Voorlopig kom ik tot dit lijstje.

01. Teeth of the Sea - Wraith
02. USA/Mexico - Matamoros
03. My Disco - Environment
04. Henge - Nothing Head
05. Tunic - Complexion
06. Elena Setien - Another Kind of Revolution
07. MSYLMA - Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum
08. Gum Takes Tooth - Arrow
09. Lifafa - Jaago
10. Endon - Boy Meets Girl

11. Modern Technology - Modern Technology
12. Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury
13. Ithaca - The Language of Injury
14. King Midas Sound - Solitude
15. Maurice Louca - Elephantine
16. Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive
17. Bendik Giske - Surrender
18. Kokoroko - Kokoroko
19. CHAI - Punk
20. Jards Macalé - Besta Fera

Inmiddels weer wat albums verder en heb een nieuwe update kunnen maken met vijf nieuwe binnenkomers in de Top 10. En een toch wel verrassende nummer 1 die ik vooraf eigenlijk totaal niet aan zag komen (van mezelf).

1. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (2019) 4,5*
2. Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 (2019) 4,5*
3. Dakota - Here's the 101 on How to Disappear (2019) 4,5*
4. Indian Askin - Another Round (2019) 4,0*
5. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center (2019) 4,0*
6. Little Simz - Grey Area (2019) 4,0*
7. Finn Andrews - One Piece at a Time (2019) 3,5*
8. Strand of Oaks - Eraserland (2019) 3,5*
9. De Staat - Bubble Gum (2019) 3,5*
10. Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet (2019) 3,5*

Pfff... er zit nog niet veel vaart in 2019. De voorlopige toppers voor mij zijn:

1. RPWL - Tales from Outer Space (2019)
2. Ritual Howls - Rendered Armor (2019)
3. The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered (2019)
4. Cosmograf - Mind Over Depth (2019)
5. Brotherhood - In the Violet Hour
6. Joe Jackson - Fool
7. Soen - Lotus
8. Boy Harsher - Careful
9. White Lies - Five
10. Hante. - Fierce

1. Rhapsody of Fire - The Eighth Mountain
2. Avantasia - Moonglow
3. Beast in Black - From Hell with Love
4. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
5. Sermon - Birth of the Marvellous
6. The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South of Reality
7. Last in Line - II
8. Wheel - Moving Backwards
9. Burning Rain - Face the Music
10. Motorpsycho - The Crucible
11. L.A. Guns - The Devil You Know
12. Queensrÿche - The Verdict
13. Battle Beast - No More Hollywood Endings
14. Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited
15. Devin Townsend - Empath
16. O.R.k. - Ramagehead
17. Spirits of Fire - Spirits of Fire
18. Legion of the Damned - Slaves of the Shadow Realm
19. Devil Master - Satan Spits on Children of Light
20. Trixie Whitley - Lacuna

1. Little Simz - Grey Area (2)
2. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (--)
3. Yola - Walk Through Fire (1)
4. Shlohmo - The End (--)
5. Townes Van Zandt - Sky Blue (--)
6. Wannes Cappelle / broeder Dieleman / Frans Grapperhaus - Dit Is de Bedoeling (3)
7. Sophie Zelmani - Sunrise (4)
8. The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (--)
9. Durand Jones & The Indications - American Love Call (6)
10. Dakota - Here's the 101 on How to Disappear (7)

Ik vind het al een heerlijk muziekjaar, Genoeg moois ontdekt tot zover.

1. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
2. Quelle Chris - Guns
3. Cass McCombs - Tip of the Sphere
4. Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)
5. Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken
6. Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
7. Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
8. Avey Tare - Cows On Hourglass Pond
9. Stella Donnelly - Beware Of The Dogs
10. The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Life-force Of The Deep Mystery

11. Jards Macalé - Besta Fera
12. Fat White Family - Serfs Up!
13. Sarah Louise - Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars
14. Wand - Laughing Matter
15. Matmos - Plastic Anniversary
16. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
17. Rose Elinor Dougall - A New Illusion
18. Sunwatchers - Illigal Moves
19. Uranium Club - The Cosmo Cleaners
20. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky - Droneflower
21. Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
22. Spellling - Mazy Fly
23. Anderson .Paak - Ventura
24. Altin Gun - Gece
25. Sharon Van Etten - Remind me Tomorrow

1. (1) Yola – Walk Through Fire
2. (-) Orville Peck – Pony
3. (2) Dez Mona – Book of Many
4. (-) Salvador Sobral – Paris, Lisboa
5. (3) Balthazar – Fever
6. (4) James Blake – Assume Form
7. (-) Thom Ashworth – Head Canon
8. (5) De Staat – Bubble Gum
9. (6) Highasakite – Uranium Heart
10. (-) Rosie Carney - Bare

11. (-) Glen Hansard – This Wild Willing
12. (-) The Chemical Brothers – No Geography
13. (-) Blick Bassy – 1958
14. (-) Aldous Harding - Designer
15. (-) Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
16. (7) J.S. Ondara – Tales of America
17. (8) RY X – Unfurl
18. (9) Ina Forsman – Been Meaning to Tell You
19. (10) Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s the Delta Sweete Revisited
20. (11) Adia Victoria - Silences

Vooralsnog best een tam jaar. Deze zeven heb ik tot nu toe op 4* staan:

1. Aesop Rock and TOBACCO - Malibu Ken
2. James Blake - Assume Form
3. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
4. Soft Grid - Agency
5. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
6. Unloved - Heartbreak
7. Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile

Tussenstand: april

1. Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
2. Sadness - Circle of Veins
3. Downfall of Gaia - Ethic of Radical Finitude
4. Cellar Darling - The Spell
5. Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
6. Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
7. Inter Arma - Sulphur English
8. Spotlights - Love & Decay
9. Thormesis - The Sixth
10. Laster - Het Wassen Oog

Releases waar ik in mei benieuwd naar ben:

03/05: Drahla - Useless Coordinates
03/05: Fury - Failed Entertainment
03/05: Lord Vicar - The Black Powder
03/05: Ringworm - Death Becomes my Voice
10/05: Arch / Matheos - Winter Ethereal
10/05: Big | Brave - A Gaze Among Them
10/05: Call Of The Void – Buried In Light
10/05: Dreadnought - Emergence
10/05: Employed to Serve - Eternal Forward Motion
10/05: Gong - The Universe Also Collapses
10/05: Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness
10/05: Abnormality - Sociopathic Constructs
10/05: Idle Hands - Mana
10/05: Martyrdöd - Hexhammaren
10/05: Nibiru - Salbrox
10/05: Papir - VI
11/05: Ulver - Drone Activity
17/05: The National - I Am Easy to Find
17/05: Glassing – Spotted Horse
17/05: Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
17/05: Lo-Pan - Subtle
17/05: Bethlehem - Lebe Dich Deer
17/05: Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
17/05: Aseethe - Throes
17/05: Valborg – Zentrum
23/05: Verwoed - De Val
24/05: Flying Lotus - Flamagra
24/05: Soft Grid - Agency
24/05: Sol Sistere - Extinguished Cold Light
24/05: Vale - Burden of Sight
24/05: Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips
24/05: Black Mountain - Destroyer
24/05: Nocturnus AD - Paradox
24/05: Tanith - In Another Time
31/05: Gaahl's Wyrd - GastiR - Ghosts Invited
31/05: Krypts - Cadaver Circulation

Update van de meest gedraaide albums 2019:

01. [01] RPWL - Tales from Outer Space
02. [02] Ritual Howls - Rendered Armor
03. [---] The Rope - Lillian
04. [---] Agent Side Grinder - A/X
05. [05] Brotherhood - In the Violet Hour
06. [---] The Bluebeard's Castle - Beyond the Door
07. [03] The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered
08. [04] Cosmograf - Mind Over Depth
09. [06] Joe Jackson - Fool
10. [08] Boy Harsher - Careful

Mijn top 10 van de eerste 4 maanden, behoorlijk retro lijstje lijkt het (of is het gewoon)

01 Desperate Journalist - In Search of the Miraculous
02 Eerie Wanda - Pet Town
03 Tallies - Tallies
04 Piroshka - Brickbat
05 Sleeper - The Modern Age
06 Anteros - When We Land
07 Ladytron - Ladytron
08 Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready
09 Juliana Hatfield - Weird
10 Melissa Etheridge The Medicine Show

Insert dansend poppetje.

Tussenstand:

1. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff (2019)
2. William Tyler - Goes West (2019)
3. Eto / Muggs - Hells Roof (2019)
4. Crypt Trip - Haze Country (2019)
5. 38 Spesh - The 38 Strategies of Raw (2019)
6. Chokehold - With This Thread I Hold On (2019)
7. Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis (2019)
8. Motorpsycho - The Crucible (2019)
9. Eto x Superior - Long Story Short (2019)
10. Leon Vynehall - DJ-Kicks (2019)

Hoge verwachtingen nog van Sunn 0))), Monkey3, Saint Vitus, Earth, Flying Lotus, Ellen Allien en Darkthrone.

Tegenvallers: Smif 'n Wessun, Xiu Xiu, Elaquent, Soilwork.

Update:

1. [--] Shlohmo - The End (4*)
2. [2]. Efdemin - New Atlantis
3. [3] Nivhek - After Its Own Death / Walking in a Spiral Towards the House
4. [--] Underworld - DRIFT Episode 2
5. [1] Nils Frahm - Encores 2
6. [--] Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
7. [--] Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm
8. [--] Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
9. [--] William Basinski - On Time Out of Time
10 [--] Inter Arma - Sulphur English

Dag 122 van het jaar en 128 albums beluisterd uit het lopende jaar: waarvan 4 scores, 5 verzamelaars, 6 live, 15 EP's en 98 reguliere albums. De releases van 2019 tot nu toe lijken me iets minder interessant dan vorig jaar in deze periode.

1. (1) Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready 4,5 / 5*
2. (2) Joe Jackson – Fool 4,5 / 5*
3. (3) Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow 4,5*
4. (5) Lily & Madeleine - Canterbury Girls 4 / 4,5*
5. (6) Laure Briard - Un Peu Plus D'amour S'il Vous Plaît 4 / 4,5*
6. (4) The Specials - Encore 4,5*
7. (12) bis - Slight Disconnects 4*
8. (10) Pavo Pavo - Mystery Hour 4 / 4,5*
9. (07) Liz Brasher - Painted Image 4 / 4,5*
10. (11) Y La Bamba - Mujeres 4*

11. (10) Le Butcherettes - bi/MENTAL 4 / 4,5*
12. (17) Weezer - Weezer (Black Album) 3,5 / 4*
13. (09) Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs 4 / 4,5*
14. (14) Ladytron - Ladytron 3,5 / 4*
15. (16) Adia Victoria - Silences 3,5 / 4*
16. (23) Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising 3,5 / 4*
17. (15) Gemma Ray - Psychogeology 3,5 / 4*
18. (13) Indian Askin – Another Round 3,5 / 4*
19. (18) De Staat – Bubble Gum 4*
20. (20) Bayonne - Drastic Measures 3,5 / 4*
21. (21) Camp Claude - Double Dreaming 3,5 / 4*
22. (19) Boy Harsher - Careful 3,5 / 4*
23. (xx) The Chemical Brothers - No Geography 4*
24. (xx) FEWS - Into Red 3,5 / 4*
25. (xx) Johnnyswim - Moonlight 4*


EP's
1. (1) Chaka Khan - Hello Happiness 4*
2. (2) Pet Shop Boys - Agenda
3. (3) Danny Vera - Pompadour Hippie
4. (4) Sunflower Bean - King of the Dudes
5. (5) Santana - In Search of Mona Lisa
6. (x) Le Groupe Obscur - Selesȼa
7. (x) Fieldworks Exkursion EP
8. (8) N0V3L - Novel 3,5* / 4*
9. (9) Tanya Tagaq - Toothsayer 3,5*
10. (10) Broken Social Scene - Let's Try the After Vol. 1


Albums die binnenkort uitkomen waar ik naar uit kijk:

The Waterboys - Where the Action Is (2019)

Rammstein - Rammstein (2019)

She Keeps Bees - Kinship (2019)

Santana - Africa Speaks (2019)

Pixx - Small Mercies (2019)

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith - The Peyote Dance (2019)

Charly Bliss - Young Enough (2019)

1. (=) Patrick Park - Here/Gone
2. (3) Charles Wesley Godwin - Seneca
3. (2) Flatland Cavalry - Homeland Insecurity
4. (=) Emily Scott Robinson - Traveling Mercies
5. (1) Mercy John - Let It Go Easy
6. (4) Mandolin Orange - Tides of a Teardrop
7. (=) Danny Burns - North Country
8. (5) Cody Johnson - Ain't Nothin' to It
9. (=) Austin Meade - Waves
10. (=) Yola - Walk Through Fire

11. (=) Vandoliers - Forever
12. (=) George Strait - Honky Tonk Time Machine
13. (=) Ryan Bingham - American Love Song
14. (=) Bear's Den - So That You Might Hear Me
15. (=) Molly Tuttle - When You're Ready
16. (=) Jenny Lewis - On the Line
17. (6) Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
18. (=) Randy Rogers Band - Hellbent
19. (=) Taylor Alexander - Good Old Fashioned Pain
20. (=) Caroline Spence - Mint Condition

Ik vind het ook nog niet een heel denderend jaar, maar de eerste top 10 is gelukt. Komt ie dan.

1. Flamingods - Levitation
2. Foals - Everything Saved Will Not Be Lost Part 1
3. Balthazar - Fever
4. Helado Negro - This is How You Smile
5. Altin Gün - Gece
6. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Dissapeared?
7. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
8. Kel Assouf - Black Tenere
9. De Staat - Bubblegum
10. Little Simz - Grey Area

Weer een Engelstalige video waarin ik een aantal albums uit mijn huidige top 10 van 2019 bespreek (ook concertreviews, stukken over Scott Walker en Michiel Eikenaar (Nihill, Dodecahedron)):

Alleen Billy Woods een duidelijke 4.5*, Quelle Chris en Mach-Hommy beetje tussen 4.5* en 4* in. Rest van de lijst niet hoger dan 4*.

1. Billy Woods - Hiding Places
2. DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy - Tuez-Les Tous
3. Quelle Chris - Guns
4. Your Old Droog - It Wasn't Even Close
5. People Under the Stairs - Sincerely, the P
6. DJ Muggs & Eto - Hell's Roof
7. Blockhead - Free Sweatpants
8. Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken
9. Blu & Oh No - A Red Hot Los Angeles Summer
10. Sean Price & Small Professor - 86 Witness

Top 20 - Aanvulling tot en met vandaag:

1. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
2. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
3. Finn Andrews - One Piece of a Time
4. Strand of Oaks - Eraserland
5. Feels - Post Earth
6. Motorpsycho - The Crucible
7. Aldous Harding - Designer
8. Sharon van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
9. Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm
10. The Stroppies - Whoosh!

11. Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
12. Dez Mona - Book of Many
13. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - There is No Other
14. Rosie Carney - Bare
15. Josh Ritter - Fever Breaks
16. Bad Religion - Age of Unreason
17. Reignwolf - Hear Me Out
18. Tiny Ruins - Olympic Girls
19. The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
20. Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock

1.James Blake - Assume Form
2.Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
3.Beth Gibbons & Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrow)
4.Karyyn - The Quanta Series
5.The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
6.Little Simz - Grey Area
7.Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
8.Angel Bat Dawid - The Oracle
9.Charlotte Adigéry - Zandoli
10.Weval - The Weight

11.Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
12.Nils Frahm - Encores 2
13.Malibu Ken - Aesop Rock and Tobacco Are Malibu Ken
14.2 Chainz - Rap Or Go to the League
15.Offset - Father of 4
16.Solange - When I Get Home
17.Balthazar - Fever
18.Nilufer Yanya - Miss Universe
19.Sofia Kourtesis - Soufia Kourtesis EP
20.Aldous Harding - Designer

1. Fontaines DC - Dogrel 4,5
2. Finn Andrews - One Piece At A Time 4,0
3. Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them 4,0
4. The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Life Force Of The Deep Mystery 3,5

1. Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - De Facto
2. Sermon - Birth of the Marvellous
3. We Are Impala - Visions
4. O.R.k. - Ramagehead
5. Sigur Rós - Variations on Darkness
6. Soen - Lotus
7. Brotherhood - In the Violet Hour
8. Vaura - Sables
9. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies
10. Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed

1. The National - I Am Easy to Find
2. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
3. Balthazar - Fever
4. Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
5. CZARFACE meets Ghostface - CZARFACE meets Ghostface
6. ScHoolboy Q - CrasH Talk

Dat is geen top 10.

Wat angelin mag, mag ik ook.

01. James Blake - Assume Form
02. Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farewell
03. Leon Vynehall - DJ-Kicks
04. Mac DeMarco - Here Comes the Cowboy
05. Nightmares on Wax - Back to Mine
06. Smallpeople - Afterglow
07. Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
08. Croatian Amor - Resident Advisor Podcast 676
09. Floating Points - LateNightTales
10. Deadbeat & Camara - Trinity Thirty

1. (1) Yola – Walk Through Fire
2. (2) Orville Peck – Pony
3. (6) James Blake – Assume Form
4. (3) Dez Mona – Book of Many
5. (4) Salvador Sobral – Paris, Lisboa
6. (-) Hayden Thorpe - Diviner
7. (5) Balthazar – Fever
8. (7) Thom Ashworth – Head Canon
9. (8) De Staat – Bubble Gum
10. (9) Highasakite – Uranium Heart

11. (-) Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride
12. (10) Rosie Carney – Bare
13. (11) Glen Hansard – This Wild Willing
14. (12) The Chemical Brothers – No Geography
15. (13) Blick Bassy – 1958
16. (14) Aldous Harding - Designer
17. (15) Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
18. (16) J.S. Ondara – Tales of America
19. (17) RY X – Unfurl
20. (18) Ina Forsman – Been Meaning to Tell You

1. Fontaines DC - Dogrel 4,5
2. Finn Andrews - One Piece At A Time 4,0
3. Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them 4,0
4. The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Life Force Of The Deep Mystery 3,5
5. Dollkraut- Ghoulia 3,5

Tussenstand: mei

1. Full of Hell – Weeping Choir
2. Idle Hands – Mana
3. Downfall of Gaia – Ethic of Radical Finitude
4. Elizabeth Colour Wheel – Nocebo
5. Sadness – Circle of Veins
6. Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs
7. Spotlights – Love & Decay
8. Cellar Darling – The Spell
9. Waste of Space Orchestra – Syntheosis
10. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel

Albums waar ik in juni benieuwd naar ben:

07/06: Jambinai – ONDA
07/06: Jess By The Lake – Under The Red Light Shine
07/06: Primitive Man – Steel Casket EP
14/06: Kate Tempest – The Book of Traps and Lessons
14/06: Pinkish Black – Concept Unification
14/06: Slomatics – Canyons
14/06: This Gift Is A Curse – A Throne of Ash
21/06: Abyssal – A Beacon in the Husk
21/06: Elder – Gold & Silver Sessions
21/06: Hatchie – Keepsake
21/06: Fuming Mouth – The Grand Descent
21/06: Superstition - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation
28/06: Yellow Eyes – Rare Field Ceiling