I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part X: 1119-1020

by Dæv Tremblay

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

A Constant Knowledge of Death – Volume Ⅲ​b: Cognitive Predation

30:18
progressive metal
Long Beach, California
Independent

Thursday, 27

Andrzej Kowalski Quartet – Abstrakt

63:39
jazz fusion
Warsaw, Poland
Independent

Tuesday, 25

The Haters & Sissy Spacek – Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways

69:33
experimental metal, noise, grindcore
Los Angeles, California
Helicopter

Sissy Spacek & Smegma – Ballast

36:12
experimental metal, noise, grindcore
Los Angeles, California
Helicopter

Hijokaidan & Sissy Spacek –

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16-17, Tiny Planet, Spine Readers, Jeremy Rose, Ekmeles, and Sec

by Dæv Tremblay

16-17 – Phantom Limb (Trost)

Phantom Limb stems from an instrumental recording from 1995 of Naked City-esque noise jazz, to which was superposed a vocal recording in 2018! The result is something that’s at the same time straight out of the nineties and right at home in the twenties’ contemporary music scene. It’s noisy, it’s aggressive, it’s hectic, and it’s all the more beautiful for it!

Tiny Planet – Tiny Planet

Nothing kicks off the year quite like a Panzerballett-lite! While the compositions on the Seattle band’s self-titled debut aren’t near as intellectually strenuous as the jazz-metal legends’ … Read more

I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part IX: 1219-1120

by Dæv Tremblay

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

Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance

38:28
death metal
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
20 Buck Spin

Swim, Gustavo! – El mar mi amor

33:39
post-hardcore
California
Independent

Simon Nabatov Quintet – Last Minute Theory

50:33
avant-garde jazz
Cologne, Germany
Clean Feed

Naima – Bye

54:22
progressive rock, jazz fusion
Washington, D.C.
Cuneiform

Moray Pringle – Sunday Lines

19:39
progressive metal, jazz fusion
London, UK
Independent

Mefitis – Despair

20:32
progressive black metal
Beijing, China
Independent

Lingua

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I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part VIII: 1319-1220

by Dæv Tremblay

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

Alex Dias & Victor Vieira-Branco – Três peças

27:48
free jazz
São Paulo, Brazil
Independent

Saturday, 17

El segundo es terrible – Reiki y plusvalía

24:25
free improv
Buenos Aires, Argentina
TVL

Friday, 16

Uniform & The Body – Everything that Dies Someday Comes Back

39:06
noise metal
United States
Sacred Bones

Trance Map + – Crepuscule in Nickelsdorf

58:45
modern jazz, experimental jazz
Zurich, Switzerland
Intakt

Shadow of Intent – Melancholy

52:02
technical deathcore
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I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part VII: 1419-1320

by Dæv Tremblay

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

Sampa the Great – The Return

77:45
R&B, soul
Sydney, Australia
Ninja Tune

Peter Brötzmann, Alexander Schlippenbach, and Han Bennink – Fifty Years After​… Live at the Lila Eule 2018

63:57
free jazz
Wuppertal, Germany
Trost

Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Camerata Bern – Time & Eternity

76:28
contemporary classical
Switzerland
Alpha

Oksennus – Paholaisten yö

19:13
experimental death metal
Finland
Independent

Mithridatic – Tétanos Mystique

36:34
blackened death metal
France
Xenokorp

Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier – Corpse Flower

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