2019: DJ Top Tens

Tool – Fear Inoculum
Arrowhead – Coven of the Snake
Black Mountain – Destroyer
Holy Serpent – Endless
Mars Red Sky – The Task Eternal
Monolord – No Comfort
Starcrawler – Devour Me
Reignwolf – Hear Me Out
Valley of the Sun – Old Gods
The Well – Death and Consolation

Culture Kultur – Humanity (Caustic Records)
Rroyce – Patience (Infacted Recordings)
Stoneburner – Technology Implies Belligerence (Negative Gain Productions)
Iris – Six (Dependent)
Interface – Where All Roads Lead (Distortion Productions)
Tragic Impulse – Echoes of the Unseen (Distortion Productions)
Uncreated – Is that What You Wanted (Conzoom Records)
Massive Ego – Church for the Malfunctioned (Out Of Line Music)
Hybridize – In Blood With Fire and Ice (Repo Records)
Nature Of Wires – Modus (AnalogueTrash)

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – All In Good Time (Castle Face Records)
Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream (Audika Records)
Allah-Las – LAHS (Mexican Summer)
DIÄT – Positive Disintegration (Iron Lung)
Dehd – Water (Fire Talk)
Gary Numan – Replicas: The First Recordings (Beggars Banquet)
Modern Nature – How to Live (Bella Union)
The Stroppies – Whoosh (Tough Love Records)
Thigh Master – Now For Example (Goner Records)
Moon Duo – Stars Are the Light (Sacred Bones Records)

The Mystery Lights – Too Much Tension! (Wick Records)
Powerplant – People in the Sun (Erste Theke Tontraeger and Dreamland Syndicate Records)
NOV3L – Novel (Flemish Eye Records)
Public Interest – Between (Erste Theke Tontraeger and Gone With The Weed Records)
Plastic Dance Volumes One & Two – Various Artists (Cache Cache and Finders Keepers Records, Volume 2)
Kim Gordon – No Home Record (Matador Records)
Sólveig Matthildur – Constantly In Love (Artoffact Records)
Echo & the Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983 (WEA, Korova, BBC Records)
Automelodi – Mirages Au Futur Verre-brisé (Holodeck Records)
Richard James Simpson – Deep Dream (Rehlein Music)

Burna Boy – Anybody
Patoranking – Confirm feat.DaVido
Afro B (Drogba)Joanna
Runtown – Oh Oh Oh (Lucie)
SkiiBii – Sensima (Refix)
Nu Kru – If Its Love feat. ShaSha
Naira Marley – Soapy
Rema – Dumebi
Innoss’B – Yo Pe Remix
Teni – Case

Combo Chimbita – Ahomale
Dexter Story – Bahir
Johnny Coley and the Weirds – Johnny Coley and the Weirds
Buck Young – Buck II: Where Do You Want It?
SAULT – 5
Spellling – Mazy Fly
Wilma Vritra – Burd
Gong Gong Gong – Phantom Rhythm
Salami Rose Joe Louis – Zdenka 2080
People Like Us – The Mirror

Space Funk: Afro Futurist Electro Funk In Space 1976-1984 (Soul Jazz)
Patrick Cowley – Mechanical Fantasy Box (Dark Entries)
Frank Ocean – “In My Room”
Bob Dylan – Travelin’ Thru (Columbia)
Miles Davis – Early Minor (Rare Miles From The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions) (Columbia)
Y La Bamba – Mujeres (Tender Loving Empire)
The French Tips – It’s The Tips
Run On Sentence – “Break Me” (Hush)
Disco Not Disco (Strut)
The World Of Keith Haring (Influences + Connections) (Soul Jazz)

Bob Dylan – Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15
Mavis Staples – We Get By
French Tips – It’s the Tips
Neil Young – Colorado
Eilen Jewell – Gypsy
Cactus Blossoms – Easy Way
Los Straitjackets – Channel Surfing
Willie Nelson – Ride Me Back Home
Buddy Devore – Beautiful Day
Lizzo – Cuz I Love You

note: This list is for the decade, vs. last year.
David Bowie- Blackstar (2016)
Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
The Strokes- Angles (2011)
Muse- Drones (2015)
Alt J- An Awesome Wave (2012)
The Black Keys- Brothers (2010)
Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
PJ Harvey- Let England Shake (2011)
Iggy Pop- Post Pop Depression (2016)
St. Vincent- St. Vincent (2014)

