I've mostly been listening to metal this year but there should be more Jon Hassell, Tropical Fuck Storm and Emma Ruth Rundle on these lists.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 25 November 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
Mr Twin Sister is alright so far. I only made it through two songs of Daphne & Celeste, Kero Kero Bonito and Andrew WK each.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 25 November 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
didn't realise there was an Emma Ruth Rundle album will check it out thxp
― seandalai, Sunday, 25 November 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
I was thinking that Ben LaMar Gay album would be all over these lists, but control f reveals one mention on this thread. Seriously, it's really great!
― calzino, Sunday, 25 November 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
Does ILM usually have a thread for user's own year's favorites ?Cause I'm thinking that between the generalist and specialist's lists, we might as well forget about the pretension that anyone has a global perspective. At least, the lists posted so far seem to come from such different angles (which is certainly good in itself)... And I won't pay much attention to the more consensual ones dropping at the end.Saying this as someone trying to catch up at the moment, and finding the namedropping pretty steep.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2018
This is as close as we get to a "keeping track" kind of ilm list. Of course, there's also an EOY poll coming up soon and you always learn about a TON of stuff during the nominations process.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
xp lol yeah I'm never gonna hear 90% of these, and I'm cool w/that.
the new Jon Hassell is indeed very good! (xps)
― sleeve, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
There will be end of year polls here in January, but this is a good place to look in the meantime:
What are your top 10 2018 albums so far
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Fopp. Not a sign of RBCF or any of my favourites for that matter, but a second showing for Gaz.
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1025-fopps-best-albums-of-2018/2https://www.fopp.com/bestalbums2018/
20. Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha19. Tracey Thorn - Record18. John Grant - Love Is Magic17. David Byrne - American Utopia16. Jack White - Boarding House Reach15. Teleman - Family of Aliens14. Gaz Coombes - World’s Strongest Man13. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!12. The Breeders - All Nerve11. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In10. Nils Frahm - All Melody9. Jon Hopkins - Singularity8. First Aid Kit - Ruins7. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer6. Christine and the Queens - Chris5. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar4. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel3. Low - Double Negative2. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance1. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Roy Kinsey just performed at the Subterranean Friday night. Maybe I'll catch him in January at Steppenwolf.
The FOPP list pushed Kamasi to the top, and Idles to #4. I like what Idles' Joe Talbot said about my top post-punk album in MOJO: "The best thing I heard all year was easily Bambara and their album Shadow On Everything. [Singer/lyricist] Reid Bateh brings this savage realism but the noir-ish depth of the music takes you away on Birthday Party-type vibes. I just love everything they do - and I think they're one of the best live acts I've ever seen. They're from Atlanta, Georgia but based in Brooklyn. They're violent and passionate, interested and interesting and good-looking, and they're much cooler than we are."
Other artist recommendations:Kim Deal/Breeders - 1080dB singleShabaka Hutchings - Kojey Radical, D Double E, GhettsStephen Malkmus - This Is The Kit, C.C.T.V., ILL
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Gary Numan - Görkem SenRyley Walker - Ben LaMar Gay
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
An interesting simultaneous trend I’m noticing in these lists is
1) a definite move towards a more “personal”, less faux-objective generalist dilletante’s attempt to cover “everything good” and more of an attempt to create a specific relative aesthetic (and it seems like a conscious effort to make that aesthetic heterodox at the same time, rather than culturally monolithic) — this is, fwiw, my preferred way of engaging with lists
2) the second edge of that sword is there’s definitely been a backing away from populism (a dirty word in a political sense bleeding over into this one?), from “trash culture,” from poptimism, moving towards a kind of tastefulness, respectability, aesthetic conservatism, art that exists in a kind of private, undisputable space... like critics have in response to the broader cultural arguments, become more conflict-averse
This is a trend I’ve noticed over the last few years and obviously i don’t know many of the artists mentioned in the above lists so someone can tell me if I’m way way off but it feels right
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 25 November 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
^^I’ve never heard of most of the stuff on these lists, so this sounds right to me...
