Mid-Year 2018 Lists (Best of 2018 ... So Far) • Page 5

In no order other than numbers one and two.

Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
Iceage - Beyondless
Saba - Care For Me
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
Snail Mail - Lush
Serpentwithfeet - Soil
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

 

Thanks for this list! I hadn’t heard Slaves but liked a lot of the rest of your list so I’m giving their album a listen and I’m really digging it so far!

 

I wish the Esperanza Spalding album was on streaming!

 

Top 30 albums:

1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2. DJDS - Big Wave More Fire
3. Beach House - 7
4. Camila Cabello - Camila
5. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
6. Now, Now - Saved
7. Pusha T - DAYTONA
8. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
9. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
10. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
11. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
12. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
13. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
14. Kanye West - ye
15. The Weeknd - Melancholy My Dear,
16. Swae Lee - Swaecation
17. Snail Mail - Lush
18. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
19. Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
20. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
21. A$AP Rocky - TESTING
22. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
23. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM
24. Diplo - California
25. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
26. serpentwithfeet - soil
27. Flasher - Constant Image
28. illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
29. Lyyke Li - so sad so sexy
30. Kero Kero Bonito - TOTEP

Top 10 songs:

1. Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
2. Drake - Nice For What
3. Charli XCX - No Angel
4. Swae Lee - Touchscreen Navigation
5. Diplo - Get It Right (Remix)
6. Beach House - Lose Your Smile
7. Tommy Cash - Little Molly
8. The Carters - APESHIT
9. SOPHIE - Immaterial
10. Fall Out Boy - Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)

 

Harms Way - Post Human
American Nightmare - American Nightmare
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
Lily Allen - No Shame
Vein - Errorzone
Czarface/MF DOOM - Czarface Meets Metal Face
Instrumental (adj.) - Reducto ad Adsurdum
Sleep - The Sciences
The Armed - Only Love
Gorillaz - The Now Now

 

Here are most of my favorites so far this year. Outside of the top 3, the rankings don't matter:

1. Caravela - Ski
2. Jeff Rosenstock - Post
3. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus
4. Fiddlehead - Springtime & Blind
5. Underoath - Erase Me
6. Sleep - The Sciences
7. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
8. MGMT - Little Dark Age
9. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
10. Black Foxxes - Reiði
    
11. Vacationer - Mindset
12. Beach House - 7
13. Snail Mail - Lush
14. Harms Way - Posthuman

Some of my anticipated releases for the second half of the year:

• Foxing
• Basement
• Interpol
• Wild Nothing
• Liz Cooper & The Stampede
• Erra
• TSSF
• Nothing
• Childish Gambino
• Coheed & Cambria

 

These aren't in order, but they are the only albums to really grab my attention for any real amount of time this year.

Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
Turnstile - Time and Space
Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else
Between the Buried and Me - Automata I
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone
Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection

Anticipating:
Foxing
Coheed
BTBAM pt. 2

 

Eels — The Deconstruction
CHVRCHES — Love is Dead
Manic Street Preachers — Resistance Is Futile
George Ezra — Staying at Tamara's
Editors — Violence
Chromeo — Head Over Heels
Johnny Marr — Call the Comet
Florence + the Machine — High as Hope

Just a few of my favourites though to be honest this year has been just as much about listening to new music as older music as before this year I had fallen out of favour with newly released albums for a couple of years so I have been catching up on albums I missed in 2016 and 2017 plus discovering albums even older than that. A few of those are listed below -

Foster the People — Sacred Hearts Club
The Naked and Famous — Simple Forms
Wolf Alice — Visions Of A Life
St. Vincent — Masseduction
London Grammar — Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
Gary Moore — Corridors of Power
ZZ Top — Afterburner
Tina Turner — Break Every Rule
The Psychedelic Furs — The Psychedelic Furs

 

All the shit I've liked a lot this year, no real order except Hop Along being 1

Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Nickelus F - Stuck
American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this
awakebutstillinbed - what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you
Camp Cope - How to Socialize & Make Friends
Future - Beastmode 2
Gulfer - Dog Bless
H.C. McEntire - Lionheart
Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
Jeff Rosenstock - Post
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
lostodyssey - Don't Mind Me
Now, Now - Saved
Pat Moon - Romantic Era
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
Quiet Friend - Quiet Friend
Saba - Care For Me
The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Sophie - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
Superteen - Over Everything
Tobe Nwigwe - The Originals

 

Some of my favorites so far this year in no order.

Nap Eyes - I’m Bad Now
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Phil Cook - People Are My Drug
Damien Jurado - The Horizon Just Laughed
John Prine - The Tree of Forgivness
H.C. Mcentire - Lionheart
Jennifer Castle - Angels of Death
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Parquet Courts - Wise Awake!
Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
Erin Rae - Putting on Airs
Cut Worms - Hollow Ground
Bonny Doon - Longwave
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage
Dawes - Passwords
Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare
Shame - Songs of Praise
Iceage - Beyondless
Durand Jones & The Inducators - s/t
Binker & Moses - Alive in the East?
LUMP - LUMP
American Aquarium - Things Change
Ryan Downey - Running
Jim James - Uniform Distortion
Andy Jenkins - Sweet Bunch
Eels - The Deconstruction
DRINKS - Hippo Lite
Tobe Nwigwe - The Originals
Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth
Rosali - Trouble Anyway

 

Brand New?

 

This was hard, almost anything could be in the Top 10.

1. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
2. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
3. Hovvdy - Cranberry
4. Current Joys - A Different Age
5. Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind
6. Soccer Mommy - Clean
7. Kraus - Path
8. Lucy Dacus - Historian
9. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
10. Trace Mountains - A Partner to Lean On

Everything else...

Camp Cope
Porches
Gulfer
Donovan Wolfington
Three Man Cannon
Now, Now
S. Carey
Snail Mail
High Sunn
Good Looking Friends
Culture Abuse
Father John Misty
Barely March
Pianos Become The Teeth
Saba
Haley Heynderickx
Culture Abuse
Dags!
Warm Thoughts

 

In no order because lol

Field Report - Summertime Songs
SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
vein - Errorzone
Fall Out Boy - MANIA
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Now, Now - Saved
The Dangerous Summer - s/t
Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
Gulfer - Dog Bless
DJDS - Big Wave More Fire
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
nothing.nowhere - ruiner
Hidden Hospitals - Liars
Panic at the Disco - Pray for the Wicked
Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep
Leon Vynehall - Nothing is Still
The Armed - Only Love

 

mine:

1. low: double negative
2. gang gang dance: kazuashita
3. jon hassell: listening to pictures (pentimento volume one)
4. leon vynehall: nothing is still
5. ashley monroe: sparrow
6. arctic monkeys: tranquility base hotel + casino
7. mesarthim: the density parameter
8. rico nasty: nasty
9. autechre: nts sessions
10. let's eat grandma: i'm all ears
11. wye oak: the louder i call, the faster it runs
12. sly & robbie meet nils petter molvær: nordub
13. meshell ndegeocello: ventriloquism
14. natalie prass: the future and the past
15. hop along: bark your head off, dog
16. self defense family: have you considered punk music
17. fall out boy: m a n i a
18. the breeders: all nerve
19. rolo tomassi: time will die and love will bury it
20. tracey thorn: record
21. syclops: pink eye
22. lucy dacus: historian
23. trouble: edgewood
24. petal: magic gone
25. fiddlehead: springtime and blind

 

My top 20:

1. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
2. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
3. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
4. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
5. Janelle Monáe- Dirty Computer
6. Neko Case - Hell-On
7. CVRCHES - Love is Dead
8. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
9. The Republic of Wolves - Shrine
10. Future - Beast Mode 2
11. Snail Mail - Lush
12. Now, Now - Saved
13. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
14. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
15. Florence + The Machine - High as Hope
16. Soccer Mommy - Clean
17. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
18. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM
19. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
20. Panic! at the Disco - Pray For the Wicked

 

1. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
2. Aesthesys - Achromata

3-5 in some order:
• Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
• Tides of Man - Every Nothing (not out yet, I know, but I'm just gonna take for granted that it belongs here)
• Trna - Earthcult

Competing for the 6-10 slots:
• Anthony Green - Would You Still Be In Love
• Chvrches - Love Is Dead
• Coldbones - Where It All Began
• Degree of Arc - Raptures
• God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph
• Man Mountain - Infinity Mirror
• Paraphon Tree - Aura
• Sectioned - Annihilated
• Toundra - Vortex

 

1. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
2. Now, Now - Saved
3. The Creeps - Beneath The Pines
4. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
5. Nathan Gray - Feral Hymns
6. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
7. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
8. Pusha T - Daytona
9. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love
10. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
11. Fall Out Boy - MANIA
12. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
13. Underoath - Erase Me
14. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
15. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer

 

Never listened to family and friends until this post. This album is incredible, can't stop listening. Thanks for the rec!

 

No particular order after the top 3

1. Meg Myers
2. Between the Buried and Me
3. Nine Inch Nails
4. CHVRCHES
5. Our Lady Peace
6. Senses Fail
7. Gorillaz
8. The Longshot
9. Franz Ferdinand
10. Brian Fallon
11. A Perfect Circle
12. Breaking Benjamin
13. Editors
14. MGMT
15. The Shins

 

bump.

I Changed the Calendar in My Blog for when the Year begins and ends about 5 years ago (per being so frustrated with next to no December albums, and the November albums coming in at the very end and beating out records I listened to for many weeks/months).

So My Albums of the Year ends on Halloween (the dates being 11/1/17-10/31/18) so my Albums of the Year list is now up.

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

 

Nothing tops Autechre's NTS Sessions. 8 Hours of pure epic.