Best Albums of 2018: Discussion Thread

[pigs]

1. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
   
2. Yazmin Lacey - When the Sun Dips 90 Degrees
3. Pusha T - DAYTONA
   
4. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
5. Mint Field - Pasar de las Luces
6. John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once:  Lost Album
7. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
8. Ought - Room Inside the World
   
9. Tim Hecker - Konoyo
10. Kids See Ghosts - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
    
11. Beach House - 7
12. Confidence Man - Confident Music For Confident People
13. Rhye - Blood
14. Screaming Females - All at Once
15. Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us
    
16. Tribulation - Down Below
17. Black Foxxes - REIðI
18. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
    
19. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
20. Alva Noto + Nyuichi Sakamoto - Glass
21. Carseat Head Rest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
22. Nils Frahm - All Melody
    
23. Tribulation - Down Below
24. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
25. Kanye West - ye
26. First Aid Kit - Ruins
    
27. GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star
28. MGMT - Little Dark Age
29. tUnE-yArDs - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
30. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures
31. SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
    
32. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
33. cupcakKe - Ephorize
    
34. Hookworms - Microshift
35. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
36. The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

NEW NUMBER 1: 
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! (6-19-18)
Pusha T - DAYTONA (6-12-18)
Mint Field - Pasar de las Luces (3-22-18)
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (2-21-18)
Rhye - Blood (2-13-18)
Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us (1-26-18)

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Jeff Rosenstock and CupcakKe are the only new ones I remember listening to. Both are very good

[neader]

1. Francis and the Lights - Just For Us
2. CupcakKe - Ephorize

[Tweet]

Excuse me this is the 2018 thread Francis came out in 2017 gawd Neader quit fuckin up

[neader]

yeah yeah i know you're joking but 12/29? like cmon

[pigs]

Jan 15, 2018 11:08:23 GMT -6 neader said:

yeah yeah i know you're joking but 12/29? like cmon

out.

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Per last years list, anything released after the deadline of Dec. 22nd is considered a 2018 release so that includes Gumboot Soup, Sidney Gish, etc.


So far this is what I got in no particular order

No Age
Royal They
Shopping
Cupcakke
Shame
Sidney Gish
Closer
King Gizz and the Liz Wiz
Jeff Rosenstock
Scallops Hotel
The Prids

So off to a pretty good start imo.

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I’ll take “what are calendars” for $300 trebek

[dij22]

Man this is going to be a very long year of everyone pretending the Cupcakke album is good

[Xamnam]

It happens every year. Father John Misty, Kanye, etc., etc..

[thebosma]

Jan 15, 2018 12:22:41 GMT -6 Xamnam said:

It happens every year. King Krule etc., etc..

[thebosma]

I think the Cupcakke album is pretty decent at worst. She's a really good rapper, but I get not loving her subject material

[teekoh]

1. Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
   
2. Burna Boy - Outside
3. scallops hotel - sovereign nose of (y)our arrogant face
   
4. tune-yards - I can feel you creep into my private life
5. SiR - November
6. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
   
7. Shopping - The Official Body
8. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
9. Cupcakke - Ephorize
10. Khruangbin - Con todo el mundo
11. Tribulation - Down Below
12. Shame - Songs of Praise
13. Special Explosion - To Infinity
14. Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
15. тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
    
16. Verheerer - Maltrer
17. Cadence Weapon - Cadence Weapon
18. Maxo Kream - Punken
19. Summoning - With Doom We Come
20. Porches - The House

[genghisnyc]

i like the cupcakke album. but i'm sure it's not gonna be a top 25 album by the end of the year.

[teekoh]

genghis, have you listened to scallops hotel/milo? I think you'd dig his stuff.

[monasterymonochrome]

Keeping a running list of stuff I heard and enjoyed - in the order I heard them.  Separate category for moderate disappointments.  Any records that I was nonplussed by, and had no real expectations for, are not listed.  Absolute favorites are in bold.

