MAVOY CHARTS 2019 - TOP 300 OF ALBUMS

There's a problem with year-end charts. The issue is generally with the ranking of music. John Doran summed it up very well in his introduction to this year's The Quietus ranking, so I won't expand on it. I will only emphasize here that for me the most important element of such lists, the reason why I follow them is the aspect of originality, musical discovery. I don't like to read about what I already know (although you'll know most of my top albums ;) ) That's why my list is so long (will it ever be longer? I don't know!), that' s why I always include the genre. I hope you will find something new for you here. Enjoy reading.

#10 FKA TWIGS - MAGDALENE


I was worried about this album - I'll remind you that its predecessor, Tahliah's full-length debut, took second place in 2015, which of course is a great achievement for the debut, but also raises very high expectations. I'm not saying that Magdalene is worse, although certainly very different. The trap experiments failed, but if you delve into the lyrics - and indeed the excellent production of Nicolas Jaar (Fallen Alien is particularly impressive) - you will find this girl's unique talent. There may not be another Two Weeks here... but maybe I just need more time to discover it. My review here.

#9 KAE TEMPEST - THE BOOK OF TRAPS AND LESSONS

I had not listened to Kae Tempest before, I knew very little about them and their music. But I was moved by a new album, a very emotional piece, whose first listening I will always remember. Like the album #10, FKA Twigs, it is at the same time a delicate and angry album. Despite the division (not only) of Brexit, often reflected on this album, Tempest stretches out a hand and tries to seek understanding. "More empathy, less greed, more respect" - If only more people listened ... My review here.

#8 JAMILA WOODS - LEGACY! LEGACY!

I've already written in my review that Jamila's vocals sound very much like Badu (this is not an objection, of course,on the contrary, especially when Erykah doesn't release anything new). However, the vocalist, poet and spoken word artist has a very distinct individuality. Her new project is a tribute to the heroes of the past (each song is entitled with a different name, which connects her to Rapsody), but also an attempt to discuss the black history of the United States.

#7 LITTLE SIMZ - GREY AREA

2019 is the year when the girls took over rap. I'm not only talking about the top spots, but also about Yungen Blakrok or Noname, present in the songs chart. The best of them all is an incredibly smart girl from the UK, who is also doing more and more well as an actress. I missed her concert, which I regret very much, but I think Simz should be on the radar of every rap (and not only) listener. My review. 

#6 THOM YORKE - ANIMA

Until now I knew Thom's solo achievements very poorly - probably less than the Atoms For Peace project. Kid A and In Rainbows are my favorite Radiohead albums, so it's no wonder that I like Yorke's electronic music very much. Some of the beats on this record sounds like new material from Burial (obviously they collaborated in the past) And the video promoting it is beautiful.

#5 NILUFER YANYA - MISS UNIVERSE

When I wrote about this girl a few years ago (I have no doubt that I was first in this country)- and then I got in touch with her, I couldn't have imagined that one day the Internet would be fascinated with her and the English artist would be opening for Interpol. Dynamic In Your Head was a big surprise for me, but the album turned out to be an eclectic, concept testimony of an extremely original artist. And it is always nice to hear Dave Okumu... My review.

#4 LANA DEL REY - NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL

(The alternate cover just looks better to me). 

I admit... Lust For Life didn't deserve the album of the year. Or at least this album would have deserved more. I granted this award at that time to a large extent because I was starting to lose hope for another classic and I just wanted to be done with it. Very wrongly. Norman is her best album since Ultraviolence, at least half of the recordings on the album are now among my favorite songs of her. After the regress, Lana seems to be reborn - the next album is said to be released... in two weeks.

#3 MICHAEL KIWANUKA - KIWANUKA

When I was reviewing this album, I realized that no matter how strong the comparison is, Michael Kiwanuka is starting to catch up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield. I think that a few years ago few people expected such a scale from the author of (actually neat) acoustic songs, even despite the (well-deserved) BBC Sound Of award. In creating his new release, Michael emphasized his African origin, and the songs on the album - such as Hero, Hard To Say Goodbye or the triumphant You Ain't The Problem are among the best in his discography.

