MCCh 2019 (17) September 30
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:47 pm
The best albums of 2019 (update September 30)
The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 34 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.
The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: Clash; DIY; Drowned In Sound; God Is In The Tv; Load And Quiet; NME: The 405; The Guardian; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny
USA + Canada: Allmusic; Consequence Of Sound; Earbuddy; Exclaim!; Nothern Transmissions; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Spectrum Culture; Under The Radar
Highlights: These are the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, Beardfood, BostonGlobe, Nowtoronto, Entertainment Weekly, etc…
New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score
Out:
Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars
La Dispute: Panorama
90 - Bat For Lashes: Lost Girls - 75,1 (73,5 / 26)
Highlights: Desert Man - Kids in the Dark - The Hunger
Synthpop
89- Sleaford Mods: Eton Alive – 75,2 (75,5 / 20)
Highlights: Kebab Spider - Flipside - O.B.C.T.
Post-Punk
88 - Anderson .Paak: Ventura - 75,2 (74,5 / 23)
Highlights: King James - Come Home - Make It Better
R&B
87 - 2 Chainz: Rap Or Go To The League - 75,2 (79,9 / 7)
Highlights: Wip - Momma I Hit a Lick - Forgiven
Trap Rap
86 - Faye Webser: Atlanta Milionaires Club – 75,2 (75,9 / 19)
Highlights: Jonny - Kingston - Flowers
Alt-Country
85 - Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima - 75,3 (73,6 / 26)
Highlights: Turn the Light - Leopard's Tongue - Woman
Art Rock
84 - The Raconteurs: Help Us Stranger - 75,3 (72,9 / 28)
Highlights: Help Me Stranger - Bored and Razed - Sunday Driver
Blues Rock
83- Desperate Journalist: In Search Of The Miraculous - 75,3 (80,0 / 7)
Highlights: Murmuration - Jonatan - Black Net
Indie Rock
82 - Amyl & The Sniffers: Amyl & The Sniffers - 75,4 (77,7 / 14)
Highlights: Gacked on Anger - GFY - Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled)
Garage Punk
81 - Chai: Punk – 75,4 (77,7 / 14)
Highlights: Choose Go! - Wintime - Curly Adventure
Dance Punk
80 - Craig Finn: I Need A New War - 75,4 (77,1 / 16)
Highlights: Holyoke - Blankets - A Bathtub In the Kitchen
Singer-Songwriter
79 - Spellling: Mazy Fly - 75,0 (77,6 / 13)
Highlights: Hard to Please (Reprise) - Haunted Water - Under the Sun
Minimal Synth
78 - Lambchop: This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) - 75,6 (76,2 / 19)
Highlights: Crosswords, or What This Says About You - The Air Is Heavy and I Should Be Listening to You - Everything for You
Sophisti-Pop
77 - Ty Segall: First Tate – 75,6 (75,0 / 23)
Highlights: Taste - Self Esteem - The Arms
Garage Rock
76 - Bob Mould: Sunshine Rock - 75,7 (76,0 / 20)
Highlights: Western Sunset - Sunshine Rock - Send Me a Postcard
Alternative Rock
75 - Flying Lotus: Flamagra - 75,7 (75,0 / 23)
Highlights: Thank U Malcolm - More - Takashi
Nu Jazz
74 - (Sandy) Alex G: House of Sugar - 75,7 (75,7 / 21)
Highlights: Hope - Gretel - Southern Sky
Indie Folk
73 - Pharmakon: Devour – 75,7 (79,4 / 10)
Highlights: Self Regulating System - Spit It Out - Pristine Panic/Cheek by Jowl
Death Industrial
72 - Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings – 75,8 (74,8 / 24)
Highlights: True Blue - Late Night Feelings - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Dance Pop
71 - Mahalia: Love And Compromise - 75,8 (80,4 / 7)
Highlights: I Wish I Missed My Ex - Simmer - Do Not Disturb
R&B
70 - Orville Peck: Pony - 75,8 (79,2 / 11)
Highlights: Hope to Die - Buffalo Run - Dead of Night
Alt- Country
