personal top 10 in no order Shame - Songs of Praise Locktender - Friedrich Sectioned - Annihilated Soccer Mommy - Clean Hurry - Every Little Thought Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz Panopticon - The Scars of Man… The Penske File - Salvation Respire - Denouement Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone
idk how people choose just 10, there's some albums that I loved that I left off this lol 1. Nervus – Everything Dies 2. Brian Fallon – Sleepwalkers 3. Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It 4. The Wonder Years – Sister Cities 5. SOB X RBE – GANGIN 6. Krimewatch – Krimewatch 7. The Hirs Collective – Friends. Lovers. Favourites. 8. Spanish Love Songs – Schmaltz 9. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 10. Harker – No Discordance 11. Bobby Barnett – Steady Ache 12. Svalbard – It’s Hard to Have Hope 13. Ecostrike – Voice of Strength 14. Payroll Giovanni & Cardo – Big Bossin Vol.2 15. True Love – The Pact 16. Screech Bats – Wish You Were Her 17. Vein – Errorzone 18. Worlds greatest dad – Get Well Soon 19. 03 Greedo – The Wolf of Grape Street 20. Freddie Gibbs – Freddie 21. Kermes – We Choose Pretty Names 22. Closer – All This Will Be 23. Mol – Jord 24. Payroll Giovanni – 4-1P 25. Cold Years – Northern Blue
Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer Jeff Rosenstock - POST- Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog The Wonder Years - Sister Cities Lucy Dacus - Historian Saba - CARE FOR ME Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies Now, Now - Saved Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love Fall Out Boy - MANIA Long Neck - Will This Do? The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy Cecil Frena - The Gridlock Soccer Mommy - Clean Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel Snail Mail - Lush Nickelus F - Stuck Worlds Greatest Dad - Get Well Soon
For me: 1. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer 2. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 3. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz 4. State Champs - Living Proof 5. Camp Cope - How to Make Friends and Socialise 6. The Front Bottoms - Ann EP 7. Nervus - Everything Dies 8. Turnstile - Time & Space 9. The Xcerts - Hold On To Your Heart 10. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 11. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked 12. Frank Turner - Be More Kind 13. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream 14. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 15. Peace - Kindness is the New Rock and Roll 16. Woes - Self Help EP 17. Slowly, Slowly - St Leonards 18. Now, Now - Saved 19. The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life 20. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Everything below 13 is kind of stuff I enjoy but isn't anything amazing. I've found this year to be a little disappointing really. Got lots coming out later this year that I am excited for though: The 1975, Against Me!, Boston Manor, Can't Swim (?), Childish Gambino, Deaf Havana, Death Cab for Cutie, Joyce Manor, La Dispute, Real Friends, Seahaven (heard rumours), The Story So Far, Superheaven (?), Trash Boat, Trophy Eyes, Weezer (?) I wouldn't be surprised if my top 10 is 7-9 albums different at the end of the year.
01. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 02. of Montreal - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood 03. The Republic of Wolves - shrine 04. Snow Patrol - Wildness 05. We Are Scientists - Megaplex 06. Nervus - Everything Dies 07. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It 08. Editors - Violence 09. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch 10. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 11. Gatherers - We Are Alive Beyond Repair 12. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs 13. Shame - Songs of Praise 14. CHVRCHES - Love is Dead 15. No Age - Snares Like a Haircut 16. awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you 17. Giver - Where the Cycle Breaks 18. Maps & Atlases - Lightlessness is Nothing New 19. Toundra - Vortex 20. Happy Accidents - Everything But the Here and Now
Phonte - No News Is Good News Petal - Magic Gone Vein - Errorzone Saba - Care for Me Harm’s Way - Posthuman Jon Hopkins - Singularity Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus Turnstile - Time and Space Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind Screaming Females - All At Once No order
I haven't yet properly listened to several albums (a lot of good hip hop albums came out at the wrong time for me) that could probably bump some albums of my list, but here it goes: 10. Scotty McCreery - Seasons Change 9. NIKI - Zephyr (R&B) 8. Pusha T - Daytona (Hip Hop) 7. Red Velvet - The Perfect Red Velvet (K-Pop/R&B) 6. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell (Emo) 5. J. Cole - K.O.D. (Hip Hop) 4. Drangsal - Zores (German Pop/Rock) 3. Evidence - Weather Or Not (Hip Hop) 2. Bad Gyal - Worldwide Angel (Reggaeton/Dancehall) 1. Curse - Die Farbe Von Wasser (German Hip Hop) Honorable Mention: Frank Sinatra - Standing Room Only (specifically disc one, “Live At The Sands Hotel And Casino” with The Count Basie Orchestra, a previously unreleased, very crisply remastered performance from 1966)
1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 2. Now, Now - Saved 3. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 4. Beach House - 7 5. State Champs - Living Proof 6. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 7. Chvrches - Love Is Dead 8. Underoath - Erase Me 9. Fall Out Boy - MANIA 10. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer
1) Family and Friends - Felix Culpa 2) Rae Morris - Someone Out There 3) Liza Anne - Fine But Dying 4) CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead 5) DJDS - Big Wave More Fire 6) Jukebox The Ghost - Off To The Races 7) Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 8) Loma - Loma 9) Lucy Dacus - Historian 10) Darlingside - Extralife 11) Shakey Graves - Can’t Wake Up 12) Long Neck - Will This Do? 13) I’m With Her - See You Around 14) morgxn - vital 15) The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 16) Middle Kids - Lost Friends 17) Lord Huron - Vide Noir 18) Dear Rouge - Phases 19) Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us 20) Now, Now - Saved H/M: Let’s Eat Grandma, Beach House, Wye Oak, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson East
1) Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! 2) Born Ruffians - Uncle, Duke & the Chief 3) Lord Huron - Vide Noir 4) Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 5) Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 6) Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked 7) Fall Out Boy - MANIA 8) Dawes - Passwords 9) Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer 10) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
1. Lucy Dacus - Historian 2. Now, Now - Saved 3. Snail Mail - Lush 4. Soccer Mommy - Clean 5. Petal - Magic Gone 6. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour 7. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer 8. Kississippi - Sunset Blush 9. Half Waif - Lavender 10. Camp Cope - How To Socialise and Make Friends 11. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be In Love 12. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 13. Tancred - Nightstand 14. Hovvdy - Cranberry 15. Runaway Brother - New Pocket
In no order: American Nightmare Jeff Rosenstock Turnstile Vein Vacationer Parquet Courts Arctic Monkeys Will Haven Sleep The Voidz
Now, Now – Saved Pusha T – DAYTONA Rhye – Blood Leon Bridges – Good Thing Jorja Smith – Lost & Found Natalie Prass – The Future and the Past Jacquees - 4275 Freddie Gibbs - Freddie Teyana Taylor – K.T.S.E A$AP Rocky – Testing Flatbush Zombies – Vacation In Hell Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer Saba – CARE FOR ME Kali Uchis – Isolation
01) Hot Mulligan - Pilot 02) Rolo Tomassi - Love Will Die And Time Will Bury It 03) Inferi - Revenant 04) Anderson East - Encore 05) Between The Buried & Me - Automata I 06) Casey - Where I Go When I Am Sleeping 07) Aviations - The Light Years 08) Black Foxxes - Reioi 09) Settle Your Scores - Better Luck Tomorrow 10) Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone 11) Tiny Moving Parts - Swell 12) Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers 13) Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz 14) Whale Bones - Island Fire 15) VEXES - Ancient Geometry 16) We Were Sharks - Lost Touch 17) Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology 18) Harker - No Discordance 19) Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love 20) The Playbook - All I Am Is What You Left Behind
Wait... there is a band called The Felix Culpa, and now someone named their album Felix Culpa? Does this have some common meaning I'm unaware of?
1. 'I'm All Ears' by Let's Eat Grandma In no particular order: 'Magic Gone' by Petal 'Saved' by Now, Now 'Swell' By Tiny Moving Parts 'Love is Dead' by CHVRCHES 'Sugar and Spice' [EP] by Hatchie 'Golden Hour' by Kacey Musgraves 'When My Heart Felt Volcanic' by The Aces 'World Domination' by BAND-MAID 'Lush' by Snail Mail 'Nightstand' by Tancred 'Artificial Selection' by Dance Gavin Dance 'Living Proof' by State Champs 'Schmaltz' by Spanish Love Songs
in no particular order (other than my top 5, which has remained solid for a while) Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Cecil Frena - The Gridlock Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer Lucy Dacus - Historian Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour Saba - Care For Me Julia Deans - We Light Fire Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer First Aid Kit - Ruins Now, Now - Saved Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit Neko Case - Hell-On MGMT - Little Dark Age Tribulation - Down Below Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past Ben Howard - Noonday Dream U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino City Calm Down - Echoes In Blue Evelyn Ida Morris - Evelyn Ida Morris Amen Dunes - Freedom Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden Dream Wife - Dream Wife Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears SOPHIE - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Yo how did I forget The Xcerts. Honestly. It's pure summer and First Kiss feeling in particular is fantastic.
I'm not huge on ranking things because that's just too hard on my brain and I'm fickle AF but I bolded some of my favorites and put everything else in alphabetical order. Key for readers: #FF = Female Fronted * = not yet released but a couple singles are out and the album is coming soon. RIYL: = recommended if you like The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic (Alternative, Pop) #FF American Aquarium - Things Change (Rock) Amy Shark - Love Monster* (Alternative, Pop) Animal Flag - Void Ripper (Alternative) As It Is - The Great Depression* (Alternative) Bad Wolves - Disobey (Rock, Alternative) Belmont - Belmont* (Punk, Alternative) Between You & Me - Everything is Temporary (Alternative, Pop Punk) Bishop Briggs - Church of Scars (Alternative, Pop) Black Veil Brides - Vale (Alternative) Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood* (Alternative, Rock) RIYL: The Story So Far, Seaway, Northstar Breaking Benjamin - Ember (Rock) Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers (Alternative) Bullet For My Valentine - Gravity Caitlyn Smith - Starfire Camp Hope - Michael (Alternative Rap) Capstan - In the Wake of our Discord Chin Up, Kid - The Way You Live is Common (Pop Punk, Alternative) Chvrches - Love is Dead #FF Company of Thieves - Better Together EP #FF (Indie Rock) Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer Dead Girls Academy - Alchemy (Rock, Alternative) RIYL: Too Close to Touch, The Used Dead Sara - Temporary Things Taking Up Space #FF Deaf Havana - Rituals* Dream State - Recovery EP (Alternative, Rock) #FF RIYL: Stateside, Crashing Atlas Endless Heights - Vicious Pleasure* Fall Out Boy - Mania Fickle Friends - You are someone else Field Report - Summertime Songs From Ashes to New - The Future The Front Bottoms - Ann EP Hail The Sun - Mental Knife* Hailstorm - Vicious* #FF Handsome Ghost - Welcome Back (Alternative) Harker - No Discordance Hawthorne Heights - Bad Frequencies Homesafe - One (Alternative, Pop Punk) Jimmy Eat World - Love Never/Half Heart (2 track EP) Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour (Country, Pop) Kississippi - Sunset Blush #FF (Alternative, Indie Rock) Knuckle Puck - Shifted EP (Alternative, Pop Punk) LANCO - Hallelujah Nights (Country) Ledger - Ledger EP #FF (Alternative) RIYL: Letters From the Fire, Stateside, Dream State Letters From the Fire - Letters From the Fire (Alternative) #FF RIYL Stateside, Dream State Lindsay Ell - The Continuum Project (Pop, Country) The Material - Gray States EP #FF (Alternative, Rock) RIYL: Stateside, Icon For shire Mayday Parade - Sunnyland (Pop Rock) MEG MYERS - TAKE ME TO THE DISCO* (Alternative) - I’m kinda in love here. Middle Kids - Lost Friends #FF (rock, Indie) Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic Milestones - Red Lights Miss Fortune - How the Story Ends* Moose Blood - I Don’t Think I Can Do This Anymore The National Parks - Places [Deluxe] I missed how good this album was in 2017 so I’m slipping the deluxe edition release into 2018 Nervus - Everything Dies New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick Again New Years Day - Diary of a Creep EP #FF No Thank You - All it Takes to Ruin it All #FF (Alternative, Punk, Indie) Now, Now - Saved (Pop) #FF (Indie Pop) Of Mice & Men - Defy (Heavy Metal) Oh Weatherly - Lips Like Oxygen* (Pop Punk) Pale Houses - Songs of the isolation (Rock) Panic! At the Disco - Pray for the Wicked Pennywise - Never Gonna Die (Punk) The Penske File - Salvation (Punk) Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love (Alternative) The Plot in You - Dispose (Rock) Punchline - Lion (Rock, Indie Rock) Real Friends - Composure* The Republic of Wolves - Shrine Secrets - Secrets (Punk) Selfish Things - Vertical Love EP (Rock) Senses Fail - If There is Light it Will Find You (Alternative, Rock, Emo) Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes (Pop) Shinedown - Attention Attention (Rock) Slaves - Beautiful Death (Alternative, Hard Rock) Slowly, Slowly - St. Leonards (Rock) RIYL: The Starting Line, Saves the Day Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz The Spill Canvas - Hivemind* State Champs - Living Proof (Rock, Pop Punk) Story Untold - Waves (Rock, Pop Punk) RIYL: Spitalfield, New Found Glory, State Champs) Summer Wars - Borrowed Time EP (Rock, Pop Punk) RIYL: The Wonder Years, State Champs Tapestry - Ghost of Me (Metal) - RIYL: Silverstein, Too Close to Touch, Saosin Thirty Seconds to Mars - America (Alternative) Tiny Moving Parts - Swell (Alternative) Tonight Alive - Underworld (Rock, Alternative) #FF Trashboat - Crown Shyness* Trophy Eyes - The American Dream* Underoath - Erase Me The Unlikely Candidates - Danger to Myself Deluxe (Alternative) Venues - Aspire (Alternative) #FF RIYL: Dream State, New Years Day Waterparks - Entertainment (Alternative, Pop Punk) - RIYL: The Carousel Kings, Roam We Were Sharks - Lost Touch (Punk, Pop Punk) RIYL: Can’t Swim, Seaway, Carousel Kings Weathers - Kids in the Night (Alternative, Indie Rock). RIYL: The Academy Is, The Killers, Walk the Moon Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur* (Indie Rock) William Ryan Key - Thirteen EP (Rock) With Confidence - Love & Loathing* The Wonder Years - Sister Cities (Rock, Punk) The Word Alive - Violent Noise (Heavy Metal) WSTR - Identity Crisis* (Rock, Pop Punk) You, Me At Six - VI* (Alternative)
Undecided on the order yet, but here's my top 20. Casey - Where I Go When I Am Sleeping Charmer - S/T Cloud District - Don't Give Up, Skeleton Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection Donovan Wolfington - Waves Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer Gulfer - Dog Bless Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog Hovvdy - Cranberry Jeff Rosenstock - POST JPEGMAFIA - Veteran Kids See Ghosts - S/T Mom Jeans - Puppy Love Mouse On The Keys - Tres Snail Mail - Lush Soccer Mommy - Clean Turnstile - Time and Space Vundabar - Smell Smoke The Wonder Years - Sister Cities World's Greatest Dad - Get Well Soon
This is from my blog (with a personal Midseason 11/1/17-/4/30/18) List back in May. Obviously many other records have since come out of course 1. The Family Crest - The War: Act I 2. Kindo - Happy However After 3. Grimus - Unmanageable Species 4. Typhoon - Offerings 5. The Gloomcatcher - Blade in the Belfry [EP] 6. Long Distance Calling - Boundless 7. Galactic Cowboys - Long Way Back to the Moon 8. Kimbra - Primal Heart 9. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs 10. In Vain - Currents 11. The Dear Hunter - All Is as All Should Be [EP] 12. Esperanza Spalding - Exposure 13. Kai Danzberg - Pop-Up Radio 14. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs 15. The Faceless - In Becoming a Ghost 16. U2 - Songs of Experience 17. Tax the Heat - Change Your Position 18. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I [EP] 19, StellaRoma - Revel and Ritual 20. Inferi - Revenant 21. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 22. Field Music - Open Here 23. Josh Rouse - Love in the Modern Age 24. God is an Astronaut - Epitaph 25. Umbrellaman - Volcano Beach [EP] 26. Harakiri - Alchemy Choir 27. Umphrey's McGee - It's Not Us 28. Nicholas Krgovich - In an Open Field
Top 10 Albums Of 2018 (so far): 1) Slaves - Beautiful Death 2) SECRETS - Secrets 3) Underoath - Erase Me 4) The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer 5) Nothing.Nowhere - Ruiner 6) The Plot In You - Dispose 7) Waterparks - Entertainment 8) Homesafe - One 9) I See Stars - Treehouse (Acoustic) 10) Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection