Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2018

Here's my Spotify link if you care: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/4OUN4DPAXPu5Uo8mFpuc4M
Not everything is from 2018, just stuff I discover in 2018

So... was there a separate albums thread or are we mixing it up?

https://xuiqen.bandcamp.com/track/rchm-d

into "rchmöd" now.. these guys are so many things i love about autechre

I'm not sold on the album as a whole but 'One Rizia' by Shame is a keeper:

https://shamebanduk.bandcamp.com/track/one-rizla

Mods ignored my title change request so... albums and tracks in this thread it seems :/

Here's my top songs from January 2018 so far:

The Green Child - Her Majesty II
Gundelach - Games (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Gwenno - Tir Ha Mor
Jonathan Wilson - Over the Midnight (Edit)
Khruangbin - Friday Morning
Helena Deland - There Are a Thousand
Migos - Stir Fry
Negative Gemini - Infin Path
The Shacks - Follow Me
U.S. Girls - Pearly Gates
Young Galaxy - Under My Wing

Gundelach and Migos are actually late December 17.

One thread for albums and tracks is more than enough. I'll throw in some faves soon. My spotify playlist already has about 50 things in it.

Agreed. This thread has been perfectly fine for umpteen years.

Favourite thing so far is the Pantsula! comp of late 80s South African dance music. I'm far from an expert but I hear early house, Italo, Shangaan sounds. Cover is some notable album art too:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0922/5304/products/87262_300_1024x1024.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/xuiqen/videos/139357513401024/?hc_ref=ARQ8B5VN421jZch2BUvdW9jp8WkjN5vKC7Ahkz3MfVM5vOg-518nmCVQ5z7koq8MjCA

Rae's long lost aunt

good choices moka :)
jeff do you have a public playlist of yr favs?

Most interesting thing on the new Anderson East album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka1p2Vj5wps

wow @ that cover

nxd: I do now
https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/00ygYol5jROqX62Zg5Al7V

thanks!

Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - Someplace

(I get worn out just typing their name correctly.)

really enjoying the advance tracks off the Loma album, esp "Black Willow" and "Relay Runner"

Tracks-

Jono Ma & Dreems - Can't Stop My Dreaming (Of You)
David Byrne - Everybody's Coming To My House
Me Not You - Everafter
Mt. Si - 911

Albums-

Michael Millions - Hard To Be King
Tune Yards - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxLYCKB8v2w

cranberries when you're gone vibes

I'm really digging this bit of French trap that's currently number one over there apparently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPnMFUsKm8w

That's Mwaka Moon by Kalash btw

New Nils Frahm is excellent

https://soundcloud.com/pamparecords/sets/pampa030-dj-koze-seeing-aliens

New DJ Koze

i'd say the new nils frahm is allright, not more. as the title says quite melodic. easy listening background stuff.

Frequently find James Blake’s music boring but his new song is glitchy and chopped up and I love glitchy and chopped up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYXM3uz1bjM

My January tracks highlights:

tUnE-yArDs - Heart Attack
BØRNS with Lana Del Rey - God Save Our Young Blood
cupcakKe - Duck Duck Goose
Prins Thomas - Lunga Strada (The Pilotwings Bubble Zouk Remix)
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Make Out Fade Out
David Byrne - Everything’s Coming To My House
Beautify Junkyards - Aquarius
WaggakiBand - amari risu (あまりりす)
Benjamin Schoos with Dent May - All Night Every Night
Rhye - Song For You
Calibro 35 - SuperStudio
Redshape - Blink
Julia Michaels - Heaven
KNIGHTSTOWN - Charlatan (Pye Corner Audio Remix)
The Yearning - Something I Should Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fj3LxYP1OU

^ i did make a fairly useless thread about peggy gou but i have not been able to shake this one track. classic larry heard-ish house business combined with the same sort of lovely breezy pop sensibilities as someone like dip in the pool

btw that's Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

Oh heard that song earlier today through beatport’s top 100. I love it too.

new ionna starting year off strong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta0vVZDI-zk

Every time I see the name I can't help thinking: Peggy Gou, Peggy Gou, pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Gou.

muh playlist: http://spoti.fi/2BSfD3y

There’s some amazing songs I hadn’t seen anywhere else on that JF.

