2018 Albums • Page 4

January
1. Jeff Rosenstock- POST- ++
2. Lizzy Farrall- All I Said Was Never heard EP +
3. Camila Cabello- Camila *
4. Hussey- Hitchens +

 

10. The Neighbourhood - To Imagine (2018)
11. LPX - Bolt In The Blue (2018)

 

1. Jeff Rosenstock - POST- ++
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures +

 

January

001. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup +
002. Jeff Rosenstock - Post- *
003. Cupcakke - Ephorize *
004. Kensuke Ushio - Devilman Crybaby [OST] ++
005. Special Explosion - To Infinity ++
006. Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread [OST] +
007. BØRNS - Blue Madonna *
008. The Neighbourhood - To Imagine *
009. Shame - Songs of Praise +
010. Azar Swan - Savage Exile +
011. Francis and the Lights - Just For Us *
012. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures -
013. Typhoon - Offerings ++
014. Loren Jamal - Loren +
015. Crater - Unearth -
016. Panda Bear - A Day With the Homies +
017. Vince Spencer & SonnyJim - Spencer For Higher +
018. Rosemary & Garlic - Rosemary & Garlic +
019. Shopping - The Official Lady ++
020. tUnE-yArDs - I can feel you creep into my private life ++
021. Bahamas - Earthtones +
022. Bleed American - It Probably Isn't -
023. The Limiñanas - Shadow People ++
024. Porches - The House -
025. Belle & Sebastian - How to Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 2 *
026. The Go! Team - Semicircle +
027. When We Land - Introvert's Plight *
028. Phew - Voice Hardcore +
029. Graham Coxon - The End of the F***ing World (Original Songs and Score) +
030. Sylvan LaCue - Apologies in Advance +
031. Nils Frahm - All Melody *
032. The Drink - ******** ++
033. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran +
034. Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin +

 

6. Weedpecker - III [*]
7. Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown [+]
8. Tonight Alive - Underworld [*]

 

Here is a link to my 2017 list.

+++ = Immediate 'EOTY' Worthy
++ = Love
+ = Like
* = Indifferent
# = Dislike

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ALBUMS

January
BORNS - Blue Madonna #
Jeff Rosenstock - POST- +
bedbug - i'll count to heaven in years without seasons +
Hussey - Hitchens #
Tiny Moving Parts - Swell +
The Excerts - Hold on to Your Heart #
Cloud District - Don't Give Up, Skeleton +
tUnE yArDs - i can feel you creep into my private life +

February
Various Artists - Black Panther: The Album +
Turnstile - Time & Space +
Rich Brian - Amen #
Screaming Females - All At Once #
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love #

March
Lucy Dacus - Historian +
Logic - Bobby Tarantino II +
Gulfer - Dog Bless +
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour +
Soccer Mommy - Clean +

April
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy #
Kississippi - Sunset Blush #
Half Waif - Lavender ++
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer #

May
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino +
Shawn Mendes - Self-Titled +
Beach House - 7 +
Charlie Puth - Voicenotes +
Juice WRLD - Goodbye and Good Riddance +
illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies +
Now, Now - Saved +

June
Kanye West - Ye +
Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts +

July
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love ++
Drake - Scorpion #

August
Foxing - Nearer, My God ++
Ariana Grande - Sweetener #
Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You For Today #
Blood Orange - Negro Swan #
Olafur Arnalds - re:member +

September
BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence ++

October
Twenty One Pilots - Trench +

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EPs

January
Bristletongue - Femme Florale +
The Neighbourhood - To Imagine ++

March
Remo Drive - Pop Music +
The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy, *

 

12. Kali Uchis - Por Vida (2015)
13. Hussey - Hitchens (2018)
14. Panda Bear - A Day With The Homies (2018)
15. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A (2018)
16. Cassino - Bottlenecker (2016)
17. First Aid Kit - Ruins (2018)
18. Elohim - Elohim (2016)
19. Bahamas - Earthtones (2018)
20. Jukebox the Ghost & Jenny Owen Youngs - Jukebox the Ghost & Jenny Owen Youngs (2013)

 

9. Typhoon - Offerings [++]
10. Camila Cabello - Camila [+]
11. Capstan - In the Wake of Our Discord [+]
12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures [*]
13. cupcakKe - Ephorize [+]

 

Made a note to finally do this over the course of an entire year. Highlights are bolded.

