Not in 2019, anyway. Now Posty’s as ambiguous as, well, country rap, a genre he helped to usher into the mainstream.

- Matt Miller, “I'd rather be carried by 6 before I'm judged by 12” Maxo Kream opens on “Meet Again.” The Houston rapper is one of the most concise new writers in hip-hop, and this line serves as a primer for a song that tells a vivid story about the horrors of mass incarceration that continues to tear apart at-risk communities. Arguably, that’s resulted in the future punk sound crystallised in this collaboration with hottest-of-the-hot producer Mura Masa, a man who’s been going through his own artistic existential crisis, pivoting from electronic music to guitars. “Just want to stay in the business of making you happy,” he laments as Warren Ellis’s violin kicks in.
Get excited for losing your shit to this when she tears up the road next summer, in the year that she’s already dubbed as the dawn of ‘World In Red’. - Madison Vain, If there’s a flaw with the 14th track on Solange’s remarkable 2019 LP, When I Get Home, it’s that there simply isn’t more of it. Answer: a lot like, “She’s sparkling like a fresh glass of Perrier / She’s happy like my birthday”. This rolling, bass-led track is a defiant statement of intent, Simz reminding us, simply and powerfully, that she’s a “. The artists behind the year’s best songs were teenage pop superstars who came out of nowhere (Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X), established names looking at life and music from the cusp of their thirties (Vampire Weekend, Taylor Swift), and fan favorites making major career and personal breakthroughs (Lizzo, Ariana Grande). Until now, that is.

Uncluttered and fiercely independent, ‘Boss’ summed up everything great about Simz’s third album. You’d be hard-pressed to disagree when he shrugs that he’s a “. 2019 has been a transformative year for music—one in which the established superstars kept relatively quiet, making space for promising newcomers like Lizzo, Billie Eilish, and DaBaby to command the charts.

In a nutshell: A lo-fi anthem for the aftermath of a house party gone horribly wrong.

At the time, it had been more than two years since his last album and five months since his last track, “New Patek,” went platinum. The once-in-a-generation star’s bonkers smash hit.

But there were also lighter and poppier moments on this year’s Mercury Prize-scooping record, such as the smooth jazz-meets-Afrobeats-meet-UK-rap hit ‘Location’. RD. It should have happened with 2017’s unfairly overlooked concept album ‘Stillness In Wonderland’, but the world finally caught up with ‘GREY Area’, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Life gives you lemons? There’s a twinkle in his eye when he rolls out good-natured boasts (“I could never die – I’m Chuck Norris”), half-serious, half mucking about. ‘Got To Keep On’, the finest song from stunning ninth album ‘No Geography’, saw the Brothers try their hand at a little disco number, twistingchucka-chucka guitars and adding Chic-sized bell rings into the song’s chorus. Their companion album to last year’s ‘A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’, titled ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’, is now about as delayed as Brexit.

Facebook. Will Richards, Key lyric: “My childhood was small / But I’m gonna be big.”. On the lush, inviting Petal, she leaves her album, Lucid, on a comforting and tranquil place. When to play it: As you’re racing after the partner you’ve just erroneously dumped. It also proved once again that music doesn’t need to rely on the industry’s traditional machinations to make a splash; it went viral on video creation app TikTok and broke chart records in the US. When Dua Lipa was recording her second album ‘Future Nostalgia’ earlier this year, she shared a photo of her and Nile Rodgers in the studio.

Madison Vain is a writer and editor living in New York, covering music, books, TV, and movies; prior to Esquire, she worked at Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated. We’ve all been there, babes. And as new voices claimed the spotlight, some of pop’s biggest names, from Charli XCX to Dua Lipa, continued to put out irresistible, vital earworms, as well. To prove you’ve got better moves than LeBron. Speaking to NME this year, Matty Healy said ‘People’ was written as the band fled a US show in which Matty had spoken out against gun violence and there were concerns for his safety.

At a time when the issue has become a dominate conversation in hip-hop, Kream takes a complex systemic issue and narrows it down to to its simplest, most powerful pathos. - Madison Vain, Regret over a past heroin addiction has never been so danceable.

Featuring En Vogue, it’s an irresistible tribute to the rapper’s wife, Kirsten, and the ‘90s R&B Chance grew up on.
It's the type of song that Kendall Roy wishes someone like Pusha would make for his family, but never would within the fiction of the show. Courtside at an LA Lakers game, of course. Who would have thought that affluent orchestral opening to the genius HBO show would make for a perfect hip-hop remix? RD. Playing out like Bruce Springsteen gone desert rock, ‘Seventeen’ sees Van Etten pay homage to her adopted home of NYC, where she’s lived for the past 15 years. SM. As you’re racing after the partner you’ve just erroneously dumped.

