The yearly top 40 of Dutch Newspaper De Volkskrant, as chosen by it's nine music critics. As usual, they also included classical releases, which do not count for AM, so I marked them with a *.
1. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go
2. Les Siécles – Symphonie fantastique*
3. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
4. Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelson – Bruckner 6&9*
5. Tool – Fear Inoculum
6. Arcadi Volodos – Schubert*
7. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
8. Dirk Luijmes – Harmonium Atlas*
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen
10. Alessandro Cortini – Volume Massimo
11. Le Poème Harmonique – Anamorfosi*
12. Inter Arma – Sulphur English
13. Beatrice Rana – Ravel & Stravinksy*
14. Julian Prégardien, Sandrine Piau & Éric Le Sage – Dichterliebe*
15. Lankum – The Livelong Day
16. Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
17. Latvian Radio Choir – Tchaikovsky*
18. Underworld – Drift Series 1
19. Tyler, the Creator – Igor
20. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
21. Nino Gvetadze – Cyril Scott*
22. Big Thief – U.F.O.F
23. Ragazze Kwartet – Bartók Bound*
24. Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science – Waiting Game
25. Paul Cauthen – Room 41
26. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
27. Merel Vercammen & Dina Ivanova – Symbiosis*
28. Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messes de Barcelona et d’Apt*
29. Denzel Curry – Zuu
30. Atlas Ensemble – Nomaden*
31. Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe
32. S10 – Snowsniper
33. Maya Fridman – Canto d’inizio e fine*
34. Barker – Utility
35. Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka
36. Thom Yorke - Anima
37. ORBI – The Oscillating Revenge of Background Instruments
38. The Chemical Brothers – No Geography
39. Sharon van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
40. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
Source: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/ ... 56a7579651
The ORBI album is a bit of a hybrid between classical and pop and I don't know as which you would count it, but I decided not to give it an asterisk. I'm listening to that album as we speak (hadn't heard of it) and strongly recommend it. It is a stunning reinvention of pop songs (mostly prog and metal), in classical terms.
I always like the yearly album by De Volkskrant, not so much because I agree with everything, but because it casts it's nets so wide across the whole spectrum of music. I've decried it before, but yearly I feel more that most publications just chose the biggest releases with the biggest publicity as put forth by mayor labels, which makes lists as this one, the one by AllMusic or those by Popmatters extra valuable.
EOY 2019 - De Volkskrant (NL)
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