A list of the music released this year which I enjoyed the most…

• The Aristocrats, You Know What?
• Bass Communion, Reconstructions and Recycling
• Big Big Train, Grand Tour
• Tim Bowness, Flowers at the Scene
• Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, Complete (box)
• Kate Bush, Remastered Part I/Part II (box)
• Rosalie Cunningham, Rosalie Cunningham
• Miles Davis, Rubberband
• Flying Colors, Third Degree
• Gong, The Universe Also Collapses
• Richard Henshall, The Cocoon
• Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill, In Amazonia
• Nick Johnson, Wide Eyes in the Dark
• Phil Keaggy, Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, The Bucket List
• King Crimson, Heaven and Earth (box) and Live in Newcastle, 1972
• Lonely Robot, Under the Stars
• Magma, Zess (Le jour du néant)
• Marillion, Afraid of Sunlight (box) and With Friends from the Orchestra
• The Neal Morse Band, The Great Adventure
• No-Man, Love You to Bits
• Opeth, In Cauda Venenum
• The Pineapple Thief, Hold Our Fire
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bird Box (score)
• Sonar with David Torn, Tranceportation Volume 1
• Stefan Thelan, Fractal Guitar
• Tool, Fear Inoculum

Live, I enjoyed Steve Rothery, Haken, The Pineapple Thief, The Neal Morse Band, Tim Bowness, King Crimson, Big Big Train, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Marillion, Steve Hackett and Flying Colours.

For previous years, see the lists from 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.