Best of 2019: Albums

This is my list of favorite albums for 2019. Perennial favs Robedoor released another slab of their murky sludge. Of relatively local note, Lea Bertucci's Resonant Field was recorded in the grain silos at Silo City in Buffalo and sounds wonderful. There wasn't a new Zaïmph album, but Marcia Bassett did release a couple of things on her Yew label. There was a live recording of a trio with Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota as well as Kyle Eyre Clyd's Eggshell CD. Both recordings are great.

It's awesome that Constellation, Kranky, and Skin Graft are still putting out records after all these years.

I know I left off or missed a couple of albums, but that's kind of the point of making a list. I knew some stuff was going to be on here from the get go and did a little nitpicking to figure out the last couple of items. Usually what I listened to more was the deciding factor, which is why Craow made the list, but Lightning Bolt didn't, for example. As an aside, I never found a store to buy Kim Gordon's record.

As always any album had to be released in the calendar year and I had to listen to it a lot. And if you are one of those types who needs a definitive album of the year, then that honor goes to Honey by Lungbutter on Constellation. The Nivhek project by Liz Harris was up there for my top album, too. However, it deservedly made many a year end list already so I went with the abstract no wave power trio from Montreal as the best of 2019. Lungbutter rocks.

The list goes band/album/label for those with questions of that nature.

01. Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation - Editions Mego
02. Marcia Bassett, Margarida Garcia, and Manuel Mota - Here They Rest Immobile - Yew
03. Lea Bertucci - Resonant Field - NNA Tapes
04. Child Abuse - Imaginary Enemy - Skin Graft
05. Craow - Branded Influence - National Waste Products
06. The Dead C - Rare Ravers - Ba Da Bing! Records
07. Jessica Ekomane - Multivocal - Important
08. First Tone - Reactions - Spectrum Spools
09. Forest Management - Passageways - Whited Sepulchre
10. Hiro Kone - A Fossil Begins To Bray - Dais
11. Loscil - Equivalents - Kranky
12. Lungbutter - Honey - Constellation
13. Karrot Kake - Zinc Finger - Nonexistant Records
14. Kyle Eyre Clyd - Eggshell - Yew
15. Nivhek - After its own death/Walking in a spiral towards the house - Yellowelectric
16. Pedestrian Deposit - Dyers' Hands - Monorail Trespassing
17. Pharmakon - Devour - Sacred Bones Records
18. Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth - Flying Nun
19. Robedoor - Negative Legacy - Deathbomb Arc
20. Shimmer - And I Revel - Decoherence Records