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Albums of the Year 2018

This is a little bit of an odd list, mostly because it’s not really a list, I don’t think? In any case:

Top Three - Ezra Furman, Transangelic Exodus - Devotchka, This Night Falls Forever - Zeal and Ardor, Stranger Fruit This list has been pretty well set for a while now, and nothing I’ve heard in the interim has really blown me away like these have. The queer heartache and desperation of Transangelic Exodus was and remains deeply affecting to me, and I’m pretty sure Devotchka released a career-best album in This Night Falls Forever, while Zeal and Ardor really followed through on the promise of 2017′s Devil Is Fine, expanding their musical vision to create a focused, richly-textured album that should have made more AOTY lists than it did.

Stuff I Was Going to Like Anyway - Frank Turner, Be More Kind - Hot Snakes, Jericho Sirens I broke this section out because honestly, there was no way I wasn’t going to like these. Frank Turner’s particular brand of positivity really speaks to me, and turning that lens onto public discourse and the generalized fear and wagon-circling in society was really fucking nice to hear. And Hot Snakes are a fantastic band regardless, and Jericho Sirens was a real jewel in the crown, a mature approach to their characteristic blend of high-energy anxiety and alienation was delightful.

Soundscapes I’m Going To Throw On a Lot While Lying in Bed - Jozef van Wissem, We Adore You, You Have No Name - Ed Harcourt, Beyond the End - This Will Destroy You, New Others Parts I and II Look, sometimes you just want to lie down and feel stuff but not too much stuff, or like get some reading done, and all of these are great for that. Sexy, romantic, and ominous? van Wissem, as ever, has us covered. Melancholy and gorgeously melodic? Ed Harcourt has long been due for a showcase of his musicianship in its own right, free from the constraints of lyricism and pop, and this album really brings that out. Science fiction today? This Will Destroy You provides an excellent soundtrack to whatever space opera you’re gnawing on now (for me it was The Expanse series, but whatever floats your hovercar, man).

Stuff I Didn’t Think I’d Be As Into As I Am - Emma Ruth Rundle, On Dark Horses - Republic of Wolves, Shrine - Princess Nokia, A Girl Cried Red - IDLES, Joy As an Act Of Resistance These ones crept up on me, and in the case of Emma Ruth Rundle, I now know how much I had been blind to her delights. On Dark Horses is the moody, intense album Tori Amos has been trying to make for like 10 years now, and Republic of Wolves offered up Shrine as the perfect antidote to the Brand New withdrawals I’ve been getting with a musically-dense reflection on faith or lack thereof. Princess Nokia got under my skin with her songs of queer desire and alienation on this album, and her snarky, deadpan delivery really did it for me, though I see she just released a new LP, so I guess I should check that out. And IDLES is just fucking fun: a dancey, garagey, postpunk album of nothing but jams about how toxic masculinity is a trap. I’m so glad to have heard these albums, and delighted to dive deeper into the artists they’ve brought to my attention.

Thanks for reading! I really strongly recommend these albums, as anyone who knows me can attest; I have not shut up about most of them for like basically the whole year.

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TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, 2018: (descending order)

1. (Album of the Year) Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer (Alternative R&B)

2. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit (Satanic Black Metal, Soul)

3. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile (Avant-Garde Jazz)

4. Sleep - The Sciences (Stoner Metal, Sludge Metal)

5. Death Grips - Year of the Snitch (Experimental Hip-Hop)

6. Noname - Room 25 (Jazz Rap)

7. Mount Eerie - Now Only (Indie Folk)

8. Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone (Hard Rock)

9. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Spiritual Jazz)

10. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest (Blackened Death Metal)

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Honorable Mentions, 2018:

1. Aphex Twin - Collapse EP (IDM)

2. Kamasi Washington - The Choice EP (Spiritual Jazz)

3. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury (Avant-Garde Metal)

4. Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want (Noise Rock, Industrial Rock)

5. iglooghost - Clear Tamei EP / Steel Mogu EP (Wonky, IDM)

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My Favourite Albums Of 2018

1.Silent Planet - Where The End Begins 2.Underoath - Erase Me 3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry In Online Relationships 4. Limbs - Father’s Son 5. Pusha T - Daytona 6. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts 7. Bad Rabbits - Mimi 8. Kanye West - Ye 9. The Wonder Years -Sister Cities 10. Nothing Nowhere - Ruiner Honourable Mentions:

Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Listener - Being Empty : Being Filled Mxpx - Mxpx Mewithoutyou - [Untitled] We were sharks - Lost Touch Fall Out Boy - M A N I A Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows Senses Fail - If There Is Light, It Will Find You Fit For A King - Dark Skies Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods

Listen to the top 10 here:

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Amikor abbahagytam

a Recorder csinálását, akkor az aktuális szerzői gárdából (STÁÁB) sokan úgy döntöttek, hogy ők is kitesznek egy pontot. Az év lezárásához azért még rutinból összeraktunk egy listát, a szokásos módon. Mindenkitől max. 20 lemez számított (az összesítés alatti egyéni listákon vannak hosszabbak, rövidebbek is). A recorderes évvégi listák szellemében azok az LP-k is bekerültek, amikre csak egy ember szavazott, de nála első lett. Így aztán - mivel amúgy is rendhagyó dolog ez - egy 57-es lemezlistával intünk pát 2018-nak.

