Thursday, November 21, 2019
Songlines Best Albums of 2019
By Jo Frost
Our editors pick their top 10 favourite albums of 2019
As we approach the end of the year, editors Jo Frost and Simon Broughton look back over the year’s releases and pick their ten favourite albums of 2019, to be featured in the January/February 2020 issue of Songlines (#154), available from December 6. Subscribe to Songlines to get your copy as soon as it's available!
1
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Miri on Outhere Records
Reviewed in Songlines #145
2
Blick Bassy
1958 on Nø Førmat!
Reviewed in Songlines #146
3
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Traversées on Constantinople
Reviewed in Songlines #147
4
Félix Lajkó & Vołosi
Félix Lajkó & Vołosi on Fonó
Reviewed in Songlines #152
5
Kefaya + Elaha Soroor
Songs of Our Mothers on Bella Union
Reviewed in Songlines #152
6
Lakou Mizik
HaitiaNola on Cumbancha
Reviewed in Songlines #153
7
Lankum
The Livelong Day on Rough Trade Records
Reviewed in Songlines #154
8
Our Native Daughters
Songs of Our Native Daughters on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Reviewed in Songlines #147
9
Vildá
Vildaluodda/Wildprint on Bafe's Factory
Reviewed in Songlines #149
10
Various Artists
The Lost Words: Spell Songs on Quercus Records
Reviewed in Songlines #150
