What are your top 10 2018 albums so far

??? Hey

Cavern of Anti matter
Hailu Mergia
Breeders
Korto
Kojaque
Aal
Mgmt
Arctic monkeys
Cut Chemist

Pantsula!
Tres Oui
Kacey Musgraves
Tommy Mandel
Tal National
Sons of Kemet
Trembling Bells
Janelle Monae
Javiera Mena
Dustin Wong/Takako Minekawa/Good Willsmith

Hailu Mergia
Kacey Musgraves
Jakob Bro
Juliana Hatfield
Okkervil River
Eleanor Friedberger
Mary Lattimore
Courtney Barnett
Jonathan Wilson
Parquet Courts

Wind Atlas
Daphne & Celeste
Tracey Thorn
US Girls
Kasey Musgraves
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Club 8
Odeon
Sunflower Bean
Caroline Rose

Daphne & Celeste
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
Snape
Rolo Tomassi
U.S. Girls
Tropical Fuck Storm
The Armed
Kero Kero Bonito
Tiny Moving Parts
Of Montreal

Beach house - 7
Cardi b - invasion of privacy
Mgmt - little dark age
Arctic monkeys - tranquility base hotel
DJ koze - knock, knock
Ionalee - everyone afraid to be forgotten
Cecilia - Adoration
Black panther soundtrack (various artists)
Kacey Musgraves new one

Honorary omission _ Jon Hopkins

Oops 10 was Barnett

Totally Fucked up. Monáe was top here

it seems that having the same taste as me is a prerequisite to living with me; note the different ordering though!

The Armed
Tropical Fuck Storm
Daphne & Celeste
Niño De Elche
Andrew WK
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
Kero Kero Bonito
Rolo Tomassi
Girls Rituals
Jorge Elbrecht

ashley monroe: sparrow
autechre: nts sessions
hop along: bark your head off, dog
arctic monkeys: tranquility base hotel & casino
fall out boy: m a n i a
meshell ndegeocello: ventriloquism
xenoblight: procreation
rolo tomassi: time will die and love will bury it
tracey thorn: record
doja cat: amala

in alphabetical order

anna & elizabeth - the invisible comes to us
gurrumul - djarimirri
iceage - beyondless
janelle monae - dirty computer
palm - rock island
panopticon - the scars of man on the once nameless wilderness
sun-el musician - africa to the world
tram cops - even in my dreams
vakula - metaphors
us girls - in a poem unlimited

Ashley Monroe - Sparrow
Beach House - 7
Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Nina Kinert - Romantic
October - Ultra Red
Okenyo - The Wave
Rae Morris - Someone Out There
Saba - Care For Me
The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Kali Uchis - Isolation
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Tracey Thorn - Record
Rae Morris - Someone Out There
U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
Beach House - 7
Gwenno - La Kov
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Odeon - Galaxies
Rhye - Blood

usually don't think about ranking til much later in the year, but here goes nuthin

Breeders - All Nerve
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Saba - CARE FOR ME
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Payroll Giovanni & Cardo - Big Bossin Vol. 2
Meshell Ngeodecello - Ventriloquism

in no order

Tropical Fuck Storm A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Pianos Become the Teeth Wait for Love
Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
Donovan Wolfington Waves
The Amazing In Transit
Panopticon Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
LLNN Deads
Kali Uchis Isolation
Andrew WK You're Not Alone
Hot Snakes Jericho Sirens

a day with the homies - panda bear
hundreds of days - mary lattimore
grid of points - grouper
rock island - palm
white is relic/irrealis mood - of montreal
riddles - ed schrader's music beat
the louder i call, the faster it runs - wye oak
two parts together - big ups
7 - beach house
rausch - gas

Autechre - NTS Sessions
Lali Uchis - Isolation
Mount Eerie - Now Only
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Gas - Rausch
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind
Basalte - Vertige

haven’t liked anything yet tbh :/

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures
Joe Satriani - What Happens Next
The Go! Team - Semicircle
Magnum - Lost on the Road to Eternity
Mudhoney - LiE
They Might Be Giants - I Like Fun
Craig David - The Time Is Now
Loudness - Rise to Glory
The Fratellis - In Your Own Sweet Time
The Donkey Derbys - Full Metal Cardigan

i have the 2 Black Dog albums arriving next week.
yesterday I ordered the new GAS album, along with Kenneth James Gibsons new one.
hopefully they will be added to my years list.
other possible 2018 entries :
GoST - Possessor
Hollywood Burns - Invaders

SOB x RBE - Gangin'
Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg - Dirt... And More Dirt
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Awase
Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Music For David Mossman--Live At Vortex London
Trouble & Mike WiLL Made-It - Edgewood
Dan Weiss - Starebaby
Nolatet - No Revenge Necessary
Tim Daisy's Fulcrum Ensemble - Animation
Duduka da Fonseca Trio - Plays Dom Salvador
Yelena Eckemoff Quartet - Desert

C. Diab - Exit Rumination
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Sleep - The Sciences
GAS - Rausch
Lonker See - One Eye Sees Red
Sun-El Musician - Africa to the World
Dean McPhee - Four Stones
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is A Reptile
Leila Abdul-Rauf - Diminution
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Awase

10 is a lot...