January

1. Jeff Rosenstock — “POST—”
2. Shame — “Songs of Praise”
3. BØRNS — “Blue Madonna”
4. LPX — “Bolt in the Blue”
5. Bristletongue — “Thistle Among Roses EP”
6. Camila Cabello — “Camila”
7. Author — “IIFOIIC”
8. Fall Out Boy — “M A N I A”
9. Porches — “The House”
10. Typhoon — “Offerings”
11. First Aid Kit — “Ruins”
12. Bahamas — “Earthtones”
13. Speak Low If You Speak Love — “Nearsighted”
14. Lizzy Farrall — “All I Said Was Never Heard EP”
15. Tiny Moving Parts — “Swell”
16. Khruangbin — “Con Todo El Mundo”
17. Nils Frahm — “All Melody”
18. The XCERTS — “Hold on to Your Heart”
19. Tune-Yards — “i can feel you creep into my private life”
20. Dommengang — “Love Jail”
21. Toy Cars — “Paint Brain”
22. The Spook School — “Could It Be Different?”
23. Long Neck — “Will This Do?”

February

24. St. Beauty — “Running to the Sun”
25. Calexico — “The Thread That Keeps Us”
26. Dream Wife — “Dream Wife”
27. Anderson East — “Encore”
29. Bedbug — “i’ll count to heaven in years without seasons”
30. Rhye — “Blood”
31. Hookworms — “Microshift”
32. Anna Burch — “Quit the Curse”
33. Rae Morris — “Someone Out There”
34. Strand of Oaks — “Harder Love”
35. Belle & Sebastian — “How to Solve Our Human Problems (Part 2) EP”
36. The Shins — “The Worm’s Heart”
37. Glen Hansard — “Between Two Shores”
38. Dashboard Confessional — “Crooked Shadows”
39. Palm — “Rock Island”
40. Hovvdy — “Cranberry”
41. MGMT — “Little Dark Age”
42. Son Lux — “Brighter Wounds”
43. Brian Fallon — “Painkillers”
44. Franz Ferdinand — “Always Ascending”
45. Holy Motors — “Slow Sundown”
46. Tribulation — “Down Below”
47. Zaki Ibrahim — “The Secret Life of Planets”
48. Pianos Become The Teeth — “Wait for Love”
49. Runaway Brother — “New Pocket”
50. American Pleasure Club — “A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This”
51. Brandi Carlile — “By the Way, I Forgive You”
52. Superchunk — “What a Time to Be Alive”
53. American Nightmare — “American Nightmare”
54. U.S. Girls — “In a Poem Unlimited”
55. Bat Fangs — “Bat Fangs”
56. Car Seat Headrest — “Twin Fantasy”
57. Ought — “Room Inside the World”
58. Hurry — “Every Little Thought”
59. Turnstile — “Time and Space”
60. Mean Jeans — “Jingles Collection”
61. Screaming Females — “All At Once”
62. Reggie and the Full Effect — “41”
63. Super Whatevr — “Never Nothing”

March

64. A.A.L. (Against All Logic) — “2012 - 2017”
65. Portal — “Ion”
66. Awakebutstillinbed — “what people call low self - esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you”
67. Gulfer — “Dog Bless”
68. Soccer Mommy — “Clean”
69. Haley Heynderickx — “I Need to Start a Garden”
70. Lucy Dacus — “Historian”
71. Donovan Wolfington — “Waves”
72. Water From Your Eyes — “All a Dance”
73. Andrew W.K. — “You’re Not Alone”
74. Albert Hammond, Jr. — “Francis Trouble”
75. David Byrne — “American Utopia”
76. Editors — “Violence”
77. Closer — “All This Will Be”
78. Kraus — “Path”
79. Between The Buried and Me — “Automata I”

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Non-2018 Albums
1. Sidney Gish — “No Dogs Allowed”
2. Phish — “12/30/2017, Live at Madison Square Garden” (2017)

 

January

Jeff Rosenstock - Post
Free Throw - Bear Your Mind
Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming
Swarms - Black Chapel Sun
Borns - Blue Madonna
Typhoon - Offerings
Deadwood Lake - Forest of Whispers
Porches - the House
Noorvik - s/t
Paint Brain - Toy Cars
Tiny Moving Parts - Swell

