Here are 10 of our favourite albums from 2019. Of course, they sound goofy at first. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors Thank … Norman Fucking Rockwell! Blending skittering percussion with stoned-out synths and charmingly monotone vocals, EXPORT is warm and playful, a genreless exploration of rhythm. His versatility is most evident on the standout track “La Romana,” in which bachata guitar weaves cleverly into a trap beat before swerving into a full-on dembow banger. If anything, Emily Alone embodies the hard-earned truth that behind every moment, however dramatic, lies another, quieter moment, transpiring without expectation or pressure. In form and function, Bon Iver’s fourth album is an act of protest. With ANIMA, the 51-year-old embraced meaty production while maintaining his taste for digital glitches and melodic sprawl, coming away with his finest solo album yet. Elastic, off-kilter guitar lines carry the prickly “Mother’s Mother’s Magazines,” while “Sad Nudes” floats along slack percussion and metallic adornments. Les 10 meilleurs albums de 2019 par Étienne Menu 12 décembre 2019 De PNL à la techno tanzanienne en passant par Solange, GQ a sélectionné ses albums préférés de 2019. Seasoned experts at locating the expanding borders of “cool” and then working just outside them, here Vampire Weekend decide that they are a jam band, with all of the fretless bass and weightless Jerry Garcia guitar solos this implies. With its queasy synths, snatches of stray trumpet, and gas mask imagery, “Jelmore” conjures a landscape from a not-too-distant future that’s been left desolate by climate change. Each track feels like a selection on a mixtape, chosen for a specific emotion: “RUNNING OUT OF TIME” is a slow-groove journey into his subconscious, reminding you how singular Tyler’s vision can be behind the boards; “EARFQUAKE” is one of Tyler’s most ambitious songs, a catchy symphony that features Playboi Carti in the squeakiest and strangest version of his baby voice. Even the title i,i nods to the Rastafarian idea of “I and I,” of oneness. The Guardian. ZUU is an homage to the rapper’s hometown, alight with the anarchic spirit of an art-school thesis. IGOR (2019) Album de Tyler, the Creator. –Mike Powell, In one sense, Blood Incantation are traditionalists. But she ignored the haters and plowed forward, steadily carving out her own dark corner of the pop landscape. Over the album’s inky expanse, Olsen tries out an entirely new, gothic corner of her record collection: The Cure’s Disintegration, Cocteau Twins’ Heaven or Las Vegas, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Service musique. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. –Ben Cardew. 1 in October, he put in the work to make his big talk a reality. A list of the top albums of the year from Les Inrocks. The album’s four tracks are all over 10 minutes in length and unabashedly sweeping, as processed guitar tones and dense computer manipulations generate droning, nearly-orchestral waves. And on the exquisite centerpiece “cellophane,” she is as exposed, fallen, and overwhelmed as the album’s namesake. –Katherine St. Asaph, Tyler, the Creator’s IGOR is an album about heartbreak, but the bright chords and harmonies suggest hope, not self-pity. I'm limiting this list to albums that I have or am looking to acquire. Yet the real brilliance of this music lies in how free it sounds from what’s come before. Emily Alone is the kind of delicate album that doesn’t compete for your attention so much as it waits patiently for you to return to it. More than his ability to smoothly navigate and naturally fuse genres through his voice, Burna Boy’s opus reflects a rare magnanimity of vision that is also simply irrefutable on a dancefloor. But the album never feels faded or nostalgic; all of its enveloping sound is immensely present, pulsing with life. Moving beyond the haunted Americana of 2017’s Rocket, these 13 songs offer meticulous portraits of addiction, greed, and obsession. For as fragmented as this carousel of mall punk, trap-pop, video-game soundtracks, and melodramatic Euro-trance can feel, the lingering mood is one of intimacy, of inner children mashing the pleasure button without boundaries or shame. Her most dramatic release yet, All Mirrors telegraphs to us in Andrew Lloyd Webber-sized gestures: When Olsen's voice ascends an octave on “Lark,” the accompanying drum resounds like a cannon aimed at a fortress, and the dive-bombing glissandos from the orchestra mimic debris streaming around her. Let’s hope the planet survives that long. 1. The Practice of Love asks more questions than it answers: Are we more responsible to ourselves or to our species? “’Cause you’re just a man/It’s just what you do.” (Because the reality of loving a fast-living, leather jacket-clad Romeo on a motorcycle is that you also have to deal with his bullshit.) Later, on “Venice Bitch,” she’s “fresh out of fucks forever,” like so many of us aspire to be. The album’s more abstracted tendencies also come to the forefront in its surreal visual companion piece, set in various real and imagined locations