If you are anti end of year lists then feel free to move on (but cheers for the curiosity click). To get this far there must be some minuscule of interest to what albums came from an exhaustive pile to create most interest and ultimate enjoyment throughout the year. Maybe art should not be a contest, but rules of the game suggest otherwise each December in these pages. So here goes, the favourite albums (please do not use the term 'best' until you have listened to every single release) of 2019
1. Miranda Lambert - Wildcard
2. The Highwomen - The Highwomen
3. Yola - Walk Through Fire
4. The Delines - The Imperial
5. The HawtThorns - Morning Sun
6. Ags Connolly - Wrong Again
7. Caroline Spence - Mint Condition
8. Danni Nicholls - The Melted Morning
9. Jade Jackson - Wilderness
10. Molly Tuttle - When You're Ready
11. Steel Blossoms - Steel Blossoms
12. Allison Moorer - Blood
13. Kelsey Waldon - White Noise / White Lines
14. Danny Schmidt - Standard Deviation
15. Michael McDermott - Orphans
16. Hayes Carll - What it is
17. Kaia Kater - Grenades
18. Maya de Vitry - Adaptions
19. Jenny Lewis - On the Line
20. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow