Presenting our favorite songs of 2019:
As always, songs that we released on Luminelle were not considered for this list, but we dropped some bangers. A few other notes: "Mariners Apartment Complex" was probably my actual favorite song of the year, but it was released as a single in 2018, and made our list last year...
We're psyched to premiere the video for this smoldering, undeniably cinematic torch song from native Angeleno August Eve, taken from her stellar new self-released double A-side single. "You Already Know" is a timeless and sweepingly romantic pop ballad, falling somewhere in the lineage of classic, swooning girl-group melodrama meets modern Lynchian noir...
Lana Del Rey shares a stark piano ballad from Norman Fucking Rockwell, featuring one lyric that seems to reference her battle with depression and a 1947 film, but that some youtube commenters and others are interpreting to be a thinly veiled shot at Azealia Banks:
Well this was unexpected. In advance of her forthcoming North American tour, Carla Dal Forno just shared a haunted, stark cover of Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness", taken from Dal Forno's 2018 tour-only Top of the Pops cassette. Listen below: