Catching up on 2019 Music - A Pre-List Making Thread to push favorites, discuss critical consensus and prognosticate on eventual best-ofs for the year

then again DEVO was from Akron so maybe you have to be stuck in that sort of town to make that kind of music

can't hurt

This Moon Duo record is the only Moon Duo record I actually like.

Is it wrong of me to like Devil Master's "Satan Spits on Children of Light" as much as I do?

Wow, the Moon Duo as album I'd great! Reminds me of Flow Motion era CAN. I particularly enjoy the synth sequences on "Lost Heads".

Is there anything else from this year I should check out if I like this?

Lol, my phone is wacky. Should say "the Moon Duo album is great"

A late entry for my album of the year, discovered through a brief mention on the ILM jazz thread, is Hütte & guests play the music of Robert Wyatt by Max Andrzejewski´s HÜTTE. The Turkish singer Cansu Tanrıkulu has a wonderful voice, the whole set is fantastic.

To respond to my own question about an album that might please fans of Aviary: Pies sobre la tierra by Mabe Fratti (from Guatemala) is a very nice 30 minutes ambient pop album with some ethereal vocals, modern classical and traditional music touches, in case that's attractive to you.

The real thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzeqXKAXdQ

This ended up being my end of year compilation:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mkWcqt5wQM6yNKnomWqco

Nonsensically-timed as ever, here are 161 of the best albums of 2019

10 000 Russos - Kompromat
3776 - Saijiki
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Here
Abronia - The Whole of Each Eye
Acid Mothers Temple - Hallelujah Mystic Garden pt 2
Alameda 5 - Eurodrome
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Ashinoa - Sinie Sinie
Ausmuteants - Ausmuteants Present: The World in Handcuffs
Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them
Big Red Panda - Voyage
Black Flower - Future Flora
Blackwater Holylight - Veils of Winter
Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
Boris - LΦVE & EVΦL
Botanist - Ecosystem
Budos Band - V
Calacorm - Calacormic Visions Demo
Centrum - För meditation
Cherubs - Immaculada High
Chris Forsyth - All Time Present
Clinic - Wheeltappers and Shunters
clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Collider - -><-
The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Cosmic Dead - Scottish Space Race
Cuzcos - Ruptura
Dawn Richard - New Breed
De Lorians - De Lorians
Demon Head - Hellfire Ocean Void
Desert Sessions Volumes 11 & 12
Dexter Story - Bahir
Dhidalah - Threshold
The Dream Syndicate - These Times
Dreamtime - Tidal Mind
Drugdealer - Raw Honey
Duke - Uingizaji Hewa
Dvanov - Подполья
Elder - The Gold & Silver Sessions
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo
Fat White Family - Serf's Up
Fet.Nat - Le mal
Flaural - Postponement
Fly Pan Am - C'est Ca
Follakzoid - I
Free Ride - Free Ride
Fuerza Nueva - Fuerza Nueva
The Galileo 7 - There Is Only Now
Glenn Branca - The Third Ascension
The Gluts - Dengue Fever Hypnotic Trip
Gnoomes - Mu!
工工工 [Gong Gong Gong] - Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏
Grace Ives - 2nd
Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry
Hawkeyes - Last Light of Future Failure
Here Lies Man - No Ground to Walk Upon
Herxheim - Cultuvating Throne of Fur demo
Hibushibire - Turn On, Tune In, Freak Out!
The Honey Pot - Bewildered Jane
Hyperculte - Massif Occidental
Iconili - Quintais
Ikebe Shakedown - Kings Left Behind
Imperial Wax - Gaswerks Saboteurs
Innercity Ensemble - IV
Jabru - Ill Conceived
Jay Mitta - Tatizo Pesa
Jim Jones and the Rughteous Mind - CollectIV
Jorge Elbrecht - Coral Cross - 002
Jorge Elbrecht - Gloss Coma - 002
Julie's Haircut - In the Silence Electric
Jute Gyte - Birefringence
Kaleidobolt - Bitter
Khana Bierbood - Strangers from the Far East
Kim Gordon - No Home Record
Kogumaza - Fugues
Kooba Tercu - Kharrüb
Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí
L' Épée - Diabolique
L7 - Scatter the Rats
LaBrecque/Barakat - Terminal Desert
Lankum - The Livelong Day
Lastryko - Tetno Pulsu
Lee Scratch Perry - Heavy Rain
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
Live Skull - Saturday Night Massacre
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - de Facto
Major Stars - Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn
Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Modern Nature - How to Live
Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light
Moon Tooth - Crux
Motorpsycho - The Crucible
Multishiva - Savupäivä
Nebula - Holy Shit
Nervous Curtains - I Tried to Fight It But I Was Inside It
Nik Turner - The Final Frontier
Oh Sees - Face Stabber
OOIOO - nijimusi
p.rosa - Bioconcrete
PH - Osiris Hayden
Pharaoh Overlord - 5
Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie
Pinkish Black - Concept Unification
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Massacre of the Celestials
Pony Bravo - Guru
Psychedelic Speed Freaks - Psychedelic Speed Freaks
PUP - Morbid Stuff
Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Quantum Fantay - Yemaya Orisha
Rakta - Falha comum
Reptile Tile - Reptile Tile vs. Human Man
Reveal - Scissorgod
Richard Dawson - 2020
Roy Montgomery & Emma Johnston - After Nietzsche
Royal Trux - White Stuff
Rustin Man - Drift Code
Saba Alizadeh - Scattered Memories
Satanique Samba Trio - Mais Bad
Sault - 5
Sault - 7
Sisso - Mateso
Skaphe & Wormlust - Kosmískur Hryllingur
Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farewell, 2016-2018
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury
Sordide - Hier Déjà Mort
South Penguin - Y
Spellling - Mazy Fly
Stephen Mallinder - Um Dada
Sun Drug - Joyfreaker
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Taras Bulba - One
The Telescopes - Exploding Head Syndrome
Teeth of the Sea - Wraith
Terceiro Olho de Marte - Herbarium parabolicae ou língua secreta das sementes
Terminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre du lièvre
Theon Cross - Fyah
These New Puritans - Under the Rose
Thurston Moore - Spirit Counsel
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
TOY - Happy in the Hollow
Trey Anastasio - Ghosts of the Forest
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
Wand - Laughing Matter
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Marynistyka suchego lądu
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
White Denim - Side Effects
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Writhing Squares - Out of the Ether
Wyrmwoods - Spirit & Teeth
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
Yawning Man - Macedonian Lines
Zu - Terminalia Amazonia

Nice list. I think my favorite of the year actually ended up being the Murlocs' Manic Candid Episode which I don't think I've seen on any other list. Great soulful country-inflected garage-psych. The Tourist Activities' EP was another release that snuck up on me at the end of the year, kind of jangly Smiths-influenced female-fronted mope-indie with a bit of surf-rock in the guitar tone at times.

simpler times.

Yeah for real