Blogovision 2019, no.02: FKA twigs - Magdalene

And I, just want to feel you're there
And I don't want to have to share our love
I try, but I get overwhelmed
When you're gone I have no one to tell
And I, just want to feel you're there
And I don't want to have to share our love
I try but I get overwhelmed
All wrapped in cellophane, the feelings that we had

Lyrics from Cellophane by FKA twigs, from her album Magdalene

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.03: Röyksopp - The Inevitable End

This will be my monument

This will be a beacon when I'm gone

So that when the moment comes,

I can say I did it all with love

Lyrics from Monument, by Röyksopp, from the album The Inevitable End

Blogovision 2019, no.03: James Blake - Assume Form

And the world before I met you
I can't remember now, what was that like? 
Because you, you're so beautiful
There is no part of you that I dislike
Oh what would I do without you?

Lyrics from Barefoot In The Park by James Blake, from his album Assume Form

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade no.04: Dead Can Dance - Dionysus

Listen to The Mountain

by Dead Can Dance

from their album Dionysus

Blogovision 2019, no.04: Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Some people feel what some people don't
Some people watch until they explode
The meaning of life doesn't seem to shine like that screen

Put me in a movie and everyone will know me
You'll be the star you know you are
The movies I watched when I was a kid
The hopes and the dreams
Don't give credit to the real things
I love the movies

Lyrics from Movies by Weyes Blood, from her album Titanic Rising

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade no.05: David Bowie - Blackstar

Something happened on the day he died

Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside

Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried:

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)

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How many times does an angel fall?

How many people lie instead of talking tall?

He trod on sacred ground, he cried aloud into the crowd

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar)

Lyrics from Blackstar by David Bowie from his album Blackstar

Blogovision 2019, no.05: Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls

Oh, I love ya
I feel for you
Ah-ah-ah-ah, oh
Oh, I love ya
I feel for you
Ah-ah-ah-ah

Lyrics from Feel For You by Bat For Lashes, from her album Lost Girls

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.06: Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

Come on Joe, just 22 to go,
come on Joe, just 22 to go.
Come on Joe, just you and the Eskimos,
Come on now, just 22 to go.
Come on now, just 22 to go,
Let me hear your 50 words for snow.
29 creaky-creaky
30 psychohail
31 whippoccino
32 shimmerglisten
33 Zhivagodamarbletash
34 sorbetdeluge
35 sleetspoot'n

Lyrics from 50 Words For Snow by Kate Bush, from her album 50 Words For Snow

Blogovision 2019, no.06: Vampire Weekend - Father Of The Bride

Baby I know hate
Is always waiting at the gate;
I just thought we'd locked the gate when we left in the morning.
And I was told that war
Is how we landed on these shores;
I just thought the drums of war'd be louder warnings.

Lyrics from This Life by Vampire Weekend, from the album Father Of The Bride

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.07: The Irrepressibles - Nude

If I asked you now
Will you be my prince
Will you lay down your armour
And be with me forever
When you open me
All the power in me moves
How you want to see
All the depths of me real
When you open me
All the power in me moves
I feel real

Lyrics from Two Men In Love by The Irrepressibles, from their album Nude

Blogovision 2019, no.07: Cigarettes After Sex - Cry

Back when you were far away
We would go on dates to watch the same movie
And you were imagining sitting next to me
Holding my hand for the whole thing

Lyrics from Falling In Love by Cigarettes After Sex, from their album Cry

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.08: The National - High Violet

And I won't follow you

Into the rabbit hole

I said I would, but then I saw your shivered bones

They didn't want me to

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It takes an ocean not to break

Lyrics from Terrible Love by The National, from their album High Violet

Blogovision 2019, no.08: Orville Peck - Pony

Time goes by I wanna rise up

And I know why things change

And I know why I stay the same

Some say I should learn to cry

But I only learned how to fly

And I know everything must die

But nothing fades like the light

Lyrics from Nothing Fades Like The Light by Orville Peck, from his album Pony

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.09: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Everybody dancing on the floor

Can't do any more anymore

Everybody on the floor

Yeah, come on

Lose yourself to dance

Lyrics from Lose Yourself To Dance by Daft Punk, from their album Random Access Memories

Blogovision 2019, no.09: Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

Explicit as ever, vicious as ever

Christian and clever, diss it dismiss it this is just better

Vision is better

Making high art

But high art can't revive hearts

I'ma do this God talk

Don't need a pity party, my people pity your party

The party I'm a part of imparts partials of pardons

Can't pick apart any part of the pick don't want no part with it

I played a artist, now pardon, I brought my partners in

I think I know what we revealing

Life is over, easy

Everybody's shell cracked

I holdin my dignity never said that

We got bigger fish to fry, know when to scale back

Lyrics from Tempo by Lizzo, from her album Cuz I Love You

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.10: Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

With every generation comes
Another memory lapse
See the demonstrations of
Failing to learn from our past
We live in the dreamtime
Nothing seems to last
Can you really plan a future
When you no longer have a past

Memories fall from the trees
Amnesia

Lyrics from Amnesia by Dead Can Dance, from their album Anastasis 

Blogovision 2019, no.10: Chrissie Hynde - Valve Bone Woe

I'm a fool to want you

To want a love that can't be true

A love that's there for others too

I'm a fool to hold you

Such a fool to hold you

To seek a kiss not mine alone

To share a kiss that Devil has known

Lyrics from I’m A Fool To Want You by Chrissie Hynde, from her album Valve Bone Woe