around the city. After all, it’s always easy to implant your own interpretations on an artist’s music after they’ve passed, especially if they’ve taken their own life. Updated on 12/20/2019 at 4:38 PM. The Guardian: The 40 Best Albums of 2019 20. Sputnikmusic. –Jayson Greene, Like white light refracted through a prism to reveal an array of colors, ordinary words and phrases—wrinkled hands, silver hair, clear water—take on new meanings when sung by Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker. House of Sugar is his most ambitious and immersive album yet. You have to go back to 2012's Wrecking Ball for the last album of all new material, something that needs to change in 2019. That being said, much of TIM is incredibly bright and hopeful with uplifting melodies and powerful writing. … The Gum … –Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. Then there’s Harding’s voice itself, an androgynous instrument that glides from deep-chested husk to nasal yowl, often within the same song. Below, CBC Music has ranked the best francophone albums of 2019. Violence ripples through these songs like a vein of quartz—“Rock and Sing” might be a children’s lullaby about lost souls, “The Toy” an intimation of great evil. On the title track, she declares, “Shapes live forever,” and they do here: Harding’s songs create jagged, impressionistic outlines that allow listeners to climb inside, yet they are unmistakably her own. Curry freestyled nearly every song on the album—an extraordinary feat for any rapper, made all the more dazzling by the vividness of his storytelling and the complexity of his internal rhymes. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. He’s frank about the violence plaguing his beloved home; frank about the murder of his brother, Treon Johnson, who was Tasered to death by police in 2014. Notably, uknowhatimsayin¿ is executive produced by Q-Tip, whose penchant for air and texture encourages Brown into a mellower, more sober headspace. Her third album, Quiet Signs, sounds a little further away—perhaps through an open stained-glass window as Pratt, alone in a church, hums as if she’s just going through soundcheck. Ensemble (tour 2019-2020) Patrick Bruel peak position: 15 – total weeks: 8 15 8 93. By. Only a few lyrics pop out from her baroque melodies, like, “This time around, has it gone so grey that my faith can't hold out?” Her nylon-string guitar recalls sunny ’70s Brazilian pop, but her voice is all fog and rain. Future generations will marvel that one album contained “Venice Bitch” and “Mariners Apartment Complex” and “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it.” And they will scoff in disbelief that Lana Del Rey was once treated as anything but the poet laureate of a world on fire. Beautiful. On it, he perfects styles from the worldwide African diaspora and situates them in universal conversation, while his sharp ear for collaborators—including Future and YG, Lagos rapper Zlatan, Kingston crooner Serani, and Beninise icon Angélique Kidjo—underpins his thesis and shows off his range. It’s the type of record that seems destined to be rediscovered long after its release and heralded as ahead of its time. by Heavy Consequence Staff. You can see its vision of egalitarianism across the LP’s inner gatefold, which shows obscured portraits of the 52 people who helped create the record. Deux frères (2019) Album de PNL. Norwegian art-pop philosopher Jenny Hval floats between these logical dots throughout The Practice of Love, an album of festering generational unease set to the twilit synths and entrancing pulses of ’90s raves. Ce top a été réalisé grâce aux réponses des utilisateurs de SensCritique. Alternative Press Magazine - Copied to clipboard. Of course, Justin Vernon’s elastic howl will always be the catalyst that transforms Bon Iver from just another experimental indie rock project to a quasi-religious cult of emotion, but on i,i, he sounds like he’s simply flowing through a slipstream, his load lightened. She molds her desires into flexes. –Jesse Dorris, Ariana Grande released thank u, next in the aftermath of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller’s death and her broken engagement to Pete Davidson, but she refuses to bend to the tropes of traumatized women throughout the album. Poetic, yes, imagistic, definitely, meditative, serene, absolutely. Listening to TIM with that mindset is tragically bittersweet. He sings about clear water flowing from his pen, and a second riff emerges, lighter and more delicate, a cool stream burbling just out of sight. On these four songs—ranging from gnarled chaos in “The Giza Power Plant” to the psychedelic slow burn of “Inner Paths (to Outer Space)”—Blood Incantation find their own corner in a storied cosmos, where even the most familiar textures can feel thrilling and extreme. 