February
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Bahamas - Earthtones
Anderson East - Encore
serpentwithfeet - Blisters
The Dangerous Summer - s/t
Teen Daze - Themes for Dying Earth
Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
Harakiri For the Sky - Arson
Slaves - Beautiful Death
The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir
Rhye - Blood
If These Trees Could Talk - the Bones of a Dying World
Long Distance Calling - Boundless
All the Luck in the World - A Blind Arcade

March
Super Whatevr - Nothing
Mom Jeans. - Best Buds (2016)
US Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
SOB X RBE - Gangin
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Rolo Tamassi - Time WIll Die and Love Will Bury It
S. Carey - Hundred Acres
BTBAM - Automata I
Remo Drive - Pop Music
soccer mommy - Clean
Turnstile - Time and Space
The Decemberists - I'll be Your Girl
Black Foxxes - Reidi
Future of Forestry - Union
Casey - Where I Go When I Am Sleeping
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

April
Greyhaven - Empty Black
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Wonder Years - Sister Cities
Republic of Wolves - Shrine
Many Rooms - There is a Presence Here
CardiB - Invasion of Privacy

 

I'll keep it simple and just bold a few of my favorites and put a * on my top album at the end of each month. (Total: 173)

January:

1. Jeff Rosenstock - Post-*
2. Tonight Alive - Underworld
3. Fall Out Boy - Mania
4. Of Mice & Men - Defy
5. Super Whatevr - Never Nothing
6. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
7. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures
8. Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
9. Shame - Songs Of Praise
10. Maxo Kream - Punken

February:

1. Hockey Dad - Blend Inn
2. Don Brocco - Technology
3. MGMT - Little Dark Age
4. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
5. Caravela - Ski*
6. Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive
7. Runaway Brother - New Pocket
8. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love
9. Turnstile - Time & Space
10. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
11. Harm's Way - Posthuman
12. Fu Manchu - Clone of the Universe

March:

1. Camp Cope - How To Socialize & Make Friends
2. Barely Civil - We Can Live Here Forever
3. Donovan Wolfington - Waves
4. Reggie & The Full Effect - 41
5. Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone
6. Albert Hammond Jr. - Francis Trouble
7. Kraus - Path
8. Judas Priest - Firepower
9. Queen of Jeans - Dig Yourself
10. Spanish Love Songs - Shmaltz
11. The Republic Of Wolves - Shrine
12. Nap Eyes - I'm Bad Now
13. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus*
14. Black Foxxes - Reidi
15. Barely March - Marley Barch
16. Twitching Tongues - Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred
17. Soccer Mommy - Clean
18. waveform* - Library
19. Foliage - III

April:

1. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
2. Underoath - Erase Me*
3. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic
4. Fiddlehead - Springtime & Blind
5. Rainbow Kitten Surprise - How to: Friends, Love, Freefall
6. Sleep - The Sciences
7. Unknow Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
8. Flatbush Zombies - Vacation In Hell
9. Animal Flag - Void Ripper
10. Dr. Dog - Critical Equation
11. Kississippi - Sunset Blush
12. Half Waif - Lavender
13. King Tuff - The Other
14. Mastersystem - Dance Music
15. Saba - Care For Me

May:

1. Parkway Drive - Reverence
2. Beach House - 7*
3. Elder Brother - Stay Inside
4. Pusha T - Daytona
5. Timecop1983 - Night Drive
6. Pressure Cracks - Pressure Cracks (EP)
7. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
9. Dream State - Recovery (EP)
10. Wooden Shjips - V.

June:

1. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
2. Snail Mail - Lush*
3. Kanye West - Ye
4. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
5. Petal - Magic Gone
6. Vacationer - Mindset
7. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
8. Vein - Errorzone
9. Freddie Gibbs - Freddie
10. Khemmis - Desolation
11. Spiritual Cramp - Police State (EP)
12. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
13. YOB - Our Raw Heart
14. Natalie Prass - The Future & The Past

July:

1. Dollar Signs - This Will Haunt Me
2. Save Face - Merci
3. Hopesfall - Arbiter
4. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
5. Covet - effloresce
6. Denzel Curry - TA13OO*
7. The Internet - Hive Mind
8. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
9. MxPx - MxPx
10. Ovlov - TRU
11. Real Friends - Composure
12. Wild Pink - Yolk In The Fur
13. Israel Nash - Lifted

August:

