Most Overrated Albums Of 2019
One of my favorite lists to write but it's always bittersweet going over some of the worst albums of the year. It's the one negative spot on an otherwise positive blog. I feel it needs to be said. People should be held accountable on some level. Most of these albums are truly awful and the worst the year had to offer. Some of them are good as denoted by the "*" below. There is no Spotify list because for the most part I don't actually want to have more people listen to them. You can definitely search for them on your own if you are curious, but don't say I didn't warn you. The decent albums can be heard on other various lists that I've already published for the year. So take a look below at what you should definitely avoid or at least proceed with caution with. It's really sad that the majority of critics loved all the below albums. This blog aims to fight against all the PR money the music industry throws at these mainstream critics. Check our other lists for that evidence. There is plenty to like that got overlooked and for more on that check back in a week for our top 50 albums of the year and our runner's up list as well. In the meantime, wade through the muck and see what I thought of the most overrated albums of the year.
* denotes an album that DID make it on one or more of our lists.
Alcest-Spiritual Instinct
Why It's Overrated: Just an incredibly boring metal album with nothing new to say. I file this under what I call "Metal for the masses" which means a very non threatening metal album that is comfortable for people who don't normally listen to metal to be able to listen to. C-
Altin Gun-Gece
Why It's Overrated: It's not horrible by any means, in fact it's pretty good but this was definitely the "world music" album every lazy critic latched onto. B
Baroness-Gold And Grey
Why It's Overrated: This band just sucks. It's basically pop metal. And every year when list time comes the shitty critics always pick this garbage. D-
Beyonce-Homecoming The Live Album
Why It's Overrated: A live Beyonce album? Fuck this. She sucks. Live albums suck for the most part so this is suckage to the power of 2. I wish Beyonce would go away. She is not some valuable cultural icon. She is a made in a marketing meeting no talent hack who has duped countless people into thinking she is the music equivalent of Oprah(Oprah sucks so they may be onto something). She really needs to go the hell away. F
Big Thief-U.F.O.F.
Why It's Overrated: I liked their more recent release from this year. This thing felt bloated, tired and really boring, for some reason all the critics are picking the shittier of the two. Go figure. C-
Black Midi-Schlagenheim
Why It's Overrated: This is the acceptable Noise Rock album of the year. This shit is boring and it's an insult to Noise Rock that you would call it that and vault it to unearned heights. D
Bon Iver-i,i
Why It's Overrated: Enough with this asshole already. He isn't a terrible producer but god damn stop making mediocre shit records. D-
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds-Ghosteen
Why It's Overrated: So his kid dies and he makes another boring ass Bad Seeds album, this time about his kid dying. Critics claimed this was emotionally heart wrenching. All I heard was overblown theatrical crap. He should retire or bring back Grinderman. F
Chai-Punk
Why It's Overrated: Might be the most annoying album of the year. For really good Asian Punk you should check out Otoboke Beaver which went virtually ignored this year but is far superior and not annoying. This shit is extremely grating and doesn't hold a candle to it's forebearers(mainly Polysics). F
Charli XCX-Charli
Why It's Overrated: She is terrible and nothing will convince me otherwise. Idiots into pop think they are edgy for liking this. They are not. F
Clairo-Immunity
Why It's Overrated: Another one for the musical equivalent of Ambien genre. Snoozefest. Also, why and how do people like this get signed seemingly every year? Yet other great bands and artists languish in obscurity? It's a great mystery. D
Fennesz-Agora
Why It's Overrated: Kind of liked this one when it came out and then it just became ridiculously boring to the point of never wanting to listen to it ever again. D
*FKA Twigs-Magdelene
Why It's Overrated: Much better than her first album but still nothing really to freak out about. She dropped the cliche modern pop beats to make something more like a singer/songwriter album which is much better. B-
Floating Points-Crush
Why It's Overrated: In my opinion the most overrated electronic producer in the game, this album didn't change that at all. F
Fontaines D.C.-Dogrel
Why It's Overrated: I don't get the hype around this bland Irish rock band. This isn't edgy or noisy it's just a boring rehash of the same shitty Post-Punk ideas that have been bubbling up ever since The Fall came into existence. C-
Freddie Gibbs And Madlib-Bandana
Why It's Overrated: Super overrated album from a third rate 2pac and Madlib who hasn't been on top of his game and instead has been resting on his laurels since 2005. D
Ariana Grande-Thank U, Next
Why It's Overrated: Come on! Ariana Grande? Best Of List? Are people that high that they consider this no talent idiot artist as good? Jesus Christ she and this sucks. F
Aldous Harding-Designer
Why It's Overrated: Insanely overrated dime a dozen Indie Folk album. Another contender for Ambien award of the year. C-
Holly Herndon-PROTO
Why It's Overrated: Cold, calculated, AI involved faceless electronic album that belongs to the high art gallery snobby asshole pretentious crowd. D
The Highwomen-Self Titled
Why It's Overrated: I wanted to like this country supergroup. I really did. Some of the songs are good and a lot of them are super cheesy bordering on Nu Country. Not great and definitely not list worthy. C-
Brittany Howard-Jaime
Why It's Overrated: It's actually not that bad but landing on tons of best of lists I have to call it that it's not that great. Just a funk influenced singer/songwriter rock album. Decent but not best of material. B-
Jenny Hval-The Practice Of Love
Why It's Overrated: Why do critics love this overrated singer? She hasn't been good for a while now. D
Carly Rae Jepson-Dedicated
Why It's Overrated: Nope this is just pop trash. She isn't artistic and this isn't good. F
Lingua Ignota-Caligula
Why It's Overrated: Really overrated Metal album that does absolutely nothing new or extreme. Just don't get it. D-
Lizzo-Cuz I Love You
Why It's Overrated: Musically it's not the worst thing ever but it is extremely overrated. I'm mostly putting this on here as a "fuck you" to her for being such an asshole to people this year. B for music/F for attitude.
Mannequin Pussy-Patience
Why It's Overrated: I'd say the worst "Punk" album released on Epitaph and one of the worst Punk albums of the year. F
*Angel Olsen-All Mirrors
Why It's Overrated: It's not terrible but it's definitely her worst album yet. It's still alright but doesn't deserve the praise it's getting. B-
Oso Oso-Basking In The Glow
Why It's Overrated: What the hell was this? Why was this the left field Indie choice of the year. So many other better options. D
Ossuarium-Living Tomb
Why It's Overrated: Just faceless Black and Death metal influenced stuff that critics fell over themselves for. What gives? D
Jai Paul-04-13 Bait Ones
Why It's Overrated: A re-release of something that sucked in the first place. Really mediocre pop crap. F
Jessica Pratt-Quiet Signs
Why It's Overrated: I always want to like her. I want her albums to be good. They all fall flat. C
75 Dollar Bill-I Was Real
Why It's Overrated: Another one of the "experimental tm" albums its ok to like. This wasn't that interesting. B-
*Slowthai-Nothing Great About Britain
Why It's Overrated: It's decent but it's also not some modern classic. Dizzee did it better. B
Solange-When I Get Home
Why It's Overrated: Whenever Solange releases an album it will definitely be on this list. She sucks. I have no idea why people like her aside from the fact she is related to Beyonce. They both make boring bland "arty" pop influenced trash. Can we stop it already? Her and her sister are the Kardashians of music. F
Tool-Fear Innoculum
Why It's Overrated: Award for biggest letdown of the decade goes to this overbloated and boring bullshit. D
Tyler The Creator-Igor
Why It's Overrated: Pretty terrible extension of what he was doing with Flower Boy(which i liked) but god damn put down the RNB influences and get to being an asshole again! D
*Vampire Weekend-Father Of The Bride
Why It's Overrated: Half of this album was excellent. The other half was unforgivably bad and boring. B-
Weyes Blood-Titanic Rising
Why It's Overrated: It's not the worst thing ever but it sure is overrated Indie Pop for people who take themselves way too seriously. B-
Nilufer Yanya-Miss Universe
Why It's Overrated: Just really bland Pop based singer/songwriter stuff. Critics loved it, I thought it was extremely average. D
*Thom Yorke-Anima
Why It's Overrated: While it is Thom's best solo album by a longshot and better than anything Radiohead has put out since Amnesiac it's still not worthy of all the praise. B-
* denotes an album that DID make it on one or more of our lists.
