The aggregation site Album of the Year compiled End of Decade lists by two dozen magazines. Turns out the majority of artists on the list were already superstars when they made their decade-defining albums - The Outline notices, and tries to explain in an interesting article. Also, they analyze what music critics are today. Below […]
Fact Magazine made a collection of the best 2019 club music. What is to be found there is: individual, subjective and collective strategies for coping with the alienation; denaturalized, yet organic sounds; borders between club, footwork, hardcore and jungle; linking the populist big room techno that seems to be everywhere these days with a keen […]
"Prodigious talent delivers game-changing debut. When did you last hear a genuinely new sound?!" - NME says about their pick for the album of the year. 50th on the list is a bit less obvious - "a break-up and its fallout, via the medium of wispy pop"; 'Good at Falling' by The Japanese House. Check out the […]
It’s the shows that go deep on specific albums, individual songs, or particular artists that can be so valuable for music fans - Stereogum says about their choice of the best podcasts of 2019. 'People's Party' is about Talib Kweli, but it’s also a show about culture, politics, writing, comedy, self-actualization, sports; 'This Particular Album […]
Both Stereogum and PopMatters made their lists of best jazz albums of 2019 and the lists don't coincide much, which is interesting to see since both websites come from contemporary pop-music milieu. Stereogum chose Jaimie Branch's 'Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise' as the jazz album of the year, while PM divided its […]
London hardcore band Game have the best punk album of the year with their debut 'No One Wins', according to the Quietus. The rest of the Top 10 is filled by Implement, Petlya, Terra Soror, Haiboku, Rainbow Grawe, PlasticHeads, Enzyme, Soga, Disguise. No One Wins by Game
For the full list go here; the top 10 are below: 10. Purple Mountains: 'Purple Mountains'9. Weyes Blood: 'Titanic Rising'8. Fennesz: 'Agora'7. Helado Negro: 'This Is How You Smile'6. Bad Bunny: 'X 100PRE'5. Solange: 'When I Get Home'4. Angel Olsen: 'All Mirrors'3. Big Thief: 'U.F.O.F.'2. FKA twigs: 'MAGDALENE'1. Lana Del Rey: 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!'
Here the full 70 list; the top 10 spots are taken by the following: 10. Purple Mountains – 'Purple Mountains' 9. Big Thief - 'U.F.O.F.' 8. Angel Olsen – 'All Mirrors' 7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – 'Ghosteen' 6. Jamila Woods – 'LEGACY! LEGACY!' 5. Dave - 'PSYCHODRAMA' 4. Fontaines D.C. - 'Dogrel' […]
In addition to all the new names, established artists like redefined themselves, and visionaries took their art to new heights, Pitchfork says about their list of 100 best songs of 2019. Shawn Mendes' 'If I Can’t Have You' and FKA twigs' 'cellophane' stand on the edges of that list. Check out the full list here.
Brooklyn Vegan has an interesting year-end segment - favourite albums chosen by various musicians. The idea is great, the results so-so. Mostly, the lists are either too narrow or just what you'd expect. Except from the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle. He's got some straight indie-rock -Purple Mountains and Big Thief, modern hip-hop - clipping., metal - […]
PopMatters made a good selection of 15 best R'n'B/soul albums published in 2019. There's Emeli Sandé with "a real touch of warmth and love" on her 'Real Life', Michael Kiwanuka with "luminous songs", Jamila Woods with songs that "feel like individual baptisms as much as compositions" and, obviously, a dozen others. Check the full list […]
Instead of listing them from the No. 1 best to No. 100 best, AllMusic listed the albums in alphabetical order, with links to original reviews. There's a few classical music album, and it's only these that have a full five-star reviews :-). Still, a good list.
It's middle-of-the-road music, mostly ladies in the top 10, no surprises, nothing experimental; a good and quick way to understand where does the RS stand. Check out the full list here.
On the top spot there's 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!' because "Lana Del Rey just might have written the next best American record she’s so obsessed with after all". The list finishes with Greet Death's 'New Hell', bearing "a feeling of depression in desperate search of catharsis". Check out the full list here.
Rolling Stone holds this, let's call it conservative rock position, and it's reflected on their list of best albums of the 2010s. There's no surprises there really, but it's interesting to see what did end up on the list, and how high on it, and what did not. Check it out here.
