For any hip hop fans looking for something different, i just discovered an artist named Smino (Thanks to Shea Serrano) and his album NOIR is one of the best things i've heard all year. Gotta listen a bit more before ranking, but it's definitely in contention for favorite hip hop album of the year.
1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 3. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 4. Proper Dose - The Story So Far 5. Waterparks - Entertainment 6. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran 7. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection 8. Kanye West - ye 9. Hot Mulligan - Pilot 10. Ninja Sex Party - Cool Patrol
1. Pusha T – DAYTONA 2. Milo – Budding Ornithologists Are Weary of Tired Analogies 3. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 4. Now, Now – Saved 5. Teyana Taylor – K.T.S.E 6. JMSN – Velvet 7. Mac Miller – Swimming 8. Brockhampton – Iridescence 9. Wet – Still Run 10. Leon Bridges – Good Thing 11. Nostrum Grocers, Milo & Elucid – Nostrum Grocers 12. Drake - Scorpion 13. Rhye – Blood 14. Freddie Gibbs – Freddie 15. How to Dress Well – The Anteroom 16. Smino - NOIR 17. MihTy, Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign – MihTy 18. Ariana Grande – Sweetener 19. A$AP Rocky – Testing 20. Lloyd – Tru 21. Blood Orange – Negro Swan 22. Saves the Day – 9 23. Mario – Dancing Shadows 24. Jacquees – 4275 25. The Internet – Hive Mind 26. Noname – Room 25 27. Alessia Cara – The Pains of Growing 28. Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past 29. Jorja Smith – Lost & Found 30. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
A quickly pulled together list, I never have particularly strong feelings about the order of these EOTY lists. 1. The Xcerts - Hold Onto Your Heart 2. Dessa - Chime 3. Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends 4. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 5. The Republic of Wolves - Shrine 6. Meursault - Fuck off Back to Art School 7. Mastersystem - Dance Music 8. Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning 9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - The More I Sleep, The Less I Dream 10. Shad - A Short Story About War 11. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 12. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 13. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury it 14. Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals 15. Hatis Noit - Illogical Dance 16. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar 17. Lucy Dacus - Historian 18. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank you For Today 19. Brockhampton - Iridescence 20. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran 21. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest 22. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me 23. Caroline Rose - Loner 24. Haley Heynderikcx - I Need to Start a Garden 25. Ivy Sole - Overgrown 26. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy 27. Long Distance Calling - Boundless 28. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes 29. Noname - Room 25 30. Shame - Songs of Praise 31. Eskimeaux - Beast on Beast 32. Four Fists - 6666 33. This Will Destroy You - New Others Part One and Two 34. Fucked up - Dose Your Dreams 35. Jeff Rosenstock - Post- 36. Saba - Care for Me 37. The Spook School - Could It Be Different? 38. Yasutaka Nakata - Digital Native 39. Young Scum - Young Scum 40. Peggy Gou - Once If anybody needs RIYLs, links etc to any of the above, please let me know. I think overall this year for me, there's been a lot of very good / great albums, but nothing I've heard has been an all-timer, one I think I'll be listening to forever album. Lots of very good music as always this year, but I probably couldn't have made a top 50 of albums that I've really enjoyed and played a lot this year.
It feels like I don't have a true number 1 this year. 2018 has certainly been a year of listening to as much new stuff possible judging off the Spotify playlist I made to track anything new I listened to this year. There's a still a pretty daunting amount of new music I'll get to in the next couple weeks. Here's what I really liked Drug Church - Cheer Snail Mail - Lush Thrice - Palms This Will Destroy You - New Others Part One This Will Destroy You - New Others Part Two Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today Tides of Man - Every Nothing Vein - Errorzone Now, Now - Saved Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus Frank Turner - Be More Kind Harms Way - Posthuman Boygenius Basement - Beside Myself Just getting into Lucy Dacus' Historian so that will definitely better, and once my 1975 vinyl arrives, my listens on that record will certainly increase.
