Best Albums of 2018: Discussion Thread

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I don't think I've even listened to an album released this year yet. Good to see I'm starting off 2018 the same way I did 2017.

[pigs]

Jan 26, 2018 12:27:25 GMT -6 scoots said:

I don't think I've even listened to an album released this year yet. Good to see I'm starting off 2018 the same way I did 2017.

Slow start this year.  You got time to catch up.

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Jan 26, 2018 12:22:36 GMT -6 pigs said:

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.

I need more time with it. I do like it though, just not as good as Ions imo. 

[pigs]

Agreed, but Belongings, Dust Layers, Time to Waste, and Another Time are all fantastic tracks. Easy front runner for me.

[teekoh]

NEW NO. 1 ALERT

The Portal album is so brutal in the absolute best possible way.

1. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
2. Black Milk - Fever
3. Portal - Ion
4. Harakiri for the Sky - Arson
5. scallops hotel - sovereign nose of (y)our arrogant face
   
6. H.C. McEntire - LIONHEART
7. Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us
8. The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir
   
9. Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
10. tune-yards - I can feel you creep into my private life
    
11. DJ Taye - Still Trippin'
12. Genocide Pact - Order of Torment
13. Burna Boy - Outside
14. Mind Spiders - Furies
15. Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
16. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
17. SiR - November
18. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
    
19. Insect Ark - Marrow Hymns
20. Phew - Voice Hardcore
21. Jericho Jackson - Khrysis & Elzhi are Jericho Jackson
22. Kendrick Lamar - Black Panther Soundtrack
23. Bad Gyal - Worldwide Angel
24. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed
    
25. Xylouris White - Mother
26. Closer - All This Will Be
27. Cupcakke - Ephorize
    
28. Shame - Songs of Praise
    
29. Shopping - The Official Body
30. Special Explosion - To Infinity
    
31. Khruangbin - Con todo el mundo
32. Tribulation - Down Below
33. They Might Be Giants - I Like Fun
34. Nils Frahm - All Melody
35. Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
36. Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap
37. тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
    
38. Verheerer - Maltrer
39. Primal Rite - Dirge of Escapism
40. Maxo Kream - Punken
    
41. Django Django - Marble Skies
42. Cadence Weapon - Cadence Weapon
43. Summoning - With Doom We Come
44. SHIRT - Pure Beauty
45. Old Tower - Stellary Wisdom
46. Porches - The House
47. Cozz - Effected

EPs:

1. Ravyn Lenae - Crush
2. Haunt - Luminous Eyes

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Way too early for this but work is boring today.

1. Dream Wife - s/t
2. The Royal They - Foreign Being
3. Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
4. Hookworms - Mircoshift
5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures
6. Shopping - The Official Body
7. Tribulation - Down Below
8. Mind Spiders - Furies
9. Verheerer - Maltrer
10. First Aid Kit - Ruins

[doso]

1. Marie/Lepanto - Tenkiller

This record is end-to-end very good/excellent.

[Xamnam]

1. The Go! Team - Semicircle
2. Hookworms - Microshift
3. First Aid Kit - Ruins
4. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
5. Holy Motors - Slow Sundown
6. King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard - Gumboot Soup
7. Long Neck - Will This Do?
8. Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs
9. Xylorious White - Mother
10. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed

[Tweet]

I don't get the Dream Wife hype

[irvred]

It is very just okay. I don't regret spending time with it and never need to put it on again.

[Deleted]

Feb 9, 2018 13:54:36 GMT -6 Tweet said:

I don't get the Dream Wife hype

It won't be my year end number one but I am just super enjoying it right now. Shrug.

[Tweet]

That's more than fair

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It's a good, run record. I like it.

[fiveiron83321]

only ranking i have is....