The Quietus is opposed to album rating and best-of lists in general, but still, they took a bullet for their audience and made a list of 100 best albums of 2019. Good that they did, it's one of the most diverse. In the top 10 only, they have Black Midi, Richard Dawson, and Sunn O))), […]
PopMatters has chosen "ten particularly phenomenal albums from across the globe", the ones where "artists ask their audience to leave behind insular worldviews and try to understand new perspectives". They chose Nigerian blues guitarist Mdou Moctar, Izraeli pop-trio A-WA, afro-pop by Ekiti Sound, tropical pop by The Garifuna Collective, Afro-Cuban singer Angélique Kidjo, Turkish rock and […]
"Not fashionable but eternal" - Revolver magazine writes about their choice for the best metal album of 2019. At No. 25 a "cosmic death-metal". All in all, Revolver says it was "one of the biggest years in heavy music in recent memory". Check out their best albums list here. They made a list of top 25 […]
"2019 assured us that the album is a far, confident cry from deceased. Billie Eilish and Lizzo showed us multiple ways to cram banger after banger onto a disc while aspiring to something greater than a mere collection of singles. Tyler, the Creator and Angel Olsen took their studio recordings to staggering new levels this […]
Mix Magazine made a list of the best DJ mixes from the 2010s, a survey of key moments, movements and trends of the last 10 years. The mixes range from one minute to six hours, 30 hours all in all. There are world famous names like Avicii, Four Tet, and Skrillex, to lesser known like […]
"They stole from hip hop, glam, Motown, rock’n’roll, R&B and even doo-wop with equal ease and evident delight. They picked Phil Spector’s pockets and mugged John Lennon... Somebody should have called the police" - NME says about their choice for the album of the decade.
What PopMatters appreciates about metal is "this livid energy that continues to push the genre in different directions, be it through monolithic drone, otherworldly psychedelia, lavish shoegazing, crust infusions, post-metal applications, or anything else they find interesting", so they made list with that perspective. Waste of Space Orchestra on No. 1 spot proves that point.
All Music chose 200 best albums from 2010 to 2019, listed somewhat differently. They picked the best albums, but unlike others, listed them chronologically, attached to the year they were published. Every year does not have the same number of albums, suggesting some years were better. A good list - check it out here.
Since it's Loudwire the list was made from a specific position, so it's narrowed down to, more or less, alt-rock. It goes from Dorothy at No. 66 to Stone Sour at No. 1, with expected names on the list - Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Deftones, Marilyn Manson, etc. - and quite a few lesser-known in between. […]
Of the ones already published, The Vice's list of 100 best albums of the 2010s is the broadest - going from Drake to Deafheaven, and a whole lot of it in between. It's still pop music, an anglo-centric list, with a few lesser-known albums. Worth a check.
Like any other list, it's purpose is to check out the ones listed and start exploring them, and to get to know the ones who made the list. The same applies to Loudwire's list of best metal albums of the last ten years (2010 up to 2019). It goes from Opeth's 'In Cauda Venenum' released […]
The full list of 100 is here, with the first ten albums on the list being Fontaines D.C. 'Dogrel', Weyes Blood 'Titanic Rising', Angel Olsen ' All Mirrors', Little Simz 'Grey Area', black midi 'Schlagenheim', Sleaford Mods 'Eton Alive', Cate Le Bon 'Reward', Vanishing Twin 'The Age of Immunology', Ex:Re 'Ex:Re', and The Comet is […]
Plenty of indie-rock on Stereogum's list of the 100 best albums of the 2010s (not over yet, right!?), the strongest pop albums of this decade, the chosen hip-hop albums, and a few metal albums. Generally, it's mostly American music. Still, a good starting point to research a "shaggy, undefinable" decade.
They've got Lebanese rock band Mashrou’ Leila with their video 'Roman' ("strength that celebrates Muslim women"), Radiohead with 'Lotus Flower' ("if it’s a risk, that’s probably a good thing”, Thom Yorke later said), Danny Brown with 'Grown Up' because it "highlights the guileless joy that anchors his music", Robyn and her 'Call Your Girlfriend', FKA […]
Slowthai's favourite album of the 2010s is 'Die Lit' by Playboi Carti because it is "our generation’s hardcore music". To Weyes Blood it's Connan Mockasin’s 'Caramel', "a progressive concept album with some beautiful sadness sprinkled in between". "A whopper and hella refined" - Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs said about her choice, 'Silence Yourself' […]
