What are your top 10 2018 albums so far

Dunno what records people are anticipating but I’m really looking forward to the new Shy Layers. I need that stuff while the sun is still shining plz

what are they like? never heard of them

hmm good question - kind of hard to describe without making it sound terrible tbh

maybe like if Jim O’Rourke made playful new wavey electronic music?

new wave in a talking heads / poppy brian eno sense btw

you're right, sounds terrible

thanks for hipping me to the Armed LouJag

I saw a lot of people compare Shy Layers to Air France which seems way off - SL is much more digital and synthetic. Definite sunshine Pimms-drinking music though.

this is where I'm at so far. looking forward to checking out a bunch of the rec's in here too. thank you. also, this is in order.

Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Portal - ION
Closer - All This Will Be
Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt
Sleep - The Sciences
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine

have to make more time for new music. how the hell do you make more time?

Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
FRIGS - Basic Behavior
Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations
The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Panic Blooms
Forth Wanderers - S/T
DRINKS - Hippo Lite
Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exudus
Leon Bridges - Good Thing
Alexis Taylor - Beautiful Thing

actually that Shy Layers description is bang on where my head's at with this sunny weather

Not ranked, but given how little I actually listen to it's a mark of a good year that there's 10 I like a lot.

In a Poem Unlimited - US Girls
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Isolation - Kali Uchis
Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B.
Africa to the World - Sun-El Musician
How to Socialise & Make Friends - Camp Cope
Loner - Caroline Rose
Attention Seeker (EP) - The Regrettes
Little Dark Age - MGMT
Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

made a shy layers thread just cos:
Shy Layers

Crazy how diverse the lists are itt

Not a ton of consensus

No order, but this is what I've been listening to the most

Lake Ruth
MGMT
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Bill Frisell
Jean Grae x Quelle Chris
Sleep
Speedy Ortiz
Janelle Monae
Beach House
The Sea and Cake

Bill Frisell album is good too

I was short one album - the Malkmus one (his best in years)

gotta check it out. another big change in my music listening these days is that I'm now allowed to listen to music at work, while my commute is a lot shorter.
Happy days, yes, but commute-listening allowed for a more focused experience and I had more time to take in an album-length experience. Now my listening tends to be surface-level and full of interruptions, so it's easier for me to put a playlist on shuffle and then I'm less irrationally concerned about missing out.

totally get that dog latin. i used to work in north vancouver which was a 1 hour - 1.5 hour trip each way - 3 hours of transit a day. was consuming music front to back a lot in that capacity

Some combination of:

Kacey Musgraves
Wye Oak
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Tove Styrke
Daphne & Celeste
Retep Folo
Beautify Junkyards
Concretism
Axolotes Mexicanos
Rhye

with Hailu Mergia and Listening Center bubbling under

Oh I forgot Tove ^^ what a year !

Keiji Haino & Sumac

Would like to hear this. Would like to hear a Haino & Yma Sumac collab even more.

Tal National
Huda Asfour
Ebo Taylor
Hailu Mergia
Blocboy JB
Kali Uchis
Beach House
M. Ndgeocello
Cardi B

Just 9

DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Bas Jan - Yes I Jan
Amen Dunes - Believe
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
Anna von Hausswolf - Dead Magic
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Skee Mask - Compro
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Mike Donovan - How to Get Your Record Played in Shops

maybe Arctic Monkeys, Daniel Blumberg or Boncana Maiga as the last one.

Hunee - Hunching All Night* instead of Boncana Maiga

sumac's dead tho :-(

Would like to hear this. Would like to hear a Haino & Yma Sumac collab even more.

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 5:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was totally my first thought seeinng Whiney's list. :'-(

Haino and Yma Sumac, now that would be something. The album in question is on bandcamp btw.

Amen Dunes
Rival Consoles
Hailu Mergia
Beach House
Jon Hopkins
Lonker See
Nils Frahm
Anna von Hausswolff
Iceage
Grouper

There's plenty of stuff I've been meaning to listen to, though, but haven't got round to it yet.

wooden shjips v
beach house 7
bardo pond volume 8
oneida romance
gwenno le kov
xylouris white mother
field music open here
landing bells in new towns
stephen malkmus / jicks sparkle hard
the amazing in transit

So disappointed by that new Wooden Shijps :(

Brian Eno - Music For Installations
Yes: Fly From Here (Return Trip)
Drew McDowall and Hiro Kone : The Ghost Of Georges Bataille
Autechre : NTS 4
Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere: Espaces Timbres
Johnny Greenwood: You Were Never Really Here OST
Chris Carter - Chemistry Lessons Vol. 1
I:Cube : Versatile 120

Only 8 so far. Year is still young-ish.