Jeff Rosenstock - POST
Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
Shopping - The Official Body
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
Kyle Craft - Full Circle Nightmare
Xylouris White - Mother
Bat Fangs - S/T
Sunwatchers - II
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
Dream Wife - S/T
Itasca - Morning Flower
Brigid Mae Power - The Two Worlds
Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive
Ought - Room Inside The World
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
US Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
Screaming Females - All At Once
Caroline Rose - Loner
Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends
Olden Yolk - S/T
Haley Heynderickx - I Need To Start A Garden
Shame - Songs Of Praise
Kal Marks - Universal Care
Femi Kuti - One People One World
Bas Jan - Yes I Jan 
Superorganism - S/T
Lucy Dacus - Historian
Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds
Suuns - Felt
Imarhan - Temet
Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Riddles


Disappointments:

Tune-Yards - I Can Feel You Creep...
Belle & Sebastian EPs
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Palm - Rock Island 
Vundabar - Smell Smoke 
Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough

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yeah dont have a whole lot work with yet.


1. Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
2. Anchor Detail - Enabler
3. King Buffalo - Repeater
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures
5. Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
6. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup
7. Summoning - With Doom We Come



1. Portal - "Phreqs"
2. Kendrick Lamar and SZA - "All the Stars"
3. The Atlas Moth - "Galactic Brain"
4. The Decemberists - "Severed"
5. Justin Timberlake - "Filthy"
6. Fu Manchu - "Clone of the Universe"
7. David Byrne - "Everbody's Coming to My House"
8. Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker - "Red Right Hand"
9. Teenage Wrist - "Dweeb"
10. Windhand - "Old Evil"

[genghisnyc]

Jan 17, 2018 16:47:44 GMT -6 teekoh said:

genghis, have you listened to scallops hotel/milo? I think you'd dig his stuff.

i have not.  sounds like?

[teekoh]

Earl or Ka are my closest comps. His literary/cultural references and sense of humor remind me of Open Mike Eagle some, too.

[dij22]

The new Tune-Yards is good, not great. Kinda disappointed since I absolutely loved her last two albums. Hopefully it gets better on repeat listens.

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Jan 23, 2018 19:34:29 GMT -6 dij22 said:

The new Tune-Yards is good, not great. Kinda disappointed since I absolutely loved her last two albums. Hopefully it gets better on repeat listens.

I thought there was one, maybe two songs that were good on there. I felt the same about the last one. Bird brains and whokill are still dope though

[dij22]

Kinda leaning towards going to MGMT that night now

[teekoh]

I really like the tune-yards record after three listens. It’s not my favorite, but I like it more than Nikki Nack.

[dij22]

After much and careful deliberation (I listened to three albums), I can safely say that "Free" by Tune-Yards is by far the best song of 2018.

[andrewvb]

aw yeah first bad take of the thread

[Deleted]

That Tune-Yards album has some of the cringiest lyrics I’ve heard in a while

[dij22]

Jan 24, 2018 12:16:15 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

aw yeah first bad take of the thread

The take can alternately be stated as "Free by Tune-Yards is better than any song on the Jeff Rosenstock and Cupcakke albums"

[teekoh]

I like that track quite a bit as well.

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January 

1. No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
2. Shopping - the Official Body
3. Shame - Songs of Praise
4. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
5. The Royal They - Foreign Being
6. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
7. Closer - All This Will Be
8. Mind Spiders - Furies
9. Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
10. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
11. They Might Be Giants - I Like Fun
12. Anchor Detail - Enabler
13. cupcakKe - Ephorize
14. Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us
15. The Prids - Do I Look Like I'm in Love?
16. Porches - The House
17. Panda Bear - A Day with the Homies EP
18. Tribulation - Down Below
19. Tune-Yards - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
20. Scallops Hotel - Sovereign Nose of Your Arrogant Face

February 

1. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (face to face)
2. Screaming Females - All At Once
3. Black Panther Soundtrack
4. Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs
5. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
6. FRIGS - Basic Behavior
7. RIDE - Tomorrow's Shore (EP)
8. Superchunk - What A Time to Be Alive
9. Holy Motors - Sundown
10. Ought - Room Inside the World
11. Anna Burch - Quit the Curse
12. Corey Flood - Wish You Hadn't (EP)
13. The Soft Moon - Criminal
14. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
15. Hovvdy - Cranberry
16. Loma - Loma
17. Caroline Rose - LONER
18. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
19. Hookworms - Microshift
20. Vundabar - Smell Smoke


March    

1. Preoccupations - New Material
2. Lucy Dacus - Historian
3. Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
4. Soccer Mommy - Clean
5. Czarface/MF Doom - Czarface Meets Metal Face
6. Mount Eerie - Now Only
7. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
8. Superogranism - Superorganism
9. Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
10. Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
11. Roc Marciano: RR2: The Bitter Dose
12. Jean Grae/ Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
13. Kraus - Path
14. The Breeders - All Nerve
15. Moaning - Moaning
16. The Men - Drift
17. FACS - Negative Houses
18. Amen Dunes - Freedom
19. Dungen, Woods - Myths 003 EP
20. Guided by Voices - Space Gun


April



1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
2. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
3. Grouper - Grid of Points
4. Ganser - Odd Talk
5. Sleep - The Sciences
6. Forth Wanderers - S/t
7. Goat Girl - S/T
8. Kali Uchis - Isolation
9. Half Waif - Lavendar
10. Exitmusic - The Recognitions
11. A Place to Bury Strangers - Pinned
12. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
13. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
14. John Prine - Tree of Forgiveness
15. Hinds - I Don't Run
16. Saba - Care for Me
17. Mastersystem - Dance Music
18. DRINKS - Hippo Lite
19. Wye Oak - the Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
20. Black Dresses - Wasteisolation

May

1. Iceage - Beyondless
2. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
3. Pusha-T - DAYTONA
4. Beach House - 7
5. Illuminatti Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
6. Deerhunter - The Double Dream of Spring (cassette)
7. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
8. Slow Mass - On Watch
9. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
10. La Luz - Floating Features
11. Middle Kids - Lost Friends
12. Hit Bargain - Potential Maximizer
13. Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
14. Chris Reimer - Hello People
15. Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep (EP)
16. Wand - Perfume (EP)
17. Hatchie - Sugar & Spice (EP)
18. A$AP Rocky - TESTING
19. Dear Nora - Skulls Example
20. Slim Jxmmi - Jxmtro

June

1. Tim Rutili & Craig Ross - 10 Seconds to Collapse
2. serpentwithfeet - soil
3. Jorja Smith - Lost & Found
4. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
6. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
7. Snail Mail - Lush
8. Flasher - Constant Image
9. Yob - Our Raw Heart
10. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
11. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
12. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Something Else
13. Kanye West - Ye
14. The Carters - Everything is Love
15. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
16. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
17. Mazzy Star - Still EP
18. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-sides
19. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.
20. Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage

July

1. Ovlov - Tru
2. Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
3. Denzel Curry - TA1300
4. Tanukichan - Sundays
5. The Internet - Hive Mind
6. The Coup - Sorry to Bother You Soundtrack
7. Thin Lips - Chosen Family
8. Deaf Wish - Lithium Zion
9. Fog Lake - Captain
10. Tony Molina - Kill the Lights
11. Santigold - I Don't Want: The Gold Fire Sessions
12. Chastity - Death Lust
13. Negative Scanner - Nose Picker
14. Buddy - Harlan & Alondra
15. Miss Red - K.O.
16. Ty Segall & White Fence - Joy
17. Phantastic Ferniture - S/t
18. Clearance - At Your Leisure
19. Iggy Pop & Underworld - Teatime Dub Encounters
20. Gia Margaret - There's Always a Glimmer


August


1. Hermit & the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens
2. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
3. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
4. Tirzah - Devotion
5. Nothing - Dance on the Black Top
6. Bad Bad Hats - Lightning Round
7. Ohmme - Parts
8. Interpol - Marauder
9. Armand Hammer - Paraffin
10. IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistence.
11. Free Cake For Every Creature - The Bluest Star
12. Rubblebucket - Sun Machine
13. Ultra Beauty - S/t EP
14. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
15. Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
16. Tomberlin - At Weddings
17. Our Girl - Stranger Today
18. Saintseneca - Pillar of Na
19. Pink Siffu - ensley
20. Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals


September

1. Low - Double Negative
2. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
3. Brockhampton - Iridescence
4. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
5. Noname - Room 25
6. Dilly Dally - Heaven
7. Mutual Benefit - Thunder Follows the Light
8. Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
9. Mothers - Render Another Ugly Method
10. Constant Mongrel - Living in Excellence
11. Lonnie Holley - MITH
12. Milo - budding ornithologists are weary of tired anthologies
13 Sandro Perri - In Another Life
14. Joey Purp - Quarterthing
15. Lala Lala - The Lamb
16. Bad Moves - Tell No One
17. Justus Proffit & Jay Som - Nothing's Changed EP
18. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
19. Thrice - Palms
20. The Chills - Snow Bound

[pigs]

Really surprised by how long you have Mimicking Birds.

Didn't know Hop Along were doing things. This is good news.

Up with Glacial Pace.