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, 25 November 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
I hope that’s the trend because otherwise 2018 is the year I’m officially old.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
I’ve also never heard of most of these publications or blogs or whatever... I’m assuming that Pitchfork and Rolling Stone’s lists will be more “populist” (i.e., feature albums/artists I’ve actually heard of)?
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
(NB – I’ve heard of Time magazine, and their list illustrates my point)
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40)
i think of this in the sense that i've read about russian aestheticism, in particular the thing about being apolitical being a political act... i don't know if there's a russian world for "self-care" but things there long ago reached a point where engaging politically became both futile and immensely self-destructive. the post-hippie era in america had the same sort of disillusioned disengagement, which was roundly denounced by the political radicals at the time (before the political radicals all wound up killing themselves).
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
I haven't heard of many of these artists/publications, but it's been that way for a few years now. At peace with it.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, November 25, 2018 1:07 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
To be clear I’m partly looking at this through the stuff that I *do* know on these lists & all the stuff I’m seeing excluded
I’m sure mainstream mags will include more pop but i feel like there was way more consensus earlier years among these smaller pubs when it came to ie rap music (cf the year everyone decided Lil b was a genius or w/e)
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
There are countless bands doing what RBCF (who are good though) and Parquet Courts (who are not good) do but yeah those two have publicity and labels and money behind them so you're gonna see them on these lists and not, say, the Goon Sax or the Woolen Men or whatever.
― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
The Parquet Courts album seemed to get a lot of positive press when it came out, but I’m wondering if list-makers will have come to their senses in the cold light of December.
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
This PQ album the first one of theirs where I actively felt non-plussed, and just couldn't grasp the hype at all.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
That’s insane. Wide Awake is my favorite record of the year easy
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 25 November 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
I mean, it's great that you like it and others do too! (Not mad, not everything's for me obviously.) It's just not the sound I come to this band for at all. Did kinda like the first single though.
Interesting to see that people really are into the lyrical content. This record is teaching me that to some extent - at this point in my life anyway - the music has to sell me before the words register, and the music isn't getting there.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Wide Awake! is their best album, IMO.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Whatever man, you love CHVRCHES.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
It'll be interesting to see if Cardi B tops a lot of album lists.
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
I think the lyrics sound like a Twitter feed I wouldn’t care to follow, but to each their own (per Raymond, if I liked the songs otherwise, I wouldn’t care).
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
(wouldn’t mind the lyrix)
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
Whatever man, you love CHVRCHES.― Johnny Fever, Sunday, November 25, 2018 9:11 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, November 25, 2018 9:11 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, I'm certainly not going to deny this. They also released a very good record this year.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 25 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
thanks 2 Fastnbulbous for helping me get a head start on sorting through all this stuff. it's so stressful trying to cram for the january ilm exam. this year i'm getting a head start!
― budo jeru, Sunday, 25 November 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
parquet courts so so boring imho
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 26 November 2018 08:50 (five years ago) link
I also feel like there was a lot more rap in general on most other lists from earlier this decade. It feels like we've reached a bit of a saturation point, and the quality of music has suffered - I think rap in 2018 will be remember for everything except for the quality of music released. I made a similar point in another thread, but it really felt like this year was the first time in a while that the worst excesses that the genre is capable of (pointless deaths, beefs, too much low effort music, style over substance) pushed creativity and interesting music out of the spotlight. Undeniable that it remains the most popular pop idiom, but aside from a couple of releases, I haven't really enjoyed too much rap from this year.
― triggercut, Monday, 26 November 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
eh i think there's some truth to the idea that everything feels saturated & it might take longer than usual to sort out what's really sustained from this year but there are plenty of dope projects out IMO -- they just failed to generate any real critical consensus
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 26 November 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
xpost what a silly argument
― Tim F, Monday, 26 November 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
Without wanting to start handwringing about how algorithms are killing pop music or whatever, we're now at the stage where the artists that are the most popular, the most trashy, are also the ones whose careers are the most dependent on streaming. As a result they've either become less album-centric or or the albums themselves have become way too baggy and undefined. The Cardi B album felt like it struck the perfect balance there but I haven't heard too many others that have nailed it like that.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 November 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
Which is my way of saying that it sort of stands to reason that the albums lists are coalescing around a kind of middlebrow worthiness best encapsulated by that Fopp list, and that more places should be doing tracks lists.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 November 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
I know bloat has been an off-and-on problem with hip-hop albums for decades now but this did seem like a particularly bloated year with artists trying to game the streaming charts by putting out these behemoth records like Drake, Rae Sremmurd, Wayne, and of course every permutation of Migos. and this is always a push-and-pull for me when it comes to ranking, like I am always going to gravitate towards ranking an album higher when it has 10 tracks and 7 of them are good as opposed to it having like 22 tracks and 9 of them are good. which is at least a little weird because the latter album did have more good songs so I'm basically just punishing it for making me skip tracks a bunch.