That has 33 more tracks than my tracks list! My albums list is just:

Various Artists - Pantsula! The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa 1988-1990 [sounds like shangaan x Italo x early house everyone should love this]
Fire! - The Hands [free jazz good times]
Weirdest Dream - White Worms [yr standard analog synth explorations always a treat]

yeh this pantsula comp rules

Here's my rolling 'tracks I'm discovering and enjoying in 2018' list if anyone's interested. https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/4OUN4DPAXPu5Uo8mFpuc4M <-new and old stuff in here but a lot of it is up to date

Another fan of that Pantsula comp here

We seem to be in a golden age of African music compilations right now. I'll need to give the Pantsula a good listen. I am also really really enjoying the 'Sweet As Broken Dates' comp of Somalian music on Ostinato at the moment.

that Fire! track is nice, like their combination of heavy grooves and free spirits

favorite albums so far

Ilyas Ahmed - Closer to Stranger
https://vimeo.com/235687424

Dean McPhee - Four Stones
https://deanmcphee.bandcamp.com/album/four-stones

Future Museums - Rosewater Ceremony
https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rosewater-ceremony-hd044

Swoop and Cross - Stories of Disintegration
https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/stories-of-disintegration

Soho Rezanejad - Six Archetypes
https://siliconerecords.bandcamp.com/album/six-archetypes

I just heard the Rae Morris album, and I'm just going to call it that it'll make the top ten in ilx's 2018 poll.

mmmmmmaybe it'll place

I just heard the Rae Morris album, and I'm just going to call it that it'll make the top ten in ilx's 2018 poll.

― President Keyes,

It's definitely winning 2018 for me right now.

Johnny fever please don’t leak the results

I really like Atletico but the first couple of tracks of the album proper weren't really doing it for me. I'm convinced to give it another go.

Getting really addicted to Mor Mor - Heaven’s Only Wishful
I have a soft spot for songs that are sung continously low key and monotonic until the end where the singer starts sing-shouts. Selena Gomez Bad Liar did this too.

This Rae Morris album is wallpaper.

don't get the rae morris love. the single do it was heavy handed

digging the new half waif. beautifully layered vocals, rich bed of synthetic sounds.

"Keep It Out": https://youtu.be/Iou7N2oJq3A

The two Helena Deland singles and the two Amen Dunes singles released so far are great. I think those two + US Girls are pointing out to be my favorite albums in the first quarter of 2018.

It was posted on the Afropop thread

...and on the Summer Jams thread, both courtesy of dog latin

*both times*

thank you dog latin 🙏

août

Nicolas Godin - Au service de la France
A Certain Ratio ft. Barry Adamson & Tony Wilson - Dirty Boy
The Twelve Hour Foundation - Sprudel
Say Lou Lou - Golden Child
Michael Giacchino - Incredits 2
Michael Giacchino / DCappella - Pow! Pow! Pow! (Mr. Incredible’s Theme)
Ariana Grande - R.E.M
CHVRCHES x WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Out Of My Head
Soulwax - Essential Ten
Jean-Michel Jarre - Herbalizer
FEMM - Up Up&Away
Low - Disarray
Nicki Minaj ft. Foxy Brown - Coco Chanel / Inspirations Outro
Red Velvet - Mosquito
Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - Norte do Brasil
Helena Hauff - Panegyric
Christine and the Queens - 5 dollars
Kölsch and Tiga - Still So High
Disclosure - Moonlight
Mabel - One Shot
Wojciech Golczewski - Fatem
Rikke Normann - I Belong (Prins Thomas Remix)

Also, my 2018 Spotify playlist got too big so started another one (already has 142 songs in it after 1 month lol):
https://open.spotify.com/user/worrellj14/playlist/2hSivLZnvJeVuebshHWpoR?si=mgf6yIReQvC8RRqvIDBIZw

Albums:

(Favorites)
Bernice - Puff: In The Air Without A Shape
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Goat Girl - S/T

(In The Mix)
FRIGS - Basic Behavior
Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations
Sleep - The Sciences
The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage
Szun Waves - New Hymn To Freedom
Forth Wanderers - S/T
DRINKS - Hippo Lite
Marian Hill - Unusual
Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends
Maribou State - Kingdoms In Colour
The Blaze - Dancehall
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exudus

top 10 so far

Andrew WK - You're Not Alone
Daphne & Celeste Save the World
Datarock - Face the Brutality
Autechre - NTS Sessions
George Clanton - Slide
Koenjihyakkei - new album that I can't spell
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
They Might be Giants - I Like Fun
3.2 - The Rules Have Changed
Underworld & Iggy Pop - Teatime Dub Encounters

solid lists

Current favorites:

Autechre - NTS
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Pram - Across The Meridian
Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
Domenico Lancellotti - The Good is a Big God
LUMP (Laura Marling, Mike Lindsay) - LUMP
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
The Advisory Circle - Ways of Seeing
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Beach House - 7
Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse
Jean Grae x Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade (and Blood Drums)
Bill Frisell - Music IS
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Lake Ruth - Birds of America
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Dirt
Cruel Diagonals - Disambiguation

Good albums:

