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The Wire Rewind 2018: Releases of the year
+magazine's staff and contributors
1. Sons of Kemet — Your Queen is a Reptile
2. ZULI — Terminal
3. Ben LaMar Gay — Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
4. Guttersnipe — My Mother The Vent
5. JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
6. Sarah Davachi — Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
7. Senyawa — Sujud
8. Autechre — NTS Sessions 1-4
9. Body/Head — The Switch
10. Low — Double Negative
11. Jerusalem In My Heart — Daqa'iq Tudaiq
12. Julia Holter — Aviary
13. Eli Keszler — Stadium
14. Proc Fiskal — Insula
15. Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
16. Tyshawn Sorey — Pillars
17. Lea Bertucci — Metal Aether
18. Pusha-T — Daytona
19. Eartheater — IRISIRI
20. Nordra — Pylon II
21. Tirzah — Devotion
22. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt — Brace Up!
23. Dedekind Cut — Tahoe
24. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris — Everything's Fine
25. Hannah Silva — Talk in a bit
26. Kate NV — для FOR
27. Josephine Foster — Faithful Fairy Harmony
28. Agnarkea — Black Helicopters
29. Hailu Mergia — Lala Belu
30. Jim O'Rourke — Sleep Like It's Winter
31. Anne Guthrie — Brass Orchids
32. Eiko Ishibashi — The Dream My Bones Dream
33. Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood
34. Cucina Povera — Hilja
35. Kamaal Williams — The Return
36. Vessel — Queen of Golden Dogs
37. Embassador Dulgoon — Hydrorion Remnants
38. Noname — Room 25
39. Jlin — Autobiography
40. Grouper — Grid of Points
41. Yo La Tengo — There's a Riot Going On
42. Helena Hauff — Qualm
43. Nkisi — The Dark Orchestra
44. Gazelle Twin — Pastoral
45. Gaye Su Akyol — İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir,
46. Jon Hassell — Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Vol. 1)
47. Ipek Gorgun — Ecce Homo
48. Park Jiha — Communion
49. Musarc & Neil Luck — Bloody Sirens
50. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
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The Wire Rewind 2018: Noise & industrial
1. Nordra — Pylon II (2016)
2. Hekla — Á
3. Ekin Fil — Maps
4. Fosil Sangiran — Pasar Fosil
5. Bonnie Baxter — Ask Me How Satan Started
6. Geneva Skeen — A Parallel Array of Horses
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The Wire Rewind 2018: Jazz & improv
1. Tyshawn Sorey — Pillars
2. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp — Oneness
3. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret — The Other Side Of Air
4. Aruán Ortiz & Don Byron — Random Dances And (A)tonalities
5. Mary Halvorson — Code Girl
6. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg — Dirt... And More Dirt
7. William Parker — Voices Fall From the Sky
8. Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
9. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio — D’Agala
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The Wire Rewind 2018: Avant rock
1. Guttersnipe — My Mother the Vent
2. The HIRS Collective & Thou — I Have Become Your Pupil
3. Sunwatchers — II
4. GELD — Perfect Texture
5. Dead Rider Trio — Dead Rider Trio feat. Mr. Paul Williams
6. Cucina Povera — Hilja
7. Ricarda Cometa — Ricarda Cometa 2
8. Gwenifer Raymond — You Never Were Much of a Dancer
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The Wire Rewind 2018: Modern composition
1. Chaines — The King
2. Eva-Maria Houben — Breath For Organ
3. Mary Jane Leach — (f)lute songs
4. Linda Catlin Smith performed by Apartment House under Jack Sheen — Wanderer
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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2018
1. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
2. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
3. DJ Koze — Knock Knock
4. Robyn — Honey
5. Snail Mail — Lush
6. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
7. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
8. Low — Double Negative
9. Tierra Whack — Whack World
10. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
11. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
12. cupcakKe — Ephorize
13. Tirzah — Devotion
14. Amen Dunes — Freedom
15. Noname — Room 25
16. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
17. Pusha T — Daytona
18. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
19. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
20. Beach House — 7
21. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
22. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
23. Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
24. Julia Holter — Aviary
25. Playboi Carti — Die Lit
26. Vince Staples — FM!
27. Soccer Mommy — Clean
28. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
29. boygenius — boygenius
30. Christine and the Queens — Chris
31. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
32. Let's Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
33. Sheck Wes — Mudboy
34. Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics
35. Against All Logic — 2012-2017
36. Rico Nasty — Nasty
37. JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
38. Kali Uchis — Isolation
39. The Internet — Hive Mind
40. Iceage — Beyondless
41. Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign — MIH-TY
42. Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
43. Sleep — The Sciences
44. Camp Cope — How to Socialise & Make Friends
45. Cat Power — Wanderer
46. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
47. Skee Mask — Compro
48. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
49. Georgia Anne Muldrow — Overload
50. SOB X RBE — Gangin
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Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2018
1. Low — Double Negative
2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
3. Ty Segall — Freedom’s Goblin
4. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
5. Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On
6. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
7. Gruff Rhys — Babelsberg
8. Beak> — >>>
9. Christine and the Queens — Chris
10. Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
11. Richard Thompson — 13 Rivers
12. Neko Case — Hell-On
13. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
14. Ry Cooder — The Prodigal Son
15. Elvis Costello & The Imposters — Look Now
16. Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus
17. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
18. The Breeders — All Nerve
19. Cowboy Junkies — All That Reckoning
20. Jack White — Boarding House Reach
21. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
22. Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
23. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
24. Paul Weller — True Meanings
25. Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain
26. John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness
27. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
28. Dirty Projectors — Lamp Lit Prose
29. Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
30. Mélissa Laveaux — Radyo siwèl
31. Gazelle Twin — Pastoral
32. Gwenno — Le Kov
33. Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters
34. Hookworms — Microshift
35. Go-Kart — Mozart’s Mini-Mart
36. The Lemon Twigs — Go to School
37. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
38. Calexico — The Thread That Keeps Us
39. Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound
40. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
41. Cat Power — Wanderer
42. Melody’s Echo Chamber — Bon Voyage
43. Tracey Thorn — Record
44. Ryley Walker — Deafman Glance
45. Anna Calvi — Hunter
46. Kathryn Joseph — From When I Wake the Want Is
47. Julia Holter — Aviary
48. Laura Veirs — The Lookout
49. Mary Lattimore — Hundreds of Days
50. The Necks — Body
51. Gwenifer Raymond — You Never Were Much of a Dancer
52. Willie Nelson — Last Man Standing
53. David Byrne — American Utopia
54. Tune-Yards — I can feel you creep into my private life
55. Jess Williamson — Cosmic Wink
56. Dawn Landes — Meet Me at the River
57. Elephant Micah — Genericana
