The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

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He’s making a list
You already know
He’s gonna include Autechre and Low
Music dude is making a list

A Jim O’Rouke disc
Reissues, no doubt
A limited tape already sold out
Music dude is making a list

— Bruce Levenstein (@BruceLevenstein) December 20, 2018

na (NA), Friday, 21 December 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link

^I feel personally attacked by this relatable content, etc.

Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 21 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link

hahaha

sleeve, Friday, 21 December 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link

I can't get behind this Low backlash

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 21 December 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link

only a music dude would know how to make that joke

this is a betrayal

j., Friday, 21 December 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link

XLR8R's Best of 2018: Releases and Tracks

https://www.xlr8r.com/best-of/xlr8rs-best-of-2018-releases
https://www.xlr8r.com/best-of/xlr8rs-best-of-2018-tracks

stranded, Friday, 21 December 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link

Pan African Music

Top 20 Electronic Albums: http://pan-african-music.com/electronic-2018/
Top 15 Rap Albums: http://pan-african-music.com/rap-2018/
Top 25 Reissues: http://pan-african-music.com/reeditions-2018/

stranded, Friday, 21 December 2018 11:25 (five years ago) link

Boomkat: Top Releases 2018

01 Eli Keszler — Stadium (2018 Special Edition) (Shelter Press)
02 TIRZAH — Devotion (Domino Recording Co)
03 Alex Zhang Hungtai — Divine Weight (2018 Special Edition) (NON Worldwide)
04 Rosalía — El Mal Querer (Sony)
05 THE CARETAKER — Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 4 (2018 Special Edition) (History Always Favours The Winners)
06 Kali Malone — Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017 (2018 Special Edition) (Ascetic House)
07 Shinichi Atobe — Heat (2018 Special Edition) (DDS)
08 Alvin Lucier — Criss-Cross / Hanover (BLACK TRUFFLE)
09 Kelman Duran — 13th Month (Apocalipsis)
10 Teresa Winter — What The Night is For (The Death Of Rave)
11 P.Adrix — Álbum Desconhecido (2018 Special Edition) (Príncipe)
12 Lucy Railton — Paradise 94 (2018 Special Edition) (Modern Love)
13 Chaines — The King (Slip)
14 John Bence — Kill (2018 Special Edition) (Grooming)
15 CV & JAB — Zin Taylor's Thoughts Of A Dot As It Travels A Surface (Shelter Press)
16 Nazar — Enclave EP (Hyperdub)
17 JIM O'ROURKE — Sleep Like It's Winter (Newhere Music)
18 Sarah Davachi — Gave In Rest (2018 Special Edition) (Ba Da Bing!)
19 Alanis Obomsawin — Bush Lady (Constellation)
20 Felicia Atkinson — Coyotes (Geographic North)
21 Demdike Stare — Passion (Modern Love)
22 Pendant — Make Me Know You Sweet (2018 Special Edition) (West Mineral)
23 Nozomu Matsumoto — Climatotherapy (The Death Of Rave)
24 Sarah Hennies — Embedded Environments (Blume)
25 Heather Leigh — Throne (Editions Mego)
26 Slikback — Lasakaneku (Hakuna Kulala)
27 Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs — YMFEES (Bokeh Versions)
28 Julia Holter — Aviary (Domino Recording Co)
29 Lechuga Zafiro — Testigo (NAAFI)
30 Gabor Lazar — Unfold (The Death Of Rave)
31 Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends — FRKWYS Vol. 14 - Nue (RVNG Intl.)
32 Lea Bertucci — Metal Aether (NNA Tapes)
