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

Wet Thud's Top 100 Songs of 2018 (Page 2: #75 - #51)

Page 1 (#100 - #76)  /  Page 3 (#50 - #26)  /  Page 4 (#25 - #1)  /  2018 Main Page

075. Anderson .Paak x Kendrick Lamar "Tints" (Aftermath)

074. Beach House "Dive" (Sub Pop)

073. Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee "Made For Now" (Rhythm Nation)

072. Mitski "Washing Machine Heart" (Dead Oceans)

071. Empress Of "I Don't Even Smoke Weed" (Terrible)

070. Smashing Pumpkins "Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)" (Napalm)

069. Car Seat Headrest "Cute Thing" (Matador)

068. Tune-Yards "Heart Attack" (4AD)

067. Belly "Shiny One" (self-released)

066. Neneh Cherry "Shotgun Shack" (Smalltown Supersound)

065. Yaeji "One More" (self-released)

064. Amber Mark "Love Me Right" (PMR)

063. Disclosure "Moonlight" (PMR)

062. Lou Phelps x Jazz Cartier "Come Inside" (Last Gang)

061. Cardi B x Kehlani "Ring" (Atlantic)

060. Chromatics "Black Walls" (Italians Do It Better)

059. Courtney Barnett "Charity" (Milk!)

058. Years & Years "Sanctify" (Polydor)

057. Anderson .Paak "Who R U?" (Aftermath)

056. Devon Welsh "By The Daylight" (You Are Accepted)

055. Professor Rhythm "Professor 3" (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

054. The 1975 "Love It If We Made It" (Dirty Hit)

053. Mitski "Nobody" (Dead Oceans)

052. David Byrne "Everybody's Coming To My House" (Todomundo/Nonesuch)

051. cupcakKe "Duck Duck Goose" (self-released)

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Wet Thud Video Flow, Volume Eight

Happy Friday, everybody. It's the end of another work week, and that means it's time to round up my favourite twenty videos from over the past seven days and assemble them here into a nice, neat little package for your viewing pleasure.


In this edition of Video Flow, you can check out new ones from The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, They Might Be Giants, and many more including not one, but two videos for R.E.M.'s soon-to-be-released farewell single. There's a very eye-catching (and probably NSFW) clip from Duck Sauce, the first solo effort from Stevie Jackson of Belle And Sebastian fame, some Johnny Depp/Ricki Lake-inspired retro nostalgia from indie favourites Man Man, and a new Cameron Crowe-directed video for Pearl Jam's 1995 single "Not For You," compiled from archival footage while producing his recent 'PJ20' documentary. All that, plus it's been about seven days since the last one, so that must mean there's another new Beyoncé video, too. (And you thought Rihanna was relentless...)


So, grab some snacks, plunk yourself down in front of your computer for the next couple of hours, and enjoy. Let's start things off with the lovely ladies of Wild Flag, who are about to encounter a baseball team made up of bears. Of course they are.

Wild Flag "Electric Band" (Merge)

Duck Sauce "Big Bad Wolf" (Fool's Gold)

The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" (Nonesuch)

Chromatics "Kill For Love" (Italians Do It Better)

Architecture In Helsinki "W.O.W." (Modular)

Jessica 6 feat. Antony Hegarty "Prisoner Of Love" (Peacefrog)

Man Man "Pirhanas Club" (Anti)

Arctic Monkeys "Evil Twin" (Domino)

Beyoncé feat. J. Cole "Party" (Columbia)

Joker feat. Jessie Ware & Freddie Gibbs "The Vision (Let Me Breathe)" (4AD)

R.E.M. "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" (Warner)

Young Galaxy "Phantoms" (Paper Bag)

Fanzine "Roman Holiday" (Fat Possum)

Memory Tapes "Offers" (Carpark)

Stevie Jackson "Feel The Morning" (self-released)

Summer Camp "Down" (Moshi Moshi)

They Might Be Giants "Marty Beller Mask" (Idlewild)

DyE "Fantasy" (Tigersushi)

Fatima Al Qadiri "Hip Hop Spa" (UNO NYC)

Pearl Jam "Not For You" (Columbia)