2019 List Week: The Top 10 EP's Of 2019
The truly great EP is becoming a lost art form, at least if 2019 is any indicator. Far less notable artists dropped EPs than we were used to over the past few years and many more of them turned out to be disappointments than ever before. With a lower ceiling and a much lower floor than my lists over the past few years I do have to wonder going forward if artists are just moving away from the EP in broad strokes, but these 10 artists either truly wowed me in the short form, or did just enough to get by with their releases in 2019. 10. Kero Kero Bonito - Civilization 1 KKB are no strangers to this list and have nearly topped it before, while Civilization 1 isn't the bands most shining moment it does show off a ton of creativity as they continue to push their sound and increasingly interpolate socially conscious lyrics and more features of contemporary indie music, where so little of the J-Pop the group originally blew up on remains. The short EP is highlighted by its amazing ...