69 - Self Esteem: Compliments Please - 75,9 (79,9 / 9)
Highlights: Girl Crush - The Best - Steady I Stand
Electropop
68 - PUP: Morbid Stuff - 75,9 (76,9 / 18)
Highlights: Kids - Full Blown Meltdown - City
Pop Punk
67 - Young Thug: So Much Fun - 75,9 (78,9 / 12)
Highlights: What's the Move - I'm Scared - Hot
Trap Rap
66 - Jayda G: Significant Changes – 75,9 (78,9 / 12)
Highlights: Leave Room 2 Breathe - Sunshine in the Valley - Stanley's Get Down (No Parking on the DF)
Deep House
65 - Hatchie: Keepsake - 75,9 (74,9 / 24)
Highlights: Without a Blush - Unwanted Guest - Obsessed
Dream Pop
64 - Lizzo: Cuz I Love You – 76,0 (76,0 / 21)
Highlights: Juice - Like a Girl - Tempo
Pop Soul
63 - Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated - 76,1 (74,8 / 25)
Highlights: Julien - Too Much - Want You in My Room
Dance Pop
62- Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 1) – 76,2 (74,2 / 27)
Highlights: In Degrees - Sunday - White Onions
Indie Rock
61 - Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild – 76,4 (76,8 / 20)
Highlights: Death Drop - House vs House - Love Is a Parasite
Electro-Industrial
60 - Sunn O))): Life Metal – 76,5 (78,2 / 16)
Highlights: Novae (album with 4 tracks)
Drone Metal
59 - Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) – 76,7 (78,3 / 16)
Highlights: Lento, Cantabile-Semplice (album with 3 tracks)
Modern Classical
58 - Ezra Furman: Twelve Nudes – 76,7 (75,3 / 25)
Highlights: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend - In America - Transition From Nowhere to Nowhere
Indie Rock
57 - Káryyn: The Quanta Series – 76,7 (80,7 / 9)
Highlights: Segment & The Line - Ever - Yajna
Ambient Pop
56 - Rhiannon Giddens: There Is No Other - 76,7 (80,7 / 9)
Highlights: Gonna Write Me a Letter - He Will See You Through - Wayfaring Stranger
Folk
55 - Tyler, The Creator: Igor – 76,7 (77,1 / 20)
Highlights: Earfquake - Are We Still Friends? - I Think
Neo-Soul
54 - Jay Som: Anak Ko – 77,2 (76,8 / 22)
Highlights: Tenderness - Superbike - If You Want It
Dream Pop
53 - Charli XCX: Charli - 77,3 (75,3 / 27)
Highlights: Gone - Cross You Out - 1999
Electropop
52 - Jenny Lewis: On The Line – 77,4 (77,0 / 22)
Highlights: Heads Gonna Roll - Red Bull & Hennessy - Dogwood
Pop Rock
51 - James Blake: Assume Form – 77,5 (75,2 / 28)
Highlights: Where's the Catch? - Can’t Believe the Way We Flow - Assume Form
Alternative R&B
50 - Jenny Hval: The Practice Of Love - 77,5 (79,2 / 16)
Highlights: Ashes to Ashes - Accident - High Alice
Art Pop
49 - Pedro The Lion: Phoenix - 77,7 (80,0 / 14)
Highlights: Yellow Bike - Circle K - Clean Up
Indie Rock
48 - The Japanese House: Good At Falling – 77,7 (78,4 / 19)
Highlights: Lilo - Everybody Hates Me - You Seemed so Happy
Indietronica
47 - Marika Hackman: Any Human Friend – 77,8 (79,5 / 16)
Highlights: All Night - Hand Solo - I'm Not Where You Are
Indie Rock
46 - Various: Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight' - 77,9 (82,6 / 7)
Highlights: The Twist (Wintersleep) - The Modern Leper (Biffy Clyro) - Floating in the Forth (The Twilight Sad)
Indie Rock
45 - Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won't Hold – 78,0 (75,3 / 29)
Highlights: The Center Won't Hold - Hurry on Home - Reach Out
Indie Rock
44 - Tool: Fear Inoculum - 78,0 (78,0 / 21)
Highlights: 7empest - Pneuma - Descending
Progressive Metal
43 - The Twilight Sad: It Won't Be Like This – 78,1 (76,4 / 26)
Highlights: I/m Not Here (Missing Face) - VTr - Auge/Maschine
Post-Punk
42 - Kevin Morby: Oh My God – 78,6 (76,9 / 26)
Highlights: Hail Mary - No Halo - Piss River
Singer-Songwriter
41 - Slipknot: We Are Not Your Kind – 78.6 (79.3 / 19)
