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
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! Foxing - Nearer My God Basement - Beside Myself boygenius - boygenius Snail Mail - Lush Jeff Rosenstock - Post Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food Vacationer - Mindset Culture Abuse - Bay Dreams Lucy Dacus - Historian Caravela - Ski Holy Fawn - Death Spell Drug Church - Cheer Sleep - The Sciences Kraus - Path Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus Fiddlehead - Springtime & Blind Wild Nothing - Indigo Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel The Dirty Nil - Master Volume SOM - The Fall mewithoutYou - [Untitled] Vince Staples - FM! Donovan Wolfington - Waves Judas Priest - Firepower Cheem - CheemTV Interpol - Marauder John Nolan - Abendigo Denzel Curry - TA13OO Saves The Day - 9 Liz Cooper & The Stampede - Window Flowers MGMT - Little Dark Age Maxo Kream - Punken The Midnight - Kids Nothing - Dance On The Blacktop Harm's Way - Posthuman Shame - Songs Of Praise Soccer Mommy - Clean Yowler - Black Dog In My Path Underoath - Erase Me Bad Bad Hats - Lightning Round White Denim - Performance Kurt Vile - Bottle It In Slow Crush - Aurora Hockey Dad - Blend Inn Natalie Prass - The Future & The Past King Tuff - The Other YOB - Our Raw Heart Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape REZN - Calm Black Water 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
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.
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 Mitski - Be The Cowboy Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships boygenius - boygenius Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Soccer Mommy - Clean Noname - Room 25 J.I.D - DiCapro 2 Saba - CARE FOR ME Brockhampton - iridescence Mac Miller - Swimming Pusha-T - Daytona Superorganism - Superorganism Ozuna - Aura Ruston Kelly - Dying Star Saves The Day - 9 Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers - Bought to Rot 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
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