Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2018 • Page 4

Nick F appearance!

 

Man I listened to that album soo much. He’s the best.

 

1) Thee Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
2) Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
3) The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
4) Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
5) Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
6) Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
7) Idles - Joy As An Act of Rebellion
8) Current Joys - A Different Age
9) Slothrust - The Pact
10) Lala Lala - The Lamb

This will probably change, but where I'm at for now

 

1. Press Club - Late Teens
2. 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
3. Armed - Only Love
4. Now, Now - Saved
5. State Champs - Living Proof
6. Shook Ones - Body Feel
7. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else
8. Daphne And Celeste - Save The World
9. Rival Consoles - Persona
10. Camp Cope - How To Socialise And Make Friends
11. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
12. Chastity - Death Lust
13. Machine Girl - The Ugly Art
14. Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On
15. Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens

This year has been great, up there with 2011 and 2015 in terms of quality

 

I don't have a list so this is the best I could do,
Mewithoutyou, Deafheaven and the 1975 released my favorite albums, any of them would've been number one last year. That phoebe bridges album from last year finally hit me so I'll give that a shout. Pretty good year imo

 

reading through this topic reminds me of the old Sound Opinions Message Board aoty topics; so much stuff I've never heard of, and so little crossover.

also posted last month in the mid-year thread as well

All Media Reviews: Albums of the Year 2017-2018 (11/1/17-10/31/18)

Live Albums

Fates Warning - Live Over Europe
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band Redux - Live at the Troubadour
iamthemorning - Ocean Sounds
Renaissance A Symphonic Journey


Meh
Canon Blue - Lasso Yo
Bill Hubauer - We Came from Space
Greta Van Fleet - Greta Van Fleet
Nicholas Krgovich - In an Open Field
Nicholas Krgovich - OUCH
Nile Rodgers and Chic - It's About Time
Lawrence - Living Room
Prince - Piano and a Microphone
Umphrey's McGee - It's Not Us

67-1
67 Dessa - Chime (2018)
66 Harakiri - Alchemy Choir (2017)
65 Umbrellaman - Volcano Beach [EP]
64 God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph (2018)
63 Chromeo - Head Over Heels (2018)
62 White Denim - Performance (2018)
61 Arcane Roots - Landslide EP (2018) [EP]
60 Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (2018)
59 Jason Bieler - Birds of Prey
58 Field Music - Open Here (2018)
57 The Arusha Accord - Juracan (2018) [EP]
56 Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer (2018)
55 Spock's Beard - Noise Floor (2018)
54 The Mercury Tree & Cryptic Ruse - Cryptic Tree (2018) [EP]
53 Lenny Kravitz - Raise Vibration (2018)
52 Inferi - Revenant (2018)
51 Soft Machine - Hidden Details (2018)
50 Dream the Electric Sleep - The Giants' Newground (2018)
49 Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones- Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones (2018)
48 Phideaux - Infernal (2018)
47 Vennart - Copeland EP (2018) [EP]
46 StellaRoma - Revel & Ritual (2017)
45 Kai Danzberg - Pop-Up Radio (2018)
44 Myles Kennedy - Year of the Tiger (2018)
43 Minus the Bear - Fair Enough (2018) [EP]
42 Hands of Despair - Well of the Disquieted (2018)
41 The Monkees- Christmas Party (2018)
40 Tax the Heat - Change Your Position (2018)
39 Josh Rouse - Love in the Modern Age (2018)
38 U2 - Songs of Experience (2017)
37 Punch Brothers - All Ashore (2018)
36 The Sea Within - The Sea Within (2018)
35 Augury - Illusive Golden Age (2018)
34 The Dang Ol' Tri'ole - Dang!
33 Josh King and Them - Into the Blue
32 Nosound - Allow Yourself (2018)
31 Fish - A Parley With Angels (2018) [EP]
30 The Faceless - In Becoming a Ghost (2017)
29 Journal - Chrysalis Ordalias (2018)
28 Capital Cities - Solarize (2018)
27 Yossi Sassi - Illusion of Choice (2018)
26 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs (2017)
25 Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape (2018)
24 Between the Buried and Me - Automata I/II (2018)
23 Esperanza Spalding - Exposure (2017)
22 The Dear Hunter - All Is As All Should Be (2017) [EP]
21 Typhoon - Offerings (2018)
20 Kimbra - Songs from Primal Heart: Reimagined (2018) [EP]
19 Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells (2018)
18 Childish Japes & Dave Vives - Salamander (2018)
17 Bend Sinister - Foolish Games (2018)
16 In Vain - Currents (2018)
15 Galactic Cowboys - Long Way Back to the Moon (2017)
14 Black Belt Eagle Scout - Mother of My Children (2018)
13 A Dying Planet - Facing the Incurable (2018)
12 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland (2017)
11 Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs (2018)
10 Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (2018)
9 Kimbra - Primal Heart (2018)
8 Vennart - To Cure a Blizzard Upon a Plastic Sea (2018)
7 Small Leaks Sink Ships - Polaroid People (2018) [EP]
6 Fjokra - Evening Lights [3-Track Single]
5 Long Distance Calling - Boundless (2018)
4 The Gloomcatcher - Blade in the Belfry (2017) [EP]
3 Grimus - Unmanageable Species (2018)
2 Kindo - Happy However After (2018)
1 The Family Crest - The War: Act I (2018)

 

Every year without fail I am amazed at how many albums I forget came out that year. (This includes me even having an EOTY Spotify playlist that I add to regularly) 2018 is no different. Definitely not ready to post my list yet.

 

spotify lists are up!

Spotify Year in Review • forum.chorus.fm

 

It was a really good fucking year for heavy releases.

 

Idk where it'll end up on my list, but the Emily Brown album from this year is very, very good and reminds me of Kate Bush/Joanna Newsom and (from what I can tell) is completely overlooked

 

ECHOOO.. this year was obscene.

 

My EOTY list even though is early December.


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 (11-20)

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. Basement- Beside Myself



2018 has been a damn good year with lots of great releases. There were so many more I removed because I had to keep this to 20 to save myself some work. 2019 has big shoes to fill that is for sure.

 

Just starting to put mine together, super excited to learn about new bands from you guys.

Top Ten 2018

1. the Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
2. Gregory Alan Isakov - Evening Machines
3. Now, Now - Saved
4. Wallows - Spring (EP)
5. Boygenius - Boygenius (EP)
6. All Get Out - No Bouquet
7. Middle Kids - Lost Friends
8. Born Ruffians - Uncle, Duke and the Chief
9. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
10. the Republic of Woves - Shrine

Top Ten 2017 (re-visited)

1. Brand New - Science Fiction
2. Hippo Campus - Landmark (+3)
3. Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think (-1)
4. the Menzingers - After The Party (-1)
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps (not on list)
6. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface (-1)
7. Angus and Julia Stone - Snow (-1)
8. Alvvays - Antisocialites (+2)
9. Souvenirs - Posture Of Apology (-2)
10. Can't Swim - Fail You Again (-2)

Pretty happy with my list from last year as I still like/love all of them. Just like 2017, I have a few favorites that I loved in 2018 and then a ton of albums that were good but not great.

Disappointments from 2018:

Hippo Campus - Expected something better. I know a lot of people have their new one on their lists, but it's not nearly as fun as Landmark. I still listen to Landmark constantly and I haven't listened to Bambi much at all since it was released.

Hop Along - I've listened to it more lately and it's starting to grow. There's a few songs that are difficult to get through.

Saves the Day - What the fuck is this? Favorite band back in the day and now this hurts my ears.

Tokyo Police Club - Again, a huge fan of most of their stuff, Champ being one of my favorite albums ever. Then there's this where most of it is forgettable other than a few songs, namely Unseen.

The Story So Far - Maybe I'm sick of their sound, but I barely listened to this. No songs stand out as the album bleeds together and then it's over.

 

I did not know Hot Snakes releases an album this year wtf

 

Apparently I need to listen to that Gunna album. People keep mentioning it.


Albums I need to revisit:

Nick F
Sleep
Jeff Rosenstock
The Sidekicks

I loved all those albums.

 

This is a very rough draft, but here's a list of records I enjoyed and will keep in rotation beyond 2018.

Vein - Errorzone
Drug Church - Cheer
Harms Way - Posthuman
Creeping Death - Specter of War
Genocide Pact - Order of Torment
Turnstile - Time & Space
Greyhaven - Empty Black
King Nine - Death Rattle
Wolvhammer - The Monuments of Ash and Bone
Khemmis - Desolation
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Gruesome - Twisted Prayers
Uada - Cult of a Dying Sun
Jesus Piece - Only Self
Candy - Good To Feel
Year of the Knife - First State of Aggression
Trail of Lies - W.A.R.
Erra - Neon
Mindforce - Excalibur
Lik - Carnage
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
Uniform - The Long Walk
Super Unison - Stella
Nonpoint - X
Thrice - Palms
Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
Father - Awful Swim
Joey Purp - Quarterthing
Young Thug - Slime Language
Denzel Curry - TA13OO
Saba - Care For Me
Nickelus F - Stuck
Pusha T - Daytona
J.I.D - DiCaprio 2
Open Mike Eagle - What Happens When I Try To Relax
Vince Staples - FM!
Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
Freddie Gibbs - Freddie
Maxo Kream - Punken
cupcakKe - Ephorize