Culture Abuse- Bay Dream Deafheaven- Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Vein- Errorzone Daughters- You Won’t Get What You Want Cult Leader- A Patient Man Self Defense Family- Have You Considered Punk Music? Drug Church- Cheer Fiddlehead- Springtime and Blind Nothing- Dance on the Blacktop Turnstile- Time & Space Special shoutout to HIRS Collective for writing the hardest riffs of 2018.
I think you could get down with River Whyless. Every time they almost become generic indie, some cool hook pops up.
This is a big list of ones I haven't heard. Could you throw me 5 you think might be in my wheelhouse? It'd be nice to catch up to some George recs BEFORE I make my list this year. Haha
I’ll make a list eventually but Saved by Now, Now and iridescence by BROCKHAMPTON are my two favorites and probably two most listened to. There were quite a few records this year that I really enjoyed but didn’t come back to. Want to make a run through all those records I haven’t listened to in a while as well as some, like Mitski, I’ve been meaning to check out.
Sure! Youtube links embedded in the name. Mastersytem: This was Scott from Frightened Rabbit's last musical project - a lot "rockier" and grungier than FR. Very very grim lyrically, especially considering what happened. Brockhampton: A great collaborative, group hip-hop project. Really fun stuff. Ivy Soul: Neo-Soul / Hip Hop / Spoken Word stuff, Lauryn Hill, Janelle Monae, Noname etc. Very lovely album. Caroline Rose: Great, dancy indie-pop stuff, quite funny and silly. Hatis Noit: Not sure how to describe this, a big weird vocal art thing, that you need to listen to with Headphones (doesn't work as much without them). Not sure what to make of it, but it's a strange and interesting 20 minute listen.
I liked it, didn’t love it. I will definitely listen again. In spots, it felt a little like a Lumineers/Of Monsters and Men folk pop project, which is to say enjoyable but not super unique. But then they’d take a left turn on the melody and things would get more interesting.
FULL LENGTHS 01) Hot Mulligan - Pilot 02) Andrés - Heroes, Villains, and All That Jazz 03) Rolo Tomassi - Love Will Die And Time Will Bury It 04) Inferi - Revenant 05) Real Friends - Composure 06) Polyphia - New Levels, New Devils 07) The Dirty Nil - Master Volume 08) Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name 09) Owane - Yeah Whatever 10) Vein - Errorzone 11) Between The Buried & Me - Automata I & II 12) Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection 13) Obscura - Diluvium 14) itoldyouiwouldeatyou - Oh, Dearism 15) Tauk - Shapeshifter II: Outbreak 16) Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 17) Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 18) The Story So Far - Proper Dose 19) Belmont - Belmont 20) Ryan Knight - Sunbelt Bliss 21) Blues Traveler - Hurry Up & Hang Around 22) Anderson East - Encore 23) Lydian Collective - Adventure 24) VEXES - Ancient Geometry 25) Within Destruction - Deathwish 26) Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream 27) Troy Roberts - Nu-Jive Perspective 28) Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 29) We Were Sharks - Lost Touch 30) Can't Swim - This Too Won't Pass EP'S 01) Brigades - True Blue (EP) 02) Cameron Graves: The Eternal Survival (EP) 03) The Get Up Kids - Kicker (EP) 04) Plini - Sunhead (EP) 05) Counterparts - Private Room (EP) 06) Youth Fountain - Youth Fountain (EP) 07) Anyone Anyway - All The Kinds of Love You'll Find (EP) 08) The Spill Canvas - Hivemind (EP) 09) Vile Ones - With Teeth (EP) 10) Pinch - It's All Over, All Forgotten (EP) 11) envy - Alnair in August (EP) 12) Virginia Creep - Dark Corners (EP) 13) We Are The Movies - ...Or Get Busy Dying (EP) 14) Summer Wars - Borrowed Time (EP) 15) Pressure Cracks - Pressure Cracks (EP) 16) Wilmette - Space To Breath (EP) 17) Thornhill - Butterfly (EP) 18) You Know The Drill - Selfhood (EP) 19) Why Nona - I've Had This Exact Dream Before (EP) 20) Black Map - Trace The Path (EP)
I'm just going to hold my place here for now and update around Christmas. I have a working list on my phone atm, but need to catch up on a bunch of records still. My AOTY is definitely Nearer My God though hands down.
mewithoutYou - [Untitled] LP / [untitled] EP Foxing - Nearer My God twenty one pilots - Trench Pianos Become Teeth - Wait For Love Republic of Wolves - Shrine
I wish every list included Polyphia. I don't know if people can comprehend what they are missing when I describe that album.