I'm enjoying that Gas record quite a bit, more than Narkopop. It's very intense.

not sure if it's quite up there with narkopop for me, but listening to his records sequentially theres a real cool flow from pop into narkopop then rausch - feels like the day becoming night

Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Jpegmafia - Veteran
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Rae Sremmurd - Sr3mm
Superchunk - What a Time to be Alive
Kero Kero Bonita - TOTEP
Sob x Rbe - Gangin
American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
Mount Eerie - Now Only

left Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man off my list by mistake, it's been a solid year so far

what .. this is out now? Great balls of holy fire, almost a week to the 1913 Rites of Spring anniversary, coincidence? no such thing with Gaz

This is hard... I feel like I've barely made up my mind about anything much this year.

Maybe this:

Sun-El Musician - Africa to the World
Hunee - Hunchin All Night
Sango - In the Comfort Of
Tommy Mandel - Mellow Magic
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Various - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe (1980-1991)
Justine Skye - Ultraviolet
Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
Gas - Rausch

Haven't made it all the way through Sr3mm yet. Culture II has some tracks on it that I like, but feels difficult to recommend the whole thing.

Jenny Wilson, It Hurts
Tracey Thorn, Record
Andrew WK, You're Not Alone
Daphne & Celeste, Daphne & Celeste Save the World
Meshell Ndgeocello, Ventriloquism
Starchild & the New Romantic, Language
Dream Wife, Dream Wife
Drinks, Hippo Lite
Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Glamping
Chloe x Halle, The Kids Are Alright

honorable mention to the collected songs from STAR, which are not yet on a single album but which rule

palm record is good too. and i want to sit with the janelle

Cucina Povera - Hilja
Mr Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres

Can't think of any others I've enjoyed

off the top of my head so probably missing a few:

Beta Librae - Sanguine Bond
Ebo Taylor - Yen Ara
Steven Julien - Bloodline
Marine - Fable Electric
Hunee - Hunchin All Night
Rezzett - Rezzett
Steven Rutter - BrainFog
тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
V/A - Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth​-​Boogie in 1980s South Africa
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes

1. Ought - Room Inside This World
2. Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
3. Autechre - NTS 1-4
4. Ernesto Chahoud presents Taitu: Soul Fuelled Stompers From 1960s - 1970s Ethiopia
5. Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM
6. Sun-El Musician - Africa To The World
7. Pantsula! - The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa, 1988​-​90
8. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
9. Migos - Culture II
10. Tal National - Tantabara

I guess I'm just not that interested in albums so much lately...

MGMT
A.A.L.
US Girls
Hop Along
Eleanor Friedberger
Gwenno
Superchunk
Bat Fangs
Warm Bodies
No Age

xp yeah my tracks list is a lot more interesting tbh

this correlates directly with my uptake of Spotify in the last two years. I find it a lot easier to curate and listen to personalised lists of tracks when at work/driving/walking around. At home I still listen to albums, but usually on vinyl and often that's compilations and older LPs

yeah, that's the thing

I wish all the tracks I love came from great albums

I think these long long rap albums (SR3MM, Migos II etc) have been put together with this in mind. It's not like they have a conceptual through-line, they're just large sprawling collections of tracks which work best when cherry-picked from rather than listened to as an album 'experience' in its entirety.

More than anything it's intended to juke streaming stats.

it's sad that a format that fell from heaven as the Platonic form of how popular music should be consumed has been reduced to commercial necessity

An EP man, I see

1. Autechre
2. Keiji Haino & Sumac
3. Gas
4. Tal National
5. Sleep
6. Oneohtrix Point Never
7. Yob
8. DJ Nigga Fox
9. EQ Why and Traxman
10. Seth Graham

It's very refreshing to see guitar rock albums in so many of these.

1. No Age
2. Sleep
3. Breeders
4. Migos
5. Kacey Musgraves
6. Kodak Black
7. Good Morning
8. Jpegmania
9. Big Ups
10. Bat Fangs

man, you all really like the Hailu Mergia.

as do i, i just don't see that much talk about him on ilm, so i didn't realize...

autechre - nts sessions 1-4
messthetics - s/t
steve tibbetts - life of

that's all I got so far (and only just heard the new steve tibbetts this morning) but tbf autechre album is eight hours long

high hopes for gang gang, but beyond that it may be a p short aoty list for me this year

hailu mergia got mentioned a couple of times on the Outernational thread, plus being on Awesome Tapes he's relatively high profile. plus it's a fun little album that's easy to enjoy but not exactly MINDBLOWING which is good and fine. hope it makes EOY

Dunno what records people are anticipating but I’m really looking forward to the new Shy Layers. I need that stuff while the sun is still shining plz

what are they like? never heard of them

hmm good question - kind of hard to describe without making it sound terrible tbh

maybe like if Jim O’Rourke made playful new wavey electronic music?

new wave in a talking heads / poppy brian eno sense btw

you're right, sounds terrible

thanks for hipping me to the Armed LouJag

I saw a lot of people compare Shy Layers to Air France which seems way off - SL is much more digital and synthetic. Definite sunshine Pimms-drinking music though.

this is where I'm at so far. looking forward to checking out a bunch of the rec's in here too. thank you. also, this is in order.

Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Portal - ION
Closer - All This Will Be
Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt
Sleep - The Sciences
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine

have to make more time for new music. how the hell do you make more time?

Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
FRIGS - Basic Behavior
Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations
The Dead Tongues - Unsung Passage
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Panic Blooms
Forth Wanderers - S/T
DRINKS - Hippo Lite
Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exudus
Leon Bridges - Good Thing
Alexis Taylor - Beautiful Thing

actually that Shy Layers description is bang on where my head's at with this sunny weather

Not ranked, but given how little I actually listen to it's a mark of a good year that there's 10 I like a lot.

In a Poem Unlimited - US Girls
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Isolation - Kali Uchis
Invasion of Privacy - Cardi B.
Africa to the World - Sun-El Musician
How to Socialise & Make Friends - Camp Cope
Loner - Caroline Rose
Attention Seeker (EP) - The Regrettes
Little Dark Age - MGMT
Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

made a shy layers thread just cos:
Shy Layers

Crazy how diverse the lists are itt

Not a ton of consensus

No order, but this is what I've been listening to the most

Lake Ruth
MGMT
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Bill Frisell
Jean Grae x Quelle Chris
Sleep
Speedy Ortiz
Janelle Monae
Beach House
The Sea and Cake

Bill Frisell album is good too

I was short one album - the Malkmus one (his best in years)

gotta check it out. another big change in my music listening these days is that I'm now allowed to listen to music at work, while my commute is a lot shorter.
Happy days, yes, but commute-listening allowed for a more focused experience and I had more time to take in an album-length experience. Now my listening tends to be surface-level and full of interruptions, so it's easier for me to put a playlist on shuffle and then I'm less irrationally concerned about missing out.

totally get that dog latin. i used to work in north vancouver which was a 1 hour - 1.5 hour trip each way - 3 hours of transit a day. was consuming music front to back a lot in that capacity

Some combination of:

Kacey Musgraves
Wye Oak
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Tove Styrke
Daphne & Celeste
Retep Folo
Beautify Junkyards
Concretism
Axolotes Mexicanos
Rhye

with Hailu Mergia and Listening Center bubbling under

Oh I forgot Tove ^^ what a year !

Keiji Haino & Sumac

Would like to hear this. Would like to hear a Haino & Yma Sumac collab even more.

Tal National
Huda Asfour
Ebo Taylor
Hailu Mergia
Blocboy JB
Kali Uchis
Beach House
M. Ndgeocello
Cardi B

Just 9

DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Bas Jan - Yes I Jan
Amen Dunes - Believe
Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
Anna von Hausswolf - Dead Magic
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Skee Mask - Compro
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Mike Donovan - How to Get Your Record Played in Shops

maybe Arctic Monkeys, Daniel Blumberg or Boncana Maiga as the last one.

Hunee - Hunching All Night* instead of Boncana Maiga

sumac's dead tho :-(

Would like to hear this. Would like to hear a Haino & Yma Sumac collab even more.

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 5:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was totally my first thought seeinng Whiney's list. :'-(

Haino and Yma Sumac, now that would be something. The album in question is on bandcamp btw.

Amen Dunes
Rival Consoles
Hailu Mergia
Beach House
Jon Hopkins
Lonker See
Nils Frahm
Anna von Hausswolff
Iceage
Grouper

There's plenty of stuff I've been meaning to listen to, though, but haven't got round to it yet.

wooden shjips v
beach house 7
bardo pond volume 8
oneida romance
gwenno le kov
xylouris white mother
field music open here
landing bells in new towns
stephen malkmus / jicks sparkle hard
the amazing in transit

So disappointed by that new Wooden Shijps :(

Brian Eno - Music For Installations
Yes: Fly From Here (Return Trip)
Drew McDowall and Hiro Kone : The Ghost Of Georges Bataille
Autechre : NTS 4
Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere: Espaces Timbres
Johnny Greenwood: You Were Never Really Here OST
Chris Carter - Chemistry Lessons Vol. 1
I:Cube : Versatile 120

Only 8 so far. Year is still young-ish.

I only discovered this morning that Wooden Shjips have a new album out tomorrow; streaming it on the Thrill Jockey site now and can tell I'll be playing this a ton over the next few months. This is exactly what I need this time of year.