Highlights: Nero Forte - Solway Firth - Unsainted
Alternative Metal
40 - Chelsea Wolfe: Birth Of Violence – 78,7 (80,0 / 17)
Highlights: Deranged For Rock & Roll - American Darkness - The Mother Road
Singer-Songwriter
39 - Girl Band: The Talkies - 78,7 (81,0 / 14)
Highlights: Shoulderblades - Going Norway - Laggard
Noise Rock
38 - Kano: Hoodies All Summer - 78,8 (83,1 / 8)
Highlights: Teardrops - Class of Deja - Trouble
Grime
37 - Better Oblivion Community Center: Better Oblivion Community Center – 78,9 (77,6 / 25)
Highlights: Dylan Thomas - I Didn't Know What I Was in For - Forest Lawn
Folk Rock
36 - Ariana Grande: thank u, next – 79,3 (78,3 / 24)
Highlights: thank u, next - ghostin - bloodline
R&B
35 - Florist: Emily Alone - 79,3 (84,0 / 7)
Highlights: Moon Begins - Time Is a Dark Feeling - Today I'll Have You Around
Indie Folk
34 - Holly Herndon: Proto – 79,6 (79,0 / 23)
Highlights: Eternal - Alienation - Frontier
Glitch Pop
33 - Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride - 79,7 (76,0 / 32)
Highlights: Harmony Hall - This Life - Unbearably White
Indie Pop
32 - Jessica Pratt: Quiet Signs – 79,8 (78,1 / 26)
Highlights: This Time Around - Fare Thee Well - Poly Blue
Folk
31 - American Football: American Football – 79,8 (80,5 / 19)
Highlights: Uncomfortably Numb - I Can't Feel You - Doom in Full Bloom
EMO
30 - Julia Jacklin: Crushing – 79,8 (78,5 / 25)
Highlights: Body - Comfort - Good Guy
Singer-Songwriter
29 - The Murder Capital: When I Have Fears – 79,9 (82,5 / 13)
Highlights: Don't Cling To Life - Feeling Fades - Green & Blue
Post Punk
28 - Baroness: Gold & Grey – 80,4 (81,4 / 18)
Highlights: Throw Me an Actor - Front Toward Enemy - Seasons
Stoner Metal
27 - Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe – 80,6 (79,9 / 23)
Highlights: Heavyweight Champion of the Year - Angels - In Your Head
Indie Pop
26 - Thom Yorke: Anima – 80,6 (78,0 / 29)
Highlights: Dawn Chorus - Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain) - Traffic
Glitch Pop
25 - Bill Callahan: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest – 80,7 (81,7 / 18)
Highlights: The Ballad of the Hulk – Circles - 747
Singer-Songwriter
24 - Dave: Psychodrama - 80,8 (85,1 / 8)
Highlights: Black - Lesley - Psycho
Hip Hop
23 - Cate Le Bon: Reward – 80,9 (79,6 / 25)
Highlights: Daylight Matters - Home to You - Magnificent Gestures
Arp Pop
22 - JPEGMAFIA: All My Heroes Are Cornballs - 81,3 (84,3 / 12)
Highlights: All My Heroes Are Cornballs - Papi I Missed U - Free the Fail
Experimental Hip Hop
21 - Black Midi: Schlagenheim – 81,4 (79,8 / 26)
Highlights: Near DT,MI - bmbmbm - Reggae
Experimental Rock
20 - Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – 81,5 (79,8 / 26)
Highlights: Xanny - I Love You - Bad Guy
Electropop
19 - Bon Iver: i, i – 81,5 (78,2 / 31)
Highlights: Hey, Ma – iMi - Faith
Art Pop
18 - Brittany Howard: Jaime - 81,5 (84,5 / 12)
Highlights: Georgia - Goat Head - Stay High
Psychedelic Soul
17 - The National: I Am Easy To Find – 81,5 (77,9 / 32)
Highlights: I Am Easy to Find - Rylan - You Had Your Soul With You
Chamber Pop
16 - Aldous Harding: Designer – 82.1 (79,4 / 29)
Highlights: Weight of the Planets - The Barrel - Zoo Eyes
Singer-Songwriter
15 - Solange: When I Get Home – 82,1 (81,1 / 24)
Highlights: Almeda - Binz - Stay Flo
Neo-Soul
14 - Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow - 82,3 (78,6 / 32)
Highlights: Seventeen - Comeback Kid - No One’s Easy to Love
Indie Pop
13 - Deerhunter: Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? – 82,5 (78,5 / 33)
Highlights: Death in Midsummer - No One's Sleeping - What Happens to People?
