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
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.
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
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.
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 - Sleepwalking Jeremy Enigk - Ghosts 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. Thrice – Palms 3. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities 4. Architects – Holy Hell 5. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 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