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

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