Top 10 Albums of 2018: 1 / Saved by Now, Now 2 / A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships by The 1975 3 / Liquor by Lydia 4 / Love Is Dead by CHVRCHES 5 / Simulation Theory by Muse 6 / Bloom by Troye Sivan 7 / Trench by Twenty One Pilots 8 / Almost Everyday by Matt and Kim 9 / Pray for the Wicked by Panic! At The Disco 10 / Adult Contemporary by Milo Greene Song of the Year: "Window" by Now, Now Runner-Up: "Sincerity Is Scary" by The 1975 Best EP of 2018: Pink Champagne by Kitten Best Music Video: "AZ" by Now, Now Runner-Up: "Sincerity Is Scary" by The 1975 Concert of the Year: Paramore w/ Foster the People / June 18 / Toronto, ON Also, might I say, my Spotify most played songs of the year playlist is the shit.
As promised, here's a hundo + some EPs 1) Hippo Campus - Bambi 2) Years & Years - Palo Santo 3) Rae Morris - Someone Out There 4) Family and Friends - Felix Culpa 5) Tash Sultana - Flow State 6) Novo Amor - Birthplace 7) Foxing - Nearer My God 8) Liza Anne - Fine But Dying 9) The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 10) Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 11) Darlingside - Extralife 12) Lucy Dacus - Historian 13) Jungle - For Ever 14) Jukebox the Ghost - Off To The Races 15) CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead 16) DJDS - Big Wave More Fire 17) Long Neck - Will This Do? 18) Shakey Graves - Can't Wake Up 19) Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked 20) The Beths - Future Me Hates Me 21) VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd 22) Loma - Loma 23) I’m With Her - See You Around 24) The Joy Formidable - Aaarth 25) Dear Rouge - Phases 26) Clarence Clarity - Think: Peace 27) Wet - Still Run 28) Lord Huron - Vide Noir 29) Trevor Powers - Mulberry Violence 30) Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 31) Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes - Wind Up Bird 32) Saintseneca - Pillar of Na 33) The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 34) Tomberlin - At Weddings 35) Kimbra - Primal Heart 36) ionnalee - EVERYONE AFRAID TO BE FORGOTTEN 37) Lucy Swann - Blue, Indigo, Violet and Death 38) Kindo - Happy However After 39) Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 40) Anderson East - Encore 41) Aisha Badru - Pendulum 42) Middle Kids - Lost Friends 43) Punch Brothers - All Ashore 44) Anderson .Paak - Oxnard 45) The Collection - Entropy 46) Brooke Annibale - Hold to the Light 47) Now, Now - Saved 48) Brockhampton - iridescence 49) Matt Corby - Rainbow Valley 50) Saba - Care For Me 51) Young the Giant - Mirror Master 52) Post Animal - When I Think of You in a Castle 53) Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs 54) Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose 55) Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 56) Twenty One Pilots - Trench 57) Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us 58) A Beacon School - Cola 59) Slothrust - The Pact 60) Maps & Atlases - Lightlessness Is Nothing New 61) serpentwithfeet - soil 62) Ohmme - Parts 63) morgxn - vital 64) S. Carey - Hundred Acres 65) Rosemary & Garlic - Rosemary & Garlic 66) Snowpoet - Thought You Knew 67) Lykke Li - so sad so sexy 68) The Hunna - Dare 69) Mouse on the Keys - tres 70) Donovan Woods - Both Ways 71) Mountain Man - Magic Ship 72) Mitski - Be The Cowboy 73) Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine 74) Avantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club 75) KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS 76) The Wild Feathers - Greetings From the Neon Frontier 77) GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star 78) How To Dress Well - The Anteroom 79) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs 80) Birdtalker - One 81) Lovelite - Apocalypse Hymnal 82) Ex:Re - Ex:Re 83) Palm - Rock Island 84) Blossoms - Cool Like You 85) Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells 86) Cecil Frena - The Gridlock 87) Video Age - Pop Therapy 88) MGMT - Little Dark Age 89) Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends 90) Justin Timberlake - Man of the Woods 91) The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl 92) Parcels - Parcels 93) Mutual Benefit - Thunder Follows the Light 94) Shake Shake Go - Homesick 95) Acollective - The Coming of Light 96) The Struts - YOUNG&DANGEROUS 97) Tune-yards - I can feel you creep in my private life 98) Trampled by Turtles - Life Is Good on the Open Road 99) Polica & stargaze - Music for the Long Emergency 100) Gabby's World - Beast on Beast EPs: 1) Aurora - Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1) (EP) 2) Yoke Lore - Absolutes (EP) 3) St Beauty - Running to the Sun (EP) 4) boygenius - boygenius (EP) 5) Emma McGrath - Silent Minds (EP) 6) Orchards - Lovers/Losers (EP) 7) YONAKA - CREATURE (EP) 8) Hatchie - Sugar & Spice (EP) 9) Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Therapy Phase 02 (EP) 10) LeBrock - Real Thing (EP)
1520 Blog: 1520's Albums Of The Year I wrote a little something about some of the albums on my list, in case anyone cares
1. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz 2. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours 3. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 4. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 5. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star 6. Mitski - Be the Cowboy 7. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today 8. Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 9. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 10. Lucy Dacus - Historian 11. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me 12. Fall Out Boy - Mania 13. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 14. Foxing - Nearer My God 15. Camp Cope - How To Socialize and Make Friends 16. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off Dog 17. Jeff Rosenstock - Post 18. Retirement Party - Somewhat Literate 19. All Get Out - No Bouquet 20. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures And my EPs list: 1. Better Love - We Were Younger and Less Put Together 2. Clear Eyes Fanzine - Season One, Episodes 1-6 3. The Flips - Exactly Where I Should Be 4. Boygenius - Boygenius 5. mewithoutYou - [untitled]
What a wild and crazy year! Both my wife and I are government employees and we have a house, a 4 year old daughter, 7 cats, 4 dogs and no income currently due to the government shutdown. These are dark times indeed. Anyway on to the music! Typically the highest ranked albums are those that got the most plays and had the largest impact on me. Sometimes its easy to go with the flow of what everyone else likes and rank highly the releases others resoundingly praise as genius but the beautiful thing about music is exactly what makes life and love beautiful. There is no right and wrong. There just is. Why do we love those we love? Why do we form a connection with certain people or certain things? When I listen to music I either connect or I don't. For instance I listened through the 1975 album and I knew instantly I was listening to the work of some amazingly talented and creative musicians but it didn't hit me. For whatever reason I didn't connect and in my opinion that is okay. That is beautiful. That is why I love music and that is why I love these EOTY lists. Here's my list of favorite releases. Ordering them was difficult: Favorite Albums of 2018 1. Senses Fail - If There Is Light, It Will Find You 2. Bearings - Blue In the Dark 3. John Nolan - Abendigo 4. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz 5. Real Friends - Composure 6. Meg Myers - Take Me To the Disco 7. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 8. Nervus - Everything Dies 9. Amy Shark - Love Monster 10. State Champs - Living Proof 11. Palisades - Erase the Pain 12. As It Is - The Great Depression 13. Tonight Alive - Underworld 14. Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked 15. Slaves - Beautiful Death 16. Dead Girls Academy - Alchemy 17. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 18. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 19. With Confidence - Love & Loathing 20. Against the Current - Past Lives 21. Hawthorne Heights - Bad Frequencies 22. Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping 23. Moose Blood - I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore 24. Mayday Parade - Sunnyland 25. The Plot In You - Dispose 26. The Story So Far - Proper Dose 27. Letters From the Fire - Letters From the Fire 28. Hail the Sun - Mental Knife 29. Lindsay Ell - The Continuum Project 30. WSTR - Identity Crisis I wish I had time to list why I loved each album and why some dropped down the list a bit but time is a tricky thing. The best of the rest: On a different day some of these listed below could be way up in the top 15. I find the mention at all here to be a way of saying, "Hey everybody, I think you should check this out." Capstan Chvrches Tapestry Boston Manor SayWeCanFly Blackout Problems Black Veil Brides Between You & Me Secrets Belmont Dead Havana Foxing Chin up, Kid The Aces Hands Like Houses Homesafe Hail the Sun Handsome Ghost Maroon 5 Milestones Muse Wild Pink CrazyEightyEight Time, the Valuator Trashboat Trophy Eyes Twenty One Pilots Underoath The Night Game Field Report Venues Warm Thoughts Watermarks Story Untold Can't Swim We Were Sharks We the Kings The Comfort Abandoned By Bears You Me At Six Lindsay Ell Savage Hands Blessthefall The 1975 Makari Some new discoveries I'm super hype for that don't have full lengths out yet. I highly recommend everyone check these bands/artists out on YouTube or Apple Music: Captives Cory Wells (this guy is going to be huge) Coincidentally the next 4 are all female fronted bands with a ton of promise: Yours Truly Crashing Atlas Dream State (released a solid EP in 2018) Ledger Some of my favorite songs 2018: (no particular order) Selfish Things - Five Years True North - Distant True North - Delusion Bearings - Blue in the Dark Meg Myers - Numb Yours Truly - High Hopes Captives - Signs Cory Wells - Avoid the Blame Amy Shark - Leave Us Alone Spanish Love Songs - Buffalo Buffalo Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - House in the Trees Nervus - Congratulations Dead Girls Academy - I'll Find a Way Senses Fail - First Breath, Last Breath Senses Fail - If There is Light, It Will Find You John Nolan - Do You Remember? John Nolan - Outside of this Tragedy Against the Current - Almost Forgot SayWeCanFly - Here's My Heart Real Friends - From the Outside Crashing Atlas - Monster Venues - The Epilogue I'm sure there's a ton I'm missing but it's getting late and I need to sleep. Enjoy anything new you check out! New addition to this post! Favorite EPs of 2018: True North - Dream / Awake Dream State - Recovery Homebound - More to Me than Misery Selfish Things - Vertical Love The Spill Canvas - Hivemind The Darkest Moment - Midnight Company of Thieves - Better Together Glass Tides - My Descend Ledger - Ledger Dead Sara - Temporary Things Taking Up Space Levy and the Oaks - Sound of the City The Material - Gray States
1.The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry About Online Relationships 2.The Wonder Years -Sister Cities 3.Ruston Kelly - Dying Star 4.Shredders- Dangerous Jumps 5.The Night Game - The Night Game 6.Thrice - Palmes 7.The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer 8.Foxing - Nearer My God 9.Hellogoodbye - S'Only Natural 10.Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 11.mewithoutYou - (untitled) 12.Four Fists - 6666 13.Hippo Campus – Bambi 14.boygenius - boygenius 15.Architects – Holy Hell 16.Birdtalker- One 17.The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours 18.Lany- Malibu Nights 19.Now, Now- Saved 20.Twenty One Pilots- Trench 21.Fall Out Boy - Mania 22.Underoath - Erase Me 23.Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures 24.Real Friends – Composure 25.Story So Far - Proper Dose 26.Basement - Beside Myself 27.Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood 28.Lydia - Liquor 29.Trophy Eyes - The American Dream 30.The Republic Of Wolves - Shrine Also, all the love for Spanish Love Songs got me to just put it on and I want to thank each of you! I have no idea how I didn't hear this yet, but damn, I am loving it.