― evol j, Monday, 26 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
BBC 6 Music Albums
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5b2YkzSbF7wfvDxL0SR9fdS/6-music-recommends-albums-of-the-year-2018https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1026-bbc-radio-6-musics-albums-of-the-year-2018/
10. She Drew The Gun - Revolution of the Mind9. The Orielles - Silver Dollar Moment8. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile7. Beak> - >>>6. Gabe Gurnsey - Physical5. Low - Double Negative4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino3. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth2. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo1. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Glide 20 best albums (unranked)
https://glidemagazine.com/217222/the-glide-20-glides-20-best-albums-of-2018/https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1028-glides-20-best-albums-of-2018/
Becky Warren - UndesirableCaroline Rose - LonerColter Wall - Songs of the PlainsCourtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness RemainErika Wennerstrom - Sweet UnknownFrank Turner - Be More KindGhost - PrequelleGlorietta - GloriettaIsrael Nash - LiftedJonathan Wilson - Rare BirdsKing Tuff - The OtherParquet Courts - Wide Awake!R+R=NOW - Collagically SpeakingRainbow Kitten Surprise - How To: Friend, Love, FreefallShannon & The Clams - OnionThe James Hunter Six - Whatever It TakesThe Marcus King Band - Carolina ConfessionsThe Wood Brothers - One Drop Of TruthTrampled By Turtles - Life is Good on the Open RoadWayne Shorter - Emanon
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Revolver's 30 Best Albums of 2018
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/30-best-albums-2018https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1027-revolvers-30-best-albums-of-2018/
30. At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself29. The Black Queen - Infinite Games28. Underøath - Erase Me27. Tribulation - Down Below26. ZillaKami & SosMula - City Morgue Vol. 1: Hell Or High Water25. CANDY - Good To Feel24. Horrendous - Idol23. Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses22. Old Wounds - Glow21. Ghostemane - N / O / I / S / E20. YOB - Our Raw Heart19. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms18. Cane Hill - Too Far Gone17. Harm's Way - Posthuman16. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop15. High on Fire - Electric Messiah14. Kælan Mikla - Nott eftir nott13. Pig Destroyer - Head Cage12. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love11. Cult Leader - A Patient Man10. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant9. Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar8. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest7. The Soft Moon - Criminal6. Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit5. Sleep - The Sciences4. Judas Priest - Firepower3. Turnstile - Time & Space2. Vein - Errorzone1. Ghost - Prequelle
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
I've definitely heard the guys at the Ringer banging on about RBCF for a few years so I figured they'd make some lists when they released a full length. ilm reaction to them here no surprise of course.
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
hey here's Paste's list
― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
That Revolver list is pretty interesting. I like Tribulation, Ghostemane, High On Fire, The Soft Moon, Judas Priest, and Ghost, and I'm checking out the Kælan Mikla record now; it's kinda dark synthwavey post-punk. I'm into it.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
the Vein album is super fun if you can deal with some bro-y heft in your metal, like a slightly more melodic Code Orange. Emma Ruth Rundle is an inspired inclusion
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Paste list hits almost every irritating mark it could have. Stand by, I'm going to develop a theory about this
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
paste's no. 1 (lucy dacus historian) is a fucking amazing album at least
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
placing the decemberists at 15 is sort of a "what, did you run out of good albums" choice though
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
lol before I even clicked the link I thought, "Lucy Dacus is probably number one."
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
US Girls, Camp Cope, Caroline Rose, Haley Heynderickx and a bunch of other stuff I like on there too
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 November 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link