2019 Album Of The Year

Album Of The Year

Richard Dawson - 2020

I feel like although every song on this album deserves a in-depth analysis of lyrics and songwriting, doing so might just be too narrowsighted and would miss how good this album sounds on a whole, or how closely it deals with the most pressing problems and dilemmas the society is facing. In the age of neoliberal resurgence and mass denial of human dignities, I’d say this is indeed the album we needed the most.

懶得打中文了 總之歌詞很猛 第一首歌有講說他寧可在家打決勝時刻四也不想去上狗屁倒灶的班 蠻讚的

Honorable Mentions

• Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code (ambient)
• Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love (art pop)
• FKA Twigs - Magdalene (art pop)
• Dos Monos - Dos City (hip hop)
• They Hate Change - Clearwater + Juices Run Clear (hip hop)
• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Tracing Back The Ambience (ambient)
• Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation (experimental)
• Lanark Artefax - Corra Linn (techno)
• Deaf Center - Low Distance (ambient)
• Boreal Massif - We All Have An Impact (techno)
• Various Artist - Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (ambient)
• Ed Balloon - The Dubs (R&B)
• Meitei - Komachi (ambient)
• Bendik Giske - Surrender (modern composition)
• Triad God - Triad (hip hop)
• Alameda 5 - Eurodrome (progressive rock)
• Tyler, The Creator - Igor (hip hop)
• Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 1 (art pop)
• 百合花 - 燒金蕉 (progressive rock)

More Albums I Dig

Electronica

• Floating Points - Crush
• 非 / 密閉空間 - Flow, Gesture And Space
• Grischa Lichtenberger - Re:Phgrp
• Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
• Loraine James - For You And I
• Special Request - Vortex
• Special Request - Bedroom Tapes
• Sote - Parallel Persia
• S S S S - Walls, Corridors, Baffles
• Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
• Black Taffy - Elder Mantis
• AMAZONDOTCOM - Mirror River
• Rainer Veil - Vanity
• Joy Orbison - Slipping
• Christoph De Babalon - Hectic Shakes
• Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima, Satsuki Shibano - FRKWYS Vol. 15: serenitatem
• Planetary Assault Systems - Plantae
• Ebauche - Formic Syntax
• Lafidki, Ayankoko, Pisitakun - Dângrêk Mountains
• Yu Su - Roll With The Punches
• Celestial Trax - Serpent Power

Ambient / Experimental

• Anne Imhof - Faust
• Klein - Lifetime
• Ellen Arkbro - Chords
• Tomoyoshi Date, Stijn Hüwels- Hochu-Ekki-Tou
• Dolphin Midwives - Liminal Garden
• Xiu Xiu - Girl With A Basket Of Fruit
• Tujiko Noriko - Kuro (OST)
• Craven Faults - Springhead Works
• Jonny Nash - Make A Wilderness
• Curved Light - Flow and Return
• Ana Roxanne - ~~~
• Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods
• The Dead C - Rare Ravers
• Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond
• Norihito Suda, Stijn Hüwels - Sansui
• Sana Obruent - End Game
• Ka Baird - Respires
• Michael O’Shea - Michael O’Shea

Pop

• Holly Herndon - Proto
• Charli XCX - Charli
• Shura - Forever
• Jay Som - Anak Ko
• Minor Pieces - The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming
• Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
• HTRK - Venus in Leo
• Ana Frango Elétrico - Little Electric Chicken Heart
• Carla Dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
• Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
• Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
• Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Hip Hop

• Quelle Chris - Guns
• Denzel Curry - Zuu
• Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen
• Billy Woods, Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
• JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
• Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
• Jansport J, Haz Solo - Solo Sport
• Madteo - Dropped Out Sunshine
• Seba Kaapstad - Thina

Rock / Punk / Metal

• Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
• Rakta - Faina Comum
• Cult Of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
• Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
• Kim Gordon - No Home Record
• Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror
• Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
• Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
• Weatherday - Come In
• Uniform & The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
• Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast
• Abyssal - A Beacon In The Husk
• La Dispute - Panorama

Jazz

• The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery