Mid-Year 2018 Lists (Best of 2018 ... So Far) • Page 4

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

 

1. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
2. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
3. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
4. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
5. Lucy Dacus - Historian
6. Saba - CARE FOR ME
7. Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
8. Now, Now - Saved
9. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love
10. Fall Out Boy - MANIA
11. Long Neck - Will This Do?
12. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
13. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
14. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
15. Cecil Frena - The Gridlock
16. Soccer Mommy - Clean
17. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
18. Snail Mail - Lush
19. Nickelus F - Stuck
20. 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

 

Hop Along

 

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?

 

I, too, am feeling extremely duped.

 

Roughly “happy accident”

 

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