Year-End Lists

Hanif Abdurraqib: 85 Favorite Albums Of 2019

1. Little Brother
   May the Lord Watch
2. Soul Glo
   The Nigga in Me Is Me
3. Big Thief
   Two Hands
4. PUP
   Morbid Stuff
5. FKA twigs
   Magdalene
6. Defeater
   Defeater
7. Little Simz
   GREY Area
8. Ambré
   Pulp
9. Jamila Woods
   LEGACY! LEGACY!
10. The Get Up Kids
    Problems
11. Michael Kiwanuka
    Kiwanuka
12. The Twilight Sad
    It Won/t Be like This All the Time
13. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
    Bandana
14. Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats
    Anger Management
15. The Menzingers
    Hello Exile
16. Quelle Chris
    Guns
17. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
    Hiding Places
18. Brittany Howard
    Jaime
19. Earl Sweatshirt
    Feet of Clay
20. Issues
    Beautiful Oblivion
21. Sudan Archives
    Athena
22. Carried by 6
    Carried By 6
23. Tree & Parallel Thought
    The Wild End
24. Angel Olsen
    All Mirrors
25. Rapsody
    Eve
26. Youth Fountain
    Letters to Our Former Selves
27. Blood Incantation
    Hidden History of the Human Race
28. Sampa the Great
    The Return
29. Priests
    The Seduction of Kansas
30. Weyes Blood
    Titanic Rising
31. Ari Lennox
    Shea Butter Baby
32. Mark Lanegan Band
    Somebody's Knocking
33. Knocked Loose
    A Different Shade of Blue
34. Kelsey Lu
    Blood
35. Tyler, The Creator
    IGOR
36. Benny the Butcher
    The Plugs I Met
37. Cherubs
    Immaculada High
38. King Princess
    Cheap Queen
39. Ragana
    We Know That the Heavens Are Empty
40. Danny Brown
    uknowhatimsayin¿
41. Clairo
    Immunity
42. JPEGMAFIA
    All My Heroes Are Cornballs
43. Carly Rae Jepsen
    Dedicated
44. Helado Negro
    This Is How You Smile
45. Raphael Saadiq
    Jimmy Lee
46. Jayla Darden
    Onto Something
47. Griselda
    WWCD
48. Chelsea Wolfe
    Birth of Violence
49. Sarob
    Fear & Impermanence
50. Big Tone & House Shoes
    Big Shoes
51. slowthai
    Nothing Great About Britain
52. Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties
    Routine Maintenance
53. Caroline Polachek
    Pang
54. Kehlani
    While We Wait
55. Mavi
    let the sun talk
56. Tinashe
    Songs for You
57. Jay Som
    Anak Ko
58. Next Town Down
    Juliet
59. Craig Finn
    I Need a New War
60. Megan Thee Stallion
    Fever
61. American Football
    American Football
62. Say Anything
    Oliver Appropriate
63. Apollo Brown
    Sincerely, Detroit
64. Sleep On It
    Pride & Disaster
65. Vagabon
    Vagabon
66. Miranda Lambert
    Wildcard
67. Black Moon
    Rise of Da Moon
68. Solange
    When I Get Home
69. Denzel Curry
    ZUU
70. DaBaby
    Baby on Baby
71. Future Teens
    Breakup Season
72. The Mountain Goats
    In League with Dragons
73. Pivot Gang
    You Can't Sit With Us
74. The National
    I Am Easy to Find
75. Summer Walker
    Over It
76. Candlemass
    The Door to Doom
77. Bishop Briggs
    Champion
78. Charli XCX
    Charli
79. Sturgill Simpson
    Sound & Fury
80. SOL Development
    The SOL of Black Folk
81. Emeli Sandé
    Real Life
82. Maxo Kream
    Brandon Banks
83. Sir Babygirl
    Crush on Me
84. Terror Jr
    Unfortunately, Terror Jr
85. Mavis Staples
    We Get By