I love year-end lists.

I love to see what other people loved. Especially people I respect who can introduce me to new music (and to a lesser extent, have my tastes validated by people cooler than me). But I don’t dig ranking everything. After all, it’s all subjective in the first place. You may not like what I like, and I probably don’t like what you do, and that’s OK. The past couple of years, I’ve done unranked, alphabetical lists. But this year I’d doing something different. (though there will still be an unranked, alphabetical list at the end).

Over the next several days, I’ll post four different playlists of some of my favorite music of 2019; selections from my favorite albums. Each mix is as close to an hour as I could get it. There are 50 songs, but if you want to be specific, there are only 49 albums represented since ‘Sideways’ by Seryn was released as a single and not part of an album. After lots of finagling, I just decided to leave it that way. It is what it is and it is all great. I hope you enjoy. Here’s the first installment.

Volume 01:

Volume 01 Tracklisting:

1. ‘Out Of The Blue’ by Bruno Bavota from the album RE_CORDIS

2. ‘Cuatro Proverbios’ by Aziza Brahim from the album Sahari

3. ‘Tetuzi Akiyama’ by 75 Dollar Bill from the album I Was Real

4. ‘All My Relations’ by Cochemea from the album All My Relations

5. ‘Family and Loyalty’ by Gang Starr from the album One Of The Best Yet

6. ‘Harmony Hall’ by Vampire Weekend from the album Father of the Bride

7. ‘Taqkal Tarha’ by Tinariwen from the album Amadjar

8. ‘Tomorrow Might as Well Be Today’ by Chris Forsyth from the album All Time Present

9. ‘Wiwasharnine’ by Mdou Moctar from the album Ilana (The Creator)

10. ‘Slabs of the Sunburnt West’ by Hemlock Ernst and Kenny Segal from the album Back At The House

11. ‘Fall in Your Love’ by Moon Duo from the album Stars Are The Light

12. ‘I Need a Teacher’ by Hiss Golden Messenger from the album Terms of Surrender

13. ‘Gold Past Life’ by Fruit Bats from the album Gold Past Life

14. ‘Sideways’ by Seryn // Released as a single

15. ‘Afous Dafous’ by Tartit from the album Amankor / The Exile

16. ‘Fear Song’ by Rose City Band from the album Rose City Band

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• Listen to Volume 02 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist

• Listen to Volume 03 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist

• Listen to Volume 04 of my 2019 Year-End Playlist