33 Debit — Animus (NAAFI)
34 Low Jack and Clara! — Les Disques De La Bretagne (2018 Special Edition) (Editions Gravats)
35 Stine Janvin — Fake Synthetic Music (PAN)
36 Kali Malone — Cast of Mind (Hallow Ground)
37 Nadine Byrne — Dreaming Remembering (iDEAL Recordings)
38 AUTECHRE — NTS Sessions (Warp Records)
39 Sophie — OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES (Transgressive)
40 Maria W Horn — Kontrapoetik (Portals Editions)
41 RAIME — Am I Using Content Or Is Content Using Me? (Different Circles)
42 LOW — Double Negative (Sub Pop Records)
43 MARK FELL — Intra (Boomkat Editions)
44 ZULI — Terminal (UIQ)
45 Senyawa — Sujud (Sublime Frequencies)
46 Bamba Pana — Poaa (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
47 THE NECKS — Body (ReR)
48 Cucina Povera — Hilja (Night School)
49 Klein — CC (2018 Special Edition) (Howling Owl Records)
50 TIM HECKER — Konoyo (Kranky)
51 Eiko Ishibashi — The Dream My Bones Dream (Drag City Records)
52 700 Bliss (Haram and Moor Mother) — Spa 700 (Halcyon Veil / Don Giovanni)
53 Blue Chemise — Daughters Of Time (STUDENTS OF DECAY)
54 Sophia Loizou — Irregular Territories (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
55 Lolina (Inga Copeland) — The Smoke (UNKNOWN LABEL)
56 Joe Talia — Tint (BLACK TRUFFLE)
57 Kadodi — Kadodi (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
58 Ben Vince — Assimilation (Where To Now?)
59 Niagara — Apologia (Príncipe)
60 FELICIA ATKINSON & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA — Limpid as the Solitudes (Shelter Press)
61 Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood (LATENCY)
62 Yves Tumor — Safe In The Hands of Love (Warp Records)
63 SILENT SERVANT — Shadows Of Death And Desire (Hospital Productions)
64 Duppy Gun Productions — Miro Tape (Bokeh Versions)
65 JAKOB ULLMANN — Muntzers Stern Solo II (EDITION RZ)
66 Peder Mannerfelt — Daily Routine (Peder Mannerfelt Produktion)
67 Eliza McCarthy and Mica Levi — Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall (Slip)
68 Lonnie Holley — MITH (Jagjaguwar)
69 Primitive Knot — Thee Opener Of The Way (AURORA BOREALIS)
70 uon — Untitled (West Mineral)
71 Lotic — Power (Tri Angle Records)
72 Shygirl — Cruel Practice (NUXXE)
73 ANNELIES MONSERE — Happiness Is Within Sight (STROOM)
74 Deena Abdelwahed — Khonnar (InFiné)
75 SUPERSILENT — 14 (Smalltown Supersound)
76 Maoupa Mazzocchetti — Gag Flag (Editions Gravats)
77 Ashley Paul — Lost In Shadows (Slip)
78 Wild Adoration — EP1 (New Atlantis Records)
79 CECILIA — Adoration (Halcyon Veil)
80 KTL — The Pyre: Versions Distilled To Stereo (Shelter Press)
81 Hira — Red Light Drive (Paul Institute)
82 Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman (Ninja Tune)
83 Space Afrika — Somewhere Decent To Live (2018 Special Edition) (sferic)
84 Meitei / 冥丁 — Kwaidan / 怪談 (Evening Chants)
85 Jay Glass Dubs — Plegnic (Ecstatic)
86 RS Produções — Bagdad Style (Príncipe)
87 Francis Plagne & Crys Cole — Two Words (BLACK TRUFFLE)
88 rkss — DJ Tools (UIQ)
89 DJ Nigga Fox — Crânio (Warp Records)
90 Eartheater — IRISIRI (PAN)
91 Rabit — Life After Death (Halcyon Veil)
92 Aïsha Devi — DNA Feelings (Houndstooth)
93 Lucrecia Dalt — Anticlines (RVNG Intl.)
94 Randall Dunn — Beloved (Figureight)
95 Abul Mogard — Above All Dreams (Ecstatic)
96 Rian Treanor — RAVEDIT (The Death Of Rave)
97 Various Artists — The Black Book (iDEAL Recordings)
98 Blawan — Wet Will Always Dry (Ternesc)
99 Afrodeutsche — Break Before Make (Skam Records)
100 GAS — Rausch (Kompakt)