Indie Rock
12 - Stella Donnelly: Beware of the Dogs – 82,5 (80,5 / 27)
Highlights: Beware of the Dogs - Lunch - Old Man
Indie Folk
11 - Kate Tempest: The Book Of Traps And Lessons – 82,8 (83,5 / 19)
Highlights: Hold Your Own - Firesmoke - Holy Elixir
Spoken Word
10 - Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains – 83,0 (83,3 / 20)
Highlights: Margaritas at the Mall - All My Happiness Is Gone - Darkness and Cold
Indie Rock
09 - Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell – 83,0 (81,7 / 25)
Highlights: The Greatest - Mariners Apartment Complex - Venice Bitch
Art Pop
08 - Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! - 83,4 (83,7 / 20)
Highlights: Zora - Muddy - Basquiat
Alternative R&B
07 - Slowthai: Nothing Great About Britain – 83,7 (85,1 / 17)
Highlights: Dead Leaves - Inglorious - Doorman
Hip Hop
06 - Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: Bandana – 83,8 (83,5 / 22)
Highlights: Fake Names - Flat Tummy Tea - Cataracts
Hip Hop
05 - Opeth: In Cauda Venenum - 84,3 (89,0 / 7)
Highlights: Heart in Hand - Dignity - All Things Will Pass
Progressive Rock
04 - Little Simz: Grey Area – 84,5 (84,9 / 20)
Highlights: Venom - Offence - 101 FM
Hip Hop
03 - Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising - 85,3 (82,6 / 29)
Highlights: Everyday - A Lot's Gonna Change - Andromeda
Art Pop
02 - Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel – 85,8 (85,1 / 23)
Highlights: Too Real - Boys in the Better Land - Big
Post-Punk
01 - Big Thief: U.F.O.F. – 86,7 (85,4 / 25)
Highlights: U.F.O.F. - Jenni - Cattails
Indie Pop
The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 34 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.
The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: Clash; DIY; Drowned In Sound; God Is In The Tv; Load And Quiet; NME: The 405; The Guardian; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny
USA + Canada: Allmusic; Consequence Of Sound; Earbuddy; Exclaim!; Nothern Transmissions; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Spectrum Culture; Under The Radar
Highlights: These are the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, Beardfood, BostonGlobe, Nowtoronto, Entertainment Weekly, etc…
New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score
Out:
Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars
La Dispute: Panorama
90 - Bat For Lashes: Lost Girls - 75,1 (73,5 / 26)
Highlights: Desert Man - Kids in the Dark - The Hunger
Synthpop
89- Sleaford Mods: Eton Alive – 75,2 (75,5 / 20)
Highlights: Kebab Spider - Flipside - O.B.C.T.
Post-Punk
88 - Anderson .Paak: Ventura - 75,2 (74,5 / 23)
Highlights: King James - Come Home - Make It Better
R&B
87 - 2 Chainz: Rap Or Go To The League - 75,2 (79,9 / 7)
Highlights: Wip - Momma I Hit a Lick - Forgiven
Trap Rap
86 - Faye Webser: Atlanta Milionaires Club – 75,2 (75,9 / 19)
Highlights: Jonny - Kingston - Flowers
Alt-Country
85 - Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima - 75,3 (73,6 / 26)
Highlights: Turn the Light - Leopard's Tongue - Woman
Art Rock
84 - The Raconteurs: Help Us Stranger - 75,3 (72,9 / 28)
Highlights: Help Me Stranger - Bored and Razed - Sunday Driver
Blues Rock
83- Desperate Journalist: In Search Of The Miraculous - 75,3 (80,0 / 7)
Highlights: Murmuration - Jonatan - Black Net
Indie Rock
82 - Amyl & The Sniffers: Amyl & The Sniffers - 75,4 (77,7 / 14)
Highlights: Gacked on Anger - GFY - Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled)
