Norman Records' Best Albums of 2019

Our picks of the best new albums and reissues of 2019.

Source

# 1

No Home Record by Kim Gordon

Album • Oct 11 / 2019 Post-Industrial Noise Rock

# 2

Face Stabber by Thee Oh Sees

Album • Aug 16 / 2019 Psychedelic Rock

# 3

Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest by Bill Callahan

Album • Jun 14 / 2019 Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 4

Schlagenheim by black midi

Album • Jun 21 / 2019 Math Rock Noise Rock Experimental Rock

# 5

GREY Area by Little Simz

Album • Mar 01 / 2019 UK Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 6

The Age Of Immunology by Vanishing Twin

Album • Jun 07 / 2019 Neo-Psychedelia Dream Pop

# 7

Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey

Album • Aug 30 / 2019 Singer-Songwriter Art Pop

# 8

U.F.O.F. by Big Thief

Album • May 03 / 2019 Indie Folk

# 9

American Football by American Football

Album • Jan 01 / 1999 Midwest Emo

# 10

Ecstatic Computation by Caterina Barbieri

Album • May 04 / 2019 Progressive Electronic

# 11

Fenella by Fenella

Album • Nov 01 / 2019 Progressive Electronic

# 12

MAGDALENE by FKA twigs

Album • Nov 08 / 2019 Art Pop Glitch Pop

# 13

Purple Mountains by Purple Mountains

Album • Jul 12 / 2019 Alt-Country Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 14

House of Sugar by Alex G

Album • Sep 13 / 2019 Indie Folk Neo-Psychedelia

# 15

Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes by Moor Mother

Album • Nov 08 / 2019 Industrial Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop Political Hip Hop

# 16

Bandana by Freddie Gibbs + Madlib

Album • Jun 28 / 2019 Gangsta Rap

# 17

Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten

Album • Jan 18 / 2019 Indie Pop Synthpop

# 18

CALIGULA by Lingua Ignota

Album • Jul 19 / 2019 Death Industrial

# 19

Lost Girls by Bat for Lashes

Album • Sep 06 / 2019 Synthpop Art Pop

# 20

I by Föllakzoid

Album • Aug 01 / 2019 Minimal Techno

# 21

I Was Real by 75 Dollar Bill

Album • Jun 28 / 2019 Psychedelic Rock Tishoumaren

# 22

A Mobtown Suite, Vol. 2 by Mahatma X

Album • May 10 / 2019 Instrumental Hip Hop

# 23

Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery by The Comet Is Coming

Album • Mar 15 / 2019 Jazz Fusion Nu Jazz

# 24

~~~ by Ana Roxanne

EP • Mar 15 / 2019 Ambient

# 25

All Mirrors by Angel Olsen

Album • Oct 04 / 2019 Art Pop Chamber Pop

# 26

uknowhatimsayin¿ by Danny Brown

Album • Oct 04 / 2019 Hardcore Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 27

Giant Swan by Giant Swan

Album • Nov 08 / 2019 Industrial Techno

# 28

Street Worms by Viagra Boys

Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Post-Punk

# 29

Ghosteen by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Album • Oct 03 / 2019 Singer-Songwriter Ambient Pop

# 30

Reach the Endless Sea by Tunes of Negation

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Tribal Ambient Ambient Dub

# 31

The Undivided Five by A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Album • Nov 01 / 2019 Ambient Modern Classical

# 32

KIWANUKA by Michael Kiwanuka

Album • Nov 01 / 2019 Psychedelic Soul

# 33

Deceiver by DIIV

Album • Oct 04 / 2019 Shoegaze

# 34

i,i by Bon Iver

Album • Aug 09 / 2019 Art Pop

# 35

There Existed an Addiction to Blood by clipping.

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Industrial Hip Hop Horrorcore

# 36

Fyah by Theon Cross

Album • Feb 15 / 2019 Afro-Jazz Jazz-Funk

# 37

PROTO by Holly Herndon

Album • May 10 / 2019 Experimental Glitch Pop

# 38

Wrecked by Zonal

Album • Oct 25 / 2019 Illbient

# 39

When I Get Home by Solange

Album • Mar 01 / 2019 Alternative R&B Neo-Soul Art Pop

# 40

Venus in Leo by HTRK

Album • Aug 30 / 2019 Ambient Pop Minimal Wave Dream Pop

# 41

Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) by Hildur Guðnadóttir

Album • May 31 / 2019

# 42

Closer To Grey by Chromatics

Album • Oct 02 / 2019 Synthpop Dream Pop

# 43

CHORDS by Ellen Arkbro

Album • Jun 07 / 2019 Drone Minimalism Microtonal Classical

# 44

Miss Universe by Nilüfer Yanya

Album • Mar 22 / 2019 Indie Pop Indie Rock

# 45

Dogrel by Fontaines D.C.

Album • Apr 12 / 2019 Post-Punk

# 46

Echo's Verse by R Beny

Album • May 15 / 2019 Ambient

# 47

Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood

Album • Apr 05 / 2019 Baroque Pop Art Pop

# 48

C'est Ça by Fly Pan Am

Album • Sep 20 / 2019 Experimental Rock Post-Rock

# 49

Angel's Pulse by Blood Orange

Album • Jul 12 / 2019 Alternative R&B

# 50

Modern Mirror by Drab Majesty

Album • Jul 12 / 2019 Darkwave Gothic Rock