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  • A Year of Music (2019)

    A Year of Music (2019)

    Come the end of each year, you often find services like Spotify showcasing a round-up of your listening habits over the past 12 months into a nicely presented package. But, since I switch between a few different services, I try to send most of what I listen to to Last.fm and so now I can make my own round-up.

    Not all the albums you’ll see below were released in 2019, nor were all the artists active (some are dead, actually). What you’ll see here is most-played albums and artists of 2019, as opposed to my critically hand-picked choice.

    Clicking on each album cover will take you to a shop where you can buy or listen to the album. If you don’t like the links I give you here, I encourage you to look the artist / album up anyway.

    Enough blathering – the list looks something like this:

    Most-played Albums of 2019

    1.
    Miss Universe
    Nilüfer Yanya

    2.
    Murkage Dave Changed My Life
    Murkage Dave

    3.
    Dogrel
    Fontaines D.C.

    4.
    Harry Styles
    Harry Styles

    5.
    WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
    Billie Eilish

    6.
    Cuz I Love You
    Lizzo

    7.
    The Hour of Bewilderbeast
    Badly Drawn Boy

    8.
    Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
    Arctic Monkeys

    9.
    Trapped In Amber
    Jonnie Common

    10.
    Shook
    Dralms


    Most-played Artists of 2019

    A photo of the Arctic Monkeys, most-played artist of 2019.
    1. Arctic Monkeys
    2. Badly Drawn Boy
    3. David Bowie
    4. Nilüfer Yanya
    5. Los Campesinos!
    6. Murkage Dave
    7. Jamie T
    8. Florist
    9. Harry Styles
    10. Jake Thackray

    Bye.

  • So Cow

    So Cow

    Recently, I’ve been into a few punk bands; Cassels, Fontaines D.C., Idles, Jeff Rosenstock, PAWS and have been playing a lot of So Cow.

    As far as I’m aware, So Cow is pretty much a project from front-man Brian Kelly, joined with friends and foe alike on guitars, drums, and other instruments. And it sounds great.

    I discovered So Cow on Bandcamp a few years back and bought the album The Long Con on vinyl – which I immediately caught my eye because of the crudely drawn horse on the front of the artwork that did a sick. Or looks happy at discovering some sick. Funny stuff.

    The album artwork for the album The Long Con by the band So Cow. Pictured on the front is a black pen drawing of a horse that has vomited on the ground.

    I’m not sure whether I’m allowed to classify them as punk? I guess they are pretty punky. Or post-punky. I don’t understand music genres anymore.

    You should give them a listen. The album The Long Con is my favourite so far and you can stream and buy it on Bandcamp. There are a few physical vinyl copies left. It’s on Apple Music and Spotify too, no doubt.

    Let me know if you like it!

    Bye.