 

01. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
02. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
03. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
04. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love
05. Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys
06. Fall Out Boy - MANIA
07. Underoath - Erase Me
08. Senses Fail - If There Is Light, It Will Find You
09. Real Friends - Composure
10. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer

Other stuff I enjoyed this year:

Justin Courtney Pierre - In the Drink
Coheed and Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures
Mayday Parade - Sunnyland
Manchester Orchestra - The Black Mile Demos/"I Know How to Speak"
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
All Time Low - "Everything's Fine", "Birthday"
Shortly - Richmond (EP)
Panic! At the Disco - Pray For The Wicked

 

Another incredible year

01. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
02. Foxing - Nearer My God
03. Pinegrove - Skylight
04. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
05. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
06. The Amity Affliction - Misery
07. State Champs - Living Proof
08. Coheed & Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures
09. Hot Mulligan - Pilot
10. Vein - Errorzone
11. Snail Mail - Lush
12. Wet - Still Run
13. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
14. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer
15. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
16. Travis Scott - Astroworld
17. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
18. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
19. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
20. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
21. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
22. KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
23. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus - Boygenius EP
24. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
25. Now, Now - Saved
26. Joey Purp - QUARTERTHING
27. Death Cab for Cutie - Thank You for Today
28. As It Is - The Great Depression
29. Dessa - Chime
30. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-

Honorable mentions (could go on and on…)
Mayday Parade - Sunnyland
Neko Case - Hell-On
This Wild Life - Petaluma
Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
Camp Cope - How to Socialize & Make Friends
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Troye Sivan - Bloom
Gorillaz - The Now Now
Florence + The Machine - High As Hope
Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning

 

No real order after the top 3:

Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco
Between the Buried and Me - Automata I and II
Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
Interpol - Marauder
CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead
The Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
Metric - Art of Doubt
Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
Rubblebucket - Sun Machine
Thrice - Palms
Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
Editors - Violence
Our Lady Peace - Somethingness
Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
Tash Sultana - Flow State
Senses Fail - It There Is Light, It Will Find You
MGMT - Little Dark Age

 

Top Albums of 2018:

1. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
2. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
3. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
4. Hellogoodbye - S’Only Natural
5. Saves The Day - 9
6. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked
7. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
8. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer
9. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
10. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
11. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness- Upside Down Flowers
12. Dashboard Confessional – Crooked Shadows
13. Justin Courtney Pierre - In The Drink
14. MxPx - MxPx
15. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
16. Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
17. Brian Fallon – Sleepwalkers
18. Jack White - Boarding House Reach
19. Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers – Bought To Rot
20. Car Sear Headrest - Twin Fantasy
21. Chromeo - Head Over Heels
22. Senses Fail - If There Is A Light, It Will Find You
23. Matt and Kim - Almost Everyday
24. State Champs - Living Proof
25. Vacationer - Mindset
26. Foxing - Nearer My God
27. Twenty One Pilots – Trench
28. Metric - Art of Doubt
29. Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz
30. Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass
31. The Interrupters - Fight The Good Fight
32. Good Charlotte - Generation Rx
33. BROCKHAMPTON – Iridescence
34. MGMT - Dark Little Age
35. Pusha T – DAYTONA
36. Mac Miller – Swimming
37. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me
38. Pennywise - Never Gonna Die
39. Amy Shark - Love Monster
40. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
41. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today
42. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
43. Chvrches - Love Is Dead
40. flor - come out. you’re hiding
41. Alison Wonderland – Awake
42. Frank Turner - Be More Kind
43. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be In Love
44. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
45. Cloud Nothing’s - Last Building Burning
46. Tom Morello - The Atlas Underground
47. 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
48. Gorillaz - The Now Now
49. Steve Aoki – Neon Future III
50. Lil Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2
51. Muse – Simulation Theory
52. Nothing, nowhere. – Ruiner
53. Lil Gnar - Gnar Lif3
54. Migos - Culture II
55. Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 2
56. Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
57. Rich The Kid - The World Is Yours
58. Playboi Carti - Die Lit
59. Ski Mask The Slump God - BEWARE THE BOOK OF ELI
60. Now, now - Saved
61. Kanye West – ye
62. Jaden Smith - The Sunset Tapes: A C
63. Sofi Tukker - Treehouse
64. The Longshot - Love Is For Losers
65. Drake - Scorpion

Top EP's of 2018:
1. Kailee Morgue - Medusa
2. Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid
3. The Front Bottoms - Ann
4. The Get Up Kids - Kicker
5. mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p.
6. William Ryan Key - Thirteen/Virtue
7. Robokid - Apart
8. Pale Waves - ALL THE THINGS I NEVER SAID
9. The Fever 333 - Made An America
10. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,
11. Paris - ONE NIGHT IN PARIS
12. The Faim - Summer Is A Curse
13. Rancid Eddie - Another Last Dart
14. The Neighbourhood - Ever Changing
15. The Mowgli’s - I Was Starting To Woner
16. AFI - The Missing Man
17. Mutemath - Voice In The Silence

 

1. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
2. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
3. Thrice – Palms
4. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities
5. Architects – Holy Hell
6. Basement – Beside Myself
7. Brockhampton – Iridescence
8. Boston Manor – Welcome to the Neighbourhood
9. Dance Gavin Dance – Artificial Selection
10. Pianos Become the Teeth – Wait for Love
11. Twenty One Pilots – Trench
12. Death Cab For Cutie – Thank You For Today
13. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
14. Vein – Errorzone
15. Camp Cope – How To Socialise and Make Friends
16. Turnstile – Time & Space
17. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
18. Beartooth – Disease
19. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
20. Muse – Simulation Theory
21. Culture Abuse – Bay Dream
22. Soccer Mommy – Clean
23. Mayday Parade – Sunnyland
24. Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz
25. The Story So Far – Proper Dose
26. Underoath – Erase Me
27. Between the Buried and Me – Automata I
28. Senses Fail – If There Is Light It Will Find You
29. Father John Misty – God’s Favourite Customer
30. CHVRCHES – Love Is Dead

 

top tier faves:
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
boygenius - boygenius EP
Natalie Prass - The Future and The Past
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Hippo Campus - Bambi
Now Now - Saved
Allie X - Super Sunset
Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden
Murder By Death - The Other Shore

secondary faves/albums I like but haven't spend as much time w/them:
Lucy Dacus - Historian
Kississippi - Sunset Blush
Snail Mail - Lush
Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You for Today
Shad - A Short Story About A War
Vacationer - Mindset
Metric - Art of Doubt
Dessa - Chime
Saintseneca - Pillars of Na

 

1. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
2. Be The Cowboy - Mitski
3. Historian - Lucy Dacus
4. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
5. boygenius EP - boygenius
6. Sweetener - Ariana Grande
7. How To Socialise and Make Friends - Camp Cope
8. Sister Cities - The Wonder Years
9. Upside Down Flowers - Andrew McMahon
10. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships - The 1975
11. Bark Your Head Off, Dog - Hop Along
12. LP5000 - Restorations
13. Palms - Thrice
14. Black Panther Soundtrack
15. Dying Star - Ruston Kelly
16. Honey - Robyn
17. Palo Santo - Years and Years
18. See You Around - I'm With Her
19. Saved - Now, Now
20. Thank You For Today - Death Cab for Cutie

Honorable Mentions (in no order):
Twerp Verse - Speedy Ortiz
POST- - Jeff Rosenstock
Fall Into the Sun - Swearin'
Nearer My God - Foxing
I'll Be Your Girl - The Decemberists
Lush - Snail Mail
I Need to Start a Garden - Haley Heynderickx
Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest
Sex + Food - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
By The Way, I Forgive You - Brandi Carlile

 

Alright, I think I got my top 20 locked in. My lists are always heavily influenced by live shows, which albums I can jam to with my friends in the car, etc., not just necessarily what albums are think are 'best.' More... my favorites, if you will.

1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2. Jukebox the Ghost - Off to the Races
3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
5. BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence
6. Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked
7. Tove Styrke - Sway
8. The Night Game - The Night Game
9. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
10. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Upside Down Flowers
11. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
12. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
13. Wet - Still Run
14. Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes - Wind Up Bird
15. A Vulture Wake - The Appropriate Level of Outrage
16. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
17. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
18. Hellogoodbye - S’only Natural
19. Lord Huron - Vide Noir
20. Boygenius - EP