The end of 2019 is here, and our DJs are taking a look back at their favorite releases from this year. Take a look at what album releases your favorite KGNU DJs loved in 2019!
- Andy Zicklin
- Barry Roark
- Bob Cosmo
- Brian Eyster
- Brother Louie
- Cal Huss
- Carrie Marks
- Dennis Rider
- DJ Marlowe
- DJ Swingsett
- Dylan Raskay
- EC
- Indra Raj
- Joel Davis
- Keith Colligan
- Mariah Coe
- Michael Buck
- Mike Finn
- Natalie Shrewsbury
- Sam Fuqua
- Sandman
- Uncle Jeff
# Artist Album Label 1 The Firstimers Anvil of Love Firstimers 2 Sugar Britches Don’t Make Her a Mix Tape yet, You Idiot Label Sugar Britches 3 Jon Fratelli Bright Night Flowers Cooking Vinyl 4 The Specials Encore Universal Music 5 Dan Bern Regent Street Kababa Records 6 Julia Haltigan Trouble Julia Haltigan 7 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Ghosteen Ghosteen 8 Tiger Lillies Devil’s Fairground Misery Guts 9 Starcrawler Devour You Rough Trade 10 The Hold Steady Thrashing through the Passion Frenchkiss
# Artist Album Label 1 Surf Friends Doing Your Thing Flying Nun Records 2 Fat White Family Serfs Up! Domino 3 Battles Juice B Crypts Warp 4 Lee “Scratch” Perry Rootz Reggae Dub Megawave 5 Moon Duo Stars Are The Light Sacred Bones 6 Allah-Las Lahs Mexican Summer 7 The Divine Comedy Office Politics Divine Comedy 8 Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City 9 Josh Ritter Fever Breaks Pythaes 10 Chastity Belt Chastity Belt Hardly Art
# Artist Album Label 1 Anders Osborne Buddha and the Blues Anders Osborne 2 Galactic/td> Already Ready Already Tchoup-Zilla 3 Keith Frank Keith Frank Presents the Soulwood All-Stars Vol. 3: Legends of the South Soulwood 4 Lost Bayou Ramblers Asteur Lost Bayou 5 Sean Ardoin Ven Zydekool 6 T’Monde Lights in the Harbor Valcour 7 The Rayo Brothers Victim & Villain Nouveau Electric 8 Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Gnomes and Badgers Seven Spheres 9 Chris ‘Kingfish’ Ingram Kingfish Alligator 10 Warren Storm Taking the World, By Storm APO
# Artist Album Label 1 Billy Woods Hiding Places Backwoodz Studio 2 Tim Heidecker What the Broken Hearted Do JagJaguwar 3 MIKE Tears of Joy 10k 4 Beirut Gallipolli 4AD 5 Kiltro Creatures of Habit Kiltro 6 Mac DeMarco Here Comes the Cowboy Mac’s Record Label 7 Mdou Moctar Ilana: The Creator Sahel Sounds 8 Quelle Chris Guns Mello 9 CURTA (sic) Hello LA 10 KAINA Next to the Sun Sooper
# Artist Album Label 1 Robert Ellis Texas Piano Man New West 2 Che Apalache Rearrange My Heart Free Dirt 3 Meursault Crow Hill Common Grounds 4 Martin Hayes & Brooklyn Rider The Butterfly In A Circle 5 O Terno Atrás/Além Tratore Music Brasil 6 Lankum The Livelong Day Rough Trade 7 Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen We Jazz 8 Westbound Situation Pilot Westbound Situation 9 Erlend Apneseth Trio with Frode Haltli Salika, Molika Hubro 10 David Kilgour Bobbie’s a Girl Merge
# Artist Album Label 1 The Felice Brothers Undress Yep Roc 2 Joe Henry The Gospel According to Water EARMUSIC 3 Jenny Lewis On the Line Warner Bros. 4 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Ghosteen Ghosteen 5 Lambchop This (is what I wanted to tell you) Merge 6 Calexico and Iron & Wine Years to Burn Sub Pop 7 Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men Tall, Dark, & Handsome Hot Shot 8 Shinyribs Fog & Bling Mustard Lid 9 Giant Sand Recounting the Ballads of Thin Line Men Fire 10 Howe Gelb Gathered Fire
# Artist Album Label 1 Kit Sebastian Mantra Moderne Mr. Bongo 2 Wand Laughing Matter Drag City 3 Crumb Jinx Crumb 4 Ghost Funk Orchestra A Song for Paul Colemine 5 Jessica Pratt Quiet Signs Mexican Summer 6 Sampa the Great The Return Ninja Tune 7 Mystery Lights Too Much Tension! Wick 8 Bells Atlas The Mystic Tender Loving Empire 9 SAULT 5 & 7 Forever Living Originals 10 Chris