{"id":3599,"date":"2020-01-16T09:33:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2020-02-01T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T19:03:58","slug":"2019-albums-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/2019-albums-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Albums of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

1<\/span>Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow<\/p>\n

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2<\/span>Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen<\/p>\n

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3<\/span>Aldous Harding
Designer<\/p>\n

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4<\/span>Weyes Blood
Titanic Rising<\/p>\n

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5<\/span>American Football
LP 3<\/p>\n

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6<\/span>Elbow
Giants Of All Sizes<\/p>\n

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7<\/span>Jenny Lewis
On The Line<\/p>\n

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8<\/span>Angel Olsen
All Mirrors<\/p>\n

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9<\/span>Cate Le Bon
Reward<\/p>\n

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10<\/span>Rose Elinor Dougall
A New Illusion<\/p>\n

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11<\/span>Lana Del Rey
NFR!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

12<\/span>The National
I Am Easy To Find<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

13<\/span>Big Thief
U.F.O.F.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

14<\/span>James Blake
Assume Form<\/p>\n

15<\/span>Jesca Hoop
Stonechild<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

16<\/span>Damien Jurado
In The Shape Of A Storm<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

17<\/span>Robert Forster
Inferno<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

18<\/span>Richard Dawson
2020<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

19<\/span>Modern Nature
How To Live<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

20<\/span>Jay Som
Anak Ko<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

21<\/span>Julia Kent
Temporal<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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22<\/span>Deerhunter
Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

23<\/span>Chuck Cleaver
Send Aid<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

24<\/span>Edwyn Collins
Badbea<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

25<\/span>Sleater-Kinney
The Center Won’t Hold<\/p>\n

Album of the year was a difficult choice this year. The piece of music I listened to most this year was actually Descending Moonshine Dervishes by Terry Riley (from 1982). A single fifty minute plus piece of ambient drone-heavy organ music. It was my go to listen – particularly at night – for months across spring and summer.
\nI didn’t really listen in any focused way to this year’s releases until November – before that it was just listening to things on shuffle. I listened to so much music in such a short period of time that it got a little confusing. In the end though the Sharon Van Etten got the nod simply because I like more songs on it than anything else from 2019.<\/p>\n

A significant change to my listening this year was caused by the gradual drying up of music worth buying at eMusic. Sadly after fifteen years my membership of the site ended on the last day of 2019 – even on my outrageous grandfathered deal I couldn’t justify it any more. It was a sad ending to an important part of my music listening\/buying since 2004. I own more than 16,000 tracks bought from eMusic over my membership – it made a real impact on my music collection and tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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