1) No Age

[andrewvb]

1. car seat headrest - twin fantasy
2. u.s. girls - in a poem unlimited
3. panda bear - a day with the homies ep
4. no age - snares like a haircut
5. bat fangs - bat fangs
6. shame - songs of praise
7. superchunk - what a time to be alive
8. mgmt - little dark age
9. anna burch - quit the curse
10. ty segall - freedom's goblin
11. mind spiders - furies
12. shopping - the official body

[Tweet]

I have like all these albums saved but I haven’t listened to any of them

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1. Black Panther Soundtrack

[dij22]

The Car Seat Headrest is really great. Never listened to the original Twin Fantasy.

Is this eligible for this year's rankings since it's not technically a new release?

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Feb 20, 2018 10:48:36 GMT -6 dij22 said:

The Car Seat Headrest is really great. Never listened to the original Twin Fantasy.

Is this eligible for this year's rankings since it's not technically a new release?

It's eligible. It's not the same album. 

[pigs]

Gonna listen to a few new ones this afternoon. What should I spend my time on other than Car Seat Headrest and No Age?

[Tweet]

Feb 20, 2018 12:15:20 GMT -6 pigs said:

Gonna listen to a few new ones this afternoon. What should I spend my time on other than Car Seat Headrest and No Age?

US Girls. New Ought is worth a once over. If you're into emo awakebutstillinbed is dope. Ride has a new EP out too

[andrewvb]

Feb 20, 2018 12:15:20 GMT -6 pigs said:

Gonna listen to a few new ones this afternoon. What should I spend my time on other than Car Seat Headrest and No Age?

us girls, bat fangs, and shame.

[teekoh]

Feb 20, 2018 12:15:20 GMT -6 pigs said:

Gonna listen to a few new ones this afternoon. What should I spend my time on other than Car Seat Headrest and No Age?

Portal

[Deleted]

My strongest suggestion would be the U.S. Girls album. It's fantastic. Bat Fangs are great if you like the Sleater-Kinney/Ex Hex riot grrl type of rock, which I think you do.

the Ride EP is surprisingly very good. Keep It Surreal is wicked.

[pigs]

ty

[dij22]

Finally listened to the U.S. Girls album and it is so far ahead of anything else released this year.

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1. The Atlas Moth – Coma Noir
2. Kendrick Lamar – Black Panther Original Soundtrack
3. Tribulation – Down Below
4. Justin Timberlake – Man of the Woods
5. Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
6. Anchor Detail – Enabler
7. Portal – Ion
8. Old Tower – Stellar Wisdom
9. Mammoth Grinder – Cosmic Crypt
10. Johnny Greenwood – Phantom Thread Original Soundtrack
11. Fu Manchu – Clone of the Universe
12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures
13. Verheerer – Maltrer
14. Legend of the Seagullmen – Legend of the Seagullmen
15. Harms Way – Posthuman
16. Weedpecker – IIII
17. Corrosion of Conformity – No Cross No Crown
18. Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
19. Summoning – With Doom We Come
20. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup


-even as a fanboy, Atlas Moth has always been like a #15-30 aoty band for me with lots of cool riffs and atmospheric stuff but most of their albums get tired after track 6 or 7. this one is legitimately a phenomenal piece of well written music and heavy jams and actually has a concise theme and sound all the way through. highly recommend.

-enough listens of JT for me to like about half of it but it certainly has some embarrassing clunkers that i cant defend at this point. i've already just taken what i like and added it to my JT playlist and moved on.

-KDot is king.

-i think most people here will dig Old Tower. very old school darktronic stuff with a bit of cheesy 80s synth and moog. not even very dissonant or disturbing compared to other profound lore electronic stuff

[pigs]

US Girls rips ty

[dij22]

1.) U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
2.) MGMT - Little Dark Age
3.) tUnE-yArDs - I can feel you creep into my private life
4.) Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
5.) Jeff Rosenstock - Post-

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February 2018 (not counting Cindy Lee b/c it's not a 2018 release)


1. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (face to face)
2. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited
3. Screaming Females - All At Once
4. Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs
5. RIDE - Tomorrow's Shore (EP)
6. FRIGS - Basic Behavior
7. Ought - Room Inside the World
8. Superchunk - What A Time to Be Alive
9. Holy Motors - Sundown
10. Black Panther Soundtrack
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