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1.

Norman Fucking Rockwell! 

 Lana Del Rey

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"Guys, I know it's been a slow year for major label music but let's calm down a little. Yes it's very good and frankly a little surprising. Lana was already an artist who I think a lot of people anticipated had a ceiling . She definitely breaks through the ceiling - but best of the decade?? Maybe ...""Guys, I know it's been a slow year for major label music but let's calm down a little. Yes it's very good and frankly a little surprising. Lana was already an artist who I think a lot of people anticipated had a ceiling . She definitely breaks through the ceiling - but best of the decade?? Maybe a few more listens and it could crack the top 10 for me but I'm not so hasty to herald it as the AOTY or AOTD. I read things like "It establishes her as one of America’s greatest living songwriters." thanks pitchfork. Pros: Music is very good for the most part, Venice Bitch is awesome, a lot of really smooth songwriting on here. I've always liked her voice and it's good on here. Very well produced. Cons: There's still a handful of duds. The sound is nothing new she is serving up what she serves up so if you didn't like her sound previously this isn't going to change that. The cover shortly after venice bitch immediately kills the immersion for me. She still can't write lyrics I care about. I still don't care about her (or her persona's) sex life. It's good, it's got some really great moments. It's her best album and a great accomplishment. She was always an artist I liked and would defend but not really ardently. This can change that. But man review sites giving this a higher rating than In Rainbows calling it the album of the decade? I'm not there yet. Will listen some more."  [+]  Reply

- corenfro | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (11 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

701 charts

Rank Score:

7,634

Rank in 2019:

1

Rank in 2010s:

21

Overall Rank:

198

Average Rating:

 83 (729 votes)

Comments:

57

2.

Igor 

 Tyler, The Creator

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"Having only listened to “Flower Boy” from Tyler, I like “Igor” much much more. The atmosphere the album builds throughout its songs is very pleasing, and that's exactly what I loved about his past record. It's not 'agressive rap', which many times I don't quite like. It's more 'jazzy'; like somet...""Having only listened to “Flower Boy” from Tyler, I like “Igor” much much more. The atmosphere the album builds throughout its songs is very pleasing, and that's exactly what I loved about his past record. It's not 'agressive rap', which many times I don't quite like. It's more 'jazzy'; like something you can listen to driving in the night, or in a rainy day. My favorite ones in here include “EARFQUAKE”, “A BOY IS A GUN” and “GONE, GONE / THANK YOU”. Maybe I'll go visit his past catalogue."  [+]  Reply

- lleon79 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

673 charts

Rank Score:

6,666

Rank in 2019:

2

Rank in 2010s:

29

Overall Rank:

241

Average Rating:

 83 (821 votes)

Comments:

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3.

Titanic Rising 

 Weyes Blood

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"Definitely an early contender for my favorite album of 2019 (along with Grey Area). Natalie Mering’s voice gives me Joni Mitchell and Nico vibes while still feeling completely new. The instrumentation is beautiful. There's the folky, twangy guitars, lush pianos, strings, synths... it's all perfec...""Definitely an early contender for my favorite album of 2019 (along with Grey Area). Natalie Mering’s voice gives me Joni Mitchell and Nico vibes while still feeling completely new. The instrumentation is beautiful. There's the folky, twangy guitars, lush pianos, strings, synths... it's all perfect! Titanic Rising sounds like it exists outside of time too. It definitely has the folk and psychedelic sounds of the 60s and 70s but the production and mixing are all very modern. This is especially true on songs like Andromeda and Movies where the synth really transports you out of this world and into the future. I've already listened to the album three times and honestly I think my opinion of this album is only going to go up from here. Titanic Rising is an album I want to go around showing off to my friends. Can't say enough good things about it."  [+]  Reply

- mjp11 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (7 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

644 charts

Rank Score:

5,545

Rank in 2019:

3

Rank in 2010s:

38

Overall Rank:

298

Average Rating:

 82 (701 votes)

Comments:

74

4.

Magdalene 

 FKA Twigs

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"I guess what a 2019 gospel album would really sound like: constant digi-stutter slicing, vast vocal echo chambers, smoothed-out trap underpinnings and the kind of meta-introspection that has ruled much of the later 10's. A far more fleshed-out display of her talents than her debut, which just fel...""I guess what a 2019 gospel album would really sound like: constant digi-stutter slicing, vast vocal echo chambers, smoothed-out trap underpinnings and the kind of meta-introspection that has ruled much of the later 10's. A far more fleshed-out display of her talents than her debut, which just felt like a stretched-out reprise of her earlier EPs, the songs still occasionally play things a little bit closer to the chest when the often grand, cascading arrangements seem to be calling out for a more full-throated bellow, but still an impressive giant-step-up for the admittingly pretty inimitable artist if not an indisputable masterpiece on it's own right. Still enough to show she's near the top of the mountain, regardless. "  [+]  Reply

- cestuneblague | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

397 charts

Rank Score:

2,591

Rank in 2019:

4

Rank in 2010s:

93

Overall Rank:

665

Average Rating:

 79 (381 votes)

Comments:

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5.