#2 WEYES BLOOD - TITANIC RISING

To some extent, this is my "debut of the year", although the "discovery of the year" is obviously more fitting. A year ago at this time I never heard of Weyes Blood, and I checked TR- I am ashamed to admit - with a few weeks' delay. However, it is an extraordinarily powerful album, and the highest-ranked folk album in the history of the ranking, although the attempt to genre this album unnecessarily simplifies it. Natalie Mering's vocal - somewhere between Karen Carpenter and Joni Mitchell - shines against the background of extensive arrangements of Jonathan Rado from Foxygen. Thematically, Mering wonders about, among other things, the climate crisis, which inspired the title of the album. Every song on this album is a revelation. She is also extraordinary live.

#1 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - GHOSTEEN

Of course we knew that The Bad Seeds were working on a new album, I had planned a replay of the whole discography in advance. Quite sudden release was a nice surprise, though technical problems spoiled my joy of YouTube premiere. Cave released an album at once filled with mourning and radiant, probably for the first time in his career he sang falsetto. This album, like Skeleton's Tree, sounds like music from a completely different universe, clearly different from any other album in our line-up. It couldn’t be any other way.

COMPLETE RESULTS

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (rock, Bad Seeds Ltd)
2. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (folk, Sub Pop)
3. Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka (soul, Polydor)
4. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell (indie pop, Polydor)
5. Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe (indie pop, ATO)
6. Thom Yorke – Anima (electronic, XL)
7. Little Simz – Grey Area (hip hop, Age 101)
8. Jamila Woods — LEGACY! LEGACY! (neo soul, Jagjaguwar)
9. Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons (hip hop, American Recordings)
10. FKA Twigs – Magdalene (electronic, Young Turks)
11. The Comet Is Coming – Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (jazz/electronic, Impulse)
12. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors (rock/folk, Jagjaguwar)
13. Chromatics – Closer To Grey (electronic, Italians Do It Better)
14. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (rock/folk, Jagjaguwar)
15. Bon Iver – I,i (folk, Jagjaguwar)
16. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Watchmen / Waves (score, self-released)
17. Michael Abels – Us (score, Back Lot)
18. Rosie Lowe – YU (R&B, Wolf Tone)
19. James Blake – Assume Form (electronic, Polygon)
20. Rapsody – Eve (hip hop, Jamla/Roc Nation)
21. Carla Dal Forno – Look Up Sharp (ambient, Kallista)
22. Prince – Originals (rock, Warner)
23. Marvin Gaye – You’re The Man (soul, Motown/Universal)
24. Sudan Archives – Athena (electronic, Stones Throw)
25. Mark Korven – The Lighthouse (score, A24/Sony Music)
26. Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls (electronic, AWAL)
27. Jenny Hval – The Practice Of Love (electronic, Sacred Bones)
28. Kedr Livanskiy – Your Need (electronic, 2MR)
29. Leonard Cohen – Thanks For The Dance (folk, Columbia)
30. Dwight Trible – Mothership (jazz, Gearbox)
31. Leon Ware – Rainbow Deux (soul, Kitchen Records)
32. Emel Mathlouthi – Everywhere We Looked Was Burning (electronic, Partisan)
33. Loyle Carner – Not Waving, But Drowning (hip hop, AMF/Virgin)
34. Hot Chip – A Bath Full Of Ecstasy (electronic, Domino)
35. Raveena – Lucid (R&B, Moonstone)
36. Nerija – Blume (jazz, Domino)
37. Tawiah – Starts Again (electronic, First Word Records)
38. Free Nationals – Free Nationals (R&B, OBE LLC)