Cohen Chris Cohen Captured Tracks
# Artist Album Label 1 Kiltro Creatures of Habit Kiltro 2 Bon Iver I,i JagJaguwar 3 Anderson .Paak Ventura Aftermath/12 Tone 4 Black Pumas Black Pumas ATO 5 YOLA Walk Through Fire Easy Eye 6 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow JagJaguwar 7 Ikeba Shakedown Kings Left Behind Colemine 8 Mavis Staples We Get By Anti 9 Brittany Howard Jaime ATO 10 Michael Kiwanuka Michael Kiwanuka Polydor
# Artist Album 1 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell Polydor and Interscope 2 Tyler, the Creator Igor Columbia 3 Helado Negro This Is How You Smile RVNG Intl. 4 Chastity Belt Chastity Belt Hardly Art 5 Anderson . Paak Ventura Aftermath/12 Tone 6 Flying Lotus Flamagra Warp 7 Big Thief U.F.O.F. 4AD 8 Michael Kiwanuka Michael Kiwanuka Polydor 9 Jay Som Anak Ko Polyvinyl 10 Weyes Blood Titanic Rising Sub Pop
# Artist Album Label 1 J Red the Nephew Platinum Soul Soulpop 2 Kassa Overall Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz Kassa Overall 3 Los 4 Con La Izquierda Puntilla 4 Sofi Tukker Dancing on the People Ultra 5 Adia Victoria SIlences Canvasback/Atlantic 6 Grady Champion Steppin’ In Malaco 7 Lizzo Cuz I Love You Nice Life 8 Griz Ride Waves inGrooves 9 Kokoko Fongola Transgressive 10 G&D Black Love and War SomeOthanShip Connect
# Artist Album Label 1 Charlie Megira Tomorrow’s Gone Numero Group 2 L’Epee Diabolique A 3 Xeno & Oaklander Hypnos Dais 4 The Telescopes Exploding Head Syndrome Tapete 5 The Resonars No Exit Trouble In Mind 6 Vanishing Twin The Age of Immunology Fire 7 She Past Away Disco Anksiyete Metropolis 8 Hash Redactor Drecksound Goner 9 Automelodi Mirages Au Futur Verre-Brise HoloDeck 10 High Command Beyond the Wall of Desolation Southern Lord
# Artist Album Label 1 Alex & Stephane Attias Present The Chromatic Universe 2 Visions 2 Various Artists Volume 2 Eglo 3 Makoto Tomodachi Sessions Hospital 4 Luke Vibert Valvable I Love Acid 5 Georgia Anne Muldrow Vweto II Mello 6 Various Artists A Decade of Liondub International Liondub International 7 Special Request Offworld Houndstooth 8 Pseudo Slang Wanderverse LP Baby Steps Hip Hop 9 Quantic Atlantic Oscillations Tru Thoughts 10 Flying Lotus Flamagra Warp
# Artist Album Label 1 Carlton Jumel Smith 1634 Lexington Ave Timmion 2 Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Drag City 3 Pinty City Limits-EP Rhythm Section 4 Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City 5 Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop 6 Carl Craig Detroit Love Vol. 2 Planet E Communications 7 Billy Woods & Kenny Segal Hiding Places Backwoodz Studioz 8 Floating Points Crush Ninja Tune 9 Black Pumas Black Pumas ATO 10 Garcia Peoples One Step Behind Beyond Beyond is Beyond
# Artist Album Label 1 Gud Dapperton Where Polly People Go to Read AWAL 2 BROCKHAMPTON GINGER RCA 3 Pond Tasmania Marathon 4 FKA Twigs Magdalene Young Turks 5 Still Woozy Lately Interscope 6 Drug Dealer Raw Honey Mexican Summer 7 JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs Deathbomb Arc 8 Infinite Bisous Period Mexican Summer 9 Inner Wave wya Inner Wave 10 HOMESHAKE Helium Royal Mountain
# Artist Album Label 1 Fontaines DC Dogrell Partisan 2 Joshua Redman/Brooklyn Rider Sun on Sand Nonesuch 3 Bill Cole & Untempered Ensemble Music for Yoruba Proverbs Boxholder 4 Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba Miri Outhere 5 Iggy Pop Free Loma Vista 6 Vagabon Vagabon Nonesuch 7 Tartit Amankor/The Exile Riverboat 8 Raphael Saadiq Jimmy Lee Columbia 9 Esperanza Spalding 12 Little Spells Concord 10 Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
# Artist Album Label 1 Bibio Ribbons Warp 2 Teebs Anicca Brainfeeder 3 Thom Yorke ANIMA XL 4 Crumb The Jinx Crumb 5 Holy Hive Harping (feat. Mary Lattimore) Big Crown 6 KAYTRANADA BUBBA KAYTRANADA 7 Ian Simmonds All That’s Left Pussyfoot 8 Chris Cohen Chris Cohen Captured Tracks 9 Weval The Weight Kompakt 10 Vetiver Up on High Mama Bird
# Artist Album Label 1 Jacques Greene Dawn Chorus LuckyMe 2 Sampa the Great The Return Ninja Tune 3 Hank Roberts Congeries of Ethereal Phenomena Newvelle 4 Operator Music Band Duo Duo Broken Circles 5 Allah-Lahs LAHS Mexican Summer 6 Little People Landloper Future Archive 7 A-WA Bayti Fi Rasi S-Curve 8 Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet Loma Vista 9 Charlotte Adigéry Zandoli Deewee 10 Quantic Atlantic Oscillations Tru Thoughts
# Artist Album Label 1 Altin Gun Gece Les Disques Bongo Joe 2 Artur Melo Metanoia Samsara 3 Commandant Coustou Magnetic Islands Maaula 4 Kutmah = Kutmah 5 Lee Scratch Perry Rootz Reggae Dub Megawave 6 Pan Amsterdam Straight to Tape EP Def Presse 7 Richard Houghten Music for Drifters Macroscopic Vibrations 8 Sarathy Korwar More Arriving The Leaf Label 9 Soohan Transmuto Soohan 10 Tom Caruana vs. Can Inner Space: Instrumentals Tom Caruana Mashups
# Artist Album Label 1 Rising Appalachia Leylines Rising Appalachia 2 Bloodshot Bill Come Get Your Love Goner Records 3 Fontaines DC Dogrel Partisan 4 Harriet Brown Mall of Fortune Innovative Leisure 5 Rocky Dawuni Beats of Zion Aquarian 6 Karl Denson and His Tiny Universe Gnomes and Badgers Seven Spheres 7 Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettavolution Ruby Works 8 The Yawpers Human Question The Yawpers 9 The Aggrolites Reggae Now! Pirates Press 10 Santana Africa Speaks Concord
# Artist Album Label 1 Leo Leobons Ritual REMIXED Kafundo 2 AkizzBeatzz Various Artists: Urbanized Afro Edits AkizzBeatzz 3 Minyo Crusaders Echoes of Japan Mais Um 4 Ibibio Sound Machine Doko Mien Merge 5 Nakara Percussions Nakara Percussions Komos 6 Hope Masike The Exorcism of a Spinster Riverboat 7 Bastarda Ars Moriendi Szamburski 8 Manu Delago Circadian One Little Indian 9 Mateo Kingman Astro AYA 10 Combo Chimbita Ahomale Anti
# Artist Album Label 1 The Flaming Lips King’s Mouth Warner 2 Leo Leobons Ritual Remixes Kafundo 3 Pixies Beneath the Eyrie Infectious 4 Fontaines DC Dogrel Partisan 5 (Sandy) Alex G House of Sugar Domino 6 Bon Iver I,i Jagjaguwar 7 Amon Tobin Fear in a Handful of Dust Nomark 8 Sinkane Dépaysé City Slang 9 Kokoko! Fongola Transgressive 10 Kate Tempest The Book of Traps and Lessons Republic
# Artist Album Label 1 Paper Wings Clementine Paper Wings 2 Brendan Shafer Shafer’s Lumber Wagon Big Six 3 David Grisman’s Dawg Trio Plays Tunes & Sings Songs Acoustic Disc 4 Our Native Daughters Songs of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways 5 George Jackson Time and Place George Jackson 6 Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes Bowerbird Trivianna 7 Tim O’Brien Band Tim O’Brien Band Howdy Skies 8 Six Dollar String Band Big Six 6am 9 Colebrook Road On Time Mountain Fever 10 Bonerama Plays Zeppelin Basin Street
# Artist Album Label 1 Oumar Konate I Love Your Inna Clermont 2 Cej Adobe Road Gnospng 3 The Bongo Hop Satingorana, Pt 2 Underdog 4 Kiki Valera Vivencias En Clave Cubana Origin 5 Lakou Mizik HaitiaNola Cumbancha 6 Aymee Nuviola A Journey Through Cuban Music Top Stop 7 Bill Callahan Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest Drag City 8 Rachid Taha Je Suis Afticain Naive 9 Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed Son of the Drum Chaos 10 We Banjo 3 Roots to Rise WB3
# Artist Album Label 1 Brittany Howard Jaime Columbia 2 Various Artists Instant Replay ECC 3 Cherry/Holland/Lacy/Togashi Live at Yubi Chokin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo May 14, 1986 Victory 4 Anderson/Bell/Wastell Tales of Hackney Confront Core 5 Junius Paul Ism International Anthem 6 <
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