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The Best Albums of 2019

Here’s the best music of 2019, according to Emacs, which has carefully tallied what I’ve been listening to:

Sam Amidon I See The Sign
Meat Beat Manifesto Opaque Couche
Coil Swanyard
Various Third Noise Principle (Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984)
Brigid Mae Power The Bones You Keep Close
Lucy Roleff Left Open in a Room
The Volume Settings Folder Laguna
Various Nigeria 70 (No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987)
Afrodeutsche Break Before Make
Christoph de Babalon Hectic Shakes
Kronos Quartet Terry Riley: Sun Rings

It’s a bit difficult to do a play-based ranking this year, because I’ve just bought way too much stuff, so there just hasn’t been time to listen to everything…

There wasn’t really any single stand-out new album this year (except the Amidon album), just a bunch of new music that’s good and interesting and stuff.

Here’s the best old albums I’ve bought in 2019, and once again Bright Phoebus by Lal and Mike Waterson won, because I bought a new version of it: This time the vinyl version that had to be withdrawn because the copyright holders demanded it be destroyed. But I got a copy from ebay! Hah!

Haxors’r’us.

Lal & Mike Waterson Bright Phoebus
Sam Amidon All Is Well
Various Oscarsongs
Blue Iverson Hotep
Joe Jackson Live 1980-86
Mia Doi Todd Pink Sun EP
New Order Movement: Remaster
Various For Discos Only
A Certain Ratio acr:box
Don Cherry Brown Rice
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