MAVOY MUSIC TOP 40 VIDEOS OF 2019 + TOP 30 EPs OF 2019 + MAVOY MUSIC AWARDS

BEST VIDEOS OF 2019

1. Thom Yorke – Last I Heard He Was Circling The Drain – directed by Art Camp & Saad Moosajee
2. Flying Lotus – More directed by Shinichiro Watanabe
3. The Killers – Land Of The Free dir. Spike Lee
4. Bjork – Tabula Rasa directed by Tobias Gremmler
5. Peggy Gou – Starry Night – directed by Jonas Lindstroem
6. Weyes Blood – Movies – directed by Natalie Mering
7. FKA Twigs – Cellophane – directed by Andrew Thomas Huang
8. Neneh Cherry – Natural Skin Deep directed by Crack Stevens
9. James Blake – I’ll Come Too edited by Matt Meech
10. The National - Light Years directed by Mike Mills
11. Floating Points – Last Bloom – dir. Hamill Industries
12. Hot Chip – Melody Of Love – dir. Smuggler
13. Angel Olsen – Lark – directed by Ashley Connor
14. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky - For the Sun - Debora Sheedy
15. Michael Kiwanuka – Hero – directed by CC Wade
16. Raveena – Mama – directed by Danika Kleinknecht
17. Emel Mathlouthi - Rescuer - directed by Alessandra Leone
18. Hot Chip & Superorganism – Spell (Remix) -  directed by Robert Strange
19. The Black Keys – Go – Bryan Schlam
20. These New Puritans – Inside The Rose – directed by Harley Weir
21. Maribou State – Kingdom - directed by David Horsbugh
22. Foals – Exits – directed by Albert Moya
23. Raveena – Stronger - Danica Kleinknecht
24. Weyes Blood – Everyday – directed by Natalie Mering
25. Camila Cabello – Liar – directed by Dave Meyers
26. Frankie Cosmos – Wannago – directed by Robert Kolodny
27. Active Child – Set Me Free directed by Patrick Grossi
28. Beirut – Landsline – dir. Eoin Glaister
29. Foals – In Degrees – dir. Aaron Brown
30. Heather Woods Broderick – White Tail – dir. Tracy Maurice
31. Helado Negro – Running
32. ionnalee – Open Sea self-directed with John Strandgh
33. Tamaryn – Fits Of Rage – directed by Tamaryn
34. ionnalee - Remember The Future - self-directed with John Strandgh
35. St Vincent – Masseduction
36. Skinny Pelembe – My Love Is Burning Up
37. Rustin Man - Our Tomorrows
38. Marika Hackman - The One - directed by Louis Bhose
39. Pond – Hand Mouth Dancer – directed by Elliot Arndt
40. Temples – You’re Either On Something – directed by Sam Kinsella

BEST EPs OF 2019

1. Shay Lia - Dangerous
2. The Comet Is Coming – The Afterlife
3. Joy Crookes – Perception
4. Laura Misch – Lonely City
5. Charlotte Adigery – Zandoli
6. Rhye – Spirit
7. Saint Pepsi – Mannequin Challenge
8. Celeste – Compilation 1.1
9. Girl in red – chapter 2
10. Lauren Faith – Cosmic EP
11. Beak> - Life Goes On
12. Daphni – Sizzling
13. Alex Isley – The Beauty Of Everything Part 2 / Wilton
14. Skee Mask – Iss04
15. Lone – Not Seeing Is A Flower
16. Hope Tala – Sensitive Soul
17. Tenderlonious – Think Twice
18. Arlo Parks - Sophie
19. Toro Y Moi – Smartbeats
20. Babeheaven – Suspended Animation
21. Octo Octa – For Lovers EP
22. Cathedral Bells – Cathedral Bells
23. Elvis Costello – Purse
24. Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 1
25. Egyptian Blue – Collateral Damage
26. Hańba - 1939
27. Islam Chipsy - Kahraman
28. Woodkid – Louis Vuitton Works One
29. Jackie Mendoza – LuvHz
30. Crimer - Me

ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Weyes Blood

SONG OF THE YEAR - Weyes Blood - Movies

ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

BAND OF THE YEAR – The Bad Seeds

R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Michael Kiwanuka

ELECTRONIC ARTIST – Peggy Gou

RAPPER – three awards: Little Simz, Rapsody, Kate Tempest

NEW ARTIST – Tawiah

NEW R&B ARTIST – Celeste

NEW ELECTRONIC ARTIST – Maria Usbeck

NEW BAND – Artificial Pleasure

POLISH ARTIST – Trupa Trupa

COMEBACK – Bat For Lashes

LABEL OF THE YEAR – Jagjaguwar

LYRICS OF THE YEAR – Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons

BEST CONCERT: five awards:

Chromatics, Jarvis Cocker, My Brightest Diamond, The Comet Is Coming, Weyes Blood

BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR: Prince – Beautiful Ones

BEST NON-MUSIC FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Blake Crouch – Recursion

BEST NON-MUSIC NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: David Wallace-Wells- Unheritable Earth

BEST CLASSIC BOOKS READ IN 2019 (in a marathon!):

Alan Moore – Watchmen

Arthur C Clarke - 2001

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse #5

Phillip K Dick - Ubik