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WYEP's top 50 albums for 2019

After careful thought about all of the music that crossed our desks in the past 12 months, we have chosen our top 50 releases of 2019. Here is the full list.

Rank

Artist

Album

1

Yola

Walk Through Fire

2

Black Pumas

Black Pumas

3

Vampire Weekend

Father Of The Bride

4

Lizzo

Cuz I Love You

5

Maggie Rogers

Heard It In A Past Life

6

The National

I Am Easy To Find

7

The Black Keys

Let’s Rock

8

Sharon Van Etten

Remind Me Tomorrow

9

Beck

Hyperspace

10

Orville Peck

Pony

11

J.S. Ondara

Tales Of America

12

Cage the Elephant

Social Cues

13

Gary Clark Jr.

This Land

14

Brittany Howard

JAIME

15

Bon Iver

i,i

16

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram

KINGFISH

17

Michael Kiwanuka

KIWANUKA

18

Andrew Bird

My Finest Work Yet

19

Cautious Clay

Table Of Context

20

Local Natives

Violet Street

21

Elbow

Giants of All Sizes

22

Sturgill Simpson

Sound & Fury

23

Better Oblivion Community Center

Better Oblivion Community Center

24

The Highwomen

The Highwomen

25

Jenny Lewis

On The Line

26

Of Monsters and Men

Fever Dream

27

Hozier

Wasteland, Baby!

28

The New Pornographers

In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

29

The Raconteurs

Help Us Stranger

30

Wilco

Ode To Joy

31

The Rails

Cancel the Sun

32

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

A Tuba to Cuba

33

Avett Brothers

Closer Than Together

34

Hayes Carll

What It Is

35

Sheryl Crow

Threads

36

Raphael Saadiq

Jimmy Lee

37

Foals

Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2

38

Caamp

By and By

39

The Commonheart

Pressure

40

Grace Potter

Daylight

41

Hiss Golden Messenger

Terms of Surrender

42

Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Mettavolution

43

Sleater-Kinney

The Center Won’t Hold

44

The Head & The Heart

Living Mirage

45

Mavis Staples

We Get By

46

Robert Randolph and the Family Band

Brighter Days

47

Josh Ritter

Fever Breaks

48

The Lumineers

iii

49

Joseph

Good Luck, Kid

50

Chance The Rapper

The Big Day