Undomondo's Best Albums of 2019 + Playlists
Hi guys,
After an extensive and exhausting process, I've sifted through an unhealthy amount of albums again this year covering all territories from indie & jazz, to electronics, folk and beyond! Listen to the spotify playlist I made to accompany this list, which is a best songs of 2019 list. For more specific genre-based toplists (electronic, metal and jazz) scroll down below.
Spotify playlist
5*
Big Business - The Beast You Are
Kate Tempest - The Book of Traps and Lessons
Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
Burna Boy - African Giant
FKA Twigs – Magdalene
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
Kokoroko - Kokoroko EP
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Cochemea - All My Relations
My top three albums this year is by the noise rock duo Big Business, spoken word from UK poet Kate Tempest and scandinavian jazz Fire! trio's extensive Orchestra album and the otherworldly Arrival. Close runner ups are the modern punk band Fontaines D.C., Nigerian super-phenomenon Burna Boy, UK space R&B megastar FKA Twigs..
4*
Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
Enablers - Zones
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Comet is Coming - Trust in the lifeforce of the deep mystery
Carla dal Forno - So Much Better
Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel
Solange - When I get home
Ayyuka - Yukadans
Susanna & The Brotherhood of Our Lady - Garden of Earthly Delights
Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t everything already disappeared?
3*
Flying Lotus - Flamagra
Little Simz - Grey Area
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Tenesha the Wordsmith - Peacocks & Other Savage Beasts
Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Orville Peck - Pony
Floating Points - Crush
Nazamba - Nazamba
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats’ Nest
Hermanos Gutierrez - Amor Y Vivir
2*
Aldous Harding - Designer
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Function - Existenz
The Caretaker - Everywhere, An Empty Bliss
Khruangbin - Hasta El Cielo
Andrew Wasylyk - The Paralian
Eli Keszler - Empire EP
Durand Jones & The Indications - American Love Call
Yugen Blakrok - Anima Mysterium
Xylouris White - The Sisypheans
MENTIONS
Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaires Club
Donna Regina - Transient
Ana Roxane - ~~~ EP
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Mike Patton / Jean Claude Vanier - Corpse Flower
Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Non Ex Orbis
Kali Malone - The Sacrifical Code
Wojciech Rosin - The Funnel
Mega Bog - Dolphine
Big Thief - UFOF
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Konx-Om-Pax - Ways of Seeing
Dexter Story - Bahir
Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
Swans - leaving meaning.
Benny Sings - City Pop
Insanlar - Demedim Mi?
Minyo Crusaders - Echoes of Japan
Grup Ses & Elektro Hafız - Varyete
CFCF - Liquid Colours
BEST METAL
An Isolated Mind - I’m Losing Myself
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Sun Worship - Emanations of Desolation
Mgla - Age of Excuse
Von Stroheim - Love? Who Gets Love?
Liturgy - HAQQ
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Misþyrming - Algleymi
Blood Incantation - Hidden History
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Fen - The Dead Light
Krallice - Wolf EP
Kampfar - Ofidians Manifest
Dawn Ray’d - Behold Sedition Plainsong
Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
BEST ELECTRONIC
Floating Points - Crush
Function - Existenz
The Caretaker - Everywhere, An Empty Bliss
Karenn - Grapefruit Regret
Eli Keszler - Empire EP
Felicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel
Donna Regina - Transient
Kornel Kovacs - Stockholm Marathon
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy - Whities 023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor)
Mateo Kingman - Lucero
Ana Roxane - ~~~ EP
CFCF - Liquid Colours
Konx-Om-Pax - Ways of Seeing
Territroy - Skulls & Plants
MSYLMA - Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum
BEST JAZZ
Fire! Orchestra - Arrival
The Comet is Coming - Trust in the lifeforce of the deep mystery
Brandee Younger - Soul Awakening
Alfa Mist - Structuralism
Greg Foat - The Mage
Steve Lehman & Craig Taborn - The People I Love
Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons
Tomeka Reid Quartet - Old New
Nerija - Blume
Junius Paul - Asé
Nat Birchall - The Storyteller
Fazer - Nadi
Radare - Der Endless Dream
Marquis Hill - Love Tape
Rabih about-Khalil - The Flood and the Fate of the fish
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis