Snoh Aalegra Ugh Those Feels Again Metacritic

The Best Not-Jazz Albums of 2019

Initial draft collected on Nov. xi, 2019. The file will exist updated as boosted worthy records are found (although updating may lag backside the official 2019 list). Last year's list was never frozen (OK, permit'south say it was frozen on Nov. 11, 2019). At that place also exists a parallel listing of The All-time Jazz of 2019.

Note: numbering of lists (aside from A/A-) is simply temporary, to go far easier for me to tally up stats. I've made no effort to social club (other than alphaetical by artist) anything in grades below A-.

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[*] indicates that I reviewed this on the basis of an advance, often a CDR re-create (a good thing, I might add, for vinyl-merely releases). [**] identifies a record that I've only heard via download or through a streaming service like Napster.

For all lists, I've included a few 2018 (and possibly earlier) records that I discovered after last year's freeze date, but I've merely included such records if they were then trivial known that they received less than five points in the 2018 metacritic file. These are marked, east.g., -xviii, subsequently the label.

New Music

1.		Baton Eilish: When Nosotros All Fall Asleep, Where Practise Nosotros Go? (Darkroom/Interscope) Teenage (17) singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, last name O'Connell, abode schooled, parents in testify biz, older blood brother started writing songs earlier her. Outset album, but her debut was a 26:00 EP released in 2017, containing a single she recorded at xiv and turned into a video hit. Nothing hither suggests she'due south so young. Counted as electropop, the songs stick with yous but the hooks are and so casual you barely notice them. [**]
2.		Carsie Blanton: Buck Up (And then Ferocious) Singer-songwriter from Virginia, ran off at sixteen to Oregon, and so decided to plough pro and moved to Philadelphia but wound up in New Orleans. Never heard of her before, simply sixth album since 2005 -- tricky, quotable, clever, sometimes cute, but bucks up when the going gets tough. [**]
three.		Todd Snider: Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 (Aimless) Later on several outings with his rock band Difficult Working Americans, back to folk fashion, guitar and harmonica more minimal than e'er (although he'due south got a couple of name guests in the groundwork), puts his words out front, and he'south pretty pissed. Title refers to the recording studio, originally a shack used by John R. Cash.
four.		Hayes Carll: What It Is (Dualtone) Country vocaliser-songwriter from Texas, sixth album since 2002, Trouble in Heed (2008) his best, but this is pretty close, rocks a piddling harder, worries nigh "Times Like These," honors "Jesus and Elvis." [**]
5.		Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! (Jagjaguwar) From Chicago, published poet, filed her kickoff album nether rap but she sings her manner through this second album. Song titles are names, all one give-and-take (salve "Sun Ra"), almost easy enough to fill out, with her best hooked vocal, "Betty," reprised ("I am not a typical daughter"). Took a while to settle in, and probably has more depth than I'll ever be able to plumb. [**]
6.		Yugen Blakrok: Anima Mysterium (IOT) S African rapper, second anthology, had a bit on Blackness Panther: The Anthology. Music here has an avant-garde industrial air, sheets of sound stretched around a steely pulse. [**]
7.		Gamble the Rapper: The Large Day (self-released) Chicago rapper, surname Bennett, reissued his debut mixtape 10 Solar day a while back and it was the freshest, most stimulating thing I had heard all year. He'due south older now (26), married, has a new kid, has doubled downwards on his Christianity, and has chops enough to run this out to 77 minutes without involvement flagging. [**]
viii.		Mdou Moctar: Bluish Stage Session (Third Man) Major guitarist from the famed Tuareg village of Agadez in Niger, deep into the Saharan Desert. I've been impressed by his work before, but wonder sometimes how much one needs. Still, hard to fault this live set recorded on bout in Detroit. In fact, it may be the one to recommend first. [**]
9.		Control Top: Covert Contracts (Get Improve) Post-punk trio from Philadelphia, female person singer (Ali Carter) on bass, plus guitar (Al Creeton) and drums (Alex Lichtenauer), first album: hard, fast, short (29:28, but 11 songs and then I don't count it an EP), "cathartic" is a word often used to describe them. Can't make out many words, only with rants against "backer patriarchy, . . . indictments of wrongdoing and abuse of power, odes to empathy and ego death," I wouldn't decline a lyric sheet. [**]
10.		MexStep: Resistir (Tertiary Root -18) Rapper from San Antonio, don't know any personal details, nor have I dug deep enough to say much about Third Root (perchance a collective and/or a characterization). Produced by Marco Cervantes and Adrian Quesada, with various feat. guests. Scratches are old schoolhouse, tejano flashes add color, and the politics is up front. [**]
11.		Mavis Staples: We Get By (Anti-) Quickly became the star of her father'south gospel family deed, tried going secular in the 1970s, much later finding her calling as the torch bearer of the civil rights movement. At 80 she has more gravitas than anyone needs, which lends extra heft to Ben Harper'southward solemn songs. [**]
12.		Fiddling Simz: Greyness Expanse (Historic period 101) British rapper Simbi Ajikawo, born in London, parents from Nigeria, 3rd album. [**]
thirteen.		Lizzo: Cuz I Dear Y'all (Dainty Life/Atlantic) Melissa Jefferson, third anthology, raps, sings, wails, whines, cracks wise. Says she pledges to be "Aretha Franklin for the 2018 generation." Doesn't take the phonation, but cranks upwardly the drama, and the music is punched up to the max. She makes an outsized impression, only fading a scrap at the end. [**]
14.		Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell (Polydor/Interscope) Sixth album, starts with a dollop of strings and proceeds so slyly, and then ethereally, I never actually notice the title in the title song. Still, nearly every song seduces me in the cease, maybe with a riff on "Summertime," or a selection expletive I happened to notice. Ends with: "Hope is a dangerous thing for a adult female like me to take." Claims it anyway. [**]
fifteen.		The Agree Steady: Thrashing Thru the Passion (Frenchkiss) Craig Finn'southward steady ring, 7th studio album since 2004, 2nd since Finn started releasing albums nether his own name (four since 2012, including I Need a New War earlier this twelvemonth). Departure, I reckon, is that he gives the ring more than caput, and they swing too as rock. Nonetheless, Finn's vocalism uniquely catches the ear, and he's usually reeling off a line you want to hear. [**]
16.		Dave: Psychodrama (Neighbourhood) British rapper David Orobosa Omoregie, built-in in London, parents Nigerian, first anthology after 2 EPs and a agglomeration of singles. Concept heavy, working his fashion through psych sessions, finding his fashion and gaining conviction and condolement, although not without some psychodrama. [**]
17.		Weldon Henson: Texas Made Honky Tonk (Hillbilly Renegade) Country singer-songwriter, grew up in Humble, Texas, sounds a lot like vintage Joe Ely. The voice, anyway -- doesn't have the piano, but gets by with his guitar (and some pedal steel), particularly when he doesn't dawdle. (Not that I take whatsoever complaints about "Non the Kind to Hang Around.") [**]
18.		Robert Forster: Inferno (Tapete) Australlian vocalizer-songwriter, formerly in the Get-Betweens, had several solo albums in the 1990s, regrouped the band, then was left to resume his solo career when Grant McLennan died. Forster never seemed to have McLennan's knack for indelible melodies, but his songs are intelligent and humane, and he sticks with them until they piece of work -- at least if listeners meet him midway. [**]
xix.		People Under the Stairs: Sincerely, the P (Piecelock 70) Los Angeles hip-hop duo, Christopher Portugal (Thes One) and Michael Turner (Double 1000), formed in 1997, decided to call it quits with this last album. First I've heard of them, but I experience right at home. After all, their beats would have been recognized as sometime style even when they started. And while they're not as quondam equally I am, their maturity sounds earned. [**]
twenty.		Chris Knight: Almost Daylight (Drifters Church) Country singer-songwriter from Kentucky, ninth album since 1998 (seven years since his concluding and best, Little Victories). The band has muscled upwardly, his vocalization thick and grizzled -- nowhere more than on John Prine's "Mexican Home," their duet shut to seamless. [**]
21.		Oumar Konat�: I Beloved You Inna (Clermont Music) From Republic of mali, fifth album, good-enough vocaliser but really impressive on electrical guitar, backed past electric bass and drums in a configuration that would have turned Jimi Hendrix'due south head. [**]
22.		Raphael Saadiq: Jimmy Lee (Columbia) Soul singer-songwriter, started in the group Tony! Toni! Ton�! (1988-96), went solo in 2002, only his 5th album, 8 years after Rock Rollin' took the critics' polls past storm. Ghetto drama, lament for a expressionless blood brother, just the music is strong plenty to persevere. Highlight is a rap, Alter of stride is a gospel in lieu of a funeral. [**]
23.		Kelsey Waldon: White Noise/White Lines (Oh Boy) Country vocaliser-songwriter from Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, probably the best vocalism in recent years, and one of the better songwriters. 3rd album, all superb; this 1 on John Prine's label, kickoff new artist there since Todd Snider. [**]
24.		Madonna: Madame X (Interscope) She's moved from London to Lisbon, picked upwards a few new beats, plus Colombian featured Maluma, although that was the sort of timely move she'southward been making for ages now (single: "Medellin"). As her life in exile puts America ever more afar in the rear-view mirror, her politics grow both snarkier and more than empathetic, with the solution a path of personal growth that only she seems to be able to pull off. All the same, expert for her. [**]
25.		L'Orangish & Jeremiah Jae: Complicate Your Life With Violence (Mello Music Group) Hip-hop producer ("sampledelic N Carolina cubist") and Chicago lyricist ("fracture rap demigod"), second album together (Fifty'Orange has also worked with Mr. Lif, Kool Keith, Stik Figa, and Homeboy Sandman, but his first round with Jae was his best). Muddied motion-picture show noir dystopia, not sure whether futuristic (every bit suggested), uncannily perceptive, or just an improved Czarface yarn. [**]
26.		Allison Moorer: Blood (Autotelic) Country singer-songwriter from Alabama, sister of Shelby Lynne, has had two famous songwriter-husbands. Tenth album, title tied to a memoir: the headline event in her life was in 1986 when her male parent shot and killed her mother, so killed himself. Not certain any songs can do full justice to the event, simply these cut deep and move you. heard her do. [**]
27.		Jason Ringenberg: Stand up Alpine (Courageous Chicken) Country rocker from Illinois, called his first band Jason & the Scorchers -- their 1983 EP Fervor earned the name -- tried a solo album in 1992, occasionally recorded as Farmer Jason, this his first since a Christmas album in 2014. In 2017, he got a gig as artist-in-residence at Sequoia National Park, and wrote a couple of songs near the alpine copse at that place, as well every bit the title instrumental. Added a Ramones tribute, and a few titles like "John the Baptist Was a Real Humdinger," "Hobo Bill'southward Last Ride," and "Many Happy Hangovers to Y'all." Lx now, and yet scorchin'. [**]
28.		Kel Assouf: Black Tenere (Glitterbeat) Saharan stone band, founded in Brussels by Nigerien guitarist Anana Harouna, with Tunisian keyboardist Sofyann Ben Youssef (also dba Ammar 808). Not a lot of variation in this fashion, simply this i sounds like the chief accept. [**]
29.		The Coathangers: The Devil You Know (Suicide Squeeze) Punkish girl group from Atlanta, a going concern since 2007, made me wonder whether they're going soft, merely "F the NRA" allayed those fears, and the next song ("Memories") is even better. As for the dull ones, farther listening reveals how together they are. [**]
30.		Epic Beard Men: This Was Supposed to Be Fun (Strange Famous) Second anthology: picks upward quickly from the beginning and powers through, with big, old school beats, pressured rhymes, real stories. [**]
31.		Leyla McCalla: Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village) Built-in in New York, parents Haitian, begetter "ran a New York based Haitian socialist newspaper," mother founded "an anti-domestic violence homo rights organisation," lived a couple years in Ghana, played cello in Carolina Chocolate Drops, also banjo and guitar, commencement solo album was a tribute to Langston Hughes. This is her third. Title vocal rings true, and the calypso "Money Is King" is even better. Got heavier, and the screechy guitar threw me for a loop until I looked upwards the song title, "Aleppo." She follows that with what sounds like a Haitian lullaby, so some Cajun woo-pitching. Not sure I'm ready for all this. [**]
32.		Willie Nelson: Ride Me Back Home (Legacy) Still prolific at 86, a batch of originals (more often than not co-credited to producer Buddy Cannon), almost as many covers (two from Guy Clark, one from Baton Joel). Reportedly the final affiliate in Nelson's "Mortality Trilogy," only less focused on age and death than the previous entries. No dope songs either. Could exist the new normal. [**]
33.		Nil�fer Yanya: Miss Universe (ATO) British singer-songwriter, born in London, name preserves Turkish roots merely the get-go band her guitar-rock reminded me of was the Buzzcocks. Gets slinkier after that, which I'd say is a plus. [**]
34.		Lee Scratch Perry: Rainford (On-U Sound) Hard to know how much to credit dub, which takes existing tracks and adds echo and scratch, but Rainford Hugh Perry has a major role player since the 1970s, spawning further dub masters like producer Adrian Sherwood hither. Nine distinctive tracks dwell on his Upsetter theme, artfully enough to sound like everything and nothing else earlier. [**]
35.		Tyler Childers: State Squire (Hickman Holler/RCA) Alt-state vocalist-songwriter from Kentucky, impressed a lot of folks (including me belatedly) with his 2017 Purgatory and should go similar attending for this one. Another batch of stiff songs, with a lot of dabble in the band. [**]
36.		Charly Bliss: Young Enough (Barsuk) Ability pop group, Eva Hendricks sings, second anthology, seems like they got the tone correct, all the hooks buttoned upward tight. [**]
37.		Miranda Lambert: Wildcard (RCA Nashville) State singer-songwriter, seventh album (10th if you lot include Pistol Annies), difficult to amend on her voice or inquire for more spunk, and I'm not finding whatsoever reason to dubiousness this album. [**]
38.		Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Miri (OutHere) Ngoni master from Mali, harder and more powerful than the usual run of desert dejection -- perhaps his association with Youssou N'Dour has rubbed off, projecting some star power. Getting hard to differentiate after several stiff albums, only I meet no reason to stop here. [**]
39.		Kim Gordon: No Home Record (Matador) Sonic Youth chanteuse (1983-2009), now 66, first named solo anthology although she had a side projection in the 1990s (Free Kitten), several more since, including post-SY albums as Body/Caput and Glitterbust. She does a masterful job of capturing Sonic Youth's sound, then folds it back on itself, making it more impenetrable then ever. Not sure it'due south even possible to unpack it, but the sound stands magnficently on its own. [**]
40.		Big Thief: U.F.O.F. (4AD) Brooklyn-based indie band, 3rd album (although leader Adrianne Lenker also has a solo). Goose egg difficult, or even very solid, yet the songs concur together nicely, with lots of minor pleasures. [**]
41.		Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Bandana (Keel Cool/RCA) Rapper, from Gary, Indiana, 2nd album (plus four mixtapes) with the producer (Otis Jackson), the combo sometimes known equally MadGibbs. Lyrics are striking, carried forth past the sweeping production. [**]
42.		75 Dollar Bill: I Was Real (Thin Wrist) Guitar-drums duo, Che Chen and Rick Brown, the onetime studied Mauritanian music with Jheich Ould Chighaly, maybe why their most obvious connection seems to be with Saharan dejection-rock, but they work with all sorts of guitar patterns. No vocals, none needed. [**]
43.		Queen Cardinal: Eat My Pussy (Again) (Motorcar Amusement Group) Chicago rapper Ke'Asha McClure, first anthology (following last twelvemonth'due south Swallow My Pussy EP), reminds one of CupcakKe -- her more "mature" work equally opposed to her salacious debut Cum Cake, but then Key is a year older, and judging from her forced rhymes and slack beats not as talented. All the same, she remains fearless and defiant in a earth where trust is difficult to come past, and takes her pleasure where she tin. [**]
44.		The Chemical Brothers: No Geography (Virgin EMI) When I organized my database c. 2000 I filed all the electronica albums under "techno," which is evidently a more limited (shall we say technical?) term. But back then I was thinking of artists similar this UK duo, with three fairly major albums 1995-99. They've slowed downwardly, with simply four fifty-fifty spaced albums since 2005. Merely this 1 sounds much similar the early ones, with one foot planted in disco, the other pushing metal hard to the flooring. [**]
45.		Youssou N'Dour: History (Na�ve/Believe) Senegalese superstar, another potent album -- tempted to complain that his vocals are as well strong, but that would be petty. [**]
46.		Caterina Barbieri: Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego) Italian composer, based in Berlin, "working in the fields of analog and digital synthesis and minimalism." Fourth anthology. All synth, rooted in minimalism but building something more out of such basics. [**]
47.		Taylor Swift: Lover (Commonwealth) Popular megastar, seventh anthology, the showtime six multi-platinum, Wikipedia notes her age (29) and net worth ($360 million). With that kind of money, she tin can hire good help -- importantly Jack Antonoff and Joel Little -- while stretching her production out to 18 songs, a flake over an hour. Album has some lulls: no incertitude it could be edited down and sharpened up. Simply two songs I ever notice -- "Paper Rings" and "You Need to Calm Downward" -- and almost others eventually clicked. [**]
48.		Czarface: The Odd Czar Against U.s. (Silver Age) Wu-Tang rapper Inspectah Deck, with the cocky-sufficient duo 7L & Esoteric, 8th album together since 2013, on their own again afterward meet-ups with MF Doom and Ghostface Killah. Mad comic cover fine art, songs that are dynamic and funny, often built on killer riffs. [**]
49.		Ezra Furman: Twelve Nudes (Bella Union) Vocalizer-songwriter, started leading Ezra and the Harpoons, still thinks in band terms (I've seen this credited to "Ezra Furman & the band with no name"). Describes this as "our punk record," past which he seems to mean brusk songs: 11 in 27:27, some crunch to the music, some grit in the lyrics. E.thousand.: "I refuse to call this living life and I refuse to die . . . The ache within reminds my mind my trunk'due south really there . . . I'm non sure I can bite the manus that feeds me anymore." [**]
l.		Murs: The Iliad Is Dead and the Odyssey Is Over (Jamla/Empire) Rapper Nick Carter, albums since 2003 and still underground, produced past 9th Wonder and the Soul Council. Barely noticed when it came out, this is one of his best. [**]
51.		Hieroglyphic Being: Synth Expressionism/Rhythmic Cubism (On the Corner) Jamal Moss, from Chicago simply associated more with Detroit techno, has close to l albums since 2008, almost on his ain Mathematics label, simply I only seem to notice him when some other label picks him upward (eastward.g., Soul Jazz). Vinyl-sized at 5 songs, 34:25, opens with one-time-fashioned synths, adds a couple of saxophones to the 12:12 closer ("Timbuktu 2"), a very choice cutting. [**]
