The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
1 |  | III by: The Lumineers   | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:    |
2 |  | Take Good Care by: The Revivalists | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
3 |  | Free Yourself Up by: Lake Street Dive | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:   |
4 |  | Delta by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
5 |  | Daylight by: Grace Potter | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
6 |  | Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent by: Lewis Capaldi | Label: Vertigo Berlin Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
7 |  | Father of the Bride by: Vampire Weekend | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
8 |  | Jade Bird by: Jade Bird | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
9 |  | I Am Easy to Find by: The National | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
10 |  | By Blood by: Shovels & Rope | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
11 |  | In the Morse Code of Brake Lights by: The New Pornographers | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
12 |  | Jaime by: Brittany Howard | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
13 |  | Help Us Stranger by: The Raconteurs | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
14 |  | Egypt Station by: Paul McCartney | Label: Capitol Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
15 |  | Black Pumas (Deluxe) by: Black Pumas | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
16 |  | Thrilled to Be Here by: Bailen | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
17 |  | Violet Street by: Local Natives | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
18 |  | Gold by: Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
19 |  | Wasteland, Baby! by: Hozier | Label: Rubyworks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
20 |  | The Unseen in Between by: Steve Gunn | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
21 |  | Look Alive by: Guster | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
22 |  | WARM by: Jeff Tweedy | Label: dBpm Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
23 |  | Things Are Looking Up by: The Walk-a-Bout | Label: Ridge Hill Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
24 |  | Remind Me Tomorrow by: Sharon Van Etten | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
25 |  | SOUND & FURY by: Sturgill Simpson | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
26 |  | Hyperspace by: Beck | Label: Capital Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
27 |  | The Modern Lives Vol. 2 by: Jackie Greene | Label: Blue Rose Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
28 |  | On the Line by: Jenny Lewis | Label: Warner Bros. Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
29 |  | Thank You for Today by: Death Cab for Cutie | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
30 |  | Chorus by: The Mother Hips | Label: Blue Rose Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
31 |  | Last Surviving Son by: David Gelman | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
32 |  | Mint by: Alice Merton | Label: Paper Plane Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
33 |  | My Finest Work Yet by: Andrew Bird | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
34 |  | Heard It in a Past Life by: Maggie Rogers | Label: Debay Sounds Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
35 |  | Nina Cried Power by: Hozier | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
36 |  | Sidewalk Astronomy by: Clare Means | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
37 |  | Living Mirage by: The Head and The Heart | Label: Warner Brothers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
38 |  | Secondhand Smoke by: Sean McConnell | Label: Big Picnic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
39 |  | Social Cues by: Cage the Elephant | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
40 |  | Busted Jukebox, Vol. 2 by: Shovels & Rope | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
41 |  | Nick Waterhouse by: Nick Waterhouse | Label: Innovative Leisure Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
42 |  | Mirror Master by: Young The Giant | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
43 |  | Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost by: Foals | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
44 |  | Oh My God by: Kevin Morby | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
45 |  | Young Sick Camellia by: St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Label: Columbia Red Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
46 |  | In Waves by: Bay Ledges | Label: S-Curve Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
47 |  | Carrie & Lowell by: Sufjan Stevens | Label: Asthmatic Kitty Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
48 |  | Everyday Life by: Coldplay | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
49 |  | Watching It All Fall Apart by: Fruition | Label: Lohi Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
50 |  | All Mirrors by: Angel Olsen | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
51 |  | Wanderer by: Cat Power | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
52 |  | Staying at Tamara's by: George Ezra | Label: Sony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
53 |  | Bottle It in by: Kurt Vile | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
54 |  | Cause and Effect by: Keane | Label: Island Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
55 |  | Stone for Stone by: Cancion Franklin | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
56 |  | C'est La Vie by: Phosphorescent | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
57 |  | Outer Peace by: Toro Y Moi | Label: Carpark Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
58 |  | Politics of Living by: Kodaline | Label: Sony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
59 |  | Better Oblivion Community Center by: Better Oblivion Community Center | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
60 |  | Press by: Flora Cash | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
61 |  | Low Down Ways by: Daddy Long Legs | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
62 |  | Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? by: Deerhunter | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
63 |  | Lights by: Heather Kropf  | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
64 |  | Lux Prima by: Karen O | Label: BMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
65 |  | Keepsake by: Hatchie | Label: Double Double Whammy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
66 |  | Mystic Truth by: Bad Suns | Label: Epitaph Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