03 May: Bad Religion – Age Of Unreason 03 May: Filthy Friends – Emerald Valley 03 May: Hollowstar - Hollowstar 03 May: Kurokuma – Sheffield's Best Metal Bands Vol. Untethered from the electronic pop and hip-hop trappings of many of her previous songs, her vocals breathe deep and her melodies luxuriate. On “The Greatest,” she takes a widescreen look at our planet, sighing into the void as climate change brings about a hellish endless summer. A resident DJ at Berlin’s hallowed techno haven Berghain, he has voiced his skepticism of kick drums and drops—the utilitarian elements that so often trigger lizard-brain reactions on a dancefloor. Do you stand in solidarity with DJ Sprinkles in her anti-streaming stance? The magnetic scrappiness doubles as a bracing alert. It features a song from every record. Designer is a fitting headphone companion for wandering the city in a melancholy fog, but it never fades into the background. The music exists on an expanded scale, too, with producer Slot-A helping guide the proceedings from cosmic soul to garage-rock grit and on through to Chicago house. –Grayson Haver Currin, Jessica Pratt’s folk songs usually press right up against the speaker, making you feel inches away from her delicately voiced guitar, lonesome words, and peculiar execution of vowels—a language unto itself. Guitarist Ted Quinlan has been a mainstay in the Toronto scene for many years. Brexit broke Britain, fast-rewinding the country to the ’70s, when it first joined Europe and last seemed this close to collapse. And, finally, she finds liberation in feeling equivalent to an annual plant, blooming once briefly and then fading into the forest. In Beyoncé’s musical Cuisinart, James Weldon Johnson’s uplifting 1905 Negro National Anthem “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” sidles up next to her bootyshaking 2016 club jam “Formation.” The dizzying result of all Beyoncé’s kitchen-sink pop mastery: one of the most confident concert albums ever made, an audacious raising of the bar for stadium R&B in the footsteps of Prince, Michael Jackson, and Janet. It is a privilege to spend a half hour in the singular slice of South Florida that Curry paints in his forthright verses. is an album that arrived feeling like a greatest hits collection. That immediacy pervades the sound of Howard’s solo debut, which is less wedded to genre than her work with Alabama Shakes and Thunderbitch. The Observer. Clockwise from left … Angélique Kidjo, Aki Takase, Billie Eilish, Vampire Weekend, Dave. Homecoming: The Live Album—the musical companion to her retina-popping Coachella live film—boasts a whopping 40 tracks that fuse soul, hip-hop, gospel, and go-go with live skits and confessional interludes, as brassy marching bands and black drumlines give dap to the cultural traditions of HBCUs. These tracks still throb: “Hedonic Treadmill” and “Utility” are trance-like bangers made propulsive entirely via cycling synth melodies, and even the more ambient songs swell and build like club music. –Peyton Thomas, For their first album with legendary pop-punk label Epitaph Records, the Philadelphia quartet Mannequin Pussy swap fuzz-heavy thrashers for melodic, grand anthems of heartache and regret. https://djbooth.net/features/2019-04-02-best-hip-hop-albums-2019-ranked Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. At least we have the music of Fennesz, whose 2019 entry Agora actually shares a lot in common with Vangelis’ score for the 1982 film. Ad Choices, The artists who ruled the year, starring FKA twigs, Bon Iver, Kim Gordon, DaBaby, and more, brandishing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decapitated head. this past May, you might’ve thought they deserved some time off: It was their third album in four years. ); Want more Rolling Stone? Norman Fucking Rockwell! For kids raised under the threat of mass extinction, of course a dead-eyed 17-year-old whispering about night terrors, benzos, suicide, and the climate crisis over a post-genre stew of trap beats, dubstep drops, and twee-ish bedroom pop would be hailed as a savior. Expertly sequenced and absent of fluff, the album deploys only a choice few guest appearances designed for maximum impact: a rare Spanish verse from Drake, dirty bass programming by Diplo, and a romantic harmony courtesy of Ricky Martin. Her eagle-eyed observations about her hapless relationships can be as funny as they are heartbreaking, like on the swooning “Jonny,” where she laments how her dog is her best friend even though, she sings, “He doesn't even know what my name is.” –Sheldon Pearce. –Eric Torres, With each record, Angel Olsen’s music grows grander and darker, and on All Mirrors, she spreads her leathery wings and nearly blots out the sky. You become a parent with the wish that your kids outlive you. Current page: The Best 50 Albums of 2019 (so far): 50-41 Next Page The Best 50 Albums of 2019 (so far): 40-31. Eventually he leaves words behind entirely, sinking into cascading acoustic guitars and the soft tinkle of chimes. The focus instead is on flaunting Bad Bunny’s wide stylistic range; he channels salsa king Héctor Lavoe and flamboyant Mexican pop star Juan Gabriel as fluently as he might modern reggaetoneros like J Balvin and Ozuna. When someone is as good as he is, for as long as he has been, you start to take it for granted. The world is stressful. 2019 In Review December 9, 2019 3:00 PM By Phil Freeman. Below, CBC Music has ranked the best francophone albums of 2019. –Vrinda Jagota. by Colin Joyce. The Skinny. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2019 wrap-up coverage here. “Sh’diah”—which Vernon began writing the morning after the 2016 election, with a title that stands for “shittiest day in American history”—fights the ugliness of modern politics with an understated call for rationality. Perhaps that’s why slowthai, a grime MC from the nowheresville dead-center of England, often feels so punk. Voici la liste des meilleurs albums musicaux sortis en 2019. Recommended Links. See Billboard's rankings of this year's most popular songs, albums, and artists. • This list was voted for by a panel of 45 Guardian music writers, who ranked their 20 favourite albums from 2000 to 2019 inclusive. Trans_paroles_albums_section. –Matthew Schnipper, Nilüfer Yanya plays her guitar the way some people pick at their nails—as if she wouldn't know what to do with her hands if she stopped. “Power has come to me,” Vernon said earlier this year, “but it’s not fun to wield by yourself.” i,i is the solution, a collective effort as endless as it is empathetic. Ever.” –Matthew Schnipper, “I got two souls fighting for the same spotlight,” Long Island emo hero Jade Lilitri sings on the opening track of his third album as Oso Oso, Basking in the Glow. But we use these terms so much that when something like this record comes along, something which in small subtle … –Rawiya Kameir, Sam Barker is wary of taking the easy route in getting people to move their bodies. These songs are intimate and personal, with Le Bon carefully leveraging a broader, deeper palette of instrumentation than on past work. Soulful, political, sonically steeped in tradition as well as being dashingly innovative, the Danger Mouse-produced KIWANUKA is a party record with a dark, tortured heart – and one of 2019’s best albums. While 2019 still has plenty to offer, take a look at the best of the year’s first half in our list of the Top 20 Metal + Hard Rock Albums of 2019 (So Far). –Aimee Cliff, Do you think Lifetones are far and away better than This Heat? Composite: PR, Jo Hale/Redferns, Phil Fisk . The music world didn’t know how to respond to the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s unpredictable 2017 album Party; its follow-up, Designer, is even more opaque. –Laura Snapes, Jamila Woods, the Chicago-based teacher, activist, and R&B poet, takes an audacious leap forward on LEGACY! The 10 Best Albums of 2019. Over the alluring trap beat of “holy terrain,” she asks coyly for fidelity, nervous and brave in her open-heartedness. As the planet becomes more crowded, studies suggest the most surefire way to limit your impact on a world buckling beneath our self-made weight is to have fewer children, or even none at all. African Giant places him in the lineage of his Nigerian countryman Fela Kuti, a national treasure whose supreme musicality was inextricable from the rebellious surroundings in which it was made. Genres. Les dates de sorties des albums et mixtapes de hip hop ainsi que les tracklists de vos artistes préféré sur %site% trans_trier_album_par_style TOUT. Recommended Links. –Mike Powell. By Billboard Staff. The following is a list of music albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2019. Like the water Sprague often sings about, and by which she is so evidently moved, the music here is rippling and continuous, bedroom folk rendered with the meditative heart of new age. If, instead, parsing any of the proper nouns above makes you want to throw the whole of experimental music into the ocean, bear with me, and please give a listen to EXPORT. ), drawing on the subject’s specific history as a spiritual guide for locating her own truth. –Noah Yoo, By the time Bad Bunny dropped his debut LP on Christmas Eve 2018, the Puerto Rican star had already demonstrated fluency in the trap, R&B, and reggaetón sounds that dominate urbano music through a deluge of hit singles and features. See Billboard's rankings of this year's most popular songs, albums, and artists. Les Inrocks' 100 Best Albums of 2019. MAGDALENE is an overwhelming collection of intimacies, a generous feat of communication that turns her specific pain (not all of us have to get over a breakup with a celluloid vampire) into communion. But rarely do they melt into each other in the way they do on MIKE’s Tears of Joy. The songs follow an elusive—and affecting—dream logic. His 2017 album Flower Boy was a disarming journey into self-discovery, but Igor is even more revealing, as Tyler wrestles with the fact that maybe he doesn’t have everything figured out. –Dani Blum. Current page: The Best 50 Albums of 2019 (so far): 50-41 Next Page The Best 50 Albums of 2019 (so far): 40-31. But even going the comfortable route, she is constantly disrupting her own ’70s soft rock pastiche with sounds that represent the future—space-age synths, satellites trying to connect. “Murdered Out” is three-and-a-half minutes of a patient bass loop being continuously, relentlessly sandblasted by one thing after another: distorted guitar, encroaching noise, and Gordon’s roar, the strongest blast of all. Decade in review: 20 of the best jazz and blues albums of the 2010s; Ted Quinlan – Absolutely Dreaming. –Jillian Mapes, The magic of Christian Fennesz’s work comes in the way he turns the minimal into the maximal, expanding tiny moments into huge sonic environments. –Noah Yoo, PROTO plays like a document of the creation of Spawn, the neural network that experimentalist Holly Herndon trained to sing using her voice alongside the voices of some 300 collaborators. The last time we had a new album to talk about from The Boss was 2014 with High Hopes, which was a collection of cover songs, out-takes and re-imagined versions of tracks from past albums, EPs and tours. It’s an experience that can offer shelter from the noise—or it can offer better noise, if that’s what you’re looking for. Warmed by humming amps and the presence of four bodies pressed in close, the album unspools as effortlessly as a campfire session—stray counterpoints, offhand vocal harmonies, tiny details dancing like shadows on the treeline. –Mark Richardson, Titanic Rising is vintage-sounding music for people who don’t want to live in the past. Meanwhile, avant-pop what-the-fucks 100 Gecs and hard-rocking heroes Sheer Mag kept noise alive, and rising stars Megan the Stallion and DaBaby, both masterful mouths of the South, led a class of newcomers setting the table for the 2020s. Instant Watch Options; Genres; Movies or TV; IMDb Rating; In Theaters; On TV; Release Year; Keywords; Prime Video (25) IMDb TV (1) Prime Video (Rent or Buy) (96) Drama (105) Comedy (63) Thriller (62) Action (51) Adventure (47) Crime (42) … To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. As the culture continued to sag in 2019, music soared. "The kid drops his bucket and spade/And climbs into the sun," he murmurs before the track’s steady bassline suddenly glitches, as if the needle of a turntable has hit a bad groove, and Cave begins to keen in falsetto. These are … See more Classic Rock features . The whole thing is recorded grittily—a garage band’s lo-fi aesthetic applied to hip-hop. Not that the trauma surfaces in the music. Even at its gauziest, however, Olsen’s music still thrums with anxiety; her version of dream-pop is unsettled by existential terror, which prickles to the surface of “Too Easy” and “What It Is” like fever sweat. Consequence of Sound: Top 50 Albums of 2019 45. Tyler, the Creator, Maggie Rogers, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Post Malone, Ariana Grande, Miranda Lambert, Bad Bunny and J Balvin. “Get Yr Life Back” sits uneasily atop tensely arranged found-sound; “Sketch Artist” seems to be tearing itself apart; “Paprika Pony” rides a minimal toy-piano rap beat that sounds like it was created by the world’s most sinister toddler. On this album, even Woods’ more straightforward declarations—she’s “not your typical girl,” she’s “all out of fucks”—are set within richly imaginative and deeply allusive contexts, rooted in her artistic forebears. These are what Hval calls her “loops of the mind,” scattered here among voices that search for communion in an atmosphere of crisis. The Sydney Morning Herald. Je vous propose un nouveau calendrier hebdomadaire pour les nouveautés musicales à ne pas manquer. if(typeof(jQuery)=="function"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)}; July 17, 2019, 6:32pm. HF. The talent and touch become expected — … But until ANIMA, there was something a little stiff about Yorke’s beats, both solo and with his band, a studiousness that suggested a lifetime of nervously eyeing the dancefloor. But not five months later came Two Hands, which is as much an exorcism as its predecessor. –Nathan Smith, After the lonesome folk of her 2009 debut, Sharon Van Etten’s subsequent albums mostly offered modest tweaks to a familiar strain of heartland-flavored indie. The bright “Sell Out” contemplates her growth as an artist, the things she’s lost to get there, and the strength she found in turning her “emotions to something y’all could sing to.” Anger Management bursts open with the fury of a hardcore record, but it also shows there’s much more to Rico than her temper. Like all of Fennesz’s best work, Agora evokes memories and the way they linger and change. But in Solange’s generous hands, heady ideas don’t feel out of reach. Del Rey’s attitude towards destructive relationships take a refreshing turn, giving her more agency than ever before: “You’re fun and you’re wild/But you don’t know the half of the shit that you put me through/Your poetry’s bad and you blame the news,” she sings wearily on the title track. Meilleurs albums 2019 : notre palmarès de mi-année Meilleurs albums 2019 : notre palmarès de mi-année. Polo approaches his verses with the dedication of a singer-songwriter, and his bleeding-heart sadness is more akin to country than emo-rap. takes that journey one step further: It cements Del Rey as a newly emergent Great American Songwriter. We count down the best albums of 2019, from Lana Del Rey's 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!'