The 2018 end of the year music lists thread

*looks again at that list* actually wait no this is america needs to be at the top of that, it is indiana jones surrounded by crocs

ah bloody hell i totally forgot about guttersnipe and grouper. both solid releases.

the gorilla vs bear list is very good. or at least heavily resembles mine

Snow Patrol released a record this year? Then again I somehow managed to forget about the weird Justin Timberlake fake-country album that came out this year.

NPR's albums list:
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/671242319/the-50-best-albums-of-2018-page-5

50. The Carters - Everything Is Love
49. Snail Mail - Lush
48. J.I.D - DiCaprio 2
47. 700 Bliss - Spa 700
46. Balún - Prisma Tropical
45. Vikingur Ólafsson - Johann Sebastian Bach
44. Alice Bag - Blueprint
43. Thou - Magus
42. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret - The Other Side of Air
41. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
40. The HIRS Collective - Friends. Lovers. Favorites.
39. Ammar 808 - Maghreb United
38. Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest
37. Andris Nelsons - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 "The Year 1905"
36. Vince Staples - FM.
35. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD
34. J Balvin - Vibras
33. Colin Self - Siblings
32. Ólafur Arnalds - re:member
31. Orquesta Akokán - Orquesta Akokán
30. Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
29. Leikeli47 - Acrylic
28. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
27. Christian Tetzlaff - Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
26. Saba - Care for Me
25. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
24. serpentwithfeet - soil
23. Mary Gauthier - Rifles & Rosary Beads
22. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
21. Christine and the Queens - Chris
20. Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
19. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
18. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
17. Low - Double Negative
16. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
15. Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider - Dreamers
14. Superorganism - Superorganism
13. Pistol Annies - Interstate Gospel
12. boygenius - boygenius EP
11. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
10. Tierra Whack - Whack World
9. Kali Uchis - Isolation
8. Rosalía - El Mal Querer
7. Robyn - Honey
6. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
5. Noname - Room 25
4. Lucy Dacus - Historian
3. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
1. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

xps is that the first list to have The Ex? man that is criminal, record is great.

always lots of good stuff on the NPR lists but out of laziness will w8 for the tracks

Stereogum's list:

https://www.stereogum.com/featured/the-best-albums-of-2018/

I'm not typing it out, sorry.

i'm guessing i would like that flasher album

i had just finished copying out the stereogum list so here you go:

50 Rico Nasty – Nasty
49 SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES
48 Drug Church – Cheer
47 Lil Baby & Gunna – Drip Harder
46 Jon Hopkins – Singularity
45 The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
44 Denzel Curry – TA1300
43 Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
42 Holy Fawn – Death Spells
41 Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make Friends
40 Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
39 MGMT – Little Dark Age
38 Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
37 Birds In Row – We Already Lost The World
36 Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance
35 Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
34 Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth
33 Dear Nora – Skulls Example
32 Tirzah – Devotion
31 The Armed – Only Love
30 Iceage – Beyondless
29 Teyana Taylor – K.T.S.E.
28 Kali Uchis – Isolation
27 Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss
26 U.S. Girls – In A Poem Unlimited
25 Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
24 Wild Pink – Yolk In The Fur
23 Noname – Room 25
22 Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
21 Rosalía – El Mal Querer
20 Tomberlin – At Weddings
19 Illuminati Hotties – Kiss Yr Frenemies
18 Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
17 Half Waif – Lavender
16 Brockhampton – Iridescence
15 Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
14 Vince Staples – FM
13 Lucy Dacus – Historian
12 Robyn – Honey
11 Pusha T – Daytona
10 Mitski – Be The Cowboy
9 Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
8 Low – Double Negative
7 Soccer Mommy – Clean
6 Flasher – Constant Image
5 Beach House – 7
4 Cardi B – Invasion Of Privacy
3 Ariana Grande – Sweetener
2 Snail Mail – Lush
1 Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour

certainly the list that i've heard the most of, and heard of nearly all the rest

the flasher album is pretty solid but didn't stand out as anything too special to me when i listened recently. also still confused by sweetener being ariana's critical breakthrough

The NPR list is a little on the nose but I do honestly love that their top 10 are all women.

what a triumph

lol

Stereogum has the first mention of Holy Fawn. Great album.

Come on imago, where's yr pride in obscurantism? (PS I will probs be voting for at least three of the Canadian trans electronic arts society albums so I'm v on your side about their worth)

My probable #1 has crept into a couple of lists today, which is nice I guess

Black Dresses being on just one list would be something huh

(I think I'm only voting for two but that could change)

the only one i think they had a realistic chance on was Stereogum

favourite find from EOY lists season so far is the Idris Ackamoor album from The Quietus list

xp they have a good shot at the ilxor time travel top 500 albums i reck

They had a Fader feature so hopefully that'll swing it there

Quietus list looks interesting as usual.

The Flasher album is my biggest grower of the year. It rules.

Picadilly introduced me to Kadhja Bonet, and for that I am thankful.

Oh you have to check her past album, it’s even better imho.

starting to seem like my aoty isn't gonna appear on any lists

which isn't unexpected

I'm thankful to the Gorilla vs. Bear list for introducing me to Rosalía... her voice is amazing.

apologies if this ha been linked upthread 500 times already, but an aggregation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BwJaVJa_OZezUbbCE9Z6HpNdcl6wwmlPrCLWm3sKygo/edit#gid=0

particularly recommended if you miss glenn's stats from pazz and jop

the love for that coasting Spiritualized record baffles me

xp that's cool, thanks

otm about Spiritualized

surprised that Courtney Barnett is placing so high on so many lists. i thought it was a clear step down, and i thought a lot of people agreed

As a fan, I agree it's a bit of a step down; still a really good album, tho

this is a weird year for me -- the albums I love that I assumed would also be consensus picks (and that aren't the obvious ones, everyone knew the robyn album would do well, etc.) are turning out not to be at all

Such as? An album which almost everyone seemed to forget about was the MGMT one. If it had been released in the past trimester I think it would have fared a lot better.

Wow, this previous Rosalía album (Los Ángeles) is even better... terrific stuff.

Congrats to Smino for having the one interesting album on the Ringer list

Imago the Black Dresses album is badass, thanks. That and Senyawa have stood out. I keep losing Wi-Fi access so slow going till I return to the listening later tomorrow night.

idk why the Ringer list didn't include input from Lindsay Zoladz unless she's doing her own separate list. Shea Serrano doesn't seem to even have a passing familiarity with anything besides hip-hop, which would be fine if he was writing for XXL or whatever.

xp -- US Girls is the big one

I think US Girls is suffering from having come out so early in the year.

24 NU GUINEA | Nuova Napoli

this album is v good, from the gorilla v bear list. sort of swooning continental disco - little bit balearic, bit italo.

if you don't like this track you prob have no functioning heart/soul/ears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHlhJ7WyerM

no Cupcakke - Ephorize on any lists so far is surprising considering the momentum she had at the beginning of the year. interest might've just fallen off

it's hard out here for a january release

(unless you're animal collective in 2009)

I like this AV Club punk/hardcore list

Couple of things to check out from that AVClub list. Is Drug Church being in the honourable mentions the first sign of them? Because that album's high on my list.

they made the stereogum list

idk why the Ringer list didn't include input from Lindsay Zoladz unless she's doing her own separate list. Shea Serrano doesn't seem to even have a passing familiarity with anything besides hip-hop, which would be fine if he was writing for XXL or whatever.

― evol j, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:51 (fifty-three minutes ago) Permalink

Awful post

Couple of things to check out from that AVClub list. Is Drug Church being in the honourable mentions the first sign of them? Because that album's high on my list.

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:43 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

drug church also made stereogum's list, which surprised me, god what a fucking amazing album

That's good to see. I have you to blame for it taking over my listening for a good long time.

lol i'm just now seeing voodoo chili's post, sorry for reiterating the very thing you said