Atari's 2019: Final 100
Now that everyone's sick of 2019 lists, here's my official top 100. favorite track(s) included when necessary. ranked the same way as my last list (by score and alphabetical for your viewing pleasure). |
1 | | Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology
5
Top Track: "Weapons of Refusal" -- atmospheric bm |
2 | | Great Grandpa Four of Arrows
Top Tracks: "Dark Green Water", "Bloom" and "Rosalie" -- indie rock |
3 | | The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream.
Top tracks: "Hotel Bar" , "I'm a Stranger Now", and "All I Can Keep Is Now" -- indie folk |
4 | | Big Thief U.F.O.F.
4.5
Top Track: "Cattails" -- indie rock/folk |
5 | | Origami Angel Somewhere City
pop-punk/emo |
6 | | PUP Morbid Stuff
punk |
7 | | The Highwomen The Highwomen
4.4
Top Track: "Highwomen: -- country/Americana
one of the best opening tracks of the year |
8 | | Bayside Interrobang
4.3
pop-punk |
9 | | Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center
Top Tracks: "Didn't Know What I Was in For", "Dylan Thomas" and "Chesapeake"
indie rock/folk |
10 | | Julia Jacklin Crushing
indie pop/Americana |
11 | | Lagwagon Railer
Top Track: "Bubble" and "Dangerous Animal" -- skate punk |
12 | | Proper. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Bet
Top Track: Fucking Disgusting
RIYL: Say Anything -- punk/emo |
13 | | Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear
4.2
Top Tracks: "Lay Your Head to Rest" and "The Fall" |
14 | | Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude
black metal/post metal |
15 | | Emily Scott Robinson Traveling Mercies
country/singer-songwriter |
16 | | Off With Their Heads Be Good
gruff punk
Top Track: "Take Me Away" |
17 | | Prince Daddy and The Hyena Cosmic Thrill Seekers
Top Track: "Song 2 (Lauren)" -- rowdy punk
RIYL: PUP |
18 | | Russian Girlfriends In The Parlance of Our Times
punk |
19 | | Telethon Hard Pop
power-pop
RIYL; Motion City Soundtrack |
20 | | The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature
alt rock/indie
RIYL: The Starting Line |
21 | | Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above
Top Tracks: "Shrine" and "Sanctuary" -- black metal |
22 | | Weyes Blood Titanic Rising
Top Tracks: "Everyday" and "Movies" -- art pop/indie |
23 | | Glass Beach The First Glass Beach Album
4.1
RIYL: Bomb the Music Industry! |
24 | | Heart Attack Man Fake Blood
RIYL: Motion City Soundtrack, The Hotelier |
25 | | MakeWar Get It Together
RIYL: Titus Andronicus -- punk |
26 | | Aldous Harding Designer
4
Top Track: “Damn” |
27 | | Angelo De Augustine Tomb
Sufjan Stevens-core |
28 | | Big Thief Two Hands
Top Track: "Not" (and don't let anyone tell you otherwise) |
29 | | Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
death metal
Top Track: Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Realty (Mirror of the Soul) -- dm
an insane track that somehow lives up to its ridiculous song name, with apparent influences that recall the glory days of bands like Death and Athiest. favorite part: the riff that comes in at the 7:21 minute mark. |
30 | | Caroline Polachek Pang
indie pop |
31 | | Clowns Nature / Nurture
punk |
32 | | Copeland Blushing
Top Track: “Pope” |
33 | | Devon Kay and The Solutions Yes I Can't
RIYL: The Front Bottoms -- indie rock/punk |
34 | | Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence
This album just devoured the last 5 days of my life -- doom metal |
35 | | False Portent
black metal |
36 | | Forests Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store
RIYL: Tiny Moving Parts
emo |
37 | | Glen Hansard This Wild Willing
singer-songwriter/folk |
38 | | Good Riddance Thoughts And Prayers
90s style punk |
39 | | Great Shakes Great Shakes
punk |
40 | | Hatchie Keepsake
indie/dream pop |
41 | | Holding Patterns Endless
punk |
42 | | Jimmy Eat World Surviving
Top Track: "Love Never"
alt rock |
43 | | Kevin Morby Oh My God
indie rock/folk/gospel |
44 | | Laura Stevenson The Big Freeze
Top Track: "Value Inn" (my all-time favorite track by her) -- indie rock/folk |
45 | | Mary Lattimore and Mac McGaughan New Rain Duets
ambient |
46 | | Obsequiae The Palms Of Sorrowed Kings
harp metal |
47 | | Oso Oso Basking in the glow
Top Track: "The View"
RIYL: Saves the Day |
48 | | Ramona Deals, Deals, Deals!