I'll put that one at the top despite being only 2/3 into my first listen; these in no particular order:

Artificial Pleasure - The Bitter End
Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange
Bambara - Shadow on Everything
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland
Vive la Void - Vive la Void
Boytoy - Night Leaf
Heaven - All Love is Blue
A Place to Bury Strangers - Pinned

Die Wilde Jagd - Uhrwald Orange

^ oh i bought this the other day. haven't had a chnace to listen to it yet, but the songs i have heard are great

new wooden shjips is boss. if reissues count, yes and eno YES. trevor horn kinda dicked benoit david over but the production is way better than the original. eno shifting larger shapes is endlessly awesome

Not listened to a huge amount of 2018 albums yet but I like these:

Beach House - 7
Beta Blockers - Stiff Prescription
Breeders - All Nerve
The Ex - 27 Passports
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads - s/t
Ojo Por Ojo - s/t
Shopping - The Official Body
Snob - Snob
Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On

#1 is one of my favorite albums since I don't know when:

Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends

then:

Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
The Amazing - In Transit
Alela Diane - Cusp
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Glenn Jones - The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar
Earthless - Black Heaven
Ilyas Ahmed - Closer to Stranger
Feu! Chatterton - L’oiseleur

Going through all of these and Die Wilde Jagd really stands out! Will definitely return to that.

Other favourites found itt: Jenny Wilson, YOB, Forth Wanderers, Mike Donovan. And emo: Donovan Wolfington, Fiddlehead!

Just 5 for the moment:
Die Nerven - Fake
Breeders - All Nerve
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Brian Eno - Music for Installations
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

I forgot
Meshell Ndegecoello - Ventriloquism

Ndegeocello, ffs

Shame - Songs of Praise
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Air Waves - Warrior
A.A.L. - 2012-2017
A Beacon School - Cola
Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
Juan de Fuca - Solve / Resolve
Loma - s/t
Malena Zavala - Aliso
MOTORCADE - s/t
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Superchunk - What a Time to be Alive
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
Wye Oak - The Louder I call, the Faster it Runs

In consideration

Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going on
SM & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Beach House - 7
Hatchie - Sugar & Spice EP

I’ll call it now - ionnalee record is perennially underrated and the best record of the year but won’t even place in the ilm polls cuz y’all got yarn ass ears

I like the Loma record but "Black Willow" kinda towers over it for me. What a song.

I can confirm that the Die Wilde Jagd album is something special.

yeah it's really good - kind of a can meets trentemoller vibe going on

digging it, thx for the recommendation

yeh this rules

No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Sleep - The Sciences
Wet Tuna - Livin the Die
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Khruangbin - Con Todo el Mundo
EXEK - Ahead of Two Thoughts
GAS - Rausch
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup
Yuzo Iwata - Daylight Moon
Bardo Pond - Volume 8

Here's mine.

Revised

Natalie Prass - future and the past
Advisory circle - ways of seeing
Courtney Barnett - tell me how you really feel
Janelle Monáe - dirty computer
Beach house - 7
Tess roby - beacon
U.s. girls - in a poem unlimited
Lykke Li - so sad so sexy
Melody’s echo chamber - bon voyage
Kacey musgraves - golden hour

an alphabetical top 10:

Black Dresses — WASTEISOLATION
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
DJ Healer - nothing 2 loose
Eartheater - Irisiri
Facechain — Accensor
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita
Skee Mask - Compro
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Tove Styrke — Sway
ТПСБ - Sekundenschlaf

things that could easily replace anything in my top 10 given another spin or two:

Air Max '97 - Nacre
Godflesh - Post Self
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
ionnalee - Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten
Mai Lan - Autopilote
Rezzett - Rezzett LP
SMERZ - Have fun
Syclops - Pink Eye

Iceage - Beyondless should also be in that second list.

Nice to see ionnalee on your list. Funny I forgot that but this year has been stacked with good records

Black Dresses album would now be on mine too

That Black Dresses album is real good.

going to wait to make my list until next week but here’s a late breaking candidate

https://mockidentity.bandcamp.com/

ashley monroe - sparrow
charlie puth - voicenotes
jacquees - 4275
jon hassell - listening to pictures (pentimento volume one)
kacey musgraves - golden hour
meshell ndegeocello - ventriloquism
oneohtrix point never - age of
serpente - rituais 101 ["Voodoo enchantments gathered from dub, jungle and techno debris" - https://serpente101.bandcamp.com/album/rituais-101)
swae lee - swaecation
terre thaemlitz - deproduction eps 1 & 2

in no order, haven't listened to a lot of stuff i intended to

rico nasty
parquet courts
kacey musgraves
arctic monkeys
now, now
mr fingers
hop along
amen dunes
jean grae quelle chris
ye

Die Wilde Jagd album is so good!

can't stop listening to it. it's a good one to listen to last thing before bed

In no particular order:

Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Comes
Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile
Cardi B - Invasion Of Privacy
Shakarchi & Stranaeus - Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Proc Fiskal - Insula
SOB x RBE - Gangin
Mind Over Mirrors - Bellowing Sun
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
Skee Mask - Compro

I forgot the Tracey Thorn album, that should be in there.

o ya forgot about gangin that ones good. skee mask is great too, like the 2018 dj sports

Oh shit Sun El-Musician as well. Sorry Skee Mask/Mind Over Mirrors, you're dropped.

i would add Sun-El Musician - Africa To The World to my list as well.

throwing another yeh for the black dresses album xps

Smh no Trouble album mentions

― mark e, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 07:55 (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SOB x RBE - Gangin'
Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg - Dirt... And More Dirt
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Awase
Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton - Music For David Mossman--Live At Vortex London
Trouble & Mike WiLL Made-It - Edgewood
Dan Weiss - Starebaby
Nolatet - No Revenge Necessary
Tim Daisy's Fulcrum Ensemble - Animation
Duduka da Fonseca Trio - Plays Dom Salvador
Yelena Eckemoff Quartet - Desert

― calzino, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 08:05 (one month ago) Bookmark

do i win a lolipop?

Yes

I am also shifting my complaint to the lack of syclops mentions

Syclops will be on my list.

Also thank u to rushomancy for listing Gurrumul - that's top 3 of the year for me.

holy shit this gurrumul

Autechre 'NTS Sessions'
The Eternal Chord 'Semper Liber'
Eva-Maria Houben 'Breath for Organ'
Jakob Ullmann 'Muntzers Stern Solo II'
Okkyung Lee 'Dahl-Tah-Ghi'
Cam Deas 'Time Exercises'
MMMD 'Andromache'
Mayuko Hino 'Lunisolar'
Christina Vantzou 'No.4'
Jim O'Rourke 'Steamroom 38/39'
Mika Vainio 'Lydspor One & Two'
Alex Zhang Hungtai 'Divine Weight'

Abstracter - Cinerous Incarnate
Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations
Chaos Echoes - Mouvement
Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love - 19th of May 2016
Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar
Eric Chenaux - Slowly Paradise
Jojo R Manny - This Winter Has Been Coldest At Its End
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4

I'll do 11 - Unranked:

Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Gwenno - Le Kov
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
Various - Black Panther: The Album
The Breeders - All Nerve
Chvrches - Love Is Dead
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
IAMX - Alive In New Light
Hookworms - Microshift
Field Music - Open Here

Le mien!

shaping up to be a consensus-y year for me

u.s. girls
meshell ndegeocello
speedy ortiz
kacey musgraves
black panther
jorge elbrecht
jennifer castle
belly
janelle monae
spook school / smokescreens / shopping (tie)

delroy Edwards - rio grande

this is the only thread that mentions Die Wilde Jagd, but I saw them last night and they were very very excellent.

BYE!

oh sweet
deffo in my top 3 records this year

was it a full band? for some reason i thought it was one dude

two dudes, drums, guitar and a whole raft full of modules and pedals and noodly things. 2000 Elefanten was particularly great. The drummer was brilliant. The guitary singer dude was awesome. really good

drummer would have to be Dinger rock steady

aw sweet - think 2000 elefanten is my fav!
& cosign dinger :D

2000 Elefanten is a fantastic song, not sure about the rest of the album yet

rest of the album is brilliant but 2000 Elefanten is the hit - is it the only one with singing on it? Will definitely be in my EOY. Live it turned into a proper anthem. I could imagine these guys evolving into an excellent avant-rock/pop band on the next record

2018 has been insane, for me at least. there are still albums by Orbital, Mouse on Mars, and James Ferraro I have to get to. among many many others

my working list is something like:

1. Andrew WK - You're Not Alone
2. Kaku P-Model - Kai = Kai
3. Autechre - NTS Sessions
4. Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
5. George Clanton - Slide
6. Daphne & Celeste Save the World
7. Datarock - Face the Brutality
8. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
9. They Might be Giants - I Like Fun
10. 3.2 - The Rules Have Changed

mewithoutyou: [untitled]
low: double negative
helena hauff: qualm
ashley monroe: sparrow
anna von hausswolff: dead magic
foxing: nearer my god
meshell ndegeocello: ventriloquism
arctic monkeys: tranquility base hotel & casino
autechre: nts sessions
let's eat grandma: i'm all ears

I love a lot this year:

Haron - Wandelaar
Jolly Mare - Logica Natura
Deepchord - Immersions
Sandro Perri - In Another Life
Ovlov - TRU
Gwenno - Le Kov
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
DJ Khalab - Black Noise 2084
Betonkust & Palmbomen II - Center Parcs
Bjorn Torske - Byen

Also...

Hear, Now - Aurora Baleare
Khotin - Beautiful You
H. Takahashi - Low Power
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On
Kate NV - для FOR
Salad Boys - This Is Glue
M. Geddes Gengras - Hawaiki Tapes
Skee Mask - Compro
Sam McClellan - Music of the Five Elements
Peggy Gou - Once
Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still

I didn't get the Glenn Jones or the new Low yet so I imagine they're easily going to be added.

