[Music] Albums of the year 2018

[Grombleton]

My mate is a big fan of Idles and i've enjoyed what i've heard - its always on at his house. Also very much liked what l've heard from Tom Misch too.

Shinedown's Attention Attention has grown on my a lot too.

 

[chaileyjem]

Hopefully someone better than me can find a version to paste here?

ROUGH TRADE SHOPS BEST LPs OF 2018
1. Shame – Songs of Praise

2. Everything Is Recorded – Everything Is Recorded

3. IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance

4. Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo

5. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hopes Downs

6. Daniel Blumberg – Minus

7. Goat Girl – Goat Girl

8. Mark Peters – Innerland

9. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel

10. Oh Sees – Smote Reverser

11. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears

12. Bodega – Endless Scroll

13. Nils Frahm -All Melody

14. Amyl and the Sniffers – Big Attraction and Giddy Up (UK Version)

15. Leon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still

16. The Orielles – Silver Dollar Moment

17. Mastersystem – Dance Music

18. Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands of Love

19. LUMP – Lump

20. Superorganism – Superorganism

21. Interpol – Marauder

22. Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth

23. Mitski – Be The Cowboy

24. Fatoumata Diawara -Fenfo

25. Caroline Rose – Loner

26. John Grant -Love Is Magic

27. Young Fathers -Cocoa Sugar

28. Daniel Avery – Song For Alpha

29. Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer

30. Josh T Pearson – The Straight Hits!

31. Pusha T – Daytona

32. The Internet – Hive Mind

33. Gabe Gurnsey – //Physical//

34. Gwenno – Le Kov

35. Adrianne Lenker – Abysskiss

36. Confidence Man – Confident Music For Confident People

37. Anna Calvi – Hunter

38. Dream Wife – Dream Wife

39. Connan Mockasin – Jassbusters

40. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!

41. Manic Street Preachers – Resistance Is Futile

42. Soccer Mommy – Clean

43. Lily Allen – No Shame

44. Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie

45. Olafur Arnalds – re:member

46. Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt

47. Mattiel – Mattiel

48. Django Django – Marble Skies

49. Rex Orange County – Apricot Princess

50. Low – Double Negative

51. The Joy Formidable – AAARTH

52. Boy Azooga – 1,2, Kung Fu!

53. Ady Suleiman – Memories

54. Tom Misch – Geography

55. Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus

56. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex and Food

57. Warmduscher – Whale City

58. Tracyanne and Danny – Tracyanne and Danny

59. Maribou State – Kingdoms In Colour

60. Beak> – >>>

61. Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo in Blue

62. Protoje – A Matter Of Time

63. Christine and the Queens – Chris

64. John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness

65. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino

66. Beach House – 7

67. Our Girl – Stranger Today

68. Slaves – Acts Of Fear And Love

69. The Goon Sax – We’re Not Talking

70. Jon Hopkins – Singularity

71. Kristin Hersh – Possible Dust Clouds

72. Hinds – I Don’t Run

73. Chris Carter – Chemistry Lessons Volume 1

74. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile

75. White Denim – Performance

76. Johnny Marr – Call The Comet

77. Hollie Cook – Vessels of Love

78. Insecure Men – Insecure Men

79. Here Lies Man – You Will Know Nothing

80. Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits

81. Snail Mail – Lush

82. Echo Ladies – Pink Noise

83. Pete Astor – One for the Ghost

84. Tirzah – Devotion

85. Pearl Charles – Sleepless Dreamer

86. Field Music – Open Here

87. Kamaal Williams – The Return

88. Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano III

89. Odetta Hartman – Old Rockhounds Never Die

90. Mien – Mien

91. Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain

92. Pinkshinyultrablast – Miserable Miracles

93. Gaz Coombes – World’s Strongest Man

94. Gazelle Twin – Pastoral

95. Villagers – The Art of Pretending to Swim

96. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – King of Cowards

97. The Go! Team – Semicircle

98. Gruff Rhys – Babelsberg

99. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Distant Sky Live in Copenhagen

