Paste Magazine's the 50 Best Albums of 2019 - Page 2

"It's not only the end of another year, but it's also the end of another decade, and there's plenty of cause for a freakout. There's the stress of the holidays, the stress of time passing too quickly, the continuous stress of climate change and our withering Earth, and let's not forget the stress of this seemingly never-ending political hell-scape we've been suffering through for more than three years. 2019 was a weird culmination of those stressors, but it was also, maybe, a bellwether for change. There's the hope of 2020, when we'll elect new public officials. There's the hope of a new start, even if it's just because of a human-made time construct called "decades." There's Baby Yoda. And there's also a whole lot of incredible music coming at us all the time, which is certainly another reason to remain optimistic about humanity."