Best of Local 2018.5 (Minnesota Songs and Albums)
Despite feeling like it has lasted for approximately 27 years already, we are only halfway through 2018. To celebrate, we are making lists of stuff we like at the midway point of the year. Today is our favorite Minnesota songs and albums we’ve seen so far this year.
Jon
Albums
1. Royal Brat – Eyesore
2. The Controversial New Skinny Pill – Traffic & Weather
3. Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent
4. Black Widows – Sounds of Tortuga
5. John St. Pelvin and Ka Baird – Five Years Inside The Sun
6. Witch Watch – Underground/Overground
7. Dizzy Fae – Free Form Mixtape
8. P*PL – L*P
9. Chatham Rise – Meadowsweet
10. Itch Princess – Everyone’s a Doctor
RU: Clams – The Wet Album
Unranked Songs (not featured in top albums)
Dua – Kickflip (prod: Psymum)
Iceblink – Wisht
Smellkin Ernesto – Now Wait
Go For Retro – Enemy
Jennie Lawless – I Want To Believe
Sass – Spoiled By Rotten
Jacob Pavek – Moss
Catbath – Scuttlebutt
FREEWIFI – Took Off
Astralblak – Dues
Black Market Brass Band – War Games
Lunch Duchess – Ride or Die
Josh
Albums (unranked)
IE – Pome
Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent
Ness Nite – Dream Girl
Royal Brat – Eyesore
The Controversial New Skinny Pill – Traffic & Weather
Dizzy Fae – Free Form Mixtape
Justin C. Meyers – Struggle Artist
Uranium Club – Live for the Very First Time (in Italy)
Dwynell Roland, “Young Roland”
Cathbath Glitterbox
Best comp: Drone Not Drones V/A – Solar System (Comets Ov Cupid, Falcon Arrow, Milan and RYKYGNYZR)
Songs (unranked)
Friendless Passenger – Your House
Dua – Kickflip (prod: Psymum)
Astralblak – Dues
Strange Names – Into Me
Straya – Leach
Black Market Brass Band – War Games
Moodie Black — B L A C K
Sarah White, I Self Devine, and Errybody – Faded / We The People
The Fox Loves – Evil Twin
Longshot + Lazerbeak – Parages
Scrunchies – Witchita
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