The gothic set, which bowed at No.1 on the Billboard 200, became the third most-streamed LP ever for a female artist. When 17-year-old Billie Eilish released When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, her lauded major label debut, in April, she made history. (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.) Bump this at your next sunset soiree. The arrangements have loosened, the collaborators lists grown more obscure, the willingness to explore out-there sounds heightened. Their songs rarely beg for a dance floor-tracks meander more than explode-and now newly released from a major label contract, they also feel less in pursuit of hit-status. 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. 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? The best song off the duo of singer Jillian Hervey and producer Lucas Goodman’s second LP, Cosmic Wind, and one of the grooviest cuts of 2019, that’s what. Listen to our Best of 2019 playlist on Spotify. Here, we've curated the best songs of 2019 so far.
How does one curate the thousands upon thousands of songs that will be released this year alone? Thankfully, we're pretty much tethered to our headphones most waking hours listening to all the latest tracks from the best and least known artists of today. We live in a time where our incredible access to music is both a blessing and a curse. There you are, with access to something like 105 million hours of music and it's so difficult to choose just one song. This is the year Kanye became a sleazy televangelist while Lil Nas X challenged genre lines with “Old Town Road.” It's a lot to take in, and we wouldn't blame you for having a certain amount of panic when you stare at a blank search bar on Spotify. Eilish herself has had such a massive debut in 2019, it’s easy to feel only a few months after her debut album that she’s been famous for years. 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. That song, with its references to depression, feels pointedly personal on an album that mostly keeps its emotional distance through broadly drawn relationship dynamics.Since we’ve already considered the best music of the decade and the best albums of 2019, it’s time to narrow the scope a little bit and discuss the individual tracks that mattered this calendar year. He raspily sing-raps about trust issues brought on by his fame (Switch), muses on his ideal woman (Down Girl), the shallow aspects of social media (Got Me) and his own toxicity in relationships (Menace). Waking At Dawn briefly indulges in playful, flirtatious vibes with the tongue-twisted You Love It and reggae-pop tune Gwan Big Up Urself before going into full-on anxiety mode. Woods (born Denzel Spencer) introduced his sound on last year’s Exis EP, and not a lot has changed thematically or tonally. Self-medication is a recurring theme in the 20-year-old Brampton rapper/singer’s music, which emphasizes numbness and emotional confusion, using a minimal sonic palette that leans heavily on sub-bass and neutral synth tones. The debut full-length from the youngest act signed to Drake’s OVO Sound label opens with Sonic Boom, a song that references Xanax, weed and alcohol in the first few lines.
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