39. Philip Bailey – Love Will Find A Way (jazz, Verve)
40. Snoh Aalegra – Ugh those feels again (R&B, Artium)
41. Cassius – Dreems (electronic, Universal)
42. Maria Usbeck – Envejeciendo (electronic, Cascine)
43. Marika Hackman – Any Human Friend (rock, Sub Pop)
44. Jordan Rakei – Origin (R&B, Ninja Tune)
45. The National – I Am Easy To Find (rock, 4AD)
46. Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 & Part 2 (rock, Warner)
47. Max Richter & Lorne Balfe – Ad Astra (score, Deutsche Grammophon)
48. Dayme Arocena – Sonocardiogram (jazz, Brownswood)
49. Robert Glasper – Fuck Yo Feelings (jazz, Loma Vista)
50. Blushing – Blushing (shoegaze, Wallflower Records)
51. Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee (soul, Columbia)
52. Trupa Trupa – Of The Sun (rock, Glitterbeat)
53. Kim Gordon – No Home Record (rock, Matador)
54. Oneothrix Point Never – Uncut Gems (electronic/score, Warp)
55. Floating Points – Crush (electronic, Ninja Tune)
56. Solange – When I Get Home (R&B, Columbia)
57. Blood Orange – Angel’s Pulse (R&B, Domino)
58. John Coltrane – Blue World (jazz, Verve)
59. Kindness – Something Like A War (R&B, Female Energy)
60. Bibio – Ribbons (electronic, Warp)
61. William Doyle – Your Wilderness Revisited (folk, self released)
62. Alfa Mist – Structuralism (jazz, Sekito)
63. Jung Jaell – Parasite (score, Genie Music/Stone Music)
64. Erika De Casier – Essentials (R&B, Independent Jeep)
65. Jay Som – Anak Ko (dream pop, Polyvinyl)
66. Kaytranada – Bubba (R&B, RCA)
67. Gang Starr – One Of The Best Yet (hip hop, self-released)
68. Jorja Chalmers – Human Again (electronic, Italians Do It Better)
69. Dan Levy – I Lost My Body (score, Lakeshore)
70. SLO – Solace (electronic, self-released)
71. Tallies – Tallies (dream pop, Kanine)
72. Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker (score, WaterTower)
73. Durand Jones & The Indications — American Love Call (soul, Dead Oceans)
74. Hatchie – Keepsake (dream pop, Ivy League)
75. Chrysta Bell – Feels Like Love (dream pop, Mata Hari)
76. Shura – Forevher (electronic, Secretly Canadian)
77. O Future – Voyeur (electronic, self-released)
78. Alan Silvestri – Avengers: Endgame (score, Hollywood Records)
79. SAULT – 5 / 7 (R&B, Forever Living Originals) 
80. Lindstrom – On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever (electronic, Smalltown Supersound)
81. Randy Newman – Marriage Story (score, Lakeshore)
82. Sui Zhen – Losing, Linda (electronic, Cascine)
83. City Calm Down – Television (rock, I Oh You) 
84. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – Stranger Things Season 3 (score, Lakeshore)
85. Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited (folk/tribute, Bella Union)
86. Heather Woods Broderick – Invitation (rock/folk, Western Vinyl)
87. Bobby Krlic – Midsommar (score, Milan)
88. Fatima Al Qadiri – Atlantics (score, Milan)
89. Joe Armon-Jones – Turn To Clear View (jazz, Brownswood)
90. Octo Octa – Resonant Body (electronic, T4T LUV)
91. DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age (electronic, Mass Appeal)
92. Flying Lotus – FLAMAGRA (electronic, Warp)
93. M83 – DSVII / Knife + Heart (electronic, Naive)
94. Blue Hawaii – Open Reduction Internal Fixation (electronic, Arbutus)
95. Sote – Parallel Persia (electronic, Diagonal)
96. Brittany Howard – Jaime (rock, ATO)
97. Devonte Hynes – Queen & Slim (score, Domino)
98. Ana Roxanne - ~~~~ (ambient, Living Records)
99. Julien Chang – Jules (chillwave, Transgressive)
100. Leon Vynehall – DJ Kicks (electronic, IK7)
101. Yazz Ahmed – Polyhymnia (jazz, Ropeadope)
102. Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile (indie, Universal)
103. Altin Gün – Gece (rock, Glitterbeat)
104. Anna Of The North – Dream Girl (pop, PIAS)
     
