ICR'S BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS 2019
Blu & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ground & Water / Blu & Oh No - A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night
Clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood
CMPND - Eagle Court
Common - Let Love
Czarface & Ghostface - Czarface Meets Ghostface
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
DJ Muggs & ThaGodFahim - Dump Assassins / DJ Muggs & Mach Hommy - Tuez-les Tous
Dos Monos - Dos City
Gang Starr - One Of The Best Yet
Homeboy Sandman - Dusty
Injury Reserve - Injury Reserve
JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Kate Tempest - The Book Of Traps And Lessons
Lansky Jones - Dangerfield
Little Simz – Grey Area
Loyle Carner – Not Waving, But Drowning
Aesop Rock And Tobacco Are Malibu Ken – Malibu Ken
Onoe Caponoe - Surf Or Die
People Under The Stairs - Sincerely, The P
Pete Sayke - Gold & Rue
Porter Ray - Eye Of The Beholder
Qari & greenSLLIME - Operation Hennessy
Quelle Chris - Guns
Ramson Badbonez - Mic Day The 13th
Ronnie Bosh - All People Expect
Scienze - ScienZe Was Here
Skyzoo & Pete Rock - Retropolitan
Verb T & Pitch 92 - A Question Of Time
Wiki - OOFIE
Wilma Vritra - Burd
Your Old Droog - It Wasn't Even Close / Transportation
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ICR'S BEST DOWNTEMPO/LEFTFIELD ALBUMS 2019
Afriqua - Colored
Anatole - Emulsion
Ash Walker - Aquamarine
Bibio - Ribbons
Bill Laurance - Cables
Carlos Niño & Friends - Bliss On Dear Oneness
Clams Casino - Moon Trip Radio
Desolate - Exceptionalism
GODTET - II
Hector Plimmer - Next To Nothing
Kiefer - Superbloom
Khotin - Beautiful You
Khruangbin - Hasta El Cielo
Leafcutter John - Yes! Come Parade With Us
Lorn - Dworn The Traitor Within
Shlohmo - The End
Skinny Pelembe - Dreaming Is Dead Now
Slugabed - Any Attempt To Control The Environment Or The Self By Means That Are Either Untested Or Untestable, Such As Charms Or Spells
Teebs - Anicca
The Lasso - The Sound Of Lasso
Thoma - Detroit
Toby Gale - Syzygy
UNKLE - The Road: Part II / Lost Highway
Zagar - Woods, Spirits & Sorcery
Weval - The Weight
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ICR'S BEST BREAKS/POSTRAVE ALBUMS 2019
Agzilla - Cats Can Hear Ultrasound
Amnesia Scanner - Lexachast
Baltra - Ted
Boreal Massif - We All Have An Impact
Eliphino - Breaking Up Is Hard
Elliott Power - Kill Free
Hoavi - Phobia Airlines
Konx-Om-Pax - Ways Of Seeing
Lapalux - Amnioverse
Laurence Guy - Making Music Is Bad For Your Self Esteem
Lee Gamble - Exhaust
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer
Patten - Flex
Rainer Veil - Vanity
Special Request - Vortex / Bedroom Tapes
Shed - Oderbuch
Soundbwoy Killah - Halycon Daze
Stenny - Upsurge
Synkro - Images
Varg²™ - Evanescence (A Love Letter)
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ICR'S BEST HOUSE ALBUMS 2019
Axel Boman - Le New Life
Crazy P - Age Of The Ego
Earth Boys - Mythic Music
Eli Escobar - Last Summer
Fred Everything - No Way Home
Hoavi - Until Tomorrow
Kornél Kovács - Stockholm Marathon
Lowheads - After Tokyo
Mount Liberation Unlimited - Mount Liberation Unlimited
O'Flynn - Aletheia
Panthera Krause - It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You
Prins Thomas - Ambitions
Quarion - Shades
Robag Wruhme - Venq Tolep
Roland Tings - Salt Water
Sable Blanc - Homecoming
Shanti Celeste - Tangerine
thatmanmonkz - Non Zero Sum Game
The Strictly Jaz Unit - The Tempest
Vince Watson - DnA
Zodiac - Serengeti By Night
+ Andres - Andres IV
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ICR'S BEST TECHNO ALBUMS 2019
Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
Barker - Utility
Biochip - Synthase
Conforce - Dawn Chorus
Edit Select & Antonio Ruscito - Prominence
E-Saggila - My World My Way
Function - Existenz