58. Mary Gauthier — Rifles and Rosary Beads
59. Stick in the Wheel — Follow Them True
60. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
61. Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet — Landfall
62. Angélique Kidjo — Remain in Light
63. Israel Nash — Lifted
64. Suede — The Blue Hour
65. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
66. Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang — The Heights of the Reeds
67. Phosphorescent — C’est La Vie
68. Richard Swift — The Hex
69. Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
70. Harmony Rockets — Lachesis / Clotho / Atropos
71. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
72. Olivia Chaney — Shelter
73. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
74. Beach House — 7
75. Fatoumata Diawara — Fenfo
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AllMusic 2018: Favorite Indie Pop and Indie Rock Albums (alphabetically)
Alice Bag — Blueprint
Beach House — 7
Cat Power — Wanderer
Chai — Pink
Clearance — At Your Leisure
Culture Abuse — Bay Dream
Django Django — Marble Skies
Ethers — Ethers
Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus
Field Music — Open Here
Fred Thomas — Aftering
Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
Guided by Voices — Space Gun
Iceage — Beyondless
Julia Holter — Aviary
Let's Eat Grandma — I'm All Ears
Low — Double Negative
Matchess — Sacracorpa
Melody's Echo Chamber — Bon Voyage
Mind Spiders — Furies
Mint Field — Pasar de las Luces
Mitski — Be the Cowboy
Mount Eerie — Now Only
Nap Eyes — I'm Bad Now
No Age — Snares Like a Haircut
Ovlov — Tru
Public Access T.V. — Street Safari
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
Say Sue Me — Where We Were Together
Shopping — The Official Body
Snail Mail — Lush
Soccer Mommy — Clean
St. Lenox — Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love
Stephen Malkmus / Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks — Sparkle Hard
Superchunk — What a Time to Be Alive
Superorganism — Superorganism
Teleman — Family of Aliens
Thalia Zedek — Fighting Season
The Beths — Future Me Hates Me
The Breeders — All Nerve
The Dodos — Certainty Waves
The Joy Formidable — AAARTH
The Orielles — Silver Dollar Moment
The Shifters — Have a Cunning Plan
Totally Mild — Her
tUnE-yArDs — i can feel you creep into my private life
Virginia Wing — Ecstatic Arrow
Warm Drag — Warm Drag
Whyte Horses — Empty Words
Wussy — What Heaven Is Like
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AllMusic 2018: Favorite Pop Albums (alphabetically)
Ariana Grande — Sweetener
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga — A Star Is Born [Soundtrack]
BTS — Love Yourself: Answer
Camila Cabello — Camila
Capital Cities — Solarize
Christine and the Queens — Chris
Clean Bandit — What Is Love?
Confidence Man — Confident Music for Confident People
Daphne & Celeste — Daphne & Celeste Save the World
David Guetta — 7
Dita Von Teese — Dita Von Teese
Dreams — No One Defeats Us
Hearts Hearts — Goods/Gods
James Bay — Electric Light
Kimbra — Primal Heart
Little Mix — LM5
Panic! At the Disco — Pray for the Wicked
Perfume — Future Pop
Rae Morris — Someone Out There
Rita Ora — Phoenix
Robyn — Honey
Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes
The Neighbourhood — The Neighbourhood
Troye Sivan — Bloom
Years & Years — Palo Santo
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AllMusic 2018: Favorite Electronic Albums (alphabetically)
Against All Logic — 2012-2017
Adult. — This Behavior
Aphex Twin — Collapse
Arp — Zebra
Autechre — NTS Sessions
Bjørn Torske — Byen
Blawan — Wet Will Always Dry
Chrome Sparks — Chrome Sparks
Container — LP [2018]
Daniel Avery — Song for Alpha
Daniel Lanois, Venetian Snares — Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Demdike Stare — Passion
DJ Koze — Knock Knock
DJ Taye — Still Trippin'
Dorian Concept — The Nature of Imitation
Fire-Toolz — Skinless X-1
Gas — Rausch
Geotic — Traversa
Helena Hauff — Qualm
Hieroglyphic Being — The Red Notes
Jlin — Autobiography
Jon Hopkins — Singularity
Lotic — Power
Maribou State — Kingdoms in Colour
Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
Martyn — Voids
MGUN — Axiom
Miss Red — K.O.
Moby — Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt
Niklas Paschburg — Oceanic
Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
Proc Fiskal — Insula
Profligate — Somewhere Else
Rival Consoles — Persona
Ross from Friends — Family Portrait
RP Boo — I'll Tell You What!
Shorelights — Ancient Lights
Shy Layers — Midnight Marker
Sinjin Hawke, Zora Jones — Vicious Circles
Skee Mask — Compro
Sophie — Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Steve Hauschildt — Dissolvi
System — Plus
Thomas Fehlmann — Los Lagos
Throwing Snow — Loma
Tim Hecker — Konoyo
TWINS — That Which Is Not Said
Martyn, Steffi — Air Texture Volume VI
Various Artists — In Death's Dream Kingdom
X-Altera — X-Altera
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Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2018
1. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
2. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
4. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
5. Christine and the Queens — Chris
6. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
7. Ryley Walker — Deafman Glance
8. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
9. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
10. The Breeders — All Nerve
11. Fatoumata Diawara — Fenfo
12. Pusha T — Daytona
13. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
14. Paul Weller — True Meanings
15. Tracey Thorn — Record
16. Cypress Hill — Elephants on Acid
17. Gaz Coombes — World’s Strongest Man
18. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
19. Low — Double Negative
20. Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
21. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
22. Field Music — Open Here
23. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
24. Oh Sees — Smote Reverser
25. Cat Power — Wanderer
26. Elvis Costello & The Imposters — Look Now
27. Paul McCartney — Egypt Station
28. Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound
29. Gwenno — Le Kov
30. Khruangbin — Con Todo El Mundo
31. Anna Calvi — Hunter
32. Gruff Rhys — Babelsberg
33. Ry Cooder — The Prodigal Son
34. Insecure Men — Insecure Men
35. Suede — The Blue Hour
36. Sleep — The Sciences
37. The Goon Sax — We’re Not Talking
38. Ty Segall — Freedom’s Goblin
39. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
40. Maisha — There Is a Place
41. Richard Thompson — 13 Rivers
42. Prince — Piano & a Microphone 1983
43. Chris Carter — Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
44. Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On
45. Wye Oak — The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
46. Binker and Moses — Alive in the East?
47. Imarhan — Temet
48. Phosphorescent — C’est La Vie
49. Villagers — The Art of Pretending to Swim
50. Hookworms — Microshift
51. Belle and Sebastian — How to Solve Our Human Problems
52. Confidence Man — Confident Music For Confident People
53. Courtney Marie Andrews — May Your Kindness Remain
54. Go-Kart — Mozart’s Mini-Mart
55. Mudhoney — Digital Garbage
56. Swamp Dogg — Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune
57. John Grant — Love is Magic
58. Laura Veirs — The Lookout
59. Cedric Burnside — Benton County Relic
60. Jon Hassell — Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. 1)
61. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
62. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
63. Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
64. Jim James — Uniform Distortion
65. Björk — Utopia
66. Lump — Lump
67. Willie Nelson — Last Man Standing
68. Johnny Marr — Call The Comet
69. Jungle — For Ever
70. Neil Young & Promise of the Real — The Visitor
71. Shame — Songs of Praise
72. Hailu Mergia — Lala Belu
73. Jack White — Boarding House Reach
74. Candi Staton — Unstoppable
75. Gorillaz — The Now Now
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Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2018
1. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
2. Snail Mail — Lush
3. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
4. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
5. Beach House — 7
6. Flasher — Constant Image
7. Soccer Mommy — Clean
8. Low — Double Negative
9. Father John Misty — God's Favorite Customer
10. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
11. Pusha-T — Daytona
12. Robyn — Honey
13. Lucy Dacus — Historian
14. Vince Staples — FM!
15. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
16. Brockhampton — iridescence
17. Half Waif — Lavender
18. Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
19. illuminati hotties — Kiss Yr Frenemies
20. Tomberlin — At Weddings
21. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
22. Rolo Tomassi — Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
23. Noname — Room 25
24. Wild Pink — Yolk in the Fur
25. Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
26. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
27. Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
28. Kali Uchis — Isolation
29. Teyana Taylor — K.T.S.E.
30. Iceage — Beyondless
31. The Armed — Only Love
32. Tirzah — Devotion
33. Dear Nora — Skulls Example
34. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
35. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
36. Ryley Walker — Deafman Glance
37. Birds In Row — We Already Lost The World
38. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
39. MGMT — Little Dark Age
40. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
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Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2018
1. Tierra Whack — Whack World
2. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
3. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
4. Snail Mail — Lush
5. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
6. Robyn — Honey
7. Travis Scott — ASTROWORLD
8. The Armed — Only Love
9. DJ Koze — Knock Knock
10. American Pleasure Club — A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
11. Pusha T — Daytona
12. Thou — Magus
13. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
14. Julia Holter — Aviary
15. 03 Greedo — God Level
16. Black Dresses — WASTEISOLATION
17. Noname — Room 25
18. Mac Miller — Swimming
19. The Dirty Nil — Master Volume
20. Lil Baby — Harder Than Ever
21. Iceage — Beyondless
22. Brandi Carlile — By the Way, I Forgive You
23. Playboi Carti — Die Lit
24. Tirzah — Devotion
25. Portrayal of Guilt — Let Pain Be Your Guide
26. The Internet — Hive Mind
27. Mammoth Grinder — Cosmic Crypt
28. City Girls — PERIOD
29. Octavian — SPACEMAN
30. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
31. Sophie — Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
32. Nothing — Dance on the Blacktop
33. The HIRS Collective — Friends. Lovers. Favorites.
34. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
35. Vile Creature — Cast of Static & Smoke
36. Culture Abuse — Bay Dream
37. Rico Nasty — Nasty
38. DJ Healer — Nothing 2 Loose
39. Vince Staples — FM!
40. Svalbard — It's Hard To Have Hope
41. JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
42. Frankie Cosmos — Vessel
43. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
44. Future — BEASTMODE 2
45. Soccer Mommy — Clean
46. Kali Uchis — Isolation
47. Shame — Songs of Praise
48. Freddie Gibbs — Freddie
49. YOB — Our Raw Heart
50. Mount Eerie — Now Only
51. Kids See Ghosts — KIDS SEE GHOSTS
52. Car Seat Headrest — Twin Fantasy
53. Mozzy — Gangland Landlord
54. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
55. Yovel — Hɪðəˈtu
56. Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
57. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
58. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
59. Let's Eat Grandma — I'm All Ears
60. Lucy Dacus — Historian
61. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
62. Makaya McCraven — Universal Beings
63. Amen Dunes — Freedom
64. Autechre — NTS Sessions 1-4
65. Popcaan — Forever
66. Ryan Playground — 16/17
67. Against All Logic — 2012 — 2017
68. Brockhampton — iridescence
69. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
70. Ilsa — Corpse Fortress
71. Beach House — 7
72. Cat Power — Wanderer
73. Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
74. Dödsrit — Spirit Crusher
75. Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
76. Mastersystem — Dance Music
77. Grouper — Grid of Points
78. Birds In Row — We Already Lost The World
79. Trouble & Mike WiLL Made It — Edgewood
80. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
81. Smino — Noir
82. Beta Librae — Sanguine Bond
83. J Balvin — Vibras
84. Tentenko — Tentenko
85. Maxo Kream — Punken
86. Machine Girl — The Ugly Art
87. Racetraitor — 2042
88. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
89. Gaika — Basic Volume
90. Foodman — Aru Otoko No Densetsu
91. Metro Boomin — Not All Heroes Wear Capes
92. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal — Corinthiax
93. Thin Lips — Chosen Family
94. Prison Religion — O fucc Im on the wrong planet
95. Necros Christos — Domedon Doxomedon
96. The Goon Sax — We're Not Talking
97. Daniel Aged — Daniel Aged
98. Grapetooth — Grapetooth
99. Miserable — Loverboy / Dog Days
100. BTS — Love Yourself 轉 Tear
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gorilla vs. bear's albums of 2018
1. Tirzah — Devotion
2. Helena Deland — From the Series of Songs Altogether Unaccompanied I–IV
3. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
4. Amen Dunes — Freedom
5. Robyn — Honey
6. Earl Sweatshirt — Some Rap Songs
7. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
8. Grouper — Grid of Points
9. Bella Boo — Fire
10. Caroline Says — No Fool Like an Old Fool
11. Tess Roby — Beacon
12. Julia Holter — Aviary
13. DJ Healer — Nothing 2 Loose
14. Channel Tres — Channel Tres
15. Cindy Lee — Model Express
16. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
17. Mr Twin Sister — Salt
18. Tierra Whack — Whack World
19. Sun June — Years
20. Playboi Carti — Die Lit
21. The Samps — Breakfast
22. Smerz — Have fun
23. Lena Raine — Celeste Soundtrack
24. Nu Guinea — Nuova Napoli
25. Beach House — 7
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The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2018
1. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
2. Tirzah — Devotion
3. Sophie — Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
4. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
5. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
6. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
7. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
8. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
9. Let's Eat Grandma — I'm All Ears
10. Gia Margaret — There's Always Glimmer
11. Shame — Songs of Praise
12. Brockhampton — iridescence
13. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
14. Christine and the Queens — Chris
15. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
16. Sons of Kemet — Your Queen is a Reptile
17. Robyn — Honey
18. Low — Double Negative
19. Jorja Smith — Lost & Found
20. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
21. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
22. Snail Mail — Lush
23. Nao — Saturn
24. Tomberlin — At Weddings
25. The Internet — Hive Mind
26. Troye Sivan — Bloom
27. Kids See Ghosts — KIDS SEE GHOSTS
28. Hinds — I Don't Run
29. Amen Dunes — Freedom
30. Soccer Mommy — Clean
31. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
32. 6LACK — East Atlanta Love Letter
33. Pale Waves — My Mind Makes Noises
34. Years & Years — Palo Santo
35. boygenius — boygenius EP