But in this song, time passing is a source of power that, with age, has given her both wisdom and clarity. Travis Scott, Metro Boomin), Maren Morris – "Common" (feat. When you’re giving yourself carpal tunnel syndrome while swiping through Tinder. When you need to giddy up and spur yourself on to success. Nightmare!

Dive right in. It was simple, perfect and potent. (Where the 2016 set enlisted the help of A-listers Pharrell and Mark Ronson, Cosmic Wind sees them pair with the likes of Bilal and Leikeli47.) This rolling, bass-led track is a defiant statement of intent, Simz reminding us, simply and powerfully, that she’s a “boss in a fucking dress”. (It has since stayed there for five consecutive weeks.) You worth way more than a Birkin”. It’s this positivity that permeates the song. When to play it: Curled up in a duvet of shame on New Year’s Day.

“Finally my heart slipped / Finally I found something new”. Not bad for a track with a, “Can’t nobody tell me nothin’ / You can’t tell me nothin’”. - Madison Vain, What do you get when you mix the easy-R&B stylings of New York City vibe-masters Lion Babe with Raekwon’s upbeat flow and a fantastical, deserted Wild West setting? By 2019, it’s all but inevitable. He makes good music. Stealthy. Kyann-Sian Williams, Key lyric: “Rejected the dotted line but not the pen / Invested in myself – that was money well-spent”. That's what he's wrestling with on the gospel rap of "Crown," a surprisingly melodic and beautiful turn for the young rapper. Production-wise the track has Blake exploring the low end in fascinating ways he’s done his entire career, while lending his sound to a more trap-focused beat. But La Onda de Juan Pablo is Wauters's first album entirely in Spanish, and “Guapa” acts like a perfect sort of escapism that was able to penetrate a tumultuous winter here in the states. As the light at the end of the tunnel comes into view. You’re cruising the city in the height of summer. but there’s someone outside that caught my eye”. “When we were making that song, me and Finneas thought nobody was going to care about it. I was just like, Yeah.” And that's how Alex G, a beloved and amorphous indie singer-songwriter, began working with a musical genius like Frank Ocean on Blonde, one of the best albums of the decade. How does one curate the thousands upon thousands of songs that will be released this year alone? Country music’s Queen of Kerosene enlisted the help of Cage the Elephant and Eric Church producer Jay Joyce for the punchy set, and that partnership finds its peak here, on this ode to ignoring your instincts. - Madison Vain, Find me more fun album than Green Balloon, the major label debut from New Orleans’ hip-hop-infused funk and soul experimentalists Tank and the Bangas. We live in a time where our incredible access to music is both a blessing and a curse. Over twinkling pianos, distorted drums and several buzzing synths, a non-rapping Tyler – with a little help from a jittery Playboi Carti and the ever-soulful croon of Charlie Wilson – implores and pleads over a heartbroken hook in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a relationship. “I can’t deny myself… Don’t need to play myself. Oh, and the meme-ready “Duh!”, before the song’s wobbly post-chorus wig-out. —Madison Vain, It was the cut that could.

A rousing battle cry that set the Dublin punks on the way to huge things, From the thunderous crash of drums that opened this song, which in turn opened.

For decades, the artist has wrapped his thoughts in intricate, perfectly formed metaphors and allegories.

HM.

Go on and give in—or better yet, get grooving. The stark ballad, which swaps her usually twitchy electro for understated piano and an ocean of atmospherics, sees her grieving the end of a relationship. Released on the day of the Global Climate strike in September, it sees the New York group chastise coal magnate Don Blankenship for his role in the destruction of the planet. When to play it: Any time you have an existential crisis about Britain’s future. Listen to our Best of 2019 playlist on Spotify. Here, we've curated the best songs of 2019 so far. e-dye t-shirts on a blissful Spring afternoon. The UK’s political hydra has grown a new, more fearsome head in the weeks following the track’s release, but ‘Deal Wiv It’ feels even more relevant post-general election, because in a place of hopelessness, it’s the sound of your happy-go-lucky mate telling you to pull yourself together. “I’ve had to deal with a lot of it over the years…” That experience adds a welcome, knowing heft to this instant classic. Sharon Van Etten surprised many fans with her gutsy rebirth on rocky fifth album ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’. Lion Babe (Hervey is the daughter of actress Vanessa Williams) have been spreading the gospel of blissed out, sexy soundtracks since their 2012 introduction but their best work arrived this year. In a nutshell: Anyone who says they saw this track coming is a liar. Bow down. It did so via brutal post-punk, a driving beat and pained vocals from drummer Ollie Judge.

The distorted echo of her screaming “. “I’m finally holding onto letting go,” heartbroken frontman Corey Taylor roars, the sort of meaningless Slipknot lyric that makes you want to fire up the JCB and drive into a wall.

When to play it: As you grab your placard and start marching for change. - Madison Vain, One of the greatest benefits to the rise of streaming is an evening out of the playing field.

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