In the last "Listening Habits" of the year, we present the 10 albums that we've listened to the most in the last two months of 2019 and select our favorite tracks from them. As we have always done in the 12 years of this blog, we'll close the year with the lists of our favorite albums and songs of the past 12 months, while in the new year we'll present the music and artists that stood out for us in the last decade. The new year will also bring changes for this blog. I haven't worked out all the details just yet, but the new decade will also usher in a new Cool Music Central. More on this subject, very soon...
The last batch of new arrivals for 2019 consists of some truly fine albums, some from dear old friends who we go a long way back with and who continue to brighten our days with their music creations, despite (or maybe because of?) the darkness that lies within (Swans, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Mark Lanegan, Pixies), some from artists who have established themselves in the course of the last decade and returned with excellent new chapters to their story (Bat For Lashes, Chelsea Wolfe, Jenny Hval) and some from relatively new names who we believe we are going to listen to a lot more in the 2020s (Big Thief, Bodega, Wives).
A special mention goes out to Big Thief who doubled their discography in 2019 with two wonderful albums of poetic, emotionally charged, folk rock music and who are also responsible for our Track of the Year for 2019 with the stunning "Not", an electrifying live version of which you can watch in the video below.
Top 10 Albums
1. Leaving Meaning - SWANS
2. Two Hands - BIG THIEF
3. Somebody's Knocking - MARK LANEGAN BAND
4. The Practice Of Love - JENNY HVAL
5. So Removed - WIVES
6. Ghosteen - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
7. Lost Girls - BAT FOR LASHES
8. Birth Of Violence - CHELSEA WOLFE
9. Beneath The Eyrie - PIXIES
10. Shiny New Model EP - BODEGA
Top 10 Tracks
1. Not - BIG THIEF
2. The Hanging Man - SWANS
3. Hollywood - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
4. Night Flight To Kabul - MARK LANEGAN BAND
5. High Alice - JENNY HVAL
6. The 20 Teens - WIVES
7. The Hunger - BAT FOR LASHES
8. The Mother Road - CHELSEA WOLFE
9. On Graveyard Hill - PIXIES
10. Shiny New Model - BODEGA
2. The Hanging Man - SWANS
3. Hollywood - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
4. Night Flight To Kabul - MARK LANEGAN BAND
5. High Alice - JENNY HVAL
6. The 20 Teens - WIVES
7. The Hunger - BAT FOR LASHES
8. The Mother Road - CHELSEA WOLFE
9. On Graveyard Hill - PIXIES
10. Shiny New Model - BODEGA
Big Thief - Not (Live from The Bunker Studios)
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