36. Dream Wife — Dream Wife
37. Ólafur Arnalds — re:member
38. Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
39. Neko Case — Hell-On
40. Noname — Room 25
41. AURORA — Infections Of A Different Kind — Step I
42. How to Dress Well — The Anteroom
43. John Coltrane — Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
44. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
45. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
46. Tove Styrke — Sway
47. Gaika — Basic Volume
48. Lucy Dacus — Historian
49. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
50. David Byrne — American Utopia
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Q Magazine: The Top 50 Albums of 2018
1. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2. Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
3. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Robyn — Honey
5. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
6. Christine and the Queens — Chris
7. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
8. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
9. Paul Weller — True Meanings
10. Anna Calvi — Hunter
11. Interpol — Marauder
12. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
13. Gruff Rhys — Babelsberg
14. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
15. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
16. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
17. Ty Segall — Freedom’s Goblin
18. DJ Koze — Knock Knock
19. Pusha T — Daytona
20. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
21. Low — Double Negative
22. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
23. Tracey Thorn — Record
24. Elvis Costello & The Imposters — Look Now
25. Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
26. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
27. Daniel Avery — Song for Alpha
28. Neko Case — Hell-On
29. Gaz Coombes — World’s Strongest Man
30. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
31. Florence + The Machine — High As Hope
32. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
33. Shame — Songs of Praise
34. Go-Kart Mozart — Mozart’s Mini-Mart
35. Julia Holter — Aviary
36. Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound
37. Beach House — 7
38. Bill Ryder-Jones — Yawn
39. Cat Power — Wanderer
40. Kids See Ghosts — Kids See Ghosts
41. Lykke Li — so sad so sexy
42. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
43. Everything Is Recorded — Everything Is Recorded
44. Panic! At the Disco — Pray For the Wicked
45. Mac Miller — Swimming
46. Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy
47. The Good, the Bad & the Queen — Merrie Land
48. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
49. Manic Street Preachers — Resistance Is Futile
50. The Orielles — Silver Dollar Moment
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Echoes And Dust
1. Throw Down Bones — Two
2. GoGo Penguin — Humdrum Star
3. Band Whose Name Is A Symbol — Droneverdose
4. The Final Age — s/t
5. Submotion Orchestra — Kites
6. Estuary Blacks — s/t
7. Psychic Lemon — Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay
8. Hundred Year Old Man — Breaching
9. Mien — s/t
10. Emma Ruth Rundle — On Dark Horses
11. Vodun — Ascend
12. Les Big Byrd — Iran Iraq Ikea
13. Cave — Allways
14. Anna Calvi — Hunter
15. Medicine Boy — Lower
16. Movement of Static — Naegleria
17. Pijn — Loss
18. Mythic Sunship — Another Shape of Psychedelic Music
19. Ah! Kosmos — Beautiful Swamp
20. The Oscillation — Wasted Space
21. Beak — >>>
22. InFictions — Vanity Project
23. Public Memory — Demolition
24. Bong Ra — Antediluvian
25. The Ocean — Phanerozoic
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Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2018
1. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
2. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
3. boygenius — boygenius
4. Low — Double Negative
5. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
6. Beach House — 7
7. Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
8. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
9. Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
10. Julia Holter — Aviary
11. Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
12. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
13. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
14. Lump — Lump
15. Natalie Prass — The Future and the Past
16. Loma — Loma
17. MGMT — Little Dark Age
18. Let’s Eat Grandma — I’m All Ears
19. Wild Nothing — Indigo
20. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
21. John Grant — Love is Magic
22. Tracyanne & Danny — Tracyanne & Danny
23. Wye Oak — The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
24. Mount Eerie — Now Only
25. Snail Mail — Lush
26. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
27. Caroline Rose — LONER
28. Gaz Coombes — World’s Strongest Man
29. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
30. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
31. Shame — Songs of Praise
32. Christine and the Queens — Chris
33. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
34. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
35. Soccer Mommy — Clean
36. Hatchie — Sugar & Spice
37. Gwenno — Le Kov
38. Phosphorescent — C’est La Vie
39. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
40. Iceage — Beyondless
41. Ought — Room Inside the World
42. Anna Calvi — Hunter
43. Lucy Dacus — Historian
44. Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
45. Neneh Cherry — Broken Politics
46. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat — Riddles
47. Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On
48. Gruff Rhys — Babelsberg
49. Ezra Furman — Transangelic Exodus
50. Superorganism — Superorganism
51. Belle and Sebastian — How to Solve Our Human Problems
52. Noname — Room 25
53. Marlon Williams — Make Way for Love
54. Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
55. Amen Dunes — Freedom
56. Nils Frahm — All Melody
57. Florence + The Machine — High As Hope
58. Jeff Rosenstock — Post-
59. Still Corners — Slow Air
60. Franz Ferdinand — Always Ascending
61. Tune-Yards — I can feel you creep into my private life
62. The Good, the Bad & the Queen — Merrie Land
63. Neko Case — Hell-On
64. Lala Lala — The Lamb
65. Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
66. Black Belt Eagle Scout — Mother of My Children
67. serpentwithfeet — soil
68. Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Sex & Food
69. Robyn — Honey
70. Ryley Walker — Deafman Glance
71. Mastersystem — Dance Music
72. Beak> — >>>
73. Madeline Kenney — Perfect Shapes
74. Jess Williamson — Cosmic Wink
75. Moonface — This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet
76. Cat Power — Wanderer
77. Flasher — Constant Image
78. Field Music — Open Here
79. Suede — The Blue Hour
80. Frontperson — Frontrunner
81. Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound
82. Parcels — Parcels
83. Hop Along — Bark Your Head Off, Dog
84. Anna von Hausswolff — Dead Magic
85. Thom Yorke — Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
86. We Were Promised Jetpacks — The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
87. Chvrches — Love Is Dead
88. of Montreal — White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood
89. Young Jesus — The Whole Thing Is Just There
90. Melody’s Echo Chamber — Bon Voyage
91. Jaakko Eino Kalevi — Out of Touch
92. The Goon Sax — We’re Not Talking
93. Anna Burch — Quit the Curse
94. Django Django — Marble Skies
95. Goat Girl — Goat Girl
96. Tim Hecker — Konoyo
97. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
98. The Beths — Future Me Hates Me
99. Tunng — Songs You Make at Night
