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#733 The Best Albums of 2019

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As 2019 comes to a close, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot reflect on the best albums of the year. They also hear from Sound Opinions producers and listeners about their favorites.

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0:00.0

One, three, three, four. From W be EZ Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim D. Regattis.

0:28.0

And I'm Greg Kott. If you're a music fan, the end of the year can mean only one thing. Best Dove lists. Today we reveal our best

0:36.2

albums of 2019. Plus we'll hear some of our listeners' favorite albums.

0:41.0

I think this album deserves a lot more attention.

0:44.0

It made me actually like country music for it.

0:47.0

It is just this guttural intergalactic just annihilation of an album. galactic This is sound opinions and this week we're going to share some of our favorite albums of 2019,

1:06.0

what we think are the best of the best.

1:09.0

If you've listened to this show, you know that these are the records we enjoyed listening to the most

1:14.8

that we came back to again and again that we think sum up the year and I have to say

1:19.5

Greg I think it was another strange year in the United States of America and as I was going

1:25.6

over my top ten list I know you have ten as well will highlight a four each today you know

1:32.2

a lot of this music is about existentialism. Yeah. What is it like to be alive at this moment? We're also

1:38.9

going to hear from our production team with some of their picks and some listeners.

1:42.8

But Greg, I am going to kick things off with one of my picks.

1:47.5

This is number five on my top ten list, right in the middle.

1:51.5

Killsbirds, it's self-titled debut album.

1:55.6

I was so angry when we were doing a buried treasure show and you picked this and I picked

2:00.3

this and you won the coin toss, you to talk about them now I get to talk

2:04.1

about them what a fantastic band led by a vocalist Nina Lecche who came to

2:10.8

America from Bosnia. This is a wonderful extension of the alternative rock

2:16.5

sounds of the 90s. A little experimental, a little poppy, very rocking the

2:21.7

whole thing.

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