Tape Op Staff Picks for 2019 and the Decade

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 track 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

Aromaticism

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 -

amo

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

Tape Op Staff Picks for 2019 and the Decade

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