Gary Gritness - The Legend Of Cherenkov Blue
Hiro Kone - A Fossil Begins To Bray
I Hate Models - L'age Des Metamorphoses
John Beltran - Hallo Androiden
Jori Hulkkonen - Half In The Bag
Kamikaze Space Programme - Dead Skin Cells
Karenn - Grapefruit Regret
Maenad Veyl - Body Count
Petrichor - Narisshu
PTU - Am I Who I Am
Relaxer - Coconut Grove
Rod Modell - Captagon
Sam KDC - Omen Rising
Sciahri - Double-Edged
Skudge - Balancing Point
Swarm Intelligence - Against The Dying Light
Technoist - Maximal Techno
Temudo - Do Nothing And Be Wrong
Underworld - Drift Series 1
VC-118A - Inside
WLDERZ - Swimming In A Plastic Ocean
Yagya - Stormur
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ICR'S BEST IDM/ELECTRONICA ALBUMS 2019
Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence Level 17.3
Amon Tobin - Fear In A Handful Of Dust / Long Stories
Bjarki - Happy Earthday / Psychotic_Window
Bogdan Raczynski - Rave 'Till You Cry
Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha (B-Sides & Remixes)
Datach'i - Bones
Emptyset - Blossoms
Ex-Terrestrial - Gamma Infolded
Floating Points - Crush
Foreign Sequence - Are Faces Really Necessary?
Gacha Bakradze - Monument
ICR - Entrøpia
Ilkae - Formal Format
Lakker - Época
Max Cooper - Yearning For The Infinite
Mikron - Severance
Plaid - Polymer
Proem - Until Here For Years
Quirke - Steal A Golden Hail
Ruby My Dear - Altair
Steve Hauschildt - Nonlin
Suumhow - Secuund
SØS Gunver Ryberg - Entangled
Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
Tipper - Jettison Mind Hatch
Tom Terrien - From To
Tracey - Biostar
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ICR'S BEST AMBIENT/DRONE/SYNTH ALBUMS 2019
Alex Smoke - Other World Music, Vol. II.
Asuna & Jan Jelinek - Signals Bulletin
Bnjmn - Pyrrhic
BT - Between Here And You
Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation
Christopher Willits - Sunset
Chris Weeks - Borders / Ambientot
Cosmin TRG - Hope This Finds You Well
Dino Spiluttini - Heaven
Donato Dozzy - 12H
Graintable - Universal Ash
HTRK - Over The Rainbow
Internazionale - Avatar In Life
Fenella - Fenella
Fennesz - Agora
Floating Spectrum - A Point Between
Jigga - iliiiilii
Jogging House - When
Loscil - Equivalents
Malibu - One Life
Mario Hammer And The Lonely Robot - Définition Synematique
Maps and Diagrams - Azurescens
Ricardo Donoso - Re_Calibrate
Ripperton - Contrails
Simone Giudice - Oltre
SLV - Berlin. Portrait In Music
Thorsten Quaeschning - The Seaside Stage Session
Tim Hecker - Anoyo
Visible Cloaks & Yoshio Ojima - FRKWYS Vol. 15.: Serenitatem
Yamaneko - Spiral Heaven Wide
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ICR'S BEST EXPERIMENTAL/AVANTGARDE ALBUMS 2019
Bon Iver - i,i
Daedelus - The Bittereinders
ENA - Baroque
Holly Herndon - Proto
Kilchhofer & Anklin - Moto Perpetuo
Like A Villain - What Makes Vulnerability Good
Loraine James - For You And I
Minor Pieces - The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming
MSYLMA - Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum
Organ Mug - Here And There
Oto Hiax - Two
Saul Williams - Encrypted & Vulnerable
Selm - Kreise
Son Lux - Remnants
Sote - Parallel Persia
Thom Yorke - Anima
Tony Njoku - Your Psyche's Rainbow Panorama
waelder - & (Ampersand)
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ICR'S BEST INDIE/ROCK ALBUMS 2019
DIIV - Deceiver
Fink - Bloom Innocent
Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 & 2
Friendly Fires - Inflorescent
Hayden Thorpe - Diviner
Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
HTRK - Venus In Leo
Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love
Le Prince Harry - Be Your Own Enemy
Metz - Automat
One True Pairing - One True Pairing
Sault - 7
The Black Keys - Let's Rock
The Night Café - 0151
These New Puritans - Inside The Rose
TOOL - Fear Inoculum
Trentemøller - Obverse
