If anything, Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco is at the very least the most overlooked album of this year. Bums me to only see it on a handful of lists. In any case, Happy New Year everyone!
the only list that matters: LPs Hop Along /// Bark Your Head Off, Dog Forth Wanderers /// Forth Wanderers Lil Reek /// The Graduation SOPHIE /// OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES The 1975 /// A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationship Foxing /// Nearer My God Rosalia /// El Mal Querer Birds in Row /// We Already Lost the World Yves Tumor /// Safe In the Hands of God Cecil Frena /// The Gridlock EPs Strange Ranger /// How It All Went By Another Michael /// Land Empath /// Liberating Guilt and Fear Hatchie /// Sugar & Spice Beach Bunny /// Prom Queen Young Thug /// On The Rvn Turtlenecked /// High Scores of the Heart Oliver Houston /// Mixed Reviews Kilo Kish /// Mothe Everywhen /// Summer Singles
Now, Now- Saved The 1975 - A brief... Andrew McMahon - upsidedown flowers Wonder years - sister cities Kacey - golden hour Mumford - Delta Pale waves - my mind makes noises Tiny moving parts - swell Justin Timberlake - Man of the woods The sonder bombs - modern female rockstar
Top 10 albums 10. IDLES - Joy As An Act of Resistance 9. Pusha T - DAYTONA 8. Denzel Curry - Ta13oo 7. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 6. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me 5. Vince Staples - FM! 4. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD 3. Twenty One Pilots - Trench 2. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 1. BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence
1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 2. Punchline - LION 3. Charlie Puth - Voicenotes 4. The Night Game - The Night Game 5. Elder Brother - Stay Inside 6. Fall Out Boy - Mania 7. Camila Cabello - Camila 8. Speak Low If You Speak Love - Nearsighted 9. McCafferty - Yarn 10. Janelle Monaé - Dirty Computer 11. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 12. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 13. Household - Everything A River Should Be 14. All Get Out - No Boquet 15. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 16. CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead 17. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 18. Mat Kearney - CRAZYTALK 19. Underoath - Erase Me 20. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today 21. State Champs - Living Proof 22. Real Friends - Composure 23. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 24. Mayday Parade - Sunnyland 25. The Academic - Tales From The Backseat 26. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Weekend 27. Mimicking Birds - Layers Of Us 28. Barely Civil - We Can Live Here Forever 29. Cursive - Vitriola 30. Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations Plenty of good music this year, but a little heavy on B/B+ material and not much in the way of A/A+ albums. There were a lot of records with a handful of solid songs, but not that many that I think are great top-to-bottom. Definitely didn't make it easy to put my list together. Overall, this was probably one of the weaker years of the 2010s for me from an album perspective. With that said, here are some records I didn't see too many people talking about that I think are pretty good and deserve more attention: The Night Game - The Night Game (80's-type rock pop) Elder Brother - Stay Inside (heavy alternative americana) McCafferty - Yarn (neurotic, brash soft/loud punk) Household - Everything A River Should Be (moody, intricate alternative) Mat Kearney - CRAZYTALK (mostly acoustic/electronic pop) Real Friends - Composure (sad pop punk) The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic (80's-type alternative pop) The Academic - Tales From The Backseat (basically Neon Trees) Barely Civil - We Can Live Here Forever (sad, gritty singalongs) With Confidence - Love And Loathing (very melodic pop punk)
Top 30 Albums & EPs Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection Real Friends - Composure Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood Halestorm - Vicious Fit For a King - Dark Skies Meg Myers - Take Me to the Disco The Amity Affliction - Misery As It Is - The Great Depression Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass Harms Way - Posthuman Beartooth - Disease The Plot in You - Dispose Chelsea Grin - Eternal Nightmare Ghost - Prequelle Breaking Benjamin - Ember Twenty One Pilots - Trench blessthefall - Hard Feelings Our Hollow Our Home - In Moment // In Memory Godsmack - When Legends Rise Trash Boat - Crown Shyness Tiny Moving Parts - Swell The Material - Gray States EP The Agony Scene - Tormentor Jeff Rosenstock - -post Welshly Arms - No Place is Home Drake - Scorpion Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else Brigades - True Blue EP The Wonder Years - Sister Cities Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
I admire your enthusiasm. I think you've mentioned her album enough to where anyone checking this thread is going to consider giving it a listen. However, I'm worried you're going to reach the law of diminishing returns with these posts. People who subscribe to threads (like me) are going to catch on that these Meg Myers posts are a bit cyclical.
My list and write up here (with Apple Music and Spotify playlists): Best Albums of 2018 10. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 9. The Magic Gang - Self Titled 8. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You For Today 7. Tash Sultana - Flow State 6. Soccer Mommy - Clean 5. Israel Nash - Lifted 4. Leon Bridges - Good Thing 3. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending 2. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer 1. Jump Little Children - Sparrow
I’m not sure what my list looks like. But I know that Wait for Love was my favorite release of the year.
