Buckinghamshire, The Japanese House released Good at Falling, an absolute monster of a debut. I've been lost in the album's synth textures all month, and Amber Bain's lyrics can veer from subtle to dramatic in ways that can be surprising if you pay close attention. It's especially invigorating through a car stereo, if you get the chance.

Beyond albums, there were a number of singles that have me anticipating full projects later this year. Christian Lee Hutson's first single "Northsiders" is a delicate folk song with hyper-specific imagery and storytelling that's somehow funny and devastating at the same time. The track was produced by his friend and bandmate Phoebe Bridgers, who lends it a twilight atmosphere that reminds me of the best Elliott Smith music. On the other end of the spectrum, the artist Georgia came barreling back into the spotlight with her readymade anthem "About Work The Dancefloor". I was instantly struck by its blend of discotheque pathos, which deserves to be as ubiquitous in the club this summer as her sonic counterpart Robyn. I'd also be remiss if I didn't acknowledge Kim Petras, who finished off her RAINBOW ERA by putting all her previously released songs into a playlist that instantly reframed them into a full project, despite being released one-by-one over the last 3+ years. I don't know that I can count it as a 2019 album because so much of it is old, but it's basically 41 minutes of straight bangers.

The crazy thing about this month is that I still feel like I'm short-changing about 4 other projects. There were so many other great albums this month, such as:
- Strand Of Oaks' epic comeback Eraserland, which wrings magic from a collaboration with My Morning Jacket.
- Kyle Dion's SUGA, a wildly impressive debut filled with sticky summertime R&B.
- Sigrid's Sucker Punch, a Megatron pop album that hits all the right pleasure spots.
- Billie Eilish's WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, a vision of modern pop that includes tooth cleaning noises.

Honestly, it's going to take me a while to figure out where I rate them all, as they're full of fresh sounds and songwriting that I wasn't expecting. We're only a few months into the year, and the theme seems to be surprises. I was only anticipating one of the albums that made on my top 10 list from Q1 2019, which has me really excited about the year ahead. On we go.

Top 2019 Albums of the Month:
Strand Of Oaks, The Japanese House, Kyle Dion, Sigrid

Recommended Songs I Discovered this Month:
Christian Lee Hutson - "Northsiders"
Georgia - "About Work The Dancefloor"
Kyle Dion - "Cherry Blossom"
Dido - "Hurricanes"
Strand of Oaks - "Forever Chords"

Top 10 Albums of Q1 2019:
1. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
2. Emily King - Scenery
3. Strand Of Oaks - Eraserland
4. The Japanese House - Good At Falling
5. Kyle Dion - SUGA
6. Toro y Moi - Outer Peace
7. Sigrid - Sucker Punch
8. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
9. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
10. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life

 

Speaking of, no one ever made a best of Q1 thread, did they?

 

I was the one who did those last year and I think I stopped after the first two quarters due to lack of participation. I obviously love the idea though!

 

140. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents (1985)
141. Anderson .Paak - Ventura (2019)

 

That Tom Petty album is super underrated.

 

I quite enjoyed it for the most part, will have to certainly listen again to get it to sink in

 

People get turned off by the accent he puts on for some songs, but I like the narrative songwriting.

 

142. Kevin Abstract - ARIZONA baby (2019)
143. Kevin Abstract - Ghettobaby (2019)
144. Broken Social Scene - Let's Try The After Vol. 2 (2019)
145. Robert Delong - See You In The Future (2018)