1. Lucero - Among The Ghosts
2. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
3. Travis Scott - Astroworld
   
4. Bad Bad Hats - Lightning Round
5. Foxing - Nearer My God*
6. ERRA - Neon
7. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
8. The Flats- Nobody People
9. Interpol - Marauder
10. Nothing - Dance On The Blacktop
11. Delta Sleep - Ghost City
12. The Frights - Hypochondriac
    
13. Ogikubo Station - We Can Pretend Like
14. Liz Cooper & The Stampede - Window Flowers
15. Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
16. White Denim - Performance
17. Wild Nothing - Indigo
18. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
19. The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
20. The Amity Affliction - Misery
21. Tash Sultana - Flow State

September:

1. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
2. Thrice - Palms
3. Fatherson - Sum of All Your Parts
4. The Story So Far - Proper Dose*
5. Metric - Art of Doubt
6. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
7. toe - Our Latest Number (EP)
8. Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Wave
9. Slow Crush -Aurora
10. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
11. Restorations - LP5000
12. Joey Purp - Quarterthing
13. Well Wisher - This Is Fine
14. The Black Queen - Infinite Games
15. Hail The Sun - Mental Knife
16. Avenged Sevenfold - Dark Reign
17. Tilian - The Skeptic
18. Advance Base - Animal Companionship
19. Holy Fawn - Death Spells
20. Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape
21. We Were Promised Jetpacks - The More I Sleep the Less I Dream

October:

1. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
2. Twenty One Pilots - Trench
3. boy pablo - Soy Pablo
4. High On Fire - Electric Messiah
5. Basement - Beside Myself*
6. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
7. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes
8. Yowler - Black Dog In My Path
9. Justin Courtney Pierre - In The Drink
10. Bearings - Blue in The Dark
11. Cursive - Vitriola
12. Lala Lala - The Lamb
13. Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army
14. Steady Hands - Truth In Comedy
15. Mercy Union - The Quarry
16. Saves the Day - 9
17. Spiritual Cramp - Television
18. Shad - A Short Story About A War
19. The Berries - Start All Over Again
20. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
21. Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds
22. boygenius - boygenius (EP)
23. Coheed & Cambria -Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
24. The Sounder Bombs - MODERN FEMALE ROCKSTAR
25. Young Jesus - The Whole Thing Is Just There
26. REZN - Calm Black Water
27. The Ar-Kaics - In This Time

November:

1. Silent Planet - When The End Began
2. John Nolan -Abendigo
3. Vince Staples - FM!
4. Direct Hit! - Crown Of Nothing
5. Architects - Holy Hell
6. Drug Church - Cheer
7. Old Wounds - Glow
8. Ellis - The Fuzz (EP)
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny & Oh So Bright
10. SOM - The Fall
11. Cheem - CheemTV
12. Mildlife - Phase

 

I have listened to ten 2018 releases so far.
So from favorite to least favorite (which is subject to change because some need more listens which could in turn increase or decrease their overall ranking) this is the ranking at the moment.

1. Abigor - Hollenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition)
2. Typhoon - Offerings
3. Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
4. Locktender - Friedrich
5. Panphage - Jord
6. Cupcakke - Ephorize
7. Archaic Tomb - Congregations for Ancient Rituals (Demo)
8. Vessel of Iniquity - Vessel of Iniquity (EP)
9. Beach Bully - Beach Bully (EP)
10. Scallops Hotel - Sovereign Nose of Your Arrogant Face

None of these releases are bad per se though.

 

Wow I'm already bad at updating this lol

 

21. LÉON - Treasure (2015)
22. LÉON - For You (2017)
23. LÉON - Surround Me (2017)
24. Daniel Caesar - Freudian (2017)

 

+++ = Immediate 'EOTY' Worthy
++ = Love
+ = Like
* = Indifferent
# = Dislike
## = Super Dislike
^ without album titles = yet to listen

Jan:
Tonight Alive - Underworld +
The Xcerts - Hold Onto Your Heart +++
Fall Out Boy - Mania ##
Jeff Rosenstock - Post- +
Of Mice & Men - Defy +
The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer +
Waterparks - Entertainment *
Tiny Moving Parts - Swell ++
Above & Beyond - Common Ground+
Bleed American - It Probably Isn't+

Feb:
Don Broco - Technology ++
Dirty South - XV ++
Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers +++
Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows +
MGMT - Little Dark Age *
The Wombats
Franz Ferdinand
Black Panther OST *
Milestones - Red Lights ++
Secrets - Secrets +
We Were Sharks - Lost Touch *
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love ++
Senses Fail - If There Is Light, It Will Find You +
Story Untold - Waves ++
Super Whatevr - Never Nothing+