The French Tips – It’s the Tips (self-released)
Sun Blood Stories – Haunt Yourself (self-released)
Here Lies Man – No Ground To Walk Upon (RidingEasy)
Twin Temple – Satan’s A Woman b/w I Am A Witch (Rise Above)
Jess By The Lake – Under The Red Light Shine (Svart)
a.k.a. Belle – Sagebrush Athenians (self-released)
Year Of The Cobra – Ash and Dust (Prophecy Productions)
Bone Haus – Haywire b/w Restless Blues (self-released)
Medicine – Scarred For Life (Drawing Room)
Deaf Kids – Metaprogramação (Neurot)

Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science – Waiting Game
Emmet Cohen Trio – Dirty In Detroit
Joshua Redman Quartet – Come What May
Ulysses Owens Jr. – Songs of Freedom: The Music of Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln & Joni Mitchell
Herlin Riley – Perpetual Optimism
Marlene Rosenberg – MLK Convergence
Steve Khan – Patchwork: Medio Mezclado
Houston Person – I’m Just A Lucky So and So
Avery Sharpe – 400: An African American Musical Portrait
John Coltrane – Blue World

The Silver Machine – Standing on the Bare Ground (Alternative Tentacles)
The French Tips – It’s The Tips
The Hand – Dad (Gravy Lane Records)
The Darts – I Like You But Not Like That (Alternative Tentacles)
Purple Mountains (Drag City)
Ela Orleans – Movies for Ears (Night School)
Richard James Simpson – Deep Dream (Rehlein Music)
Zolar X / The Spys – ooX When Worlds Collide (Y-Not Records)
Minami Deutsch & Damo Suzuki – Live at Roadburn Festival (Fuzz Club)
Oh Sees – Face Stabber (Castle Face)

Marcos Valle – Minha Roma
Jevon – Girl From Bahia
Azymuth – Manha (‘73-’75 demos)
Daniel Maunick – One Nite Stand
Freddie Gibbs – Freestyle Sh*t
Antonio Adolfo – Hello Herbie
Ben Hauke – You’re Not Deep
La Soülchyld – KAO
Conjunto Papa Uno – Chicharron Peluo
DEEdontcare – Overnight (R. Ayers)

Lizzo – Cuz I Love You (Deluxe)
Brittany Howard – Jaime
Lana Del Ray – Norman Fucking Rockwell
Y La Bamba – Mujeres
Kishi Bashi – Omoiyari
Sudan Archives – Athena
Sigrid – Sucker Punch
The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South of Reality
San Fermin – The Comorant I
Metronomy – Metronomy Forever

Wild Belle – Mockingbird
Toro y Moi – Fading
Vampire Weekend – Stranger
Lizzo – Soulmate
Whitney – Valleys (My Love)
Bibio – Curls
Wilco – Love is Everywhere (Beware)
Caamp – Peach Fuzz
Caribou – Home
Metronomy – Walking in the Dark

Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2
Twin Peaks – Lookout Low
FRENSHIP – Vacation
Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed and Ready
Charlie Bliss – Young Enough
Barrie – Happy To Be Here
Chromatics – Closer to Grey
Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
Pinky Pinky – Turkey Dinner
Basement revolver – Wax & Digital

Kelly Finnigan – The Tales People Tell
Alex Cameron – Miami Memory
Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won’t Hold
Gary Clark Jr – This Land
Neal Francis – Changes
The Teskey Brothers – Run Home Slow
Temple Canyon – Fortress
Black Pumas – Black Pumas
Durand Jones & The Indications – American Love Call
Grace Potter – Daylight

Whitney Shay – A Woman Rules the World (Little Village)
Jason Ricci – My Chops Are Rolling!! (EllerSoul)
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – KINGFISH (Alligator)

