10 Records To Hear From July-September 2019
Quarter three of 2019 has been the best by far and the months of July, August and September were absolutely packed with killer records that you should definitely hear. But just in case you missed the lists earlier in the year here is the Januray-March list and the April-June list to check out. So without further ado here are ten more records you can expect to see populating my year end lists.
10. Infest The Rats Nest - King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
After disappointing earlier this year with Fishing For Fishes King Gizz came out of nowhere to drop one of the most genuinely enthralling thrash metal records I've heard in years. With very strong influences from the genres godfathers the band sounds straight out of 1986 with fiery performances all around and an exciting and youthful energy that genre has been lacking.
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9. All My Heroes Are Cornballs - JPEGMAFIA
Peggy quickly follows up his breakout project Veteran from last year with a record that is equally as genre bending and equally as insane. The album has plenty of moments where I have questions about the singing or production but way more moments that prove why Peggy is one of the sharpest voices in all of hip hop right now.
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8. The Lost Boy - YBN Cordae
YBN Cordae lived up to all the hype with a warm, conceptual and lyrically dense debut album that shows off his ability to make sharp contemporary trap bangers just as well as he makes lyrical jazz rap throwbacks. Look for him to be one of the brightest young voices in hip hop moving forward.
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7. Charli - Charli XCX
Charli dropped her most complete listen to date in Charli a feature heavy and futuristic pop odyssey that is as consistently catchy as it is genre bending and envelope pushing. Nobody should go all of 2019 without hearing this album.
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6. K-12 - Melanie Martinez
Melanie follows up her 2015 cult classic Crybaby 4 years later with a record that sounds like she hasn't missed a beat in K-12. A highly conceptual record that soundtracks a film of the same name Melanie is catchy, charming and lyrically relevant across this albums numerous aesthetically tight and musically atmospheric tracks.
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5. Animated Violence Mild - Blanck Mass
Benjamin John Power continues to be a musical renaissance man on the newest Blanck Mass record which pulls from industrial, pop, black metal, electronica and drone to assemble one of the most monstrous, challenging and brilliant records of his career.
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4. The Practice Of Love - Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval has one of the best and most underrated discographies of this decade and it gets even better with the addition of the short but sweet Practice Of Love which sees her typical sound weaved around a whirlwind of warm saxophone instrumentation, intimate spoken word and driving house beats for a truly unique and captivating experience.
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3. i,i - Bon Iver
Bon Iver expands upon the electronic elements they uncovered on their last record to create something that is part time warm and beautiful and part time cold and dense for a gorgeous listen that combines Justin Vernon's sharp musical apprehensions with his collaborators brilliant performances for a can't miss indie record this year.
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2. Ginger - Brockhampton
Brockhampton took the time they needed to collect themselves and emerged with their most complete project yet. Combining slick production on forward thinking bangers and stark intimacy on emotional catharses there is something for every kind of rap fan on Ginger, but the album as a whole is a serious treat for any music fans with the context to appreciate just how unique it truly is.
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1. Norman Fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Dey
There is really no question that if you could only listen to one album from this quarter, or from all of this year as a whole, that album should definitely be Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell. With collaborator Jack Antanoff Lana crafts one track after another that pairs gorgeous, textured and dense instrumentation with the stark intimacy of her veteran singing voice. Across all these tracks Lana tells the complete story of a relationship so caught up in labels and people so bent on creating something they've so specifically fixated on artistically that the world falls apart around them. Thankfully in this pursuit Lana may have created her own modern classic and one of the best pop albums you'll hear this decade in Norman Fucking Rockwell.
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After disappointing earlier this year with Fishing For Fishes King Gizz came out of nowhere to drop one of the most genuinely enthralling thrash metal records I've heard in years. With very strong influences from the genres godfathers the band sounds straight out of 1986 with fiery performances all around and an exciting and youthful energy that genre has been lacking.
Review
Peggy quickly follows up his breakout project Veteran from last year with a record that is equally as genre bending and equally as insane. The album has plenty of moments where I have questions about the singing or production but way more moments that prove why Peggy is one of the sharpest voices in all of hip hop right now.
Review
8. The Lost Boy - YBN Cordae
YBN Cordae lived up to all the hype with a warm, conceptual and lyrically dense debut album that shows off his ability to make sharp contemporary trap bangers just as well as he makes lyrical jazz rap throwbacks. Look for him to be one of the brightest young voices in hip hop moving forward.
Review
Charli dropped her most complete listen to date in Charli a feature heavy and futuristic pop odyssey that is as consistently catchy as it is genre bending and envelope pushing. Nobody should go all of 2019 without hearing this album.
Review
Melanie follows up her 2015 cult classic Crybaby 4 years later with a record that sounds like she hasn't missed a beat in K-12. A highly conceptual record that soundtracks a film of the same name Melanie is catchy, charming and lyrically relevant across this albums numerous aesthetically tight and musically atmospheric tracks.
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Benjamin John Power continues to be a musical renaissance man on the newest Blanck Mass record which pulls from industrial, pop, black metal, electronica and drone to assemble one of the most monstrous, challenging and brilliant records of his career.
Review
Jenny Hval has one of the best and most underrated discographies of this decade and it gets even better with the addition of the short but sweet Practice Of Love which sees her typical sound weaved around a whirlwind of warm saxophone instrumentation, intimate spoken word and driving house beats for a truly unique and captivating experience.
Review
Bon Iver expands upon the electronic elements they uncovered on their last record to create something that is part time warm and beautiful and part time cold and dense for a gorgeous listen that combines Justin Vernon's sharp musical apprehensions with his collaborators brilliant performances for a can't miss indie record this year.
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Brockhampton took the time they needed to collect themselves and emerged with their most complete project yet. Combining slick production on forward thinking bangers and stark intimacy on emotional catharses there is something for every kind of rap fan on Ginger, but the album as a whole is a serious treat for any music fans with the context to appreciate just how unique it truly is.
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There is really no question that if you could only listen to one album from this quarter, or from all of this year as a whole, that album should definitely be Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell. With collaborator Jack Antanoff Lana crafts one track after another that pairs gorgeous, textured and dense instrumentation with the stark intimacy of her veteran singing voice. Across all these tracks Lana tells the complete story of a relationship so caught up in labels and people so bent on creating something they've so specifically fixated on artistically that the world falls apart around them. Thankfully in this pursuit Lana may have created her own modern classic and one of the best pop albums you'll hear this decade in Norman Fucking Rockwell.
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