In the spirit of the season, I wanted to share some of my favorite releases of the year. Such a brooding year for music, with some really strong aesthetic and political statements and boundary-pushing uses of both guitars and electronics, suggesting many exciting changes on their way in the next decade. Obviously this isn’t meant to be exhaustive or authoritative; just some personal highlights. Quite a few of these are giant major label releases, so I’ll be taking down those download links quickly or leaving them off accordingly. Let me know if links are broken. Happy new year!
Previously: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
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Happy New Year, and thanks for an interesting cut of 1989, some I know some I don’t.
Hope there are more posts in 2020.
Best wishes
Adrian
I was secretly hoping this would happen again this year. Thank you so much + have a good new year!
awesome thanks, enjoying the dip in the pool! the prefab sprout link is broken :-/
thanks for reading! which prefab sprout link do you mean?
Thanks so much for sharing your list – really glad to be introduced to the A.C. Marias and a Woo that I didn’t have.
Happy New Year!
PS. One of my stand out favorites of the year involves Woo –
https://tinyurl.com/vhydft4
highly recommended!
thanks Jen, what a treat <3
Thanks!
What a great list! I’ve been going through the ones I wasn’t familiar with and the Harry Case and Milesi/Bacalov are such gems.
I’m curious if next year we’ll see the best of 1990 or a roll-back to 1980. Let’s hope for both 🙂