Beth Hart – War in My Mind (Provogue)
John Mayall – Nobody Told Me (Forty Below)
Casey Hensley – LIVE (Vizztone)
B.B. King Blues Band – The Soul of the King (RUF)
Gaye Adegbalola – The Griot (Vizztone)
Nancy Wright – Alive and Blue (Vizztone)
Mary Lane – Travelin’ Woman (Women of the Blues)

Anderson .Paak – Ventura (12 Tone Music / Aftermath Entertainment)
blackwave. – Are We Still Dreaming? (De Zwarte Golf VZW)
Blu & Damu the Fudgemunk – Ground & Water (ReDefinition Records)
Femi – From Indiana With Love (33 1/3 World)
Heath McNease – Be Clean Again (Heath McNease self-released)
Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY! (Jagjaguwar)
KRUM & Theory Hazit – Here’s Mud In Your Eye (FiveSe7en Collective)
Little Brother – May the Lord Watch (Imagine Nation Music / For Members Only / EMPIRE)
Noyz & Dusty Loops – LO FI GLORY (Noyz self-released)
People Under the Stairs – Sincerely, the P (Piecelock 70)

Bleached – Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?
Charly Bliss – Young Enough
Chastity Belt – Chastity Belt
Dressy Bessy – Fast Faster Disaster
Ex Hex – It’s Real
Frankie Cosmos – Close It Quietly
The French Tips – It’s the Tips
Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Summer Cannibals – Can’t Tell Me No
Tacocat – This Mess Is A Place

PNAU – Solid Gold
Hot Sugar – Let Me Sleep Forever
Sebastian Paul – INDULGE
Green Buzzard – I Don’t Want To Be Alone
Petit Biscuit – We Were Young (ft. JP Cooper)
Nathan Micay – Ecstasy Is On Maple Mountain
Mild Minds – Swim (ford. Remix)
Local Natives – When Am I Gonna Lose You (DJDS Remix)
Lala – Dizzy
Motifv – Look at the Stars

Michael Kiwanuka – You Ain’t The Problem
Rayland Baxter – Come Back to Earth
Chicos de Nazca – Since You Got It
The Growlers – Try Hard Fool
Lee Fields & The Expressions – It Rains Love
Durand Jones & The Indications – Cruisin’ to the Park
Private Island – eledA
Social Contract – Hoist Their Heads
Spooky Mansion – Money
Diamond Street Players – Organ Workout

Vampire Weekend – Harmony Hall
Pure Bathing Culture – Devotion
White Reaper – Might Be Right
Dude York – Should’ve
Caroline Polachek – Ocean of Tears
Sigrid – Sight of You
Jenny Lewis – Wasted Youth
The Japanese House – You Seemed So Happy
Drugdealer – Fools
Dry Cleaning – Magic of Meghan

Froth – Duress (Wichita Recordings)
Grey’s – Age Hasn’t Spoiled You (Carpark Records)
Ela Orleans – Music for Ears: An Introduction to Ela Orleans (Night School)
Chicos De Nazca – Since You Got It (682110 Records)
75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real (Thin Wrist)
Firefriend – Avalanche (Little Cloud Records)
Various Artists – Strain, Crack and Break Vol. 1: France (Finders Keepers Records)
The Soft Walls – Not As Bad As It Seems (Soft Music)
Black Midi – Schlagenheim (Rough Trade Records)
Various Artists – Sad About the Times (Anthology Records)

We Came to Boogie, Young Bae, Bae 5
Hello Happiness, Chaka Khan, Hello Happiness
Give No Fucks, ADULT, single
Pink Youth, Yuna & Little Simz, Rouge
Otherside (feat. Reva DeVito & Golden Vessel), Young Franco, single
Melody of Love, Hot Chip, Bath Full Of Ecstasy
Starry Night, Peggy Gou, Moment
Just Can’t Stay Away, Don Blackman, Just Can’t Stay Away
The Edge of New Clothes, Open Mike Eagle, The Needle Drop
Rollercoaster, Les Fortunate, 2nds