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Albums of the Year 2019
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Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of the year
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CARL BOOKSTEIN
1. Jimmy Rankin/Moving East
2. Van Morrison/Three Chords and The Truth
3. Big Thief/Two Hands
4. Wilco/Ode to Joy
Gig of the Year: The Who, Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, 28/5/2019
KIMBERLY BRIGHT
1. Jonathan Coulton/Some Guys
2. KAINA/Green
3. Ulysses/On Safari
4. Morrissey/California Son
5. Swimming Tapes/Morningside
6. Head Noise/Über-Fantastique
7. Chemical Brothers/No Geography
8. Stereophonics/Kind
9. Miranda Lambert/Wildcard
10.Ex Hex/It's Real
Gig of the Year: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Iowa City, Iowa, 8/8/2019
MALCOLM CARTER
1. Molly Tuttle/When You’re Ready
2. Drugdealer/Raw Honey
3. John Paul White/The Hurting Kind
4. Dodson & Fogg/Watching the World
5. Alison O’Donnell/Exotic Masks and Sensible Shoes
JOHN CLARKSON
1. Delines/The Imperial
2. Various/Big Gold Dreams: A Story of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989.
3. Cathode Ray/Heightened Senses
4. Adrian Borland/Lovefield
5. Doctors of Madness/Dark Times
6. Band of Holy Joy/Neon Primitves
7. Vinny Peculiar/While You Still Can
8. Morton Valence/Bob and Veronica's Great Escape
9. St Christopher Medal/Hoof
10.Shakespears Sister/Ride Again
Gig of the Year: Moon Under Water: The Cavern, London, 25/4/2019
DASTARDLY
1. Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something/Oh Really, What's That Then?
Gig of the Year: Love Band: Islington Assembly Hall, London, 5/7/2019
DIXIE ERNILL
Gig of the Year: Adorable, Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 31/10/2019
DAVE GOODWIN
1. Sharon Van Etten/Remind Me Tomorrow
2. Phonseca/Between a Dream
3. National/I am Easy to Find
4. The Heavy/Sons
5. Sleaford Mods/Eton Alive
6. FKA Twigs/Magdalene
KEITH HOW
(In no particular order)
1. Henry Parker/Silent Spring
2. Ereland Apsineth Trio/Salika Molika
3. Matthew Halsall/Oneness
4. Frodi Halti/Border Woods
5. Gareth Quinn Redmond/Laistigh Den Ghleo
6. Metsanpeitto/Metsanpeitto
7. Kankyo Ongaku/Japanese Ambient and New Age Music 1980/90
8. Paavoharju/The Fonal Years Volume 1
9. Hexvessel/All Tree
10.Untied Knot/Falling of the Evolutionary Ladder
BEN HOWARTH
1. Press Club/Wasted Energy
2. Divine Comedy/Office Politics
3. Idlewild/Interview Music
4. Richard Dawson/2020
5. Desperate Journalist/In Search of the Miraculous
6. Spielbergs/This Is Not The End
7. Self Esteem/Compliments Please
8. Richard Hawley/Further
9. Elsa Hewitt/Citrus Paradisi
10.John Howard/Cut The Wire
Gig of the Year:The Divine Comedy, Hammersmith Apollo, 24/10/2019
ADRIAN HUGGINS
1. Torche/Admission
2. Go Go Midgets/Coconut
3. Sunn 0)))/Life Metal
4. Darkthrone/Old Star
5. Various/Desert Sessions Volumes 11 and 12.
ADRIAN JANES
(In no particular order)
1. Asian Dub Foundation/Rafi's Revenge (Reissue)
2. Audra/Dear Tired Friends
3. Filthy Friends/Emerald Valley
4. FTR/Manners
5. Stuart Anthony and Larry Beckett/Love and Trial
6. Phil Manzanera/Diamond Head (Reissue)
JAMIE ROWLAND
(In no particular order)
1. Weyes Blood/Titanic Rising
2. Aldous Harding/Designer
3. National/I am Easy to Find
4. Sharon van Etten/Remind Me Tomorrow
5. Drinking Boys and Girls Choir/Keep Drinking
6. Wilco/Ode to Joy
7. Otoboke Beaver/Itekoma Hits
8. Angel Olsen/All Mirrors
9. Lightning Bolt/Sonic Citadel
10.Mica Levi/Monos (OST)
Gig of the Year: The National, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, 7/8/2019
MAARTEN SCHIETHART
1. Ouzo Bazooka/Transporter
2. Laurence Pike/Holy Spring
3. Time Grove/More Than One Thing
4. Martin Ptak/River Tales
5. Spray/Failure is inevitable
6. Fumaça Petra/Pepas
7. Max Richter/Ad Astra
8. Juhani Silvola - Post-Biological Wildlife
9. Wreckless Eric/Transience
10.Yïn Yïn/The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers
LISA TOREM
(In no particular order)
1. Angel Olsen/All Mirrors
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds/Ghosteen
3. Booker T. Jones/Note by Note
4. Joe Bonamassa/Live at the Sydney Opera House
5. James Blake, ‘Assume Form’
6. Weezer/Weezer
7. Gary Clark Jr./This Land
8. Flaming Lips/King’s Mouth
9. Tinariwen/Amadjar
10.Specials/Encore
Gig of the Year: The Who, Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, September 10, 2019
DENZIL WATSON
1. Fat White Family/Serf’s Up
2. Specials/Encore
3. Amanda Palmer/There Will Be No Intermission
4. Sleaford Mods/Eton Alive
5. Warmduscher/Tainted Lunch
6. Flaming Lips/King’s Mouth
7. Beangrowers/Dystopia
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds/Ghosteen
9. Violent Femmes/Hotel Last Resort
10.Imperial Wax/Gaswerk Saboteurs
Gig of the Year: Amanda Palmer, Albert Hall, Manchester, 3/11/2019
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