What another great year for music! It is always a challenge to sit down, reflect and try to narrow down all our favorite albums of the year (let alone a full decade!) into a simple list. Here at Tape Op we are frequently making music suggestions to each other and since there is nothing like a friend's reccomendation, we hope you find some favorites of your own and discover something new on our lists.
Happy Holidays and New Year from your friends at Tape Op!
Larry, John, Geoff, Marsha, Anthony, Scott and Andy
Larry Crane's Picks for 2019
Yola
Walk Through Fire
Wilco
Ode to Joy
Sleater-Kinney
The Center Won't Hold
Jessy Wilson
Phase
Pink Floyd
The Later Years
Lily & Madeleine
Canterbury Girls
Federale
No Justice
Jeff Lynne's ELO
From Out of Nowhere
Peter Gabriel
Flotsam and Jetsam
Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno
Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (Extended Edition)
Nérija
Blume
The Black Keys
Let's Rock
Durand Jones & the Indications
American Love Call
Julian Lage
Love Hurts
John Baccigaluppi's 2019 Picks:
The National
I Am Easy To Find (album and short film)
Nerija
Blume
Bon Iver
i, i
Arlo Parks
Every Tracked She Released This Year!
The Replacements
Dead Man's Pop (Don't Tell a Soul remixed)
John's Dozen from the Decade:
Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
The National
I Am Easy To Find
Wilco
The Whole Love
Beck
Morning Phase
David Bowie
Blackstar
Bon Iver
22, A Million
Moses Sumney
Aromanticism
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie and Lowell
Juana Molina
Wed 21
Big Thief
Masterpiece
Nils Frahm
All Melody
Michael Kiwanuka
Home Again
Geoff Stanfield's 2019 Picks
Black Pumas
Black Pumas
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Heavy Rain
Post Malone
Hollywood's Bleeding
Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy (Live at the Village Vanguard)
Tycho
Weather
Khruangbin
Hasta El Cielo (Todo El Mundo En Dub)
Tinariwen
Amadjar
Brittany Howard
Jaime
Altin Gün
Gece
Geoff's Favs of the Decade:
Subatomic Sound System (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry")
Super Ape Returns to Conquer
Moses Sumney
Aromanticism
Kendrick Lamar
Damn
Lana Del Rey
Ultraviolence
David Bowie
Blackstar
Travis Scott
ASTROWORLD
Vanduras
In the Dark
Circles Around the Sun
Interludes for the Dead
Temples
Sun Structures
Sun Kil Moon
Benji
Nils Frahm
All Melody
Cedric Burnside
Benton County Relic
Marsha Vdovin's 2019 Picks:
James Blake
Assume Form
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ghosteen
Anthony Sarti's 2019 Picks:
Lana Del Rey
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Grimes
My Name is Dark (Single)
RL Grime
NOVA Pure
Poppy
I C U (Music to Read To)
Tycho
Weather
Mike Shinoda
Post Traumatic (Deluxe Version)
The Anix
Hologram (Deluxe Edition)
DJ Shadow
Our Pathetic Age
Bring Me The Horizon
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Charli XCX
Charli
Andy Hong's 2019 Picks:
Lily & Madeleine
Canterbury Girls
Danger Mouse & Karen O
Lux Prima
Lists
EP 2
Meernaa
Heart Hunger
The Japanese House
Good At Falling
Marquis Hill
Love Tape
Barrett Martin Group
Songs of the Firebird
65daysofstatic
replicr, 2019
Alcest
Spiritual Instinct
Reason Define
In Memory...
Bring Me The Horizon
amo
Astronoid
Astronoid
Endless Dive
Falltime
We Lost the Sea
Triumph & Disaster
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