“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
-Leonard Bernstein
Before this garbage year is a wrap, a sincere thank you to the artists that made some of our favorite records of 2019:
- Tindersticks – No Treasure But Hope (Lucky Dog / City Slang)
- Jesca Hoop – Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
- Cate Le Bon – Reward (Mexican Summer)
- Jay Glass Dubs – Epitaph (Bokeh Versions)
- Denzel Curry – ZUU (Ph Recordings / Loma Vista Recordings)
- Chaka Khan – Hello Happiness (Diary Records / Island Records)
- Gruff Rhys – Pang! (Rough Trade)
- Pelada – Movimiento Para Cambio (PAN)
and some of our favorite reissues:
- Stephen Duffy – I Love My Friends (Stephen Duffy / Needle Mythology)
- Dolly Mixxture – Demonstration Tapes
- Malaria! – Compiled 2.0 (Moabit Music)
- Marcia Griffiths – Play Me Sweet and Nice (Trojan Recordings)
- Blue Boy – Unisex (Sarah Records)
and our single favorite release of 2019:
