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Guest List: The Best Albums of 2019 – John Macintosh

1. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising

2. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains

3. Big Thief – Two Hands

4. Florist – Emily Alone

5. FKA twigs – Magdalene

6. Bill Callahan – Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest

7. Yellow Eyes – Rare Field Ceiling

8. Jenny Hval – The Practice of Love

9. Lingua Ignota – Caligula

10. Vanum – Ageless Fire

11. Big Thief – U.F.O.F.

12. Floating Points – Crush

13. Cate le Bon – Reward

14. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen

15. Hand Habits – placeholder

16. Kali Malone – The Sacrificial Code

17. Club Night – What Life

18. Oso Oso – basking in the glow

19. Caterina Barbieri – Ecstatic Computation

20. Nivhek – After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house

21. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors

22. Tim Hecker – Anoyo

23. Holly Herndon – PROTO

24. Solange – When I Get Home

25. Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe

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The Best Albums of 2019


1. Underworld – Drift


2. FKA twigs – Magdalene


3. Tool – Fear Inoculum


4. Lingua Ignota – Caligula


5. Saor – Forgotten Paths


6. Sudan Archives – Athena


7. Idle Hands – Mana


8. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana


9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen


10. Tulip – Tulip


11. Cass McCombs – Tip of the Sphere


12. Malignant Altar – Retribution of Jealous Gods


13. William Tyler – Goes West


14. Swans – Leaving Meaning


15. Gygax – High Fantasy


16. Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race


17. Sakanaction – 834.194


18. Ghost Rhythms – Live at Yoshiwara


19. Devin Townsend – Empath


20. Jute Gyte – Birefringence


21. Those Darn Gnomes – Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow


22. Amon Tobin – Fear in a Handful of Dust


23. No One Knows What the Dead Think – No One Knows What the Dead Think


24. White Ward – Love Exchange Failure


25. Sunn 0))) – Life Metal

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Guest List: The Best Albums of 2018 – John Macintosh

1. Tim Hecker – Konoyo

2. Beach House – 7

3. Amen Dunes – Freedom

4. Low – Double Negative

5. Mid-Air Thief – Crumbling

6. Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss

7. Against All Logic – 2012-2017

8. Bosse-de-Nage – Further Still

9. Lucy Dacus – Historian

10. Spectral Wound – Infernal Decadence

11. Noname – Room 25

12. Jon Hopkins – Singularity

13. Conjurer – Mire

14. Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex

15. Saba – Care for Me

16. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

17. Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of

18. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben het Goed III

19. Mitski – Be the Cowboy

20. Haley Heynderickx – I Need to Start a Garden

21. Gas – Rausch

22. Antlers – Beneath. Below. Behold

23. U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited

24. Shopping – The Official Body

25. Caroline Says – No Fool Like an Old Fool

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The Best Albums of 2018


1. Sleep – The Sciences


2. Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want


3. Dead Can Dance – Dionysus


4. Yob – Our Raw Heart


5. Jon Hopkins – Singularity


6. Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples


7. Gas – Rausch


8. Hermit and the Recluse – Orpheus vs. the Sirens


9. Against All Logic – 2012-2017


10. Superorganism – Superorganism


11. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Glass


12. Bongripper – Terminal


13. Clau Aniz – Filha de mil mulheres


14. The Bad Plus – Never Stop II


15. Tribulation – Down Below


16. Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth


17. Lonker See – One Eye Sees Red


18. Hoth – Astral Necromancy


19. Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit


20. Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic


21. Caroline Rose – Loner


22. Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex


23. Rival Consoles – Persona


24. Soccer Mommy – Clean


25. A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes

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The Best Albums of 1973


1. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon


2. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch a Fire


3. Judee Sill – Heart Food


4. Fela Kuti – Afrodisiac


5. Jackson Browne – For Everyman


6. Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance


7. Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters


8. Roxy Music – Stranded


9. Keith Jarrett – Solo Concerts: Bremen / Lausanne


10. The Stooges – Raw Power


11. Fripp & Eno – No Pussyfooting


12. The Upsetters – Black Board Jungle


13. Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy


14. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions


15. Henry Cow – Legend


16. The O’Jays – Ship Ahoy


17. Can – Future Days


18. The Who – Quadrophenia


19. King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic


20. John Cale – Paris 1919


21. Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath


22. New York Dolls – New York Dolls


23. Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle


24. Faust – The Faust Tapes


25. Gram Parsons – GP