Gonna repost these now that the year is done. EOTY 2018 list 1. Andrew McMahon- Upside Down Flowers 2. Hawthorne Heights- Bad Frequencies 3. Alkaline Trio- Is This Thing Cursed? 4. Coheed And Cambria- The Unheavenly Creatures 5. Senses Fail- If There Is Light, It Will Find You 6. Trash Boat- Crown Shyness 7. The Sonder Bombs- Modern Female Rockstar 8. John Nolan- Abendigo 9. Thrice- Palms 10. Light Years- Afterlife Honorable mentions (11-40) 11. All Get Out- No Bouquet 12. Beartooth- Disease 13. Real Friends- Composure 14. mewithoutyou- [untitled] 15. Out Of Service- Morning 16. Mike Shinoda- Post Traumatic 17. Mitski- Be The Cowboy 18. Sevendust- All I See Is War 19. Trophy Eyes- The American Dream 20. Even The Trees- If Only Every Day Could Be Like This 21. Basement- Beside Myself 22. Cecil Frena- The Gridlock 23. Underoath- Erase Me 24. Carb On Carb- For Ages 25. Tiny Moving Parts- Swell 26. Toy Cars- Paint Brain 27. Stand Atlantic- Skinny Dipping 28. Ogikubo Station- We Can Pretend Like 29. Pianos Becomes The Teeth- Wait For Love 30. Boston Manor- Welcome To The Neighbourhood 31. Spanish Love Songs- Schmultz 32. Black Foxxes- Reioi 33. Architects- Holy Hell 34. Hopesfall- Arbiter 35. Foxing- Nearer My God 36. Emery- Eve 37. Brian Fallon- Sleepwalkers 38. The Creeps- Beneath The Pines 39. Colour & Shade- Colour & Shade 40. Emecia- Familiar Spirits EPs, Deluxes & Oddities 1. boygenius- boygenius 2. Harsh Lights- Overthinking 3. William Ryan Key- Thirteen 4. AFI- The Missing Man 5. Silverstein- The Afterglow/Aquamarine Acoustic 6. Jimmy Eat World- Love Never/ Half Heart 7. William Ryan Key- Virtue 8. Starset- Vessels 2.0 9. New Found Glory- Makes Me Sick Again 10. Bayside- Acoustic Volume 2 And as a bonus: Top 20 songs of 2018: 1. Hawthorne Heights- Bad Frequencies 2. Andrew McMahon- House In The Trees 3. Alkaline Trio- Demon and Division 4. Conditions- Give It All 5. Coheed And Cambria- Old Flames 6. Senses Fail- First Breath, Last Breath 7. Thrice- Everything Belongs 8. The Sonder Bombs- Title 9. Trash Boat- Love Hate React Relate 10. John Nolan- Do You Remember? 11. Mitski-Nobody 12. Out Of Service- Kestrel 13. Mike Shinoda- Over Again 14. Sevendust- Not Original 15. Boygenius- Me & My Dog 16. Harsh Lights- Light The Way 17. Real Friends- Ripcord 18. Even The Trees- Hollowed Out 19. Trophy Eyes- More Like You 20. Basement- Be Here Now
This year I've listened to the most amount of music of any year I can remember and I still don't think I've scratched the surface of all the amazing stuff out there. The top 7 could all of have been number one at different points of the year but that Pianos album just kept pulling me back in. 1. Pianos become the teeth - wait for love 2. Foxing - nearer my God 3. Spanish love songs - schmaltz 4. Hop along - Bark your head off, dog 5. Novo amor - Birthplace 6. Barely civil - We can love here forever 7. Wild pink - yolk in the fur 8. Boysin - still small 9. Hussey - Hitchens 10. Itoldyouiwouldeatyou - oh Dearism 11. Cursive - Vitriola 12. Natalie Evans - better at night 13. Save face - merci 14. Good looking friends - settle in decay 15. All get out - no bouquet 16. Soccer mommy - clean 17. Listener - being empty: being filled 18. Out of service - morning 19. No stranger - in tangible company 20. Cloud district - don't give up, skeleton Honourable mentions Animal flag - void ripper The flats - nobody Mewithoutyou - untitled Warm thoughts - I went swimming alone We were promised jetpacks - the more i sleep the less i dream Charmer - charmer Tiny moving parts - swell It looks sad - sky lake Camp cope - how to socialise and make friends Family and friends - Felix culpa Bobby Barnett - steady ache Snail mail - Lush Graduating life - grad life Fiddlehead - springtime and blind Donovan wolfington - waves Culture abuse - bay dream The sidekicks - happiness hour Gatherers - we are alive beyond repair Haley Heynderickx - I need to start a garden Toy cars - Paint brain EPs Mewithoutyou - untitled EP Boygenius - boygenius EP Mandancing - hands on 3 EP Shortly - Richmond EP Origami angel - Doing the most EP Everywhen - summer singles EP Walter, etc - Chaparral EP Manchester orchestra - the black mile demos EP Broken hearts are blue - here is always nowhere Stars hollow - happy again EP
Since we're in 2019 now. I'll post mine. Alphabetical order, I don't really distinguish between top 20 on my lists American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This Beach House - 7 Birds in Row - We Already Lost the World Boygenius - Boygenius Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Drug Church - Cheer Foxing - Nearer My God Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Jeff Rosenstock - Post. Jon Hopkins - Singularity Mitski - Be The Cowboy Robyn - Honey Shame - Songs of Praise Soccer Mommy - Clean Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur The Wonder Years - Sister Cities The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships Playlist of my favourite songs off the above Apple Music | Spotify
