I’m so far removed from guitar music these days that I wasn’t even vaguely aware that Fallout Boy even released an album. That’s wild. Most of the rock I listened to this year I found by accident.
1. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love 2. mewithoutYou - untitled E.P. 3. Foxing - Nearer My God 4. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 5. Thrice - Palms 6. The 1975 - A brief inquiry into online relationships 7. mewithoutYou - Untitled 8. boygenius - boygenius 9. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 10. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer 11. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop 12. Beach House - 7 13. Vein - Errorzone 14. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM 15. cupcakKe - Ephorize 16. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 17. Lucy Dacus - Historian 18. Low - Double Negative 19. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD 20. Vince Staples - FM!
This is the list I'm pulling from. There's a few glaring omissions that I need to go back and listen to more, but these are the things I dug. I'll narrow it down and maybe order it at some point. Bold are probably the top picks. Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog Awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you H.C. McEntire – Lionheart Pianos Become the Teeth – Wait for Love American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this SUPERTEEN – Over Everything Gulfer – Dog Bless Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends Soccer Mommy – Clean Quiet Friend – Quiet Friend Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour Saba – Care For Me Post Malone – Beer Bongs & Bentleys Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden Illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies Charmer – Charmer Nickelus F – Stuck The Sidekicks – Happiness Hours Now, Now – Saved Pat Moon – Romantic Era Pusha T – Daytona Amen Dunes – Freedom Sophie - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES Tierra Whack – Whack World Tha God Fahim & Jay Nice - Strictly 4 My D.U.M.P.E.R.Z Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Matthew Lee Cothran - My First Love Mends My Final Days Foxing – Nearer My God Tirzah – Devotion Tomberlin – At Weddings Amine – ONEPOINTFIVE Mitski – Be the Cowboy Interpol – Marauder Blood Orange - Negro Swan Jesus Piece – Only Self Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine Noname – Room 25 Joey Purp – Quarterthing The Dirty Nil – Master Volume Brockhampton – iridescence Swearin’ – Fall into the Sun Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams Basement – Beside Myself How to Dress Well - The Anteroom Novo Amor – Birthplace Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign – MIH-TY Shad - A Short Story About A War Vince Staples - FM! It Looks Sad – Sky Lake Hodera – Besides Orhcid Mantis – Yellow House Emily Brown – Bee Eater Frankie valet - Stop Apologizing Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
1. mewithoutYou - [Untitled] 2. Foxing - Nearer My God 3. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? 4. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis: Act 1 - The Unheavenly Creatures 5. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch 6. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 7. Cursive - Vitriola 8. Thrice - Palms 9. Ghost - Prequelle 10. Amorphis - Queen of Time 11. The Ocean - Phaenerozic 1: Paleozoic 12. Converge - The Dusk in Us 13. Murder by Death - The Other Shore 14. Now, Now - Saved 15. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams 16. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume 17. St. Vincent - MassEducation 18. The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl 19. Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens 20. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine EP's 1. AFI - The Missing Man 2. mewithoutYou - [untitled] 3. Tiger Army - Dark Paradise EP 4. The Decemberists - Traveling On
1. Ruston Kelly - Dying Star 2. Fall Out Boy - MANIA 3. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 4. Boygenius - Boygenius EP 5. Panic! at the Disco - Pray for the Wicked 6. The Lone Bellow - The Restless EP 7. Florence + the Machine - High as Hope 8. The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl 9. Gregory Alan Isakov - Evening Machines 10. First Aid Kit - Ruins Now I need to go find these albums on other people’s lists and listen to the other music they liked that I’ve never heard of. Thanks everyone!
1. Boygenius - Boygenius 2. mewithoutYou - Untitled 3. Foxing - Nearer My God 4. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait for Love 5. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 6. Lucy Dacus - Historians 7. Dessa - Chime 8. IDLES - JOY as an Act of Resistance 9. Cody Jinks - Lifers 10. Hopesfall - Arbiter 11. Holy Fawn - Death Spells 12. The Republic of Wolves - Shrine 13. Cursive - Vitriola 14. Superchunk - What a Time To Be Alive 15. Restorations - LP500 16. Brothers Osborne - Port Saint Joe 17. Lucero - Among The Ghosts 18. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer 19. Half Waif - Lavender 20. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2018 Top Albums of the Year: mewithoutYou - [Untitled] The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Foxing - Nearer My God Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Half Waif - Lavender Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz World's Greatest Dad - Get Well Soon Tomberlin - At Weddings Camp Cope - How To Socialize & Make Friends The Republic of Wolves - shrine [Extended] The Wonder Years - Sister Cities Kississippi - Sunset Blush Animal Flag - Void Ripper Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love Soccer Mommy - Clean illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies Lucy Dacus - Historian Thin Lips - Chosen Family The Dirty Nil - Master Volume Now, Now - Saved The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours Snail Mail - Lush Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 2018 Top EPs of the Year: mewithoutYou - [Untitled] e.p. boygenius - boygenius The Front Bottoms - Ann Manchester Orchestra - The Black Mile Demos Waxahatchee - Great Thunder
Top 20 in alphabetical order. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Basement - Beside Myself boygenius - boygenius Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs Foxing - Nearer My God Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Kali Uchis - Isolation Kississippi - Sunsetblush mewithoutYou - [Untitled] Mitski - Be The Cowboy Noname - Room 25 Now, Now - Saved Pusha T - Daytona The Republic of Wolves - Shrine Saba - Care For Me Shad - A Short Story About A War The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours Snail Mail - Lush Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus Vince Staples - FM!
