Best albums of 2019: Bring Me the Horizon - amo: 9.2 Ariana Grande - thank u, next: 8.7 Badflower - OK, I'm Sick: 8.1 MNQN - Mnqn: 7.5* Secret Band - LP2: 7.4* Awaken I Am - The Beauty in Tragedy (EP): 7.3* Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life: 7.1* Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster: 7.0 machineheart - People Change: 6.8 Too Close to Touch - I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 1 (EP): 6.8 Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan: 6.7* Sigrid - Sucker Punch: 6.6* Le Butcherettes - bi/MENTAL: 6.5 Flume - Hi This is Flume (Mixtape): 6.4* Marina - Love + Fear: 6.2* LPX - Junk of the Heart (EP): 6.2 Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 4.8 Best songs of 2019: Carly Rae Jepsen - Julien Bring Me the Horizon - i don't know what to say Bring Me the Horizon - sugar honey ice & tea Badflower - The Jester Bring Me the Horizon - nihilist blues Bring Me the Horizon - why you gotta kick me when i'm down? Ariana Grande - fake smile Ariana Grande - in my head Bring Me the Horizon - medicine Ariana Grande - bloodline Full Playlist Anticipating: Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated (May 17th) Yonaka - Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow (May 31th) Elohim - Braindead (TBD) Unconfirmed: Purity Ring - LP3 Nothing But Thieves - LP3 MisterWives - LP3 Highly Suspect - LP3 Fickle Friends - LP2 Luna Shadows - LP1 Phantogram - LP4 HANA - LP1 PVRIS - LP3 Starset - LP3 Bad Omens - LP2 Too Close to Touch - LP3 Marmozets - LP3 Tove Lo - LP4 Blue Hawaii - LP3 Vérité - LP2 Vukovi - LP2 Kim Petras - LP1 Zara Larsson - LP2 * New
Albums of the Year 2019 The Great: Billie Eilish- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | Up 1 Spot Mariana’s Trench- Phantoms* While She Sleeps- So What?* Free Throw- What’s Past is Prologue The Good: 5. Cassadee Pope- Stages 6. Our Last Night- Let Light Overcome 7. Greetings From.... Jake by Jake Owen 8. Violet Street by Local Natives* 9. Born of Osiris- The Simulation 10. Ariana Grande- Thank U, Next The Okay: 11. BTS- Map of the Soul: Persona* 12. Kayak Jones- You Swear It’s Getting Better Everyday* 13. Simple Creatures- Strange Love 14. Toro Y Moi- Outer Space 15. P!nk- Hurts 2B Human* 16. The Fever 333- Strength in Numbers* 17. Cage the Elephant- Social Cues* 18. Andersen Paak- Ventura* 19. Broods- Don’t Feed the Pop Monster* 20. Avril Lavigne- Head Above Water 21. Khalid- Free Spirit* 22. Dodie- Human EP The Bad: 23. I Prevail- Trauma* Please Retire: 24. Bring Me The Horizon- Amo Songs of the Year: 1. The Dangerous Summer- Where Were You When The Sky Opened Up 2. Fever 333- Am I Here?* 3. Billie Eilish- Bury a Friend 4. Billie Eilish- Bad Guy 5. Angels and Airwaves- Rebel Girl* 6. Marianas Trench- Don’t Miss Me* 7. Our Last Night- Everytime Our Earth Shakes 8. Simple Creatures- Drug 9. While She Sleeps- So What?* 10. Cassadee Pope- Take You Home Songs of the Year Playlist (includes all favorites from this year, not just top 10): https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/7asEizkxyIH0bBYSDE3jdv?si=TtervXwtSw-I_H7IL58xLQ Anticipating/Still Need to Listen To: The 1975- Notes on a Conditional Form Aaron Lewis- State I'm In Angels and Airwaves- LP6 Bastille- Doom Days Catfish and the Bottle men- The Balance Ellie Goulding- LP4 Frenship- Vacation Korn- LP13 Melanie Martinez- LP2 The National- I Am Easy to Find Puddle of Mud- LP8 (Cautiously In) Rihanna- LP9 Shawn Mendes- LP4 Starset LP3 Tame Impala- LP4 Thomas Rhett- Center Point Road To Close to Touch- LP3 Zara Larson- LP3
TIER 1 - DIAMOND RANK Bring Me The Horizon - amo SYML - SYML* TIER 2 - PLATINUM RANK Polyenso - Year of the Dog- TENDER - Fear of Falling Asleep Broods - Don't Feed The Pop Monster Mansionair - Shadowboxer The Japanese House - Good At Falling OWEL - Paris Copeland - Blushing Local Natives - Violet Street* TIER 3 - GOLD RANK James Blake - Assume Form Chase Atlantic - DON'T TRY THIS- Fractures - Reset- The Score - Pressure- Billie Eilish - WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Crywolf - widow [OBLIVION Pt. I] Stephen - it's too much love to know my dear- blackbear - ANONYMOUS Aries - WELCOME HOME TIER 4 - SILVER RANK Mike Posner - A Real Good Kid Switchfoot - NATIVE TONGUE Ariana Grande - thank u, next Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! Periphery - Periphery IV: HAIL STAN AJR - Neotheater Flume - Hi, This Is Flume (Mixtape)* Khalid - Free Spirit* TIER 5 - BRONZE RANK Watsky - COMPLAINT Future - Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD ANTICIPATING//QUEUE The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form Bastille - Doom Days Childish Gambino - LP4 Chance the Rapper - LP2 MisterWives - LP3 ATO - LP2 TOP SONGS KEY: * = new addition } = adjustment - = ep
Any 2019 music recommendations for me Been listening to all year so far: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haxan Cloak, electronic film scores (Sicario, Bird Box, Social Network, Blade Runner -original-), old Brian Eno, autechre Can’t listen to anything busy, percussive, or loud that much since I use music now to help me study or fall asleep.
-So far- Albums/EPs: Jinjer - Micro [EP] -- 8/10 Rodrigo y Gabriela - Mettavolution -- 8/10 Yvette Young - Piano [EP] - 7.5/10 Hozier - Wasteland, Baby -- 7/10 Devin Townsend - Empath -- 7/10 ------------------------------ Songs: Jinjer - Perennial Rodrigo y Gabriela - Krotona Days Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! Devin Townsend - Genesis Devin Townsend - Evermore Baroness - Borderlines ------------------------------ -Anticipating- Tool - LP#5 [June/July??] Lisa Hannigan - Live in Dublin [May 9th] Baroness - Gold & Grey [June 14th] Suns of the Tundra [Completed. Intending to release their 4th album this year] Russian Circles - LP#7 [TBA] Scale the Summit [LP#7 TBA] Opeth - LP#13 [Just announced a European tour supporting a new album, starting in November, so potentially an October release] Gojira (were in studio late last year, not sure for what though...) Devin Townsend - (new Casualties of Cool album is being worked on..??) and maybe Apocalyptica
Best albums of 2019: Bring Me the Horizon - amo: 9.1 Ariana Grande - thank u, next: 8.8 Rosie Lowe - YU: 8.7* Elohim - Braindead pt.1 (EP): 8.5* Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated: 8.3* Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan: 8.2* Badflower - OK, I'm Sick: 8.1 Yonaka - Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow: 8.0* Lucy Rose - No Words Left: 7.6* MNQN - Mnqn: 7.5 Secret Band - LP2: 7.4 Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life: 7.1 Awaken I Am - The Beauty in Tragedy (EP): 7.0 Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster: 6.8 Too Close to Touch - I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 1 (EP): 6.8 CAPTIVES - Ghost Like You (EP): 6.8* machineheart - People Change: 6.7 Le Butcherettes - bi/MENTAL: 6.5 Sigrid - Sucker Punch: 6.5 Flume - Hi This is Flume (Mixtape): 6.4 LPX - Junk of the Heart (EP): 6.2 Fever 333 - Strength In Numb333rs: 6.2* Marina - Love + Fear: 6.0 Anteros - When We Land: 5.9* Charly Bliss - Young Enoug: 5.8* The Foxies - Battery (EP): 5.7* While She Sleeps - So What? 5.6* Our Last Night - Let Light Overcome: 5.5* I Prevail - Trauma: 4.6* Drag Me Out - Pressure: 4.5* Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride: 4.4* Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 4.3 Miley Cyrus - She Is Coming (EP): 4.1* Attila - Villian: 2.1* Best songs of 2019: Carly Rae Jepsen - Julien Rosie Lowe - Birdsong Bring Me the Horizon - i don't know what to say Periphery - Satellites Bring Me the Horizon - sugar honey ice & tea Ariana Grande - fake smile Rosie Lowe - Pharoah Rosie Lowe - Little Bird Periphery - Garden in the Bones Badflower - The Jester Full Playlist Anticipating: Banks - III (July 12th) Bad Omens - Finding God Before God Finds Me (August 2nd) Northlane - Alien (August 2nd) Melanie Martinez - K-12 (September 6th) Starset - LP3 (September 13th) Tove Lo - Sunshine Kitty (TBD) Slayyyter - LP1 (TBD) Elohim - Braindead Pt.2 (TBD) Unconfirmed: Purity Ring - LP3 Nothing But Thieves - LP3 MisterWives - LP3 Highly Suspect - LP3 Luna Shadows - LP1 HANA - LP1 Braids - LP4 Fickle Friends - LP2 Phantogram - LP4 PVRIS - LP3 Too Close to Touch - LP3 Marmozets - LP3 Blue Hawaii - LP3 Vérité - LP2 Vukovi - LP2 Kim Petras - LP1 Zara Larsson - LP2 * New
TIER 1 Flume: "Hi This Is Flume" (Mixtape) Future: "SAVE ME" EP * Shlohmo: "The End" TIER 2 Manila Killa: "1993" EP Mansionair: "Shadowboxer" Gesaffelstein: "Hyperion" PENDING Banks: "III" - July 12 * new additions
-So far- Albums/EPs: Jinjer - Micro [EP] -- 8/10 Rodrigo y Gabriela - Mettavolution -- 8/10 Lisa Hannigan - Live in Dublin -- 7.5/10 Yvette Young - Piano [EP] - 7.5/10 Hozier - Wasteland, Baby -- 7/10 Devin Townsend - Empath -- 7/10 Baroness - Gold & Grey ------------------------------ Songs: Jinjer - Perennial Rodrigo y Gabriela - Krotona Days Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! Devin Townsend - Genesis Devin Townsend - Evermore Baroness - Borderlines Russian Circles - Arluck Lisa Hannigan - Fall (live) Lisa Hannigan - Barton (live) Tool - Invincible ------------------------------ -Anticipating- Russian Circles - Blood Year [August 2nd] Tool - LP#5 [August 30th] Suns of the Tundra - Murmuration [September] Opeth - In Cauda Venenum [October?] Jinjer - LP#4 [Late 2019] Apocalyptica - [Looks like recording is complete on LP#9, all instrumental apparently, which I'm very happy about. TBA] Scale the Summit [LP#7 TBA] Gojira (working hard according to drummer Mario. TBA) Devin Townsend - (new Casualties of Cool album is being worked on)
Just did my first listen-through of the new Banks album, and I love it so much TIER 1 Banks: "III" * Flume: "Hi This Is Flume" (Mixtape) Future: "SAVE ME" EP Shlohmo: "The End" TIER 2 Manila Killa: "1993" EP Mansionair: "Shadowboxer" Gesaffelstein: "Hyperion" PENDING Knife Party: "Lost Souls" EP - July 19 * new additions
THE GREAT Within Temptation - Resist Fiddlers Green - Heyday Zebrahead - Brain Invaders The Good Rival Sons - Feral Roots Bring Me The Horizon - amo Mark Morton - Anesthetic The Okay Papa Roach - Who Do You Trust? The Disappointing Anticipating
Best: Sunn O))) - Life Metal Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Bird Box (Original Score) Bobby Krilic - Midsommar (Original Score) Gonna choose to just include the music I like from this point. I don’t care to include music I didn’t like in these lists anymore.
