Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm in the studio with Rob Sheffield, Brittany Spanos, and John Do. Somehow we're halfway through this absolute

Hellscape of a year and we put up a list of the 50 best albums of 2019 so

far and it's not ranked it's really just kind of the best reviewed

albums of the year as according to wrong stone according to some of the

critics we have right here if we'll rank them at the end of the year

right John yes we'll rank the hell out of them

too soon the That's true.

That's true.

That's true.

That's true.

Okay, you refrained from ranking.

But since it is unranked, I guess that gives me opportunity to ask, I mean, Brittany, what are your

top two, top three albums of the year personally I would say that the two that I return to the most are Billy Eilish's album when we fall asleep where do we go and Liz owes because I love you are the top two ones that I the Billy one kind of came later where I was returning to it a lot because I loved a lot of her earlier stuff a lot more and then Lizo I've been a fan of for years I was so

excited to see what she was able to do with the full album you know her music was so

all over the place for a really long time and I think she put together

something I was really solid really beautifully done and yeah those are the two that I go back to I enjoy the Lizzo

album a lot the criticism that came up and this caused her to decide that all

critics should be unemployed, specifically.

A recurring criticism is that there's something a little like designed to be

uplifty about it.

And I really enjoyed it.

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