Top 125 Picks of 2019

2019 Best of Collage Merged 2 copy
Top: The Strumbellas (from Facebook); Taylor Janzen (by Callie Lugosi); Vampire Weekend (by Tom Oxley); Wintersleep (from Facebook). Middle: Khruangbin (by Pooneh Ghan) with Leon Bridges (by Sam Wilson); Tariq (from Creative BC); Sorrey (by Paul Atwood); Twin Shadow (by Milan Zrnic). Bottom: Louise Burns (from The Vancouver Sun); Our Native Daughters (by Daniel Mendoza).

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2019 – Top 125 Picks of the Year + Annual Archive

 

  1. The Strumbellas – Running Scared (Desert Song)

  2. Taylor Janzen – Dennis Quaid
  3. Vampire Weekend – Harmony Hall
  4. Wintersleep – Never Let You Go
  5. Khruangbin (ft Leon Bridges) – Texas Sun
  6. Tariq – First Draft
  7. Sorrey – Talking to Them
  8. Twin Shadow – Broken Horses
  9. Louise Burns – Just Walk Away
  10. Our Native Daughters  – Quasheba, Quasheba
  11. The Small Glories – Oh My Love
  12. Jim Bryson – Better on Drugs
  13. Jenn Grant – Keep a Light On
  14. Valerie June – Cosmic Dancer
  15. Wintersleep – Into the Shape of Your Heart
  16. Maggie Rogers – Burning
  17. Milk & Bone (ft Alex Lustig) – Peaches
  18. Post Malone – Circles
  19. Gary Clark Jr. – Gotta Get into Something
  20. Reuben and The Dark – Hold Me Like a Fire
  21. Josh Ritter – Blazing Highway Home
  22. Garrett Kato – Distant Land
  23. Justin Rutledge – Passages
  24. John Mayer – I Guess I Just Feel Like
  25. Canyon City – The Boys of Summer
  26. Lanikai – Wild Indigo
  27. Bad Flamingo – Howlin at the Moon
  28. Sturgill Simpson – Mercury in Retrograde
  29. Leeroy Stagger – Strange Attractor
  30. Liam Gallagher – Now That I’ve Found You
  31. Vampire Weekend – This Life
  32. Tariq – Walking Dead
  33. Lucette – Angel
  34. Lily & Madeleine – Can’t Help the Way I Feel
  35. Deidre & the Dark – Bad Day
  36. Florence + The Machine – Moderation
  37. Metric – Risk
  38. The Black Keys – Lo/Hi
  39. Jason Camp and The Posers – Gotta Get Back to Haida Gwaii (Ambitious Paddle)
  40. Matt Mays – Let There Be Love (acoustic)
  41. Wild the Coyote – The Scarecrow
  42. Harlequin Gold – Want You More
  43. The Black Fever – Marketing
  44. Sudan Archives – Limitless
  45. Arlo Parks – Sophie
  46. Louise Burns – Cheers
  47. Caveboy – Silk for Gold
  48. Jake Bugg – Kiss Like the Sun
  49. Sans Chateaux – Above a Shoe Store Furled the Sails
  50. Big Little Lions – The Outside
  51. The Strumbellas – The Party
  52. Lindi Ortega – Gracias a la Vida
  53. Maneli Jamal – Toward Dusk
  54. Noah Cyrus (ft Leon Bridges) – July
  55. New Wales – Winnipeg
  56. The Sunset Kids – Volcano
  57. Half Moon Run – Flesh and Blood
  58. Harlequin Gold – I Was Your GirlK.
  59. K.Flay – This Baby Don’t Cry
  60. Elisapie – Arnaq
  61. Jain – Gloria
  62. Tom Odell – Summer Day
  63. Murray A. Lightburn – Changed My Ways
  64. Tariq – Coquihalla
  65. Lee Harvey Osmond – Forty Light Years
  66. Hawksley Workman – Battlefords
  67. Todd Hunter Band – Take It Slow
  68. Lady Clementine’s Fantastic Party – East Coast
  69. Fruit Bats – Humbug Mountain Song
  70. The Brazen Youth – Contemplation, Twilight
  71. Wintersleep – Beneficiary
  72. Boy & Bear – Hold Your Nerve
  73. Cage the Elephant – Ready to Let Go
  74. girl in red – bad idea!
  75. Aquakultre – I Doubt It
  76. A Tribe Called Red (ft El Dusty, Black Bear) – Tanokumbia
  77. Elisapie – The Ballad of the Runaway Girl
  78. Louise Burns – Cry
  79. Deidre & the Dark – Bad Day
  80. Rose Cousins (ft Christof van der Ven) – I Would Die 4 U
  81. Lanikai – Where Do You Go
  82. X Ambassadors – BOOM
  83. girl in red – we fell in love in october
  84. Broken Social Scene – All I Want
  85. Joy Williams – When Does a Heart Move On
  86. Cage the Elephant – House of Glass
  87. Wintersleep – Forest Fire
  88. Madison Violet – Second Hand Fiction
  89. Twin Shadow – Truly
  90. Black Pumas – Fire
  91. Matt Andersen – Been My Last
  92. Ocie Elliott – Mingle in Pine
  93. Jon Batiste – Don’t Stop
  94. Les Trois Accords – Ouvre tes yeux Simon!
  95. Mo Kenney – Ahead of Myself
  96. Sons of The East – It Must Be Luck
  97. Anderson .Paak (ft Smokey Robinson) – Make It Better
  98. Better Oblivion Community Center (Phoebe Bridgers, Conor Oberst) – Little Trouble
  99. Riit – qaumajuapik
  100. Partner – Les ailes d’un ange
  101. Palehound – Killer
  102. Shovels & Rope – Mississippi Nuthin’
  103. Jon and Roy – Headstrong
  104. ABAKOS – Run
  105. Caamp – Wolf Song
  106. City and Colour – Astronaut
  107. Tanika Charles – Tell Me Something
  108. Milo Greene – Worth the Wait – Acoustic
  109. Navet Confit (ft Carl-Éric Hudon) – nous sommes tous de jeunes professionnels maintenant
  110. City and Colour – Strangers
  111. The Black Keys – Walk Across the Water
  112. K.Flay – Not In California
  113. Gary Clark Jr. – When I’m Gone
  114. The Stanfields – Rules Have All the Fun
  115. Leon Bridges – That Was Yesterday
  116. Tegan and Sara – I’ll Be Back Someday
  117. The Regrettes – Has It Hit You?
  118. Lily Kershaw (ft Jon Bryant) – The Sea
  119. Sorrey – Flash
  120. The Blue Stones – Shakin’ Off the Rust
  121. Hey Major – Flying Freak Flags
  122. Michael Kiwanuka – Hero
  123. Norah Jones (with Mavis Staples) – I’ll Be Gone
  124. Sorrey – Full Bloom
  125. Aldous Harding – The Barrel