2019 First Quarter Recap

Photo: Channel Tres, Rebel, Toronto, CANADA, March 14, 2019.

...And just like that, we're back. With genuine apologies for our unannounced absence over the past three months, Wet Thud returns with a recap of our favourite albums, songs, and videos that dropped during the first quarter of 2019.

Below, you'll find our favourite ten albums, fifteen songs, and fifteen videos released throughout January, February, and March, including contributions from the following artists:

ALEX LAHEY / ANOHNI / ARIANA GRANDE / BECK / BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER / BILLIE EILISH / CARLY RAE JEPSEN / CHANNEL TRES / CHARLY BLISS / CHROMATICS / CLEO SOL / DEERHUNTER / THE DRUMS / EMPRESS OF / FLUME / FOALS / GESAFFELSTEIN / GIRLPOOL / HATCHIE / INTERPOL / JAMES BLAKE / JENNY LEWIS / JESSIE WARE / JIM-E STACK / JPEGMAFIA / KH / KINDNESS / LAMBCHOP / LANA DEL REY / LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS / LITTLE SIMZ / LIZZO / THE LONELY ISLAND / MORMOR / NAKHANE / NILÜFER YANYA / PERFUME GENIUS / PHARRELL WILLIAMS / PRINCE INNOCENCE / PUP / ROBYN / SASAMI / SHARON VAN ETTEN / SOLANGE / TAME IMPALA / THEOPHILUS LONDON / VAMPIRE WEEKEND / WEYES BLOOD

Dig in.




ALBUMS

James Blake Assume Form (Polydor)

Includes: "Barefoot In The Park" f. ROSALÍA, "Mile High" f. Metro Boomin x Travis Scott, "Where's The Catch?" f. André 3000

Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD)

Includes: "Death In Midsummer," "Element," "Greenpoint Gothic," "Plains"

Girlpool What Chaos Is Imaginary (Anti-)

Includes: "Lucy's," "Pretty," "Hire," "Where You Sink"

Ariana Grande thank u, next (Republic)

Includes: "thank u, next," "imagine," "7 rings," "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored"

Lambchop This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You) (Merge)

Includes: "The December-ish You," "Everything For You," "Crosswords, or What This Says About You"

Jenny Lewis On The Line (Warner)

Includes: "Red Bull & Hennessy," "Heads Gonna Roll," "Wasted Youth"

SASAMI SASAMI (Domino)

Includes: "Not The Time," "Callous," "Jealousy," "Free" f. Devendra Banhart

Solange When I Get Home (Columbia)

Includes: "Almeda," "Binz," "Stay Flo," "Dreams"

Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguwar)

Includes: "Comeback Kid," "Jupiter 4," "No One's Easy To Love," "Seventeen," "You Shadow"

Nilüfer Yanya Miss Universe (ATO)

Includes: "Heavyweight Champion Of The Year," "In Your Head," "Tears," "Safety Net"

SONGS

Beck x Robyn x The Lonely Island "Super Cool" (WaterTower)

Channel Tres "Brilliant Nigga" (GODMODE)

Lana Del Rey "hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it" (Polydor UK)

The Drums "Body Chemistry," "626 Bedford Avenue" (Anti)

Billie Eilish "When I Was Older" (Darkroom/Interscope)

Flume x JPEGMAFIA "How To Build A Relationship" (Future Classic)

Gesaffelstein x Pharrell Williams "Blast Off" (Columbia)

Interpol "Fine Mess" (Matador)

KH "Only Human" (Text)

Kindness "Cry Everything" (Female Energy)

Theophilus London x Tame Impala "Whiplash" (my bebey/independently popular)

Perfume Genius x Empress Of x Jim-E Stack "When I'm With Him" (Terrible)

Prince Innocence "Noches" (self-released)

Tame Impala "Patience" (Modular)

Jessie Ware "Adore You" (PMR/Virgin EMI)

VIDEOS

Better Oblivion Community Center "Dylan Thomas" (Dead Oceans)

Director: Michelle Zauner

Charly Bliss "Capacity" (Barsuk)

Director: Michelle Zauner

Chromatics "Time Rider" (Italians Do It Better)

Directors: Chromatics

Lee Fields & The Expressions "It Rains Love" (Big Crown)

Director: Lee Fields

Foals "Exits" (Warner UK)

Director: Albert Moya

Hatchie "Without A Blush" (Double Double Whammy)

Director: Joe Agius

Carly Rae Jepsen "Now That I Found You" (604)

Directors: Carlos Lopez Estrada x Nelson de Castro

Alex Lahey "Don't Be So Hard On Yourself" (Dead Oceans)

Director: Callum Preston

Little Simz x Cleo Sol "Selfish" (AGE 101)

Director: Jeremy Ngatho Cole

Lizzo "Juice" (Nice Life/Atlantic)

Director: Quinn Wilson

MorMor "Outside" (Don't Guess)

Director: Duncan Loudon

Nakhane x ANOHNI "New Brighton" (Kimhab Trading)

Director: Iggy LDN

PUP "Kids" (Little Dipper)

Director: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux

Vampire Weekend "Harmony Hall" (Spring Snow)

Director: Emmett Malloy

Weyes Blood "Everyday" (Sub Pop)

Director: Natalie Mering