stranded, Friday, 21 December 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link

Camp Cope at #1

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/brooklynvegans-top-50-albums-of-2018/

Frozen CD, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link

fuck yeah

Dinsdale, Saturday, 22 December 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link

Also, mewithoutYou at 44.

ArchCarrier, Saturday, 22 December 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link

that’s overrating the camp cope but still: cool list

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link

I compiled Stereogum's Best Jazz of 2018 list (linked above), and used my monthly column for December to list 10 runners-up and 5 (actually 6) best reissues of the year:

https://www.stereogum.com/2026718/ugly-beauty-the-month-in-jazz-december-2018/franchises/ugly-beauty/

Runners-up, listed alphabetically:

The Bad Plus, Never Stop II
Amaro Freitas, Rasif
Art Hirahara, Sunward Bound
Joshua Redman/Ron Miles/Scott Colley/Brian Blade, Still Dreaming
Logan Richardson, Blues People
Javier Santiago, Phoenix
Wayne Shorter, Emanon
Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs
Salim Washington, Dogon Revisited
Gabriel Zucker, Weighting

Reissues/Archival Releases of the Year:

Anthony Braxton, Sextet (Parker) 1993
Dave Douglas Quintet, Brazen Heart Live at Jazz Standard
Milford Graves, Bäbi
Wes Montgomery, In Paris: The Definitive ORTF Recording
Various Artists, J-Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969-1984/Spiritual Jazz Vol. 8: Japan (tie)

grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 22 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link

That BV list is great except it's ordering seems pretty random and off.

husked, tonal wails (irrational), Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link

I don't even know how a human or humans rank(s) 50-100 things it's just statistics or something right?

brimstead, Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link

it's delusion

j., Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link

Fluxblog and Said the Gramophone both posted their 2018 song round-ups, which have become my annual means of catching up with all of the music that I've paid too little attention to during the rest of the year.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link

I always enjoy the Said the Gramophone round-up. The Mélissa Laveaux and Spice songs are the immediate discoveries for me.

breastcrawl, Saturday, 22 December 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link

enjoying digging through the said the gramophone list, it's always interesting. "Premier juin" by Lydia Képinski is a really nice find

ufo, Sunday, 23 December 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link

thanks all! ILX is my secret weapon always

sean gramophone, Sunday, 23 December 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link

mine's always been a swift kick to the groin.

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:13 (five years ago) link

oh gosh what a great description of "long as i live". truly one of the best singles of her career.

dyl, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/pitchfork-readers-poll-results-2018/

pitchfork readers poll results a lot funnier than usual, i'm not surprised by bts fans making a coordinated effort but lol at the greta van fleet ballot-stuffing effort

ufo, Monday, 24 December 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link

Wow, I didn't know about a new Kyle Gann album so thanks for the Said the Gramophone list!

Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Monday, 24 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link

OK, wow, the album is fantastic.

Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link

oh wow i didn't know logan richardson had a new album, i really like him

errang (rushomancy), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link

thanks for the tip on the kyle gann sund4r this is good!

errang (rushomancy), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link

Somehow ye is both the fourth most underrated and the fourth most overrated album.

jmm, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link

well it isn't the former

imago, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link

I'd like Kyle Gann's music better if he weren't so obviously biased against the European classical tradition. It's unfair, but I can't help it.

pomenitul, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2018.cfm

Big Daddy Nice's top 25 southern soul songs

http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/corner2018.cfm

List (with youtube links) includes as top 5:

Fat Daddy "the Blame"
Jeter Jones "Black Horse"
Sir Charles Jones "Squeeze me"
Tucka "Ain't No Getting Over Me"
Karen Wolfe "That Bitch Ain't me"

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link

Pomenitul, you really mean that Gann is biased against postwar European new music composition, right? I think he loves the tradition as such. He even cites Haydn, Chopin, and Ravel in the notes to Hyperchromatica.

Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link

Yes, sorry, that wasn't entirely clear on my part.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link

Cool, just checking what you meant. He definitely has his biases/preferences but he is an expert on American experimentalism and tuning/temperament systems.

Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

For sure. Like I said, I know I'm being unfair (I have similar feelings regarding Alex Ross).

pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

surprised no eminem

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/30-best-hip-hop-albums-of-2018-771909/

Frozen CD, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link

The Slate critics roundtable discussion is out with essays and some lists on the bottom. Sometimes folks try to hard in such things to be all encompassing regarding music, politics, culture, but Jason King does it pretty well here I think, starting with Coltrane's lost album Both Directions At Once that's out this year, and mentioning a Leon Bridges track Bad, Bad News, M. Ndgeocello, Afrobeats, Prince and mentioning country music, French protests and much much more

https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/2018-music-both-directions-at-once-coltrane.html

curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link

ooh some cool ones in there, thanks, did not know about the SW/SVN album

sleeve, Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link

Metacritic's best reviewed of 2018 list

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-albums-released-in-2018?ref=hp

Ae$op Rocky (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link

sleeve, the clips i hear off this one sounded pretty nice - maybe up yr street too?

12. Sound Voyage
En Route To Thailand LP

(Free Soul Inc)

A very specific and original project from Krautrock maestro’s Niko Schabel & Tom Wieland, nothing else like this in the shop. The pair went on a sabbatical to Thailand, creating field recordings and digging rare records, they returned to the home studio to build this stunning and faithful combination of old-east meets the new west. As the sales notes aptly put it “Sounds like Kraftwerk jamming in a Thai temple with the locals and Moritz von Oswald on controls? Welcome to the next level, they simply call it Outernational Kraut Electronica. First stop: Thailand.”

my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link

yeah I was checking that one out as well, thanks!

sleeve, Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link

this is a pretty good dubby track off that: bangkok echo

my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link

Sometimes folks try to hard in such things to be all encompassing

Oh yeah, the Slate critics' roundtable, where listening to both pop and country makes you "all-encompassing" when it comes to music.

grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link

That may seem the case, but this year there are a couple of contributors with more varying tastes (Jason King has jazz, afrobeats, UK r'n'b and more), Rawiya Kameir mentions afrobeats and dancehall... But no Unperson with avante-jazz and metal

curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link

Um, afrobeats and UK r'n'b and dancehall are just pop from other countries.

grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link

Good list from the German MusikExpress:

1: International Music – DIE BESTEN JAHRE
2: Tocotronic – DIE UNENDLICHKEIT
3: DJ Koze – KNOCK KNOCK
4: Sophie – OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
5: Blood Orange – NEGRO SWAN
6: Soap&Skin – FROM GAS TO SOLID/YOU ARE MY FRIEND
7: Idles – JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
8: Julia Holter – AVIARY
9: Goat Girl – GOAT GIRL
10: Helena Hauff – QUALM
11: Arctic Monkeys – TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL + CASINO
12: Die Nerven – FAKE
13: Kamasi Washington – HEAVEN AND EARTH
14: Drangsal – ZORES
15: Janelle Monáe – DIRTY COMPUTER
16: Mitski – BE THE COWBOY
17: Jon Hopkins – SINGULARITY
18: Christine & The Queens – CHRIS
19: The Good, The Bad & The Queen – MERRIE LAND
20: Serpentwithfeet – SOIL
21: Kurt Vile – BOTTLE IT IN
22: Snail Mail – LUSH
23: Perel – HERMETICA
24: Ezra Furman – TRANSANGELIC EXODUS
25: Beach House – 7
26: Isolation Berlin – VERGIFTE DICH
27: Nils Frahm – ALL MELODY
28: Robyn – HONEY
29: Low – DOUBLE NEGATIVE
30: Suede – THE BLUE HOUR
31: Shame – SONGS OF PRAISE
32: Anna Calvi – THE HUNTER
33: Ross From Friends – FAMILY PORTRAIT
34: A.A.L. (Against All Logic) – 2012–2017
35: Der Nino aus Wien – DER NINO AUS WIEN
36: Rhye – BLOOD
37: Florence & The Machine – HIGH AS HOPE
38: Villagers – THE ART OF PRETENDING TO SWIM
39: The Internet – HIVE MIND
40: Mouse On Mars – DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE
41: Fucked Up – DOSE YOUR DREAMS
42: Yves Tumor – SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE
43: The Blaze – DANCEHALL
44: Lucy Dacus – HISTORIAN
45: Neneh Cherry – BROKEN POLITICS
46: Agar Agar – THE DOG AND THE FUTURE
47: Tim Hecker – KONOYO
48: Big Red Machine – BIG RED MACHINE
49: Haiyti – MONTENEGRO ZERO
50: Yung Hurn – 1220

ArchCarrier, Friday, 28 December 2018 11:24 (five years ago) link

It's about time, Norman Records

doug watson, Friday, 28 December 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link

Les Inrockuptibles:

1. Flavien Berger — Contre-Temps
2. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
3. Cat Power — Wanderer
4. MGMT — Little Dark Age
5. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
6. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
7. Kanye West — ye
8. Jorja Smith — Lost & Found
9. Miossec — Les rescapés
10. Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics
11. Perez — Cavernes
12. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
13. Dominique A — La fragilité
14. Jeanne Added — Radiate
15. Jacco Gardner — Somnium
16. Snail Mail — Lush
17. Lomepal — Jeannine
18. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
19. A$AP Rocky — Testing
20. Car Seat Headrest — Twin Fantasy
21. Superorganism — Superorganism
22. Shame — Songs of Praise
23. Agar Agar — The Dog and the Future
24. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
25. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
26. Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters
27. Pusha T — Daytona
28. Insecure Men — Insecure Men
29. Rendez Vous — Superior State
30. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
31. Jean-Louis Murat — Il Francese
32. Alpha Wann — Une main lave l'autre
33. Damso — Lithopédion
34. Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
35. Franz Ferdinand — Always Ascending
36. Dream Wife — Dream Wife
37. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
38. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
39. Daniel Blumberg — Minus
40. Ty Segall — Freedom’s Goblin
41. Nas — NASIR
42. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
43. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
44. Helena Hauff — Qualm
45. Myth Syzer — Bisous
46. Amen Dunes — Freedom
47. Saba — Care for Me
48. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
49. Vald — XEU
50. Grand Blanc — Image au mur

Meh.

pomenitul, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link

Tbf I haven't heard the #1 yet. And I'm only interested in their francophone suggestions anyway.

pomenitul, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link


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