It Starts With a Birthstone - Albums of the Year 2019

 

This is me. Looking a bit worse for wear and wistful midway through the calendar year in my new local. Here is the final rundown of my favourite records of the year. It's the fourth year I've done this Top Fifty on here, counting down one day at a time from the beginning of November. This one seems like my best list, not necessarily because the records are better this year but because the process has been the most thorough it's ever been. I can vouch fully for every album listed here. Many very good records haven't made it; Lana Del Ray, Bubblegum Lemonade, The Murder Capital, Ona, Mac Demarco, Wives, Sleaford Mods, The Persian Leaps, Jeanines, A.A.Bondy, Divino Nino and myriad others. Check out the upcoming playlist for specifics.

1. Bill Callahan - Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest
2. Sarathy Korwar - More Arriving
3. Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunity
4. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
5. Lightning Dust - Spectre
6. Robert Forster - Inferno
7. Aldous Harding - Designer
8. Wild Firth - Lawn Memory
9. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
10. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
11. Big Thief - Two Hands
12. Mega Bog - Dolphine
13. The Mystery Lights - Too Much Tension
14. Wilco - Ode To Joy
15. Cate Le Bon - Reward
16. Little Simz - Grey Area
17. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
18. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
19. Damon Locks & the Black Monument Ensemble - Where Future Unfolds
20. Joan Shelley - Like The River Loves The Sea
21. Olden Yolk - Living Theatre
22. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Colorado
23. Elva - Winter Sun
24. Jeremy Tuplin - Pink Mirror
25. Shana Cleveland - Night of the Worm Moon
26. Hand Habits - placeholder
27. Joanna Sternberg - Then I Try Some More
28. Adam Green - Engine of Paradise
29. Trash Kit - Horizon
30. Possible Humans - Aspiring to be a Bloke
31. Kevin Morby - Oh My God
32. Fat White Family - Serf's Up!
33. KOKOKO - Fongola!
34. Tiny Ruins - Olympic Girls
35. Good Morning - Basketball Breakups
36. Rustin Man - Drift Code
37. Program - Show Me
38. Neutrals - Kebab Disco
39. Boogarins - Sombre Duvida
40. Penelope Isles - Until The Tide Creeps In
41. Parsnip - When The Tree Bears Fruit
42. James Yorkston - The Route To The Harmonium
43. Kit Sebastian - Mantre Moderne
44. Modern Nature - How To Live
45. Kelsey Lu - Blood
46. John Southworth - Miracle In The Night
47. International Teachers of Pop - International Teachers of Pop
48. Half Japanese - Invincible
49. Doug Tuttle - Dream Road
50. Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love