The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

Just finished puking from all these lists. I don't think I'm going to be able to eat until 2019, it's all so sickening.

oh, good to see ted gioia's list is up, i picked up a great bagpipe record from his list last year. he listens to a lot of stuff other people don't.

like, an archival bruce haack record came out this year? who knew?

xp yeah just picked out the Sarah Davachi album from that list and it's great: organ drone that reminds me of Basinski at times. Cool.

like, an archival bruce haack record came out this year? who knew?

I love the Bleep list, Tirzah es mi numero uno.

I did! And it's rather fantastic!
― willem

it is! there's gotta be some kind of story about that one... the guy who did "the electric lucifer" recording for a christian record label, around the same time he was recording the much, much darker "haackula"? i get the general impression there are lots of stories about haack that people don't really want to talk about, though...

The story's in the booklet, part of which is reproduced/available as an introduction on the label's website:
https://www.telephoneexplosion.com/products/bruce-haack-preservation-tapes-lp-pre-order

re the bleep list, I guess here's where I say that I think the skee mask album is super uninspired. warmed over 'idm'-is-a-cool-flavor-now super griddy ugly sounding and boring. so many better techno

i love it

Good to see the Chris Carter album in a list. Old Master Doing What Old Master Does Best in a convincing manner.

I think that skee mask album is great! it's definitely one of my favorites of the year

the radiophonic workshop chris carter remix is good too

I guess the Objekt - Cocoon Crush album was released too late to show up on any of these lists, but it is so great

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gross

what it's just gary

I get the assessment that the Skee Mask album is basic, but still it didn't stop me from thoroughly enjoying it.

whatever. everyone should listen to the shed album from last year instead.

actually the lauer album, released at the end of november, is arguably even more basic but way the fuck more fun. it's got a direct new order bite with peter hook bass and everything. it's a fucking blast.

feel like i can think of a few other techno albums from this year that are better than compro. it's blander than pampa people.

if 2018 is the year you want to get into drum n bass you can do a lot better

i'd be overjoyed if every compro mention were replaced with cerebral hemispheres by mr. fingers, which is just a b+ (it's overstuffed) but certainly better than compro.

I like Compro but yeah, the Mr. Fingers album deserves better. Its inconsistency is kind of charming.

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Mr Fingers record is definitely on my list of faves this year, and yeah, definitely higher than Skee Mask.

Will DiMaggio's At Ease was also pretty good, I wonder if it will show up on some lists?

Bjorn Torske's Byen on the space-disco tip and the Don't Mess With Cupid, 'Cause Cupid Ain't Stupid trip retro-hardcore comp were also things I enjoyed... I imagine the latter might make it onto the RA list.

xp "crying over you" is better than anything skee mask has ever done, even when he was like 18 or w/e with Ilian Tape

i have not heard those, space-disco has me intrigued atm. will check out.

lol it's not a competition, you don't have to convince ppl to substitute a record you approve of for one you don't approve of. they can like more than one!

i rather like the dimaggio album too altho it's a little spikier than i usually wish it would be.

well................

it actually is a competition

anyway you should listen to "power" by lauer j. i think you'd dig it

off the top of my head so probably missing a bunch but electronic albums i've really liked this year: hieroglyphic being, steven julien, shinichi atobe, vessel, syclops, kelly morgan, arp, kate nv, hunee, shy layers, niagara, deena abdelwahed, will dimaggio, forma

err, kelly moran not morgan

Aside from Mr. Fingers, I especially enjoyed Autechre, Bjørn Torske, Martyn, Rival Consoles, SIT, Steven Rutter and Sly & Robbie with Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay. I've also been meaning to check out Richard Devine, Shackleton and DJ Richard.

still need to hear bunch of those. would suggest giving the vessel record a go if you haven’t heard that yet, you might get something out of that. not too far away from shackleton, airy and strange but also very physical. think it’s called ‘queen of the golden dogs’?

music that would knock you over in the street then point out the beauty of the church spires as you lay bleeding on the ground

Sold!

ted gioia list looks great, I like the concise descriptions

compro is very good imo

ctrl+f helena hauff

hm i'm only getting one result

i like the blurbs too, i have a hard time navigating a list of 100 records i mostly haven't heard without signposts - this is why i tend to stay away from actually making year-end lists; blurbing is hard work! i have no idea how to describe most of the new records i hear.

I liked the second, more varied and melodic half of Qualm better than the first few tracks, which I found needlessly primitive and cold.

I gotta say I find it hard to believe that any person had 100 favorite records from 2018

listening to 1000 new records (those are just the new releases!) in a year

doesn't make sense to me

but I need the eggs

want to also chime in with my love for and appreciation of ted gioia's always excellent lists

his book on jazz standards is also awesome, just sayin

I gotta say I find it hard to believe that any person had 100 favorite records from 2018

listening to 1000 new records (those are just the new releases!) in a year

doesn't make sense to me

but I need the eggs

― niels

it includes archival comps as well

i guess it depends on what your standard is for "favorite"

there are easily 100 records released this year i have loved listening to and would like to recommend to others, and a lot of them don't get talked about

like i don't know anybody has been talking about tia blake's "paris and montreal demos 1973-1976", just fantastic trad folk

i haven't had time to listen to it in its entirety yet but what i have heard is fucking amazing. am i allowed to put it on a "favorites" list?

yes!

I gotta say I find it hard to believe that any person had 100 favorite records from 2018

listening to 1000 new records (those are just the new releases!) in a year

doesn't make sense to me

I don't have time to listen to that much new music in the first place, let alone digest it all properly. So yeah, when people talk about listening to a ridiculous amount of music in a year, it totally makes me suspicious.

In any given year I usually end up with roughly 25 albums that I really, really like, but absolutely no more than 50.

i just made my RYM list of all the albums (and EPs) i've given 8/10 or more to this year - it numbers 46 at present and likely to rise

I should really do an archival/reissues/old stuff I didn't know before, since I probably bought 600+/- such albums this year, versus 125+/- released this year. . .

like i don't know anybody has been talking about tia blake's "paris and montreal demos 1973-1976", just fantastic trad folk

I'm wondering if this didn't make a big splash because it consist entirely of tracks that were on the reissue of her (fantastic) proper record from a few years back, so it's not really a new archival release?

I would think a fairly now-ILM album would be Peluché - Unforgettable. It was mentioned in the rolling post-punk thread a couple months ago, and it's a different facet of Raincoats influence, Odyshape era, with Sade-level lushness.

This is the best thing I've heard that I hadn't through any year-end lists or this thread, thanks Fastnbulbous.

Wait, you bought 700 albums this year?

Wait, you bought 700 albums this year?

Quick search says 707... I don't have kids, we didn't get to really travel this year, worked a hell of a lot, so went a little crazy on the music, yeah. Probably 550 or so physical (CD), the remainder digital-only through Bandcamp. That's up for me, but I'd wager it's typically between 300-500 most years, which I bet isn't that unusual amongst ILM types, no?