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| Scheumke's Song of the Year
Here's my take for song of the year 2019. With so much great music this year it was quite a struggle. | | 10 |  | Wilderun
Veil of Imagination
Far From Where Dreams Unfurl
Quite a couple of entries on this list came in late this year, with Wilderun being my latest addiction. Like a combination of old-school Opeth and Xantochroid, the album has pretty much everything that I look for in a record. Far From Where Dreams Unfurl is the logical pick here, maybe because it's the most different from the rest, or maybe because it is the catchiest. | | 9 |  | Avantasia
Moonglow
The Raven Child
My guilty pleasure pick. I’ve always been a sucker for Avantasia, and the Raven Child might be their single best song yet. I can’t really put it to words, but the song clicks for me on all levels. Wait… I can put it to words: Jorn Lande. It’s a little unfair how his voice just instantly makes pretty much every single song he’s on better. | | 8 |  | Moron Police
Boat on the Sea
Beware the Blue Skies
These guys came out of nowhere for me, and tickled an itch that I didn’t know I had, namely that of a fun, catchy progrock album that was short, sweet and didn’t have too many things going on at once (looking at you Thank You Scientist). ‘Beware the Blue Skies’ in particular does a great job in layering different themes, from Nagasaki to the Norwegian beach (gulls and all), while just being a plain good time. | | 7 |  | Alcest
Spiritual Instinct
L'île des Morts
The centerpiece of Alcest’s latest is one of their best songs of their carreer. Like I said in my review, it has everything that makes the band great, from the ethereal atmosphere to the glorious climax. | | 6 |  | Leprous
Pitfalls
Distant Bells
Leprous really surprised me this year. After creating two albums that did little to me, an effort where they went completely away from their metal roots became the one that drew me back in. There were two songs that drew me in particularly, with Distant Bells being the best one. It's a grower and slow-burner that becomes incredibly powerful once it gets going. Einar really shines in this song, where he can show his full range in both style and actual vocal range. | | 5 |  | Saor
Forgotten Paths
Forgotten Paths
Finally Saor got the production that the quality of music deserved. Forgotten Paths sound great overall, but nowhere is this more prevalent than right in the beginning with the title track. The double climax in the song give me shivers every single time. I think it (like most of this list) is an acquired taste that a lot might not really enjoy, but I love it. | | 4 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen
Bright Horses
Knowing the backstory of Nick Cave feels almost necessary to understand the emotions going on on ‘Bright Horses’. Sowing did a way better job then I ever could in describing the brilliance of this song (See his awards blog post). Even though I wasn’t a big fan of Ghosteen on total, Bright Horses brings legitimate tears to my eyes every time I hear it. The doomed hope and self-delusion as a way of protecting and healing is heartbreaking. | | 3 |  | Cult of Luna
A Dawn to Fear
Lights on the Hill
The best and biggest song on my album of year (spoiler). This fifteen minute epic is everything post-metal bands strife to achieve. Interesting for the full duration, climactic to the extreme, complex but never illogical and sophisticated in its structure and songwriting. If you haven’t listened to this yet, do so right now. | | 2 |  | Glen Hansard
This Wild Willing
Don't Settle
This year had two major surprises for me. The first one coming in the form of Moron Police, the second from a completely different angle in the form of Glen Hansard. I became addicted to This Wild Willing and mostly because of this fantastic little (not so little) song ‘Don’t Settle’. It’s a post-folk song that broods and builds and climaxes in an amazing way that I don’t think I’d heard before outside of actual post-rock/metal. | | 1 |  | Thank You Scientist
Terraformer
Anchor
My top three was pretty clear from the beginning and are close to interchangeable. But this fucking song… this fucking song… it really takes the cake. The way TYS plays with tension throughout this song is masterful. It’s dense, complex, catchy, moody and cathartic, and the songwriting is pure brilliance. I cannot get enough of it and it is probably the song I listened to the most this year. | |
Scheumke
11.27.19 | Couple of shoutouts that just didn't make it:
- Rammstein - Puppe
- The Tallest Man On Earth - The Running Styles of New York
- Heilung - Norupo
- Devin Townsend - Why?
- Evergrey - A Silent Arc
- Emarosa - Cautious
- Opeth - The Garotter
- Numenorean - Adore
- De Staat - Mona Lisa
- Kishi Bashi - Summer of '41
- Hath - Currents
- Beth Hart - War in my Mind | MementoMori
11.27.19 | Lights on the Hill, puik nummer. | Scheumke
11.27.19 | Toch wel ;) | Trifolium
11.27.19 | Haha, gezellige boel hier!
