Favorite records of 2019 in no particular order
Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
Guided By Voices - Zeppelin Over China
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - De Facto
The Delines - The Imperial
Julian Lynch - Rat's Spit
Cass McCombs - Tip of the Sphere
Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Miri
House of Hiss - Sand Never Sets
Solange - When I Get Home
Aldous Harding - Designer
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Spiral Stairs - We Wanna Be Hyp-No-Tized
Ex Hex - It's Real
Lambchop - This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You)
Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied
Priests - The Seduction of Kansas
USA/Mexico - Matamoros
Spotlights - Love & Decay
BITW - BITW
Sunwatchers - Illegal Moves
Chris Forsyth - All Time Present
Mdou Moctar - Ilana: The Creator
Boogarins - Sombrou Duvida
Mourning [A] BLKstar - Reckoning
Sad Planets - Akron, Ohio
Rose City Band - Rose City Band
Kotokoto - Institute
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
School of Language - 45
Fox Millions Duo - Biting Through
Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
Ty Segall - First Taste
White Denim - Side Effects
Kid Millions & Sarah Bernstein - Broken Fall
Modern Nature - How to Live
Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier - Corpse Flower
Oh Sees - Face Stabber
Pernice Brothers - Spread the Feeling
Mudhoney - Morning in America EP
Thurston Moore - Spirit Counsel
Diagonal - Arc
Malibu - One Life
Imani Coppola - The Protagonist
Guided By Voices - Sweating the Plague
Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Mark Lanegan Band - Somebody's Knocking
Battles - Juice B Crypts
Kim Gordon - No Home Record
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Wilco - Ode to Joy
Cunts - Cunts
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Colorado
The Flaming Lips - King's Mouth
Omni - Networker
Sessa - Grandeza
Desert Sessions - Vol. 11 & 12
Fitted - First Fits
The New Pornographers - In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
Ramblin' Deano & Ice Cold Singles - Ramblin' Deano and Ice Cold Singles
Mistresses - Define "Relationship"
Kel Assouf - Black Tenere
Gelbart - Egg Ray Test Hits Cow Action
New World Music - Intellectual Thinking
Duster - Capsule Losing Contact
Jah Division - Dub Will Tear Us Apart ... Again
Kele Goodwin - Hymns
Rupa - Disco Jazz
Chasman - Synth-E-Fuge
Various - Escape from Synth City
Guided By Voices - Warp and Woof (new album assembled from four 2018 EPs)
Jeremy Freeze - Breaking the Skin
Various - Planisphere
Various - You're Not from Around Here
Don Slepian - Sea of Bliss
Elisa Waut - Elisa Waut
Prince - Originals
Andy the Doorbum - Art Is Shit
Indian Summer - Giving Birth to Thunder
Joanna Brouk - The Space Between
Normil Hawaiians - What's Going On?
Various - Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood soundtrack
Coolies - South Auckland Girls in the Garage
Hug - A Young Person's Guide to Hug
Various - Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space
Charlie Megira - Tomorrow's Gone
Gary Davenport - Scattered Thoughts
Screaming Females - Singles Too
Hamlet Minassian - Armenian Pop Music
Jim Shepard - Heavy Action
Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream
Sanford Clark - They Call Me Country
Antena - Camino del Sol EP
Neil Young & Stray Gators - Tuscaloosa
Favorite records of 2018 I didn't get to until 2019
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Obnox - Templo del Sonido
Obnox - Bang Messiah
Sunwatchers - II
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
My band The Early Stages released our album, Terrible Business, in 2019 on our own Self-Satisfaction label. I'm proud of it. Get it on vinyl or digital download here or here or stream it on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and the other streaming sites, but we'd love you forever if you make a vinyl or download purchase if you like the music and can afford it. Thanks!