Best of 2018.5 (Albums and Songs)
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 songs and albums we’ve taken in so far this year.
Adam B
Albums
- Beach House – 7
- US Girls – In A Poem Unlimited
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
- Negative Gemini – Bad Baby EP
- Kali Uchis – Isolation
- Clairo – 4EVER
- Pusha T – Daytona
- Protomaryr – Consolation EP
- Kruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
- Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
Songs
- “Pain Killer” Ice Age
- “Tir Ha Mor” Gwenno
- “Lose Your Smile” Beach House
- “Rebert Heart” – First Aid Kit
- “M.A.H.” – US Girls
- “Talia” – King Princess
- “Old Town” – Say Sue Me
- “In My Dreams” – Kali Uchis
- “I Was a Fool” – Sunflower Bean
- “Erasure” – Superchunk
Adam J
Best National Albums and Songs
Yob – Our Raw Heart
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – YRU Still Here?
Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days – El Maquech
Brandie Carlile – By The Way, I Forgive You
Colin Stetson – Hereditary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Nels Cline 4 – Currents, Constellations
Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
Andrew W.K. – You’re Not Alone
Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
Mint Field – Pasar de las Luces
Jon
- Gwenno – Le Kov
- Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
- Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
- Pusha T – Daytona
- Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
- Iceage – Beyondless
- Brigid Mae Power – The Two Worlds
- Drinks – Hippo Lite
- Boys – Rest in Peace
- Snail Mail – Lush
Josh
Albums
- Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois – Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
- Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
- Tal National – Tantabara
- DJ Taye – Still Trippin’
- Cavern of Anti-Matter – Hormone Lemonade
- Sons of Kemet – Your Queen is a Reptile
- E Ruscha V – Who Are You
- S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
- Black Moth Super Rainbow – Panic Blooms
- Beat Detectives – Rhythms & Edits
- Jon Hopkins – Singularity
- Grouper – Grids of Point
- DJ Koze – Knock Knock
- Barry Walker – Diaspora Urkontinent
- Duppy Gun Miro Tape – Miro Tape
- Leon Vynehall – Music for the Uninvited
- Sleep – The Sciences
- Mint Field – Pasar de las Luces
Best Comp: V/A – We Out Here
Best Reissue: Pauline Anna Strom- Trans-Millenia Music, Abu Obaida Hassan – S/T; Peter Zummo – Frame Loo
Songs (unranked, not featured on top albums)
David Bryne “Everybody’s Coming to My House
Sudan Archives “Nont for Sale”
Parquest Courts “Wide Awake”
Nap Eyes “Every Time the Feeling”
Oliver Coates “A Church”
Levon Vincent “UK Spring Vibes”
Octavian – Party Here
Yo La Tengo “Shades of Blue”
Loidis (aka Huerco S) “A Parade”
Bonny Doon “Part of Me”
Anais “Nina”
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat “Dunce”
Toshio Matsuura Group – “L.M. II”
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