Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2018

toys 2 is so good

stunning ethereal track and arty video

felicita - marzipan (feat. Caroline Polachek)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Q89Vl1O6U

After making possibly the worst EP that I listened to last year, Laure Briard has bounced back with one of my top 3 EPs of 2018 so far. Recorded in Brazil, sung in Portuguese and steeped in Brazil's recent musical history, it gets the balance between her pop and experimental tendencies exactly right this time.

You can stream the EP on bandcamp here: https://laurebriard.bandcamp.com/album/cora-o-louco

quite like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4jmlWDxfkA

The new Jaye Jayle album is tremendous.

https://soundcloud.com/invadauk/beak-brean-down

Absolutely love this Lake Ruth track, especially the wonderful keyboard work. Whole album is a joy.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6jxU5BwzTaoMdxj2Bdf6Zc?si=jm1TSsyQTySdb8t7HN-AxA

https://soundcloud.com/invadauk/beak-brean-down

sooo, ILX, how about this new BEAK> track?

love those drums

The new Jaye Jayle album is tremendous.

This is tremendous; it glowers and seethes like the For Carnation (Todd Cook plays bass) and Raime. Thanks for the heads up

July. For a while, small but perfectly formed. Then some songs turned up in the past few days to boost the numbers. Indier than the norm.

The Twelve Hour Foundation - Grammatik
Deerful - Bloom
Roo ft. Deerful - Blue Icy Touch
Even As We Speak - Stay With Me; Football Star
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
She Makes War - Devastate Me; Wake Up
The Internet - La Di Da
Zooey - Transformer Man (extended edit)
Ciara - Level Up
Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown
Princess Superstar ft. 8th1w - Cosmic Downfall
Lost Kings ft. Tove Styrke - Stuck
Aquaserge - Si tu t’en vas
Kristin Hersh - Breathe In; No Shade In Shadow
Oneohtrix Point Never - Blow by Blow
Laurel Halo - The Sick Mind
Pram - Sailing Stones
Tomorrow Syndicate - Lifeforce
Vic Mars - Ext. Day. Overgrown Garden
The Radiophonic Workshop - Mind The Gap

"She Makes War - Wake Up"

^ love this!

Forgot to say I also got 'round to Toni Braxton's Sex & Cigarettes in July - a seriously overlooked album? It's very good anyways.

I love Ciara but I just can't co-sign a song that includes the line "yummy all in your tummy."

I...had the same issue

no disrespect to Ohio Express.

what is mind the gap jeff

oh fuck the radiophonic workshop have a new single?

also, oh fuck homeboy sandman and edan have a record coming out? god fucking damn

also miguel - python and hawa - might be

what is mind the gap jeff?

oh fuck the radiophonic workshop have a new single?

It's on a 7" you could buy with Issue 43 of Electronic Sound magazine. I read you can buy the record by itself for £7.99 from the same source.

thanks Jeff

my 2018 list so far:

advisory circle - ways of seeing
jenny hval - long sleep (EP)
soccer mommy- clean
essaie pas - new path
cecilia - adoration
gang gang dance - kazuashita
tove styrke - sway (EP)
chromatics - blue girl single - black walls (EP)
st vincent - fast slow disco single
courtney barnett - tell me how you really feel
u.s. girls - in a poem unlimited
angelique kidjo - remain in light
black panther soundtrack (various artists)
loreena mckennitt - lost souls
roisin murphy - all my dreams - innocence (EP)
drake - scorpion
natalie prass - future and the past
lily allen - no shame
cardi b - invasion of privacy
cavern of anti matter - hormone lemonade
sophie - oil of every pearls un-insides
breeders - all nerve
dj koze - knock knock - pick up (EP) - seeing aliens (EP)
melodys echo chamber - bon voyage
lykke li - so sad so sexy
dj nigga fox - craneo
chvrches - love is dead
janelle monae - dirty computer
gorillaz - the now now
beach house - 7
florence and the machine - high as hope
snail mail - lush
ionnalee - everyone afraid to be forgotten

likely pram as well but have not heard

Loving the new Helena Deland - Claudion

https://youtu.be/zUOaObWpCc8

Has some nice layered synths with what sounds like 90’s pop influence to my ears... similar to what Grimes was doing in Visions.

Walter Wolfman Washington 's latest album "My Future is my Past" has him singing ballads rather than playing lots of blues and funk guitar. I think it sounds great. He's based in New Orleans.

Tal National and Fatoumata Diawara are still top albums for me as well

More people should be mentioning the The Amazing album - like pre-mumbling Mark Kozelek meets Slowdive

Madly in love with the new Tirzah album. Holding On and Do You Know are particularly great.

Whoa new album!

Tirzah

a couple of recent Erstwhile releases have sort of reinvigorated my interest in the label.. that, and there's a 20% discount on all titles until August 15 (on bandcamp)

https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/mosquitoes-and-crabs
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/my-trust-in-you

each album is a duo recording, each sounds both improvised and assembled (as collage) -- the Will Guthrie / Hong Chulki is probably the livelier of the two--featuring (heavy) bits of turntable and guitar wreckage, fragmented pieces of percussion and instances of straightforward drumming, electronics (sharp radio static-like sounds, etc.), and field recordings. they're both very well recorded--Mosquitoes and Crabs has a great visceral punch and prickliness to it.

My Trust in You (Marc Baron and Lucio Capece) is more varied, with lots of tape recorder/recording -fuckery by Marc Baron (along with other "analog devices"), and some lovely / atmospheric clarinet work by Lucio Capece. Capece is also credited with "slide saxophone, analog synthesizer and filter, drum machines, double looper, equalizers in feedback, regular and telephone field recordings, mini speakers in movement"

these albums are sort of a breath of fresh air, re: Erstwhile releases, and it's a good time to take advantage of the 205 off sale.

err, 20% off until the 15th

really enjoying the Nina Kinert album, getting kind of a Sundfor vibe - lots of ornate piano. Sam Herring of Future Islands guests.

thanks for letting us know about that, the last Nina K album was exquisite

was going to try to find a home for this Wind Atlas song in one of the rolling threads but I'll just stick it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR3eC0YkS7I

Future Me Hates Me By The Beths (which has been mentioned on the Alvvays and New Zealand music threads) is fast becoming my album of the year. So many amazing hooks crammed into every song and the harmonies/backing vocals are unbelievable. Could be this year's Charly Bliss.

Little Death is a probably my current favourite, but that keeps changing whenever I listen to it.

https://youtu.be/pBHBUpkRTgI

Could be this year's Charly Bliss

I'm interested

Could be this year's Charly Bliss.

I was interested, but what I love about CB is that their very melodically strong crunchy guitar songs have a total pure joy x-factor. This Beths song doesn't. It's perfectly fine, but feels like it was written specifically to be just that.

They're more akin to the more upbeat side of the Go-Betweens than Charly Bliss, imo. (It's a great album.)

the beths album is great, i'm hit and miss about what hyped records i listen to but my favorite power pop band is the toms so i pretty much had to listen to it and i'm so glad i did even if it's for ultimately superficial reasons

I hadn't made the Go-Betweens connection before, but I totally get it. That probably explains why I'm so obsessed with them right now as I've been on a big Go-Betweens kick recently. I guess they just remind me of Charly Bliss in the way it's brilliantly played indie pop with influences from the same era and tons of character. I'm getting that same rush that I got when Charly Bliss started clicking for me. She definitely doesn't have the same unique style that Eva does. Maybe this album has more in common with the Alex Lahey album?

Anyway, I'm hoping that The Beths take off on here and can make the end of year top five like Charly Bliss did. I think a lot of people will love this record.

was sure I'd posted this but I guess not, anyway, Skeleton Move by Master KG and Zanda Zakusa is just wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRukwQzGMs8

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