Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2018 • Page 11

1. Foxing - Nearer My God
2. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
3. Boygenius – boygenius EP
4. Lucy Dacus – Historian
5. Novo Amor – Birthplace
6. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
7. Dilly Dally – Heaven
8. Snail Mail – Lush
9. Saba - Care For Me
10. Noname - Room 25

11. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
12. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
13. Petal - Magic Gone
14. Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Your Frenimies
15. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
16. Rico Nasty – Nasty
17. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
18. Nickelus F – Stuck
19. Brian Fallon – Sleepwalkers
20. Mitski - Be the Cowboy

21. The Low Anthem – The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea
22. War on Women - Capture the Flag
23. Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends
24. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
25. Slow Mass - On Watch
26. Mewithoutyou – Untitled
27. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
28. Cecil Frena - The Gridlock
29. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
30. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

31. The Sonder Bombs – Modern Female Rockstar
32. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
33. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
34. Gully Boys – Not So Brave
35. Kali Uchis – Isolation
36. Rosalia – El Mal Querer
37. Kero Kero Bonito – Time’n’Place
38. Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse
39. Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
40. Whitney Ballen – You’re a Shooting Star, I’m a Sinking Ship

41. Click Clack – Blue Eyed Black Boy
42. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – King of Cowards
43. Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
44. Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine
45. Robyn – Honey
46. It Looks Sad – Sky Lake
47. Elizabeth Owens – Coming of Age
48. Rhye – Blood
49. Nyeusi – Nyeusi
50. Allie X – Super Sunset

*Ranking outside of the top thirty or so is just kind of whatever.
**Not pictured in the thing - Click Clack, Elizabeth Owens, and Laura, Laura!

AND, just because I'm gonna be that extra....honorable mentions graphic! In no order at all. That's just the rest of my list of albums that are worth the time.

*Not picture - Bodies Be Rivers, Gleeson, Nick Finzer, Thinguins, and Elder Grown

 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I5hMX1fFTJjmiX9i3Pvrv

and just for good measure there's this.

 

Well I think this is as good as it's gonna get. Very Good Year.

1. Foxing - Nearer My God
2. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
3. Brockhampton - iridescence
4. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
5. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
6. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
7. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
8. Lucy Dacus - Historian
9. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
10. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A

11. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love
12. boygenius - boygenius
13. CARE FOR ME - Saba
14. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
15. Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
16. Now, Now - Saved
17. Long Neck - Will This Do?
18. Soccer Mommy - Clean
19. Novo Amor - Birthplace
20. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities

21. Vince Staples - FM!
22. Come Over When You're Sober Pt. 2 - Lil Peep
23. Magic Gone - Petal
24. Shad - A Short Story About A War
25. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]/E.P.
26. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
27. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
28. Black Foxxes - Reioi
29. Snail Mail - Lush
30. Cecil Frena - The Gridlock

31. The Sonder Bombs - Modern Female Rockstar
32. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
33. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
34. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
35. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
36. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
37. All Get Out - No Boquet
38. Joey Purp - Quarterthing
39. Caroline Rose - LONER
40. The Night Game - The Night Game

41. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-Mail
42. Panic at the Disco - Pray For The Wicked
43. twenty one pilots - Trench
44. Hippo Campus - Bambi
45. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
46. Tierra Whack - Whack World
47. Noname - Room 25
48. Four Fists - 6666
49. Runaway Brother - New Pocket
50. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Honorable Mentions:

- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers
- Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
- Cursive - Vitriola
- Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
- Tash Sultana - Flow State

 

Here's my list. Honestly on any given day it could look completely different outside of my top 20 or so. Foxing blew pretty much everything else out of the water for me this year. My most anticipated and they delivered much more than I could have expected. Overall I had an amazing year exposing myself to way more music than I ever have in a single year. I listened to about 175 albums in total. Hoping to break 200 in 2019!

