New Commute Albums of the Year 2019 // New Releases

Well, here it is! The albums that kept and held our attention for the year 2019. If you prefer to administer the collection by audibly, we’ve included a Spotify playlist.

Please remember that the easiest way to show your support is to purchase the albums and to go to live shows. Glamorous as it may seem sometimes, the truth is that being a recording and touring musician or band in the Digital Age is financially difficult, mentally strenuous, and physically taxing. Buying records, tapes, t-shirts, and concert tickets from the artists whose work you admire helps them pay bills, eat healthier, visit the doctor, stay in safer places on tour, replace stolen gear, maintain tour vehicles, and fund other regular expenses. This list is designed to share the music that has resonated within the walls of the New Commute domain this year but also to entice viewers to pull out their wallet to contribute to the art that has been special to you this year. Salud!

75 Dollar Bill- I Was Real
[Thin Wrist]

Allah-Las- LAHS
[Mexican Summer]

Ami Dang- Parted Plains
[Leaving Records]

Amy O- Shell
[Winspear]

Ana Roxanne- ~​~​~
[Leaving Records]

Ancient Shapes- A Flower That Wouldn’t Bloom [You’ve Changed]

Andrew Combs- Ideal Man
[New West]

Angel Bat Dawid- The Oracle
[International Anthem]

Angel Olsen- All Mirrors
[Jagjaguwar]

Anthony Naples- Fog FM
[ANS]

Axxa/Abraxas- Get Weird Or Die Boring
[Self-released]

Badge Époque Ensemble- Badge Époque Ensemble [Telephone Explosion]

Beauty Queen- Out of Touch
[Super Fan 99]

Bedouine- Bird Songs of a Killjoy
[Spacebomb]

Bifannah- Danças Líquidas
[The John Colby Sect]

Big Supermarket- 1800
[Hobbies Galore]

Big Thief- Two Hands
[4AD]

Bill Callahan- Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
[Drag City]

Blue Material- Blue Material
[Self-released]

Brijean- Walkie Talkie
[Native Cat]

Cactus Lee- Texas Yard Sale
[709 Recording Co]

Cale Tyson- Narcissist
[Self-released]

Cate Le Bon- Reward
[Mexican Summer]

Chris Cohen- Chris Cohen
[Captured Tracks]

Chris Forsyth- All Time Present
[No Quarter]

Christelle Bofale- Swim Team
[Father/Daughter]

Cold Diamond & Mink- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow [Timmion]

Corridor- Junior
[Sub Pop]

Crumb- Jinx
[Self-released]

Damien Jurado- In The Shape Of A Storm
[Mama Bird]

Daughter of Swords- Dawnbreaker
[Nonesuch]

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Delroy Edwards- Wagon Wheels
[L.I.E.S.]

DIIV- Deceiver
[Captured Tracks]

Dire Wolves- Grow Towards The Light
[Beyond Beyond Is Beyond]

DirtBike- Season 2
[Self-released]

Divino Niño- Foam
[Winspear]

Djo- Twenty Twenty
[Self-released]

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Doug Tuttle- Dream Road
[Burger]

Drag Sounds- IV
[Self-released]

Drugdealer- Raw Honey
[Mexican Summer]

Durand Jones & The Indications- American Love Call [Dead Oceans]

Eamon Fogarty- Blue Values
[Jealous Butcher]

Filmmaker- The Love Market
[Detriti]

Floating Action- Old World Camels
[People In A Position To Know]

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Frank LoCrasto- Lost Dispatch
[Royal Potato Family]

Frankie and the Witch Fingers- ZAM
[Greenway]

Fruit Bats- Gold Past Life
[Merge]

G.S. Schray- First Appearance
[Last Resort]

Garcia Peoples- Natural Facts
[Beyond Beyond Is Beyond]

Ghost Funk Orchestra- A Song For Paul
[Colemine]

Golden Daze- Simpatico
[Autumn Tone]

Grace Cummings- Refuge Cove
[Flightless]

Greg Foat- The Mage
[Athens of the North]

Hand Habits- placeholder
[Saddle Creek]

Hannah Cohen- Welcome Home
[Bella Union]

Hayden Pedigo- Valley of the Sun
[Driftless]

Helado Negro- This Is How You Smile
[RVNG Intl.]

High Appreciation Society- The Right Side of History [Snakey Tapes]

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Hiss Golden Messenger- Terms of Surrender [Merge]

Hurt Valley- Glacial Pace
[Woodsist]

Innsyter- Magnolia Shade
[Good Morning Tapes]

ISS- Alles 3rd Gut
[Self-released]

Itasca- Spring
[Paradise of Bachelors]

JAB- Erg Herb
[Shelter Press]

Jackie Cohen- Zagg
[Spacebomb]

Jake Xerxes Fussell- Out of Sight
[Paradise of Bachelors]

Jessica Pratt- Quiet Signs
[Mexican Summer]

Joe Ghatt- Banana Sludge
[Third Eye Stimuli]

Jonathan Personne- Histoire Naturelle
[Self-released]

Jonny Kosmo- Jonny Kosmo
[Slimehouse]

Jordan Moser- Long Night
[Keeled Scales]

