2019 wrap-up

  On 12/19/2019 at 6:00 PM, Rubin Farr said:

How could anyone listen to this all year and think "yeah that's the best music I've heard!"

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She fine tho

  On 11/19/2019 at 6:54 PM, Enthusiast said:

1. Fennesz - Agora 

spent the best part of an acid trip listening to this n just staring at the cover art. so beautiful.

www.karelvo.com/2019

120-ish recommendations. Quite a few I got from this board tbh

favorite eps/albums/stuff from 2019:

freddie gibs, madlib - bandana

emptyset - blossoms

datach'i - bones + bonus trxxx-

mayhem - daemon

flying lotus - flamagra

galaxian - coming up for air

afx - soudnlab20/fieldaysketches

venetiansnares - greg hates car culture

mike patton - corpse flower

danny brown - uknowatmmsain

barker - utility

tipper - jettison mind hatch

rainer landfermann - mein wort in deiner dunkelheit

tool - fear inoculum

devourment - obscene majesty

lee gamble - exhaust

lorn - drown the traitor within

dj nigga fox - cartas na manga

stenny - upsurge

rian treanor - ataxia

4rd - Box Driver
Aesop Rock & Tobacco - Malibu Ken
Amon Tobin - Long Stories
Avey Tare - Cows on Hourglass Pond
Bjarki - Happy Earthday
Bogdan Raczynski - Rave ‘Till You Cry
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
Datach’i - Bones
Floating Points - Crush
JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Konx-Om-Pax - Ways of Seeing
Lanark Artefax - Corra Linn
Rolando Simmons - Summer Diary One EP
RX101 - Dopamine
Thom Yorke - ANIMA

finally put a list together. happy with 1-25, after that it's kind of a crapshoot depending on my mood. good year chaps

  On 12/13/2019 at 9:05 PM, Nil said:

Newly released Peter van Hoesen's 2008-2018 Uncovered Vol 1-2-3 might totally end in my list Obviously I haven't listened to all the 52 (!) tracks yet but the bits I've heard are stellar.

He nearly totally steals the shows with those archives, more particularly volumes 2 & 3.

The People I Love would probably be my AOTY if I were willing to cough up the $12 to listen to the whole thing

  On 12/28/2019 at 9:42 AM, Jafs said:

He nearly totally steals the shows with those archives, more particularly volumes 2 & 3.

need to listen to this ! also forgot to add FieldsOS (will have to buy it a some point) and dgoHn EP to my list ! 

  On 12/28/2019 at 6:19 PM, drillkicker said:

The People I Love would probably be my AOTY if I were willing to cough up the $12 to listen to the whole thing

if you get an apple music free trial you can stream all the pi releases on there (I haven't checked The People I Love yet, but I have been listening to Anna Webber - Clockwise a lot and can recommend that one for sure, really amazing stuff)

  On 12/28/2019 at 7:55 PM, taphead said:

if you get an apple music free trial you can stream all the pi releases on there (I haven't checked The People I Love yet, but I have been listening to Anna Webber - Clockwise a lot and can recommend that one for sure, really amazing stuff)

I'll probably just buy the album eventually, but I will now check out Clockwise.

  On 12/28/2019 at 7:38 AM, Lada Laika said:

finally put a list together. happy with 1-25, after that it's kind of a crapshoot depending on my mood. good year chaps

 

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1. Dead to a Dying World - Elegy

