Wet Thud: October 2019

As we enter the final quarter of 2019, Wet Thud pauses to acknowledge our favourite releases issued over the last fourth of the year. Here, gathered for you, are the ten albums, fifteen tracks, and fifteen videos we dug most during our musical scavenging throughout July, August, and September, including selections from:

A.G. COOK / ALESSIA CARA / ANDERSON .PAAK / ANGEL OLSEN / BAT FOR LASHES / BELLE AND SEBASTIAN / BEYONCÉ / BOYS NOISE / BROKEN BELLS / CAMILA CABELLO / CARLY RAE JEPSEN / CAROLINE POLACHEK / CHARLI XCX / CHANCE THE RAPPER / CHANNEL TRES / CLAIRO / DIIV / DJ SHADOW / DRAM / GALCHER LUSTWERK / GRIMES / GRYFFIN / H.E.R. / HAIM / HOLY FUCK / J. COLE / JENNY HVAL / JIA LIH / JPEGMAFIA / LANA DEL REY / LIZZO / MISSY ELLIOTT / NORMANI / PRINCESS NOKIA / RIC WILSON / ROSALÍA / SAM SMITH / SAM VEREN / SEBASTIAN / SKRILLEX / SLEATER-KINNEY / TAYLOR SWIFT / TRAVIS SCOTT / TY DOLLA $IGN / VAGABON / VELVET NEGRONI / VIVIAN GIRLS / WATT / YBN CORDAE / YOUNG THUG / THE 1975

Dig in...

#ALBUMS

Bat For Lashes Lost Girls (AWAL)

includes: "Kids In The Dark", "Feel For You", "The Hunger", "Jasmine", "Desert Man"

Beyoncé The Lion King: The Gift (Parkwood/Columbia)

includes: "Spirit", "Brown Skin Girl" f. SAINt JHN x WizKid x Blue Ivy, "Mood 4 Eva" f. Oumou Sangaré x Jay-Z x Childish Gambino

Charli XCX Charli (Asylum UK)

includes: "1999" f. Troye Sivan, "Blame It On Your Love" f. Lizzo, "Gone" f. Christine and the Queens, "Cross You Out" f. Sky Ferreira, "Warm" f. HAIM, "February 2017" f. Clairo x Yaeji, "2099" f. Troye Sivan

Chance the Rapper The Big Day (self-released)

includes: "Ballin Flossin" f. Shawn Mendes, "Do You Remember" f. Death Cab For Cutie, "Eternal" f. Smino

Clairo Immunity (FADER)

includes: "Bags", "Closer To You", "Sofia"

Jenny Hval The Practice of Love (Sacred Bones)

includes: "Ashes To Ashes", "High Alice", "Accident" f. Laura Jean

Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! (Interscope)

includes: "Mariners Apartment Complex", "Venice Bitch", "hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it", "Doin' Time", "Fuck It I Love You", "The Greatest"

Sleater-Kinney The Center Won't Hold (Mom+Pop)

includes: "Hurry On Home", "The Future Is Here", "The Center Won't Hold", "Can I Go On"

Taylor Swift Lover (self-released)

includes: "ME!" f. Brendon Urie, "You Need To Calm Down", "The Archer", "Lover"

Vivian Girls Memory (Polyvinyl)

includes: "Sick", "Something To Do", "Sludge"

#SONGS

A.G. Cook "Lifeline" (PC Music)

Alessia Cara "Ready" (Def Jam)

Belle and Sebastian "Sister Buddha" (Matador)

Broken Bells "Good Luck" (30th Century/Aural Apothecary/AWAL)

Camila Cabello "Liar" (Simco/Epic)

Channel Tres x JPEGMAFIA "Black Moses" (GODMODE)

DIIV "Skin Game" (Captured Tracks)

DJ Shadow "Rosie" (Mass Appeal/Reconstruction)

DRAM x H.E.R. x WATT "The Lay Down" (Empire/Atlantic)

Galcher Lustwerk "Cig Angel" (Ghostly)

Gryffin x Carly Rae Jepsen "OMG" (Darkroom/Geffen)

Holy Fuck "Luxe" (Last Gang)

Normani "Motivation" (Keep Cool/RCA)

Skrillex x Boys Noise x Ty Dolla $ign "Midnight Hour" (OWSLA/Atlantic)

YBN Cordae x Anderson .Paak "RNP" (Atlantic)

#VIDEOS

Angel Olsen "All Mirrors" (Jagjaguwar)
Director: Ashley Connor