Matt Chylak's 50 Albums of the Year: 1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships --- 2. Lucy Dacus - Historian 3. Soccer Mommy - Clean 4. Rayland Baxter - Wide Awake 5. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star 6. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 7. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer --- 8. Petal - Magic Gone 9. Field Report - Summertime Songs 10. boygenius - boygenius 11. 6LACK - East Atlanta Love Letter 12. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E. 13. Pusha T - DAYTONA 14. Brothers Osborne - Port Saint Joe 15. Lori McKenna - The Tree --- 16. Caroline Rose - LONER 17. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears 18. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 19. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me 20. Wooden Shjips - V. 21. Now, Now - Saved 22. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine 23. Nao - Saturn 24. Christine and the Queens - Chris 25. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy 26. Drake - Scorpion --- 27. Tierra Whack - Whack World 28. Leon Bridges - Good Thing 29. Charlie Puth - Voicenotes 30. Mt. Joy - Mt. Joy 31. Robyn - Honey 32. Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS WAVE 33. Restorations - LP5000 34. Steve Moakler - Born Ready 35. The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 36. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else 37. Bahamas - Earthtones 38. The Night Game - The Night Game 39. Natalie Prass - The Future and The Past 40. ROSALÍA - El Mal Querer 41. MGMT - Little Dark Age 42. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 43. Superorganism - Superorganism 44. Westerman - Ark EP 45. Liz Cooper & the Stampede - Window Flowers 46. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 47. JID - DiCaprio 2 48. Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends 49. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden 50. American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this
10 Emery - Eve 9 Tiny moving parts - swell 8 culture abuse - bay dream 7 mewithoutyou - untitled 6 basement - beside myself 5 hopesfall - arbiter 4 The 1975 - a brief inquiry into online relationships 3 the story so far - proper dose 2 greyhaven - empty black 1 Foxing - nearer my god Honorary Mentions The threats - saboteur Boygenius - boygenius Pianos become the teeth - wait for love The dirty nil - Master volume The wonder years - sister cities Joyce manor - million dollars to kill me Underoath- erase me
1. Now, Now - Saved 2. The Creeps - Beneath The Pines 3. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz 4. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 5. Hellions - Rue 6. Nathan Gray - Feral Hymns 7. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E. 8. Svallbard - It's Hard To Have Hope 9. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 10. Tightwire - Six Feet Deep 11. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 12. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 13. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream 14. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 15. Hellogoodbye - S'Only Natural 16. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer 17. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed 18. Senses Fail - If There Is A Light, It will Find You 19. Mercy Union - The Quarry 20. Pusha T - Daytona 21. Drug Church - Cheer 22. Young Thug - Slime Language 23. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today 24. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 25. Underoath - Erase Me 26. Kanye West - Ye 27. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer 28. Fall Out Boy - Mania 29. Vacationer - Mindset 30. Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone
2018 Albums: 1. Foxing – Nearer My God 2. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino 3. Porches – The House 4. Parquet Courts – Wide Awaaake! 5. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs 6. Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 7. Kali Uchis – Isolation 8. John Parish – Bird Dog Dante 9. Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo 10. Mew & Copenhagen Philharmonic – Mew With The Copenhagen Philharmonic 11. Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie 12. Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 13. Atmosphere – Mi Vida Local 14. Ex:Re – S/T 15. Coheed And Cambria – Vaxis Act I The Unheavenly Creatures 16. Lets Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears 17. Murder By Death – The Other Shore 18. MGMT – Little Dark Age 19. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? 20. Big Red Machine – S/T Honorable Mentions: Mitski - Be The Cowboy Polica & s t a r g a z e - Music For the Long Emergency Lydia - Liquor Jon Batiste - Hollywood Africans Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses Can't Swim - This Too Won't Pass probably could name about a dozen more, was a grand year overall EPs: boygenuis – S/T No Rome – RIP Indo Hisashi Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch Kilo Kish – mothe Houses – Drugstore Heaven Pete Yorn & ScarJo - Apart Minus The Bear - Fair Enough (RIP one of my all time favorite bands) Best Reissues or Remasters: The Hold Steady – Stay Positive Phobe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps Live Albums: The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer 7/27/18 Live In Philly Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Distant Sky
1. Twenty One Pilots - Trench 2. Joji - Ballads 1 3. Post Malone - Beerbongs and Bentleys 4. BROCKHAMPTON - Iridescence 5. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 6. Real Friends - Composure 7. Waterparks - Entertainment 8. Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighborhood 9. The Story So Far - Proper Dose 10. With Confidence - Love and Loathing