Garage Punk
81 - Chai: Punk – 75,4 (77,7 / 14)
Highlights: Choose Go! - Wintime - Curly Adventure
Dance Punk
80 - Craig Finn: I Need A New War - 75,4 (77,1 / 16)
Highlights: Holyoke - Blankets - A Bathtub In the Kitchen
Singer-Songwriter
79 - Spellling: Mazy Fly - 75,0 (77,6 / 13)
Highlights: Hard to Please (Reprise) - Haunted Water - Under the Sun
Minimal Synth
78 - Lambchop: This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) - 75,6 (76,2 / 19)
Highlights: Crosswords, or What This Says About You - The Air Is Heavy and I Should Be Listening to You - Everything for You
Sophisti-Pop
77 - Ty Segall: First Tate – 75,6 (75,0 / 23)
Highlights: Taste - Self Esteem - The Arms
Garage Rock
76 - Bob Mould: Sunshine Rock - 75,7 (76,0 / 20)
Highlights: Western Sunset - Sunshine Rock - Send Me a Postcard
Alternative Rock
75 - Flying Lotus: Flamagra - 75,7 (75,0 / 23)
Highlights: Thank U Malcolm - More - Takashi
Nu Jazz
74 - (Sandy) Alex G: House of Sugar - 75,7 (75,7 / 21)
Highlights: Hope - Gretel - Southern Sky
Indie Folk
73 - Pharmakon: Devour – 75,7 (79,4 / 10)
Highlights: Self Regulating System - Spit It Out - Pristine Panic/Cheek by Jowl
Death Industrial
72 - Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings – 75,8 (74,8 / 24)
Highlights: True Blue - Late Night Feelings - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Dance Pop
71 - Mahalia: Love And Compromise - 75,8 (80,4 / 7)
Highlights: I Wish I Missed My Ex - Simmer - Do Not Disturb
R&B
70 - Orville Peck: Pony - 75,8 (79,2 / 11)
Highlights: Hope to Die - Buffalo Run - Dead of Night
Alt- Country
69 - Self Esteem: Compliments Please - 75,9 (79,9 / 9)
Highlights: Girl Crush - The Best - Steady I Stand
Electropop
68 - PUP: Morbid Stuff - 75,9 (76,9 / 18)
Highlights: Kids - Full Blown Meltdown - City
Pop Punk
67 - Young Thug: So Much Fun - 75,9 (78,9 / 12)
Highlights: What's the Move - I'm Scared - Hot
Trap Rap
66 - Jayda G: Significant Changes – 75,9 (78,9 / 12)
Highlights: Leave Room 2 Breathe - Sunshine in the Valley - Stanley's Get Down (No Parking on the DF)
Deep House
65 - Hatchie: Keepsake - 75,9 (74,9 / 24)
Highlights: Without a Blush - Unwanted Guest - Obsessed
Dream Pop
64 - Lizzo: Cuz I Love You – 76,0 (76,0 / 21)
Highlights: Juice - Like a Girl - Tempo
Pop Soul
63 - Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated - 76,1 (74,8 / 25)
Highlights: Julien - Too Much - Want You in My Room
Dance Pop
62- Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Part 1) – 76,2 (74,2 / 27)
Highlights: In Degrees - Sunday - White Onions
Indie Rock
61 - Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild – 76,4 (76,8 / 20)
Highlights: Death Drop - House vs House - Love Is a Parasite
Electro-Industrial
60 - Sunn O))): Life Metal – 76,5 (78,2 / 16)
Highlights: Novae (album with 4 tracks)
Drone Metal
59 - Beth Gibbons & the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) – 76,7 (78,3 / 16)
Highlights: Lento, Cantabile-Semplice (album with 3 tracks)
Modern Classical
58 - Ezra Furman: Twelve Nudes – 76,7 (75,3 / 25)
Highlights: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend - In America - Transition From Nowhere to Nowhere
Indie Rock
57 - Káryyn: The Quanta Series – 76,7 (80,7 / 9)
Highlights: Segment & The Line - Ever - Yajna
Ambient Pop
56 - Rhiannon Giddens: There Is No Other - 76,7 (80,7 / 9)
Highlights: Gonna Write Me a Letter - He Will See You Through - Wayfaring Stranger
Folk
55 - Tyler, The Creator: Igor – 76,7 (77,1 / 20)