100. Villagers — The Art of Pretending to Swim
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PopMatters: The 10 Best Ambient/Instrumental Albums of 2018
1. Sam Wilkes — Wilkes
2. Gigi Masin — Kite
3. Suss — Ghost Box [Expanded]
4. Lubomyr Melnyk — Fallen Trees
5. Warmth — Parallel
6. Mary Lattimore — Hundreds of Days
7. Topdown Dialectic — Topdown Dialectic
8. M. Geddes Gengras — Light Pipe
9. Mansur Brown — Shiroi
10. Simian Mobile Disco — Murmurations
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PopMatters: The Best Shoegaze and Dream Pop of 2018
1. Beach House — 7
2. Film School — Bright to Death
3. Lowtide — Southern Mind
4. MINT FIELD — Pasar de las Luces
5. Spesh — Famous World
6. The Daysleepers — Creation
7. Wild Nothing — Indigo
8. Waveless — As One More Folded Paper Crane
9. Tanukichan — Sundays
10. In Her Eye — Change
11. Echo Ladies — Pink Noise
12. Soft Science — Maps
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Resident Advisor: 2018's Best Albums
1. Autechre — NTS Sessions 1-4
2. Julia Holter — Aviary
3. Fatima — And Yet It's All Love
4. Leon Vynehall — Nothing Is Still
5. Lucrecia Dalt — Anticlines
6. Various Artists — 15 Years of The Bunker New York
7. Varg (Jonas Rönnberg) — Nordic Flora Series Pt.5: Crush
8. Sarah Davachi — Gave In Rest
9. Nina Kraviz — VA: Don’t You Mess with Cupid, 'cause Cupid Ain’t Stupid
10. Robyn (Robin Carlsson) — Honey
11. serpentwithfeet (Josiah Wise) — soil
12. Christoph De Babalon — If You're Into It I'm Out of It
13. Demdike Stare — Passion
14. Anthony Naples — Take Me With You
15. Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) — Autobiography
16. Silvia Kastel — Air Lows
17. Martyn (Martijn Deijkers) — Voids
18. Pendant (Brian Leeds aka Huerco S) — Make Me Know You Sweet
19. Yves Tumor (Sean Bowie) — Safe in the Hands of Love
20. Surgeon (Anthony Child) — Luminosity Device
21. Grouper (Liz Harris) — Grid of Points
22. DJ Healer (Traumprinz) [anon] — Nothing 2 Loose
23. Prime Minister of Doom (DJ Healer) [anon] — Mudshadow Propaganda
24. Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
25. De Leon [anon]— De Leon
26. Blawan (Jamie Roberts) — Wet Will Always Dry
27. Sophie [Xeon] (Samuel Long) — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
28. Hunee (Hun Choi) — Hunchin' All Night
29. DJ Koze (Stefan Kozalla) — Knock Knock
30. Tirzah (Tirzah Mastin) — Devotion
31. Shinichi Atobe — Heat
32. Specter (Andres Ordonez) — Built to Last
33. Objekt (Timothy Hertz) — Cocoon Crush
34. Borusiade (Miruna Boruzescu) — A Body
35. JK Flesh (Justin Broadrick) — New Horizon
36. Tim Hecker — Konoyo
37. Various Artists — Kulør 001 [Copenhagen techno]
38. Deena Abdelwahed — Khonnar
39. HVL (Gigi Jikia) — Ostati
40. Skee Mask (Bryan Müller) — Compro
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можно заметить немало широко известных в узких кругах субъектов: Autechre, Grouper, Julia Holter, Sarah Davachi, Robyn, Marie Davidson, Sophie, Jlin, Objekt, Hecker, Demdike Stare, DJ Koze, или очередную компиляцию от Nina Kraviz в первой 10-ке — Biogen, он же Sigurbjörn Þórgrímsson именно оттуда,
внезапно у них засветился и Justin K Broadrick (Jesu / Godflesh / Napalm Death),
есть и парочка совершенно анонимных персонажей (и это в наши-то дни): DJ Healer (он же Prime Minister of Doom, он же Traumprinz) с загадочного лейбла Giegling, а также некий De Leon и все они из Германии, совпадение? #highlylikely да!
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Pitchfork: The Best Electronic Music of 2018 (alphabetically)
Against All Logic — 2012–2017
Aphex Twin — T69 Collapse
Bambounou — VVVVV (represented by Parametr Perkusja)
Beta Librae — Sanguine Bond
Ciel — Hundred Flowers
DJ Healer — Nothing 2 Loose
DJ Koze — knock knock
DJ Nigga Fox — Crânio
Eris Drew & Octo Octa — Devotion
Gacha Bakradze — Word Color
Helena Hauff — Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg (represented by Qualm)
Jon Hopkins — Singularity
Loidis — A Parade, in the Place I Sit, the Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)
Machine Woman — Residency Tape 2: Machine Woman
Mr. Fingers — Cerebral Hemispheres
Objekt — Cocoon Crush
Overmono — Whities 019
Pavel Milyakov — Eastern Strike
Peggy Gou — It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
RAMZi — Phobiza "Amor Fati": Vol. 3
Rezzett — Rezzett LP
rRoxymore — Thoughts of an Introvert Part 2
Skee Mask — Compro
Slikback — Lasakaneku
SMX / Koehler — (Whities Blue 02)
Sophie — Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
тпсб — Sekundenschlaf
Topdown Dialectic — Topdown Dialectic
Yaeji — One More
они всё-таки не включили пластинку Kate NV, несмотря на позитивную рецензию и оценку 8.1, но отметили релиз Pavel Milyakov — Eastern Strike,
и ещё один привет из России: тпсб — Sekundenschlaf, это Фёдор Серволенко (Fedor Servolenko from a little town in west Russia),
Mr. Fingers совсем недавно отыграл на Present Perfect 2018, Helena Hauff можно было заценить на PPF2016,
интересно, что «Гопкинс мой друг, по имени Самба» в смысле Jon Hopkins, играл и на Primavera Sound 2018,2015, и на Flow 2017,2014 — но я их пропустил, мало того, в начале карьеры его затащили на SKIF-2010 (где я был, но только в первый день с Dat Politics и Circle) — кажется так и не видел его.
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Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018
1. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
2. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
3. Lolina — The Smoke
4. Charli XCX — Pop 2
5. Tirzah — Devotion
6. Elysia Crampton — Elysia Crampton
7. Low — Double Negative
8. Pusha T — Daytona
9. Grouper — Grid of Points
10. Shygirl — Cruel Practice
11. Eli Keszler — Stadium
12. Julia Holter — Aviary
13. Mount Eerie — Now Only
14. Pendant — Make Me Know You Sweet
15. Bamba Pana — Poaa
16. Playboi Carti — Die Lit
17. Barrio Sur — बड़ा शोक (heart break)
18. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
19. Amnesia Scanner — Another Life
20. serpentwithfeet — soil
21. Tim Hecker — Konoyo
22. RP Boo — I'll Tell You What!
23. Kanye West — ye
24. Eartheater — IRISIRI
25. Tierra Whack — Whack World
26. The Caretaker — Everywhere At The End Of Time — Stage 4
27. Simple Affections — Simple Affections
28. Fire-Toolz — Skinless X-1
29. DJ Healer — Nothing 2 Loose
30. [tie] Prime Minister of Doom — Mudshadow Propaganda
31. Klein — CC
32. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
33. Armand Hammer — Paraffin
34. Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood
35. Sarah Davachi — Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
36. Seth Graham — Gasp
37. Teyana Taylor — K.T.S.E.
38. Beach House — 7
39. Roc Marciano — Behold a Dark Horse
40. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
41. Perfume — Future Pop
42. Delroy Edwards — Rio Grande
43. Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto — Everyone Needs A Plan
44. Hermit and the Recluse — Orpheus vs. The Sirens
45. Jeff Witscher — Approximately 1,000 Beers
46. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
47. Gas — Rausch
48. JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
49. Amen Dunes — Freedom
50. Satoshi Nakamoto — dOPENet [NYPD Records Volume 2]
51. Sheck Wes — Mudboy
внезапно в первой тройке Lolina (Alina Astrova, она же Inga Copeland), а Sophie параллельно продюсирует Charli XCX.
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PopMatters: The 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2018
многие в этом году отметили финов Amnesia Scanner, которые совсем недавно играли в СПб на Электромеханике 2018, Daniel Avery приезжал на PPF2017, Objekt засветился на Present Perfect 2018.