THE GREAT Within Temptation - Resist Fiddlers Green - Heyday Zebrahead - Brain Invaders Rammstein - Rammstein The Good Rival Sons - Feral Roots Bring Me The Horizon - amo Mark Morton - Anesthetic Sum 41 - Order in Decline The Okay Papa Roach - Who Do You Trust? The Disappointing Anticipating
TIER 1 Banks: "III" Flume: "Hi This Is Flume" (Mixtape) Future: "SAVE ME" EP Shlohmo: "The End" TIER 2 Knife Party: "Lost Souls" EP * Manila Killa: "1993" EP Mansionair: "Shadowboxer" Gesaffelstein: "Hyperion" PENDING Lana Del Rey: "Norman Fucking Rockwell!" - August 30 RÜFÜS DU SOL: "Solace Remixed" - September 6 * new additions
THE GREAT Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind Rammstein - Rammstein Zebrahead - Brain Invaders Fiddlers Green - Heyday Within Temptation - Resist The Good Rival Sons - Feral Roots Bring Me The Horizon - amo Mark Morton - Anesthetic Sum 41 - Order in Decline The Okay Papa Roach - Who Do You Trust? The Disappointing Anticipating
My 2019 picks: Sunn O))) - Life Metal Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Bird Box (Original Score) Bobby Krilic - Midsommar (Original Score) Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind Ryuichi Sakamoto - Black Mirror: Smithereens (Original Series Soundtrack) Ride - This is Not a Safe Place been a slow year for me when it comes to music releases I like
Best albums of 2019: Bring Me the Horizon - amo: 9.0 Ariana Grande - thank u, next: 8.8 Rosie Lowe - YU: 8.7 Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan: 8.3 Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated: 8.3 Elohim - Braindead pt.1 (EP): 8.3 LAFAWNDAH - Ancestor Boy: 8.2* Badflower - OK, I'm Sick: 8.1 Bad Omens - Finding God Before God Finds Me: 7.9* Northlane - Alien 7.7* Yonaka - Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow: 7.7 Lucy Rose - No Words Left: 7.7 Secret Band - LP2: 7.4 MNQN - Mnqn: 7.3 Lights - Skin&Earth Acoustic: 7.2* Maggie Rogers - Heard It in a Past Life: 7.0 Too Close to Touch - I'm Hard To Love, But So Are You, Vol. 2 (EP): 7.0* Kim Petras - Clarity: 6.8* Awaken I Am - The Beauty in Tragedy (EP): 6.8 Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster: 6.7 Káryyn – The Quanta Series: 6.7* machineheart - People Change: 6.7 Le Butcherettes - bi/MENTAL: 6.5 CAPTIVES - Ghost Like You (EP): 6.5 Spiritbox - Singles Collection (EP) 6.5* Too Close to Touch - I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 1 (EP): 6.5 Sigrid - Sucker Punch: 6.5 Flume - Hi This is Flume (Mixtape): 6.4 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind: 6.3* LPX - Junk of the Heart (EP): 6.2 Lykke Li - Still Sad Still Sexy (EP): 6.2* Marina - Love + Fear: 5.9 Fever 333 - Strength In Numb333rs: 5.9 Banks - III: 5.9* Anteros - When We Land: 5.9 Charly Bliss - Young Enoug: 5.8 The Foxies - Battery (EP): 5.7 While She Sleeps - So What? 5.6 Blood Command - Return of the Arsonist (EP): 5.6* Our Last Night - Let Light Overcome: 5.3 I Prevail - Trauma: 4.8 Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride: 4.4 Drag Me Out - Pressure: 4.3 Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 4.0 Miley Cyrus - She Is Coming (EP): 4.0 Poppy - Choke (EP): 2.9* Lil Nas X - 7 (EP): 2.8* Attila - Villian: 2.1 Best songs of 2019: Carly Rae Jepsen - Julien Rosie Lowe - Birdsong Northlane - Talking Heads Bring Me the Horizon - i don't know what to say Periphery - Satellites Rosie Lowe - Pharoah Periphery - Garden in the Bones Ariana Grande - fake smile Rosie Lowe - Little Bird Bring Me the Horizon - sugar honey ice & tea Full Playlist Anticipating: Melanie Martinez - K-12 (September 6th) Starset - Divisions (September 13th) Tove Lo - Sunshine Kitty (September 20th) Slayyyter - Mixtape 1 (TBD) Elohim - Braindead Pt.2 (TBD) Unconfirmed: Purity Ring - LP3 Nothing But Thieves - LP3 MisterWives - LP3 Highly Suspect - LP3 Luna Shadows - LP1 HANA - LP1 Braids - LP4 Fickle Friends - LP2 Leprous - LP6 Phantogram - LP4 PVRIS - LP3 Marmozets - LP3 Blue Hawaii - LP3 Vérité - LP2 Vukovi - LP2 Zara Larsson - LP2 * New
Hi, everyone! I haven't come here in a while, but these are my current top albums of 2019: 2019 Albums Best (8+) Within Temptation - Resist 9/10 Good (6-7,9) BMTH – amo 6,5/10 Taylor Swift - Lover 6,5/10 Avril Lavigne – Head Above Water 6/10 Average (5,1-5,9) Worst (0-5) Still Have To Listen To/ Anticipated Dream Theater – Distance Over Time Badflower – OK, I’m Sick Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Cage The Elphant – Social Cues Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence Coldplay – TBC Devin Townsend – Empath Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Parts 1 and 2 Lacuna Coil – Black Anima Lingua Ignota - Caligula Half Alive – Now, Not Yet Jade Bird-Jade Bird Keane – Cause and Effect Of Monsters and Men – Fever Dream Opeth – In Cauda Venenum PUP- Morbid Stuff Sigrid – Sucker Punch Tame Impala – TBC Taylor Swift – Lover The National – I Am Easy to Find Tool – Fear Innoculum Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride 2019 has been quite slow for me in terms of music since I haven't had time to listen to new music. I hope I can find time at least for Billie Eillish, Taylor Swift, Tool, Chelsea Wolfe and Keane at least, but I doubt anything will top Within Temptation's Resist, but Tool can come close if all goes as expected. Avril Lavigne and Bring Me the Horizon were both a bit underwhelming, but I didn't want to downgrade the albums too much. As to songs: These are my top 4 tracks from Resist, even though I also enjoyed Mad World, In Vain and Trophy Hunter a lot. Worst moments are the lead single The Reckoning (why a feature with Jacoby Shaddix?) and Firelight feat. Jasper Steverlinck (would have been much better only with Sharon singing) Really enjoyed these two and also Birdie despite Avril's album not being all that great feeling a bit lifeless and underwritten in places. These were my favorites from BMTH's new album, but I also liked Mantra despite the awful robotic voice, as well as Sugar honey ice & tea and heavy metal ft. Rahzel. It's not a great album, but much better than their first 3 studio efforts. I'm really looking forward to Tool's album, even more after having listened to Lateralus and Aenima. It's very difficult for the new record to reach the heights of Lateralus. I didn't find Aenima as great as Lateralus, but I only listened to it once. In my honest opinion, this is the only great song of the 4 singles that have been released so far, even though I enjoyed bits of The Archer (the other two were just bad songs). I have a suspicion that this new album will not be good, as I feel she is losing the lyrical quality she displayed in much of 1989 (aside from Shake It Off) and all of Speak Now (my favorite album of hers), so I'm a bit worried it will land on the Average or Worst albums.
My 2019 picks: Sunn O))) - Life Metal Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Bird Box (Original Score) Bobby Krilic - Midsommar (Original Score) Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind Merzbow - Noise Mass Ryuichi Sakamoto - Black Mirror: Smithereens (Original Series Soundtrack) Ride - This is Not a Safe Place Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XIX
I like "The Archer", but hearing this one for the first time now, this damn near blows "Archer" out of the water