I don't think any of our songs overlap (7 comes close though, hmmm) but nice list anyway! | Elynna
11.27.19 | Nice picks! 10 is mijn favoriete nummer van 2019. | dedex
11.27.19 | he jongens, 'tis te veel Nederlands | MementoMori
11.27.19 | Nog niet echt nagedacht of een dergelijke lijst met nummers, maar...:
- Devind Townsend - Singularity
- Latitudes - Part Island
- Allegaeon - Apoptosis (title track)
- Tool - 7empest
- Blood Incantation - Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)
zijn allemaal, wel puik. | Trifolium
11.27.19 | You're right dedex, let's keep it English here.
Although it's good to know we are well-represented at Sput after all! | Demon of the Fall
11.27.19 | Forgotten Paths and Lights on the Hill, nice! | MementoMori
11.27.19 | I concur, those tracks and albums were both amazing. | dedex
11.27.19 | @Trif yeah I didn't there were that many Dutch speakers around here!
Kudos for Lights on the Hill, my personal SOTY. | Egarran
11.27.19 | Great list thx will check.
I mean, superfed liste, glæder mig til at tjekke dine sange ud.
Kærlig hilsen Egarran. | MementoMori
11.27.19 | What is happening now. These trans-linguistical tendencies are getting out of hand. | dedex
11.27.19 | Egarran is egarraning | aydross121
11.27.19 | Good list. Would have chosen the title track for Moonglow instead. Much more simple as a song but damn they nailed that chorus. | Egarran
11.27.19 | It's called being bilingual. You brit/murkins wouldn't understand. | MementoMori
11.27.19 | @Egarran
I think most of are Dutch and thus from the Netherlands, which I must remark, at the risk of sounding like a chauvinist, has, as far as I'm aware, the highest percentage (globally) of bilingual individuals in relation to its population. Point being, we get it, no need to disparage.
Besides, my comment was merely referring to the the mixture of languages on display and was moreover partially facetious. The fact that mutiple languages can be spoken by the same person, even within a single thread, doesn't confound me in the least.
P.S. This list reminds me I should really check some more releases from this year - so far I've only really listened to the Thank You Scientist and CoL records at length. | Egarran
11.27.19 | That was hot af ❤ | MementoMori
11.27.19 | Well, now I am indeed confounded. | Egarran
11.27.19 | You don't know how starved I am for posts like that. | MementoMori
11.27.19 | Well, I suppose I'm glad I was able to accommodate your needs. | Egarran
11.27.19 | You got me at three syllables. | Icebloom
11.28.19 | Yay for Bright Horses. (En geinig om hier Nederlands te lezen) | Trifolium
11.28.19 | Dude another one! Where are all of you from? I'm from Utrecht.
Scheumke you're from Tilburg right? | Sowing
11.28.19 | Nice work. 10, 4, and 2 are phenomenal. I need to revisit that Moron Police album. | MementoMori
11.28.19 | Well, Trifolium, I'm actually also from Utrecht (both province and city). World's a small place I suppose. | Trifolium
11.28.19 | No way! I was born and raised in our beloved Domstad, lived there for 26 years. Housing is too expensive (as you probably know) so currently living in a small town just 15 minutes away by bike. Want to move back to the actual city super badly though, and working on it. | MementoMori
11.28.19 | Yeah, the housing market is, well a market, so of course it doesn't always function correctly, especially due to big capital investments and spacial restrictions. I do hope you'll be granted the opportunity to move back sometime. Utrecht is pretty great, although I'm obviously biased. | Icebloom
11.28.19 | Haha I live in Utrecht as well | Trifolium
11.28.19 | Omg Utrechters represent!!! | MementoMori
11.28.19 | Puike stad, moet gezegd worden. | Scheumke
11.29.19 | @Trif, Tilburg here yeah. Never knew we were so heavily represented in the active userbase of sput.
@Sowing: Yeah you really should. Boat on a Sea is really my happy album from this year. And it's short too so it breezes by. Just fun all around. | neekafat
11.30.19 | So glad with the casual use of postfolk here (: | Flugmorph
11.30.19 | WHY ARE YOU DOING OF THE YEAR LISTS WHILE THERE IS STILL A MONTH LEFT? | Scheumke
12.01.19 | Cus there's literally 0 releases in dec that I'm interested in. Might always get surprised ofcourse but I can change the list or give it a shoutout. | Scheumke
12.01.19 | Neek you found the best description for it. If it fits it fits ;) | Trundle
12.01.19 | Plastic Mermaids - Floating in a Vacuum | BlazinBlitzer
12.24.19 | Good choices! 2 and 3 will inevitably be on my own list. |
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