Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Twist and Shout Staff Picks: The Best Albums of 2019 (Pt. 4)


Extra Kool 

Albums:
1. Kool Keith (Psycho Les on beats!) - Keith
2. Billie Eilish - When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go?
3. Awareness - Sushi Wave
4. Epic Beard Men - This Was Supposed To Be Fun
5. Murs & the Grouch - Thees Handz
6. Czarface Meets Ghostface - Czarface Meets Ghostface
7. Snoop Doggy Dogg - I Wanna Thank Myself
8. John "Spooky" Carpenter - Halloween OST

Movies:
1. Joker
2. Midsommar
3. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark
4. Us
5. Haunt
6. It: Chapter Two
7. Child's Play (2019)
8. Happy Death Day 2U
9. The Banana Splits Movie
10. Satanic Panic



Clay Adams-Berger

CD:
1. Left Behind - No One Goes to Heaven
2. Kublai Khan TX - Absolute
3. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Bandana
4. black midi - Schlagenheim
5. Sunn 0))) - Life Metal
6. Moodymann - Sinner: KDJ-48
7. Uniform and the Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
8. JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
9. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
10. Various Artists - The Time for Peace is Now


Vinyl:
1. Floating Points - Crush
2. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin?
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
4. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
5. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
6. Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
7. Swans - Leaving Meaning.
8. Black Marble - Bigger Than Life
9. Big Thief - Two Hands
10. Kamaal Williams - DJ Kicks

DVD/Blu-ray
1. It's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2. Parasite
3. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. Joker
5. Uncut Gems
6. John Wick 3
7. MidSommar
8. The Lighthouse
9. Honeyboy
10. Knives Out


Rory Dumas 

1. Battles – Juice B Crypts
2. Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes
3. Tool – Fear Inoculum
4. Oh Sees – Face Stabber
5. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rats' Nest
6. Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever
7. Flying Lotus – Flamagra
8. Tyler the Creator – IGOR
9. Devendra Banhardt – Ma
10. Sturgill Simpson – Sound and Fury




Matt Spivack

Vinyl:
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure – 01/25/19
Soen – Lotus – 02/01/19
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality – 02/22/19
Martin Barre – Roads Less Traveled – 03/22/19
Baroness – Gold & Grey – 06/14/19
Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean – 10/11/19
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum – 10/22/19
The Flower Kings – Waiting For Miracles – 11/15/19
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever – 12/06/19
Eloy – The Vision, the Sword, & the Pyre (Pt. 2) – 12/13/19

CD:
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure – 01/15/19
Soen – Lotus – 02/01/19
Amalgam Effect – Sketches – 03/08/19
Baroness – Gold & Grey – 06/14/19
Tool – Fear Inoculum – 8/30/19
Opeth – In Cauda Venenum – 09/27/19
Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean – 10/18/19
The Flower Kings – Waiting For Miracles – 11/15/19
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band – Nightmare Forever – 11/22/19
Eloy – The Vision, the Sword, & the Pyre (Pt. 2) – 12/13/19

Honorable Mention for Reissues:
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing CD/BluRay Audio Set – 09/20/19
Jethro Tull – Stormwatch 40th Anniversary 4 CD/2 DVD Box – 10/18/19




Ethan Griggs

2019 CDs:
1. Big Thief - Two Hands
2. Crumb - Jinx
3. black midi - Schlagenheim
4. Bon Iver - i,i
5. Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe
6. Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
7. Thom Yorke - Anima
8. Cate Le Bon - Reward
9. FKA twigs - MAGDALENE
10. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains


2019 Vinyl:
1. Stereolab - all 2019 reissues
2. Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (Grey vinyl)
3. Various Artists - The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus (3xLP boxset)
4. The Beatles - The Singles Collection
5. Big Thief - U.F.O.F. (Orange vinyl)
6. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (Blue vinyl)
7. R.E.M. - Monster (25th Anniversary 2xLP)
8. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Clear vinyl)
9. Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox - Myths 004
10. Miles Davis - The Complete Birth Of The Cool (2xLP)



Quinn Theis

1. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
2. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
3. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
4. Salami Rose Joe Louis - Zdenka 2080
5. Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations 1
6. Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tutti
7. Eliane Radigue - Occam Ocean 2 
8. Paranoyds - Carnage Bargain
9. Georgia Anne Muldrow - VWETO II 
10. Amandititita - Pinche Amor
11. Mega Bog - Dolphine
12. The Coathangers - The Devil You Know
13. Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation 
14. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
15. Rosie Flores - Simple Case Of The Blues
16. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
17. Ellen Arkbro - Chords  
18. Laurie Anderson/Tensin Choegyal/Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From The Bardo
19. Holly Herndon - Proto
20. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You 
21. Martha Argerich/J.S. Bach - Toccata BWV 911/Partita BWV 826/English Suite No. 2 BWV 807 (LP reissue)
22. Zeena Parkins - Captiva (released in December, 2018)
23. Y La Bamba - Mujeres
24. Maryanne Amacher - Petra (posth.)
25. Hilary Hahn/Anton Garcia Abril - 6 Partitas
26. Spellling - Mazy Fly
27. Lafawndah - Ancestor Boy
28. Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love
29. Felicia Atkinson - The Flower And The Vessel
30. Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds (CD and 2xLP reissue)



Stephanie Rendon

Vinyl
1. Solange - When I Get Home
2. Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Bandana
3. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
4. Anderson.Paak - Ventura
5. Beach House - 7
6. Tyler, The Creator - Igor
7. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
8. Various Artists - The Daisy Age
9. Wu-Tang Clan - Of Mics & Men
10. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka


CDs
1. Screaming Females - Singles Too
2. Snail Mail - Habit
3. FEA - No Novelties
4. Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask
5. Melissa Aldana - Visions
6. Los Piranas - Historia Natural
7. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
8. Allah-Las - LAHS
9. Desert Sessions - Vols. 11 & 12
|10. Oh Sees - Face Stabber
11. Floating Points - Crush
12. Torche - Admission
13. DAM - Ben Haana Wa Maana
14. Schoolboy Q - Crash Talk
15. Jimmy Eat World - Surviving
16. Miles Davis - Rubberband
17. Ezra Furman - Twelve Nudes
18. Gang Starr - One Of The Best Yet
19. Nas - The Lost Tapes II
20. Murs - The Iliad Is Dead & The Odyssey Is Over

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