Delicate Features - Pure
Still Corners - Slow Air
Shakarchi and Stranéus - Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God
Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas
Mårble - Diego
Gwenifer Raymond - You Never Were Much Of A Dancer
Various Artists - Onda De Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were (1984-94)
Arp - Zebra
Seán Mac Erlaine - Music For Empty Ears
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Sauvage Formes
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo

I promise I'm only going to plug this once: I've started a new-music newsletter, with album and track picks going out every Friday morning with tidal/spotify/apple streaming links for all of 'em (with the singles gathered as a playlist). you can sign up here.

the gwenifer raymond album makes me nostalgic for 2004

Recent(ish) favs

Petal - Magic Gone
Noname - Room 25
Chris Crack - Being Woke Ain't Fun
Cut Worms - Hollow Ground
Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur
Hermit & The Recluse - Orpheus vs. The Sirens
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Wild Nothing - Indigo
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
Popcaan - Forever

albums

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Bombino - Deran
The Breeders - All Nerve
Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Low - Double Negative
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Die Nerven - Fake
Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs

EPs!

(and mini LPs)

After a slow start in 2018, there's been loads of great ones lately. Here's 20 I've not previously mentioned on this thread.

Red Velvet - Summer Magic: Summer Mini Album
Neil Scrivin - Geek Upmanship
Deerful - tell me I can fix this on my own
Red Velvet - #CookieJar
AGF - ENfys nEST
Zooey - Inspiration Information 1
FEMM - dollhouse
YMCK - MAGICAL GALAXY TOUR
The Twelve Hour Foundation - Bunch of Fives
KNIGHTSTOWN - Keep

Tokyo Elvis - Good News
Wojciech Golczewski - End of Transmission 2
Le SuperHomard - The Pomegranate Tree
No Joy / Sonic Boom - s/t
TWICE - What Is Love?
Emma-Jean Thackray - Ley Lines
Moses Sumney - Black in Deep Red, 2014
mewithoutYou - (untitled)
OH MY GIRL BANHANA - Banana Allergy Monkey
LOOΠΔ yyxy - beauty&thebeat

A few additions since May:

Khanus - Flammarion
Vital Idles - Left Hand
KEN Mode - Loved
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness
Ghost - Prequelle

Albums/EPs I've liked/loved this year (tops with an *) up through today:

Noname - Room 25*
Low - Double Negative**
Knife Knights - 1 Time Garage
Ady Suleiman - Memories
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Starchild & The New Romantic - Language
Blood Orange - Negro Swan*
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
The Internet - Hive Mind
Miguel - War & Leisure
Moses Sumney - Black in Deep Red, 2014 EP*
Kamaal Williams - The Return
La Luz - Floating Features
Lotic - Power
Mock Identity - Paradise
The Midnight Hour (Adrian Younge) - The Midnight Hour*
Witch Prophet -The Golden Octave*
Hilary Woods - Colt
Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
Virginia Wing - Ecastatic Arrow
Saba - Care For Me**
Sudan Archives - Sink EP
Serpentwithfeet - Soil**
Melo-Zed - Eleven
Lithics - Mating Surfaces
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On
Shopping - The Official Body
Ought - Room Inside the World

Saba and Serpentwithfeet and Low are my absolute favorites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTMvh8fI4I

every time i say this is going to be the last fucked up record i'm going to listen to, that it's about time their sonic experimentalism combined with shouting punk singer got old for me. nah, it doesn't.

Their most recent single is fantastic.

Hey, Pitchfork just reviewed the latest Aphex Twin ep.. it's high time we started talking about it. Those Fenix Funk 5-esque melodies on the latter half of "MT1 t29r2", my god

September. No AFX.

Shadow Party - Reverse the Curse (ACR:MCR Rework Extended)
I Am Robot and Proud - A Dot In Air
Dawn Richard - Jealousy
Mariah Carey - GTFO
TOMAGA - The Dancer In The Lake
Low - Always Trying To Work It Out
Orbital - Hoo Hoo Ha Ha
David Guetta ft. Jess Glynne & Stefflon Don - She Knows How To Love Me
Kero Kero Bonito - Make Believe
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Enka Natorium (演歌ナトリウム)
Yasutaka Nakata ft. Charli XCX & Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Crazy Crazy
Charli XCX - Focus (Yaeji remix)
Robyn - Honey
She Makes War - London Bites
Broadcast - Petal Alphabet (demo)
Christine and the Queens - Follarse [aka Damn (what must a woman do)]
Ellen Allien - Flying Objects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOWrfLlxcPE&t=50s

oh, boo-HOO.... AFX made a good ep. Tracks 1, 2, and 3 are favorites

this is from 1987, but apparently it's being reissued this year? Stephane Sévérac - Hold On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgyvDwHKtAQ

good stuff, george michael vibe

xp The original 12 inch mix is fantastic.

