Best Albums of 2019

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Happy New Year!

It’s that time again where we look ahead to the audible delights that might give us a quick peck on the cheek, a full-blown snog or have us running screaming from the singles bar in 2010. It’s also time to look back, to remember with fondness new-found relationships forged in 2019, some of which might have become a permanent fixture, their toothbrush placed tantalisingly next to yours in the metaphorical bathroom of musical heaven.

Or something.

Anyway, below are a whole load of lists from folk who clearly have too much time on their hands, presented in alphabetical order. Whatever Leo says, there is no right answer, just a whole host of great releases to listen to. To that end, we’ve added links so that you can do just that. Go on, feel free to gorge on the wonderful sounds – it might even lead to wedding bells.

The fact that a massive 87 albums have been suggested by the twelve contributors underlines that 2019 was another great year for music at the progressive end of the spectrum, from both big names and more underground artists. I doubt there is anyone who has heard them all, not all are going to be to everyone’s taste, but the fact that they have been created at all and have managed to resonate with an audience – however small – is important.

Happy listening and hopefully discovery, and here’s to a wonderful collection of new albums to hear in 2020!

Mel Allen


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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen

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Elephant9 – Psychedelic Backfire

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Patrick Grant – FIELDS AMAZE and other sTRANGE music

[Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | TPA Review]

Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill – In Amazonia

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Jordsjø – Nattfiolen

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Motorpsycho – The Crucible

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Opeth – In Cauda Venenum

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Xavi Reija – The Sound of the Earth

[Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | TPA Review]

Telepath – Mental Mutations

[Facebook | Bandcamp | TPA Review]

The Tronosonic Experience – II: The Big Blow

[Facebook | Soundcloud | TPA Review]

Grice – One Thousand Birds

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

The Far Meadow – Foreign Land

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The Emerald Dawn – Nocturne

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Rosalie Cunningham – Rosalie Cunningham

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We Are Kin – Bruised Sky

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Tom Slatter – Demon

[Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | TPA Review]

Big Big Train – Grand Tour

[Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | TPA Review]

The Gift – Antenna

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The Room – Caught by the Machine

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This Winter Machine – A Tower of Clocks

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Elder – The Gold & Silver Sessions

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Opeth – In Cauda Venenum

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Motorpsycho – The Crucible

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Monkey3 – Sphere

[Website | Facebook | Bandcamp]

Grotto – Lantern of Gius

[Facebook | Bandcamp]

Elephant9 – Psychedelic Backfire

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Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte – You Don’t Know the Life

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The Ivory Elephant – Stoneface

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Gong – The Universe Also Collapses

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Swan Valley Heights – The Heavy Seed

[Website | Facebook]

Damanek – In Flight

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Marek Arnold and Manuel Schmidt – Zeiten

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

ART – Asylum

[Website | Facebook]

T – Solipsystemology

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Thank You Scientist – Terraformer

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Freedom to Glide – Seed

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Lebowski – Galactica

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Chasing the Monsoon – Chasing the Monsoon

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Seven Steps to the Green Door – The?Lie

[Website | Facebook | TPA Review]

Electric Asturias – Trinity

Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte
– You Don’t Know the Life

Magic Pie – Fragments of the 5^th Element