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
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ICR'S BEST SOUL/R&B ALBUMS 2019
Akua - Them Spirits
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
Anna Wise - As If It Were Forever
Benny Sings - City Pop
Black Pumas - Black Pumas
Blood Orange - Angel's Pulse
Connie Constance - English Rose
Durand Jones & The Indications - American Love Call
Ego Ella May - So Far
FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Ibibio Sound Machine - Docko Mien
J.Lamotta - Suzume
Jordan Rakei - Origin
Kevin A - Tropic
Kindness - Something Like A War
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Moonchild - Little Ghost
Oso Leone - Gallery Love
Quantic - Atlantic Oscillations
Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
Rhi - The Pale Queen
Robert Glasper - Fuck Yo Feelings
Shafiq Husayn - The Loop
Shay Lia - Dangerous
Seba Kaapstad - Thina
SiR - Chasing Summer
Solange - When I Get Home
Tay Iwar - Gemini
Taylor McFerrin - Love's Last Chance
Velvet Negroni - Neon Brown
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ICR'S BEST JAZZ ALBUMS 2019
Alfa Mist - Structuralism
Ashley Henry - Beautiful Vinyl Hunter
Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel
Bremer/McCoy - Utopia
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ancestrall Recall
Daniel Casimir & Tess Hirst - These Days
Dominic Miller - Absinthe
Echoes - Loading Screen
Elliot Galvin - Modern Times
Erik Truffaz - Lune Rouge
Ezra Collective - You Can't Steal My Joy
GoGo Penguin - Ocean In A Drop (Music For Film)
Greg Foat - The Dreaming Jewels
Greg Ward Presents Rogue Parade - Stomping Off From Greenwood
Harish Raghavan - Calls For Action
Ishmael Ensemble - A State Of Flow
Jamie Saft Quartet - Hidden Corners
Jason McGuiness - Empyrean Tones
Jizue - Gallery
Joe Armon-Jones - Turn To Clear View
Joel Lyssarides - A Better Place
Kassa Overall - Go Get Ice Cream And Listen To Jazz
Kinkajous - Hidden Lines
Land & Quiet - Land & Quiet
Lifted - 2
Mats Eilertsen - And Then Comes The Night
Matthew Halsall - Oneness
Melodiesinfonie - A Journey To You
Nérija - Blume
Portico Quartet - Memory Streams
Ryan Porter - Force For Good
Sam Wilkes - Live On The Green
Sarathy Korwar - More Arriving
Scrimshire - Listeners
Soundwalk Collective - Mummer Love
Terri Lyne Carrington - Waiting Game
The Bad Plus - Activate Infinity
The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery / The Afterlife
The Souljazz Orchestra - Chaos Theories
Tonbruket - Masters Of Fog
Tristan De Liege - Maisha
Vieo Abiungo - The Dregs
Yonathan Avishai - Joys And Solitudes
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ICR'S BEST MODERN CLASSICAL ALBUMS 2019
Banabila & Machinefabriek - Entropia
Bendik Giske - Surrender
Clark - Kiri Variations
Daniel Thorne - Lines Of Sight
Daniel Wohl - État
Gigi Masin & Jonny Nash - Postcards From Nowhere
Hania Rani - Esja
Hauschka - A Different Forest
Jo David Meyer Lysne - Henger I Luften
Joep Beving - Henosis
John Roberts - Can Thought Exist Without The Body
Keru Not Ever - The Wind Of ?
Kid Koala - Music To Draw To: Io
Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks
Luke Abbott - Music From The Edge Of An Island
Mary Lattimore - New Rain Duets
Matthew Herbert - Gloria Bell (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Mica Levi - Monos (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Neil Cowley & Ben Lukas Boysen - Grains & Motes
Nils Frahm - All Encores
Poppy Ackroyd - Resolve Reimagined
Resina - Traces Remixes
Robert Lippok & Kaan Bulak - Kubus
Tatiana Lisovskaya - At Eternity's Gate (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe
Tigran Hamasyan - They Say Nothing Stays The Same (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Vanessa Wagner - Inland Versions
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