100. The Shacks – Haze

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

From 2017 but in 2018 did any of you see this:

2/15 UK Brighton The Green Door Store +

These:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6GV5C3hiic

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

OK I'll find some 2018 releases that folk may have missed:

Starting with the release of the year for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXTnV1GA80

This is cracking too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dENoXFREDik&list=PL5ibsF3c_NxGliG87rrC9WYyxklU8Pn-1

and lighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A906cEi0bE

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

 

[Whitechapel]

Been a great year for Hip-Hop. However there were 3 albums that were miles ahead of the pack. In no order were;

Brighton’s very own Ocean Wisdom with his ridiculously good sophomore album - Wizville. His debut album showed off his flow, ability and lyrical talent over some dirty beats. Wizville is more of that but with a staggeringly good list of guest verses sprinkled in (Dizzee Rascal, Method Man, Rodney P, P Money to name a few). and a even a few slower more reflective songs. There’s also a song called Western Road, because Brighton, innit.




Kids See Ghosts was going to go one of two ways. A collaborative album between Kanye West who was being slated in the press for his political leanings at a time where he was dropping pretty major hints that he was bipolar and KiD CuDi who has only recently came out of rehab after struggling with suicidal thoughts. It was either going to be an awful circle jerk or a weird but brilliant body of experimental psychedelic hip-hop. It was the latter. Everyone should give it a listen, it’s less than 30 minutes long.



Pusha T is the most underrated rap of the 2000’s. At least he was until he dropped possibly the most savage diss track ever; ruining a multi-million pound clothing deal Drake had lined up, exposed Drakes illegitimate son to a porn star and throwing in some pisstaking about Drakes best friend having MS for good measure. In the midst of all of that he dropped Daytona, another all killer no filler album full of gritty lyrics and some of Kanyes best production work in years. Expect to see this high up in a lot of rap based ‘Best of...’ lists in the coming months. If you know, you know.



Special shoutout to;

Octavian - Spaceman. Absolutely brilliant album but I’ve only just got in to it so can’t quite put it on the same level as the other 3. 100% one to look out for in 2019 though.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

OK I'll find some 2018 releases that folk may have missed:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A906cEi0bE

I'm waiting for my vinyl version of this to arrive - be interesting to know how you discovered them. Might be interested to know one of them has a solo album early next year which includes a coliaboration with a member of Drab Majesty.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'm waiting for my vinyl version of this to arrive - be interesting to know how you discovered them. Might be interested to know one of them has a solo album early next year which includes a coliaboration with a member of Drab Majesty.

As I know you’ve been buying vinyl since your school days, how many pieces do you have now?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'm waiting for my vinyl version of this to arrive - be interesting to know how you discovered them. Might be interested to know one of them has a solo album early next year which includes a coliaboration with a member of Drab Majesty.

Thanks for that

I was suggested them by youtube based on my previous searches. The linkup with Drab Mag sounds exciting. I have sent links to several pals and they have all been blown away, including one of my brothers, who has very precise tastes.

Mrs T claims she was already aware of Kaelan Mikla, but when I played some of their stuff she decided that it 'sounds like the Slits doing Anne Clark' (she hates Anne Clark). I, however love Anne Clark (and saw her at the Garage a couple of years ago).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY9O7byj2Sw

All the best

ps just listened to the track you posted - very good!

 

[Theatre of Trees]

As I know you’ve been buying vinyl since your school days, how many pieces do you have now?

Not as much as I would like as I've not always had the money, stopped buying vinyl in 1989 and gave half away at which a friend told I'd regret it one day. That day arrived around 2003 when I purchased a turntable. Didn't get in to collecting again until 2012. Have a large CD collection dating from 1994-2012, that purchased from 1989-93 was lost in a house burglary.

