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Highest Rated Albums of 2019
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Earmilk
Entertainment Weekly
Evening Standard
Exclaim!
FLOOD Magazine
GIGsoup
Gigwise
God Is in the TV
Highsnobiety
HipHopDX
Kerrang!
Loud and Quiet
Louder Than War
Metal Hammer
Metal Injection
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Mojo
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NME
No Ripcord
Northern Transmissions
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Record Collector
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RIOT
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The Line of Best Fit
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Tiny Mix Tapes
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This is an ordered list of Spectrum Culture's highest rated albums of 2019. Check out
Spectrum Culture's Year End List
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1
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Burial - Claustro / State Forest
June 14, 2019
Future Garage
,
Ambient
Score
95
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Amazon
Music
Spotify
2
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Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
October 25, 2019
Drone Metal
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
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clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
October 18, 2019
Horrorcore
,
Industrial Hip Hop
,
Experimental Hip Hop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
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Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
October 18, 2019
Avant-Garde Jazz
,
Free Jazz
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
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Stephen Mallinder - Um Dada
October 11, 2019
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
6
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
October 4, 2019
Singer-Songwriter
,
Ambient Pop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
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MIKE - tears of joy
June 21, 2019
Abstract Hip Hop
,
Experimental Hip Hop
,
East Coast Hip Hop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
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Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
May 3, 2019
Progressive Electronic
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
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Luc Ferrari - Music Promenade / Unheimlich Schön
April 12, 2019
Musique concrète
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
10
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Aldous Harding - Designer
April 26, 2019
Singer-Songwriter
,
Contemporary Folk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
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Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
March 8, 2019
Art Pop
,
Indietronica
,
Synthpop
,
Indie Folk
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
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Little Simz - GREY Area
March 1, 2019
UK Hip Hop
,
Conscious Hip Hop
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
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Takako Saito - Spontaneous Music
January 18, 2019
Score
90
Source →
Amazon
14
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Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
November 8, 2019
Industrial Hip Hop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
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Anna Meredith - FIBS
October 25, 2019
Glitch Pop
,
Art Pop
,
Progressive Pop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
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Boris - LφVE & EVφL
October 4, 2019
Post-Rock
,
Drone Metal
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
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Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
September 13, 2019
Art Pop
,
Synthpop
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
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Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
August 30, 2019
Singer-Songwriter
,
Art Pop
,
Soft Rock
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
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Joan Shelley - Like The River Loves The Sea
August 30, 2019
Singer-Songwriter
,
Folk
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
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Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks
August 23, 2019
Modern Classical
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
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Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel
July 5, 2019
Electroacoustic
,
Ambient
,
Spoken Word
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
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Masayuki Takayanagi And New Direction Unit - April is the cruellest month
June 7, 2019
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
23
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Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
May 17, 2019
Neo-Soul
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
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Cate Le Bon - Reward
May 24, 2019
Art Pop
,
Singer-Songwriter
,
Psychedelic Folk
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
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Holly Herndon - PROTO
May 10, 2019
Glitch Pop
,
Experimental
Score
85
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Spectrum Culture awarded albums throughout 2019.
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