Best Songs of the Year 2019: 50-26

As the world keeps its quest towards total madness & extinction (thanks again, orange monkey), we don't have time to waste so, here's the third chapter of our Favorite Songs of 2019! Today we "enter" the last rounds of our list, with tunes comprised between positions 50 to 26. Getting closer to the end of the road, you can imagine difficulty increases, so we hope you like our choices as much as we do. Have a nice Friday, and stay tunned. The final post it's already in the pipeline!

50. Bad Blood- Working Men’s Club
49. Texas Instruments- Priests
48. Blankenship- DIIV
47. Human- Molly Sarlé
46. Enemies- Egoism
45. Tumult Around the World- Titus Andronicus
44. Nothing at All- The Stroppies
43. A Bird a Bee the Humanity- The Leisure Society
41. Don’t Know How to Keep Loving You- Julia Jacklin
42. You’re Not Always On My Mind- Quivers
40. Walking on a String- Matt Berninger & Phoebe Bridgers
39. Hero- Michael Kiwanuka
38. Anhedonia- Ducks Unlimited

37. There Flies a Seagull- Grace Cummings
36. Marketing- The Black Fever
35. Olympic Girls- Tiny Ruins
34. Shitty Ballet- Bleached
33. The Lotts- Fontaines D.C.
32. We’re All Fucking Morons- Comet Gain
31. Morning in America- Durand Jones & The Indications
30. Mother- Tallies
29. Father Mountain- Calexico and Iron & Wine
28. Cotton & Cane- Olden Yolk
27. Not- Big Thief
26. Rylan- The National

Best Records of the Year 2019: 1-20

As we said yesterday, we now have 40 records for our best of the year list. So, after the first round of LPs, comprising positions between 40 and 21, it’s time to show & rank our Top 20 albums of 2019. Those that we haven't been able to get out of our heads and deserve a standing ovation and, most importantly, constant spins. We’ll have a little break next week for recharging batteries, but we promise that we’ll be back before the year ends… ready to unveil our favorite songs of 2019. So, in the meantime, enjoy the records... and happy Holidays!

20.  Eraserland - Strand of Oaks
19.  In Search of the Miraculous - Desperate Journalist
18.  Better Oblivion Community Center- Better Oblivion Community Center
17. Anxiety Art - The reds, pinks and purples
16. Grass Stains and Novocaine - Seablite
15. Largos Agotadores - El Palacio de Linares
14. Whoosh! - The Stroppies
13. Useless Coordinates - Drahla
12. Time Again - Dumb Things
11. Tallies- Tallies

10. On the Line - Jenny Lewis
9.  Purple Mountains- Purple Mountains
8.  Designer - Aldous Harding
7.  Jeanines- Jeanines
6.  I Am Easy to Find - The National
5.  Quiet Signs - Jessica Pratt
4.  Dead Calm - The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness

3. Olympic Girls - Tiny Ruins 

2. Dogrel - Fontaines D.C. 

1. Crushing - Julia Jacklin

Want to check the best recors of 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011?

Best Records and EPs of the year 2019... so far

Last day of June, meaning half of 2019 is about to pass. To be honest, it's been a pretty shitty year so far for us and, among other, much bigger and personal letdowns, it has been a period of time in which we have clearly struggled to keep with our regular frequency of posts. But that doesn't mean we aren't listening to music. By no means. And to prove it, today we are unveiling our traditional 25 best records and EPs of the year so far! Albums are listed in alphabetical order (in December we will rank the final list) as, for now, we are just enumerating the records (don't care about the length either) that we have enjoyed the most during this six months. Endlessly open and ready for suggestions, as it always should be, we hope you like it, encouraging you to listen carefully. And stay tuned, our favourite songs from the fist half of 2019 are just around the corner!

Aldous Harding- Designer
Arista Fiera- Mi Defensa Personal
Bedouine- Birds Songs of a Killjoy
Better Oblivion Community Center- Better Oblivion Community Center
Business of Dreams- Ripe for Anarchy
Butcher the Bar- III
Desperate Journalist- In Search of the Miraculous
El Palacio de Linares- Largos Agotadores
Ex Hex- It’s Real
Fontaines D.C.- Dogrel
Holiday Ghosts- West Bay Playroom
I Was a King- Slow Century
Jeanines- Jeanines
Jenny Lewis- On the Line
Jessica Pratt- Quiet Signs
Julia Jacklin- Crushing
Seablite- Grass Stains and Novocaine
She Keeps Bees- Kinship
Stella Donelly- Beware of Dogs
Strand of Oaks- Eraserland
Swimming Tapes- Morningside
The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness- Dead Calm
The National- I Am Easy to Find
The Stroppies- Whoosh!
Tiny Ruins- Olympic Girls

More lists? Click on the years to check our 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 selections!

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 219

Build a wall to stop migration! Make a demonstration against a rapporteur (yet to be appointed)! Vote extreme right or/and millionaires (professional cheaters) to solve the (major, essential, pivotal) problems of inequality and distribution of wealth! Utter nonsense, bigotry and fascism, and we're afraid we, as citizens, have embraced this despicable era. The temptation to talk about politics is huge, but this weekend we're calling for a time out. Because we're about to take (momentary) shelter thanks to the Minifestival (Night Flowers, Free Cake for Every Creature and the mighty Kristin Hersh) tonight, plus we have prepared a terrific new TOP TEN JUKEBOX with several Blog beloved acts such as The Stroppies, the great Julia Jacklin covering The Strokes, I Was a King or one of the last gifts of the already missed Zach Denton alongside a bunch of exciting discoveries. Music as refuge, or as the medicine in order not to explode! Take a break and remember, all the songs are available at our Soundcloud. (Join Us!)

Direct links to 2019 Jukebox playlists

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Discoverer 161: new indie findings

Time for another look back to the last months of 2017 in our discoverer series. Because there was too much exciting music coming from our beloved Antipodes at the end of the year to let it slip it away, so here's a trio of Australian wonders for your listening pleasure! Again, let's go down under!

Jeremy Neale. A staple of the Brisbane music scene (still digging among his previous/other bands & collaborations, many finds as Velociraptor or Teen Sensations and reencounters like my beloved Go Violets!) Mr. Neale debuted under his own moniker in 2012 with 7" single 'Darlin'/Winter Was The Time', followed a year later with the EP-LP 'In Stranger Times'. Another EP, 'Let Me Go Out In Style', out in 2015 via Dot Dash, seemed to anticipate his first full release. But things got somewhat quiet, but fun (particularly on social media) with 'hits' such as the 'Man In Skivvy affair' in Google (just type that) of the Jeromeo single 'Party! (Everybody In My Neighbourhood)' while Mr. Neale was carefully crafting his next step. One that surfaced past November under the title of 'Getting the Team Back Together'. And, arguably, the most enjoyable and addictive record of 2017. Power-pop, 80's new romanticism, arresting low-light numbers, über-charming melodies and harmonies, and tons and tons of pop hooks.
  

The Stroppies. Jump to Melbourne to meet this recently assembled (2016?) superband with members (take a deep breath, this is almost like a music All-Star-Game selection from down under) of Dick Diver, Twerps, The Stevens and Blank Statements. Already excited, right? You should, because their first release, the self-titled minialbum out past May via Hobbies Galore as a tape (later on as a limited 12" thanks to Tough Love), and their follow-up, the EP 'It's a Hit' out in December, are just what you can imagine considering the aforementioned cast of wonders. Lo-fi production, jangling guitars, a fanfare organ, deadpan vocals, knockout yet quirky choruses, hide-and-seek melodies... and stunning tunes. Nun's flying, feelings sneaking. Is that sound, that magic sound, floating in the air again... 

Body Type. And we end in Sydney (via Perth) with this DIY female quartet formed in 2016, coming out with a first release later that year in the form of the mind-blowing 7" 'Ludlow / 264'. out via Our Golden Friend. Propelled by the success of the single (great video too), they have toured with the likes of Cate Le Bon, our dear The Coathangers and Dianas (which whom they share some sort of idiosyncrasy in their sound). A few more tunes have followed in 2017, such as the killer 'Silver'. Lo-fi, swooning dream-pop with an edge and wide sonic landscapes recalling DIIV, expectations couldn't be higher for their next move. The future is all theirs!

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 166

Another unusual week comes to an end. Luckily for us, these have been quite relaxing days (our travel to Lisbon, plus a day off...) so we have had plenty of time to prepare and bring you our latest TOP TEN Jukebox, full of pretty amazing songs that we are enjoying lately. From the reissued tune of Love Parade (what a tune!), to new discoveries like The Stroppies or Half Forward Line, we are convinced you are going to enjoy this playlist for sure. Have a nice weekend, and if you are in Barcelona, remember there's an unmissable plan for you: another BIS Festival ahead! Remember, all songs are available at our Soundcloud. (Join Us!)

Direct links to 2017 Jukebox playlists

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