I only discovered this morning that Wooden Shjips have a new album out tomorrow; streaming it on the Thrill Jockey site now and can tell I'll be playing this a ton over the next few months. This is exactly what I need this time of year.

I'll put that one at the top despite being only 2/3 into my first listen; these in no particular order:

Artificial Pleasure - The Bitter End
Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange
Bambara - Shadow on Everything
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland
Vive la Void - Vive la Void
Boytoy - Night Leaf
Heaven - All Love is Blue
A Place to Bury Strangers - Pinned

Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange

^ oh i bought this the other day. haven't had a chnace to listen to it yet, but the songs i have heard are great

new wooden shjips is boss. if reissues count, yes and eno YES. trevor horn kinda dicked benoit david over but the production is way better than the original. eno shifting larger shapes is endlessly awesome

Not listened to a huge amount of 2018 albums yet but I like these:

Beach House - 7
Beta Blockers - Stiff Prescription
Breeders - All Nerve
The Ex - 27 Passports
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - s/t
Ojo Por Ojo - s/t
Shopping - The Official Body
Snob - Snob
Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On

#1 is one of my favorite albums since I don't know when:

Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends

then:

Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
The Amazing - In Transit
Alela Diane - Cusp
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Glenn Jones - The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar
Earthless - Black Heaven
Ilyas Ahmed - Closer to Stranger
Feu! Chatterton - L’oiseleur

Going through all of these and Die Wilde Jagd really stands out! Will definitely return to that.

Other favourites found itt: Jenny Wilson, YOB, Forth Wanderers, Mike Donovan. And emo: Donovan Wolfington, Fiddlehead!

Just 5 for the moment:
Die Nerven - Fake
Breeders - All Nerve
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Brian Eno - Music for Installations
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

I forgot
Meshell Ndegecoello - Ventriloquism

Ndegeocello, ffs

Shame - Songs of Praise
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Air Waves - Warrior
A.A.L. - 2012-2017
A Beacon School - Cola
Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
Juan de Fuca - Solve / Resolve
Loma - s/t
Malena Zavala - Aliso
MOTORCADE - s/t
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Superchunk - What a Time to be Alive
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
Wye Oak - The Louder I call, the Faster it Runs

In consideration

Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going on
SM & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Beach House - 7
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice EP

I’ll call it now - ionnalee record is perennially underrated and the best record of the year but won’t even place in the ilm polls cuz y’all got yarn ass ears

I like the Loma record but "Black Willow" kinda towers over it for me. What a song.

I can confirm that the Die Wilde Jagd album is something special.

yeah it's really good - kind of a can meets trentemoller vibe going on

digging it, thx for the recommendation

yeh this rules

No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Sleep - The Sciences
Wet Tuna - Livin the Die
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Khruangbin - Con Todo el Mundo
EXEK - Ahead of Two Thoughts
GAS - Rausch
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup
Yuzo Iwata - Daylight Moon
Bardo Pond - Volume 8

Here's mine.

Revised

Natalie Prass - future and the past
Advisory circle - ways of seeing
Courtney Barnett - tell me how you really feel
Janelle Monáe - dirty computer
Beach house - 7
Tess roby - beacon
U.s. girls - in a poem unlimited
Lykke Li - so sad so sexy
Melody’s echo chamber - bon voyage
Kacey musgraves - golden hour

an alphabetical top 10:

Black Dresses — WASTEISOLATION
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
DJ Healer - nothing 2 loose
Eartheater - Irisiri
Facechain — Accensor
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
Skee Mask - Compro
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Tove Styrke — Sway
ТПСБ - Sekundenschlaf

things that could easily replace anything in my top 10 given another spin or two:

Air Max '97 - Nacre
Godflesh - Post Self
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
ionnalee - Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten
Mai Lan - Autopilote
Rezzett - Rezzett LP
SMERZ - Have fun
Syclops - Pink Eye

Happy holidays, everyone, here's Sterrenplaten's (my radio show) end-of-year list, in an almost 2h Dutch speaking show:

http://www.radioscorpio.be/2018/12/23/de-beste-albums-van-2018-volgens-sterrenplaten

Tried to cut my favourites down to ten but ended up at twelve (non-ranked list):

Armand Hammer – Paraffin (Backwoodz Studios)
Body/Head – The Switch (Matador)
Daniel Bachman – The Morning Star (3Lobed)
Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu (Awesome Tapes)
IE – Pome (Moon Glyph)
Ipek Gorgun – Ecce Homo (Touch)
Jpegmafia – Veteran
Julia Holter – Aviary (Domino)
Low – Double Negatives (Sub Pop)
Rosalía – El Mal Querer (Sony)
Saint Abdullah – Stars Have Eyes (PTP)
Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin (Drag City)