Red Mosquito

I didn't listen to any new music because I am old and obsolete.

I think it’s fucking bullshit that these lists come out with two more weeks left in the year. Totally discounts anything that has yet to be released in 2018.

1. Kanye West - ye
2. KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
3. Bhad Bhabie - 15
4. Pusha T - DAYTONA
5. Nas - NASIR

Bammer wrote:I think it’s fucking bullshit that these lists come out with two more weeks left in the year. Totally discounts anything that has yet to be released in 2018.

this thread is a living document.

1. Tenkiller - Marie/Lepanto
2. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino - Arctic Monkeys
3. Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett
4. LUMP - LUMP
5. How To Socialise & Make Friends - Camp Cope

Top 11 in no order
The Sciences, Sleep
Some Rap Songs, Earl Sweatshirt
How to Socialise & Make Friends, Camp Cope
Boundless, Long Distance Calling
Chris, Christine and the Queens
You Won’t Get What You Want, Daughters
Bark Your Head Off Dog, Hop Along
Beyondless, Iceage
All Nerve, The Breeders
Myra, Spurv
Historian, Lucy Dacus


Biggest disappointments
I Loved You at Your Darkest, Behemoth
Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe
New Others (Part One & Two), This Will Destroy You

In no particular order, my favs from 2018:

Heaven/Hell - Jeff Ament
KIDS SEE GHOSTS- KIDS SEE GHOSTS
All Nerve - The Breeders
Rainer Fog - Alice In Chains
Cat Power - Wanderer
Johann Johannsson - Mandy
Jonny Greenwood - You Were Never Really Here

1. Tenkiller - Marie-Lepanto
2. Vide Noir - Lord Huron
3. Hundred Acres - S. Carey
(significant gap...those were the only 3 albums I was super into)
4. Summertime Songs - Field Report
5. Warm - Jeff Tweedy

Disappointments:
People Are My Drug - Phil Cook (loved it when he debuted the album live literally the day before recording it, but something got lost on the way to the studio)
Hell-On - Neko Case (some great songs, just doesn't grab me as a whole)

guestT wrote:3. Hundred Acres - S. Carey

I thought that was released last year for some reason.

Thirty favorite albums in alphabetical order (I can't rank them yet, except to say the Costello album is at the top with Rosalía as a close second)

Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest
Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 3
Brad Mehldau - After Bach
Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!
David Byrne - American Utopia
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
Enelotromundo Quarteto - Posdebut
Escalandrum - Studio 2
Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells
Florian Weber - Lucent Waters
Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Jazmín Esquivel - Púrpura
Jonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread OST
Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
Kanye West - Ye
Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
Lucia Tacchetti - Vol.3D
María Pien - Afuera el Sol Estalla
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Nas - NASIR
Nyeusi - Nyeusi
Rhye - Blood
Robyn - Honey
Rosalía - El Mal Querer
Snail Mail - Lush
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
The Breeders - All Nerve
Tobogan Andaluz - Fuego en las Naves

I wanted to love Sweetener but apart from a handful of tracks (especially "No Tears Left to Cry" and "Get Well Soon") it didn't really connect with me. I haven't really dug in to the new Camp Cope yet, and for some reason I've been putting off listening to Daytona forever.

A lot of really good jazz this year, and the Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints album likely would've gotten in if I had spent a little more time with it.

I also loved the live version of Illmatic with the orchestra but felt weird about including it.

VinylGuy wrote:In no particular order, my favs from 2018:

Heaven/Hell - Jeff Ament
KIDS SEE GHOSTS- KIDS SEE GHOSTS
All Nerve - The Breeders
Rainer Fog - Alice In Chains
Cat Power - Wanderer
Johann Johannsson - Mandy
Jonny Greenwood - You Were Never Really Here

Forgot about Beach House´s 7, their masterpiece. Amazing album.

Hop Along - "Bark Your Head Off, Dog"
Courtney Barnett - "Tell Me How You Really Feel"
Kamasi Washington - "Heaven and Earth"
Elvis Costello and the Imposters - "Look Now"

I'm going to cheat and give the #5 slot to all of Kanye's projects from the summer -- I have a hard time separating them, especially because they all came out more or less at once and took over my listening accordingly, and as such they feel incomplete to me when separated out.

I also really liked both Brad Mehldau albums from this year, and Bill Frisell's "Music Is." The Beach House album has grown on me but I am consistently surprised by claims of it being their best work, to me it is a far cry from the perfect songcraft of "Teen Dream" and "Bloom."

Overall, kind of a weird year for me -- plenty of stuff I enjoyed, but not a clear frontrunner, which is unusual for me. This was the first year in 6-7 years where I really didn't feel like I discovered much -- I sampled from some of the year-end lists last week and once again found myself more or less left cold by so much of what made the rounds this year. A lot of the indie-rock/pop stuff (Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy, Car Seat Headrest, even Mitski to an extent) just feels so redundant to other music in my collection that scratches the same itch -- I think this is just a format that I've had my fill of, lo-fi g/b/d stuff documenting the everday neuroses of people in their early twenties. And I really struggle to relate to what's been happening in rap these last few years, at least in terms of up-and-comers -- a genre I've always been drawn to for its dexterity and command of form feels like it has become sluggish and paper-thin, musically and lyrically. I do still need to check out Earl Sweatshirt's album.

All Nerve - Breeders
7 - Beach House
Hell-On - Neko Case

That's all I can think of right now

I listened to the Beach House album once and really liked it but haven't felt compelled to revisit it yet. No slight on the album, I just haven't been in that kind of mood.

*waits for doug to post a Greta Van Fleet album*

Very weird year as there's a heap of songs I love but very few albums that hold my attention or are stellar top to bottom.

American Utopia - David Byrne
Sparkle Hard - Jicks
There’s a Riot Going On - Yo La Tengo
Clean - Soccer Mommy
The Sciences - Sleep

1. Eric Chenaux - Slowly Paradise
2. Vennart - To Cure a Blizzard Upon a Plastic Sea
3. Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars
4. Carla Bozulich - Quieter
5. The Cluttertones with Lee Pui Ming - Leeways
6. The Titillators - The Titillators
7. Sandro Perri - In Another Life
8. Jason Sharp - Stand Above the Streams
9. Ought - Room Inside the World
10. Jerusalem in My Heart - Daq'iq Tudaiq

That top four is pretty much set in stone. Those are the records that I couldn't stop playing, and which basically defined the year for me. The remaining six can be shifted around as my mood suits.