Unlike most years I’ve actually listened to a fair amount of music that’s been released this year. Top x albums in no particular order:
Black Pumas - Black Pumas
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe
Eagles of Death Metal - EODM Presents Boots Electric Performing the Best Songs We Never Wrote
Hanggai - Big Band Brass
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
I’ve been listening to a lot of Jazz this recently, so that is going to influence my picks heavily. In no particular order and/or genre:
Matthew Halsall: Colour Yes
The Delines: The Imperial
Rose City Band: Rose City Band
Steve Mason: About The Light
Ill Considered: Ill Considered 8
Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell: Realm of Spells
Soccer96: Rewind
Kandodo: K3
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids: An Angel Fell
The Quiet Temple: The Quiet Temple
Other LPs worth a mention: Earth: Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds: Ghosteen and the new one by Comet Is Coming.
Really, this year has been memorable for some very well curated reissues by Stereolab, box set reissues by New Order, A Certain Ratio and Section 25 (all ex-Factory obviously), Warp Records and of course Julian Cope’s Autogeddon reissue. I’m sure I’ve forgotten a load of things too.
Started to make a list thinking I’d maybe pick 6 or so - currently at 22 !
Totally randomly I’ll suggest Kode9 and Burial, Fabriclive 100
https://www.discogs.com/Kode9-Burial-Fabriclive-100/master/1444444
and Billy Nomates, “No”
Although discogs says that the Fabric mix is actually 2018 
The only albums that were released this year that have been added to my Tidal favourites are:
The Cure: Anniversary - Live In Hyde Park
Jenny Lewis - On The Line
Not sure I’ve had time to think on this much but one of the most interesting was
Angel Bat Dawid’s - Oracle. It takes some listening but I’ve found myself returning to it. ‘Black Spiritual future soul jazz’ is a very sucky descriptor but certainly there are many layers at play here.
Totally missed this one - cheers
Pop wise I liked Lana Del Ray - Norman Fucking Roswell, Nick Cave - Ghosteen, James Blake - Assume Form, Big Thief - Two Hands. There might be more.
Not bought any albums from 2019
But favourite single is
Especially the radio edit version
Some fine choices here already. A few that have blown my frock up;
Emily King- Scenery
AURORA- Different kind of Human- Step 2
My Baby LIVE
Dominik Eulberg Mannigfaltig
Hayden Thorpe Diviner
Micheal Kiwanuka KIWANUKA
Nocturnal Sunshine Full Circle
Finally, my outright album of the year is Sturgill Simpson’s Sound & Fury. I didn’t know I needed a spiritual rework of ZZ Top’s Afterburner complete with batshit Netflix video in my life but apparently I did.
Just too many, been a big Alt-Jazz year for me too, some of which have already been mentioned. Also The Home Current and Melt Yourself Down deserve a mention.
Pleasant surprises, for me, include the Gary Numan 40th Anniversary re-issues and the new Slipknot and Tool Albums.
Fab year for music all round 
How the fuck I missed those two off my list I have no idea. I shall be reporting myself to the cockpunching thread forthwith.
Lizzo ‘Cuz I love you’
Slowthai ‘Nothing great about Britain’
Angel Olsen ‘All mirrors’
Fat White Family ‘Serfs up’
Sault ‘V’
Top 5 would be:
Boy Harsher - Careful
Acretongue - Ghost Nocturne
Numb - Mortal Geometry
Statiqbloom - Asphyxia
Twin Tribes - Ceremony
The way the cards have fallen this year, it’s mainly been gothy darkwavey rather than IDM.
I’ve stuck together a playlist:
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#1. Darkways - Rust
Hyper-catchy postpunk darkwave
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This Morn’ Omina – Insha
Dense ritualistic ambient
DSX - Cold Ballads EP
Industrial, Haujobb side-project
Dryft – Particle
Dreamy post-industrial IDM
Vioflesh - Melancolia
Poppy darkwave
Diavol Strain - Eterno Retorno
Chilean, intense goth rock
Madeline Goldstein - Speaking To The Body
Dark synthpop
SDH - Rider
Electro darkwave
Sans-Fin - Grises Images
Hard industrial techno, with some rhythmic noise; sonic lobotomy guaranteed
Bent - Renascence
Dark electro; reminiscent of mid 90s Project Pitchfork
Martial Canterel - Walls Unidentified
Minimal synth
Thin Eater - Incisor
Goth postpunk, Pete Murphyesque vocals
Armours - Body EP
Dark synthpop meets light EBM
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Cheers, looking forward to a listen.
Apologies this is a long list - but, in my defence, it has just been a great year music-wise.
In no particular order:
Blue World - John Coltrane
Beautiful Vinyl Hunter - Ashley Hendry
Dreaming Is Dead Now - Skinny Pelembe
Remind Me (The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-19884) - Patrice Rushen
Melkweg - Jameszoo / Metropole Orkest / Jules Buckley
Braille, Slate & Stylus - The Natural Yogurt Band
Ebi Soba EP - Ebi Soba
Sad About The Times - V/A compilation
Diabolique - L’Epee
A Song For Paul - Ghost Funk Orchestra
Horace Tapscott With The Pan Afrikan People’s Orkestra Live At I.U.C.C - Soul Jazz Records re-issue
Visible & Invisible Persons Distributed In Space - V/A compilation from Numero Records
Turn To Clear View - Joe Armon-Jones
Feherlofia - Fenella / Jane Weaver
Voyage - Blue Lab Beats
Up On High - Vetiver
Building Better World - London Elektricity
1634 Lexington Avenue - Carlton Jamal-Smith
Serious Times - Kaidi Thatham
In Search Of Hades - The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979 - Tangerine Dream
Resavoir - Resavoir
Moving Cities - Antoine Berjeaut / Makaya McCraven
Chernobyl OST - Hildur Gudnadottir
Bastard Music - Meatraffle
Blume - Nerija
Jungle Run - Nubyan Twist
Obiaa - Pat Thomas & The Kwashibu Area band
Hometown: Detroit Sessions 1990-2014 - Tribe
As Olan mentioned the Stereolab re-issues are great.
Mavis Staples - We Get By
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tutti
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Brittany Howard - Jaime
Forgot about that, good shout 