Alcest-Spiritual Instinct
Why It's Overrated: Just an incredibly boring metal album with nothing new to say. I file this under what I call "Metal for the masses" which means a very non threatening metal album that is comfortable for people who don't normally listen to metal to be able to listen to. C-
Altin Gun-Gece
Why It's Overrated: It's not horrible by any means, in fact it's pretty good but this was definitely the "world music" album every lazy critic latched onto. B
Baroness-Gold And Grey
Why It's Overrated: This band just sucks. It's basically pop metal. And every year when list time comes the shitty critics always pick this garbage. D-
Beyonce-Homecoming The Live Album
Why It's Overrated: A live Beyonce album? Fuck this. She sucks. Live albums suck for the most part so this is suckage to the power of 2. I wish Beyonce would go away. She is not some valuable cultural icon. She is a made in a marketing meeting no talent hack who has duped countless people into thinking she is the music equivalent of Oprah(Oprah sucks so they may be onto something). She really needs to go the hell away. F
Big Thief-U.F.O.F.
Why It's Overrated: I liked their more recent release from this year. This thing felt bloated, tired and really boring, for some reason all the critics are picking the shittier of the two. Go figure. C-
Black Midi-Schlagenheim
Why It's Overrated: This is the acceptable Noise Rock album of the year. This shit is boring and it's an insult to Noise Rock that you would call it that and vault it to unearned heights. D
Bon Iver-i,i
Why It's Overrated: Enough with this asshole already. He isn't a terrible producer but god damn stop making mediocre shit records. D-
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds-Ghosteen
Why It's Overrated: So his kid dies and he makes another boring ass Bad Seeds album, this time about his kid dying. Critics claimed this was emotionally heart wrenching. All I heard was overblown theatrical crap. He should retire or bring back Grinderman. F
Chai-Punk
Why It's Overrated: Might be the most annoying album of the year. For really good Asian Punk you should check out Otoboke Beaver which went virtually ignored this year but is far superior and not annoying. This shit is extremely grating and doesn't hold a candle to it's forebearers(mainly Polysics). F
Charli XCX-Charli
Why It's Overrated: She is terrible and nothing will convince me otherwise. Idiots into pop think they are edgy for liking this. They are not. F
Clairo-Immunity
Why It's Overrated: Another one for the musical equivalent of Ambien genre. Snoozefest. Also, why and how do people like this get signed seemingly every year? Yet other great bands and artists languish in obscurity? It's a great mystery. D
Fennesz-Agora
Why It's Overrated: Kind of liked this one when it came out and then it just became ridiculously boring to the point of never wanting to listen to it ever again. D
*FKA Twigs-Magdelene
Why It's Overrated: Much better than her first album but still nothing really to freak out about. She dropped the cliche modern pop beats to make something more like a singer/songwriter album which is much better. B-
Floating Points-Crush
Why It's Overrated: In my opinion the most overrated electronic producer in the game, this album didn't change that at all. F
Fontaines D.C.-Dogrel
Why It's Overrated: I don't get the hype around this bland Irish rock band. This isn't edgy or noisy it's just a boring rehash of the same shitty Post-Punk ideas that have been bubbling up ever since The Fall came into existence. C-
Freddie Gibbs And Madlib-Bandana
Why It's Overrated: Super overrated album from a third rate 2pac and Madlib who hasn't been on top of his game and instead has been resting on his laurels since 2005. D
Ariana Grande-Thank U, Next
Why It's Overrated: Come on! Ariana Grande? Best Of List? Are people that high that they consider this no talent idiot artist as good? Jesus Christ she and this sucks. F
Aldous Harding-Designer
Why It's Overrated: Insanely overrated dime a dozen Indie Folk album. Another contender for Ambien award of the year. C-
Holly Herndon-PROTO
Why It's Overrated: Cold, calculated, AI involved faceless electronic album that belongs to the high art gallery snobby asshole pretentious crowd. D
The Highwomen-Self Titled
Why It's Overrated: I wanted to like this country supergroup. I really did. Some of the songs are good and a lot of them are super cheesy bordering on Nu Country. Not great and definitely not list worthy. C-
Brittany Howard-Jaime
Why It's Overrated: It's actually not that bad but landing on tons of best of lists I have to call it that it's not that great. Just a funk influenced singer/songwriter rock album. Decent but not best of material. B-
Jenny Hval-The Practice Of Love
Why It's Overrated: Why do critics love this overrated singer? She hasn't been good for a while now. D
Carly Rae Jepson-Dedicated
Why It's Overrated: Nope this is just pop trash. She isn't artistic and this isn't good. F
Lingua Ignota-Caligula
Why It's Overrated: Really overrated Metal album that does absolutely nothing new or extreme. Just don't get it. D-
Lizzo-Cuz I Love You
Why It's Overrated: Musically it's not the worst thing ever but it is extremely overrated. I'm mostly putting this on here as a "fuck you" to her for being such an asshole to people this year. B for music/F for attitude.
Mannequin Pussy-Patience
Why It's Overrated: I'd say the worst "Punk" album released on Epitaph and one of the worst Punk albums of the year. F
*Angel Olsen-All Mirrors
Why It's Overrated: It's not terrible but it's definitely her worst album yet. It's still alright but doesn't deserve the praise it's getting. B-
Oso Oso-Basking In The Glow
Why It's Overrated: What the hell was this? Why was this the left field Indie choice of the year. So many other better options. D
Ossuarium-Living Tomb
Why It's Overrated: Just faceless Black and Death metal influenced stuff that critics fell over themselves for. What gives? D
Jai Paul-04-13 Bait Ones
Why It's Overrated: A re-release of something that sucked in the first place. Really mediocre pop crap. F
Jessica Pratt-Quiet Signs
Why It's Overrated: I always want to like her. I want her albums to be good. They all fall flat. C
75 Dollar Bill-I Was Real
Why It's Overrated: Another one of the "experimental tm" albums its ok to like. This wasn't that interesting. B-
*Slowthai-Nothing Great About Britain
Why It's Overrated: It's decent but it's also not some modern classic. Dizzee did it better. B
Solange-When I Get Home
Why It's Overrated: Whenever Solange releases an album it will definitely be on this list. She sucks. I have no idea why people like her aside from the fact she is related to Beyonce. They both make boring bland "arty" pop influenced trash. Can we stop it already? Her and her sister are the Kardashians of music. F
Tool-Fear Innoculum
Why It's Overrated: Award for biggest letdown of the decade goes to this overbloated and boring bullshit. D
Tyler The Creator-Igor
Why It's Overrated: Pretty terrible extension of what he was doing with Flower Boy(which i liked) but god damn put down the RNB influences and get to being an asshole again! D
*Vampire Weekend-Father Of The Bride
Why It's Overrated: Half of this album was excellent. The other half was unforgivably bad and boring. B-
Weyes Blood-Titanic Rising
Why It's Overrated: It's not the worst thing ever but it sure is overrated Indie Pop for people who take themselves way too seriously. B-
Nilufer Yanya-Miss Universe
Why It's Overrated: Just really bland Pop based singer/songwriter stuff. Critics loved it, I thought it was extremely average. D
*Thom Yorke-Anima
Why It's Overrated: While it is Thom's best solo album by a longshot and better than anything Radiohead has put out since Amnesiac it's still not worthy of all the praise. B-
Post-Punk is brilliant as are The Fall. You have just very bad taste in music clearly.
ReplyDeleteNo, most of post punk is pure bullshit. I am a musician and no musician would ever dare to say "brilliant" to any post punk work. NIN downward spiral is brilliant. Some of those post punk album were ok but brilliant is something else. I think there were some brilliant post punk songs. That's it.
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