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

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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 40^th 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

Twist and Shout Staff Picks: The Best Albums of 2019 (Pt. 2)

Brian Wyatt

1.  L'epee – Diabolique
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
3. Robert Johnson – Kind Hearted Woman / Terraplane Blues (RSD)
4. Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Zam
5. Babe Rainbow – Today
6. Death And Vanilla – Are You A Dreamer?
7. Gang Starr – One Of The Best Yet
8. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies
9. Wooden Shjips – Shjips In The Night (RSD)
10. Mystery Lights – Too Much Tension
11. The Murlocs – Manic Candid Episode
12. Oh Sees – Face Stabber
13. Freddie Gibbs/Madlib – Bandana
14. Reigning Sound – Abdication...For Your Love
15. Los Destellos – Sicodelicos (RSD)
16. Allah-Las – Lahs
17. Cosmonauts – Star 69
18. Black Mountain – Destroyer
19. Dead Meadow – Feathers (Reissue)
20. Follakzoid – I
21. Night Beats – Myth Of A Man
22. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Infest The Rats' Nest
23. Stray Cats – 40
24. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – De Facto
25. Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Iz Here
26. The Time Quinn Knocked His Bottle Over At The Meeting.
27. The Time Eagle Discovered You Could Make A Corndog Out Of A Tijuana Mama And Ordered A 'Tres Hombres' Gatefold Beach Towel.
28. The Time Cobos Came In On Time (I Should Talk)
29. The Time Spivack Picked A Prog Record
30. The Time Paul And Leo Discussed The Finer Points Of What 'Grindin' Is.

Jack Brown

1. Rhiannon Giddens - There Is No Other

2. Stephen Mallinder - Um Dada

3. Come Organisation - Box

4. Clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood

5. Mike Patton/Jean Claude Vannier - Corpse Flower

6. Kaada - Zombielars OST

7. Melvins/Al Cisneros - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

8. Meat Beat Manifesto - Opaque Couche

9. Battles - Juice B Crypts

10. Zonal - Wrecked

Kevin McGrellis

1. Lingua Ignota - Caligula
2. Aldous Harding - Designer
3. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!
4. Little Simz - Grey Area
5. Nick Waterhouse - Nick Waterhouse
6. Pharmakon - Devour
7. Big Thief - Two Hands
8. Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky - Droneflower
9. Nivhek - After Its Own Death/Walking In A Spiral Towards The House
10. The Twilight Sad - It Won't Be Like This All the Time

Bridget Hartman

1. FKA Twigs - Magdalene

2. Tyler the Creator - Igor

3. Solange - When I Get Home

4. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest

5. Alfa Mist - Structuralism

6. Y La Bamba - Entre Los Dos

7. Kiefer - Superbloom

8. Flying Lotus - Flamagra

9. Anderson.Paak - Ventura

10. Melissa Aldana - Visions

Madden Ott

1. Lingua Ignota - Caligula
2. Have A Nice Life - Sea of Worry
3. Black Midi - Schlagenheim
4. DIIV - Deceiver
5. Interpol - A Fine Mess (EP)
6. Chelsea Wolfe - American Darkness
7. Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror
8. Clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
9. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
10. Sunn o))) - Life Metal

Josh Eidler

Albums:

1. Toro y Moi - Outer Peace
2. Marvin Gaye - You're the Man
3. Anderson.Paak - Ventura
4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
5. Young Thug - So Much Fun
6. Babymetal - Metal Galaxy
7. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
8. Doja Cat - Hot Pink
9. FKA Twigs - Magdalena
10. Patsy Cline - Sweet Dream: the Complete Decca Masters 1960-1963

DVD/Blu-ray

1. Donnybrook
2. Shazam!
3. Long Shot
4. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
5. Brightburn
6. Rocketman
7. Biggest Little Farm
8. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark
9. Booksmart
10. Spiderman: Far From Home

Ace Stanley

1. The Coathangers - The Devil You Know
2. The Paranoyds - Carnage Bargain
3. Control Top - Covert Contracts
4. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze
5. Zig Zags - They'll Never Take Us Alive
6. PUP - Morbid Stuff
7. Stereo Total - Ah! Quel Cinema!
8. Cosmonauts - Star 69
9. Tyler the Creator - Igor
10. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Twist and Shout Staff Picks: The Best Albums of 2019 (Pt. 1)

At the end of every year, we ask our employees to share their favorite releases of the year. Herein are the results of our end of year employee poll. We gave each employee a sheet suggesting ten titles on different formats but weren’t strict about how the numbers broke down and also weren’t strict about what format, whether titles were new, or whether it was even music, so there’s a lot of variety here.

