Best Musical Moments of 2018

What individual moments (recorded or live) are defining moments for you of 2016? It's a really loose definition, but I feel these are the things that people take most with them.

Some of my favorites...

• "Pillar of Truth" by Lucy Dacus - The way she shrieks "my soul screams OUT TO YOU" at the end of the bridge sounds like she's breaking through the veil of death.
• "Me & My Dog" by boygenius - Phoebe Bridgers yelling the shit out of the high harmonies in the bridge (especially live) is f**king awesome. Definitely want her to explore that more.
• "Son of a Highway Daughter" by Ruston Kelly - The outro of this weird Bon Iver country song turns into this rumbling mantra of "that town kept calling me", like a car picking up speed until it breaks the horizon line.
• "The Opener" by Camp Cope - Every bite and snarl of this song's lyrics.
• "God's Favorite Customer" by Father John Misty - How the Wurlitzer sounds like a late night in Manhattan.
• "Everything I Need" by Field Report - The climax of the final verse.
  
• "Love It If We Made It" by The 1975 - The harmonies on "MADE IT" that arise in the back half of the song and the mechanical squeal that follows.
• "I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)" by The 1975 - "Concrete shoes" and swirling guitars.
• So many 1975 ones that I want to leave them for other folks.

 

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The bridge to this song.

Well, the entire album as a whole is great haha

 

My top ten (no order):

“Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore” by mewithoutYou - Aaron’s emotional breakdown after the 2 min mark. Feels like a moment their entire career has built up to. “Andavanay!!! Andavanay!!!”

“Drowned in Living Waters” by Valleyheart - The guitar breakdown followed by the line “I know there’s something to be said of all this noise inside my head”. It’s the first sliver of light after a particularly punishing batch of songs and it ends me every time.

“Slow Burn” by Kacey Musgraves - Just the whole thing. What an opening to an album. It’s like the word “comfort” summed up in a song.

“Marjorie” by Andrew Osenga - “You’ll be ready when the good days come. And they will come.” Breathtaking.

“Grand Paradise” by Foxing - The bridge. One of the most unique, intense, and addicting melodies I’ve ever heard. When I listen to this song, I go back and play from this part at least twice every time.

“Summer Years” by Death Cab - That chorus sums up all the reasons I love this band.

“Jumpsuit” & “Levitate” by twenty one pilots - The seamless transition between these two entirely different songs is so flipping cool I can’t take it.

“Feel Alive” by Tiny Moving Parts - That entire end section from “Reflective monologue!” onward is perfect.

“Our Love is a Painted Picture” by Mae - That post-rock crescendo a little over halfway through the song. Bliss.

“Is He Worthy?” by Andrew Peterson - Whole thing, but especially hearing it live at the beginning of this year before the album dropped. It blew up in a ton of churches and it’s the best liturgical song I’ve heard in a long time (and favorite song of the year alongside “Michael”).

 

The change up in Hop Along’s “Not Abel”

 

The section that starts “ashing cigarettes on gravestones”