105. Temples – Hot Motion (rock, ATO)
106. Fair Weather Friends – Carte Blanche (indie pop, Polskie Radio)
107. Anni B Sweet - Universo Por Estrenar (rock, Subterfurge)
108. Grace Lightman – Silver Eater (electronic, Handsome Dad)
109. Trentemoller – Obverse (electronic, In My Room)
110. Gemini Rising, Tensnake & Fiora – Best Case Life (electronic, self-released)
111. Skepta – Ignorance Is Bliss (hip hop, Boy Better Know)
112. Sara Bareilles – Amidst The Chaos (pop, Epic)
113. Shafiq Husayn – The Loop (jazz, Nature Sound)
114. Sabrina Claudio – Truth Is (R&B, self-released)
115. The Twilight Sad – IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME (rock, Rock Action)
116. Holy Ghost! - Work (electronic, West End)
117. Pizzagirl -First Timer (indie pop, Heist Or Hit)
118. Hania Rani – Esja (neoclassical, Gondwana)
119. Telefon Tel Aviv – Dreams Are Not Enough (electronic, Ghostly)
120. BEA1991 – Brand New Adult (R&B, self-released)
121. Ride – This Is Not A Safe Place (shoegaze, Wichita)
122. Iggy Pop – Free (rock, Caroline)
123. The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger (rock, Third Man)
124. Anna Wise – As If It Were Forever (R&B, Alpha Pup)
125. Aldina Duarte – Roubados (fado, Sony)
126. Ionnalee – Remember The Future (electronic, To Whom It May Concern)
127. Lor – Lowlight (folk, Agora)
128. Black Marble – Bigger Than Life (rock, Sacred Bones)
129. Electric Youth – Memory Emotion (electronic, self released)
130. Claude Fontaine – Claude Fontaine (indie pop, Innovative Leisure)
131. Lloyd Cole – Guesswork (rock, EarMusic)
132. Pieces Of A Man – Made In Pieces (soul, Tru Thoughts)
133. Chali 2na & Krafty Kratfs - Adventures Of A Reluctant Superhero (hip hop, Manphibian Music)
134. Gallant – Sweet Insomnia (R&B, Mind Of A Genius)
135. Africa Express – Egoli (world, self released)
136. Daria Zawiałow – Helsinki (rock, Sony)
137. Mark De Clive Lowe – Heritage(jazz, Ropeadope)
138. Beirut – Gallipoli (folk, 4AD)
139. Luna - Транс (electronic, self-released)
140. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – And Now for the Whatchamacallit (rock, Marathon)
141. Pond – Tasmania (rock, Marathon)
142. Life – A Picture Of A Good Health (rock, Afghan Moon)
143. Mica Levi – Monos (score, Invada/Lakeshore)
144. Bonobo – Fabric Presents (electronic, Fabric)
145. Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Dissolution (electronic, Weird World)
146. Rustin Man — Drift Code (folk, Domino)
147. Annie Hart – A Softer Opening (indie pop, self-released)
148. Ezra Collective – You Can’t Steal My Joy (jazz, Enter The Jungle)
149. Steve Lacy – Apollo XXI (R&B, AWOL)
150. Fontaines DC – Dogrel (rock, Partisan)
151. Vampire Weekend – Father Of The Bride (rock, Columbia)
152. Scimshire – Listeners (electronic, Albert’s Favourites)
153. Clairo – Immunity (pop, Fader)
154. Mark Ronson – Late Night Feelings (pop, RCA)
155. Planet Asia - Initials On My Jewelry (hip hop, Gold Chain)
156. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Luce(score, Invada)
157. Anna Meredith – Fibs (electronic, Moshi Moshi)
158. Kwiaty – Kwiaty (indie, self-released)
159. Ashley Henry – Beautiful Vinyl Hunter (jazz, Sony)
160. Misia Furtak – Co przyjdzie? (indie, Agora)
161. Ruby Rushton - Ironside (jazz, 22A)
162. Akua – Them Spirits (R&B, self-released)
163. Carla – Kill A Feeling (synth pop, Great Canyon)
164. Jazzmeia Horn – Love And Liberation (jazz, Concord)
165. Tamaryn – Dreaming The Dark (dream pop, Dero Arcadia)
166. Frankie Cosmos – Close it Quietly (indie pop, Sub Pop)
167. Black Pumas – Black Pumas (soul, ATO)
168. Lapalux – Amnioverse (electronic, Brainfeeder)
169. Vendredi Sur Mer – Premiers Émois (electronic, Profil Da Face/Sony)
170. Ego Ella May – So Far (jazz, Tru Thoughts)
171. ALTA – Reasons (electronic, Soothsayer)
172. Jeff Goldblum – I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (jazz, Decca)
173. Galcher Lustwerk – Information (electronic, Ghostly)
174. XOA – Way West (broken beat, Five Easy Pieces)
175. Emile Mosseri – The Last Black Man In San Francisco (score, Lakeshore)
176. Purple Pilgrims – Perfumed Earth (dream pop, Flying Nun)
177. Mavis Staples – We Get By (soul, ANTI)
178. Toy – Happy In The Hollow / Songs Of Consumption (rock, Tough Love)
179. Sir Was – Holding On To A Dream (electronic, Memphis Industries)
180. Chris Potter – Circuits (jazz, Edition) – with James Francies and Eric Harland
181. The New Pornographers – In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights (rock, Concord)
182. Kinkajous – Hidden Lines (jazz, Running Circle)
183. Alex Lahey – The Best Of Luck Club (rock, Dead Oceans)
184. For Tracy Hyde – New Young City (shoegaze, P-Vine)
185. Daniel Avery – B Sides And Remixes (electronic, Phantasy Sound)
186. James Newton Howard – A Hidden Life (score, Sony)
187. Sarathy Korwar – More Arriving (jazz, Leaf)
188. Yann Tiersen – All (neoclassical, Mute)
189. Mahalia – Love And Compromise (R&B, Asylum)
190. Lower Dens – The Competition (rock, Ribbon Music)
191. Incognito – Tomorrow’s New Dream (soul, Bluey Music)
192. Men I Trust – Oncle Jazz (indie pop, Back To Analog)
193. Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Disappeared (rock, 4AD)
194. Diat – Positive Disintegration (rock/post-punk, White Lung)
195. Yugen Blakrok – Anima Mysterium (hip hop, IOT)
196. Georgia Anne Muldrow – VWETO II (funk, Mello Music)
197. Theo Crocker –Star People Nation (jazz, Masterworks)
198. VA – HyperSwim (electronic, Hyperdub)
199. Charlie Porter – Immigration Nation (jazz, OA2)
200. GLOK – Dissident (electronic, Bytes)
201. Caroline Polachek – Pang (indie pop, Perpetual Novice)
202. Olga Wojciechowska – Infinite Distances (ambient, A Strangely Isolated Place)
203. The Pendletons – 2 Steps Away (funk, Bastard Jazz)
204. Resavoir – Resavoir (jazz, International Anthem Recording)
205. Lorelle meets The Obsolete - De Facto (rock, Sonic Cathedral)
206. C Duncan – Health (indie pop, Fat Cat)
207. Belle And Sebastian – Days Of The Bagnold Summer (indie pop, Matador)
208. Vancouver Sleep Clinic – Onwards To Zion (indie, self-released)
209. Tyler, The Creator – Igor (hip hop, Columbia)
210. Friendly Fires – Inflorescent (electronic, Polydor)
211. Skinny Pelembe – Dreaming is Dead Now (electronic, Brownswood)
212. Perfect Son – Cast (indie pop, Sub Pop)
213. Jamael Dean – Black Space Tapes (jazz, Stones Throw)
214. Apollo Brown – Sincerely, Detroit (hip hop, Mello Music)
215. Chrissie Hynde – Valve Bone Woe (jazz, BMG)
216. Clea Vincent – Nuits sommes sommeil (indie pop, Chateau Perdu)
217. Barrie – Happy To Be Here (dream pop, Winspear)
218. Rosemary Fairweather – Second Collection (pop, Universal)
219. Nat Turner Rebellion - Laugh To Keep From Crying (soul, Mad Dragon)
220. Alberto Iglesias – Dolor y gloria (score, Quartet)
221. Ronin Arkestra - First Meeting / Sankei (jazz, Albert’s Favourites)
222. Ratso – Stubborn Heart (rock, Lucky Number)
223. Two Door Cinema Club – False Alarm (rock, PIAS)
224. Paula Morelenbaum – Atlantico (jazz, Skip Records)
225. Felicia Atkinson – The Flower And The Vessel (experimental,Shelter Press)
226. Tycho – Weather (electronic, Ninja Tune / Mom+Pop)
227. Rose Elinor Dougall - A New Illusion (indie pop, Vermillion)
228. Boogarins – Sombrou Dúvida (rock, Oveaseas Artists)
229. William Basinski – On Time Out Of Time (ambient, Temporary Residence)
230. Brandee Younger – Soul Awakening (jazz, self-released)
231. The Drums – Brutalism (indie pop, Anti)
232. Sinkane – Depayse (folk, City Slang)
233. King Princess – Cheap Queen (pop, Columbia)
234. Kevin Morby – Oh My God (rock, Dead Oceans)
