There is a town that is not this town. I don’t think I’ve been here before but I have, and over and over, it’s what you don’t think. An elegance gets you. I sit with my back to the space heater in a living room that was never my own. We pay our landlords to leave us alone. We’re nineteen forever. The lyre is tossed across a sonnet. There is a summer we are bound for. Hey, I said, the millennium hurts. In the town is a bar and in the bar is a jukebox. I don’t have coins. The sunset is lurid, like somebody spilled all the chemicals, spilled all the chemicals. I shake out my pockets for the midtown drunks. I look for your figure. I don’t have coins. There’s only this list. Where are we are when we say where we are. The song. Bart-t-t-ender. I love this and this. I loved.
Previous lists: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
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Albums:
Aldous Harding, Designer
Angel Olsen, All Mirrors
Angie McMahon, Salt
Better Oblivion Community Centre, Better Oblivion Community Centre
Big Thief, U.F.O.F
Billie Eilish, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go
Black Banshee, Metamorphosis
Black Belt Eagle Scout, At the Party with My Brown Friends
black midi, Schlagenheim
Bliss Signal, Mumdance, WIFI, Bliss Signal
Bon Iver, i,i
Carla dal Forno, Look Up Sharp
Cate Le Bon, Reward
Chromatics, Closer to Grey
Claire Cronin, Big Dread Moon
Com Truise, Persuasion System
Deerhunter, Plains
DIIV, Deceiver
Felicia Atkinson, The Flower and the Vessel
FKA twigs, MAGDALENE
Floating Points, Crush
Frankie Cosmos, Close It Quietly
Frog, Count Bateman
Grace Cummings, Refuge Cove
Hand Habits, placeholder
Honeyblood, In Plain Sight
Infinity Crush, virtual heaven
James Blake, Assume Form
Jenny Hval, The Practice of Love
Joanna Sternberg, Then I Try Some More
John Coltrane, Blue World
Julia Jacklin, Crushing
Lee Gamble, In a Paraventral Scale
Leif, Loom Dream
Katie Dey, Solipsisters
Kim Gordon, No Home Record
Lana Del Rey, Normal Fucking Rockwell
The National, I Am Easy to Find
Nick Cave, Ghosteen
Plaid, Polymer
Portico Quartet, Memory Streams
Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains
Robert Sotelo, Infinite Sprawling
(Sandy) Alex G, House of Sugar
Savage Mansion, Revision Ballads
Sharon Van Etten, Remind Me Tomorrow
Thee Oh Sees, Face Stabber
The Japanese House, Good at Falling
Thom Yorke, Anima
Tiny Ruins, Olympic Girls
Vagabon, Vagabon
Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising
Wished Bone, Sap Season
Yohuna, Mirroring
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EPs/Singles
Aisha Devi, S.L.F. Versions
Aphex Twin, Peel Session 2
Four Tet, Anna Painting
Free Love, Extreme Dance Anthems
Lanark Artefax, Corra Lin
Laurel Halo, DJ-Kicks EP
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