2019 in music

Once again, I'm late on putting this one together, but at least it's still Q1 of 2020 (albeit barely...). It feels like 2019 was a very full year, but somehow, it wasn't as full of new musical things as was 2018, with only 17 new albums to last year's 22. There was a lot of generally forgettable stuff this year, but there are quite a few things that ended up in my playlist over and over!

As usual, here's how this works: the rating system is relative and subjective rating system, from one to five stars. A one star album is not, necessarily, bad (unless I say it is...) — think of it, really, as how much I am excited about listening to something, so one star just might mean that I haven't really found a place for it in my regular listening habits. The more stars, the more I think other people will want to listen to it too — or, at least, the more I think other people ought to listen to it, anyway...!

Got it? Okay, well, let's get started — this year, I bought 17 albums, did 2 things of my own, saw 4 live shows, and recommended another additional 26 pieces of "extra credit", and here they all are:

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So that was 2019. What did I miss?

(Previously, 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015.)

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