Our Number One Winner with 9 votes:

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats' Nest

Our Number Two Placer with 7 votes:

FKA Twigs - Magdalene

Our Number Three Showers with 6 votes each:

Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator

Oh Sees - Face Stabber

Tyler the Creator - Igor

Fourth Place Mentions with 5 votes each:

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana

L’épée ‎– Diabolique

Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

Anderson.Paak - Ventura

Solange - When I Get Home

Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!

Fifth Place Mentions with 4 votes each:

Big Thief - Two Hands

Black Midi – Schlagenheim

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Floating Points - Crush

Flying Lotus - Flamagra

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies

Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka

Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

Sturgill Simpson ‎– Sound & Fury

Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

Sunn O))) – Life Metal

Sixth Place Mentions with 3 votes each:

The Beatles - Abbey Road (50th Anniversary Edition)

Black Marble - Bigger Than Life

Bon Iver - i,i

Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin¿

Clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood

The Dukes Of Stratosphear ‎– Psurroundabout Ride (reissue)

Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Review 1975 Live Recordings

Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Zam!

Kim Gordon - No Home Record

Karl Hector and the Malcouns - Non Ex Orbis

Robyn Hitchcock/Andy Partridge - Planet England

Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

Thom Yorke - Anima

Paul Epstein

1. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars/Western Stars Soundtrack

2. Prefab Sprout - I Trawl The Megahertz

3. Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between

4. Robyn Hitchcock / Andy Partridge - Planet England

5. Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited

6. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury

7. Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee

8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Colorado

9. Van Morrison - Three Chords And The Truth

10. Santana - Africa Speaks

2019 Reissues

1. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks original acetate (RSD 2019 LP)

2. The Beatles - Abbey Road Super Deluxe 50th Anniv. CD

3. Neil Young - Tuscaloosa

4. The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Psurroundabout Ride

5. John Coltrane - 1963: New Directions

6. Bobby Gentry - Girl From Chicksaw County

7. Allman Brothers - Fillmore West ‘71

8. Grateful Dead - Giants Stadium '87 '89 '91

9. Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue

10. The Yardbirds - Live & Rare

Patrick Brown

Music:

1. Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)

2. Todd Snider - Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3

3. Negativland - True False

4. Los Wembler’s de Iquitos - Visión del Ayahuasca

5. Anthony Braxton - Quartet (New Haven) 2014

6. Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee

7. Chuck Cleaver - Send Aid

8. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Balance

9. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

10. Michael Formanek/Tim Berne/Mary Halvorson - Even Better

11. Imperial Teen - Now We Are Timeless

12. Bantou Mentale - Bantou Mentale

13. Fea - No Novelties

14. Tank & the Bangas - Green Balloon

15. Yola - Walk Through Fire

New non-box set blu-ray of 2019:

1. The Image Book

2. Parasite (early 2020 release)

3. Birds Of Passage

4. Ash Is Purest White

5. Midsommar

6. The Dead Don't Die

Archival/catalog Blu-ray releases of 2019:

