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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: hutch on December 17, 2018, 08:33:20 pm

Title: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: hutch on December 17, 2018, 08:33:20 pm: 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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Space Freely on December 17, 2018, 09:44:57 pm: 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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: hutch on December 17, 2018, 09:57:29 pm: 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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: bearman🐻 on December 18, 2018, 10:41:45 am: 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...
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 18, 2018, 11:02:40 am: 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"
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 18, 2018, 11:10:50 am: 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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Space Freely on December 18, 2018, 12:27:56 pm: Is anybody secretly wishing for Kilsaly to show up with his list of 85 albums that nobody has heard of?
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Yada on December 18, 2018, 12:43:19 pm: Quote from: Space Freely on December 18, 2018, 12:27:56 pm
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.
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Relaxer on December 18, 2018, 03:04:59 pm: 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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: sweetcell on December 18, 2018, 03:52:31 pm: relaxer is also doing his bit to help us forget killsaly.
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Relaxer on December 18, 2018, 04:06:26 pm: 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!
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: hutch on December 18, 2018, 04:08:30 pm: 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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Relaxer on December 18, 2018, 04:17:28 pm: I love it. It's kind of a more indie/weirdo version of Lana Del Rey.
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Yada on December 18, 2018, 04:19:19 pm: Quote from: Relaxer on December 18, 2018, 04:17:28 pm
I love it. It's kind of a more indie/weirdo version of Lana Del Rey.

And asian!
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on December 18, 2018, 04:30:45 pm: Quote from: Relaxer on December 18, 2018, 04:17:28 pm
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.
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: K8teebug on December 19, 2018, 11:24:51 am: Quote from: hutch on December 18, 2018, 04:08:30 pm
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.
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: shemptiness on December 31, 2018, 10:32:12 am: Best Power Pop Albums of 2018 (http://powerpopnews.com/2018/years-best-power-pop-albums/?fbclid=IwAR1nRFSwPcTSSiu6deguxr6YIbRu72HsvJvq47aB0CON36gb15i-cJNBjHw)

Including The Greenberry Woods and the Post's own Dave Sheinin
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: Space Freely on December 31, 2018, 12:27:16 pm: Quote from: Space Freely on December 17, 2018, 09:44:57 pm
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
Title: Re: Favorite albums of 2018
Post by: hutch on December 31, 2018, 12:28:35 pm: I think I will take the Low album off my list