The Big Freeze

• Laura Stevenson’s chilly new album is smooth, euphonic, and relentlessly intimate. Truly a revelation.

Titanic Rising

• Weyes Blood’s new album Titanic Rising is a cinematic masterpiece. An unbelievable feat of sweeping everythings, it is easily one of the best albums of 2019.

The Seduction of Kansas

• Priests is back with a solid new album. It’s a different direction for the band. Lyrically, they’ve gone more literary and symbolic. Sonically, it doesn’t hit as hard as it used to. The glaring lack of chops in guitar and drums becomes apparent because of this. It’s still good, I guess. But it’s not really punk anymore, which I loved about them, and is why I own two of their official merch shirts.

Me You They We

• Ages and Ages is neat. This album is fine.

Morbid Stuff

• When I was in Chicago a few months ago, I met someone who loved PUP. Like, it was one of their favorite bands. I turned them on to Japandroids, whom I felt paralleled much of the sensibilities of PUP. PUP’s new album rivals the best output of Japandroids. I really, really enjoyed it.

LOVE

• Not really my favorite type of pop, but a solid pop record nonetheless. I prefer Maggie and Sigrid’s brand of pop, personally.

1. Paris – OWEL
2. IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME – The Twilight Sad
3. Titanic Rising – Weyes Blood
4. PSYCHODRAMA – Dave
5. Phoenix – Pedro the Lion
6. Heard It In A Past Life – Maggie Rogers 
7. Sucker Punch – Sigrid
8. To Each His Own – E.B. The Younger
9. When I Get Home – Solange
10. Remind Me Tomorrow – Sharon Van Etten 
11. In Search of the Miraculous – Desperate Journalist
12. LP3 – American Football
13. Outer Peace – Toro y Moi
14. Beware of the Dogs – Stella Donnelly
15. Crushing – Julia Jacklin
16. The Big Freeze – Laura Stevenson
17. Girl With Basket Of Fruit – Xiu Xiu
18. WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? – Billie Eilish
19. Morbid Stuff – PUP
20. Ulfilas’ Alphabet – Sundara Karma
21. Gallipoli – Beirut 
22. Better Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center 
23. Rap Or Go To The League – 2 Chainz
24. The Seduction of Kansas – Priests
25. Olympic Girls – Tiny Ruins 
26. Good At Falling – The Japanese House
27. Me You They We – Ages and Ages
28. Nowhere Now Here – MONO 
29. Electric Lady Sessions – LCD Soundsystem
30. The Door to Doom – Candlemass
31. Tasmania – Pond
32. On The Line – Jenny Lewis
33. SUGA – Kyle Dion
34. This is Not the End – Spielbergs
35. Almost Free – FIDLAR
36. FIVE – White Lies
37. Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken
38. Betty – Betty Who
39. Assume Form – James Blake
40. LOVE – MARINA
41. Everythings For Sale – Boogie
42. Future Hndrxx Presents: THE WZRD – Future
43. GREY Area – Little Simz
44. Five Stars – Higher Brothers
45. The World Is Yours 2 – Rich The Kid
46. Homebrew – DIRE GNOME 
47. placeholder – Hand Habits
48. This Is How You Smile – Helado Negro
49. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? – Deerhunter
50. Vernissage My Heart – Bilderbuch
51. Stuffed & Ready – Cherry Glazerr 
52. AJ Tracey – AJ Tracey
53. Death Race For Love – Juice WRLD
54. Love Hates What You Become – Lost Under Heaven
55. Berkeley’s On Fire – SWMRS
56. VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR – HEALTH 
57. Goes West – William Tyler
58. What Chaos Is Imaginary – Girlpool 
59. Zeppelin Over China – Guided By Voices 
60. Nothing Happens – Wallows
61. Helium – HOMESHAKE 
62. Groove Denied – Stephen Malkmus
63. American Love Call – Durand Jones & The Indications
64. Quiet Signs – Jessica Pratt 
65. XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only, Vol. 4 – XXXTENTACION 
66. Lux Prima – Karen O and Danger Mouse
67. Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited – Mercury Rev