punk |
49 | | Shannon Lay August
singer-songwriter |
50 | | Stella Donnelly Beware Of The Dogs
indie pop |
51 | | Stuck Out Here Until We're Each Someone Else
RIYL: The Menzingers, Bruce Springsteen -- punk/Americana |
52 | | Tiny Moving Parts Breathe
emo/math rock |
53 | | William Tyler Goes West
instrumental country/Americana. One of my new favorite morning albums. |
54 | | Youth Fountain Letters to Our Former Selves
pop-punk |
55 | | Free Throw What's Past Is Prologue
3.9
Top Tracks: "Smokes, Let's Go" and "Tail Whip, Struggle" -- emo/punk |
56 | | Somos Prison On A Hill
Top Tracks: "Iron Heel", Temporary Hope" and "Dreamless" -- indie rock/dream pop |
57 | | Sturdy Messed Up
punk |
58 | | Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet
3.8
indie folk |
59 | | Bounds of Modesty The Family We Choose
RIYL: The Wonder Years -- pop/punk |
60 | | Can Bardd The Last Rain
atmospheric bm |
61 | | Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Top Track: "hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have" -- pop |
62 | | Mariee Sioux Grief in Exile
one of the year's overlooked gems |
63 | | Mobina Galore Don't Worry
punk |
64 | | Nightmarathons Missing Parts
punk |
65 | | Ossuarium Living Tomb
I think the only dm album in 2019 that I dug more than this is the new Blood Incantation. Has a killer tone throughout |
66 | | Radiator Hospital Sings "Music for Daydreaming"
indie rock/emo |
67 | | Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark
3.7
Top Track: "Sun and Moon" -- black metal |
68 | | Alice Phoebe Lou Paper Castles
an overlooked gem |
69 | | Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies
technical dm |
70 | | Florist (NY) Emily Alone
Top Track: "Shadow Bloom" |
71 | | Jade Bird Jade Bird
Alt country/pop |
72 | | Jenny Lewis On The Line
indie pop |
73 | | Joey Cape Let Me Know When You Give Up
acoustic/Americana/punk |
74 | | Kayak Jones You Swear It's Getting Better Every Day
Top Track: "Nose Blunt" |
75 | | Rational Anthem It's Only Permanent
RIYL: Direct Hit! -- pop-punk |
76 | | Saor Forgotten Paths
atmospheric bm |
77 | | Strange Ranger Remembering the Rockets
indie rock |
78 | | Strung Out Songs Of Armor And Devotion
melodic punk |
79 | | Tiny Ruins Olympic Girls
Top Tracks: "How Much" and "Holograms" -- indie/dream pop |
80 | | Western Settings Another Year
RIYL: Alkaline Trio |
81 | | Anna Rose The Light Between
3.5
one of the best overlooked Americana albums of the year |
82 | | Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen
atmospheric bm |
83 | | Cherry Glazerr Stuffed and Ready
indie rock/pop |
84 | | Fen The Dead Light
Top Tracks: "Witness", "The Deadlight, Pt 2", and "Nebula" -- atmospheric bm |
85 | | Marika Hackman Any Human Friend
Top Track: "hold on" |
86 | | Maxo Kream Brandon Banks
hip-hop |
87 | | Michaela Anne Desert Dove
RIYL: Kacey Musgraves |
88 | | Misthyrming Algleymi
Icy bm |
89 | | Night Flowers Fortune Teller
Indie/dream pop |
90 | | Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch
punk/hardcore |
91 | | Plans Get The Bad Out
Top Track: Unholy Medicine
RIYL: Captain, We're Sinking |
92 | | Solange When I Get Home
soul |
93 | | Suldusk Lunar Falls
RIYL: Agalloch |
94 | | Sum 41 Order In Decline
My nostalgia pick I guess but this brings the Chuck/Infected vibes hard and is much better than anything I thought they’d ever release again. Worst part about it is the album art lol |
95 | | The Menzingers Hello Exile
Top Track: "High School Friend" |
96 | | Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance
death metal |
97 | | Wicca Phase Springs Eternal Suffer On
emo/hip-hop |
98 | | Frankie Cosmos Close It Quietly
3.4
Top Tracks: "A Joke", "Windows," and "Wannago". This is a songs album but that's ok when the standout tracks are this damn good. A nice improvement from her last effort. |
99 | | Long Beard Means To Me
RIYL: Phoebe Bridgers |
100 | | Millencolin SOS
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Cold Wrecks, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties, Esther Rose, American Football, Daughter of Swords, Patty Griffin, La Dispute |
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