67 |  | Bon Iver by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
68 |  | FEVER DREAM by: Of Monsters and Men | Label: Republic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
69 |  | Power by: Seratones | Label: Nine West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
70 |  | Busyhead by: Noah Kahan | Label: Republic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
71 |  | Karaoke Angel by: Molly Sarle | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
72 |  | Phoenix by: Pedro the Lion | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
73 |  | Mt. Joy by: Mt. Joy | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
74 |  | The Atlas Underground by: Tom Morello | Label: MOM + POP Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
75 |  | Anak Ko by: Jay Som | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
76 |  | You Deserve Love by: White Reaper | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
77 |  | I,i by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
78 |  | Fishing for Fishies by: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
79 |  | Babel by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Universal Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
80 |  | Fongola by: KOKOKO! | Label: Transgressive Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
81 |  | Everything I Could Never Say... by: lovelytheband | Label: Another Century Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
82 |  | Duck by: Kaiser Chiefs | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
83 |  | Without Fear by: Dermot Kennedy | Label: UMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
84 |  | Doom Days by: Bastille | Label: Virgin Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
85 |  | In the Land of by: Wintersleep | Label: Dine Alone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
86 |  | Fooled Again by: Teresa Eggertsen Cooke | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
87 |  | Upside Down Flowers by: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
88 |  | Sigh No More by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
89 |  | Titanic Rising by: Weyes Blood | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
90 |  | Already Ready Already by: Galactic | Label: Tchoup-zilla Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
91 |  | Adult by: Walker Lukens | Label: Modern Outsider Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
92 |  | Sin by: John Floreani | Label: Hopeless Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
93 |  | Shadowboxer by: Mansionair | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
94 |  | All Damn Day by: Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters | Label: Eastwood Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
95 |  | Treble Makers by: Treble Makers | Label: Unknown Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
96 |  | Gallipoli by: Beirut | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
97 |  | Salt by: Angie McMahon | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
98 |  | Wide Awake by: Rayland Baxter | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
99 |  | All Your Favorite Bands by: Dawes | Label: HUB Records Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
100 |  | True Care by: James Vincent McMorrow | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
101 |  | First Taste by: Ty Segall | Label: Drag City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
102 |  | Expectations by: Wild Child | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
103 |  | Let's Try the After (Vol. 1) by: Broken Social Scene | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
104 |  | Feels Like Love by: Chrysta Bell | Label: Meta Hari Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
105 |  | South of Reality by: The Claypool Lennon Delirium | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
106 |  | Suck on Light by: Boy & Bear | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
107 |  | Cheers by: The Wild Reeds | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
108 |  | Designer by: Aldous Harding | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
109 |  | Ghosteen by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
110 |  | Mayonnaise by: Deer Tick | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
111 |  | Add by: Keller Williams | Label: Freeky Disc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
112 |  | Why You So Crazy by: The Dandy Warhols | Label: Dine Alone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
113 |  | Crushing by: Julia Jacklin | Label: Transgressive Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
114 |  | How To: Friend, Love, Freefall by: Rainbow Kitten Surprise | Label: Elektra Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
115 |  | Goodnight Rhonda Lee by: Nicole Atkins | Label: Single Lock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
116 |  | Performance by: White Denim | Label: City Slang Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
117 |  | Highway Hypnosis by: Sneaks | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
118 |  | Waver by: Royal Canoe | Label: Paper Bag Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
119 |  | Invisible by: Son Little | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
120 |  | Night of the Worm Moon by: Shana Cleveland | Label: Hardly Art Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
121 |  | Part of the Light by: Ray LaMontagne | Label: Sony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
122 |  | When I Wake Up by: Maverick Sabre | Label: FAMM Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
123 |  | For the Morning by: Tyler Ramsey | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
124 |  | First Flower by: Molly Burch | Label: Captured Tracks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
125 |  | Witness by: Benjamin Booker | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
126 |  | Oh Alright by: Lily Vakili Band | Label: SoundKlaxon Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
127 |  | Half the City by: St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Label: Single Lock Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
128 |  | Gold Past Life by: Fruit Bats | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
129 |  | Building Balance by: Allen Stone | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
130 |  | Zeppelin over China by: Guided By Voices | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
131 |  | Tell Me How You Really Feel by: Courtney Barnett | Label: Mom+Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
132 |  | Myth of a Man by: Night Beats | Label: Heavenly Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
