What are your top 10 2018 albums so far

I feel like I must be missing a lot of good stuff, but so far I like:

Ought - Room Inside the World
Tribulation - Down Below
KEN mode - Loved
Lie in Ruins - Demise (EP)
Khanus - Flammarion
Vital Idles - Left Hand
Deszcz - III
Ghost - Prequelle
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Golgothan Remains - Perverse Offerings to the Void

just need to drop in and say i gave that mika vaino a try today while working. it sounded great but i couldn't do it, too frickin scary!

I got these!

Cupcakke – Ephorize
U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
Mr. Fingers – Cerebral Hemispheres
Toni Braxton – Sex & Cigarettes
tUnE-yArDs – I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
Ravyn Lenae – Crush
Tracy Thorn – Record
Migos – Culture II
The Breeders – All Nerve
Ashley Monroe – Sparrow
Tal National – Tantabara
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Bali Baby – Baylor Swift
Amen Nunes – Freedom
Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
Pusha T – Daytona
Meshell Ndegeocello – Ventriloquism
John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness
Rae Sremmurd – SR3MM
Belly – Dove
Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive
Troye Sivan – Bloom
The Chills – Snowbound
Ariana Grande - Sweetener
Mitski – Be the Cowboy

Time for some revisions to my list

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
Low
Autechre
Mitski
Laurel Halo
Oneohtrix Point Never
Pram

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)