1. Now, Now - Saved 2. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want 3. boygenius EP 4. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It 5. FV - Phantom Dance Department 6. Foxing - Nearer My God 7. Birds in Row - We Already Lost The World 8. The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life 9. Mitski - Be the Cowboy 10. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
1. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness 2. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus 3. The Night Game - The Night Game 4. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 5. Pusha T - Daytona
in no order Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance Restorations - LP5000 Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses Drug Chuch - Cheer Luca Brasi - Stay Thrice - Palms The American Dollar - You're Listening mewithoutYou - (untitled) Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music? Man Mountain - Infinity Mirror
My biggest takeaway from looking at all these lists is that I really neglected hip hop this year. What are the best 3 or so releases that I should check out? Probably Earl right? I listened to the Vince album (or whatever) a few times and enjoyed that, but I have no idea what else came out this year.
Pusha T- DAYTONA (“If You Know You Know”) Kanye West- ye (“Ghost Town”) Saba- CARE FOR ME (“BUSY/SIRENS”) Earl Sweatshirt- Some Rap Songs (“Nowhere2go”) KIDS SEE GHOSTS- KIDS SEE GHOSTS (“Reborn”) Rico Nasty- Nasty (“Rage”) Teyana Taylor- K.T.S.E. (“A Rose in Harlem”) Denzel Curry- TA1300 (“Black Balloons”) Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy (“I Like It”) Vince Staples- FM! (“FUN!”) Playboi Carti- Die Lit (“Shoota”) Noname- Room 25 (“Self”) Joey Purp- QUARTERTHING (“24k Gold/Sanctified”) I am much higher on the Wyoming Sessions than most. But these were the rap/hiphop records that made my top 50ish. Also a song from each to start with.
Albums 1. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 2. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL's UN-INSIDES 3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy 4. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want 5. Saba - Care For Me 6. Death Grips - Year of the Snitch 7. Jpegmafia - Veteran 8. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 9. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears 10. serpentwithfeet - soil 11. Foxing - Nearer My God 12. IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance 13. Now, Now - Saved 14. Lucy Dacus - Historian 15. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 16. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden 17. Low - Double Negative 18. Travis Scott - Astroworld 19. Denzel Curry - TA13OO 20. Blood Orange - Negro Swan 21. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth 22. MGMT - Little Dark Age 23. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs 24. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! 25. Mac Miller - Swimming 26. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 27. noname - Room 25 28. BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence 29. Vince Staples - FM! 30. Pusha T - Daytona 31. Clarence Clarity - THINK: PEACE 32. Tierra Whack - Whack World 33. ROSALÍA - El Mal Querer 34. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer 35. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything’s Fine 36. Christine and the Queens - Chris 37. Robyn – Honey 38. Soccer Mommy - Clean 39. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino 40. Ghost - Prequelle 41. The Night Game - The Night Game 42. Anderson Paak - Oxnard 43. Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens 44. Andrew WK - You’re Not Alone 45. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope 46. The Internet – Hive Mind 47. twenty one pilots - Trench 48. LANY - Malibu Nights 49. Ariana Grande - sweetener 50. Vein - Errorzone EPs 1. Boygenius – Boygenius 2. The Weekend – My Dear Melancholy 3. Black Thought – Streams of Thought Vol. 2 4. Black Thought – Streams of Thought Vol. 1 5. King Princess – Make My Bed A crazy amount of good music came out this year. I didn't even listen to a solid 1/5th of my Top 50 until I caught up on missed albums within the past month. The only big exclusions I'm not happy with are mewithoutyou and Snail Mail, but I just didn't have enough time to properly give those two the attention they deserve and I'm not trying to halfheartedly throw them in there somewhere.
Everyone's lists in the hip hop thread are really different so anyone who wants hip hop recs should look there
Any members out there that want rap recommendations and wanna be informed and don’t wanna have to worry about the group think being all in the threads, all on the lists, ranking, come to Death Ro.. I mean the hip hop thread *Suge Voice*
Top 10/15 are pretty much in order, a few may swap round. And the bottom 10/15 are ones that I've listened to once or twice and really liked and need more time with... Evidence - Weather or Not Daughters - You Wont Get What You Want Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens Gaika - Basic Volume Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love Action Bronson - White Bronco Mac Miller - Swimming Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs Anderson .Paak - Oxnard Jlin - Autobiography JPEGMAFIA - Veteran serpantwithfeet - soil Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit Joey Purp - QUARTERTHING American Nightmare - American Nightmare Freddie Gibbs - Freddie E-40 - The Gift Of Gab DJ Paypal - 174.2.2 DJ Taye - Still Trippin' Sami Baha - Free For All Grems - Sans titre #7 Miss Red - K.O. Cypress Hill - Elephants on Acid Demdike Stare - Passion Lets Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry Jeremiah Jae - Daffi Lotic - Power The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer Bakar - Badkid Rich Brian - Amen Jay Daniel - Tala Interpol - Marauder Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar RP Boo - I'll Tell You What! Hprizm - Magnetic Memory Vince Staples - FM! KEN Mode - Loved Zuli - Terminal Rabit - Life After Death Tirzah - Devotion Ariana Grande - Sweetner
Really difficult ordering these, but I'd say Now, Now - Saved is my AOTY. I've found myself listening to all of these quite a bit. Now, Now - Saved All Get Out - No Banquet mewithoutYou - [Untitled] Twenty One Pilots - Trench The Story So Far - Proper Dose Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You for Today Foxing - Nearer My God Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Real Friends - Composure Pusha T - Daytona Donovan Woods - Both Ways Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers Andrew McMahon - Upside Down Flowers The Dangerous Summer - Self Titled