1. Wanda

2. Polyester

3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days

4. Criss Cross

5. Bob Le Flambeur

6. Cruising

7. The Stuff

8. Obsession

9. Death In The Garden

Ben Sumner

1. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

2. Michael Kiwanuka ‎– Kiwanuka

3. Prefab Sprout ‎– I Trawl The Megahertz (reissue)

4. The Beatles - Abbey Road (50th Anniversary Edition)

5. The Residents - B.S. (reissue)

6. The Residents - Not Available (deluxe reissue)

7. Mike Cooper ‎– Distant Songs Of Madmen

8. Sturgill Simpson ‎– Sound & Fury

9. Cosey Fanni Tutti ‎– Tutti

10. Moon Duo ‎– Stars Are The Light

11. FKA Twigs - Magdalene

12. Robyn Hitchcock / Andy Partridge ‎– Planet England

13. Rupa - Disco Jazz (reissue)

14. The Dukes Of Stratosphear ‎– Psurroundabout Ride (reissue)

15. Mdou Moctar ‎– Ilana: The Creator

16. Prince - Originals

17. Kate Bush - Other Sides (b-sides compilation)

18. Alex Cameron - Miami Memory

19. Gong - Live Au Bataclan 1973

20. Johann Sebastian Bach ‎– Cello Suites (Alban Gerhardt)

21. Robert Ashley ‎– Private Parts (reissue)

22. Henryk Górecki / Beth Gibbons / Krzysztof Penderecki ‎– Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)

23. Janáček - Piano Works (Jan Bartoš)

24. Hawkwind - The '1999' Party (Live in Chicago, 1974)

25. Gene Clark - No Other (expanded reissue)

26. John Coltrane ‎– Blue World

27. Akiko Yano - Iroha Ni Konpeitou (reissue)

28. Karl Hector And The Malcouns ‎– Non Ex Orbis

29. L’épée ‎– Diabolique

30. Popol Vuh ‎– The Essential Album Collection Vol.1

Brian Albright

1. Long Ryders - Psychedelic Country Soul

2. Meat Puppets - Dusty Notes

3. Sacred Paws - Run Around the Sun

4. Anderson Council - Worlds Collide

5. Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror

6. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

7. Redd Kross - Beyond the Door

8. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Build Bridges

9. Robyn Hitchcock/Andy Partridge - Planet England

10. The Minus 5 - Modern Mirror

Anna Lathem

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road 50th Anniversary

2. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka

3. Jenny Lewis - On the Line

4. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Brian Jonestown Massacre

5. L'epee - Diabolique

6. Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Review 1975 Live Recordings

7. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Test Pressing

8. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

9. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life

10. Bleached - Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?

11. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies

12. The National - I Am Easy to Find

13. Joe Strummer - The Rockfield Studio Tracks

14. Spaceman 3 - Live In Europe 1989

15. Oh Sees - Face Stabber

16. Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited

17. Brittany Howard - Jaime

18. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

19. Sasami - Sasami

20. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

21. FKA Twigs - Magdalene

22. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats’ Nest

23. Link Wray - "Vernon's Diamond"/"My Brother, My Son" (7" single)

24. Various Artists - Stax Does The Beatles

25. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

26. Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

27. Thom Yorke - ANIMA

28. Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator

29. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - O.S.T.

30. Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!

Jonathan Eagle

1. Sunn O))) – Life Metal
2. Meat Puppets – Dusty Notes
3. Fire! Orchestra – Arrival
4. Arrington de Dionyso – Honey & Poison
5. Black Midi – Schlagenheim
6. Bartosz Kruczinski & Poly Chain – Pulses
7. Cherubs – Immaculada High
8. Lightning Bolt – Sonic Citadel
9. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin¿
10. Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
11. Fennesz – Agora
12. L.A. Guns – The Devil You Kno
13. KK Null – Abiogenesis / Quantum Pulsation
14. Joe McPhee / John Butcher – At the Hill of James Magee
15. Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
16. Not Waving / Jim O’Rourke – Side A / Side B
17. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
18. Swans – Leaving Meaning.
19. The Comet is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
20. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Bandana

Films
1. Them That Follow
2. Murder in the Front Row: The Bay Area Thrash Metal Story
3. Rolling Thunder Revue
4. The Irishman
5. Ken Burns’ Country Music
6. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
7. The Dead Don’t Die
8. Dolemite is My Name
9. Sword of Trust
10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Marley Schwartz

1. Goldlink - Diaspora
2. Earthgang - Mirrorland
3. IDK - Is He Real?
4. Flying Lotus - Flamagra
5. Mahalia - Love and Compromise
6. AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey
7. Solange - When I Get Home
8. Tyler the Creator - Igor
9. James Blake - Assume Form
10. Anderson.Paak - Ventura