Official Official 2019 Alt Music/The Lounge Thread
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Adam3000
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Not enough people been posting in the thread last year so I fell off myself. But I have still been tracking my top albums, I will post them in bit once I can get on my PC
I liked a lot of albums this year, but it is the first year maybe ever that I did not rate a single album a 9/10
I mean, there was some borderline stuff, but how can I call an album AOTY when it isn't even a 9?
So maybe there isn't one this year.
Adam3000
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2018 Album Of The Year
Tierra Whack "Whack World"
---I struggle to call a collection of 15 different 1 minute songs a real album. It all feels so incomplete and makes me crave more. But I can't deny that this is the most creative, addicting, catchy album released this year and if a full version of it were ever released it would be an easy 9/10 or better and an AOTY contender. So in a year with no real AOTY for me, I'm going to give it to this. I prefer listening to this on its own rather than watching the visual album that accompanied it. The visuals really distract from just how great the music is.
Runners-Up
Julia Holter "Aviary"
Beach House "7"
Sophie "Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Sides"
Tierra Whack "Whack World"
---I struggle to call a collection of 15 different 1 minute songs a real album. It all feels so incomplete and makes me crave more. But I can't deny that this is the most creative, addicting, catchy album released this year and if a full version of it were ever released it would be an easy 9/10 or better and an AOTY contender. So in a year with no real AOTY for me, I'm going to give it to this. I prefer listening to this on its own rather than watching the visual album that accompanied it. The visuals really distract from just how great the music is.
Runners-Up
Julia Holter "Aviary"
Beach House "7"
Sophie "Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Sides"
9.5 or above
None
9.0 or above
None
8.5 or above
Tierra Whack "Whack World"
Julia Holter "Aviary"
Amen Dunes "Freedom"
Sophie "Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Sides"
Yves Tumor "Safe In The Hands Of Love"
Beach House "7"
Low "Double Negative"
Iceage "Beyondless"
Car Seat Headrest "Twin Fantasy"
8.0 or above
Jeff Tweedy "Warm"
Kid Cudi & Kanye West "Kids See Ghosts"
Tim Hecker "Konoyo"
Jon Hopkins "Singularity"
Makaya Mccraven "Universal Beings"
Miya Folick "Premonitions
Lupe Fiasco "Drogas Wave"
Oneohtrix Point Never "Age Of"
Pusha T "Daytona"
Parquet Courts "Wide Awake"
Noname "Room 25"
Kanye West "Ye"
DJ Koze "Knock Knock"
Mount Eerie "Now Only"
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) "2012-2017"
Kali Uchis "Isolation"
Soccer Mommy "Clean"
Teyana Taylor "K.T.S.E."
Snail Mail "Lush"
Mitski "Be The Cowboy"
Grouper "Grid Of Points"
Deafheaven "Ordinary Corrupt Human Love"
Let's Eat Grandma "I'm All Ears"
Hop Along "Bark Your Head Off, Dog"
Father John Misty "God's Favorite Customer"
Other Albums I Enjoyed
Earl Sweatshirt "Some Rap Songs"
Boygenius "Boygenius"
THe 1975 "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships"
Kamasi Washington "Heaven and Earth"
Laurel Halo "Raw Silk Uncut Wood"
Vince Staples "FM!"
Dirty Projectors "Lamp Lit Prose"
Nas "Nasir"
Tirzah "Devotion"
Beyonce and Jay-Z "Everything Is Love"
Nils Frahm "All Melody"
Sons of Kemet "Your Queen Is A Reptile"
Jean Grae "Everything's Fine"
Deerhunter "Double Dream Of Spring"
U.S. Girls "In A Poem Unlimited"
None
9.0 or above
None
8.5 or above
Tierra Whack "Whack World"
Julia Holter "Aviary"
Amen Dunes "Freedom"
Sophie "Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Sides"
Yves Tumor "Safe In The Hands Of Love"
Beach House "7"
Low "Double Negative"
Iceage "Beyondless"
Car Seat Headrest "Twin Fantasy"
8.0 or above
Jeff Tweedy "Warm"
Kid Cudi & Kanye West "Kids See Ghosts"
Tim Hecker "Konoyo"
Jon Hopkins "Singularity"
Makaya Mccraven "Universal Beings"
Miya Folick "Premonitions
Lupe Fiasco "Drogas Wave"
Oneohtrix Point Never "Age Of"
Pusha T "Daytona"
Parquet Courts "Wide Awake"
Noname "Room 25"
Kanye West "Ye"
DJ Koze "Knock Knock"
Mount Eerie "Now Only"
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) "2012-2017"
Kali Uchis "Isolation"
Soccer Mommy "Clean"
Teyana Taylor "K.T.S.E."
Snail Mail "Lush"
Mitski "Be The Cowboy"
Grouper "Grid Of Points"
Deafheaven "Ordinary Corrupt Human Love"
Let's Eat Grandma "I'm All Ears"
Hop Along "Bark Your Head Off, Dog"
Father John Misty "God's Favorite Customer"
Other Albums I Enjoyed
Earl Sweatshirt "Some Rap Songs"
Boygenius "Boygenius"
THe 1975 "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships"
Kamasi Washington "Heaven and Earth"
Laurel Halo "Raw Silk Uncut Wood"
Vince Staples "FM!"
Dirty Projectors "Lamp Lit Prose"
Nas "Nasir"
Tirzah "Devotion"
Beyonce and Jay-Z "Everything Is Love"
Nils Frahm "All Melody"
Sons of Kemet "Your Queen Is A Reptile"
Jean Grae "Everything's Fine"
Deerhunter "Double Dream Of Spring"
U.S. Girls "In A Poem Unlimited"
Trojan 24
Veteran
James Blake back in his bag 
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
if you ever get a chance to see them live ... do it, they are amazing live
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
A Pond/Tame Impala tour would be godly
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
this Pond album is
they might be my favorite band/artist out there these days
Oh damn....i see they just dropped
Oh damn....i see they just dropped
Hand Mouth Dancer is such fire ... whole album is ... these boys are good
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
Yea this shyt ride. 16 Days is 
Updated title for the 2019 
Adam3000
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Really heavily fukking with that Sharon Van Etten album.
Also liked the Deerhunter quite a bit
Also liked the Deerhunter quite a bit