The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

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

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!

― Fastnbulbous

for me it's both! discovering new music is work, but it's rewarding.

Amazing how a 1975 album that came out four days ago has made it so high in so many lists.

the dismemberment plan's 'emergency & i' made the top 50 of pitchfork's original '90s albums list before the d-plan album technically came out

I'm indifferent to the 1975, but lmao at "The millennial We Didn't Start the Fire" being the opening seven words of a write-up of the tenth-best song of the year.

"Love It If We Made It" >>>>>>>>>> "We Didn't Start the Fire"

https://uproxx.com/music/best-albums-of-2018-ranked/

The Independent - Albums of the Year
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/albums-of-the-year-2018-arctic-monkeys-christine-queens-the-1975-janelle-monae-a8661091.html

40. Thom Yorke - Suspiria​
39. Interpol - Marauder
38. Brent Cobb - Providence Canyon
37. Black Peaks - All That Divides
36. Miya Folick - Premonitions
35. Suede - The Blue Hour
34. Cat Power - Wanderer
33. Architects - Holy Hell
32. Robyn - Honey
31. Florence + the Machine - High as Hope
30. Teyana Taylor - Keep That Same Energy
29. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
28. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
27. Novelist - Novelist Guy
26. Nils Frahm - All Melody
25. Camila Cabello - Camila​
24. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
23. Years & Years - Palo Santo
22. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
21. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
20. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
19. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
18. Ghetts - Ghetto Gospel: The New Testament
17. Cypress Hill - Elephants on Acid
16. John Grant - Love is Magic
15. Pusha T - Daytona
14. Nao - Saturn
13. Travis Scott - Astroworld​
12. Troye Sivan - Bloom
11. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream
10. Shame - Songs of Praise
9. Gaika – Basic Volume
8. Tamino - Amir
7. Mac Miller - Swimming
6. Colter Wall - Song of the Plains
5. Kendrick Lamar/various artists - Black Panther: Original Motion Picture Score
4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
3. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
2. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
1. Christine and the Queens - Chris

(ew)

Treblezine - 10 best electronic albums:
https://www.treblezine.com/the-10-best-electronic-albums-of-2018/

the independent music section is a scorched wasteland

that uproxx list manages to be reeeeallly bad despite having some great albums that other lists haven't mentioned (foxing, etc.)

Total Guitar - The 16 best guitar albums of 2018
https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-16-best-guitar-albums-of-2018

16. The Magpie Salute - High Water I
15. John Butler - Home
14. Thrice - Palms
13. The Marcus King Band - Caroline Confessions
12. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet
11. Paul Gilbert - Behold Electric Guitar
10. Tom Morello - The Atlas Underground
9. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
8. Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog
7. Billy F Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues
6. Architects - Holy Hell

*break for guitar solo*

5. Slash - Living The Dream
4. Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions
3. Joe Satriani - What Happens Next?
2. Tremonti - A Dying Machine
1. Joe Bonamassa - Redemption

Lol

i like that treblezine list. i need to check out the lotic album and i'm into anyone putting meat beat manifesto and aphex twin in their top 10 in 2018.

fantasizing about an ill listening club for the total guitar list 🤣

Alice in Chains had an album?

*ilx