1. Foxing - Nearer My God 2. Kississippi - Sunset Blush 3. Boygenius - Boygenius EP 4. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes 5. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 6. Exitmusic - The Recognitions 7. Mewithoutyou - Untitled 8. Harrison Whitford - Afraid of Everything 9. Elizabeth Gunderson - Elephant Heart EP 10. Lucy Dacus - Historian 11. Caroline Rose - Loner 12. Adrienne Lenker - Abysskiss 13. US Girls - In a Poem Unlimited 14. Snail Mail - Lush 15. Lala Lala - The Lamb
1. Saba – CARE FOR ME 2. Mitski – Be the Cowboy 3. We Were Promised Jetpacks – The More I Sleep, the Less I Dream 4. Porches – The House 5. KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS 6. Now, Now - Saved 7. Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch 8. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You For Today 9. Saves the Day – 9 10. The Beths – Future Me Hates Me 11. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 12. Low - Double Negative 13. IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance 14. CHVRCHES – Love Is Dead 15. Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss
Hellogoodbye - S’Only Natural Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations The Plot In You - Dispose Mayday Parade - Sunnyland The Story So Far - Proper Dose State Champs - Living Proof Amy Shark - Love Monster Caitlyn Smith - Starfire The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Super Whatevr - Never Nothing Sofi Tukker - Treehouse Hot Mulligan - Pilot Real Friends - Composure Tiny Moving Parts - Swell Trophy Eyes - The American Dream Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises Chrvches - Love Is Dead Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked The Wonder Years - Sister Cities Senses Fail - If There Is Light, It Will Find You Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone Deaf Havana - Rituals The Hunna - Dare Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else Ruston Kelly - Dying Star Bearings - Blue In The Dark Homesafe - One Like Pacific - In Spite Of Me Trash Boat - Crown Shyness Nothing, nowhere. - ruiner Now, Now - Saved Household - Everything a River Should Be The Frights - Hypochondriac Lany - Malibu Nights Super American - Tequila Sunrise Ice Nine Kills - The American Scream Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection The Night Game - The Night Game With Confidence - Love & Loathing Glades - To Love You The Comfort - What It Is To Be Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass Columbus - A Hot Take On Heartbreak Between You & Me - Everything Is Temporary Elder Brother - Stay Inside Anne-Marie - Speak Your Mind worlds greatest dad - get well soon Antarctigo Vespucci - Love In The Time Of E-Mail Vince Staples - FM! EPS Brother Bird - Brother Bird Mainland - Villains The Wrecks - Panic Vertigo Sasha Sloan - Loser Boygenius - Boygenius No Rome - RIP Indo Hisashi Billy Raffoul - 1975 City Mouth - Hollows Allie X - Super Sunset Brent Walsh - Are You Even There At All? Better Love - We Were Younger and Less Put Together Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid The Candescents - Riverside Dr Wale - Self Promotion The Faim - Summer Is A Curse Betty Who - Betty Pt. 1 Dales - Demos Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Apart Dnce - People To People WILD - Laces & Layers
No order. 1. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 2. Gunna - Drip Season 3 3. Now, Now - Saved 4. Young Thug - Slime Language 5. Lil Baby & Gunna - Drip Harder 6. SahBabii - Squidtastic 7. Foxing - Nearer My God 8. Travis Scott - Astroworld 9. Nickelus F - Stuck 10. YNW Melly - I Am You 11. Freddie Gibbs - Freddie 12. Future - Beast Mode 2 13. Lil Baby - Harder Than Ever 14. Lil Keed - Trapped On Cleveland 2 15. Meek Mill - Championships 16. Playboi Carti - Die Lit 17. Quavo - Quavo Huncho 18. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours 19. Lil Baby - Street Gossip 20. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM