What are your top 10 2018 albums so far

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

Iceage - Beyondless should also be in that second list.

Nice to see ionnalee on your list. Funny I forgot that but this year has been stacked with good records

Black Dresses album would now be on mine too

That Black Dresses album is real good.

going to wait to make my list until next week but here’s a late breaking candidate

https://mockidentity.bandcamp.com/

ashley monroe - sparrow
charlie puth - voicenotes
jacquees - 4275
jon hassell - listening to pictures (pentimento volume one)
kacey musgraves - golden hour
meshell ndegeocello - ventriloquism
oneohtrix point never - age of
serpente - rituais 101 ["Voodoo enchantments gathered from dub, jungle and techno debris" - https://serpente101.bandcamp.com/album/rituais-101)
swae lee - swaecation
terre thaemlitz - deproduction eps 1 & 2

in no order, haven't listened to a lot of stuff i intended to

rico nasty
parquet courts
kacey musgraves
arctic monkeys
now, now
mr fingers
hop along
amen dunes
jean grae quelle chris
ye

Die Wilde Jagd album is so good!

can't stop listening to it. it's a good one to listen to last thing before bed

In no particular order:

Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Comes
Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile
Cardi B - Invasion Of Privacy
Shakarchi & Stranaeus - Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Proc Fiskal - Insula
SOB x RBE - Gangin
Mind Over Mirrors - Bellowing Sun
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
Skee Mask - Compro

I forgot the Tracey Thorn album, that should be in there.

o ya forgot about gangin that ones good. skee mask is great too, like the 2018 dj sports

Oh shit Sun El-Musician as well. Sorry Skee Mask/Mind Over Mirrors, you're dropped.

i would add Sun-El Musician - Africa To The World to my list as well.