January 13, 2020
Another divisive year (and the next doesn’t look any better), 2019 was all over the place:
| 10 | Silversun Pickups Widow’s Weeds A darker shade of indie-polish. Read review |
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| 9 | Lambchop This Is What I Wanted To Tell You Illuminating intimacy from a master of both. |
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| 8 | The Felice Brothers Undress Americana at its finest, America at its finest. Read review |
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| 7 | Cage the Elephant Social Cues Rock ‘n’ roll at its most rock, most roll. |
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| 6 | FKA Twigs MAGDALENE Rebuilding to even greater heights – and taking us all along the amazing journey. |
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| 5 | The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger Everything love about Jack White, none of what you don’t. Read review |
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| 4 | Elbow Giants of All Sizes The tragedy that is modern times. Read review |
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| 3 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Ghosteen Everything you could imagine from the singular auteur. Read review |
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| 2 | Sunflower Bean King of the Dudes Already past their breakout, yet manage to make #2 on this list for the second year in a row. |
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| 1 | Billie Eilish WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? The breakout artist of 2019 had the best album of 2019 – duh… |
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