Oh and the Yves Tumor! Looking forward to checking that one out as well.

Shit, I forgot:

Various - Studio Barnhus Volym 1

Loving that a lot!

AND:

Hovvdy - Cranberry
Our Girl - Stranger Today
Arp - Zebra
Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner

Good year imo

additions to my list above:

Parquet Courts
Malkmus
Snail Mail
Khurangbin
Rolling blackouts
The Amazing
The Sea and Cake
Bardo for Pablo
Melodys Echo Chamber
Foxing

sons of kemet

let's eat grandma - i'm all ears
wednesday campanella - galapogos
low - double negative
beach house - 7
mount eerie - now only
foxing - nearer my god
gang gang dance - kazuashita
kacey musgraves - golden hour
christine and the queens - chris
natalie prass - the future and the past
yves tumor - safe in the hands of love

Demdike Stare x Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - The Feed-Back Loop
Pablo's Eye - Spring Break
Bernard Baschet & Michel Deneuve - 4 espaces sonires
Various Artists - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe
Kink Gong - Dian Long: Soundscape China / Destruction of Chinese Pop
Mårble - Diego
Creta - Creta
Walter Verdin - Voor Adeline "Een Fantastisch Nieuw Muziektheater"
Carl Stone - Electronic Music From the Eighties and Nineties
Èlg - Vu du dôme (2018

Aphex Twin - Collapse
Autechre - NTS Sessions
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age of
Lucio Capece / Marc Baron - My Trust In You
Thomas Ankersmit - Homage to Dick Raaijmakers
Bruno Duplant - Chamber and Field Works 2015 - 2017
Ola Paulson & John Tilbury - Seagull Sonatas
Jürg Frey & Magnus Granberg - Early to Late
Jogging House - Would
xuiqen - moiré

Some things I've liked a lot:

Le Dom - Castle Owner EP (Paradoxe Club)
Anenon - Tongue (Friends of Friends)
DJ Plead - Get In Circle (Decisions)
Jeremy Pelt - Live in Paris
Patrick Zimmerli - Clockworks
City - Skeleton EP
Serpentwithfeet - soil
Sunareht - Sagas EP (Paradoxe Club)
The Ophelias - Almost
Lechuga Zafiro - Testigo EP
Autechre - NTS Sessions

kacey musgraves - golden hour
charlie puth - voicenotes
blood orange - negro swan
sandro perri - in another life
amen dunes - freedom
dj koze - knock knock
troye sivan - bloom
famous dex - dex meets dexter

I feel like there's not a whole lot of overlap between everyone... is that normal and/or am I not looking closely enough? I'm not always good at paying attention.

everyone likes autechre

Cardi B
Tracey Thorn
U.S. Girls
Beach House
Mitski
Kacey Musgraves
Parquet Courts
J Balvin
Against All Logic
Black Panther sndtrk

I have got ten albums together now. This year seems quite good. And I have hardly listened to a couple of other promising releases like Richard Thompson, Sons of Kemet, Snail Mail, Parquet Courts, Brian Eno, Beak, Die Wilde Jagd, Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Arve Henriksen etc.

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Bombino - Deran
The Breeders - All Nerve
Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Low - Double Negative
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Die Nerven - Fake
Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs

It's going to be Low, innit? That and Autechre.

everyone likes autechre

Not me! Fuck Autechre.

I feel like there's not a whole lot of overlap between everyone... is that normal and/or am I not looking closely enough? I'm not always good at paying attention.

― Evan, Friday, September 21, 2018 1:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Last year's EOY polls had very little overlap too

in no order...

1. Cosmic Church - Täyttymys - Nature worshiping one-man occult metal from Finland.

2. Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens - Brownsville, BK rapper (and FDNY Captain), KA with producer, Animoss craft trippy and dense street rap refracted through a lens of Greek mythology. Next level sample-based production that deftly avoids hard drums.

3. Merzbow - Noisembryo - Gorgeous reissue of the '94 harsh noise classic by Hospital Productions.

4. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile - British afrobeat/soul jazz. Dual drummers, sax, and tuba.

5. Mo*Te - Life in a Peaceful New World - Another Japanese harsh noise reissue. This one of an absurdly limited cassette from '96. For those here with any interest in this stuff - total mastery of the form.

6. Jerman Barnes - The Finger'd Remove - Mind-meld improv using metal, bamboo, springboard, temple block, stones, feathers, wood, and sub-perceptual electronics by big-eared lifers, Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes.

7. Ursula K. LeGuin & Todd Barton - Music and Poetry of the Kesh - Lovingly crafted LP of a cassette that came with the first edition of LeGuin's 1985 Utopian Sci-Fi epic, 'Always Coming Home.'

8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of - Another bold step into the Octagon from Lopatin. Again, beautiful presentation that keeps me buying physical media.

