Your album of 2019 (that was released before 2019)

Re Your Album of 2019 (that was released before 2019): why did ppl cite the Arthur Russell album that was released in 2019? Oh well, great album (Iowa Dream, on bandcamp with a bunch of his others).
In recent years, I've been belatedly discovering more by Robert Wyatt, incl. prev unreleased solo, expanded reissues of Soft Machine and Matching Mole, also, if you scroll upthread here, his work with Michael Mantler etc---lotta links to streams:
Robert Wyatt: Classic or Dud?
Also, on YouTube: the first two Soft Machine studio albums---new to me!

For me, this year, would be between Elvis Presley Elvis in Memphis, Hypnosia Extreme Hatred and Evil Spirit The Imageless Mirror.

Pat Methany & Lyle May - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

Evelyn "Champagne" King's Get Loose is probably the best album I heard this year.

that is def the best album ever made

Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington. It was a gift from a friend a number of years ago that I never played, and forgot I owned until recently.

Evelyn "Champagne" King's Get Loose is probably the best album I heard this year.

― kitchen person, Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:24 (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This probably would have been my answer in whichever year I first heard it.

the best album i discovered this year was probably jimmy giuffre — "western suite"

i listen to it all the time now

I can't even remember how I stumbled across this Barbara & Ernie album, but I apparently listened to it so much they ended up my #1 artist in my Spotify Wrapped for 2020. It's quite nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApQoFzmJXw

Michael Head & The Strands - The Magical World of the Strands
Takashi Kokubo - Jamaica ～ Waves And Light And Earth
Sign Libra - Closer To The Equator

veedon fleece. i'd listened to it before but never with sustained attention

it's the best album ever made

probably danny brown's last lp.

The first album by The Left Banke, and Forever Breathes the Lonely Word by Felt.

100% Proof - The Tubby Hayes Orchestra

NRBQ at Yankee Stadium, or Pretzel Logic