Mid-Year makeshift Top 40 Albums of 2019

This is a hastily put together list of my favorite albums of the year so far, loosely put together. After the top 8, the rankings are particularly loose. Which means the stuff near the bottom could easily switch with stuff ranked 20-30 places above it. 2019 has been pretty darned good so far.

1. Jamila Woods -- LEGACY! LEGACY!
2. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
3. Priests – The Seduction of Kansas
4. CHAI – PUNK
5. The Comet Is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery

6. Bedouine – Birdsongs of a Killjoy
7. Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
8. Jason Ringenberg – Stand Tall
9. Rose Elinor Dougall – New Illusion
10. The Dream Syndicate – These Times
11. Yola – Walk Through Fire
12. Mounties – Heavy Meta
13. J. Robbins – Un-Becoming
14. Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs
15. Piroshka – Brickbat
16. DAWN – New Breed
17. Robert Forster – Inferno
18. Bob Mould – Sunshine Rock
19. Christian Scott atunde Adujah – Ancestral Recall
20. Pixx – Small Mercies
21. Peter Perrett – Humanworld
22. The Embrooks – Who We Are
23. Faye Webster – Atlanta Millionaires Club
24. Gretchen’s Wheel – Moth to Lamplight: A Tribute to Nada Surf
25. Mavis Staples – We Get By
26. Richard Hawley – Further
27. Rosie Carney – Bare
28. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
29. Rhiannon Giddens – There Is No Other
30. International Teachers of Pop – International Teachers of Pop
31. Hawksley Workman – Median Age Wasteland
32. Jenny Lewis – On the Line
33. Sacred Paws – Run Around the Sun
34. Adia Victoria – Silences
35. These New Puritans – Inside the Rose
36. Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe
37. pronoun – I’ll Show You Stronger
38. Martha – Love Keeps Kicking
39. Tommi Zender – More Songs About Time
40. The Divine Comedy – Office Politics