52.		YBN Cordae: The Lost Boy (Atlantic) Rapper Cordae Dunston, from North Carolina, grew upwards in Maryland, wound up in Los Angeles, in a commonage that goes by YBN (e.g., YBN Nahmir, YBN Glizzy, YBN Almighty Jay). Get-go album, after several mixtapes (as Entendre). Sound stories, cute skits, diverse guests but holds his ain. [**]
53.		Rachid Taha: Je Suis Africain (Naive) Algeria's almost famous ra� star, based in Paris, died last year at 59, non sure exactly when this was recorded simply it sounds similar an evolutionary step from his later piece of work, including his "get-go song in English." The fast ones don't rank with his best, just he's anile gracefully, a most pleasant surprise. [**]
54.		Sault: 5 (Forever Living Originals) Nothing I can detect on this group or (more likely) individual, but name ways a leap or spring, or less archaically "a fall or rapid in a river." First album, followed in brusque guild by 7. I've seen various comparisons, merely non the one that occurred to me: Chic. Well, minus the great bass lines, but everything else is in that location, and new once more. [**]
55.		Sault: vii (Forever Living Originals) 2d album, released less than five months after the debut, extends the groove and, if annihilation, tightens up the songcraft. [**]
56.		The Campfire Flies: Sparks Similar Fiddling Stars (OverPop Music) I probably would have filed this every bit a mid-B+ with a sigle play had it not been for voice-of-the-Cucumbers Deena Shoshkes sending me the CD. She sounded equally highly-seasoned as ever, but I could accept washed without the predominant male vocals (members of groups I've never bothered with: Speed the Plough, the Thousand Pities). I guess that'south democracy, with all half dozen members singing, most writing and playing multiple instruments. Gradually the male songs emerged more clearly, with several (especially John Baumgartner's "Deep Water") reminding me of the Go-Betweens. And Deena just kept getting amend.
57.		Boy Harsher: Conscientious (Nude Guild) Electropop duo, beats reminiscent of the new moving ridge 1980s (OMD, New Club, Cabaret Voltaire) but more claustrophobic, something they're calling darkwave. Haven't deciphered many words, but the beat goes on and on and on. [**]
58.		Apollo Brown: Sincerely, Detroit (Mello Music Group) Erik Vincent Stephens, grew upwardly in Grand Rapids, moved to Detroit in 2003, hip-hop producer, a dozen albums sharing credit with diverse rappers, 6 more nether his ain name. Hither it feels similar he's working with the whole city, at least what's left of it. Not optimism -- "we knew from the start that things autumn apart" -- but hard-earned survival. [**]
59.		Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum (X2) Live at the Royal Opera Hall, released as a DVD although I'm merely going by the audio. I don't think the duo gains anything in the concert hall, although the crowd noise draws (fifty-fifty a singalong on "West Finish Girls") you lot into the experience, and they take no problem cartoon twenty-plus terrific songs -- sometimes two or three to a cut -- from their deep discography. Ends with a reprise of "The Popular Kids" -- their latest, a pure throwback to their heyday, although songs like "It's a Sin" and "Go West" belfry even higher. [**]
threescore.		Lee Scratch Perry: Heavy Rain (On-U Sound) Reportedly a dub remix ("companion to") the auteur'south Rainford, one of this year'southward all-time albums. Not plainly redundant: all new song titles, a couple guests (Eno's piece is "Here Come the Warm Dreads"), relaxed, happy to indulge whatever odd sounds sally.
61.		Sarathy Korwar: More Arriving (The Leafage Characterization) Drummer, born in US, grew up in India, based in London just recorded some of this in Mumbai. In London he fits in with an expansive jazz scene, but this sounds more like hip-hop, especially with an array of rappers from India, but also note some fine sax leads, and lots of exotic percussion. [**]
62.		Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Trapline (Fontana North) Canadian First Nations hip-hop duo, from the Haisla reserve village of Kitamaat, now based in Vancouver, third anthology. Hard to become a handle here, merely obviously much in jest, and serious nevertheless. [**]
63.		Caroline Spence: Mint Status (Rounder) Vocaliser-songwriter from Virginia, settled in Nashville, quaternary album, first non self-released. Lyrics tend toward the literary, just her voice softens the edges, and the melodies suffice. Took me a while. [**]
64.		Ani DiFranco: No Walls: Mixtape (Righteous Babe) Product tie-in to the folksinger's new book, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir, reprising 25 years of songs, more often than not unplugged but with a few tricks hither and at that place (also guests on three songs). At starting time I tried reading excerpts from her memoir while listening to this, simply didn't have enough attention to satisfy both. Many striking songs here -- probably also on Canon, her 2-CD retrospective through 2007 -- maybe more so with her accumulated perspective, chops too. [**]
65.		Peter Perrett: Humanworld (Domino) Old leader of the Only Ones, possessing one of the most memorable voices of the late 1970s punk invasion. Struggled long after the group broke upwards, but to make an improbably great comeback album in 2017 (How the Westward Was Won). This is a plumbing fixtures sequel, if anything more than fleshed out, more than powerful. [**]
66.		Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage: Bad Wiring (Don Giovanni) New York folkie, started out drawing comic books, fifteen years later on he goes to Nashville, gets a producer, and rocks harder than ever. Proficient opening song, a surefire single on "LPs" (advice: "if information technology'south cheap in that location's less chance you'll regret it"), other wonders. [**]
67.		Oompa: Cleo (OompOutLoud) Boston rapper, second album, "forever representing the queer, blackness, orphaned, hood kids and them." Underground, breaking out. [**]
68.		That Domestic dog: Old LP (UMe) Alt-rock group from LA (1991-97), vocaliser-songwriter Anna Waronker, two of Charlie Haden's daughters, and a drummer. Cutting three albums before breaking up. After some solo albums, regrouped recently (minus Petra Haden) and finally came up with this dense, quirky new album (title song soars manner beyond cornball). [**]
69.		Kalie Shorr: Open up Volume (self-released) Vocalist-songwriter from Maine, based in Nashville. Songs take some country in them and are often brash and pointed. Production bigger than she needs, just she rocks harder than any Nashville ingenue since Miranda Lambert. [**]
lxx.		Add-2: Jim Crow: The Musical (Add together-2 Productions) Chicago rapper Andre DiJuan Daniels, mixtapes since 2005 including four volumes of Tale of Two'southward City, and the album Prey for the Poor. Title suggests ii dimensions of altitude -- history viewed on phase, past from nowadays, others from cocky -- but Jim Crow persists as a mental trap, not to the lowest degree because information technology's periodically reinforced by events. [**]
71.		Omar Souleyman: Shlon (Mad Decent/Because) Syrian arab republic'southward about famous wedding singer, has a dozen-plus albums that are more/less interchangeable. This one is brusk (6 songs, 34:14), but that seems about correct given the intensity. [**]
72.		Special Request: Offworld (Houndstooth) A third album within a 6-month stretch, and indeed something of a stretch, but the vocal added to "237,000 Miles" adds a new dimension to his work, and the beats in the eye are as compelling every bit those on Vortex. The long final mix, with its dramatic pauses and ambience fuzz, took longer to come up effectually. [**]
73.		Stella Donnelly: Beware of the Dogs (Secretly Canadian) Vocalizer-songwriter born in Wales, moved as a child to Perth, Australia, offers what Christgau calls "a catalogue of assholes" -- males, "boys will be boys," etc. -- although I'chiliad also struck by the allergies and bearers of infectious diseases. [**]
74.		Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy) The poet-singer died in 2016, about the fourth dimension he released Y'all Desire It Darker, notwithstanding excellent despite a vocalism in tatters. These are "sketches" for songs, rounded upwardly and finished roughly by son Adam Cohen, with guest help like Daniel Lanois and Beck. Barely makes it: nine songs, 29:17, the vocalization harsh even by recent standards, merely the music is uncanny, and his words hit hard. [**]
75.		Beans on Toast: The Inevitable Railroad train Wreck (Beans on Toast Music) English folksinger-songwriter Jay McAllister doubles down on the politics. I could quibble on details, but his middle and caput are in the correct place, and we're fortunate to have him. The refrain about "leave it in the ground" is tricky enough for a demonstration mob (although I wouldn't go so far as his dis on cows). He also doubles down on the music: he'due south added keyboards to his guitar in the past, only he'due south got a full band this time. Rocks a little, concluding that "life goes on and on and on." [**]
76.		Craig Finn: I Need a New War (Partisan) Fourth solo anthology, after fronting groups Lifter-Puller and the Agree Steady (a continuing venture with its own album this twelvemonth). Has a distinctive vocalisation, writes serious songs about interesting people. Initially taken aback past the title here refers to U.South. Grant, who would call back such a matter, and still prefer the band endeavor, but this one is growing on me. [**]
77.		Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways) Four black folkies with banjos -- Rhiannon Giddens and Leyla McCalls from Carolina Chocolate Drops, Amythyst Kiah and Allison Russell -- torn betwixt their instinct to preserve old slave hollers and minstrel tunes and to update them to reconstruct a history they obscure equally much as vest to. CD comes with a thick booklet to help you lot keep score. Still, even without the history much of this is gripping. [**]

As well added the following 2018 albums later on freezing the 2018 year-end file:

1.		Design: Two-Headed Monster (Weightless) Rapper/producer Albert Shepard, from Columbus, Ohio, got noticed for his Rhymesayers debut (1988 in 2005) but ignored for a steady stream of self-released albums since 2003. Invitee shots here include Slug, Mr Lif, and Aceyalone. "Practiced Guys Get Ignored"? That'southward a shame. [**]
2.		1000.A.A.N.: Subtle Meditation (Redefinition) Rapper Brandon Perry, from Maryland, acronym stands for Knowledge To a higher place All Nonsense, Wikipedia lists this as his first album, after 17 mixtapes (since 2014). Underground like MF Doom. [**]
3.		Thiago Nassif: Tr�south (Foom) Brazilian, third album, sings, plays guitar, bass, synth, with scattered guests, notably Arto Lindsay, who produced here, while Nassif co-produced Lindsay's 2017 album Cuidado Madame. Picks up where Lindsay'southward badly aptitude postpunk tropicalia leaves off. [**]
4.		Aceyalone & DJ Fatjack: 43rd & Excellence (That Kind of Music) Underground rapper Eddie Hayes, started in 1995, attracted some attention for 2001's Accepted Eclectic but piddling detect lately, despite regular releases. Love the easy menstruation here, as well every bit the scratch-sample beats. Can't observe annihilation on his producer-partner. [**]

Honorable Mention

Additional non-jazz rated B+(***), listed alphabetically.

1. Abraham Inc.: Together Nosotros Stand (Table Pounding) **
2. Aesop Rock & Tobacco: Malibu Ken (Rhymesayers) **
3. Laurie Anderson/Tenzin Choegyal/Jesse Paris Smith: Songs From the Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways) **
4. Anderson .Paak: Ventura (Aftermath/12 Tone Music) **
5. Atmosphere: Whenever (Rhymesayers Entertainment) **
6. Iggy Azalea: In My Defense force (Bad Dreams/Empire) **
7. Backxwash: Deviancy (Grimalkin, EP) **
8. BaianaSystem: O Futuro N�o Demora (M�quina De Louco) **
9. Barker: Utility (Ostgut Ton) **
10. Pip Blom: Boat (Heavenly) **
11. Blueface: Dirt Bag (Greenbacks Money, EP) **
12. Danny Brownish: Uknowhatimsayin� (Warp) **
13. Cigarettes Afterwards Sex: Cry (Partisan) **
14. Clairo: Immunity (Fader) **
15. Chuck Cleaver: Ship Help (Shake It) **
16. Crazy P: Age of the Ego (Walk Don't Walk) **
17. DaBaby: Kirk (Interscope) **
18. Davido: A Good Time (RCA) **
19. The Delines: The Imperial (El Cortez) **
20. Dumb: Club Nites (Mint) **
21. Steve Earle & the Dukes: Guy (New West) **
22. Justin Townes Earle: The Saint of Lost Causes (New West) **
23. The Exbats: East Is 4 Exbats (Burger) **
24. Craig Finn: I Need a New War (Partisan) **
25. Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel (Partisan) **
26. Martin Frawley: Undone at 31 (Merge) **
27. Dori Freeman: Every Single Star (Blue Hens Music) **
28. Ghostface Killah: Ghostface Killahs (Now Generation) **
29. Rhiannon Giddens: There Is No Other (Nonesuch) **
30. GoldLink: Diaspora (Squaaash Order/RCA) **
31. Kim Gordon: No Home Record (Matador) **
32. Homeboy Sandman: Dusty (Mello Music Group) **
33. Jenny Hval: The Exercise of Love (Sacred Basic) **
34. Injury Reserve: Injury Reserve (Senaca Hamlet) **
35. Carly Rae Jepsen: Dedicated (604/School Boy/Interscope) **
36. Cody Jinks: After the Fire (Late August) **
37. Ras Kass: Soul on Ice ii (Mello Music Grouping) **
38. Salif Keita: Un Autre Blanc (Naive) **
39. Khalid: Free Spirit (RCA) **
40. L7: Scatter the Rats (Blackheart) **
41. Megan Thee Stallion: Fever (300 Entertainment) **
42. Mekons: Deserted (Bloodshot) **
43. Haviah Mighty: 13th Floor (self-released) **
44. Mdou Moctar: Ilana: The Creator (Sahel Sounds) **
45. Van Morrison: Iii Chords & the Truth (Exile/Caroline) **
46. Ian Noe: Between the Country (National Treasury) **
47. Octo Octa: Resonant Body (T4T LUV NRG) **
48. The Paranoid Way: A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life (Bar/None) **
49. Lee Scratch Perry: Life of the Plants (Stones Throw) **
50. Pink: Hurts 2B Human being (RCA) **
51. Priests: The Seduction of Kansas (Sister Polygon) **
52. Purple Mountains: Purple Mountains (Drag Urban center) **
53. Quelle Chris: Guns (Mello Music Grouping) **
54. Rapsody: Eve (Roc Nation) **
55. The Regrettes: How Do You Love? (Warner Brothers) **
56. Emily Scott Robinson: Traveling Mercies (Tone Tree Music) **
57. Hama Sankare: Niafunke (Clermont Music) **
58. Derek Senn: How Could a Homo (self-released) **
59. Shed: Oderbruch (Ostgut Ton) **
60. Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury (Elektra) **
61. Sir Babygirl: Beat out on Me (Father/Girl, EP) **
62. Slowthai: Nothing Great Virtually United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (Method) **
63. Elza Soares: Planeta Fome (Deck) **
64. Special Request: Sleeping room Tapes (Houndstooth) **
65. TeeJayx6: The Swipe Lessons (The Family Entertainment) **
66. Ronnie Woods & His Wild Five: Mad Lad: A Live Tribute to Chuck Drupe (BMG) **
67. Billy Forest & Kenny Segal: Hiding Places (Blackwoodz Studioz) **
68. Neil Young & Crazy Equus caballus: Colorado (Reprise) **
69. Young Nudy & Pi'erre Bourne: Sli'mere (RCA) **
70. Immature Thug: Then Much Fun (300/Atlantic/YSL) **

Also added the post-obit 2018 albums afterward freezing the 2018 twelvemonth-end file:

1. Abhi the Nomad: Marbled (Tommy Boy) **
2. Camp Cope: How to Socialise & Make Friends (Run for Comprehend) **
3. Chuck D as Mistachuck: Celebration of Ignorance (SpitSLAM) **
4. DaBaby: Blank Bare (South Coast Music Group, EP) **
5. Sue Foley: The Water ice Queen (Stony Plain) **
6. Marlowe: Marlowe (Mello Music Group) **
7. Murs: A Strange Journey Into the Unimaginable (Foreign Music) **
8. Hama Sankare: Brawl�b�: Calling All Africans (Clermont Music) **
9. Senyawa: Sujud (Sublime Frequencies) **
10. Shannon Shaw: Shannon in Nashville (Like shooting fish in a barrel Center Audio/Nonesuch) **
11. Tallawit Timbouctou: Hali Diallo (Sahel Sounds) **
12. Sheck Wes: Mudboy (Cactus Jack/GOOD Music/Interscope) **
13. Barrence Whitfield & the Savages: Soul Flowers of Titan (Bloodshot) **

Reissues/Historic Music

The standard for historic music is a record where everything was recorded 10+ years ago, regardless of whether it'due south always been in impress before. Some past lists may accept treated previously unreleased music as new (regardless of bodily age), just I've never been able to manage that distinction consistently. This category too includes compilations of previously released music, including straight reissues, although my selection is very erratic.

