What are your top 10 2018 albums so far

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.

throwing another yeh for the black dresses album xps

Smh no Trouble album mentions

― mark e, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 07:55 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SOB x RBE - Gangin'
Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg - Dirt... And More Dirt
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Awase
Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Music For David Mossman--Live At Vortex London
Trouble & Mike WiLL Made-It - Edgewood
Dan Weiss - Starebaby
Nolatet - No Revenge Necessary
Tim Daisy's Fulcrum Ensemble - Animation
Duduka da Fonseca Trio - Plays Dom Salvador
Yelena Eckemoff Quartet - Desert

― calzino, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 08:05 (one month ago) Bookmark

do i win a lolipop?

Yes

I am also shifting my complaint to the lack of syclops mentions

Syclops will be on my list.

Also thank u to rushomancy for listing Gurrumul - that's top 3 of the year for me.

holy shit this gurrumul

Autechre 'NTS Sessions'
The Eternal Chord 'Semper Liber'
Eva-Maria Houben 'Breath for Organ'
Jakob Ullmann 'Muntzers Stern Solo II'
Okkyung Lee 'Dahl-Tah-Ghi'
Cam Deas 'Time Exercises'
MMMD 'Andromache'
Mayuko Hino 'Lunisolar'
Christina Vantzou 'No.4'
Jim O'Rourke 'Steamroom 38/39'
Mika Vainio 'Lydspor One & Two'
Alex Zhang Hungtai 'Divine Weight'

Abstracter - Cinerous Incarnate
Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations
Chaos Echoes - Mouvement
Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love - 19th of May 2016
Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar
Eric Chenaux - Slowly Paradise
Jojo R Manny - This Winter Has Been Coldest At Its End
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4

I'll do 11 - Unranked:

Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Gwenno - Le Kov
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
Various - Black Panther: The Album
The Breeders - All Nerve
Chvrches - Love Is Dead
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
IAMX - Alive In New Light
Hookworms - Microshift
Field Music - Open Here

Le mien!

shaping up to be a consensus-y year for me

u.s. girls
meshell ndegeocello
speedy ortiz
kacey musgraves
black panther
jorge elbrecht
jennifer castle
belly
janelle monae
spook school / smokescreens / shopping (tie)

delroy Edwards - rio grande

this is the only thread that mentions Die Wilde Jagd, but I saw them last night and they were very very excellent.

BYE!

oh sweet
deffo in my top 3 records this year

was it a full band? for some reason i thought it was one dude

two dudes, drums, guitar and a whole raft full of modules and pedals and noodly things. 2000 Elefanten was particularly great. The drummer was brilliant. The guitary singer dude was awesome. really good

drummer would have to be Dinger rock steady

aw sweet - think 2000 elefanten is my fav!
& cosign dinger :D

2000 Elefanten is a fantastic song, not sure about the rest of the album yet

rest of the album is brilliant but 2000 Elefanten is the hit - is it the only one with singing on it? Will definitely be in my EOY. Live it turned into a proper anthem. I could imagine these guys evolving into an excellent avant-rock/pop band on the next record

2018 has been insane, for me at least. there are still albums by Orbital, Mouse on Mars, and James Ferraro I have to get to. among many many others

my working list is something like:

1. Andrew WK - You're Not Alone
2. Kaku P-Model - Kai = Kai
3. Autechre - NTS Sessions
4. Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
5. George Clanton - Slide
6. Daphne & Celeste Save the World
7. Datarock - Face the Brutality
8. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
9. They Might be Giants - I Like Fun
10. 3.2 - The Rules Have Changed

mewithoutyou: [untitled]
low: double negative
helena hauff: qualm
ashley monroe: sparrow
anna von hausswolff: dead magic
foxing: nearer my god
meshell ndegeocello: ventriloquism
arctic monkeys: tranquility base hotel & casino
autechre: nts sessions
let's eat grandma: i'm all ears

I love a lot this year:

Haron - Wandelaar
Jolly Mare - Logica Natura
Deepchord - Immersions
Sandro Perri - In Another Life
Ovlov - TRU
Gwenno - Le Kov
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
DJ Khalab - Black Noise 2084
Betonkust & Palmbomen II - Center Parcs
Bjorn Torske - Byen

Also...

Hear, Now - Aurora Baleare
Khotin - Beautiful You
H. Takahashi - Low Power
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On
Kate NV - для FOR
Salad Boys - This Is Glue
M. Geddes Gengras - Hawaiki Tapes
Skee Mask - Compro
Sam McClellan - Music of the Five Elements
Peggy Gou - Once
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still

I didn't get the Glenn Jones or the new Low yet so I imagine they're easily going to be added.

Oh and the Yves Tumor! Looking forward to checking that one out as well.

Shit, I forgot:

Various - Studio Barnhus Volym 1

Loving that a lot!

