The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

It's really good. I think GoD predisposed a lot of people to not give it a fair chance.

worked out the opposite for me - GoD got me hyped and it ended up dull

GoD was godlike

It's better than I initially gave it credit for, but I still like Replica, R Plus Seven, Good Time soundtrack, and Age Of more.

I dunno. Maybe I need to listen again. The last couple of album seemed so blank. Age Of sounds like he's reinvigorated. I think the collaborators have added a lot as well. Maybe something he needed.

I do think Lopatin goes to a new place with each album

That's very true, he doesn't repeat himself

1 double negative - low
2 oil of every pearl's un-insides - SOPHIE
3 gave in rest - sarah davachi (recital program)
4 simple affections - simple affections (recital program)
5 green ways - graham lambkin & aine & o'dwyer (erstwhile recs)

Double Negative is probably the album of the year, isn't it

green ways - graham lambkin & aine & o'dwyer (erstwhile recs)

really want to hear this

Low, Robyn, Tirzah are probably top 10 of the year for me...
Beach House and Kadhja Bonet are also good and those would be the 5 albums on the aggregate AOTY top 50 so far that I really like.

dan - my emails on my profile, drop me a line and ill share that with you

thanks meaulnes!

lol thank the label owner, who posts on ilm, while you're at it

he posts here? Jon Abbey has been responsible for the releases of the best label ever!

And I do mean ever!

see the thread for the label e.g.

also the Shadow Ring thread!

or the wandelweiser thread

really it's amazing he has time to run a record label at all with as much posting as he does, i hope it's a tax write-off, posting i mean

"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?

― Soundslike"

oh yeah that could be, i didn't know about that reish

"This Kitsos Harisiadis from the Gioia list is pretty amazing. Strange (?) how much it calls across the ages to Dickie Landry and Colin Stetson.

― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski)"

and it's on third man! i haven't listened to a jack white record in years but third man puts out some good stuff

I'm on a volunteer trip at an animal sanctuary right now and am mostly offline, but I loaded my player with a couple dozen albums i wanted to get to know better for list considerations. It's troubling that in a community like this, it's considered unusual, even suspect, to listen to a lot of music and buy more than a few dozen albums in a year. Music is not a chore folks, it's what keeps many of us sane!

Even if I do sometimes doubt Gioia's tastes (especially after including Sting in his 2016 list) I respect that he gives 0 f***s for what is fashionable.

~troubling~

maybe music lovers could also be troubled by volumetric music ingestion so massive that it seems to leave no time to form meaningful connections to or judgments about nearly two new albums per day over a year!

the Yves Tumour LP nobody seems to be talking about

yves tumor got a lot of discussion here iirc. i mean deej put me onto the record

also it's completely fucking awesome i agree

most records aren't talked about enough

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2018/

gvb's list has a fair few things i haven't heard of as usual

the Tirzah is extremely low key and deconstructed-sounding. I've really enjoyed listening to it late at night

Amen Dunes - Freedom (another one mentioned above by Moka) is also really nice

For a minute I thought Meaulnes posted The Wire rewind list top 5 (which I believe will be out today or tomorrow). Great list. Will add Ipek Gorgun's record on Touch to the line-up of great electronic albums this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/03/the-top-100-tracks-of-2018-playlist

Guardian top 100 tracks of the year - props for getting 'I See You Shining' by the Nines in there, also Homerton B and Itgehane in the top 20. Most boring #1 imaginable though.

guessing This Is America

yassssss

'Top 100 music videos of 2018'.

lol, that's silly

has to be the result of a vote since why else would there be double entries from both Ariana and Robyn in the gaddamn top 10

why is there a band called let's eat grandma

ha i quite like that name

hehe aight, I guess I don't get it

guardian list is sprinkled with good tracks but mostly makes no sense at all

let's eat grandma album is one of the best of the year

it's a joke about punctuation.

Graun list is all over the place but looks like a recognisable version of 2018 to me, or 2018 as how it looked from London. Could do with more afroswing in there obv.

a joke since reworked by some dullard whose stocking filler I've started noticing on the bookshelves

Guardian needs to be deleted obv

if they were called Works On Contingency No Money Down maybe they would be more popular on here

surely everyone knows that track of the year is 'half a pill' by reckonwrong?

Line of Best Fit - Albums 2018
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/listomania/best-albums-of-2018

1. Be the Cowboy - Mitski
2. Devotion - Tirzah
3. Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides - SOPHIE
4. Joy As An Act Of Resistance - IDLES
5. Cocoa Sugar - Young Fathers
6. Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B
7. El Mal Querer - Rosalita
8. A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships - The 1975
9. I'm All Ears - Let's Eat Grandma
10. There's Always Glimmer - Gia Margaret
11. Songs of Praise - Shame
12. Iridescence - BROCKHAMPTON
13. Sweetener - Ariana Grande
14. Chris - Christine and the Queens
15. Negro Swan - Blood Orange
16. Your Queen is a Reptile - Sons of Kemet
17. Honey - Robyn
18. Double Negative - Low
19. Lost & Found - Jorja Smith
20. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino - Arctic Monkeys
21. Heaven & Earth - Kamasi Washington
22. Lush - Snail Mail
23. Nao - Saturn
24. At Weddings - Tomberlin
25. Hive Mind - The Internet
26. Bloom - Troye Sivan
27. Kids See Ghosts - Kanye West and Kid Cudi
28. I Don't Run - Hinds
29. Freedom - Amen Dunes
30. Clean - Soccer Mommy
31. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
32. East Atlanta Love Letter - 6lack
33. My Mind Makes Noises - Pale Waves
34. Palo Santo - Years & Years
35. boygenius - Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker
36. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
37. Re:member - Ólafur Arnalds
38. Age Of - Oneohtrix Point Never
39. Hell On - Neko Case
40. Room 25 - No Name
41. Infections of a Different Kind – Step 1 - AURORA
42. The Anteroom - How To Dress Well
43. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album - John Coltrane
44. Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett
45. Bottle It in - Kurt Vile
46. Sway - Tove Styrke
47. Basic Volume - GAIKA
48. Historian - Lucy Dacus
49. Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
50. American Utopia - David Byrne

Tirzah, Amen Dunes and Robyn are my top 3 albums of the year so naturally I love the gvb list. Don’t even mind he’s plugging an artist from his label (Helena Deland) because those EPs are indeed wonderful, she deserves more attention. Claudion is one of the best songs of the year for me.

Also happy to see a couple of records that I listened to a lot that I haven’t seen in any other EOY list like Caroline Says, Bella Boo and Smerz.

I remember we used to have differing music taste a decade ago or so and it’s interesting for me that the list that most mirrors my taste so far is his.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been exposed to flamenco my whole life and I have a love/hate relationship with the genre but the Rosalia record just doesn’t connect with me, surprised that this is one of the non-english speaking artists that the critics are pushing this year.

“malamente” or “pienso en tu mira” are great singles that I expect to see in many eoy song lists but as an album it’s not that exciting imho and makes me tired after a couple of songs.

My friends love it too though, I’ll be seeing her live next year, maybe it clicks for me after that.

Have you heard her previous album Los Ángeles? It's much more traditional; maybe you'll like it more.

Personally, what really tipped the new record over the top for me was the first couple of videos, which are amazing.

I love that album but have definitely not been exposed to much flamenco