Joseph Shabason- Anne EP
[Western Vinyl]

Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society- Mandatory Reality
[Eremite]

Juan Wauters- Introducing Juan Pablo
[Captured Tracks]

Julian Lynch- Rat’s Spit
[Underwater Peoples]

Jungle Green- Runaway With Jungle Green
[Self-released]

Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster- Take Heart, Take Care [Big Legal Mess]

Justus Proffit- LA’s Got Me Down
[Bar/None]

Kacy & Clayton- Carrying On
[New West]

Kevin Morby- Oh My God
[Dead Oceans]

Khana Bierbood- Strangers From The Far East [Guruguru Brain]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Infest The Rats’ Nest
[Flightless]

Kit Sebastian- Mantra Moderne
[Mr. Bongo]

Lee Fields & The Expressions- It Rains Love
[Big Crown]

Lens Mozer- Don’t Stop
[Plastic Jurassic]

Little Wings- PEOPLE
[Self-released]

Lomelda- M For Empathy
[Double Double Whammy]

Lower Dens- The Competition
[Ribbon Music]

Lucille Furs- Another Land
[Requiem Pour Un Twister]

Luke Temple- Both-And
[Native Cat]

Maharadja Sweets- Something’s Been Lost
[Orange Milk]

Mattiel- Satis Factory
[Heavenly]

Mega Bog- Dolphine
[Paradise of Bachelors]

Men I Trust- Oncle Jazz
[Self-released]

Michael Nau- Less Ready To Go
[People In A Position To Know]

Michelle Blades- Visitor
[Midnight Special]

Modern Nature- How To Live
[Bella Union]

Monster Rally- Adventures on the Floating Island [Gold Robot]

N0V3L- NOVEL
[Flemish Eye]

Nick Waterhouse- Nick Waterhouse
[Innovative Leisure]

Oh Sees- Face Stabber
[Castle Face]

Olden Yolk- Living Theatre
[Trouble In Mind]

Omni- Networker
[Sub Pop]

Ornament- …As Is
[Official Memorabilia]

Orville Peck- Pony
[Sub Pop]

Pikelet- Goodbye
[Babyrace]

Powerplant- People In The Sun
[Dreamland Syndicate]

Psychic Bloom- Mysterious Temple
[Burger]

Purling Hiss- Interstellar Blue
[Drag City]

Purple Mountains- Purple Mountains
[Drag City]

Resavoir- Resavoir
[International Anthem]

RF Shannon- Rain On Dust
[Keeled Scales]

Rich Ruth- Calming Signals
[General General]

R.M.F.C.- Hive, Vol. 2
[Self-released]

Rose City Band- Rose City Band
[Thrill Jockey]

Rubber Band Gun- BLUES
[Self-released]

Ryan Pollie- Ryan Pollie
[ANTI]

Sam Cohen- The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears
[30th Century]

Sarah Louise- Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars
[Thrill Jockey]

SASAMI- SASAMI
[Domino]

Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears- Time Has Grown A Raspberry
[Self-released]

Sessa- Grandeza
[Boiled]

Shana Cleveland- Night of the Worm Moon
[Hardly Art]

Sharon Van Etten- Remind Me Tomorrow [Jagjaguwar]

Skydeck- Eureka Moment
[Burger]

Sofia Bolt- Waves
[Loantaka]

Sofia Wolfson- Adulting
[Self-released]

Star Moles- Drop Out
[Self-released]

Steve Gunn- The Unseen In Between
[Matador]

Sun Runners- Lust For Life
[Apron]

Sunwatchers- Illegal Moves
[Trouble In Mind]

T. Gold- T. Gold
[Sleepy Cat]

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The Babe Rainbow- Today
[Flightless]

The Building- PETRA
[Concord]

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The Mattson 2- Paradise
[Company]

The Murlocs- Manic Candid Episode
[Flightless]

The Mystery Lights- Too Much Tension!
[Wick]

The Proper Ornaments- 6 Lenins
[Tapete]

The Smoky Dunes- The Smoky Dunes
[Self-released]

The Stroppies- It’s A Hit!
[Tough Love]

Tim Presley’s White Fence- I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk
[Drag City]

Traffik Island- Nature Strip
[Flightless]

Trey Gruber- Herculean House of Cards
[Numero Group]

Twain- Adventure
[Keeled Scales]

TWEN- Awestruck
[Frenchkiss]

Twin Peaks- Lookout Low
[Grand Jury]

U-Bahn- U-Bahn
[Melodic]

Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising
[Sub Pop]

Whitney- Forever Turned Around
[Secretly Canadian]

William Tyler- Goes West
[Merge]

Wilson Tanner- II
[Efficient Space]

Woolen Men- Human To Human
[Dog’s Table]

World Brain- Peer 2 Peer
[Mansions And Millions]

WOW- Come La Notte
[Maple Death]

Writhing Squares- Out of the Ether
[Trouble In Mind]

Wurve- Memory Bleach
[Self-released]

Wyatt Starr- Me? A Spiritual Giant?
[Burger]

Yu Su- Roll With The Punches
[Music From Memory]

Yves Jarvis- The Same But By Different Means
[ANTI]

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