AND:

Hovvdy - Cranberry
Our Girl - Stranger Today
Arp - Zebra
Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner

Good year imo

additions to my list above:

Parquet Courts
Malkmus
Snail Mail
Khurangbin
Rolling blackouts
The Amazing
The Sea and Cake
Bardo for Pablo
Melodys Echo Chamber
Foxing

sons of kemet

let's eat grandma - i'm all ears
wednesday campanella - galapogos
low - double negative
beach house - 7
mount eerie - now only
foxing - nearer my god
gang gang dance - kazuashita
kacey musgraves - golden hour
christine and the queens - chris
natalie prass - the future and the past
yves tumor - safe in the hands of love

Demdike Stare x Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - The Feed-Back Loop
Pablo's Eye - Spring Break
Bernard Baschet & Michel Deneuve - 4 espaces sonires
Various Artists - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe
Kink Gong - Dian Long: Soundscape China / Destruction of Chinese Pop
Mårble - Diego
Creta - Creta
Walter Verdin - Voor Adeline "Een Fantastisch Nieuw Muziektheater"
Carl Stone - Electronic Music From the Eighties and Nineties
Èlg - Vu du dôme (2018

Aphex Twin - Collapse
Autechre - NTS Sessions
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age of
Lucio Capece / Marc Baron - My Trust In You
Thomas Ankersmit - Homage to Dick Raaijmakers
Bruno Duplant - Chamber and Field Works 2015 - 2017
Ola Paulson & John Tilbury - Seagull Sonatas
Jürg Frey & Magnus Granberg - Early to Late
Jogging House - Would
xuiqen - moiré

Some things I've liked a lot:

Le Dom - Castle Owner EP (Paradoxe Club)
Anenon - Tongue (Friends of Friends)
DJ Plead - Get In Circle (Decisions)
Jeremy Pelt - Live in Paris
Patrick Zimmerli - Clockworks
City - Skeleton EP
Serpentwithfeet - soil
Sunareht - Sagas EP (Paradoxe Club)
The Ophelias - Almost
Lechuga Zafiro - Testigo EP
Autechre - NTS Sessions

kacey musgraves - golden hour
charlie puth - voicenotes
blood orange - negro swan
sandro perri - in another life
amen dunes - freedom
dj koze - knock knock
troye sivan - bloom
famous dex - dex meets dexter

I feel like there's not a whole lot of overlap between everyone... is that normal and/or am I not looking closely enough? I'm not always good at paying attention.

everyone likes autechre

Cardi B
Tracey Thorn
U.S. Girls
Beach House
Mitski
Kacey Musgraves
Parquet Courts
J Balvin
Against All Logic
Black Panther sndtrk

I have got ten albums together now. This year seems quite good. And I have hardly listened to a couple of other promising releases like Richard Thompson, Sons of Kemet, Snail Mail, Parquet Courts, Brian Eno, Beak, Die Wilde Jagd, Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Arve Henriksen etc.

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

It's going to be Low, innit? That and Autechre.

everyone likes autechre

Not me! Fuck Autechre.

I feel like there's not a whole lot of overlap between everyone... is that normal and/or am I not looking closely enough? I'm not always good at paying attention.

― Evan, Friday, September 21, 2018 1:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Last year's EOY polls had very little overlap too

in no order...

1. Cosmic Church - Täyttymys - Nature worshiping one-man occult metal from Finland.

2. Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens - Brownsville, BK rapper (and FDNY Captain), KA with producer, Animoss craft trippy and dense street rap refracted through a lens of Greek mythology. Next level sample-based production that deftly avoids hard drums.

3. Merzbow - Noisembryo - Gorgeous reissue of the '94 harsh noise classic by Hospital Productions.

4. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile - British afrobeat/soul jazz. Dual drummers, sax, and tuba.

5. Mo*Te - Life in a Peaceful New World - Another Japanese harsh noise reissue. This one of an absurdly limited cassette from '96. For those here with any interest in this stuff - total mastery of the form.

6. Jerman Barnes - The Finger'd Remove - Mind-meld improv using metal, bamboo, springboard, temple block, stones, feathers, wood, and sub-perceptual electronics by big-eared lifers, Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes.

7. Ursula K. LeGuin & Todd Barton - Music and Poetry of the Kesh - Lovingly crafted LP of a cassette that came with the first edition of LeGuin's 1985 Utopian Sci-Fi epic, 'Always Coming Home.'

8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of - Another bold step into the Octagon from Lopatin. Again, beautiful presentation that keeps me buying physical media.

9. Daniel Schmidt - In My Arms, Many Flowers - Reissue of late '70s / early '80s Bay Area Gamelan minimalism. Drifting and cyclical and not far off the hypnotic Italian stuff that Die Schactel reissues.

10. Mkwaju Ensemble - Ki-Motion - Midori Takada led percussion ensemble recording from '81. Vibes, marimba, bamboo and synths. I'm continually amazed by the depth and quality of the reissue well.

No particular order:

Neko Case: Hell-on
Parquet Courts: Wide Awake!

It’s all about Sweetener for me. Apologies to the rest of music.