Music Favourite Albums of 2018

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It's December and all the usual end of year lists are being published, so which albums did you guys enjoy most this year?
 
Sister Cities by The Wonder Years and Oxnard by Anderson .Paak are two of the big standouts for me. I've only just started listening to Honey by Robyn, but it's made a good first impression. Also, Holy Hell by Architects.
 
This is probably the year I've been most off music.

Two albums I've recently heard a bit off and liked are.
Golden Hour - Kasey Musgraves
Historian - Lucy Dacus

Do need to hear them completely and more albums to form a proper list.
 
Looking forward to some good recommendations from the caf.
 
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Not the greatest album but the only new music I picked up this year, so that's my contribution.
 
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Thom Yorke - Suspiria
Olafur Arnalds - re:member
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Music for Saxophone & Bass Guitar
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Robyn - Honey
Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra - LAGEOS
Puma Blue - Blood Loss
 
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Carseat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
 
Oh and The Prodigy returning with 40 minutes of abuse was welcome

 
Liked/ Loved...

Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Stephen Malkmus - Sparkle Hard
Pusha T - Daytona
Low - Double Negative
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Kali Uchis - Isolation

Tried but couldn't get into...

Kacey Musgraves- Golden Hour
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquillity Base Camp
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
 
Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs The Sirens
Noname - Room 25
Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Wave
Jpegmafia - Veteran
Phonte - No News Is Good News

Favourite song was Noname - Blaxploitation.
A lot of good hip hop this year.
 
Loads of stuff that I loved this year.

Colour Me Wednesday - Counting Pennies in the Afterlife
Vein - Errorzone
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
Jesus Piece - Only Self
Mastersystem - Dance Music
Turnstile - Time & Space
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Iglooghost - Steel Mogu/Clear Tamei
Tony Molina - Kill The Lights
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
J.K Flesh - New Horizon
Sectioned - Annihilated
Autechre - NTS Sesssions 1-4
Soul Glo - Tour Tape
Converge - Beautiful Ruin EP
Venetian Snares - She Began To Cry etc...
Jeff Rosenstock - Post
Prefuse 73 - Sacrifices

All four albums that THOU released this year.


Disappointment of the year was the Czarface/MF Doom LP. Pretty tame by both their standards.
 
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
Travis Scott - Astroworld
Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers 2
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
 
The Good The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land
Julia Holter - Aviary
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
The Fernweh - The Fernweh
 
I just realized that I haven't heard any new music I've liked this year.

I've read that happens when you start your decline in your 30's...
 
I've enjoyed a lot of albums this year.

I'll just slap down a top 20. That's not overkill at all, right? (Overkill do not feature on this list).

Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
Subsignal - La Muerte
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Kissin' Dynamite - Ecstasy
Slash - Living the Dream
Tremonti - A Dying Machine
Powerwolf - The Sacrement of Sin
Stone Temple Pilots - s/t
Myles Kennedy - Year of the Tiger
Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
Riverside - Wasteland
George Ezra - Staying at Tamaras
Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic
Michael Romeo - War of the WOrlds, Pt. 1
Disturbed - Evolution
Nomy - RUN!
Damien Wilson & Adam Wakeman - The Sun Will Dance In Its Twilight Hour
The Sea Within - S/T
Magnum - Lost on the Road to Eternity
Auri - ST
 
Rado_N said:
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
Travis Scott - Astroworld
Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers 2
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
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Im really enjoying Astroworld, Travis Scott's videos are dead good as well
 
Let's eat Grandma - I'm all ears
Boygenius - Boygenius
Father John - God's favourite customer
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Johnny Greenwood - Phantom Thread
Thom Yorke - Suspiria
Robyn - Honey
1975 - ABIIOR
 
Organic Potatoes said:
I just realized that I haven't heard any new music I've liked this year.

I've read that happens when you start your decline in your 30's...
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I wanted to state I'd discovered Stanley Road by Paul Weller this year and then realised that's not what this thread is about... I'm getting old too
 
Travis Scott - Astroworld
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
The Internet - Hive Mind
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Tierra Whack - Whack World
 
Saba - Care For Me
Anderson Paak - Oxnard
Arctic’s - Tranquility Base
Bas - Milky Way
Brockhampton - Iridesence
Flatbush Zombies - Vacation In Hell
Kids See Ghosts
Travis - Astroworld
 
Loublaze said:
Any good indie rock albums this year?
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Mastersystem - Dance Music was a pretty good straight-forward rocker, if that's your thing. It was the last thing that Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit did before he took his life, it came out a month before it happened. Knowing what would end up happening to him, there's some very haunting lyrics on it.
 