Highlights: Earfquake - Are We Still Friends? - I Think
Neo-Soul
54 - Jay Som: Anak Ko – 77,2 (76,8 / 22)
Highlights: Tenderness - Superbike - If You Want It
Dream Pop
53 - Charli XCX: Charli - 77,3 (75,3 / 27)
Highlights: Gone - Cross You Out - 1999
Electropop
52 - Jenny Lewis: On The Line – 77,4 (77,0 / 22)
Highlights: Heads Gonna Roll - Red Bull & Hennessy - Dogwood
Pop Rock
51 - James Blake: Assume Form – 77,5 (75,2 / 28)
Highlights: Where's the Catch? - Can’t Believe the Way We Flow - Assume Form
Alternative R&B
50 - Jenny Hval: The Practice Of Love - 77,5 (79,2 / 16)
Highlights: Ashes to Ashes - Accident - High Alice
Art Pop
49 - Pedro The Lion: Phoenix - 77,7 (80,0 / 14)
Highlights: Yellow Bike - Circle K - Clean Up
Indie Rock
48 - The Japanese House: Good At Falling – 77,7 (78,4 / 19)
Highlights: Lilo - Everybody Hates Me - You Seemed so Happy
Indietronica
47 - Marika Hackman: Any Human Friend – 77,8 (79,5 / 16)
Highlights: All Night - Hand Solo - I'm Not Where You Are
Indie Rock
46 - Various: Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight' - 77,9 (82,6 / 7)
Highlights: The Twist (Wintersleep) - The Modern Leper (Biffy Clyro) - Floating in the Forth (The Twilight Sad)
Indie Rock
45 - Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won't Hold – 78,0 (75,3 / 29)
Highlights: The Center Won't Hold - Hurry on Home - Reach Out
Indie Rock
44 - Tool: Fear Inoculum - 78,0 (78,0 / 21)
Highlights: 7empest - Pneuma - Descending
Progressive Metal
43 - The Twilight Sad: It Won't Be Like This – 78,1 (76,4 / 26)
Highlights: I/m Not Here (Missing Face) - VTr - Auge/Maschine
Post-Punk
42 - Kevin Morby: Oh My God – 78,6 (76,9 / 26)
Highlights: Hail Mary - No Halo - Piss River
Singer-Songwriter
41 - Slipknot: We Are Not Your Kind – 78.6 (79.3 / 19)
Highlights: Nero Forte - Solway Firth - Unsainted
Alternative Metal
40 - Chelsea Wolfe: Birth Of Violence – 78,7 (80,0 / 17)
Highlights: Deranged For Rock & Roll - American Darkness - The Mother Road
Singer-Songwriter
39 - Girl Band: The Talkies - 78,7 (81,0 / 14)
Highlights: Shoulderblades - Going Norway - Laggard
Noise Rock
38 - Kano: Hoodies All Summer - 78,8 (83,1 / 8)
Highlights: Teardrops - Class of Deja - Trouble
Grime
37 - Better Oblivion Community Center: Better Oblivion Community Center – 78,9 (77,6 / 25)
Highlights: Dylan Thomas - I Didn't Know What I Was in For - Forest Lawn
Folk Rock
36 - Ariana Grande: thank u, next – 79,3 (78,3 / 24)
Highlights: thank u, next - ghostin - bloodline
R&B
35 - Florist: Emily Alone - 79,3 (84,0 / 7)
Highlights: Moon Begins - Time Is a Dark Feeling - Today I'll Have You Around
Indie Folk
34 - Holly Herndon: Proto – 79,6 (79,0 / 23)
Highlights: Eternal - Alienation - Frontier
Glitch Pop
33 - Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride - 79,7 (76,0 / 32)
Highlights: Harmony Hall - This Life - Unbearably White
Indie Pop
32 - Jessica Pratt: Quiet Signs – 79,8 (78,1 / 26)
Highlights: This Time Around - Fare Thee Well - Poly Blue
Folk
31 - American Football: American Football – 79,8 (80,5 / 19)
Highlights: Uncomfortably Numb - I Can't Feel You - Doom in Full Bloom
EMO
30 - Julia Jacklin: Crushing – 79,8 (78,5 / 25)
Highlights: Body - Comfort - Good Guy
Singer-Songwriter
29 - The Murder Capital: When I Have Fears – 79,9 (82,5 / 13)
Highlights: Don't Cling To Life - Feeling Fades - Green & Blue
Post Punk
28 - Baroness: Gold & Grey – 80,4 (81,4 / 18)
Highlights: Throw Me an Actor - Front Toward Enemy - Seasons
