- Slumberjet “World of Sound”
- Jordan Jones “Jordan Jones”
- Ryan Hamilton And The Harlequin Ghosts “This is the Sound”
- The Bishop’s Daredevil Stunt Club “End Over End”
- Jeff Whalen “10 More Rock Super Hits”
- David Brookings and the Average Lookings “Scorpio Monologue”
- Pernice Brothers “Spread The Feeling”
- Lannie Flowers “Home”
- Nick Frater “Full Fathom Freight-Train”
- The Dates “Ask Again Later”
- Dave Cope and the Sass “Dave Cope and the Sass”
- Liam Gallagher “Why Me? Why Not.”
- The Brothers Steve “#1”
- Joe Sullivan “Growing Up Schlockstar”
- Dan Israel “Social Media Anxiety Disorder”
- The Lolas “A Dozen Or Seven Tapestries”
- Redd Kross “Beyond the Door”
- Goodman “The Era of Buckets”
- Velveteen Rabbit “Velveteen Rabbit”
- The Anderson Council “Worlds Collide”
- Sofa City Sweetheart “Super(b) Exitos”
- Geoff Palmer “Pulling Out All The Stops”
- The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness “Dead Calm”
- Jeff Lynne’s ELO “Out of Nowhere”
- The Rubinoos “From Home”
The top 10 Power Pop EPs of 2019
- Pugwash “The Olympus EP”
- Eric Barao “Obsolete” EP
- The Seven and The Six – ep#1
- Young Guv – “GUV 1”
- Vista Blue “Hit The Floor”
- The Skullers “Freight Trains & Party Games”
- It’s Karma It’s Cool “Hipsters and Aeroplanes”
- The Coolies – “Uh Oh! It’s... The Coolies”
- The Last Bees “The Last Bees”
- Kai Danzberg “Euphoria”
The Highly Recommended LPs #26 through 70
- Amoeba Teen “Medium Wave”
- The John Sally Ride “Nothing Doing”
- The Rallies “Upside Down”
- Ulysses “On Safari”
- Project Ghost Outfit “Project Ghost Outfit”
- Kai Danzberg “Not Only Sunshine”
- Extra Arms “Up From Here”
- The Successful Failures “Saratoga”
- Richard X. Heyman “Pop Circles”
- R. Stevie Moore “Afterlife”
- The Lunar Laugh “Goodnight Noises Everywhere”
- Vanilla “Mystik Knights of Tacoma”
- Popravinas “Willy Nilly”
- The Jellybricks “Some Kind of Lucky”
- The Well Wishers “The Lost Soundtrack”
- The Nines “Shipwrecked (Eggers Songbook Vol 1)”
- The Junior League “Adventureland”
- Shake Some Action “Thirty Nine”
- Richard Turgeon “Go Deep”
- The Dollyrots “Daydream Explosion”
- Eytan Mirsky “If Not Now… Later”
- Armchair Oracles “Caught By Light”
- Rob Laufer “The Floating World”
- Scott Gagner “Hummingbird Heart”
- David Mead “Cobra Pumps”
- The Pearlfishers “Love and Other Hopeless Things”
- Jim Basnight “Not Changing”
- Johnathan Pushkar “Straighten Up”
- Erk “When Night Meets Day”
- Willie Wisely “Face The Sun”
- Mothboxer “Open Sky”
- The Galileo 7 “There Is Only Now”
- The Laissez Fairs “Marigold”
- Faux Co. “Radio Silence”
- Onesie “Umpteenth”
- Coleman Gota “And The Loser’s Choir Sings”
- Salt “The Loneliness of Clouds”
- Talkie “Everything Matters”
- The Maureens “Something In The Air”
- The Beatpunkers “Those Years Songs”
- Joe Jackson “Fool”
- Cloud Eleven “Footnote”
- 8×8 “New Data New Day”
- Emperor Penguin “Walnut Fascia”
- Mike Daly & The Planets “All It Takes Is One”
Final comments: The power pop genre is much less cohesive now than it was 10 years ago. It seems anyone with a retro sound seems to get the label shoved at them. On the other hand, the best power pop this year did not fall into a single style category (“Beatlesque,” “Alt. Roots,” “Psychedelic Glam” ) but took from a variety of styles and influences. This year was a tough one as all the artists did a great job, and I’ve missed so many albums I see at the top of other blog lists. Check out all these artists — you won’t be disappointed and you’ll most likely disagree with my order.