1. George FitzGerald — All That Must Be
2. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
3. Rival Consoles — Persona
4. Elysia Crampton — Elysia Crampton
5. Vessel — Queen of Golden Dogs
6. Amnesia Scanner — Another Life
7. Lotic — Power
8. Ital Tek — Bodied
9. Maribou State — Kingdoms In Colour
10. DJ Koze — Knock Knock
11. Objekt — Cocoon Crush
12. Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
13. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
14. Kelly Moran — Ultraviolet
15. Okzharp & Manthe Ribane — Closer Apart
16. Helena Hauff — Qualm
17. Eartheater — IRISIRI
18. Proc Fiskal — Insula
19. Inja — Blank Pages
20. Tim Hecker — Konoyo
21. RP Boo — I'll Tell You What!
22. Gas — Rausch
23. Mefjus — Manifest
24. Daniel Avery — Song For Alpha
25. Great Dane — Gamma Ray
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XLR8R's Best of 2018: Releases (alphabetically)
Albrecht La'Brooy — Tidal River
Aphex Twin — Collapse EP
Autechre — NTS Sessions 1-4
Barker — Debiasing
Bruce — Sonder Somatic
Christina Vantzou — No. 4
DJ Healer — Nothing 2 Loose
DJ Koze — Knock Knock
Djrum — Portrait With Firewood
Farai — Rebirth
Francis Harris — Trivial Occupations
Gacha Bakradze — Word Color
Jon Hopkins — Singularity
Kasper Bjørke — The Fifty Eleven Project
Low — Double Negative
Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
Mary Lattimore — Hundreds of Days
Mutant Beat Dance — Mutant Beat Dance
Nils Frahm — All Melody
Objekt — Cocoon Crush
Raime — Am I Using Content Or Is Content Using Me?
Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program — Stargate Music
Rival Consoles — Persona
SIT — Invisibility
Skee Mask — Compro
Sophie — Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Space Afrika — Somewhere Decent To Live
The Caretaker — Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 4, 5
The Field — Infinite Moment
Various — XLR8R+003
Various — 15 Years Of The Bunker
Various — In Death's Dream Kingdom
William Basinski + Lawrence English — Selva Oscura
Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
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Irregular Crates: Best Albums Of 2018
1. Ólafur Arnalds — re:member
2. Ian Hawgood — 光
3. James Stephen Finn — Three Months
4. Ben Howard — Noonday Dream
5. Magnétophonique — Une Cartographie Idéale
6. Grouper — Grid of Points
7. Luis Miehlich — Silences
8. Federico Durand — Pequeñas Melodías
9. Luton — Black Box Animals
10. The Gentleman Losers — Make We Here Our Camp of Winter
11. Snorri Hallgrímsson — Orbit
12. Northerner — End Of The Holiday
13. The Green Kingdom — Seen and Unseen
14. Max Ananyev — Water Atlas
15. Gavin Miller — Meander Scars
16. Shuta Yasukochi — Leaving
17. Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott — Shape Memory
18. Endless Melancholy — Fragments of Scattered Whispers
19. Taylor Deupree — Fallen
20. Mansur Brown — Shiroi
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DJ Mag's Top 50 Albums of 2018
1. Sophie — Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
2. Skee Mask - Compro
3. Pariah - Here From Where We Are
4. Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart
5. Blocks & Escher - Something Blue
6. Shlømo - Mercurial Skin
7. Martyn - Voids
8. Helena Hauff - Qualm
9. Djrum - Portrait With Firewood
10. Max Cooper - One Hundred Billion Sparks
11. Objekt - Cocoon Crush
12. Lotic - Power
13. Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar
14. Jensen Interceptor - Mother
15. Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
16. Russell E.L. Butler - The Home I'd Build For Myself And All My Friends
17. Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry
18. Nils Frahm - All Melody
19. Bruce - Sonder Somatic
20. Clouds - Heavy The Eclipse
21. Aïsha Devi - DNA Feelings
22. Surgeon - Luminosity Device
23. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
24. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
25. Etch - Ups & Downs
26. Wen - EPHEM:ERA
27. Demdike Stare - Passion
28. Mariel Ito - 2000-2005
29. Gábor Lázár - Unfold
30. Bliss Signal - Bliss Signal
31. Jlin - Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor's Autobiography)
32. Kamaal Williams - The Return
33. Appleblim - Life in a Laser
34. Mr. Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
35. EOD - Named
36. Ital Tek - Bodied
37. Ivy Lab - Death Don't Always Taste Good
38. The Mover - Undetected Act From the Gloom Chamber
39. Marquis Hawkes - The Marquis of Hawkes
40. dBridge - A Love I Can't Explain
41. Orbital - Monsters Exist
42. Big Miz - Build / Destroy
43. Cult Of The Damned - Part Deux: Brick Pelican Posse Crew Gang Syndicate
44. Peder Mannerfelt - Daily Routine
45. Miss Red - K.O.
46. Silvia Kastel - Air Lows
47. Chris Liebing - Burn Slow
48. Dax J - Offending Public Morality
49. D Double E - Jackuum
50. Eli Escobar - Shout
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и наконец, Wire: Electronics
из всего вышеизложенного эти прекрасные люди отобрали в свой Electronics Top только 6 релизов, хаха, Lucrecia Dalt только что отыграла в СПб Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) приезжал к нам 🚀 ещё в 2011 и тоже на Электромеханику — кто там был тот я
«Sophie» долго работала в тени, с парой людей типа Charli XCX, или Vince Staples в Big Fish Theory, плюс пара хитов (Hot Pink и It's Not Just Me) для модных Let's Eat Grandma тоже её рук дело.
1. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
2. Lucrecia Dalt — Anticlines
3. Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
4. felicita — hej!
5. Iku — Body Horror
6. Chunyin — Pseudo Promitto
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arcticdrones: Post-Rock & Post-Metal: The 50 Best Releases Of 2018
1. A Film In Color — They March in Endless Circles
2. Autumn Creatures — Funeral Garden
3. Cataya — Firn
4. Crippled Black Phoenix — Great Escape
5. Epic45 — Through Broken Summer
6. Hundred Year Old Man — Breaching
7. Ingrina — Etter Lys
8. ISON — Andromeda Skyline
9. Jyocho — the beautiful cycle of terminal
10. Kaschalot — Whale Songs
11. Mass Culture — Primal | Ephemeral
12. Minsk & Zatokrev — Bigod
13. Respire — Dénouement
14. Sinistro — Sangue cássia
15. Soldat Hans — Es Taut
16. Sonance — To Possess You Entirely
17. The Ocean — Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
18. Toundra — Vortex
19. Trna — Earthcult
20. world's end girlfriend — MEGURI
21. 1099 — Blindpassasjer
22. Below A Silent Sky — A View From Afar
23. Bound — No Beyond
24. Celestial Wolves — Call Of The Void
25. Degree of Arc — Raptures
26. El Ten Eleven — Banker's Hill
27. Feed Me To The Waves — Before This Wilderness Consumes Us
28. God Is an Astronaut — Epitaph
29. Hammock — Universalis
30. Holy Fawn — Death Spells
31. Hyedra — Hyedra
32. Kiova — An End In Motion
33. le_mol — Heads Heads Heads
34. Locomotora — Vuodet, vuoret
35. Long Distance Calling — Boundless
36. Modsdive — Four Wet Hands
37. Movement Of Static — Naegleria
38. Ocean Districts — Doomtowns
39. Pleiades(昴宿) — 致未來 For the future
40. Raum Kingdom — Everything & Nothing
41. Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet — II
42. Winterlight — The Longest Sleep Through the Darkest Days
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bandcamp: The Best Metal Albums of 2018
1. Ails — The Unraveling
2. Evoken — Hypnagogia
3. Fister — No Spirit Within
4. Haunt — Haunt
5. Horrendous — Idol
6. Judicator — The Last Emperor
7. Mournful Congregation — The Incubus of Karma
8. Panegyrist — Hierurgy
9. Panopticon — The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I and II
10. Portal — ION
11. Summoning — With Doom We Come
12. Tomb Mold — Manor of Infinite Forms
13. Varathron — Patriarchs of Evil
14. Visigoth — Conqueror's Oath
15. Windhand — Eternal Return
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CVLT Nation’s top 10 avant-garde releases of 2018
1. Barst — The Endeavour
2. Hide — Castration Anxiety
3. Joe Cardamone — The Holy War
4. Mirrors For Psychic Warfare — I See What I Became
5. Miserable — Loverboy / Dog Days
6. Silent Servant — Shadows Of Death And Desire
7. Tårne Spirer — Varmblod
8. Statiqbloom — Ersatz Gaze
9. Nothing — Dance On The Blacktop
10. Insect Ark — Marrow Hymns
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CVLT Nation’s top sludge releases of 2018
1. Thou — Magnus
2. Abstracter — Cinereous Incarnate
3. Cult Of Occult — Anti Life
4. Moloch — A Bad Place
5. Fister — No Spirit Within
6. Leechfeast — Neon Crosses
7. Dopethrone — Transcanadian Anger
8. Brainoil — Singularity To Extinction
9. Forn — Rites Of Despair
10. Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean — I Carry My Awareness Of Defeat Like A Banner Of Victory
11. Body Void — I Live Inside A Burning House
12. Yarrow — Rebirth
13. Oryx — Stolen Absolution
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CVLT Nation’s top 15 death metal releases of 2018
1. Dakhma — Hamkar Atonement
2. Obliteration — Cenotaph Obscure
3. Petrification — Hollow Of The Void
4. Our Place Of Worship Is Silence — With Inexorable Suffering
5. Torture Rack — Malefic Humiliation
6. Ritual Necromancy — Disinterred Horror
7. Of Feather And Bone — Bestial Hymns Of Perversion
8. Abyssous — Mesa
9. Act Of Impalement — Perdition Cult
10. Nosse Rot — The Creeping Unknown
11. Tomb Mold — Manor Of Infinite Forms
12. Question — S/T
13. Genocide Pact — Order Of Torment
14. Siege Column — Inferno Deathpassion
15. Legion Of Andromeda — Fistful Of Hate
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CVLT Nation’s top 13 black death releases of 2018
1. Knelt Rote — Alterity
2. Infernal Coil — Within A World Forgotten
3. Cult Of Extinction — Black Nuclear Magick Attack
4. Malthusian — Across Deaths
5. Vessel Of Iniquity — S/T
6. Dagger Lust — Siege Bondage Adverse To The Godhead
7. Serum Dreg — Lustful Vengeance
8. Hissing — Permanent Destitution
9. Temple Desecration — Whirlwinds Of Fathomless Chaos
10. Psyche — Een Pathologie Van De Geneesheer
11. Valdrin — Two Carrion Talismans
12. Dearth — Of Martyrdom And Polluted Faith
13. Necroracle — MMXVIII
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CVLT Nation’s top 15 black metal releases of 2018
1. Gevurah — Sulphur Soul
2. Craft — White Noise And Black Metal
3. Spectral Wound — Infernal Decadence
4. Wiegedood — III
5. Solar Temple — Fertile Descent
6. Slavehouse — Taste In Pain
7. Nyredolk — Demo
8. Hwwauoch — Hwwauoch
9. Pa Vesh En — Church Of Bones
10. Negativa — 03
11. Serpents Lair — Perpetual Hunger By
12. Rites Of Thy Degringolade — The Blade Philosophical
13. Vilkacis — Beyond The Mortal Gate
14. Svartidauði — Revelations Of The Red Sword
15. Ultha — The Inextricable Wandering
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CVLT Nation’s top 13 doom releases of 2018
1. Drug Cult — S/T
2. Windhand — Eternal Return
3. Bongripper — Terminal
4. Huata — Lux Initiatrix Terrae
5. Beastmaker — EP's
6. Potion — Women Of The Wand
7. Cloven — Blackened Wings
8. Bismuth — The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef
9. Bong — Thought And Existence
10. Ommadon — End Times
11. Domkraft — Flood
12. Hipoxia — Ruinae Ira, Creans Ruina Eo Tempore Est Monumentum Ab Khaos II
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CVLT Nation’s top hardcore punk releases of 2018
1. Cadaver Dog — Dying Breed
2. Suburbanite — S/T
3. Warthog — S/T
4. Vile Gash — Nightmare In A Damaged Brain
5. Krimewatch — S/T
6. Blood Pressure — Surrounded
7. Skeleton — Pyramid Of Skull
8. Rashōmon — 病原菌X “Pathogen X”
9. Lace — Human Condition
10. Zodd — Operationally Ready Dead
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CVLT Nation’s top post-punk releases of 2018
1. Actors — It Will Come To You
2. Deth Crux — Mutant Flesh
3. Temple Of Angels — Foiled
4. Modern Heaven — Midnight Cowboy
5. Soft Kill — Savior
6. Wax Idols — Happy Ending
7. Primitive Knot — Decanting The Dream-Gore
8. Srsq — Unreality
9. Buzz Kull — New Kind Of Cross
10. Lié — Hounds
11. Trashlight — Honey Insulation
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CVLT Nation’s 2018 albums of the year
1. Mammoth Grinder — Cosmic Crypt
2. Death Karma — The History Of Death & Burial Rituals Part II
3. Tribulation — Down Below
4. City Hunter — Deep Blood
5. Megaton Leviathan — Mage
6. Sumac — Love In Shadow
7. Yob — Our Raw Heart
8. Chrch — Light Will Consume Us All
9. Dark Buddha Rising — II
10. B (Bert Libeert), Chve, Syndrome — Reworks
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Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2018
1. Yob — Our Raw Heart
2. Tribulation — Down Below
3. Uada — Cult Of A Dying Sun
4. Evoken — Hypnagogia
5. Judas Priest — Firepower
6. Skeletonwitch — Devouring Radiant Light
7. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats — Wasteland
8. Immortal — Northern Chaos Gods
9. Khemmis — Desolation
10. Pig Destroyer — Head Cage
11. At The Gates — To Drink from the Night Itself
12. Haunt — Burst Into Flames
13. Voïvod — The Wake
14. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
15. Chapel Of Disease — …And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye
16. Satan — Cruel Magic
17. Tomb Mold — Manor Of Infinite Forms
18. The Atlas Moth — Coma Noir
19. Varathron — Patriarchs Of Evil
20. Outer Heaven — Realms Of Eternal Decay
21. Funeral Mist — Hekatomb
22. Sleep — The Sciences
23. Mournful Congregation — The Incubus Of Karma
24. Portal — Ion
25. Mortuous — Through Wilderness
26. Visigoth — Conqueror’s Oath
27. Abhorrence — Megalohydrothalassophobic
28. Horrendous — Idol
29. Svalbard — It’s Hard To Have Hope
30. Sepulcher — Panoptic Horror
31. Corrosion Of Conformity — No Cross No Crown
32. Devouring Star — The Arteries Of Heresy
33. Zeal And Ardor — Stranger Fruit
34. Thou — Magus
35. Wake — Misery Rites
36. Monster Magnet — Mindfucker
37. KEN mode — Loved
38. Cosmic Church — Tattymys
39. Hate Eternal — Upon Desolate Sands
40. Panopticon — The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness I And II
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Rolling Stone: 20 Best Metal Albums of 2018
1. Sleep — The Sciences
2. Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
3. Judas Priest — Firepower
4. Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway — Dictator
5. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
6. Vein — Errorzone
7. Immortal — Northern Chaos Gods
8. Voïvod — The Wake
9. Turnstile — Time & Space
10. Uniform — The Long Walk
11. Haunt — Burst Into Flames
12. Windhand — Eternal Return
13. Portal — Ion
14. Yob — Our Raw Heart
15. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
16. Tomb Mold — Manor of Infinite Forms
17. Frontierer — Unloved
18. At The Gates — To Drink From The Night Itself
19. Deceased — Ghostly White
20. The Armed — Only Love
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Consequence of Sound: Top 25 Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2018
1. Yob — Our Raw Heart
2. Behemoth — I Loved You at Your Darkest
3. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
4. Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
5. Judas Priest — Firepower
6. Sleep — The Sciences
7. Turnstile — Time & Space
8. Voïvod — The Wake
9. Vein — Errorzone
10. Ghost — Prequelle
11. Zeal and Ardor — Stranger Fruit
12. Khemmis — Desolation
13. A Perfect Circle — Eat the Elephant
14. Amigo the Devil — Everything is Fine
15. Tribulation — Down Below
16. Halestorm — Vicious
17. Monotheist — Scourge
18. Windhand — Eternal Return
19. Cult Leader — A Patient Man
20. High on Fire — Electric Messiah
21. Ministry — AmeriKKKant
22. Mammoth Grinder — Cosmic Crypt
23. Clutch — Book of Bad Decisions
24. Portal — Ion
25. Pig Destroyer — Head Cage
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PopMatters: The Best Metal of 2018
1. Yob — Our Raw Heart
2. Sumac — Love in Shadow
3. Mournful Congregation — The Incubus of Karma
4. Slugdge — Esoteric Malacology
5. Tomb Mold — Manor of Infinite Forms
6. Sleep — The Sciences
7. Chaos Echoes — Mouvement
8. Agrimonia — Awaken
9. Boss Keloid — Melted On the Inch
10. Pig Destroyer — Head Cage
11. Horrendous — Idol
12. Imperial Triumphant — Vile Luxury
13. Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
14. Tribulation — Down Below
15. Ghost — Prequelle
16. Portal — Ion
17. Slaves BC — Lo, and I Am Burning
18. Skeletonwitch — Devouring Radiant Light
19. Thou — Magus
20. Vein — Errorzone
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PopMatters: The Best Progressive Rock/Metal of 2018
1. Between the Buried and Me — Automata I,II
2. Amorphis — Queen of Time
3. Phideaux — Infernal
4. Horrendous — Idol
5. Riverside — Wasteland
6. Haken — Vector
7. Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly — Friendship
8. Gazpacho — Soyuz
9. Kevin Hufnagel — Messages to the Past
10. Voïvod — The Wake
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Kerrang! The 50 Albums That Shook 2018
1. Turnstile — Time & Space
2. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
3. Architects — Holy Hell
4. A Perfect Circle — Eat the Elephant
5. Ghost — Prequelle
6. Nothing — Dance on the Blacktop
7. Culture Abuse — Bay Dream
8. Behemoth — I Loved You at Your Darkest
9. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
10. Rolo Tomassi — Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
11. Judas Priest — Firepower
12. The Xcerts — Hold on to Your Heart
13. Marmozets — Knowing What You Know Now
14. Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
15. Svalbard — It's Hard To Have Hope
16. Drug Church — Cheer
17. Møl — JORD
18. Alice in Chains — Rainier Fog
19. Conjurer — Mire
20. Clutch — Book of Bad Decisions
21. Twenty One Pilots — Trench
22. Alkaline Trio — Is This Thing Cursed?
23. The Interrupters — Fight the Good Fight
24. Single Mothers — Through a Wall
25. Carpenter Brut — Leather Teeth
26. Trophy Eyes — The American Dream
27. Parkway Drive — Reverence
28. Tiny Moving Parts — Swell
29. Panic! at the Disco — Pray For The Wicked
30. Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
31. Greta Van Fleet — Anthem of the Peaceful Army
32. Pagan — Black Wash
33. Don Broco — Technology
34. The Struts — YOUNG & DANGEROUS
35. Fall Out Boy — M A N I A
36. Joyce Manor — Million Dollars to Kill Me
37. Thrice — Palms
38. High on Fire — Electric Messiah
39. Mike Shinoda — Post Traumatic
40. You Me At Six — VI
41. The Smashing Pumpkins — Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
42. Boston Manor — Welcome to the Neighbourhood
43. Muse — Simulation Theory
44. Vein — Errorzone
45. The Dirty Nil — Master Volume
46. The Story So Far — Proper Dose
47. Slash — Living the Dream
48. The Black Queen — Infinite Games
49. Brian Fallon — Sleepwalkers
50. Can't Swim — This Too Won't Pass
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The A.V. Club: The best metal albums of 2018
1. Churchburn — None Shall Live... The Hymns of Misery
2. High on Fire — Electric Messiah
3. Mammoth Grinder — Cosmic Crypt
4. Primal Rite — Dirge of Escapism
5. Skeletonwitch — Devouring Radiant Light
6. Slugdge — Esoteric Malacology
7. Thou — Magus
8. Tomb Mold — Manor of Infinite Forms
9. Windhand — Eternal Return
10. Zeal & Ardor — Stranger Fruit
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Anicon — Entropy Mantra
The Body — I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer
Bone Sickness — Theater of Morbidity
Bosse-de-Nage — Further Still
Conjurer — Mire
Glorior Belli — The Apostates
Panopticon — The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I and II
Revocation — The Outer Ones
SUMAC — Love in Shadow
Tribulation — Down Below
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Pitchfork: The Best Metal Albums of 2018 (alphabetically)
The Armed — Only Love
Black Viper — Hellions of Fire
The Body — I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer
Convulsing — Grievous
Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Dödsrit — Spirit Crusher
Ghastly — Death Velour
Horrendous — Idol
Ilsa — Corpse Fortress
Mammoth Grinder — Cosmic Crypt
Pig Destroyer — Head Cage
Portal — ION
Rebel Wizard — Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response
Skeletonwitch — Devouring Radiant Light
Sleep — The Sciences
SUMAC — Love in Shadow
Ragana & Thou — Let Our Names Be Forgotten
Tomb Mold — Manor of Infinite Forms
Vein — Errorzone
Voïvod — The Wake
Yob — Our Raw Heart
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