Malkmus - Sparkle Hard
Mitski - Be a Cowboy
Beach House - 7
Paak - Oxnard
Idles - Joy as an act of resistance
Julia Holter - Aviary
Kathryn Joseph - From when I wake the want is
Hopkins - Singularity
Sons of Kemet - Your queen is a reptile
Audiobooks - Now (in a minute)
Beak> - >>>
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
AAL - 2012-2017
BC Camplight - Deportation Blues
Hookworms - Microshift
The Breeders - All Nerve
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Aidan Moffat & Hubby - Here Lies the body
Lump - Lump
Bodega - Endless Scroll
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm all ears
Juniore - Magnifique
Maribou State - Kingdoms in Colour
Tracyanne & Danny
Superorganism
Caroline Rose - Loner
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Gwenno - Le Kov
Insecure Men
Tropical feck Storm - A Laughing Death in feck Space
The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland

...oh and Suede and NIN were big returns to form too.
 
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arthurka said:
Suede Night Thoughts.
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Night Thoughts was years ago wasn't it? Or am I mad?

Fingeredmouse said:
Malkmus - Sparkle Hard
Mitski - Be a Cowboy
Beach House - 7
Paak - Oxnard
Idles - Joy as an act of resistance
Julia Holter - Aviary
Kathryn Joseph - From when I wake the want is
Hopkins - Singularity
Sons of Kemet - Your queen is a reptile
Audiobooks - Now (in a minute)
Beak> - >>>
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
AAL - 2012-2017
BC Camplight - Deportation Blues
Hookworms - Microshift
The Breeders - All Nerve
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Aidan Moffat & Hubby - Here Lies the body
Lump - Lump
Bodega - Endless Scroll
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm all ears
Juniore - Magnifique
Maribou State - Kingdoms in Colour
Tracyanne & Danny
Superorganism
Caroline Rose - Loner
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Gwenno - Le Kov
Insecure Men
Tropical feck Storm - A Laughing Death in feck Space
The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland

...oh and Suede and NIN were big returns to form too.
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I liked many of these albums.
 
Disease - Beartooth
Ghost Note Symphonies Vol1 - Rise Against
Kamikaze - Eminem
Rituals - Deaf Havana
 
Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest was my clear favourite. As for other albums I've really, really enjoyed this year in alphabetical order:

2012-2017 - Against All Logic (house)
iridescence - BROCKHAMPTON (hardcore hip hop, pop rap)
Chris - Christine and the Queens (synthpop, art pop)
Mire - Conjurer (metal)
TA13OO - Denzel Curry (hardcore hip hop, pop rap)
You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters (noise rock, industrial)
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love - Deafheaven (metal, shoegaze)
God's Favourite Customer - Father John Misty (singer songwriter, piano rock)
Everything's Fine - Jean Grey & Quelle Chris (abstract hip hop)
Twisted Crystal - Guerilla Toss (neo-psychedelia, post-punk, art pop)
Aviary - Julia Holter (art pop, experimental)
Beyondless - Iceage (post-punk, art rock)
Joy as an Act of Resistance - IDLES (post-punk)
Abysskiss - Adrianne Lenker (singer songwriter, folk)
Little Dark Age - MGMT (synthpop, psychedelic pop)
Be the Cowboy - Mitski (art pop, indie rock)
Now Only - Mount Eerie (singer songwriter, folk)
Room 25 - Noname (jazz rap)
Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts (art punk, indie rock)
The Future and the Past - Natalie Prass (pop soul, singer songwriter)
Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It - Rolo Tomassi (metal, post-hardcore)
POST- - Jeff Rosenstock (power pop, indie rock)
Your Queen is a Reptile - Sons of Kemet (jazz, dub)
A Laughing Death in Meatspace - Tropical feck Storm (art punk, blues)
In a Poem Unlimited - US Girls (art pop)
 
This Robyn album's pretty good. When you strip away the tasteful production it's basically lots of decent imitations of 90s dance music. It's very well done though.
 
arthurka said:
No actually it was 2014!! I of course ment The Blue hour..:lol:
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It's surprisingly good isn't it? They've got the high drama of Dog Man Star back. Wastelands is an instant Suede classic for me.
 
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