I Don't Hear A Single Albums Of The Year 2019 : 51 - 60

It's been difficult to get these choices down to 100. I'm also not a believer in saying one album is better than another. Most of the time you are comparing Apples To Oranges. I'm not a List person, I just think what's the point.

However, for the last couple of years I have compiled Best Of 2019, normally I just said what my favourite album of the year is. I've done it again, because these posts seem so popular and the aim of this Blog is to get exposure (and Sales) for the artists.

There is no meaning or judgement on an album that is Number 1, Number 100 or not on the list. Anything that I review on here, mention on Social Media or play on the Radio Show is as highly recommended.

I would also add that the Top 100 includes albums available as Download Only. To suggest that they are anything less than equal to a Physical release is patently nonsense and omits many wonderful albums.

I will compile a Top 20 of Reissues and Compilations combined after all this is complete. For each album, I've posted a song from it and a link to the review, where you can find further details on how to listen or buy the album.



51 Erk - When Night Meets Day       IDHAS Review








52 Big Nothing - Chris       IDHAS Review









53 Berwanger - Watching A Garden Die       IDHAS Review









54 Cabana Wear - Cabana Wear       IDHAS Review









55 Onesie - Umpteenth       IDHAS Review








56 Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - There Is No Feeling Better      IDHAS Review









57 Matthew Milia - Alone At St. Hugo      IDHAS Review









58 The Warhawks - Never Felt So Good       IDHAS Review








59 The High Strung - Quiet Riots       IDHAS Review







60 Wrinkles - Other Days       IDHAS Review







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Wrinkles - Other Days

Wrinkles offer up their second album and it is suitably wonderful. The external humour of the band has a reverse side in their material and this originality and depth is a joy. However, this ability to be so many things means that the one listen brigade are never going to get it.

The Montana five piece are also not helped by the Hipster Reviews that they get. The obscure comparisons in these reviews don't necessarily help the band, they smack of something intended to make the reviewer look arty and worldly, when really they are good at searching google.








What Wrinkles do have is one of the great front men in Jon Cardiello, He really can be anything that you want him to be. He slips between Bryan Ferry, David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and Scott Walker, but is just at home in something Poptastic.

The band's adaptability means that they can flit between Indie, Art Rock and even Prog with ease. There's even seemingly a contrariness within. For instance, the opener Afternoon is suitably brooding, but why open that when the following, Thunderstorm is so damn accessible?








This versatility and adaptability should be shouted and celebrated from the rooftops, particularly in these days when it seems to need nine people to write a three minute song. Total Control has a King Crimson feel, yet compare that to Black Jeans, which is pure Pulp or Divine Comedy.

There is so much ability and creativity contained here, that belies the band's relative youth, that Other Days demands that you give it the time needed to get it. The album will take repeated listens, but you owe it to yourself to give it that. One word sums up the album and that word is Stunning!








You can listen to and buy the album here.


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