9. Daniel Schmidt - In My Arms, Many Flowers - Reissue of late '70s / early '80s Bay Area Gamelan minimalism. Drifting and cyclical and not far off the hypnotic Italian stuff that Die Schactel reissues.

10. Mkwaju Ensemble - Ki-Motion - Midori Takada led percussion ensemble recording from '81. Vibes, marimba, bamboo and synths. I'm continually amazed by the depth and quality of the reissue well.

No particular order:

Neko Case: Hell-on
Parquet Courts: Wide Awake!

It’s all about Sweetener for me. Apologies to the rest of music.

Updated list:

1. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
2. Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
3. Kali Uchis - Isolation
4. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
5. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
6. Tracey Thorn - Record
7. Mitski - Be The Cowboy
8. Noname Room 25
9. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
10. Christine & The Queens - Chris

U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
Beach House - 7

I should give Melody's Echo Chamber another try. Kind of reminded me of April March on first listen.

Thanks for the annotations, Yelploaf. I wish everyone would do that.

i dunno about 10, lotta settling still to do.

autechre - nts sessions
daniel bachman - the morning star
the ex - 23 passports
kacey musgraves - golden hour
ken mode - loved
james brandon lewis trio - radiant imprints
miles okazaki - work vols. 1-6
witch mountain - s/t
will dimaggio - at ease
container - lp

Hailu Mergia
Kacey Musgraves
Bill Frisell
Jakob Bro
Juliana Hatfield
Okkervil River
Saba
Eleanor Friedberger
Chris Crack
Sandro Perri

Lots of mentions for Let's Eat Grandma. I want to listen but that fucking name: makes me want to chew my own ears off.

Updated:

Sly & Robbie Meet Nils Petter Molvær feat. Eivind Aarset and Vladislav Delay
Low
Sleep
Tangents
Leila Abdul-Ralf
The Innocence Mission
The Dead Tongues
Sons of Kemet
Steve Tibbets
Jon Hassell

Low - Double Negative: gorgeous uneasy listening
Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic: my goth witch alter ego
Gurrumul - Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow): overwhelming elegies
Ashley Monroe - Sparrow: comely and broken like me
Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears: kids don't know not to reach for the stars
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile: grooves that always already existed
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs: technicolour dreams
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus: my gay outlaw fantasy
Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos: the interior design of my brain
Ross From Friends - Family Portrait: melancholy and highly sexed
Tangents - New Bodies: dream theory in australia
Busiswa- Highly Flavoured: highly sexed and highly sexed
Pablo’s Eye - Spring Break / Bardo For Pablo: that just woke up from an afternoon nap feeling
Helena Hauff - Qualm: choke me mom
Sandro Perri - In Another Life: where the ocean meets the sky i'll be sailing
Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita: equatorial exposure volume one
Meshell Ndgeocello - Ventriloquism: crying forever
Rico Nasty - Nasty: nasty

There's too much I haven't heard yet but so far (excluding classical music):

Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Grouper - Grid of Points
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Saba - Care for Me
Jakob Bro - Returnings
Basalte - Vertige
SIT - Invisibility, Chapters I & II
Amon Dunes - Freedom
NONE - Life Has Gone on Long Enough
Future Museums - Rosewater Ceremony

i wish i could fit natalie prass and hop along into my top ten

Amen rather than Amon (subconsciously longing for Tobin?).

SIT - Invisibility, Chapters I & II

^^^

yes!

I knew I'd eventually end up agreeing with you on something, pom!

Haha, I'd wager we agree more than we disagree on most things. Even politically.

Beths
Parquet Courts
Beach House
Rolling Blackouts

Thats it. Kinda weak year so far imo.

Maybe Uncle Acid and/ot Kurt Vile will save it..

Oh i forgot .Ty Seagall January record is nice.

And looking forward to MBV too

I feel like I must be missing a lot of good stuff, but so far I like:

Ought - Room Inside the World
Tribulation - Down Below
KEN mode - Loved
Lie in Ruins - Demise (EP)
Khanus - Flammarion
Vital Idles - Left Hand
Deszcz - III
Ghost - Prequelle
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Golgothan Remains - Perverse Offerings to the Void

just need to drop in and say i gave that mika vaino a try today while working. it sounded great but i couldn't do it, too frickin scary!

I got these!