I think it was supposed to have been reissued last year on Pacific Beach Vinyl but never seemed to materialise.

Made with alarmingly obsessive attention to detail, one for Brits and Anglophiles of a certain age…

http://www.acidjazz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MattBThemesPackshot3000.jpeg

Our Girl supported Bill Ryder Jones on his recent tour. Their album has been out since the summer 'Stranger Today'. They were great live and the album hits some Lush spots in parts.

My favourites from Q3: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/178694896312/q3-2018-faves

October (a busy month)

Candi Staton - Confidence
Tokyo Elvis ft. Hatsune Mitsuko - Fetish
Sigrid - Sucker Punch (original / Four Tet remix)
Kero Kero Bonito - If I’d Known
Kristin Hersh - Gin
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Calibro 35 ft. Elisa Zoot - Travelers, Explorers
Piney Gir - Dreamcatcher
The Heartwood Institute - Barsham Faire
Saint Etienne - Little Chef
Chris Carter - Bongo Glow; Blissters (Radiophonic Workshop remix)
Halo Maud - Baptism; Surprise
Listening Center - Clarion of the Collapsed Complex
Esperanza Spalding - Touch in Mine
Spencer Zahn ft. Dawn Richard - Cyanotype
Terje Torkellsen - Sean
Let’s Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me (patten remix)
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Mannequin Metric
Silk City & Dua Lipa ft. Diplo & Mark Ronson - Electricity
Cher Lloyd - None of My Business
Uffie - Papercuts
Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life
AURORA - Forgotten Love (Claptone remix)
Robyn - Because It’s In The Music
Noname ft. Ravyn Lenae - Montego Bae
Cardi B - Money
Julia Holter - Colligere; Words I Heard
Oneohtrix Point Never - Love in the Time of Lexapro
Riton + Kah-Lo - Bad Boy
Sone Institute - Winter Is Dead; Justice… As Is
Nao - A Life Like This

My new favorite thing is Bon Voyage Organisation's 'Jungle? Quelle Jungle?'

Exquisite funky disco goodness.

I like that new Oneohtrix track more than anything on the album.

Posting here because there's no 2018 shambhala thread and because it's a favourite track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIYM7in1Tcs

Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala 2018 Thread

That's nice though!

Shout out to a September album release that I just caught up with but was an insta-buy: the latest Tokyo Elvis LP "Nice & Pleasant". As ever with him, the words are mostly sung by a vocaloid software voicebank persona that you'll either love or hate but there's unexpected depths in the writing. Possibly my favourite pure pop LP of the year. Listen here: http://tokyoelvis.bandcamp.com/album/nice-pleasant

November monsters

Dirty Projectors ft. Dear Nora - (I Wanna) Feel It All (Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith remix)
Ariana Grande - thank u, next
Kölsch - Emoticon
I Am Robot And Proud - Imaginary Gadgets; Lucky Static
TWICE - Say You Love Me
Calibro 35 - Stingray (instrumental)
Dawn Richard - new breed
Mariah Carey ft. Slick Rick & Blood Orange - Giving Me Life
Barbara Morgenstern - Angel’s Whisper
Gemma Ray - Blossom Crawls
The Japanese House - Follow My Girl
Emerson Kitamura - Rock Your Baby
WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA ft. yahyei - Survive Tokyo
Le SuperHomard - Springtime
Tokyo Elvis ft. Hatsune Miku - Hello, Hello; Dance Off-Time
Pye Corner Audio - Deep Space Probe
Faten Kanaan - Folksong; Foxes
Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Aly & AJ - With You

Charlotte Gainsbourg making a late charge with the brilliant 'Take 2' EP!

December songs (and a few sweep-ups from earlier in 2018)

Caterina Barbieri - We Access Only A Fraction
APRIL - Oh-e-Oh
Girls’ Generation-Oh!GG - Lil’ Touch
Red Velvet - Sassy Me
Simmy ft. S-Tone - Incwadi Encane
Anuel Aa feat. Bantu & Nicki Minaj - Familia
Bantu & Jonas Blue ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie - Roll With Me (Team Salut remix)
JPEGMAFIA - Baby I’m Bleeding
Holly Herndon, Jlin & Spawn - Godmother
Princess Nokia - Dragons
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Such A Remarkable Day
D. Rothon - The Years Fall Away
SHY FX ft. Stamina MC & Lily Allen - Roll the Dice
Youth Team - Glisten
Pye Corner Audio - Satan’s Little Helper
Tokyo Elvis - Yuki Boshi
MNEK ft. Hailee Steinfeld - Colour
Hailee Steinfeld - Back to Life

I think jazz is fast approaching 50% of my listening time.
Pretty much replaced me trying to find new electronic albums to get into.