85 Favorite Albums Of 2019

In keeping with a years-old tradition of picking an arbitrary number of albums based on how long a year has felt and how much music has come out, I’m going with 85 albums this year, which is the most I’ve ever ended up with. I think this is a function of how much I traveled this year — I spent more times on planes/in airports/in hotel rooms than I ever had before. And I also made a commitment to not rely on repetition as much. New geographies required new soundtracks. So that’s how I ended up here. It’s also notable that with each year of done this, the number of albums seems to increase. Which I think is…