Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 70 Best Albums of 2019

1. FKA twigs
   Magdalene
2. slowthai
   Nothing Great About Britain
3. Lana Del Rey
   Norman Fucking Rockwell!
4. Fontaines D.C.
   Dogrel
5. Dave
   Psychodrama
6. Jamila Woods
   LEGACY! LEGACY!
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
   Ghosteen
8. Angel Olsen
   All Mirrors
9. Big Thief
   U.F.O.F.
10. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
11. Little Simz
    GREY Area
12. Sharon Van Etten
    Remind Me Tomorrow
13. Baroness
    Gold & Grey
14. Jenny Hval
    The Practice of Love
15. Underworld
    DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition
16. Hot Chip
    A Bath Full of Ecstasy
17. Jordan Rakei
    Origin
18. Michael Kiwanuka
    Kiwanuka
19. Rapsody
    Eve
20. Jenny Lewis
    On the Line
21. Kano
    Hoodies All Summer
22. Gary Clark Jr.
    This Land
23. Durand Jones & The Indications
    American Love Call
24. Lingua Ignota
    Caligula
25. Billie Eilish
    When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
26. Hælos
    Any Random Kindness
27. Hatchie
    Keepsake
28. The National
    I Am Easy to Find
29. Holly Herndon
    PROTO
30. Ekiti Sound
    Abeg No Vex
31. clipping.
    There Existed an Addiction to Blood
32. Vanishing Twin
    The Age of Immunology
33. Yola
    Walk Through Fire
34. Weval
    The Weight
35. JPEGMAFIA
    All My Heroes Are Cornballs
36. Opeth
    In Cauda Venenum
37. Brittany Howard
    Jaime
38. Weyes Blood
    Titanic Rising
39. Tyler, The Creator
    IGOR
40. Marika Hackman
    Any Human Friend
41. Mark Lanegan Band
    Somebody's Knocking
42. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
    there is no Other
43. Sampa the Great
    The Return
44. Sleaford Mods
    Eton Alive
45. Caroline Polachek
    Pang
46. Cate Le Bon
    Reward
47. Cherry Glazerr
    Stuffed & Ready
48. The Twilight Sad
    It Won/t Be like This All the Time
49. Sturgill Simpson
    Sound & Fury
50. 100 gecs
    1000 gecs
51. Loraine James
    For You and I
52. Devin Townsend
    Empath
53. Blanck Mass
    Animated Violence Mild
54. Lizzo
    Cuz I Love You
55. Adia Victoria
    Silences
56. A Winged Victory For The Sullen
    The Undivided Five
57. Thom Yorke
    Anima
58. Anna Meredith
    Fibs
59. Boy Harsher
    Careful
60. Elbow
    Giants of All Sizes
61. Slayyyter
    Slayyyter
62. Solange
    When I Get Home
63. Jade Bird
    Jade Bird
64. Black Midi
    Schlagenheim
65. Charly Bliss
    Young Enough
66. Raphael Saadiq
    Jimmy Lee
67. Sleater-Kinney
    The Center Won't Hold
68. The Highwomen
    The Highwomen
69. Orville Peck
    Pony
70. Angel Bat Dawid
    The Oracle