I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part II: 1919-1820

by Dæv Tremblay

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Friday, 6

キツネ (Kitsune) – Nothing Makes Me Happy Anymore

37:27
post-hardcore
Kelowna, British Columbia
Kala

디어 재즈 오케스트라 (Dieo jaejeu okeseuteula) / Dear Jazz Orchestra – A New Pulse

28:19
modern jazz
South Korea
Independent

Wendy Richman – Vox/Viola

62:31
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

Serhan Erkol – Melting Pot

40:27
world fusion, jazz fusion
Turkey
Lin

Philip Zoubek, Ivann Cruz, and Marcin Witkowski – Radium

55:03
free improvisation
Austria
Circum-Disc

Not Too Easy – Heads with No Faces

27:43
jazz fusion
Katowice, Poland
Independent

Nikolov-Ivanović Undectet – Frame and

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I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part I: 2019-1920

by Dæv Tremblay

Note: The original version of this post was so huge it broke the page, so I’m reposting in sets of 100 albums. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Original idea by Pier-Luc Boivin.

2019 is officially over, folks! And one of you wanted a top 2019 albums of 2019. Fortunately, since I keep track of the albums I listen to, and I’ve listened to a little over this number of albums, I can indulge this seemingly absurd request. But before I go on, let me ramble on a bit and give you some statistics from this year.

Exit Teen, Enter Ni

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Staghorn, Montecharge, Nomad Trio, Johann Luebbers Dectet, The Canyon Observer, and Matana Roberts

by Dæv Tremblay

Staghorn – Wormwood Ⅲ

Chicago band Staghorn has been a really nice late surprise to me! On Wormwood Ⅲ, the band brings their finest crafts and exposes us their quasi-apocalyptic anti-capitalist concept story in spoken word with accompanied post-metal soundtrack. This is an amazing release, it’s only too short!

Montecharge – Demons or Someone Else (Wooaaargh)

Switzerland, as I’ve said many times before, is a hotbed for really good blackened music, and Montecharge is only the latest example of this. Demons or Someone Else is an aggressive blackened hardcore album exploring creative ideas on the genre and its usual … Read more

December in 159 Albums

by Dæv Tremblay

Sunday, 1 December

APATT – The Essential Now That’s What I Call an APATT Christmas, Volume 1

35:42
progressive rock
Liverpool
Independent

APATT – http​:​/​/​www​.​apatt​.​untitledmix​.​exclusive​.​thankyou​.​com

91:48
progressive rock
Liverpool
Independent

Eargonauts – Eargonauts

35:23
modern jazz
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Independent

Maladie de cœur – Sikinou 47

18:55
post-punk
Athens, Greece
Independent

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