1. Foxing - Nearer My God
   
   
2. Basement - Beside Myself
   
   
3. boygenius - boygenius
   
   
4. Snail Mail - Lush
   
   
5. Jeff Rosenstock - Post
   
   
6. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
   
   
7. Vacationer - Mindset
   
   
8. Culture Abuse - Bay Dreams
   
   
9. Lucy Dacus - Historian
   
   
10. Caravela - Ski
    
    
11. Holy Fawn - Death Spell
    
    
12. Drug Church - Cheer
    
    
13. Sleep - The Sciences
    
    
14. Kraus - Path
    
    
15. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus
    
    
16. Fiddlehead - Springtime & Blind
    
    
17. Wild Nothing - Indigo
    
    
18. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
    
    
19. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
    
    
20. SOM - The Fall
    
    
21. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
    
    
22. Vince Staples - FM!
    
    
23. Donovan Wolfington - Waves
    
    
24. Judas Priest - Firepower
    
    
25. Cheem - CheemTV
    
    
26. Interpol - Marauder
    
    
27. John Nolan - Abendigo
    
    
28. Denzel Curry - TA13OO
    
    
29. Saves The Day - 9
    
    
30. Liz Cooper & The Stampede - Window Flowers
    
    
31. MGMT - Little Dark Age
    
    
32. Maxo Kream - Punken
    
    
33. The Midnight - Kids
    
    
34. Nothing - Dance On The Blacktop
    
    
35. Harm's Way - Posthuman
    
    
36. Shame - Songs Of Praise
    
    
37. Soccer Mommy - Clean
    
    
38. Yowler - Black Dog In My Path
    
    
39. Underoath - Erase Me
    
    
40. Bad Bad Hats - Lightning Round
    
    
41. White Denim - Performance
    
    
42. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
    
    
43. Slow Crush - Aurora
    
    
44. Hockey Dad - Blend Inn
    
    
45. Natalie Prass - The Future & The Past
    
    
46. King Tuff - The Other
    
    
47. YOB - Our Raw Heart
    
    
48. Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape
    
    
49. REZN - Calm Black Water
    
    
50. Beach House - 7
    

 

1). Saba - Care For Me
2). Vein - Errorzone
3). Mitski - Be the Cowboy
4). Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind
5). Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
6). Phonte - No News Is Good News
7). Petal - Magic Gone
8). Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus
9). Jesus Piece - Only Self
10). Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
11). Harms Way - Posthuman
12). Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
13). Jon Hopkins - Singularity
14). Mindforce - Excalibur
15). Turnstile - Time and Space
16). Screaming Females - All At Once
17). Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
18). Cult Leader - A Patient Man
19). Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
20). Vince Staples - FM!

No real order after the top 5

 

Damn totally forgot about that amazing Phonte album

 

It got overlooked imo, not a single second of filler

 

I love Phonte but I thought the production wasn’t all the great. I want Little Brother back.

 

1) The Republic of Wolves - Shrine
2) Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
3) Foxing - Nearer My God
4) Oso Oso - the yunahon mixtape
5) Rainbow Kitten Surprise - How To: Friend, Love, Freefall
6) McCafferty - Yarn
7) Middle Kids - Lost Friends
8) All Get Out - No Bouquet
9) Meg Myers - Take Me to the Disco
10) Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Just missed the top 10: Fatherson - Sum of All Your Parts and Black Foxxes - Reidi

Bonus sampler link:

 

4 of your top 10 are in mine so I decided to check out artists that I never heard of from your list. I'm digging them, thanks man.

 

Probably the most overlooked album of 2018.

 

1. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
2. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
3. We Were Promised Jetpacks - The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
4. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
5. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer
6. Amy Shark - Love Monster
7. Father John Misty - Gods Favorite Customer
8. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
9. Fall Out Boy - MANIA
10. Story So Far - Proper Dose

Very excited to really dive into some artists on your lists and see how my list changes over time. Honestly this entire thread is my favorite thing to read on the Internet year after year.

I highly recommend the We Were Promised
Jetpacks album. It has the sound/vibe of bands such as Turnover, but with a glorious Scottish accent.

 

1. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
2. Mindforce - Excalibur
3. Drug Church - Cheer
4. Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
5. Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur
6. Respire - Denouement
7. Hurry - Every Little Thought
8. Brockhampton - Iridescence
9. The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
10. Lucero - Among the Ghosts

11 - 25
Shame - Songs of Praise
Nicole Dollanganger - Heart Shaped Bed
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Locktender - Friedrich
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
awakebutstillinbed - What People Call Low Self-Esteem…
Denzel Curry - TA13OO
Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
The Penske File - Salvation
Tomberlin - At Weddings
Jesus Piece - Only Self
Aspiga - Dragged Through the Years
Candy - Good to Feel
Yowler - Black Dog in My Path
Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone


25 - 50
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
Delinquents - Quest For Truth
Harakiri For the Sky - Arson
Harm’s Way - Posthuman
Closer - All This Will Be
Tides of Man - Every Nothing
Hospital Job - Haze Like Me
Infant Island - ST
Restorations - LP5000
Science Club - Prom
Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
This Will Destroy You - New Others Parts One & Two
Puce Mary - The Drought
Sectioned - Annihilated
Basement - Beside Myself
Whitney Ballen - You’re a Shooting Star, I’m a Sinking Ship
Typesetter - Nothing Blues
Holy Fawn - Death Spells
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want
Portrayal of Guilt - Let Pain Be Your Guide
Svalbard - It’s Hard to Have Hope
Caroline Rose - Lonely
itoldyouiwouldeatyou - oh dearism
Boreen - Lovely

Top 10 non-albums
Mouthbreather - Dollmeat
Dead Heat - 2018 Summer Promo
Death of a Nation - ST
Gulch - Burning Desire to Draw Last Breath
Detain - Capital Punishment
Strange Ranger - How it All Went By
boygenius - ST
Hodera - Besides
Ellis - The Fuzz
Youth Fountain - ST

 

My top 25 albums of 2018 (sorted by release date)

1. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
2. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer
3. Don Broco - Technology
4. Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows
5. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
6. Lucy Dacus - Historian
7. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic
8. The Longshot - Love Is For Losers
9. Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys
10. Matt & Kim - Almost Everyday
11. State Champs - Living Proof
12. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked
13. The Interrupters - Fight The Good Fight
14. Rise Against - The Ghost Note Symphonies, Vol 1
15. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
16. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
17. Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood
18. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
19. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me
20. Bearings - Blue In The Dark
21. Basement - Beside Myself
22. MØ - Forever Neverland
23. Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping
24. Normandie - White Flag
25. Steve Aoki - Neon Future III

 

This is a rough ordering:
The Armed - ONLY LOVE
MouthBreather - Dollmeat
KEN mode - Loved
Black Matter Device - Modern Frenetics
GODCOLLIDER - GODCOLLIDER
mewithoutYou - [untitled]
Jesus Horse - It Was The Blurst Of Times
IDLES - Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
NoiSays - NoiSays

And 2018's 2017 album of the year:
SOUNDING - Trepanation

 

Here it is folks:

First the honorable mentions:

Playboi Carti - Die Lit
Natalie Prass - The Future and The Past
Half Waif - Lavender
Sister Cities - The Wonder Years
Lost & Found - Jorja Smith
Now, Now - Saved
Ariana Grande - sweetener
Royce da 5'9" - Book of Ryan
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
St. Vincent - MassEducation
The Carters - EVERYTHING IS LOVE
Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations

Now DA TOP TWENTY

1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
   
2. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
   
3. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
   
4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
   
5. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
   
6. boygenius - boygenius
   
7. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
   
8. Soccer Mommy - Clean
   
9. Noname - Room 25
   
10. J.I.D - DiCapro 2
    
11. Saba - CARE FOR ME
    
12. Brockhampton - iridescence
    
13. Mac Miller - Swimming
    
14. Pusha-T - Daytona
    
15. Superorganism - Superorganism
    
16. Ozuna - Aura
    
17. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star
    
18. Saves The Day - 9
    
19. Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers - Bought to Rot
    
20. Shad - A Short Story About A War

 

1. soccer mommy - clean
2. hovvdy - cranberry
3. snail mail - lush
4. sophie - oil of every pearl's un-insides
5. the 1975 - a brief inquiry into online relationships
6. earl sweatshirt - some rap songs
7. foxing - nearer my god
8. let's eat grandma - i'm all ears
9. daughters - you won't get what you want
10. dj koze - knock knock

11. mac miller - swimming
12. joyce manor - million dollars to kill me
13. robyn - honey
14. kids see ghosts - kids see ghosts
15. jon hopkins - singularity
16. denzel curry - ta13OO
17. the body - i have fought against it, but i can’t any longer
18. a.a.l - 2012 - 2017
19. hop along - bark your head off, dog
20. gulfer - dog bless

 

My top 10 LPs and 3 EPs:

LPs:
1. Foxing - Nearer My God
2. Underoath - Erase Me
3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Lydia - Liquor
5. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
6. mewithoutYou - Untitled
7. Emery - Eve
8. Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone
9. Black Foxxes - reidi
10. Senses Fail - If There Is Light It Will Find You

EPs:
1. Gretta Ray - Here and Now
2. Minus The Bear - Fair Enough
3. Dream State - Recovery

I also wrote a bit about each of these if anybody is so inclined to read more:
2018 Albums of the Year

 

Good Tiger gettin’ some love

 

Fallon!