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.11: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

But I am the greatest motherfucker that you're ever gonna meet

From the top of my head, down to the tips of the toes on my feet

So go ahead and love me while it's still a crime

And don't forget, you could be laughing sixty-five percent more of the time

You could be laughing sixty-five percent more of the time

Lyrics from GMF by John Grant, from his album Pale Green Ghosts

Blogovision 2019, no.11: Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell

So I moved to California‚ but it's just a state of mind
It  turns out everywhere you go‚ you take yourself‚ that's not a lie
Wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine
It's killing me slowly

Dream a little dream of me
Make  me into something sweet
Turn the radio on, dancing to a pop song
Fuck it, I love you

Lyrics from Fuck It, I Love You, by Lana Del Rey, from her album Norman Fucking Rockwell

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.12: Tame Impala - Currents

Once again, as it takes a hold
I am aware I'm not in control
You see, I have a conscience and it's never fooled
But it's prone to be overruled
You wanna know what I always think I'm bind by
You never accept defeat or let it slide
But I have no voice if I don't speak my mind
My weakness is the source of all my pride, I'll tell you why

Lyrics from Cause I'm A Man by Tame Impala, from the album Currents

Blogovision 2019, no.12: Sudan Archives - Athena

I fell down
And started
Back up then seal the feeling
I’m too unique to kneel
I washed away my fears
And trust in my own ears
My own regret revealed

There is a place that I call home
But it's not where I am welcome
And if I saw all the angels
Why is my presence so painful?

Lyrics from Confessions by Sudan Archives, from her album Athena

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.13: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

Standing on the shore, facing east

I can't feel you

Standing on the shore, facing east

Your impermanence

You're taking water

Listing lazily out of view

I remember when we were friends

I remember calling you friend

Lyrics from How Do You Sleep? by LCD Soundsystem

from their album American Dream

Blogovision 2019, no.13: Brittany Howard - Jamie

'Cause where I come from
Everybody frowns and walks around
With that ugly thing on their face
And where I come from
We work hard and grind and hustle all day
(Yes, we do)
There comes a time, there comes a time
At night, where we get to play
And we smile and laugh and jump and clap
And yell and holler and just feel great

Lyrics from Stay High by Brittany Howard, from her album Jamie

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.14: Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

Cause the night calls me
When the wind, leads, behind the world
But we hold, hold, hold it down
Oh we hold, hold, hold it down
Cause the night calls for
Suzanne and I
We will rise

Lyrics from Suzanne And I by Anna Calvi, from her album Anna Calvi

Blogovision 2019, no.14: Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!

I like you better when you see me less
I like me better when I’m not so stressed
We could do it like Frida, we could build a bridge then
I could come see ya, just not where I live
Don't get me wrong, I'm not scared of lovin' ya
Multiply my sides, I need a lot of area
A savior is not what I'm seeking
I'm god enough and you be believing
In miracles in a city so cold
You're the holy book I can lay my hands on

Lyrics from Frida by Jamila Woods, from her album Legacy! Legacy!

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.15: Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting

I've acquired a taste for silence
Darkness fills my heart with calmness
And each thought like a thief is driven
To steal the night air from the heavens

Lyrics from Night Air by Jamie Woon, from his album Mirrorwriting 

Blogovision 2019, no.15: Larry Gus - Subservient

Total Diseases (Subservience) by Larry Gus, from his album Subservient 

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.16: SOHN - Tremors

I died a week ago

There's nothing left

It's caught on video

The very last breath

In time an avalanche

Will cave in on mines

Covering all evidence

The very last time

All this fuss over nothing

Reinventing the wheel

All this searching for something that's not real

Lyrics from The Wheel by SOHN, from his album Tremors

Blogovision 2019, no.16: Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains

Friends are warmer than gold when you're old
And keeping them is harder than you might suppose
Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go
Some of them were once people I was happy to know

Lyrics from All My Happiness Is Gone by Purple Mountains from the album Purple Mountains

Blogovision 2019, top-20 albums of the decade, no.17: ANOHNI - Hopelessness

Crisis

If I killed your father

With a drone bomb

How would hher

With a drone bomb

How would you feel?

Father

If I killed your children

With a drone bomb

How would you feel?

Crisis

If I tortured your brother

In Guantanamo

I’m sorry

Lyrics from Crisis by Anohni from her album Hopelessness

Blogovision 2019, no.17: Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

No one's easy to love
Don't look down, my dear, don’t be surprised
No one’s easy to love
Don't look back, my dear, just say you tried

Lyrics from No One’s Easy To Love by Sharon Van Etten, from her album Remind Me Tomorrow 

Blogovision 2019, Top-20 albums of the decade, no.18: James Blake - James Blake

I don’t know about my love
I don’t know about my loving anymore
All that I know is
I’m loving, falling, loving, loving
Might as well love you

Lyrics from The Wilhelm Scream by James Blake, from his album James Blake

Blogovision 2019, no.18: The Ballet - Matchy Matchy

 But I’m A Top, by The Ballet, from their album Matchy Matchy

Blogovision 2019, top-20 albums of the decade, no.19: Caribou - Swim

You got to make the change

I can't take you no more

These things you know

Lyrics from Jamelia by Caribou, from his album Swim