What are your top 10 2018 albums so far

left Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man off my list by mistake, it's been a solid year so far

what .. this is out now? Great balls of holy fire, almost a week to the 1913 Rites of Spring anniversary, coincidence? no such thing with Gaz

This is hard... I feel like I've barely made up my mind about anything much this year.

Maybe this:

Sun-El Musician - Africa to the World
Hunee - Hunchin All Night
Sango - In the Comfort Of
Tommy Mandel - Mellow Magic
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Various - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe (1980-1991)
Justine Skye - Ultraviolet
Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
Gas - Rausch

Haven't made it all the way through Sr3mm yet. Culture II has some tracks on it that I like, but feels difficult to recommend the whole thing.

Jenny Wilson, It Hurts
Tracey Thorn, Record
Andrew WK, You're Not Alone
Daphne & Celeste, Daphne & Celeste Save the World
Meshell Ndgeocello, Ventriloquism
Starchild & the New Romantic, Language
Dream Wife, Dream Wife
Drinks, Hippo Lite
Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Glamping
Chloe x Halle, The Kids Are Alright

honorable mention to the collected songs from STAR, which are not yet on a single album but which rule

palm record is good too. and i want to sit with the janelle

Cucina Povera - Hilja
Mr Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres

Can't think of any others I've enjoyed

off the top of my head so probably missing a few:

Beta Librae - Sanguine Bond
Ebo Taylor - Yen Ara
Steven Julien - Bloodline
Marine - Fable Electric
Hunee - Hunchin All Night
Rezzett - Rezzett
Steven Rutter - BrainFog
тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
V/A - Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth​-​Boogie in 1980s South Africa
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes

1. Ought - Room Inside This World
2. Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
3. Autechre - NTS 1-4
4. Ernesto Chahoud presents Taitu: Soul Fuelled Stompers From 1960s - 1970s Ethiopia
5. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM
6. Sun-El Musician - Africa To The World
7. Pantsula! - The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa, 1988​-​90
8. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
9. Migos - Culture II
10. Tal National - Tantabara

I guess I'm just not that interested in albums so much lately...

MGMT
A.A.L.
US Girls
Hop Along
Eleanor Friedberger
Gwenno
Superchunk
Bat Fangs
Warm Bodies
No Age

xp yeah my tracks list is a lot more interesting tbh

this correlates directly with my uptake of Spotify in the last two years. I find it a lot easier to curate and listen to personalised lists of tracks when at work/driving/walking around. At home I still listen to albums, but usually on vinyl and often that's compilations and older LPs

yeah, that's the thing

I wish all the tracks I love came from great albums

I think these long long rap albums (SR3MM, Migos II etc) have been put together with this in mind. It's not like they have a conceptual through-line, they're just large sprawling collections of tracks which work best when cherry-picked from rather than listened to as an album 'experience' in its entirety.

More than anything it's intended to juke streaming stats.

it's sad that a format that fell from heaven as the Platonic form of how popular music should be consumed has been reduced to commercial necessity

An EP man, I see

1. Autechre
2. Keiji Haino & Sumac
3. Gas
4. Tal National
5. Sleep
6. Oneohtrix Point Never
7. Yob
8. DJ Nigga Fox
9. EQ Why and Traxman
10. Seth Graham

It's very refreshing to see guitar rock albums in so many of these.

1. No Age
2. Sleep
3. Breeders
4. Migos
5. Kacey Musgraves
6. Kodak Black
7. Good Morning
8. Jpegmania
9. Big Ups
10. Bat Fangs

man, you all really like the Hailu Mergia.

as do i, i just don't see that much talk about him on ilm, so i didn't realize...

autechre - nts sessions 1-4
messthetics - s/t
steve tibbetts - life of

that's all I got so far (and only just heard the new steve tibbetts this morning) but tbf autechre album is eight hours long

high hopes for gang gang, but beyond that it may be a p short aoty list for me this year

hailu mergia got mentioned a couple of times on the Outernational thread, plus being on Awesome Tapes he's relatively high profile. plus it's a fun little album that's easy to enjoy but not exactly MINDBLOWING which is good and fine. hope it makes EOY

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.

i don't know how to get it down to ten, so here are some i haven't seen mentioned much

aquaserge - deja-vous
bekon - get with the times
brown calculus - live at the map room ep
domenico lancelotti - the good is a big god
v/a - program 1: strange sounds from indianapolis and beyond
jim miles - waste begat waste
l'imperatrice - matahari
orchestre tout puissant marcel duchamp - sauvage formes
philip d kick - pathways
the sevateem - the caves

ten archival picks:

ami shavit - neural oscillations and alpha rhythms
bernard estardy - space oddities (1970-1982)
colored music - individual beauty
entourage - ceremony of dreams: studio sessions and outtakes, 1972-1977
gene clark - sings for you
kuniyuki takahashi - early tape works (1986-1993) vol 1
paddy kingsland - the changes original soundtrack
basement beehive: the girl group underground
satan in love: rare finnish synth-pop and disco 1979-1992
welcome to paradise vol. iii: italian dream house 90-94

I strongly considered adding that Domenico Lancelotti album to my list. A worthy descendant to The High Llamas - Snowbug.

oh yeah it is sean o'hagan related. why did i think it was cheer-accident related? i don't know.

of the rest, the aquaserge, jim miles, and orchestra tout puissant marcel duchamp are variously in the neighborhood of "prog", bekon is some variety of alt-r&b, l'ipmperatrice and the sevateem are some variety of synthpop, philip d kick is some variety of electronic, and the other two are what they are. if that's of any assistance.

Still haven't heard the new Beak album, but I'm betting it'll make my top ten. And this: http://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/mount-vision

Beths
Parquet Courts
Beach House
Rolling Blackouts

Thats it. Kinda weak year so far imo.

Maybe Uncle Acid and/ot Kurt Vile will save it..

― nostormo, Saturday, September 22, 2018 12:17 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm you might like Salad Boys?

the absolute state of that post tbh

lol

People, why has nobody on this entire thread mentioned the fantastic album To The Sunset by Amanda Shires? It's easily one of the best records of the year. For crying out loud, please get on board.

what is that new kero kero bonito like

anyone heard it

also tempted to follow kornrulez on that suggestion due to the passion there

fantastic stuff, a step up imo - there's a thread for them :)

KERO KERO BONITO

yeah a huge step up

cool, gotta hear that, thanks

top 10 at the moment, a lot of great records this year but these are the ones i come back to.

1. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes
2. Pram - Across the Meridian
3. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
4. Ionalee - Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten
5. Soccer Mommy - Clean
6. Tirzah - Devotion
7. Tove Styrke - Sway
8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
9. Dj Koze - Knock Knock
10. mgmt - little dark age

that madeline kenney is so good

she is a real fucking gem!

Just listening for the first time. Kenney album is really good.

heard the first one LBI

that and the EP are essential, signals rules

Madeline Kenney

we have a madeline kenney thread, that album is indeed fantastic

Can't remember if I've posted this in here previously or not, but here's my list on Discogs. Things kind of slowed down for me after the quick one-two super mellow combo punch of Jon Hassell and Steve Tibbetts. Looking forward to that Julia Holter.

i really like the jon hassell - the other stuff i have heard by him never left a lasting impression - but i do not get into the steve tibbetts at all. it sounds so repetitive to my ears. i am intrigued about the new julia holter as well.

I have settled for these now but I haven't listened to a lot of new music this year.

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

Gotta find some space on my list for the Madeline Kenney and Domenique Dumont albums. Don't know what I'd bump off though.

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)