 

I forgot to post oops:

1. Foxing - Nearer My God
2. Lucy Dacus - Historian
3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
4. Snail Mail - Lush
5. Boygenius - S/T
6. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
7. Now, Now - Saved
8. Soccer Mommy - Clean
9. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
10. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
11. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
12. Petal - Magic Gone
13. Kississippi - Sunset Blush
14. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
15. Shortly - Richmond

 

In no order...

Drug Church - Cheer
Vein - Errorzone
Mindforce - Excalibur
Erra - Neon
Gruesome - Twisted Prayers
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Khemmis - Desolation
Thrice - Palms
Candy - Good To Feel
Turnstile - Time and Space
Harms Way - Post Human
Creeping Death - Specter of War
Pusha T - Daytona
Nickelus F - Stuck
Joey Purp - Quaterthing
Saba - Care For Me
Young Thug - Slime Language
Maxo Kream - Punken

that's (almost) 20

 

No order:

The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
Boygenius - S/T
Mac Miller - Swimming
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Panic! at the Disco - Pray for the Wicked
Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
Ariana Grande - Sweetner
Foxing - Nearer My God
Travis Scott - Astroworld
Twenty One Pilots - Trench

Honorable Mentions (also no order):

Various Artists - Black Panther OST
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Thrice - Palms
Underoath - Erase Me
Gorillaz - The Now Now
Fall Out Boy - MANIA
As It Is - The Great Depression
Basement - Beside Myself
Beartooth - Disease
Architects - Holy Hell
Justin Courtney Pierre - In the Drink
The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
CrazyEightyEight - Burning Alive
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers
Real Friends - Composure
State Champs - Living Proof

EDIT: Added a few more honorable mentions I forgot about

 

Songs:

25. Speak Low If You Speak Love - Enough
24. Bring Me The Horizon - MANTRA
23. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
22. With Confidence - Icarus
21. Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping
20. Twenty One Pilots - My Blood
19. Real Friends - Me First
18. R I L E Y - Let You Down
17 Crazy Eighty Eight - Fortune & Glory Kid
16. Cherry Pools - Hollywood
15. Dance Gavin Dance - Care
14. State Champs - Crystal Ball
13. Set It Off - Killer In The Mirror
12. Point North - Ghost In My Home
11. 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood
10. Xavier Mayne - Shleepin'
9. Boston Manor - Halo
8. Like Pacific - Sedatives
7. Beartooth - Disease
6. Picturesque - Dead Flowers
5. Chase Atlantic - Like A Rockstar
4. Don Broco - Come Out To LA
3. Ariana Grande - thank u, next
2. As It Is - The Wounded World
1. The 1975 - Love It If We Made It
Honorable Mention: Rarity - I'll Come Around

Albums/EPs:

30. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked
29. Tonight Alive - Underworld
28. idkhow - 1981 EP
27. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
26. This Wild Life - Petaluma

25. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
23. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
23. Black Veil Brides - Vale
22. Sylar - Seasosn
21. Sharptooth - Clever Girl
20. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
19. Underoath - Erase Me
18. Real Friends - Composure
17. The Plot In You - Dispose
16. Waterparks - Entertainment
15. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
14. WSTR - Identity Crisis
13. 5 Seconds Of Summer Youngblood
12. Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream
11. Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping
10. With Confidence - Love & Loathing
9. Like Pacific - In Spite Of Me
8. Cherry Pools - Less Religion, More Sex
7. Boston Manor - Welcome To The Neighborhood
6. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
5. State Champs - Living Proof
4. CrazyEightyEight - Burning Alive
3. Beartooth - Disease
2. Don Broco - Technology
1. As It Is - The Great Depression

 

Mine:

1 Foxing - Nearer My God
2 The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry About Online Relationships
3 mewithoutYou - (untitled)
4 Mitski - Be the Cowboy
5 Beach House - 7
6 Car Seat Headrest -Twin Fantasy
7 Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
8 Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
9 Jeff Rosenstock -POST-
10 The Wonder Years -Sister Cities
11 Death Cab for Cutie- Thank You For Today
12 Antarcticgo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-mail
13 Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
14 Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
15 Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
16 Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
17 Cursive - Vitriola
18 Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever - Hope Down
19 Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
20 Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
21 The Voidz - Virtue
22 Pinegrove - Skylight
23 boygenius - boygenius
24 Iceage - Beyondless
25 Interpol - Marauder
26 The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
27 Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
28 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
29 Thrice - Palmes
30 Restorations - LP5000