1.		L7: Pretend We're Dead: All-time of L7 (1992-97, Warner Music Grouping) Digital-merely audio tied into the 2016 documentary DVD, L7: Pretend We're Dead, cartoon from only three of their albums, with 10/11 tracks from Bricks Are Heavy, 8/12 from Hungry for Sink, and 7/12 from The Dazzler Process -- the first two are solid-A in my book, and the latter holds upwardly ameliorate than I recalled. [**]
ii.		The Daisy Historic period (1989-94, Ace) A blip in the history of hip-hop, where popular rap took an secret twist, peradventure all the more to distinguish itself from the contemporary vogue for gangsta. I didn't reply at all well to De La Soul at starting time -- they lead off here, and are credited with a ridiculous acronym for DAISY -- merely I've logged A-list albums for nine other artists here (although a couple only with later compilations), and eventually got into some later De La Soul albums. Half of these cuts are well remembered (not that I've pulled the albums out recently). The others fit the flow, which is what a expert various artists comp should do. [NB: 2-LP adds two cuts: Fu-Schnickens with Shaquille O'Neal: "What's Upward Doc? (Can We Rock?) (Grand-Cut's Fatty Trac Remix); Leaders of the Old Schoolhouse: "Example of the P.T.A."]
three.		Chance the Rapper: 10 Twenty-four hours (2011, self-released) Chicago rapper Chancelor Bennett, one of the decade's best, released this debut mixtape in 2012, merely xviii when he recorded it, yet bursting with wit, charm, and hooks. [**]
4.		Hank Williams: The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings (1949, BMG, 2CD) Radio shots, eight 15-minute shows (including patter but trimmed of advertising, about 12 minutes each), each opening with "Happy Rovin' Cowboy" and signing off with "Sally Goodin'" -- in between, wait at least ane classic, some breaks and filler, and the obligatory hymn. Remarkable audio, extraordinary vocalism, could be edited down to an even more than remarkable single CD. [**]
v.		Alex Chilton: From Memphis to New Orleans (1985-89, Bar/None) Pop anti-star from Memphis, had a number one striking as a teenager, led a legendary popular-stone band in the early 1970s, recorded erratically as a solo act from 1978 until his death in 2000. More often than not this draws from EPs only before and after his 1986 movement from Memphis to New Orleans, about half covers. I don't remember this makes as good a example for his genius as nineteen Years, the Rhinoceros compilation which leans a bit before (including 5 Big Star tracks, plus 5 tracks that reappear here). [**]
6.		Nigeria 70: No Wahala: Highlife, Afro-Funk and Juju 1973-1987 (1973-87, Strut) Fourth installment in the characterization's Nigeria 70 series, the first a sweeping three-CD set up from 2001 that expanded the decade from 1964 to 1980. Farther single-CDs came out in 2008 and 2011, so they haven't been in a rush to dump this one out (12 cuts, 81:06). Non the top material, but the highlife and juju styles are pretty irresistible. [**]
7.		James Brown: Alive at Home With His Bad Self (1969, Polydor) Archival release of the complete show in Augusta, GA on October 1, 1969, originally planned for release, then excerpted (four cuts) for Sexual practice Auto. Not hard to run into why this was shelved at the time: a fair amount of patter, some uninspired instrumental breaks ("Spinning Wheel"?), especially compared to the later cloth they went with. On the other mitt, much of it is as great equally you'd look. [**]
8.		Laurie Spiegel: Unseen Worlds (1991, Unseen Worlds) A pioneer in electronic music, started with analog sythesizers in 1969, worked at Bell Labs 1973-79 writing limerick software, founded New York University'south Estimator Music Studio. Start record was The Expanding Universe (1980). Not many more, just this ane was taken as the name of this label. The pieces, organized as "Thesis," "Antithesis," and "Synthesis," with grand gestures that I assume derive from classical music aesthetics, plus some piano to settle things downwards. [**]
9.		Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou: Anou Malane (1995, Sahel Sounds) Tuareg guitarist-singer from Niger, recorded this in Benin. Regarded as a classic in the style, and so steady you start to wonder if it isn't too easy, only that'southward but because the residue is and so impeccable. [**]
ten.		Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars: Sewele (1986, Strut) Nigerian juju star, started in 1980 with his large breakthrough in 1989, tailing off a bit after 2000. Four tracks, twoscore:05. A flake erratic, but hard to resist annihilation that sounds this much like early on King Sunny Ad�. [**]
11.		Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Ecology and New Age Music 1980-1990 (1980-90, Lite in the Attic) Beware the version differences: the full three-LP package has 25 tracks, the two-CD a chip less at 23, but the digital, which is the only one I've heard, stops at ten (41:47). This doesn't sound like much at first: a fleck of quiet piano, a shift to synth and more electronics, the occasional light rhythm track. Nice and calming, not meditative (at to the lowest degree not exactly). Grows on y'all, or maybe only gets comfy. [**]
12.		Sonic Youth: Battery Park, NYC, July 4th 2008 (Matador) Live shot, a year before their last album (The Eternal), two years later on Rather Ripped, both solid entries in their 25-year run, although I can't say as I retrieve much from either. I do retrieve their audio, compressed and sharpened hither. [**]
13.		Endless Boogie: Vol. I, II (2005, No Quarter, 2CD) Stone jam band from Brooklyn, proper noun from a John Lee Hooker album, formed viii years before they committed to wax two 3-song LPs (second side of each is a single 25-infinitesimal slice). Vocals hither and there, simply are secondary to the two-guitar grind, which is muscular enough to concord upwards for 25-infinitesimal runs. [**]
14.		Atom[TM]: Lassigue Bendhaus/Matter (1992, AtomTM Audio Archive, 2CD) One of many aliases for Uwe Schmidt, German electronica producer based in Chile. Clangy beats, whisper vocals, runs besides long but very impressive. No idea about dozens more where this came from. **

Also added the post-obit 2018 albums later freezing the 2018 year-stop file:

1.

Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan (1970s-80s, Ostinato) Mostly recorded in Khartoum before the 1989 insurrection turned the nation toward Salafi Islam and against popular music, although it's possible some tracks were recorded afterwards, in exile -- this label doesn't offer discographical details. Closer to Ethiopia than to Egypt, more than emphasis on groove, also on cheese. [**]

Honorable Mention

Additional non-jazz rated B+(***), listed alphabetically.

1. Alefa Republic of madagascar (1970s-80s, Strut) **
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Live at Woodstock (1969, Craft) **
3. N� Hawa Doumbia: La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol. 1: Decouverte 81 a Dakar (Awesome Tapes From Africa) **
4. Fania Goes Psychedelic (1967-71, Arts and crafts Latino) **
5. Future: Monster (2014, Freebandz) **
6. Jamb� E Bone M�ticos Sons Da Amaz�nia (1974-86, Analog Africa) **
7. George Jones: United Artists Rarities (1962-64, EMI Nashville) **
8. Ronnie Lane: Just for a Moment: The All-time of Ronnie Lane (1973-97, UMC) **
9. Ana Mazzotti: Ana Mazzotti (1977, Far Out) **
10. Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu, Somalia 1972-1991 (Analog Africa) **
11. John Prine: Chicago 'lxx (Hobo) **
12. Professor Longhair: Alive on the Queen Mary (1975, Harvest) **
13. The Rough Guide to the Roots of State Music: Reborn and Remastered (1926-33, World Music Network) **
14. Star Ring De Dakar: Psicodelia Afro-Cubana De Senegal (Ostinato) **
This Is Toolroom 2019 (Edits) (Toolroom) **
15. World Spirituality Classics 2: The Time for Peace Is Now (1970s, Luaka Bop) **

Also added the following 2018 albums afterwards freezing the 2018 year-end file:

1. African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa) **
2. Kwi Bamba: Kwi Bamba & L'Orchestre De Gama Berema (1997, Ouch!) **
3. Imamu Amiri Baraka: It\'s Nation Time: African Visionary Music (1972, Motown) **
4. Tyler Childers: Live on Red Barn Radio I & II (2013-14, Hickman Holler -EP) **
5. Dur Dur of Somalia: Book one, Volume two & Previously Unreleased Tracks (1986-87, Analog Africa, 2CD) **
6. Orchestre Abass: De Bassari Togo (1972, Analog Africa, EP) **

Notes

Additional new non-jazz records rated B+(**) or below (listed alphabetically by artist).