March:
Barely Civil - We Can Live Here Forever +
Andrew WK - You're Not Alone *
Red City Radio - SkyTigers ++
The Naked and Famous - A Still Heart ++
The Neighbourhood - *
The Republic of Wolves - Shrine +
Lissie - Castles ++
Punchline - Lion ++

April:
The Lawrence Arms - We Are the Champions of The World ++
Hop Along
30 Seconds to Mars - America *
The Wonder Years - Sister Cities+
Underoath - Erase Me+
Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz ++
Breaking Benjamin
Pennywise - Never Gonna Die *
Hawthorne Heights - Bad Frequencies *

May:
Frank Turner - Be More Kind+
Shinedown - Attention Attention+
Parkway Drive - Reverence *
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino*
Chvrches - Love Is Dead ++
Snow Patrol - Wildness
Now, Now - Saved ++
The Maine
Light This City - Terminal Bloom+

June:
Vacationer - Mindset+
Panic At the Disco - Pray For the Weekend*
Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch ++
Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer++
Kanye West - ye ##
Ghost - Prequelle++
Lump - Lump +
Dance Gavin Dance
Mayday Parade - Sunnyland+
The Get Up Kids - Kicker EP +

July:
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love ++
MxPx - MxPX +
Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming.. Of Days Long Past+
Hopesfall
The Hunma - Dare +++
Florence + The Machine - High As Hope +++
Fitness - Karate ++
Lydia - Liquor +
Between You & Me - Everything Is Temporary +
Brigades - True Blue EP ++
The Spill Canvas - Hivemind+

August:
Lucero - Among The Ghosts +
Trophy Eyes - The American Dream+
Foxing - Nearer My God*
Mitski - Be The Cowboy*
Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?++
Deaf Havana - Rituals++
Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today +
Murder By Death - The Other Shore +++
Plain White T's - Parallel Universe *
Third Eye Blind - Thanks For Everything*
Big Red Machine
The Kooks
Munice Girls - Fixed Ideals +
Carah Faye - Watch Me EP++
lovelytheband - finding it hard to smile +
As It Is - The Great Depression +
Amy Shark - Love Monster +

September:
Thrice - Palms+
Fatherson - Sum of All Your Parts+
The Night Game - The Night Game *
The Story So Far - Proper Dose ++
Metric - Art of Doubt +++
The Joy Formidable - Aaarth+++
Beartooth - Disease +++
The Black Queen - Infinite Games ++
Against The Current - Past Lives +
Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood++
Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me ++
Restorations - LP5000++

October:
You Me At Six - VI ++
Oakman - Plastic World EP ++
A Star Is Born - Soundtrack ++
Twenty One Pilots

 

I'll try keep this up this year

Jan:
Fall Out Boy - Mania *

 

3. cupcakKe - Ephorize ++
4. Terrible Love - Doubt Mines +
5. Free Ackrite - Out On Bail (2017) +
6. Jetty Bones - Old Women (2017) ++
7. J Stalin - Gas Nation 2 (2017) +

 

1. Jeff Rosenstock- POST- ++
2. Lizzy Farrall- All I Said Was Never heard EP +
3. Camila Cabello- Camila *
4. Hussey- Hitchens +
5. Fall Out Boy- Mania +

 

will give this a shot

January:
Camila Cabello - Camila *
Tonight Alive - Underworld +
Fall Out Boy - M A N I A *
BORNS - Blue Madonna *

February:
Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods +
Brian Fallon- Sleepwalker ++
Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows ++
Senses Fail - If There is Light, It Will Find You ++
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy *
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love +++

 

25. St. Beauty - Running To The Sun (2018)
26. Kelela - Take Me Apart (2017)
27. The Regrettes - Feel Your Feelings Fool! (2017)

 

3. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A *
4. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – Young Adult +

 

Not sure what thread to ask this in, but it’s been on the tip of my tongue and really bothering me. What metal core band recently lost a frontman and then the bass player took over vocal duties?

 

Of Mice & Men

Austin left in 2016 due to medical issues(has a heart condition I believe)

 

Thank you!!!!

 

28. SiR - November (2018)
29. Kelela - Hallucinogen (2015)
30. Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic (2018)
31. H.E.R. - H.E.R. (2017)