235. Fémina – Perlas & Conchas (folk, self-released)
236. Hauschka – A Different Forest (neoclassical, Sony Classical)
237. Brijean – Walkie Talkie (downtempo, Native Cat)
238. The Chemical Brothers – No Geography (electronic, Virgin)
239. Laurel Halo – DJ-Kicks (electronic, IK7)
240. Emeli Sande – Real Life (R&B, Capitol)
241. Bethany Curve – Murder! (shoegaze, Kitchen Whore)
242. Heather Victoria – Boutique Hotel (R&B, Jamla)
243. Spinn – Spinn (rock, Modern Sky)
244. Mayra Andrade – Manga (folk, Columbia)
245. Ibibio Sound Machine – Doko Mien (funk, Merge)
246. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Full Moon Fever (dream pop/tribute, Turntable Kitchen)
247. Better Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center (folk, Dead Oceans)
248. Swimming Tapes – Morningside (indie rock, Hand In Hive)
249. Jadu Heart – Melt Away (downtempo, VLF)
250. Various Artists — Music Inspired by the Film Roma (indie, Columbia)
251. Mary Lattimore – Hundred Of Days Remixed (ambient, Ghostly)
252. Teen Daze – Bioluminescence (ambient, Flora)
253. Hibou – Halve (dream pop, Barsuk)
254. Khruangbin – Hasta El Cielo (dub, Night Time Stories)
255. Frankie Rose – Seventeen Seconds (dream pop/tribute, Turntable Kitchen)
256. Kishi Bashi – Omoiyari (indie pop, Joyful Noise)
257. Sandy Alex G – House Of Sugar (indie pop, Domino)
258. Laura Jurd (of Dinosaur) - Stepping Back Jumping In (jazz, Edition)
259. Penelope Isles – Until The Tide Creeps In (indie rock, Bella Union)
260. Lee Fields & The Expressions – It Rains Love (soul, Big Crown)
261. CYNE – Waters For Mars (hip hop, Project Mooncircle)
262. Geowulf – My Resignation (indie pop, PIAS)
263. Liam Gallagher – Why Me Why Not (rock, Warner)
264. Moriah Woods – Old Boy (rock, self-released)
265. Chasms – The Mirage (dream pop, Felte)
266. Rachel Zeffira - Elizabeth Harvest (score, Invada)
267. Theon Cross – Fyah (jazz, Gearbox)
268. Robert Forster – Inferno (indie, Tapete)
269. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana (hip hop, ESGN)
270. Kneebody – Chapters (jazz, Edition)
271. Molly – All That Ever Could Have Been (shoegaze, Sonic Cathedral)
272. FEET – What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham (rock, self-released)
273. Alex Weston – The Farewell (score, Milan)
274. Girlpool – What Chaos Is Imaginary (rock, Anti)
275. Patti Yang Group – War On Love (electronic, Requiem Records)
276. Matt Martians – The Last Party (funk, 3QTR)
277. Anemone – Beat My Distance (pop, Luminelle)
278. Pure Bathing Culture – Night Pass (pop, Infinite Companion)
279. Double Mixte – Romance Noire (Italians Do It Better)
280. Richard Bone – Empyrean Castles (ambient, self-released)
281. Julius Paul – Ism (jazz, International Anthem)
282. Nathan Johnson – Knives Out (score, Cut Narrative)
283. Mini Mansions – Guy Walks Into A Bar (indie pop, Fiction)
284. Shanti Celeste – Tangerine (electronic, self-released)
285. KOKOKO! – Fongola (jazz, Transgressive)
286. David Sanchez – Carib (jazz, Ropeadope)
287. Tinashe – Songs For You (R&B, self-released)
288. HÆLOS — Any Random Kindness (electronic, Infectious Music)
289. Oscar Hernandez – Love The Moment (jazz, Origin)
290. Magela Herrera – Explicaciones (jazz, self-released)
291. Sarah Tandy – Infection in the Sentence (jazz, Jazz Re:Freshed)
292. Shana Cleveland – Night Of The Worm Moon (folk, Hardly Art)
293. Hayden Thorpe – Diviner (indie, Domino)
294. Joy Ellis – Dwell (jazz, self released)
295. Atmosphere – Whatever (hip hop, Rhymesayers
296. Johnny Rawls – I Miss Otis Clay (soul/blues, Third Street Cigar)
297. The Proper Ornaments - Six Lenins (indie, Tapete)
298. Kelley Stoltz – My Regime (folk, Banana & Louie)
299. Daniel Caesar – CASE STUDY 01 2019 (R&B, Golden Child)
300. Snarky Puppy – Immigrance (jazz, GroundUp)