In no particular order. Jeff Rosenstock – POST Basement – Beside Myself Band-Maid – World Domination MGMT – Little Dark Age harunemuri – harutosyura The Voidz – Virtue The Beths – Future Me Hates Me Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending Turnstile – Time & Space Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog Jo Passed – Their Prime mewithoutYou – [Untitled] Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You For Today Lume – Wrung Out Cursive – Vitriola Soccer Mommy – Clean Kero Kero Bonito – Time 'n' Place All Get Out – No Bouquet Thee Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
AOTY 2018 edition! 1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 3. BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence 4. The Night Game - The Night Game 5. Now, Now - Saved 6. Foxing - Nearer My God 7. Hippo Campus - Bambi 8. twenty one pilots - Trench 9. Troye Sivan - Bloom 10. Tokyo Police Club - TPC 11. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A 12. Hellogoodbye - S’Only Natural 13. LANY - Malibu Nights 14. Milo Greene - Adult Contemporary 15. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You For Today 16. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else 17. KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS 18. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 19. Arkells - Rally Cry 20. Robyn - Honey 21. CAMP COPE - How to Socialise & Make Friends 22. Snow Patrol - Wildness 23. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer 24. CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead 25. Denzel Curry - TA13OO 26. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 27. The Midnight - Kids 28. Parks, Squares and Alleys - Cold Blood Magic 29. Ryan Beatty - Boy in Jeans 30. IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. EPs: 1. boygenius - boygenius 2. no rome - RIP Indo Hisashi 3. Young Statues - Amarillo 4. Khalid - Suncity 5. Flint Eastwood - THIS IS A COPING MECHANISM FOR A BROKEN HEART 6. Benjamin Francis Leftwich - I Am With You P.S. Here’s a 2018 mixtape on Spotify by yours truly!
This was really hard but these are the albums that meant the most to me this year. I’m terrible with ordering as the top 7 could have all been number 1 for me.
So cool to see Bambi on top of a list, kinda felt like it went a bit under the radar. Love love that album
1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2. Caitlyn Smith - Starfire 3. Noname - Room 25 4. mewithoutYou - [untitled] 5. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends 6. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be in Love 7. The Night Game - The Night Game 8. Panic! at the Disco - Pray for the Wicked 9. Brockhampton - Iridescence 10. Gunship - Dark All Day 11. Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes - Wind Up Bird 12. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 13. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 14. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 15. Denzel Curry - TA13OO 16. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises 17. Hellogoodbye - S'Only Natural 18. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures 19. Mae - Multisensory Aesthetic Experience 20. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today These were my favourite albums of the year.
1. Now, Now - Saved 2. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 3. Beach House - 7 4. Vince Staples - FM! 5. Robyn - Honey 6. A$AP Rocky - Testing 7. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love 8. Lykke Li - so sad so sexy 9. Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning 10. BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence 11. Mitski - Be the Cowboy 12. DJDS - Big Wave More Fire 13. cupcakKe - Ephorize 14. Petal - Magic Gone 15. Rico Nasty - Nasty 16. Nicole Dollanganger - Heart Shaped Bed 17. Snail Mail - Lush 18. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises 19. Freddie Gibbs - Freddie 20. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Was actually shocked when I made this as I thought I'd barely listened to anything this year. Guess it shows how much my pattern of digesting music has changed over the years. Top 5 are basically locked in and then it basically gets more malleable from then on. Decided to include the EPs in the regular list as my #3 choice, an EP at six songs, was only one song shorter than my #2 choice, an LP lol. Ø The Dirty Nil – Master Volume Ø Restorations – LP 5000 Ø boygenius – boygenius (EP) Ø Soccer Mommy – Clean Ø Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses Ø The Interrupters – Fight the Good Fight Ø Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World Ø Shad – A Short Story About War Ø Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait for Love Ø Lucy Dacus – Historian Ø Turnstile – Time and Space Ø Ratboys – GL (EP) Ø Petal – Magic Gone Ø Single Mothers – Through A Wall Ø Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar Ø Culture Abuse – Bay Dream Ø Foxing – Nearer My God Ø Camp Cope – How to Socialise and Make Friends Ø Runaway Brother – New Pocket Ø Now, Now – Saved Ø Snail Mail – Lush Ø Tash Sultana – Flow State Ø Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot Ø Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Ø The Wonder Year – Sister Cities Ø Vein – Errorzone Ø Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog Ø The Menzingers – Toy Solider/The Freaks (Single) Ø Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me Ø mewithoutyou – [Untitled] Other albums I also liked, have only recently gotten around to, or haven’t spent enough time with Ø Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning Ø Basement – Beside Myself Ø Dead Soft – New Emotion (EP) Ø The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life Ø The Sidekicks – Happiness Hours Ø Animal Flag – Void Ripper Ø Hippo Campus – Bambi Ø Caravela - Ski Ø Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending Ø AFI – The Missing Man (EP) Ø Arkells – Rally Cry Ø Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1/LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun Ø The Republic of Wolves – Shrine Ø The Flatliners – Mass Candescence (EP) Ø Antarcticgo Vespucci – Love in the Time of E-Mail Ø Muse – Simulation Theory Ø Marmozets – Knowing What You Now Ø The Drew Thomson Foundation – Stay (EP) Ø Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves Ø Alkaline Trio – Is This Thing Cursed? Ø Mitski – Be The Cowboy Ø Half Waif – Lavender Ø Jeff Rosenstock – POST Ø Greyhaven – Empty Black Ø The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Ø The Living End – Wunderbar The Most Disappointing Albums Ø Frank Turner- Be More Kind Ø Direct Hit! – Crown of Nothing Ø Thrice - Palms
Here are my favourites, no ranking whatsoever. awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem... Advance Base - Animal Companionship Ian William Craig - Thresholder Dear Nora - Skulls Example Free Cake For Every Creature - The Bluest Star Laura Gibson - Goners Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden Hovvdy - Cranberry Lisa/Liza - Momentary Glance Many Rooms - There Is A Presence Here Gia Margaret - There’s Always Glimmer Mount Eerie - Now Only Restorations - LP5000 Wild Pink - Yolk In The Fur
Top 5 Records for 2018: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy T. Hardy Morris - Dude, the Obscure Michael Nau - Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino mewithoutYou - [Untitled] Top 5 movies for 2018: A Quiet Place Won't You Be My Neighbor Deadpool 2 Green Book Bohemian Rhapsody
Another very awkward year where i sometimes went months without loving anything. Had a hard time getting into albums that i'd otherwise go head over heels for. Very few times a single album dominated my life. Don't think i broadened my tastes that much either. Still, some unforgettable pieces of music were heard. Top 20 albums 1. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A 2. Wild Nothing - Indigo 3. Judas Priest - FIREPOWER 4. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 5. You Me At Six - IV 6. Metric - Art Of Doubt 7. Drake - Scorpion 8. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked 9. Jeff Rosenstock - POST- 10. Tiny Moving Parts – Swell 11. Foxing - Nearer My God 12. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers 13. BTS - Love Yourself: Tear 14. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love 15. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection 16. Kali Uchis - Isolation 17. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 18. Vance Joy – Nation of Two 19. Noname - Room 25 20. BØRNS - Blue Madonna Top 5 EPs 1. Hellogoodbye - Fancy Outfit 2. Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid 3. Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems, Pt. 3 4. Macross 82-99 - SAILORWAVE II 5. Perlo - Day by Day Top 5 songs (tie) 1. The 1975 - Love It If We Made It (tie) 1. Metric - Now Or Never Now 3. You Me At Six - 3AM 4. Real Friends - Composure 5. Fall Out Boy - Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) Top 15 albums - old stuff (no order) San Cisco - The Water Passion Pit - Manners Passion Pit - Gossamer Passion Pit - Kindred Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love FRMTN - Look at the Powerful People The Shins - Heartworms BTS - Love Yourself: Her Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You Against Me! - New Wave Leo Middea - A Dança do Mundo The Blue Nile - Hats Jeff Rosenstock - WORRY. Metric - Pagans In Vegas THE ORAL CIGARETTES - UNOFFICIAL
1. Foxing - Nearer My God 2. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 3. Robyn - Honey 4. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A 5. Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur 6. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides 7. Beach House - 7 8. DJDS - Big Wave More Fire 9. Camila Cabello - Camila 10. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 11. Now, Now - Saved 12. Brockhampton - Iridescence 13. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 14. Pusha T - DAYTONA 15. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 16. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today 17. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears 18. The Night Game - The Night Game 19. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy 20. Ariana Grande - Sweetener 21. Panic! At The Disco - Pray for the Wicked 22. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me 23. Tommy Cash - ¥€$ 24. Troye Sivan - Bloom 25. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 26. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 27. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer 28. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine 29. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 30. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-