1. two Chainz: Rap or Go to the League (Gamebread/Def Jam) ** [B+(**)]
2. 100 Gecs: m Gecs (Dog Show) ** [B]
3. Snoh Aalegra: Ugh, Those Feels Again (Artium) ** [B+(**)]
4. Kevin Abstract: Arizona Baby (Question Everything/RCA) ** [B+(**)]
5. Acid Arab: Jdid (Crammed Discs) ** [B+(*)]
6. Charlotte Adigery: Zandoli (Deewee, EP) ** [B+(**)]
7. Abjects: Never Surrender (Yippee Ki Yay) ** [B+(**)]
8. Altin One thousand�northward: Gece (ATO) ** [B+(**)]
9. Angel-Ho: Death Becomes Her (Hyperdub) ** [B+(*)]
10. Michaela Anne: Desert Pigeon (Yep Roc) ** [B+(*)]
11. Bali Baby: Bubbles Bali (Billmania Media) ** [B+(**)]
12. J. Balvin & Bad Bunny: Oasis (Universal Music Latino) ** [B+(**)]
13. Courtney Barnett: MTV Unplugged (Alive in Melbourne) (Mom + Pop Music) ** [B+(**)]
14. BCUC: The Healing (Buda Musique) ** [B+(**)]
15. Beck: Hyperspace (Capitol) ** [B]
16. Amend Oblivion Community Center: Better Oblivion Community Heart (Dead Oceans) ** [B+(*)]
17. Beyonc�: Homecoming: The Live Album (Columbia, 2CD) ** [B+(*)]
18. Large Yard.R.I.T.: G.R.I.T. Iz Hither (Multi Alumni) ** [B+(**)]
19. Large Thief: Two Hands (4AD) ** [B+(**)]
20. Bonnie Bishop: The Walk (30 Tigers) ** [B+(**)]
21. B.J. the Chicago Kid: 1123 (Motown) ** [B+(*)]
22. Black Alien: Abaixo De Zero: Hullo Hell (Extrapunk Extrafunk) ** [B+(*)]
23. Black Midi: Schlagenheim (Rough Trade) ** [B+(**)]
24. Black to Comm: 7 Horses for 7 Kings (Thrill Jockey) ** [B]
25. James Blake: Presume Form (Polydor) ** [B-]
26. Blarf: Cease & Desist (Stones Throw) ** [B-]
27. Blood Orangish: Angel'southward Pulse (Domino) ** [B+(**)]
28. Blu & Oh No: A Long Scarlet Hot Los Angeles Summer Night (Native Sounds) ** [B+(**)]
29. Bon Iver: I,I (Jagjaguwar) ** [B]
30. Boogie: Everythings for Sale (Shady/Interscope) ** [B+(*)]
31. Brockhampton: Ginger (Question Everything/RCA) ** [B+(**)]
32. Brooks & Dunn: Reboot (Arista Nashville) ** [B]
33. Burial: Clausto/Land Forest (Hyperdub, EP) ** [B]
34. Burna Boy: African Giant (Atlantic) ** [B+(*)]
35. Bill Callahan: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City) ** [B+(*)]
36. Lewis Capaldi: Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (Capitol) ** [B+(*)]
37. Car Seat Headrest: Commit Yourself Completely (Matador) ** [B+(**)]
38. Matt Carson: No Regrets (Bunba)** [B+(**)]
39. The Carter Family unit: Across Generations (Reviver Legacy) ** [B]
40. Cashmere Cat: Princess Catgirl (Mad Love/Interscope) ** [B+(*)]
41. Nick Cavern & the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen (Ghosteen/Bad Seeds) ** [B]
42. Chai: Punk (Burger) ** [B+(*)]
43. Charly Bliss: Supermoon (Barsuk, EP) ** [B+(**)]
44. Cheekface: Therapy Island (New Professor Music) ** [B+(**)]
45. Cherry Glazerr: Stuffed & Ready (Secretly Canadian) ** [B]
46. Chromatics: Closer to Grey (Italians Practise It Better) ** [B]
47. Stef Chura: Midnight (Saddle Creek) ** [B+(**)]
48. The Cinematic Orchestra: To Believe (Domino) ** [B+(**)]
49. Diabel Cissokho: Rhythm of the Griot (Kafou Music) ** [B+(**)]
50. Gary Clark Jr.: This Land (Warner Brothers) ** [B]
51. Clipping.: There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop) ** [B+(*)]
52. Luke Combs: What You Meet Is What Yous Go (River House/Columbia Nashville) ** [B+(**)]
53. Frankie Cosmos: Close It Quietly (Sub Pop) ** [B+(**)]
54. Croy & the Boys: Hullo Loftier-Ascent (Spaceflight) ** [B+(**)]
55. Denzel Curry: Zuu (Loma Vista) ** [B+(**)]
56. Czarface/Ghostface Killah: Czarface Meets Ghostface (Silver Age) ** [B+(**)]
57. Czarface: A Double Dose of Danger (Silver Age, EP) ** [B+(*)]
58. DaBaby: Babe on Infant (South Declension Music Group) ** [B+(**)]
59. Deep Land: The Path to Fast Oblivion (Friendship Fever) ** [B]
60. Deerhunter: Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD) ** [B]
61. Default Genders: Primary Popular Girl 2019 (cocky-released) ** [B+(**)]
62. Dreamville: Revenge of the Dreamers Iii (Dreamville/Interscope) ** [B+(*)]
63. Dreezy: Big Dreez (Interscope) ** [B+(**)]
64. Dump Him: Dykes to Watch Out For (Musical Fanzine/Get Meliorate) ** [B+(*)]
65. Open up Mike Eagle: The New Negroes: Season 1 Soundtrack (Comedy Cardinal, EP) ** [B+(*)]
66. Earthgang: Mirrorland (Dreamville/Interscope) ** [B+(*)]
67. Ekiti Sound: Abeg No Vex (Crammed Discs) ** [B+(**)]
68. Robert Ellis: Texas Pianoforte Man (New West) ** [B]
69. Empath: Agile Listening: Night on Globe (Get Better) ** [B+(*)]
70. Ex Hex: It'due south Existent (Merge) ** [B+(**)]
71. Fennesz: Agora (Touch on) ** [B]
72. Filthy Friends: Emerald Valley (Kill Rock Stars) ** [B+(**)]
73. Floating Points: Crush (Ninja Tune) ** [B+(**)]
74. Rosie Flores: Simple Case of the Dejection (The Concluding Music Company) ** [B+(**)]
75. Flying Lotus: Flamagra (Warp) ** [B+(**)]
76. Fruit Bats: Gold Past Life (Merge) ** [B+(*)]
77. Future: Future Hndrxx Presents: The Wizrd (Epic/Freebandz) ** [B+(**)]
78. Jayda G: Pregnant Changes (Ninja Melody) ** [B+(*)]
79. Ras G and the Afrikan Infinite Program: Trip the light fantastic of the Cosmos (Akashik) ** [B+(**)]
80. (Sandy) Alex M: House of Sugar (Domino) ** [B]
81. Gang Starr: 1 of the Best Yet (TTT/Gang Starr) ** [B+(*)]
82. The Garifuna Collective: Aban (Stonetree Music) ** [B+(**)]
83. Daughter Band: The Talkies (Rough Trade) ** [B+(*)]
84. Girlpool: What Chaos Is Imaginary (Anti-) ** [B]
85. The Good Ones: Rwanda, Y'all Should Exist Loved (Anti-) ** [B+(*)]
86. Ariana Grande: Thank U, Next (Republic) ** [B+(**)]
87. Hama: Houmeissa (Sahel Sounds) ** [B+(*)]
88. Aldous Harding: Designer (4AD) ** [B]
89. Jason Hawk Harris: Beloved & the Night (Bloodshot) ** [C+]
90. Hash Redactor: Drecksound (Goner) ** [B+(**)]
91. Tim Hecker: Anoyo (Kranky) ** [B]
92. Tim Heidecker: Another Year in Hell (Jagjaguwar) ** [B]
93. The Highwomen: The Highwomen (Elektra) ** [B]
94. Jesca Hoop: Stonechild (Memphis Industries) ** [B+(*)]
95. Hot Chip: A Bath Full of Ecstasy (Domino) ** [B+(*)]
96. Randy Houser: Magnolia (Stoney Creek) ** [B+(**)]
97. Brittany Howard: Jaime (ATO) ** [B]
98. Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien (Merge) ** [B+(**)]
99. Indoor Pets: Be Content (Wichita) ** [B+(*)]
100. Insignificant Other: I'chiliad So Glad I Experience This Style About You lot! (Counter Intuitive) ** [B+(*)]
101. Bobby J From Rockaway: Summer Classics (Brand Noise) ** [B+(**)]
102. Julia Jacklin: Crushing (Polyvinyl) ** [B]
103. I Jahbar and Friends: Inna Duppy SKRS Soundclash (Bokeh Versions) ** [B-]
104. Loraine James: For You and I (Hyperdub) ** [B+(**)]
105. The Japanese Business firm: Good at Falling (Dirty Striking) ** [B+(*)]
106. Jealous of the Birds: Wisdom Teeth (Atlantic, EP) ** [B+(**)]
107. Gethen Jenkins: Western Gold (5 Music) ** [B+(*)]
108. Lauren Jenkins: No Saint (Big Machine) ** [B+(**)]
109. Cody Jinks: The Wanting (Tardily Baronial) ** [B+(**)]
110. Georgette Jones: Skin (self-released) ** [B+(**)]
111. Jpegmafia: All My Heroes Are Cornballs (EQT) ** [B+(**)]
112. Judy and the Jerks: Music for Donuts EP (Thrilling Living, EP) ** [C+]
113. Juice Wrld: Death Race for Love (Interscope) ** [B-]
114. Ahmed Ag Kaedy: Akaline Kidal (Sahel Sounds) ** [B+(**)]
115. Kano: Hoodies All Summertime (Parlophone) ** [B+(*)]
116. Kaytranada: Bubba (RCA) ** [B+(**)]
117. Kehlani: While We Wait (Atlantic/TSNMI) ** [B+(**)]
118. Angelique Kidjo: Celia (Verve) ** [B+(*)]
119. Michael Kiwanuka: Kiwanuka (Polydor) ** [B+(*)]
120. Kokoko!: Fongola (Transgressive) ** [B+(**)]
121. Kronos Quartet: Terry Riley: Sun Rings (Nonesuch) ** [B]
122. Steve Lacy: Apollo XXI (3Qtr) ** [B+(*)]
123. Alex Lahey: The Best of Luck Lodge (Dead Oceans) ** [B+(**)]
124. Lady Lykez: Muhammad Ali EP (Hyperdub, EP) ** [B+(*)]
125. Lakou Mizik: HaitiaNola (Cumbancha) ** [B+(*)]
126. The Concluding Poets: Transcending Toxic Times (Ropeadope, 2CD) ** [B+(**)]
127. Cate Le Bon: Advantage (Mexican Summer) ** [B]
128. Gabe Lee: Farmland (Torrez Music Group) ** [B+(**)]
129. Ari Lennox: Shea Butter Infant (Dreamville/Interscope) ** [B+(*)]
130. Kim Lenz: Slowly Speeding (Blueish Star) ** [B+(**)]
131. Jenny Lewis: On the Line (Warner Bros.) ** [B+(*)]
132. Lightning Bolt: Sonic Citadel (Thrill Jockey) ** [B+(*)]
133. Lil Nas 10: 7 (Columbia, EP) ** [B+(*)]
134. Lil Tjay: True two Myself (Columbia) ** [B+(*)]
135. Lilliputian Blood brother: May the Lord Watch (Imagine Nation Music/For Members But/Empire) ** [B+(**)]
136. Kedr Livanskiy: Your Demand (2MR) ** [B]
137. Nils Lofgren: Blue With Lou (Castle Track Road) ** [B+(*)]
138. Maurice Louca: Elephantine (Northern Spy) ** [B+(*)]
139. Rosie Lowe: Yu (Wolf Tone) ** [B+(**)]
140. LSD: Labrinth/Sia/Diplo Nowadays . . . LSD (Columbia) ** [B-]
141. Kelsey Lu: Blood (Columbia) ** [B+(**)]
142. Stephen Malkmus: Groove Denied (Matador) ** [B+(*)]
143. Maluma: 11:xi (Sony Music Latin) ** [B+(**)]
144. Mannequin Pussy: Patience (Epitaph) ** [B+(**)]
145. Charlie Marie: Charlie Marie (self-released, EP) ** [B+(**)]
