PopMatters: The 70 Best Albums of 2019
[see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2012, 2011]
- FKA twigs — Magdalene
- slowthai — Nothing Great About Britain
- Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell!
- Fontaines D.C. — Dogrel
- Dave — Psychodrama
- Jamila Woods — LEGACY! LEGACY!
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Ghosteen
- Angel Olsen — All Mirrors
- Big Thief — U.F.O.F.
- Purple Mountains — Purple Mountains
- Little Simz — GREY Area
- Sharon Van Etten — Remind Me Tomorrow
- Baroness — Gold & Grey
- Jenny Hval — The Practice of Love
- Underworld — DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition
- Hot Chip — A Bath Full of Ecstasy
- Jordan Rakei — Origin
- Michael Kiwanuka — Kiwanuka
- Rapsody — Eve
- Jenny Lewis — On the Line
- Kano — Hoodies All Summer
- Gary Clark Jr. — This Land
- Durand Jones & The Indications — American Love Call
- Lingua Ignota — Caligula
- Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
- Hælos — Any Random Kindness
- Hatchie — Keepsake
- The National — I Am Easy to Find
- Holly Herndon — PROTO
- Ekiti Sound — Abeg No Vex
- clipping. — There Existed an Addiction to Blood
- Vanishing Twin — The Age of Immunology
- Yola — Walk Through Fire
- Weval — The Weight
- JPEGMAFIA — All My Heroes Are Cornballs
- Opeth — In Cauda Venenum
- Brittany Howard — Jaime
- Weyes Blood — Titanic Rising
- Tyler, The Creator — IGOR
- Marika Hackman — Any Human Friend
- Mark Lanegan Band — Somebody's Knocking
- Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi — there is no Other
- Sampa the Great — The Return
- Sleaford Mods — Eton Alive
- Caroline Polachek — Pang
- Cate Le Bon — Reward
- Cherry Glazerr — Stuffed & Ready
- The Twilight Sad — It Won/t Be like This All the Time
- Sturgill Simpson — Sound & Fury
- 100 gecs — 1000 gecs
- Loraine James — For You and I
- Devin Townsend — Empath
- Blanck Mass — Animated Violence Mild
- Lizzo — Cuz I Love You
- Adia Victoria — Silences
- A Winged Victory For The Sullen — The Undivided Five
- Thom Yorke — Anima
- Anna Meredith — Fibs
- Boy Harsher — Careful
- Elbow — Giants of All Sizes
- Slayyyter — Slayyyter
- Solange — When I Get Home
- Jade Bird — Jade Bird
- black midi — Schlagenheim
- Charly Bliss — Young Enough
- Raphael Saadiq — Jimmy Lee
- Sleater-Kinney — The Center Won't Hold
- The Highwomen — The Highwomen
- Orville Peck — Pony
- Angel Bat Dawid — The Oracle