E2018: another year
you already know what it is. musical releases i liked a lot this year.
with the exception of the Top One™ and the Top Ten™ – the list acts as a sort of “hey i listened to this 2018 release and i liked it”. some i listened to more than others. consider this a selection of good albums released in 2018.
RULE #1: if you like the album art, you must listen to it!!!!!
and if reading album titles and looking at album art isn’t your style, here’s a spotify playlist of a few songs from each. unless the album isn’t on spotify. then go to their bandcamp and listen (and purchase).
to summarize: music is rad
spotify:user:bentosmith:playlist:45tO5yde4xxppkQwySvxgI
Top One™ Album Of The Year
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Panic Blooms (Rad Cult)
This album hit the right spot the most times. I like how goopy it sounds. By far one of my most listened to albums this year. Seeing them live in support of this album added to my appreciation of it. It’s this other-worldly goop mix of sounds. Perfect music to soundtrack melting into couches.
Top Ten™ Albums Of The Year
Altin Gün – On (Bongo Joe)
Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want (Ipecac)
Daysee – Airbag (Self Released)
Halo Maud – Je Suis Une Ile (Heavenly Recordings)
Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage (Fat Possum)
P.H.F. – I Hate Myself (Danger Collective)
Sabiwa – 輪迴 (Chinabot)
Subsonic Eye – Dive Into (Middle Class Cigars)
Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar (Ninja Tune)
The Rest Of The Good 2018 Albums
700 Bliss – Spa 700 (Halcyon Veil)
A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned (Dead Oceans)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Electric Dream Ecstasy (Essence Music)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe (Riot Season)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Sacred And Inviolable Phase Shift (Bam Balam)
Alanis Obomsawin – Bush Lady (Constellation)
Amen Dunes – Freedom (Sacred Bones)
Anna Burch – Quit The Curse (Polyvinyl)
Beach House – 7 (Sub Pop)
Ben Chatwin – Staccato Signals (Village Green)
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Annihilation (INVADA)
Big Blood & Thunder Crutch – Big Blood & Thunder Crutch (Dontrusttheruin Records)
Blank Realm – Last Seen (Hobbies Galore)
The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer (Thrill Jockey)
The Body – O God who avenges, shine forth. Rise up, Judge of the Earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve. (Self-Released)
Bonny Doon – Longwave (Woodsist)
Bummerville – Bottom Feeder (Graveface Records)
Chris Crofton – Hello It’s Me (Arrowhawk)
Closet Goth – Friendship Village (Warped Your)
Cœur De Pirate – En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé (Mercury)
Colin Stetson – Hereditary (Milan)
Curren$y & Freddie Gibbs – Fetti (ESGN)
Death Grips – Year Of The Snitch (Third Worlds)
Deena Abdelwahed – Khoona (InFiné)
Dreamend – Dreamend (Graveface)
En Attendant Ana – Lost And Found (Trouble In Mind)
Eve Maret – No More Running (Banana Tapes)
FAUXE – I K H L A S (Chinabot)
Freddie Gibbs – Freddie (ESGN)
GOAT – Double Date (Rocket Recordings)
GOAT – Let It Burn (Rocket)
Grouper – Grid of Points (Kranky)
Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
The Holydrug Couple – Hyper Super Mega (Sacred Bones)
Holy Motors – Slow Sundown (Wharf Cat)
Hookworms – Microshift (Domino)
Iceage – Beyondless (Escho)
JEFF The Brotherhood – Magick Songs (Dine Alone Records)
Jenny Hval – The Long Sleep (Sacred Bones)
Jerusalem In My Heart – Daqa’iq Tudaiq (Constellation)
Jessica Moss – Entanglement (Constellation)
Jon Hopkins – Singularity (Domino)
Jorud – hfhxbajdbndab (Self Released) <- click that
Julia Holter – Aviary (Domino)
Justice – Woman Worldwide (Ed Banger)
Kamaal Williams – The Return (Black Focus Records)
Kelman Duran – 13th Month (Apocalipsis)
Khalab – Black Noise 2084 (On The Corner)
Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo (Night Time Stories)
Kid Dakota – Denervation (Graveface Records)
Landing – Bells In New Towns (El Paraiso Records)
Lawn – Blood On The Tracks (Forged Artifacts)
Low – Double Negative (Sub Pop)
Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman (Ninja Tune)
Mazzy Star – Still (Rhymes of an Hour)
Mind Over Mirrors – Bellowing Sun (Paradise of Bachelors)
Mint Field – Pasar De Las Luces (Innovative Leisure)
Mitski – Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
MUNYA – North Hatley (Self Released)
The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices w/ Lisa Gerrard – BooCheeMish (Prophecy)
NBA Stupida$s – Black Flanders (Self-Released)
NBA Stupida$s – Politics In America (Self-Released)
NBA Stupida$s – French Stewart (Self-Released)
Nils Frahm – All Melody (Erased Tapes)
Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of (Warp)
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – Sauvage Formes (Bongo Joe)
Park Jiha – Communion (Glitterbeat)
Pusha T – Daytona (GOOD Music)
Rafiq Bhatia – Breaking English (ANTI)
Ramuh – Glowing Civilization (Nerve Altar)
Ravyn Lenae – Crush EP (Atlantic)
Resina – Traces (130701)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs (Sub Pop)
Sarah Louise – Deeper Woods (Thrill Jockey)
Senyawa – Sujud (Sublime Frequencies)
Shuta Hasunuma & U-zhaan – 2 Tone (Commmons)
Sneers – Heaven Will Rescue Us, We’re The Scum, We’re in the Sun (God Unknown Records)
Sobs – Telltale Signs (Middle Class Cigars)
Sudan Archives – Sink (Stones Throw)
SUUNS – Felt (Secretly Canadian)
тпсб – Sekundenschlaf (Blackest Ever Black)
Tirzah – Devotion (Domino)
Tourist Kid – Crude Tracer (Melody As Truth)
Tout Bleu – Tout Bleu (Bongo Joe)
Ulrika Spacek – Suggestive Listening EP (Tough Love)
Vince Staples – FM! (Def Jam)
Vive La Void – Vive La Void (Sacred Bones)
William Wright – SALT MASS (Gezellig Records)
Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (Merge)
Zoo Gazer – 動物園釘子戶 (Qiii Snacks)
