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Every year I keep a running list of new album releases. The idea is that I’ll have new stuff on my radar, along with a go-to playlist if I’m feeling adventurous (or bored) and want to hear something new. This year that list grew to nearly 9,000 songs, and I’m still adding stuff I missed from this year to it. When it came time to make my year-end list, I had some ideas about what would be on it, but I decided to do something more immersive than I’d done years prior (basically narrowing my list down to ten albums). This year, I decided to rank every record I listened to that came out in 2019, resulting in a list of more than 200 albums. That’s a lot, certainly. It’s my job, of course, to listen to music. But what was more mind-boggling was that, when I made a separate list of albums I hadn’t had a chance to listen to or simply didn’t stick in my mind, it was more than double that number. Y’all, a lot of music came out in 2019. And a lot of it was really, really good.<\/p>\n
I think our list at Audiofemme is unique in that it gives each of our regular writers (and some of our contributors) complete ownership over their favorites, and that makes our list unusually eclectic. That’s especially true this year; last year’s lists<\/a> featured a lot of love for Mitski and Janelle Monae, while this year’s lists were so disparate there’s very little crossover from list to list. So while it’s hard to choose one overarching narrative around who slayed hardest this year – Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen releasing the best albums of their careers, Big Thief releasing two<\/em> amazing records, Jamila Woods and FKA Twigs going big on concept albums – I think we all know that person was Lizzo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marianne White (Executive Director)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Top 5 Albums:<\/strong>EDITOR LISTS<\/h2>\n
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\n1) Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY!<\/em>
\n2) Big Thief – Two Hands<\/em>
\n3) Boy Harsher – Careful<\/em>
\n4) FKA Twigs – Magdalene<\/em>
\n5) Cate le Bon – Reward<\/em>
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