Best Albums

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Highest Rated Albums of 2019

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Source

Genre

All
- All
- Alternative R&B
- Alternative Rock
- Art Pop
- Dance Pop
- Electronic
- Electropop
- Folk
- Hip Hop
- Indie Pop
- Indie Rock
- Neo-Psychedelia
- Neo-Soul
- Pop
- Pop Rap
- Pop Rock
- Post-Punk
- Psychedelic
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer-Songwriter
- Soul
- Synthpop
- UK Hip Hop

2019

This is an ordered list of The Guardian's highest rated albums of 2019. Check out The Guardian's Year End List.

1. Rustin Man - Drift Code

February 1, 2019

Art Rock

Score

100

2. Durand Jones & The Indications - American Love Call

March 1, 2019

Soul

Score

100

3. Lucy Rose - No Words Left

March 22, 2019

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

4. Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel

April 12, 2019

Post-Punk

Score

100

5. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana

June 28, 2019

Hip Hop

Score

100

6. Dave - Psychodrama

March 8, 2019

Hip Hop

Score

100

7. Our Native Daughters - Songs of Our Native Daughters

February 22, 2019

Americana

Score

100

8. Rhiannon Giddens - There Is No Other (with Francesco Turrisi)

May 3, 2019

Folk

Score

100

9. slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain

May 17, 2019

Hip Hop

Score

100

10. Jake Xerxes Fussell - Out of Sight

June 7, 2019

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

11. Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest

June 14, 2019

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

12. SAULT - 5

May 5, 2019

Neo-Soul

Score

100

13. Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend

August 9, 2019

Indie Rock

Score

100

14. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

July 12, 2019

Indie Rock

Score

100

15. John Luther Adams - Become Desert

June 14, 2019

Score

100

16. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears

August 16, 2019

Post-Punk

Score

100

17. Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury

September 27, 2019

Blues Rock

Score

100

18. Richard Dawson - 2020

October 11, 2019

Art Rock

Score

100

19. Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka

November 1, 2019

Psychedelic Soul

Score

100

20. Kim Gordon - No Home Record

October 11, 2019

Noise Rock

Score

100

21. Lankum - The Livelong Day

October 25, 2019

Folk

Score

100

22. Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance

November 22, 2019

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

23. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

October 4, 2019

Singer-Songwriter

Score

100

24. SAULT - 7

September 27, 2019

Score

100

25. Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

January 18, 2019

Score

NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings The Guardian awarded albums throughout 2019.

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