The slow turnaround regarding going back to vinyl was a mixture of me wanting to collect an artists work on one particular format coupled with growing out of older bands I'd once liked. Going onto vinyl meant starting a brand new slate collecting wise, I also don't buy back catalogue - did that twice with the CDs thus not into the reissues released today. Want to look forward rather than back - that music belongs to a particularly point in time - not became a boring old fart wittering on how music was better in the old days.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Thanks for that

I was suggested them by youtube based on my previous searches. The linkup with Drab Mag sounds exciting. I have sent links to several pals and they have all been blown away, including one of my brothers, who has very precise tastes.

Mrs T claims she was already aware of Kaelan Mikla, but when I played some of their stuff she decided that it 'sounds like the Slits doing Anne Clark' (she hates Anne Clark). I, however love Anne Clark (and saw her at the Garage a couple of years ago).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY9O7byj2Sw

All the best

ps just listened to the track you posted - very good!

Same as me, stumbled across them about this time last year - interesting to see how they've progressed from shouty punk to dark synths in three albums:

2014


2016


2018

 

[Mellotron]

It has been slowly growing on me. I am intrigued to hear how it is live.

Don’t you think the messy production has ruined it? There’s one or two tunes on it but since they lost Carlos they’ve lost their swing, their swagger, their groove. For me anyway.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not as much as I would like as I've not always had the money, stopped buying vinyl in 1989 and gave half away at which a friend told I'd regret it one day. That day arrived around 2003 when I purchased a turntable. Didn't get in to collecting again until 2012. Have a large CD collection dating from 1994-2012, that purchased from 1989-93 was lost in a house burglary.

The slow turnaround regarding going back to vinyl was a mixture of me wanting to collect an artists work on one particular format coupled with growing out of older bands I'd once liked. Going onto vinyl meant starting a brand new slate collecting wise, I also don't buy back catalogue - did that twice with the CDs thus not into the reissues released today. Want to look forward rather than back - that music belongs to a particularly point in time - not became a boring old fart wittering on how music was better in the old days.

Not too disimilar to me. Like you I have been buying music since a young age and decided to sell my vinyl and replace the choice albums with CDs when I was at uni; a huge regret. Aside from the odd bit here and there I started buying vinyl properly again 5 years ago. I have also steadily accumulated CDs from day 1; in fact I was at a gig tonight (US heavy-shoogaze band called Nothing) and bought a couple. 90% of my purchase are new albums/bands.

On the point of old music better than new, I put that down to unimaginative and/or lazy people. Every year there’s always truly excellent stuff being released and you don’t need to look too hard to find it.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Resident's Top 100

http://www.resident-music.com/collection&path=27993

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Picadilly Records, Manchester

[video]https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?&feature=875[/video]

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Fopp

https://www.fopp.com/bestalbums2018/

 

[Machiavelli]

Young Fathers, Neneh Cherry and Gruff Rhys have to be up there.

Are we still allowed to like the Hookworms album?

That's the question to ask, because there isn't much that I'm aware of that's better.

 

[Machiavelli]

Well I like the Low album



Some of the time

I've only heard it a few times, and I'm not sure about it. Resident's AotY, but I don't think it's a patch on Ones and Sixes which was, for me, a real return to form after a decade of indifference.

 

[morematey]

That's the question to ask, because there isn't much that I'm aware of that's better.

Mojo and Uncut both included it, but that was before the allegations were made. I can understand why Resident and others have since shunned it. With no way of knowing if MJ will be found guilty, supporting the victim and ignoring it is surely the only reasonable response.

 

[Machiavelli]

Mojo and Uncut both included it, but that was before the allegations were made. I can understand why Resident and others have since shunned it. With no way of knowing if MJ will be found guilty, supporting the victim and ignoring it is surely the only reasonable response.

You're right of course, but I suspect that commercial considerations are driving this.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

The Quietus Top 100

http://thequietus.com/articles/25755-albums-of-the-year-2018