So much fantastic music was released this year! These are my favorite records of 2019 (in no particular order):
French Vanilla- How Am I Not Myself
Drab Majesty- Modern Mirror
Be Forest- Knocturne
DIIV- Deceiver
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Ghostseen
FKA Twigs- Magdalene
Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising
Lacing- Without
Chelsea Wolfe- Birth of Violence
Blankenberge- More
Capitol- Dream Noise
Life on Venus- Odes to the Void
Angel Olsen- Mirrors
Star Horse- You Said Forever
Soft Blue Shimmer- Nothing Happens Here
Blushing- Blushing
Bodywash- Comforter
Hibou- Halve
Eternal Something- Realm Zone
Bedroom Eyes- Nerves
Vivian Girls- Memory
Pocket of Lollipops- Be My Non-Friend Friend
Bat for Lashes- Lost Girls
Marissa Nadler/Stephen Brodsky- Droneflower
Moving Panormas- In Two
She Sir- Ways a Season
Dottie- Part
Alcest- Spiritual Instinct
Winter- Infinite Summer
Chasms- The Mirage
Newmoon- Nothing Hurts Forever
No Vacation- Phasing
Ladytron- Ladytron
Tamaryn- Dreaming in the Dark
Keel Her- With Kindness
Billie Eilish- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Lana Del Rey- Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Fatamorgana- Terra Alta
Ritual Howls- Rendered Armor
Second Still- Violet Phase
SKEMER- Benevolence
Wires & Lights- A Chasm Here and Now
Black Marble- Bigger than life
WINGTIPS- Exposure Therapy
She Past Away- Disko Anksiyete
Secret Shame- Dark Synthetics
Body of Light- Time to Kill
Cold Showers- Motionless
Chasms- The Mirage
Purple Mountains- Purple Mountains
Jessica Pratt- Quiet Signs
Cate le Bon- Reward
Bill Callahan- Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Shana Cleveland- Night of the Worm Moon
Mac DeMarco- Here Comes the Cowboy
Brion Starr- Global Identity
Simrit- When We Return
Raveena- Lucid
Aarktica- Mareación
Priests- The Seduction of Canvas
Steve Roach- Trance Archaeology
Here’s a playlist for you!
My favorite single of the year is Riki: Napolean; it’s dark synth-pop at its best and most authentic! The video features one of my closest friends, Daniel (of the band The Vigils), swaying and sweating in a cowboy hat.
