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2019 Music

Jordan Cronk: Top 30 Albums of 2019

30 December 2019

Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

Jordan Cronk: Top 30 Albums of 2019, as posted to Twitter

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  1. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
  2. Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Lana Del Rey
  3. PROTO
    Holly Herndon
  4. basking in the glow
    Oso Oso
  5. House of Sugar
    (Sandy) Alex G
  6. No Home Record
    Kim Gordon
  7. Main Pop Girl 2019
    Default Genders
  8. American Football (LP3)
    American Football
  9. Agora
    Fennesz
  10. Baroo
    Carl Stone
  11. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  12. Remembering the Rockets
    Strange Ranger
  13. Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace)
    Fire-Toolz
  14. Export
    Rap
  15. The Practice of Love
    Jenny Hval
  16. Schlagenheim
    black midi
  17. Magdalene
    FKA twigs
  18. Four of Arrows
    Great Grandpa
  19. Immunity
    Clairo
  20. Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2
    Mount Eerie feat. Julie Doiron
  21. At the Party with My Brown Friends
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
  22. Emily Alone
    Florist
  23. Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
    Bill Callahan
  24. 1000 gecs
    100 gecs
  25. U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief
  26. Two Hands
    Big Thief
  27. Dogrel
    Fontaines D.C.
  28. Soft Landing
    Sandro Perri
  29. Life Metal
    Sunn O)))
  30. Pyroclasts
    Sunn O)))
  31. Crush
    Floating Points
  32. This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You)
    Lambchop

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