Cupcakke – Ephorize
U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
Mr. Fingers – Cerebral Hemispheres
Toni Braxton – Sex & Cigarettes
tUnE-yArDs – I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
Ravyn Lenae – Crush
Tracy Thorn – Record
Migos – Culture II
The Breeders – All Nerve
Ashley Monroe – Sparrow
Tal National – Tantabara
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Bali Baby – Baylor Swift
Amen Nunes – Freedom
Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
Pusha T – Daytona
Meshell Ndegeocello – Ventriloquism
John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness
Rae Sremmurd – SR3MM
Belly – Dove
Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive
Troye Sivan – Bloom
The Chills – Snowbound
Ariana Grande - Sweetener
Mitski – Be the Cowboy

Time for some revisions to my list

Lake Ruth
MGMT
Cavern of Anti-Matter
Bill Frisell
Jean Grae x Quelle Chris
Sleep
Speedy Ortiz
Janelle Monae
Beach House
The Sea and Cake
Low
Autechre
Mitski
Laurel Halo
Oneohtrix Point Never
Pram

i don't know how to get it down to ten, so here are some i haven't seen mentioned much

aquaserge - deja-vous
bekon - get with the times
brown calculus - live at the map room ep
domenico lancelotti - the good is a big god
v/a - program 1: strange sounds from indianapolis and beyond
jim miles - waste begat waste
l'imperatrice - matahari
orchestre tout puissant marcel duchamp - sauvage formes
philip d kick - pathways
the sevateem - the caves

ten archival picks:

ami shavit - neural oscillations and alpha rhythms
bernard estardy - space oddities (1970-1982)
colored music - individual beauty
entourage - ceremony of dreams: studio sessions and outtakes, 1972-1977
gene clark - sings for you
kuniyuki takahashi - early tape works (1986-1993) vol 1
paddy kingsland - the changes original soundtrack
basement beehive: the girl group underground
satan in love: rare finnish synth-pop and disco 1979-1992
welcome to paradise vol. iii: italian dream house 90-94

I strongly considered adding that Domenico Lancelotti album to my list. A worthy descendant to The High Llamas - Snowbug.

oh yeah it is sean o'hagan related. why did i think it was cheer-accident related? i don't know.

of the rest, the aquaserge, jim miles, and orchestra tout puissant marcel duchamp are variously in the neighborhood of "prog", bekon is some variety of alt-r&b, l'ipmperatrice and the sevateem are some variety of synthpop, philip d kick is some variety of electronic, and the other two are what they are. if that's of any assistance.

Still haven't heard the new Beak album, but I'm betting it'll make my top ten. And this: http://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/mount-vision

Beths
Parquet Courts
Beach House
Rolling Blackouts

Thats it. Kinda weak year so far imo.

Maybe Uncle Acid and/ot Kurt Vile will save it..

― nostormo, Saturday, September 22, 2018 12:17 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm you might like Salad Boys?

the absolute state of that post tbh

lol

People, why has nobody on this entire thread mentioned the fantastic album To The Sunset by Amanda Shires? It's easily one of the best records of the year. For crying out loud, please get on board.

what is that new kero kero bonito like

anyone heard it

also tempted to follow kornrulez on that suggestion due to the passion there

fantastic stuff, a step up imo - there's a thread for them :)

KERO KERO BONITO

yeah a huge step up

cool, gotta hear that, thanks

top 10 at the moment, a lot of great records this year but these are the ones i come back to.

1. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes
2. Pram - Across the Meridian
3. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
4. Ionalee - Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten
5. Soccer Mommy - Clean
6. Tirzah - Devotion
7. Tove Styrke - Sway
8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
9. Dj Koze - Knock Knock
10. mgmt - little dark age

that madeline kenney is so good

she is a real fucking gem!

Just listening for the first time. Kenney album is really good.

heard the first one LBI

that and the EP are essential, signals rules

Madeline Kenney

we have a madeline kenney thread, that album is indeed fantastic

Can't remember if I've posted this in here previously or not, but here's my list on Discogs. Things kind of slowed down for me after the quick one-two super mellow combo punch of Jon Hassell and Steve Tibbetts. Looking forward to that Julia Holter.

i really like the jon hassell - the other stuff i have heard by him never left a lasting impression - but i do not get into the steve tibbetts at all. it sounds so repetitive to my ears. i am intrigued about the new julia holter as well.

I have settled for these now but I haven't listened to a lot of new music this year.

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
The Breeders - All Nerve
Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Julia Holter - Aviary
Low - Double Negative
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Die Nerven - Fake
Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs

Gotta find some space on my list for the Madeline Kenney and Domenique Dumont albums. Don't know what I'd bump off though.

Happy holidays, everyone, here's Sterrenplaten's (my radio show) end-of-year list, in an almost 2h Dutch speaking show:

http://www.radioscorpio.be/2018/12/23/de-beste-albums-van-2018-volgens-sterrenplaten

Tried to cut my favourites down to ten but ended up at twelve (non-ranked list):

Armand Hammer – Paraffin (Backwoodz Studios)
Body/Head – The Switch (Matador)
Daniel Bachman – The Morning Star (3Lobed)
Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu (Awesome Tapes)
IE – Pome (Moon Glyph)
Ipek Gorgun – Ecce Homo (Touch)
Jpegmafia – Veteran
Julia Holter – Aviary (Domino)
Low – Double Negatives (Sub Pop)
Rosalía – El Mal Querer (Sony)
Saint Abdullah – Stars Have Eyes (PTP)
Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin (Drag City)