Wet Thud: January 2020

THE 1975 / ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD / ANGEL OLSEN / BECK / BIG FREEDIA / BILLIE EILISH / BON IVER / CARIBOU / COLDPLAY / DANNY BROWN / DESTROYER / DIIV / DRAKE / EARL SWEATSHIRT / EMPRESS OF / FKA TWIGS / GUCCI MANE / HAIM / HARRY STYLES / ICONA POP / J BALVIN / JAMES BLAKE / JESSIE REYEZ / KAYTRANADA / KITO / LANA DEL REY / LIZZO / MEGAN THEE STALLION / MIGUEL / THE NATIONAL / NEON INDIAN / NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS / NILÜFER YANYA / PORCHES / SOCCER MOMMY / STELLA DONNELLY / TAME IMPALA / TRAVIS SCOTT / TYLER, THE CREATOR / VAGABON / THE WEEKND / WILCO

Most of our favourites from the final quarter of 2019 have already been covered in our year-end lists, but in the interest of consistency (and satisfying our completist nature), here are ten albums, ten standalone tracks, and twenty music videos that tickled the fancy of Wet Thud during the year's closing months.

# ALBUMS

Angel Olsen All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)

includes: "All Mirrors," "Lark," "New Love Cassette"

Beck Hyperspace (Fonograf)

includes: "Uneventful Days," "Hyperlife," "Dark Places," "Everlasting Nothing"

Coldplay Everyday Life (Parlophone)

includes: "Orphans," "Arabesque," "Everyday Life," "Champion Of The World," "Daddy"

Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ (Warp)

includes: "Dirty Laundry," "Best Life," "3 Tearz" f. Run The Jewels, "Negro Spiritual" f. JPEGMAFIA

DIIV Deceiver (Captured Tracks)

includes: "Skin Game," "Taker," "Blankenship," "Horsehead"

FKA twigs MAGDALENE (Young Turks)

includes: "cellophane," "holy terrain" f. Future, "home with you," "sad day"

Harry Styles Fine Line (Erskine/Columbia)

includes: "Lights Up," "Watermelon Sugar," "Adore You"

KAYTRANADA BUBBA (self-released)

includes: "10%" f. Kali Uchis, "What You Need" f. Charlotte Day Wilson, "Oh No" f. Estelle, "Freefall" f. Durand Bernarr, "2 The Music" f. Iman Omari, "Vex Oh" f. GoldLink, Eight9fly and Ari PenSmith, "The Worst In Me" f. Tinashe, "Need It" f. Masego, "Culture" f. Teedra Moses

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Ghosteen (self-released)

includes: "Galleon Ship," "Spinning Song"

Vagabon Vagabon (Nonesuch)

includes: "Every Woman," "Water Me Down," "Flood"

#SONGS

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "Don't Look Down" (Dine Alone)

Caribou "Home" (Merge)

Destroyer "Crimson Tide" (Merge)

Earl Sweatshirt "EAST" (Tan Cressida/Warner)

Gucci Mane f. Megan Thee Stallion "Big Booty" (Atlantic)

Kito f. Empress Of "Wild Girl" (UMG)

Miguel "Funeral" (ByStorm/RCA)

Porches "rangerover" (Domino)

Tame Impala "It Might Be Time" (Modular)

Tyler, the Creator "EARFQUAKE [Channel Tres remix]" (Columbia)

#VIDEOS

The 1975 "Frail State Of Mind" (Dirty Hit/Polydor)
Directors: Matty Healy, Patricia Villirillo & Mara Palena