I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part XIV: 719-620

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

Part XI: 1019-920

Part XII: 919-820

Part XIII: 819-720

Part XIV: 719-620

Skryptor – Luminous Volumes

36:26
progressive rock, noise rock
St. Louis, Missouri
Skin Graft

Seims – 3.1

14:58
progressive rock
Sydney, Australia
Art as Catharsis

Scopes – Scopes

47:46
modern jazz
New York, New York
Whirlwind

Red Handed Denial – Redeemer

56:43
progressive metalcore
Toronto, Ontario
Independent

Plastik Soldiers – Short Days

20:57
jazz fusion, electro-jazz
Berlin, GermanyRead more

I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part XIII: 819-720

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

Part XI: 1019-920

Part XII: 919-820

Part XIII: 819-720

Thursday, 18

MRW – 破壊:現実とあなたが見たいものとのま (Hakai: Genjitsu to anata ga mitai mono to no ma)

30:29
progressive metal
Sosnowiec, Poland
Independent


Wednesday, 17

Nonverbal Codes – La Décadence

19:09
mathcore, grindcore
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Independent

Iroh – Cuppa?

107:10
djent
France
Independent


Tuesday, 16

Stanislav Bobrytskyy, André-Darius Daumas, Henner Gräf, and Frank Wilke – The Diary of a Dissident, Revisited

28:20… Read more

I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part XII: 919-820

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

Part XI: 1019-920

Part XII: 919-820

Eclectic Maybe Band – Reflection in a Mœbius Ring Mirror

74:23
experimental rock, avant-prog
Sheffield, UK
Discus Music

Dury Dava – Dury Dava

69:17
progressive rock, krautrock
Athens, Greece
Inner Ear

Burton Greene, Damon Smith, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses – Life’s Intense Mystery

52:17
free improv
Boston, Massachusetts
Astral Spirits

Boltzmann Brain – Spacesquid Brain

37:24
progressive rock, drone
Germany
Independent

Big, Brave

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I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part XI: 1019-920

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

Part XI: 1019-920

Unknown Artist – A Pig’s Head on a Stick

28:15
blackened death metal
France
Standalone Complex

Time Bomb – Equus

11:28
experimental deathcore
Fresno, California
Independent

Good Night Owl – Truthmaster

65:31
progressive metal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent


Sunday, 26

Krzysztof Drabikowski’s Батюшка (Batjuška) / Batushka – Панихида (Panixida)

42:11
blackened death metal
Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Independent

Doctor 9 – Doctor 9

34:51
free jazz
Ojai, California
Weird … Read more

Weekly Release Dump

Friday, 3 January

Ando San – Schemin Season

21:47
math rock, hip-hop
Los Angeles, California
Independent

Karfagen – Birds of Passage

57:04
progressive rock
Ukraine
Caerllysi Music

Ekmeles – A Howl, that Was Also a Prayer

57:36
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

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Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra – Iron in the Blood

69:45
avant-garde jazz
Sydney, Australia
Earshift Music

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Kaelen Ghandhi, Michael Larocca, and Jonathan Milberger – Bones of a House

46:03
free improvisation
Connecticut
Independent

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