2. Brutus - Nest

3. Yohuna - Mirroring

4. The Philistines Jr. - Help!

5. Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild

6. Necking - Cut Your Teeth

7. Datach'i - Bones

8. Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation

9. Hatchie - Keepsake

10. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated

11. Mizmor - Cairn

12. Georgia Maq - Pleaser

13. Bogdan Raczynski - Rave 'Till You Cry

14. Holly Herndon - PROTO

15. Jenny Hval - The Promise of Love

16. RAMZi - Multiquest Niveau 1: Camouflé

17. Kedr Livanskiy - Your Need

18. Lingua Ignota - Caligula

19. Cruel Diagonals - Pulse of Indignation

20. Mafgar - Summerland

21. Lisa Prank - Perfect Love Song

22. Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

23. Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken

24. Nkisi - 7 Directions

25. Thelma - The Only Thing

26. Emily Reo - Only You Can See It

27. Hiro Kone - A Fossil Begins To Bray

28. Black Belt Eagle Scout - At the Party With My Brown Friends

29. Alex Lahey - The Best of Luck Club

30. Tryphème - Thanks God For Air Emotions

31. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

32. Kelsey Lu - Blood

33. Velvet Q - Is This What You Want?

34. Punch Cards - Amy Gibbon LP

35. Hama - Houmeissa

36. upsammy - Wild Chamber

37. Sepha - Childish

38. Autechre - Warp Tapes 89-93

39. Infinity Crush - Virtual Heaven

40. SØS Gunver Ryberg - Entangled

41. FKA Twigs - Magdalene

42. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

43. Girlpool - What Chaos is Imaginary

44. Trouble Books - Balance

45. Yu Su - Roll With the Punches

46. Emily Yacina - Remember the Silver

47. Ayankoko - Kia Sao ກ້ຽວສາວ

48. Eartheater - Trinity

49. Astrid Sonne - Cliodynamics

50. Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong

 

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can't remember if I put Brutus on my list, too lazy/drunk to look back, but fuck yeah that album is good, one of my AOTYs as well

  On 12/29/2019 at 3:01 AM, QQQ said:

can't remember if I put Brutus on my list, too lazy/drunk to look back, but fuck yeah that album is good, one of my AOTYs as well

hell yeah. probs my underrated record of the year. so fucking good.

*jots everything down*

Here's my list so far. My taste in music just seems to get darker over time..

• Strafe F.R. - Shadow Position
• The Wyrding Module - Typhonic Neural Tantra
• Fennesz - Agora
• Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Panama Canal Left-Hand Path
• Biosphere - The Senja Recordings
• UnicaZürn - Sensudestricto

All the Interplanetary Criminal stuff and Planet Euphorique releases were great this year.

Alcest - Spritual Instinct
Aleksi Perala - Presence / Resonance / Sunshine 3
Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
Autechre - Warp Tapes 89-93
Barker - Utility
Big Business - The Beast You Are
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
Boris - Love & Evol
Broken English Club - White Rats II
Car_Bomb - Mordial
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
Cienfuegos - Autogolpe
clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin?
Denzel Curry - ZUU
Duchovny - Future Egypt
Fennesz - Agora
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Have A Nice Life - Sea of Worry
Hide - Hell Is Here
K. Leimer - Irrational Overcast
Katsunori Sawa - An Enlightenment Manual, Your Consciousness of Truth
Kevin Drumm - 1204
Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken
Meemo Comma - Sleepmoss
Milleu - Shallow Earth
Monolord - No Comfort
Ossia - Devil's Dance
Oto Hiax - 2
Our Lady Of The Flowers - Holiday In Thule
Pessimist & Karim Mass - S/T
Plant 43 - Three Dimensions
Portico Quartet - Memory Streams
Pye Corner Audio - Hollow Earth
Rainer Veil - Vanity
Rian Treanor - Ataxia
Shlohmo - The End
Simon Scott - Soundings
Special Request - Bedroom Tapes / Vortex
Steve Hauschildt - Nonlin
Steve Murphy - Mira Electronics
Sunn O))) - Life Metal / Pyroclasts
TR/ST - The Destroyer 1 & 2
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
VC-118A - Inside
Whirr - Feels Like You
0f.digital - STTC

I bought The People I Love.  On the first listen, it seemed less rhythmically intense than Dialect Fluorescent, and also less consistent in recording/production quality.  Journey around the Truth remains the album of the year for me.

This was my 2019 AOTY.  Chris Gladwin never disappoints me, and although this didn't release til Halloween, nothing else approaches it this year IMO.  Flawless hauntology / occult goodness.  (And I snagged a green Cthulhu CD-R)

https://module1485.bandcamp.com/album/typhonic-neural-tantra

I'm making a list of all nominations / votes for the WATMM album of the year 2019. 

@MaartenVC late to the game, but be sure to include mine:

Special Request - Vortex / Bedroom Tapes / Offworld / Zero Fucks

Andy Stott - It Should Be Us

Function - Existenz

Stenny - Upsurge

Barker - Utility 

Bjarki - Happy Earthday / Psychotic_Window

Shed - Oderbruch

CFCF - Liquid Colours

Nathan Micay - Blue Spring

Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

Lanark Artefax - Cora Linn

Datassette - Kestrel Manoeuvres in the Dark

dgoHn - dgoHn EP 

Topdown Dialectic - Vol. 2 

Leif - Loom Dream

VC-118A - Inside

Levon Vincent - World Order Music

Rrose - Hymn To Moisture

Floating Points - Crush

Sa Pa - In A Landscape

Alex G - House of Sugar

Remote Viewing - Comit

Why? - AOKOHIO

Segue - The island

Rod Modell - Captagon

Anthony Naples - Fog FM

Yagya - Stormur

Logos - imperial flood

Bogdan Raczynski - Rave 'Till You Cry

Fennesz - Agora

Placid Angles - First Blue Sky

Panda Bear - Buoys

@MaartenVC

My nominations are these three:

Steve Lehman - The People I Love (grew on me after a few listens)

Dave Liebman & Andy Emler - Journey around the Truth

John Wall & Alex Rodgers - Soar

Gonna get killed for a couple of these since they’re hot takes.

LPs

Plaid - Polymer (AOTY for me)

Battles - Juice B Crypts

Ilkae - Formal Format

Proswell - Gain

Logic - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

ScHoolboy Q - CrasH Talk

Steve Cobby - Sweet Jesus

Floating Points - Crush

The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery

Holly Herndon - PROTO

Clark - Daniel Isn’t Real

Placid Angles - First Blue Sky

Tyler, the Creator - IGOR

Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Bandana

Amon Tobin - Fear in a Handful of Dust / Long Stories

black midi - Schlagenheim 

Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Thom Yorke - ANIMA

Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Matmos - Plastic Anniversary

EPS:

WXAXRXP shoutout in general. Aphex Twin/Plaid/Boards of Canada/Flying Lotus had the best session EPs

TNGHT - II

Atypic - DE:Tuned 10.10

Clark - Branding Problem

^by the way there’s still plenty of stuff I’m curious to check from last year later this year so this is pretty much a work in progress. 
 

  On 11/28/2019 at 7:58 PM, dr lopez said:

that nathan micay was nothing special. Has no place on there even though I didn’t hate it.

 

 

That’s my Spotify plist for best tracks of the year if anyone is interested. Play in order please

 

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also fuck yes Los is probably my favorite off the whole album, besides Maru, All to Get Her and Dancers.

Pretty solid year. My favorites:

1. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma -- Tracing Back The Radiance [LP]

2. Lanark Artefax -- Live at No Bounds Festival [Live Set]

3. Ssaliva -- Unshielded [EP]

4. Wild Nothing -- Blue Wings [Single]

5. Boy Harsher -- Careful [LP]

6. Daniel Lopatin -- Uncut Gems [LP]

7. Ernest Hood -- Neighborhoods [Reissue/1975]

8. June Chikuma -- Les Archives [Reissue/1986]

9. Oren Ambarchi -- Simian Angel [LP]

10. Andy Stott -- It Should Be Us [EP]

11. Raveena -- Lucid [LP]

12. Lanark Artefax -- Corra Linn [EP]

13. Kelly Moran -- Origin EP 

14. Lee Gamble -- Exhaust EP

15. Topdown Dialectic -- Vol. 2 [LP]

I should listen to that Kelly Moran record more.