I don't remember my older list but I'm gonna update this now in case I forget to do so by the end of the year, but I have about 20 more albums I got only recently that have a shot at this still.
edit: here's my old list. looks like not much has changed, just stuff i've really latched onto in the last 4 months has been added and Warforged hopped over Illyria by a hair
i don't remember my last list
1. A Novelist - Folie
2. Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
3. Illyria - The Carpathian Summit
4. Warforged - I: Voice
5. La Dispute - Panorama
6. Devin Townsend - Empath
1. A Novelist - Folie
2. Somn - The All-Devouring
3. Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
4. Warforged - I: Voice
5. Illyria - The Carpathian Summit
6. La Dispute - Panorama
7. Adrift - Pure
8. An Isolated Mind - I'm Losing Myself
9. We Never Learned to Live - The Sleepwalk Transmissions
10. Devin Townsend - Empath
Honorable Mentions:
Wheel - Moving Backwards
The Physics House Band - Death Sequence (EP)
Poly-math - Sensors in Everything (EP)
33 thru 52 on this list (or what will be at least 54 as I have two more albums ordered that aren't shipped yet/may not ship this year) are all still in contention though and I expect the bottom few of this list at least will get pushed off. no clue which ones will be the ones that stand out as faves yet because there's a lot of stuff I'm excited for there, still
nothing will top A Novelist because nothing has months to grow on me to the extent it becomes a 5* album for me, so