Favorite albums of 2018

I am thinking about mine

So far I got

1. Yo La Tengo - There’s a riot going on
2. Arctic monkeys- Tranquility Base
3. Andres Calamaro - Cargar la suerte
4. Low - Double negative
5. Stephen Malkmus - Sparkle Hard
6. Iggy Pop and Underworld - Teatime dub encounters

You guys heard anything new (not reissues) that hit the spot?

Will update

THese were my favorites, as yet in no order. Im'm too lazy to type the name of the album, but will if the artist came out with more than one in 2018.

Phosphorescent
Shakey Graves
Willie Nelson (Last Man Standing)
Lucinda Williams & Charles Lloyd
Dr. Dog
Janelle Monae
Night Shop

I have to buy that Willie…I really like the Willie does Sinatra one but I just cannot put an album of standards in my top new albums

Flasher
Bat Fangs
Interpol –Marauder
Dean Wareham and Cheval Sombre
Nothing – Dance on the Blacktop
Superchunk

I have others but I'll have to go back and check what they are. It's been a long year…

good stuff people…needed some new things to dig into, now I've got a place to start

thought for sure Smakie would be singing the virtues of  "Head Above Water"

favourite albums in no order

Salad Boys - This is Glue
Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
Born Ruffians - Uncle Duke & the Chief
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Laura Gibson - Goners
Helena Deland - From the Series of Songs "Altogether Unaccompanied" Vol. I-IV
Anna Calvi - Hunter
Lucy Dacus - Historian
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy
Gruff Rhys - Babelsburg
Calvin Johnson - A Wonderful Beast
Idles - Colossus
YOB - Our Raw Heart
Shame - Songs of Praise
US Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
Ohmme - Parts
Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
Julia Holter - Aviary
The KVB - Only Now Forever
The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking
Gazelle Twin - Pastoral

Is anybody secretly wishing for Kilsaly to show up with his list of 85 albums that nobody has heard of?

Space wrote:
Is anybody secretly wishing for Kilsaly to show up with his list of 85 albums that nobody has heard of?

I think Vas just helped out in that department.

In general order

Seungri – The Great Seungri

US Girls – In a Poem Unlimited

Mitski – Be the Cowboy

Westside Gunn – Supreme Blientele

Julia Holter – Aviary

Mix-o-Rap – Eyes of a Key

Maxo Kream – Punkin

Noname – Room 25

Kali Uchis – Isolation

Grouper – Grid of Points

Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano III

Gang Gang Dance – Kazuashita

callme – Please callme!

Alien Sex Fiend – Possessed

relaxer is also doing his bit to help us forget killsaly.

Oh come on, most of these are highly regarded and oft-touted releases. There's only one two weirdo Asian records on there for chrissakes!

Is mitski that good? What is it like?


Thinking of buying it

She opened a show at Anthem this year but I did not see her

I love it. It's kind of a more indie/weirdo version of Lana Del Rey. 

Relaxer wrote:
I love it. It's kind of a more indie/weirdo version of Lana Del Rey.

And asian!

Relaxer wrote:
I love it. It's kind of a more indie/weirdo version of Lana Del Rey.

I missed her at Anthem opening for another act I saw. Thinking of going to her Richmond date in February EDIT: April.

hutch wrote:
Is mitski that good? What is it like?


Thinking of buying it

She opened a show at Anthem this year but I did not see her

It's great. You would like it.

Best Power Pop Albums of 2018

Including The Greenberry Woods and the Post's own Dave Sheinin

Space wrote:
THese were my favorites, as yet in no order. Im'm too lazy to type the name of the album, but will if the artist came out with more than one in 2018.

Phosphorescent
Shakey Graves
Willie Nelson (Last Man Standing)
Lucinda Williams & Charles Lloyd
Dr. Dog
Janelle Monae
Night Shop

I'm going to add three more to my list to make it 10.

Erika Wennerstrom
Natalie Prass
Fatoumata Diawara

I think I will take the Low album off my list