Jó böngészést! (keep reading után az egyéni listák, közte az 50 kedvenc 2018-as albumom)

Ex-Recorderesek 2018-as kedvenc lemezei

Végeredmény:

01. Kali Uchis: Isolation 02. Low: Double Negative 03. Yves Tumor: Safe In The Hands Of Love 04. Beach House: 7 05. Rosalía: El mal querer 06. Tirzah: Devotion 07. Pusha T: Daytona 08. Amen Dunes: Freedom 09. Idles: Joy As An Act Of Resistance 10. Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt 11. Mitski: Be The Cowboy 12. Blood Orange: Negro Swan 13. JPEGmafia: Veteran 14. Sons Of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile 15. A.A.L. (Against All Logic): 2012-2017 16. Mount Eerie: Now Only 17. Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel 18. U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited 19. Noname: Room 25 20. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour 21. Kids See Ghosts: Kids See Ghosts 22. Father John Misty: God’s Favourite Customer 23. Robyn: Honey 24. Lotic: Power 25. Jungle: For Ever 26. Marlon Williams: Make Way For Love 27. DJ Healer: Nothing 2 Loose 28. Django Django: Marble Skies 29. Flasher: Constant Image 30. Olden Yolk: Olden Yolk 31. C.A.R.: Pinned 32. Daughters: You Won’t Get What You Want 33. Sophie: Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides 34. Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 35. Rhye: Blood 36. Tropical Fuck Storm: A Laughing Death In Meatspace 37. Aisha Devi: DNA Feelings 38. The Internet: Hive Mind 39. Guerilla Toss: Twisted Crystal 40. Brockhampton: iridescence 41. Snail Mail: Lush 42. Antony Naples: Take Me With You 43. serpentwithfeet: Soil 44. Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs 45. Szabó Benedek és a Galaxisok: Lehet, hogy rólad álmodtam 46. Skee Mask: Compro 47. Shame: Songs Of Praise 48. Fatima: And Yet It’s All Love 49. Sleep: The Sciences 50. Avantdale Bowling Club: Avantdale Bowling Club 51. Nils Frahm: All Melody 52. Sink Ya Teeth: Sink Ya Teeth 53. Drinks: Hippo Lite 54. Matt Maltese: Bad Contestant 55. Black Moth Super Rainbow: Panic Blooms 56. The Growlers: Casual Acquaintances 57. Sex Riders: Sex Riders

95. Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth 94. The Beths: Future Me Hates Me 93. Ariana Grande: Sweetener 92. Kurt Vile: Bottle It In 91. Szabó Benedek és a Galaxisok: Lehet, Hogy Rólad Álmodtam 90. Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning 89. Troye Sivan: Bloom 88. Anna Von Hausswolff: Dead Magic 87. Gas: Rausch 86. Jorja Smith: Lost & Found 85. Sex Riders: Sex Riders 84. The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships 83. Christine and the Queens: Chris 82. Superchunk: What A Time To Be Alive 81. Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy 80. Guerilla Toss: Twisted Crystal 79. Endurance: Shade Terrarium 78. Jeff Tweedy: WARM 77. Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy 76. No Age: Snares Like a Haircut 75. Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! 74. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Hope Downs 73. The Voidz: Virtue 72. Daniel Avery: Song For Alpha 71. Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On 70. Virginia Wing: Ecstatic Arrow 69. Preoccupations: New Material 68. Jon Hopkins: Singularity 67. The Goon Sax: We’re Not Talking 66. Interpol: Marauder 65. The Lemon Twigs: Go To School 64. Kate NV: для FOR 63. Julia Holter: Aviary 62. Flasher: Constant Image 61. Superorganism: Superorganism 60. Snail Mail: Lush 59. High on Fire: Electric Messiah 58. Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams 57. Miya Folick: Premonitions 56. Mark Lanegan: With Animals 55. Matt Maltese: Bad Contestant 54. William Basinski & Lawrence English: Selva Oscura 53. Say Sue Me: Where We Were Together 52. Judas Priest: Firepower 51. Tom Middleton: Sleep Better 50. First Aid Kit: Ruins 49. Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog 48. Tom Middleton: Relax Better 47. Ty Segall: Freedom's Goblin 46. CHVRCHES: Love is Dead 45. Art Brut: Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! 44. Adrianne Lenker: Abysskiss 43. Ben Howard: Noonday Dream 42. Idles: Joy As An Act Of Resistance 41. The Field: Infinite Moment 40. Hinds: I Don't Run 39. Sleep: The Sciences 38. Elvis Costello & The Imposters: Look Now 37. MGMT: Little Dark Age 36. Django Django: Marble Skies 35. Eleanor Friedberger: Rebound 34. Suede: The Blue Hour 33. The Struts: Young & Dangerous 32. Sauna Youth: Deaths 31. Halftribe: For The Summer, Or Forever 30. Elza Soares: Deus É Mulher 29. YOB: Our Raw Heart 28. Natalie Prass: The Future And The Past 27. The Internet: Hive Mind 26. Phosphorescent: C'est La Vie 25. Robyn: Honey 24. Father John Misty: God's Favorite Customer 23. Mitski: Be The Cowboy 22. Soccer Mommy: Clean 21. Frankie Cosmos: Vessel 20. Blood Orange: Negro Swan 19. Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel 18. Gengahr: Where Wilderness Grows 17. Alela Diane: Cusp 16. Sunflower Bean: Twentytwo In Blue 15. Go-Kart Mozart: Mozart’s Mini Mart 14. Public Access T.V.: Street Safari 13. Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt 12. U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited 11. Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks: Sparkle Hard 10. Iceage: Beyondless 09. Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want 08. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour 07. Screaming Females: All At Once 06. Mary Gauthier: Rifles and Rosary Beads 05. Andrew W.K.: You’re Not Alone 04. Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 03. Jeff Rosenstock: Post- 02. Low: Double Negative 01. Kali Uchis: Isolation

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Best of’s will be posted later this evening. As per usual, they will be a slightly different format this year (since I have never had a consistent format). I’m going to post for movies, games, and anime I saw this year (that did not necessarily come out this year) and greatly enjoyed, followed of course by honorable mentions and then my top 10 albums will be posted right before midnight.

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SHIP/SHAPE/AOTY/2018/PART TWO

– A free-form radio experience from A Ship In The Woods –

-- Part two of the SHIP/SHAPE year-end bonanza is live! This episode kicks off with another track from our album of the year--Virginia Wing's brilliant Ecstatic Arrow--followed by 28 perfect nuggets of sound harvested from look.ship's top 80 LPs of 2018. If all goes well, parts three and four will follow within the next few days. Once again, if you're feeling it, you can check out the complete list of our favorite albums of the year here. Hope you all dig it! – Bernie Brooks is the editor-in-chief and bloggist of look.ship. *Everything* he writes or compiles or otherwise makes–or has *ever* written, compiled, or otherwise made–for A Ship In The Woods is editorial content, and as such reflects his opinion alone, not necessarily that of Ship as an organization. Actually, this applies to all the content on look.shipinthewoods.com, regardless of who wrote or said it. He can be e-mailed: bernie [at] shipinthewoods [dot] com – Image by Bernie Brooks.

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top 10 -core albums of 2018

Suffrage by Fucked and Bound

We are Alive Beyond Repair by Gatherers

Burnt Sugar by Gouge Away

Glow by Old Wounds

Posthuman by Harms Way

First State Aggression by Year of the Knife

Only Self by Jesus Piece

We Already Lost the World by Birds in Row

The Pact by True Love

Time & Space by Turnstile

(i’ve got two seperate lists coming, one metal focused, one non-metal. the way i differentiate metal and -core acts is sometimes completely arbitrary, so)

a quick summary, since i’m not really interested in committing to a big write-up right now. fucked and bound are actually the only good hxc band in the world. suffrage is aggressive, smart, funny, and, most importantly, it fucking rips.

gatherers have always been a good band but this year they became a fucking incredible band. we are alive beyond repair is poetry, plain and simple. it’s one of the most heartbreaking, beautiful, empathetic, tragic records i’ve heard in ages. it’s flawlessly put together. these guys deserve way more recognition than they get.

gouge away and old wounds both took some pretty big swings this year, returning with equally ambitious albums that surely disappointed some old fans who were waiting for more of the same. those fans are missing out, since the chances these bands took paid off in spades.

harms way, year of the knife, jesus piece and true love just fucking slam. they’re so heavy. they’re so sick. fucking RIFFS, dude. crack some skulls.

birds in row and turnstile both came back and gave us the best version of their sounds to date.

tagging @ipromiseiwilltakeyouthere, @juggernaut-is-a-metalhead, and @holdsteady because i think they’re the only people who might be remotely interested in this specific list

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