146. Martha: Honey Keeps Kicking (Dirtnap) ** [B+(**)]
147. The Mauskovic Dance band: The Mauskovic Dance Band (Soundway) ** [B+(**)]
148. Maxo Kream: Brandon Banks (Big Persona/RCA) ** [B+(**)]
149. MC Frontalot: Cyberspace Split, or the Fathomless Heartbreak of Online Itself (Level Up) ** [B+(**)]
150. MC Yallah Ten Debmaster: Kubali (Hakuna Kulala) ** [B+(*)]
151. Reba McEntire: Stronger Than the Truth (Large Machine) ** [B+(*)]
152. Mercury Rev: Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited (Partisan) ** [B]
153. Anna Meredith: FIBS (Moshi Moshi) ** [B]
154. The Messthetics: Anthropocosmic Nest (Dischord) ** [B+(*)]
155. Microwave: Expiry Is a Warm Blanket (Pure Noise) ** [B+(*)]
156. Mika: My Name Is Michael Holbrook (Republic/Virgin EMI) ** [B+(**)]
157. MIKE: Tears of Joy (10k) ** [B+(**)]
158. Mike & the Moonpies: Cheap Silver & Solid Country Gilded (Prairie Rose) ** [B+(*)]
159. Buddy & Julie Miller: Breakdown on 20th Ave. Southward (New West) ** [B+(**)]
160. Mono: Before the Past: Live From Electrical Audio (Temporary Residence) ** [B+(*)]
161. Moor Mother: Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes (Don Giovanni) ** [B+(**)]
162. Maren Morris: Girl (Columbia Nashville) ** [B]
163. Bob Mould: Sunshine Rock (Merge) ** [B+(**)]
164. The Mountain Goats: In League With Dragons (Merge) ** [B+(**)]
165. Muna: Saves the Globe (RCA) ** [B+(**)]
166. The Murder Capital: When I Have Fears (Human Season) ** [B+(*)]
167. Rico Nasty/Kenny Beats: Anger Management (Saccharide Trap, EP) ** [B+(**)]
168. The National: I Am Easy to Find (4AD) ** [B+(**)]
169. Helado Negro: This Is How You Grinning (RVNG Intl) ** [B+(*)]
170. Lukas Nelson & Hope of the Real: Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) (Fantasy) ** [B+(*)]
171. Due north�rija: Blume (Domino) ** [B+(*)]
172. The New Pornographers: In the Morse Lawmaking of Brake Lights (Concord) ** [B+(*)]
173. Nivhek: After Its Ain Death/Walking in a Spiral Towards the House (Yellow Electrical) ** [B+(*)]
174. Nots: 3 (Goner) ** [B+(**)]
175. Nubiyan Twist: Jungle Run (Strut)
176. Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG) ** [B+(**)]
177. Quondam Man Saxon: Goldman Sax (Saxon Kincy, EP) ** [B+(**)]
178. Affections Olsen: All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar) ** [B+(*)]
179. Otoboke Beaver: Itekoma Hits (Damnably) ** [B+(**)]
180. Kassa Overall: Go Get Water ice Cream and Listen to Jazz (self-released) ** [B+(**)]
181. Jai Paul: Leak 04-thirteen (Allurement Ones) (40) ** [B+(**)]
182. Orville Peck: Pony (Sub Popular) ** [B-]
183. Pedro the Lion: Phoenix (Polyvinyl) ** [B+(*)]
184. Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye (Red Red) ** [B+(**)]
185. The Pernice Brothers: Spread the Feeling (Ashmont) ** [B+(*)]
186. Pet Store Boys: Agenda (X2, EP) ** [B+(**)]
187. Caroline Polachek: Pang (Columbia) ** [B+(*)]
188. Polo G: Die a Fable (Columbia) ** [B+(**)]
189. Pom Poko: Birthday (Bella Union) ** [B+(*)]
190. Postal service Malone: Hollywood's Bleeding (Democracy) ** [B]
191. Pulverisation: Powder in Space (DJ Mix) (Beats in Infinite) ** [B+(**)]
192. Jessica Pratt: Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer) ** [B-]
193. PUP: Morbid Stuff (Ascension/BMG) ** [B]
194. Kojey Radical: Cashmere Tears (Asylum/Atlantic) ** [B+(*)]
195. The Rails: Cancel the Sun (Psychonaut) ** [B+(*)]
196. Rex Orange County: Pony (RCA) ** [B]
197. Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis: Cute Lie (Adjacent Waltz) ** [B+(**)]
198. Rocket 808: Rocket 808 (12XU) ** [B]
199. Maggie Rogers: Heard It in a Past Life (Capitol) ** [B+(**)]
200. Mark Ronson: Tardily Nighttime Feelings (RCA) ** [B+(*)]
201. Royal Trux: White Stuff (Fatty Possum) ** [B+(*)]
202. Ustad Saami: God Is Not a Terrorist (Glitterbeat) ** [C]
203. Dua Saleh: Nur (Confronting Giants -EP) ** [B+(**)]
204. Santana: Africa Speaks (Concord) ** [B]
205. Sasami: Sasami (Domino) ** [B+(*)]
206. Serengeti: Music From the Graphic Novel Kenny Vs the Dark Spider web (Burnco, EP) ** [B+(**)]
207. Sheer Mag: A Distant Call (Wilsuns) ** [B+(**)]
208. ShitKid: [Detention] (PNKSLM) ** [B+(*)]
209. Kalie Shorr: Open Volume (self-released) ** [B+(*)]
210. Sigrid: Sucker Punch (Island) ** [B+(**)]
211. Silk Route Assassins: Land of Ruin (Planet Mu) ** [B+(*)]
212. Skepta: Ignorance Is Bliss (Boy Better Know) ** [B+(**)]
213. Skyzoo & Pete Rock: Retropolitan (Mello Music Group) ** [B+(**)]
214. Slayyyter: Slayyyter (The Mixtape) (self-released) ** [B+(**)]
215. Sleaford Mods: Eton Alive (Farthermost Eating) ** [B+(**)]
216. Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won't Hold (Mom + Pop) ** [B]
217. Sly & Robbie/Roots Radics: The Concluding Battle: Sly & Robbie vs. Roots Radics (Serious Reggae) ** [B+(**)]
218. Sneaks: Highway Hypnosis (Merge) ** [B+(*)]
219. SOL Development: The SOL of Black Folk (self-released) ** [B+(**)]
220. Solange: When I Get Home (Saint/Columbia) ** [B+(*)]
221. Jay Som: Anak Ko (Polyvinyl) ** [B+(**)]
222. Son Volt: Marriage (Transmit Sound) ** [B+(*)]
223. Sote: Parallel Persia (Diagonal) ** [B+(*)]
224. Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith: The Peyote Trip the light fantastic toe (Bella Spousal relationship) ** [B+(*)]
225. Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith: Mummer Love (Bella Union) ** [B+(**)]
226. The Specials: Encore (Island) ** [B+(*)]
227. Spellling: Mazy Wing (Sacred Bones) ** [B+(**)]
228. Emily A. Sprague: Mount Vision (self-released) ** [B+(**)]
229. Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars (Columbia) ** [B-]
230. Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans: The Ordovician Era (Don Giovanni) ** [B+(*)]
231. Mavis Staples: Live in London (Anti-) ** [B+(**)]
232. The Steel Forest: Old News (Wood Music) ** [B-]
233. STL GLD: The New Normal (AR Classic) ** [B+(**)]
234. Stormzy: Heavy Is the Head (Merky/Atlantic) ** [B+(**)]
235. Dexter Story: Bahir (Soundway) ** [B+(*)]
236. George Strait: Honky Tonk Time Machine (MCA Nashville) ** [B]
237. Harry Styles: Fine Line (Columbia) ** [C+]
238. Sudan Archives: Athena (Stones Throw) ** [B+(**)]
239. Sunflower Bean: King of the Dudes (Mom + Pop, EP) ** [B+(**)]
240. Sunn O))): Life Metallic (Southern Lord) ** [B-]
241. Supa Bwe: Just Say Thank you (Freddy Got Magic/Empire, EP) ** [B+(*)]
242. Earl Sweatshirt: Feet of Clay (Tan Cressida/Warner, EP) ** [B+(*)]
243. Swindle: No More Normal (Brownswood) ** [B-]
244. Tanya Tagaq: Toothsayer (Half-dozen Shooter, EP) ** [B+(**)]
245. Tegan and Sara: Hey, I'chiliad Just Similar You (Warner Brothers) ** [B+(**)]
246. Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons (Republic) ** [B+(*)]
247. Thick: Thick (Epitaph, EP): ** [B+(*)]
248. Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band: Obiaa! (Strut) ** [B+(**)]
249. Tinariwen: Amadjar (Anti-) ** [B+(**)]
250. Jonah Tolchin: Fires for the Cold (Yep Roc) ** [B+(*)]
251. AJ Tracey: AJ Tracey (self-released) ** [B+(**)]
252. Tropical Fuck Tempest: Braindrops (Blithesome Dissonance) ** [B+(*)]
253. Tanya Tucker: While I'm Livin' (Fantasy) ** [B+(**)]
254. Molly Tuttle: When You're Ready (Compass) ** [B+(**)]
255. The Twilight Sad: Information technology Won/t Be Like This All the Fourth dimension (Rock Action) ** [B]
256. William Tyler: Goes Due west (Merge) ** [B+(**)]
257. Tyler, the Creator: Igor (Columbia) ** [B+(**)]
258. Vampire Weekend: Male parent of the Bride (Columbia) ** [B+(**)]
259. Sharon Van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar) ** [B+(*)]
260. Alice Wallace: Into the Bluish (Rebelle Road) ** [B+(*)]
261. Summer Walker: Over Information technology (Interscope) ** [B]
262. Faye Webster: Atlanta Millionaires Social club (Secretly Canadian) ** [B]
263. Kanye Westward: Jesus Is King (Adept/Def Jam) ** [B-]
264. Westside Gunn: Flygod Is an Awesome God (Griselda) ** [B+(*)]
265. Westside Gunn: Hitler Wears Hermes VII (Griselda) ** [B+(*)]
266. Weyes Claret: Titanic Rise (Sub Pop) ** [B-]
267. Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra: Songs From the Sunday Ra Creation (Modern Harmonic) ** [B+(**)]
268. The Who: Who (Polydor) ** [B]
269. Betty Who: Betty (cocky-released) ** [B+(**)]
270. Wilco: Ode to Joy (dBpm) ** [B+(*)]
271. Saul Williams: Encrypted & Vulnerable (Pirates Blend) ** [B+(*)]
272. Wilma Vritra: Burd (Bad Sense of taste) ** [B+(*)]
273. Billy Woods: Terror Direction (Blackwoodz Studioz) ** [B+(**)]
274. Wreckless Eric: Transience (Southern Domestic) ** [B+(*)]
275. Charli XCX: Charli (Asylum) ** [B+(**)]
276. The Yawpers: Human being Question (Bittersweet) ** [B+(**)]
277. Yola: Walk Through Fire (Like shooting fish in a barrel Center Sound/Nonesuch) ** [B+(*)]
278. Yonic South: Wild Cobs (La Tempesta, EP) **
279. Thom Yorke: Anima (XL) ** [B-]
280. Immature M.A: Herstory in the Making (M.A Music/3D) ** [B+(*)]

