Here is my annual musical yearbook mix.
Major Stars: Echo
Lower Slaughter: Some Things Take Work
Kim Gordon: Air B ‘n B
Kukangendai: Hi-Vision
Nate Wooley: With Condolences
The Telescopes: Don't Place Your Happiness in the Hands of Another
Bill Callahan: Ballad of the Hulk
Alexander Tucker: Precog
Paco Sala: Minories
Maayan Nidam: Acid Kiss*
Stepehn Mallinder: Satellite
rRoxymore: Hectadrums
Gonzo: Estorvo
Lambchop: The Lasting Last of You
United Waters: Arrowheads
Andy Stott: Promises
Tunes of Negation: Rückschlag
Rupert Clervaux: Make Nature Speak
Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones: Dance of the Subaltern
Fire! Orchestra: Weekends (the Soil is Calling)
Mega Bog: Truth in the Wild
Tomeka Reid Quartet: RN
You Tell Me: Springburn
Robert Forster: I’m Gonna Tell It
Sacred Paws: What’s So Wrong?
* the internet claims this album was officially released mid-December 2018, but I am fairly certain, at least where I live, it was not available until the new year (and have seen it on at least two other best-of-2019 lists).