Stoner Metal
27 - Nilüfer Yanya: Miss Universe – 80,6 (79,9 / 23)
Highlights: Heavyweight Champion of the Year - Angels - In Your Head
Indie Pop
26 - Thom Yorke: Anima – 80,6 (78,0 / 29)
Highlights: Dawn Chorus - Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain) - Traffic
Glitch Pop
25 - Bill Callahan: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest – 80,7 (81,7 / 18)
Highlights: The Ballad of the Hulk – Circles - 747
Singer-Songwriter
24 - Dave: Psychodrama - 80,8 (85,1 / 8)
Highlights: Black - Lesley - Psycho
Hip Hop
23 - Cate Le Bon: Reward – 80,9 (79,6 / 25)
Highlights: Daylight Matters - Home to You - Magnificent Gestures
Arp Pop
22 - JPEGMAFIA: All My Heroes Are Cornballs - 81,3 (84,3 / 12)
Highlights: All My Heroes Are Cornballs - Papi I Missed U - Free the Fail
Experimental Hip Hop
21 - Black Midi: Schlagenheim – 81,4 (79,8 / 26)
Highlights: Near DT,MI - bmbmbm - Reggae
Experimental Rock
20 - Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – 81,5 (79,8 / 26)
Highlights: Xanny - I Love You - Bad Guy
Electropop
19 - Bon Iver: i, i – 81,5 (78,2 / 31)
Highlights: Hey, Ma – iMi - Faith
Art Pop
18 - Brittany Howard: Jaime - 81,5 (84,5 / 12)
Highlights: Georgia - Goat Head - Stay High
Psychedelic Soul
17 - The National: I Am Easy To Find – 81,5 (77,9 / 32)
Highlights: I Am Easy to Find - Rylan - You Had Your Soul With You
Chamber Pop
16 - Aldous Harding: Designer – 82.1 (79,4 / 29)
Highlights: Weight of the Planets - The Barrel - Zoo Eyes
Singer-Songwriter
15 - Solange: When I Get Home – 82,1 (81,1 / 24)
Highlights: Almeda - Binz - Stay Flo
Neo-Soul
14 - Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow - 82,3 (78,6 / 32)
Highlights: Seventeen - Comeback Kid - No One’s Easy to Love
Indie Pop
13 - Deerhunter: Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? – 82,5 (78,5 / 33)
Highlights: Death in Midsummer - No One's Sleeping - What Happens to People?
Indie Rock
12 - Stella Donnelly: Beware of the Dogs – 82,5 (80,5 / 27)
Highlights: Beware of the Dogs - Lunch - Old Man
Indie Folk
11 - Kate Tempest: The Book Of Traps And Lessons – 82,8 (83,5 / 19)
Highlights: Hold Your Own - Firesmoke - Holy Elixir
Spoken Word
10 - Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains – 83,0 (83,3 / 20)
Highlights: Margaritas at the Mall - All My Happiness Is Gone - Darkness and Cold
Indie Rock
09 - Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell – 83,0 (81,7 / 25)
Highlights: The Greatest - Mariners Apartment Complex - Venice Bitch
Art Pop
08 - Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! - 83,4 (83,7 / 20)
Highlights: Zora - Muddy - Basquiat
Alternative R&B
07 - Slowthai: Nothing Great About Britain – 83,7 (85,1 / 17)
Highlights: Dead Leaves - Inglorious - Doorman
Hip Hop
06 - Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: Bandana – 83,8 (83,5 / 22)
Highlights: Fake Names - Flat Tummy Tea - Cataracts
Hip Hop
05 - Opeth: In Cauda Venenum - 84,3 (89,0 / 7)
Highlights: Heart in Hand - Dignity - All Things Will Pass
Progressive Rock
04 - Little Simz: Grey Area – 84,5 (84,9 / 20)
Highlights: Venom - Offence - 101 FM
Hip Hop
03 - Weyes Blood: Titanic Rising - 85,3 (82,6 / 29)
Highlights: Everyday - A Lot's Gonna Change - Andromeda
Art Pop
02 - Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel – 85,8 (85,1 / 23)
Highlights: Too Real - Boys in the Better Land - Big
Post-Punk
01 - Big Thief: U.F.O.F. – 86,7 (85,4 / 25)
Highlights: U.F.O.F. - Jenni - Cattails
Indie Pop