Schlagenheim 

 Black Midi

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"black midi is not just a hype, for several months, I promise a bright future for this new English band. The four musicians have risen with ridiculous ease to the rank of the most exciting band of the UK underground scene, claiming their outsider status by an incredible stage presence. Everything ..."" black midi is not just a hype, for several months, I promise a bright future for this new English band. The four musicians have risen with ridiculous ease to the rank of the most exciting band of the UK underground scene, claiming their outsider status by an incredible stage presence. Everything starts with a live recorded in the studios of the KEXP radio. They become the ones we expect, they intrigue the specialized press and remain however in a virtual silence. And after months of waiting, the time of the first effort has finally come; "Schlagenheim" is released. The first impression must always be the strongest; and that, black midi understood it well. The visual and musical chaos offered by the quartet is in fact perfectly controlled. Architects of anarchy, black midi also know how to slow down the pace. Schlagenheim has just closed the question that burned the lips of all music lovers: black midi are not just a hype. They are reinventing guitar rock with one of the most dazzling debut album of the decade. 9/10 Best track: "Near DT, MI""  [+]  Reply

- Kurtco | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

379 charts

Rank Score:

2,541

Rank in 2019:

5

Rank in 2010s:

100

Overall Rank:

681

Average Rating:

 79 (432 votes)

Comments:

37

6.

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 

 Billie Eilish

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"Can't really bring much new to say, yes she benefited greatly from being born into a hollywood family and her preternal social-media savviness and heaps of self-confidence definitely helped hype her music to the extreme. And yes she is a precociously deft songwriter with striking, crinkly-voiced ...""Can't really bring much new to say, yes she benefited greatly from being born into a hollywood family and her preternal social-media savviness and heaps of self-confidence definitely helped hype her music to the extreme. And yes she is a precociously deft songwriter with striking, crinkly-voiced R&B-style vocals who has a knack for making a catchy, moody modern pop song as her singles attest (particurally the digital-finger-snap paranoia of "Bury a Friend") who can occasionally open up to something more geniunely vulnerable and confrontational ("I Love You"). WWAFAWDWG also constantly reminds of you every other 21st century slightly left-of-center pop star, with elements of The Weeknd, Melanie Martinez, Sky Ferreira, Imogen Heap, (dear god) Halsey and espcially Lorde strewn throughout and which can occasionally lead into straight-faced impressionism. And "My Strange Addiction" is one of the more risible tracks I've heard recently (ESPECIALLY because of the samples), but that should've been obvious from the title alone. Again, like a lot of pop albums it would still keep the momentum and be far more effective if it cut the song length in half. So yes I think this album is getting greatly overpraised for critics who want to latch themselves on to the next big thing and avoid Getting It Wrong-tm. I also do think she has a lot of potential if she can use her influences more as seasoning than ingredients, and if she stops thinking she's the edgiest teen in the world and just allows her so-far overprocessed and somewhat stifled compositions to reveal their rawer side and eventually grow into their fullest capabilities. "  [+]  Reply

- cestuneblague | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (10 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

427 charts

Rank Score:

2,384

Rank in 2019:

6

Rank in 2010s:

108

Overall Rank:

723

Average Rating:

 74 (607 votes)

Comments:

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7.

Ghosteen 

 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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"It pains me to rate this album so low. Not only is it a heartbreaking, deep look at loss and mourning, but it's also really beautiful. The shimmering synths sound just like the cover looks - alive and crisp. But there's just too much here, and there's not enough variety. The first couple songs ar...""It pains me to rate this album so low. Not only is it a heartbreaking, deep look at loss and mourning, but it's also really beautiful. The shimmering synths sound just like the cover looks - alive and crisp. But there's just too much here, and there's not enough variety. The first couple songs are great, especially "Bright Horses." I had to stop listening after that one when I was at work for fear of breaking out in tears in the middle of the work day. The opener finds Cave in a mode that he's often in on this album, spinning abstract stories out of really specific, familiar components. Nowhere does he do this better than on the closer, "Hollywood," which is one of the 5-10 best songs he's ever written. It would be in that club even just with the first half, but the second half, and it's heartrending story where you can tell Cave is nearly in tears during his falsetto as he's both assuring us it gets better while also begging that things will get better, absolutely pushes it over the top. So yeah, it's a shame that for the most part the rest of this album is so samey. I probably like every song here, but listening to it all in a row is, frankly, a chore. There are tremendous moments that catch you off guard, like "Mama Bear holds the remote, Papa Bear just floats, and Baby Bear is gone to the moon in a boat." These moments pull you back in as you're drifting off, but the great moments like this are too spread out in minimal repetitive passages. This album is a landmark and a career highlight. But unfortunately I have no desire to hear it again."  [+]  Reply

- babyBlueSedan | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

385 charts

Rank Score:

1,978

Rank in 2019:

7

Rank in 2010s:

125

Overall Rank:

866

Average Rating:

 79 (348 votes)

Comments:

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8.

Grey Area 

 Little Simz

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"At the age of 25, Simbi Akijawo aka Little Simz, has finally succeeded with the release of her third album, "GREY Area". Ten uppercut-shaped tracks with machine-gun flow and rumbling bass. These tracks are ALL exceptional. More direct and incisive than its previous albums, "GREY Area" combines mo...""At the age of 25, Simbi Akijawo aka Little Simz, has finally succeeded with the release of her third album, "GREY Area". Ten uppercut-shaped tracks with machine-gun flow and rumbling bass. These tracks are ALL exceptional. More direct and incisive than its previous albums, "GREY Area" combines modernity groove and tradition soul, which gives a hip hop which sees jazz influences vibrate on rhythmic jerks on which the words are of all splendors. The only problem is the length of the album, it is a little short. The musical ambiances built with samples from seventies productions, offer a timeless color that makes the "GREY Area" a classic future of the genre, hoping that this time the public will not miss the raw talent of one of the most brilliant MC's of these last years. For me, this album is one of the best UK Grime albums I have ever listened to.   9/10 Best track: "Boss""  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

345 charts

Rank Score:

1,804

Rank in 2019:

8

Rank in 2010s:

137

Overall Rank:

957

Average Rating:

 78 (385 votes)

Comments:

31

9.

Father Of The Bride 

 Vampire Weekend

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"I think most people on this site will have a band that they connected with significantly more than any others in their adolescence. When you're moving from the stages of just uncritically absorbing whatever's on the radio or whatever your parents play, to a point of having your own musical tastes...""I think most people on this site will have a band that they connected with significantly more than any others in their adolescence. When you're moving from the stages of just uncritically absorbing whatever's on the radio or whatever your parents play, to a point of having your own musical tastes it's vital to have an artist like this to change your whole attitude to music. For me this band was Vampire Weekend. This is the first Vampire Weekend album to come out since my tastes expanded out from that start point, and it follows a great string of albums culminating in their 2013 masterpiece 'Modern Vampires of the City' which managed to create an emotional connection with the listener whilst still experimenting with massive amounts of production and variation in instruments. 'Father of the Bride' isn't as good as any of those albums but it still brings a lot to the table. There's quite a lot to set this album apart from their other projects. First off it's significantly longer than the rest of their records and I don't think it's better for it. There's a lot of variation between most of the tracks here but a few fail to establish themselves and they have counterparts on the album that make better use of the same ideas. On the other hand for an 18 track album it does a good job of remaining cohesive in spite of the range of the tracks. In general the tracks here have a bright feel to them but the lyrics are often more negative. This is also the first album without Rostam being in the band. This puts Ezra more at the centre of the album than any previous projects. I'm not sure how songwriting was divided up between the band here (both of the other members of the band have had solo albums out in the past couple of years) but the song's feel like Ezra's, most likely because of the personal nature of the lyrics here. The songs themselves range in quality. 'Unbearably White' is probably my favourite track here. The vivid lyrics, subtle production and great guitar work go really nicely together (not sure what the deal is with the Smash Bros sound effect that makes you jump out of your skin though). 'Big Blue' is a great short track where it feels like the guitar notes are flying all over the place. I also like 'Rich Man' but it's a bit off-putting that it sounds so similar to parts of 'Everlasting Arms'. The first 30 seconds of 'Harmony Hall' is my favourite part of the album, the guitars especially evoke a sunrise, not sure if that's just me though. After this choral arrangements and a very bright sounding piano enter the mix and it all gets very ABBA and it's not bad but it does feel like an amazing amount of potential for the track was squandered by overproduction. This brings me to one of my gripes with the album, there are very mixed results with the maximalist production. There's great stuff like the mass of rhythms in 'Sympathy' and the brass instruments sound really good alongside the guitars at the end of 'My Mistake', but a lot of the time it can feel really lazily applied like in the distorted vocals in '2021' and the weird electronic beats that emerge at the end of 'Jerusalem, New York, Berlin'. So, at the end of the day 'Father of the Bride' isn't extraordinary but it does have quite a lot going for it. There's such a range of sounds here that anyone can find a fair amount that they like but I don't think many people are going to love it all the way through. Although Vampire Weekend don't shape my tastes the way they once did it's still a pretty huge relief to see a band I love this much stay on form and I'm looking forward to whatever's next. Sony Music"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

353 charts

Rank Score:

1,718

Rank in 2019:

9

Rank in 2010s:

145

Overall Rank:

1,007

Average Rating:

 76 (535 votes)

Comments:

32

10.

Purple Mountains 

 Purple Mountains

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"All my happiness is gone! :D"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2019

Appears in:

295 charts

Rank Score:

1,662

Rank in 2019:

10

Rank in 2010s:

151

Overall Rank:

1,044

Average Rating:

 79 (249 votes)

Comments:

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Best Albums of 2019 composition

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Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	5	0%
Weezer	3	0%
Hildur Guðnadóttir	2	0%
White Denim	2	0%
Tourist	2	0%
DaBaby	2	0%
The Rumjacks	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	463	46%
	186	19%
	44	4%
	36	4%
	36	4%
	26	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	981	98%
Yes	20	2%

Live?	Albums	%
No	984	98%
Yes	17	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	993	99%
Yes	8	1%