Additional reissued/archival non-jazz records rated B+(**) or below (listed alphabetically past creative person).

1. Terry Allen + Panhandle Mystery Band: Pedal Steal + Four Corners (1985-93, Paradise of Bachelors, 3CD) ** [B+(*)]
2. Big Star: Alive on WLIR (1974, Omnivore) ** [B+(**)]
3. Big Stick: Some of the Best of Big Stick (Drag Racing Underground, EP) ** [B+(**)]
4. Bulawayo Blue Yodel (1950s, Olvido) ** [B+(**)]
5. Burial: Tunes 2011 to 2019 (Hyperdub, 2CD) ** [B+(*)]
6. Alex Chilton: Songs From Robin Hood Lane (1991-94, Bar/None) ** [B+(*)]
7. Julie Coker: A Life in the Limelight: Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife 1976-1981 (Kalita) ** [B+(*)]
8. Elecktrokids: Elektroworld (1995, Clone Classic Cuts) ** [B+(**)]
9. Marvin Gaye: You lot're the Man (1972, Motown) ** [B+(**)]
10. Smokey Haangala: Aunka Ma Kwacha (1976, S�ance Center) ** [B+(*)]
11. Ernest Hood: Neighborhoods: Memories of Times Past (1975, Freedom to Spend) ** [B]
12. Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Live in Paris 1985 (Rainman) ** [B+(*)]
13. Sourakata Koit�: En Hollande (1984, Awesome Tapes From Africa) ** [B+(**)]
14. Live at Raul's (1979, Steady Boy) ** [B+(*)]
15. Ana Mazzotti: Ninguem Vai Me Segura (1974, Far Out) ** [B+(**)]
16. Jaye P. Morgan: Jaye P. Morgan (1976, Wewantsounds) ** [B]
17. Harry Mosco: Peace & Harmony (1979, Isle of Jura) ** [B+(*)]
18. Lee Moses: How Much Longer Must I Wait? Singles & Rarities 1965-1972 (Calorie-free in the Attic) ** [B+(**)]
19. Kinloch Nelson: Partly on Time: Recordings 1968-1970 (Tompkins Square) ** [B+(*)]
20. Prince: Originals (1981-91, Rhinoceros/Warner Bros.) ** [B-]
21. Patrice Rushen: Remind Me: The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984 (Strut) ** [B+(*)]
22. Arthur Russell: Iowa Dream (1974-85, Audika) ** [B+(*)]
23. Johnny Shines: The Blues Came Falling Downward: Live 1973 (Omnivore) ** [B+(**)]
24. Jim Sullivan: Jim Sullivan (1972, Light in the Cranium) ** [B+(*)]
25. Team Dresch: Personal Best (1994, Jealous Butcher, EP) ** [B+(*)]
26. Team Dresch: Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000 (Jealous Butcher) ** [B+(*)]
27. Townes Van Zandt: Sky Bluish (1973, Fat Possum) ** [B+(*)]
28. Weaponize Your Sound (Optimo Music) ** [B+(*)]
29. Neil Young + Stray Gators: Tuscaloosa (Reprise) ** [B-]

New not-jazz records I haven't heard estimated to take a 2% (or better) adventure of making the A-list if/when I finally hear them:

1. Holly Herndon: Proto (4AD)
2. The Runway: Abolish the Lord's day (Psychonaut Sounds)

Reissued non-jazz records I haven't heard estimated to accept a two% (or better) chance of making the A-list if/when I finally hear them:

1. Bob Dylan: The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Legacy)
2. Bob Dylan: Travelin' Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol 15 (Columbia/Legacy)
3. Richard Thompson: Across a Crowded Room: Live at Barrymore's 1985 (Real Gone Music)
4. All the Young Droogs: threescore Juvenile Runaway Wrecks (Cherry Red -3CD)

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