133 |  | Silences by: Adia Victoria | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
134 |  | Natural Disguise by: HalfNoise | Label: Congrats Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
135 |  | Do No Harm by: The Deer | Label: Keeled Scales Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
136 |  | Absolute Zero by: Bruce Hornsby | Label: Zappo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
137 |  | Loner by: Caroline Rose | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
138 |  | Ahomale by: Combo Chimbita | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
139 |  | Critical Equation by: Dr. Dog | Label: We Buy Gold Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
140 |  | Broken Bells by: Broken Bells | Label: Sony Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
141 |  | Showboat Honey by: Kyle Craft | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
142 |  | The Now Now by: Gorillaz | Label: Parlophone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
143 |  | Wave by: Patrick Watson | Label: Secret City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
144 |  | Meditations by: Yoke Lore | Label: Yellhouse Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
145 |  | So That You Might Hear Me by: Bear's Den | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
146 |  | Future Ruins by: Swervedriver | Label: Dangerbird Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
147 |  | When I'm Alone: the Piano Retrospective by: Lissie | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
148 |  | Two Sides to Every Story by: Allan Thomas | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
149 |  | Part 2 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost by: Foals | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
150 |  | Jupiter Sidecar by: The Shelters | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
151 |  | Foxwarren by: Foxwarren | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
152 |  | Changes by: Neal Francis | Label: Karma Chief Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
153 |  | Eraserland by: Strand of Oaks | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
154 |  | The Stories We Tell Ourselves by: Nothing More | Label: Eleven Seven Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
155 |  | Fuzzybrain by: Dayglow | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
156 |  | Signal by: Automatic | Label: Stones Throw Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
157 |  | Ameri'kana by: Making Movies | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
158 |  | And Nothing Hurt by: Spiritualized | Label: Fat Possum Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
159 |  | Elastic Days by: J Mascis | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
160 |  | Sweet Unknown by: Erika Wennerstrom | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
161 |  | How Did We Get So Dark? by: Royal Blood | Label: Warner Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
162 |  | Lover by: Noah Gunderson | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
163 |  | Bird Songs of a Killjoy by: Bedouine | Label: Spacebomb Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
164 |  | Purple Mountains by: Purple Mountains | Label: Drag City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
165 |  | Rarest of Birds by: Grizfolk | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
166 |  | Power Chords by: Mike Krol | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
167 |  | Junior by: Corridor | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
168 |  | Hot Motion by: Temples | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
169 |  | Here Comes the Cowboy by: Mac DeMarco | Label: Mac's Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
170 |  | Lifted by: Israel Nash | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
171 |  | Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins by: Chuck Prophet | Label: Yep-Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
172 |  | God's Favorite Customer by: Father John Misty | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
173 |  | Canterbury Girls by: Lily & Madeleine | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
174 |  | What I Meant to Say by: Danny Fishman | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
175 |  | Be the Cowboy by: Mitski | Label: Dead Ocean Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
176 |  | Laughing Matter by: Wand | Label: Drag City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
177 |  | Late Riser by: Frances Cone | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
178 |  | High Water Line by: Mark Oblinger | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
179 |  | Until the Dawn by: Joy Zimmerman | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
180 |  | Wildness by: Snow Patrol | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
181 |  | Part of Us by: Good Old War | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
182 |  | There Will Be No Intermission by: Amanda Palmer | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
183 |  | Caretakers by: Pete Yorn | Label: Shelly Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
184 |  | A Blemish in the Great Light by: Half Moon Run | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
185 |  | Archaeology by: The Bean Pickers Union | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
186 |  | The Much Much How How and I by: Cosmo Sheldrake | Label: Tardigrade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
187 |  | Wilder Woods by: Wilder Woods | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
188 |  | Reader As Detective by: Generationals | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
189 |  | It Won't Be Like This All the Time by: The Twilight Sad | Label: Rock Action Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
190 |  | Waiting on a Song by: Dan Auerbach | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
191 |  | More or Less by: Dan Mangan | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
192 |  | No Control by: Alex Little and The Suspicious Minds | Label: Light Organ Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
193 |  | Heavy Meta by: Ron Gallo | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
194 |  | Petra by: The Building | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
195 |  | Out of the Blue by: Dan Luke and the Raid | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
196 |  | Pillar of Na by: Saintseneca | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
197 |  | Everybody Works by: Jay Som | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
198 |  | Sore by: Dilly Dally | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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