Best of 2018: Minnesota Albums & Songs

We don’t want to totally count our eggs before they hatch, but it seems like we survived 2018. To celebrate, we will be listing our favorite music from this nutty year to show it wasn’t all chaos. Happy new year and thanks for reading Reviler!

Adam J

Hevy Syrup – Chestnuts II (EP)

Waveless – As One More Folded Paper Crane 

Pyralis – Everything Is Emptiness

Sister Species – Heavy Things Do Move 

Witch Watch – Underground/Overground 

Comets ov Cupid – Comet Tales 4-9 (SINGLES)

TONGUE PARTY – Looking For A Painful Death 

The Cult of Lip – Sleep Receiver  (EP)

Temple – s/t (EP)

Diie – Diiemetrics: One: Rituals/Two: Practices (EP)(S)

Scrunchies – Stunner

BLACKTHORNE – s/t 

IE – Pome

The Controversial New Skinny Pill – ***Traffic & Weather*** 

Cymothoa – Sometimes Dead Is Better 

Bella Yaga – Slipped From A Supple Skin 

Go For Retro – Eclipses/Safer, Thorn. (EP)(S)

Jon Jon

Albums

2. Lady Midnight – Countdown 2 to Sunrise

1. MMYYKK – Trouvaille

3. Javier Santiago – Phoenix

4. Dizzy Fae – Free Form

5. Muja Messiah/ OG Grip

6. Lioness – Greater Vision

7. Maria Isa – Sasa

8. Extraterrestrails – Try Again

9. Gully Boys – Not So Brave

10. Disembered and Unarmed -Va

10. Shedders/Four Fist/ Air Credits

10. Ultra Suede -Ultra Sude

10. Travis Gorman – Remember You Have To Die

Songs

1.Hlpwntd – Midori

2. Due Saleh – Warm Pants

3. K Raydio & Shrimpnose – Bully

4. Sophia Eris – Who’s Got The Boom

5. Nazeem & Spencer Joles. – Pablo

Jon B

Albums (unranked)

Royal Brat  – Eyesore

The Controversial New Skinny Pill – Traffic & Weather

Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent

Black Widows – Sounds of Tortuga

Dizzy Fae – Free Form Mixtape

Witch Watch – Underground/Overground

John St. Pelvin and Ka Baird – Five Years Inside The Sun

Cult of Lip – Sleep Receiver E

PP*PL – L*P

Bella Yaga – Slipped From A Subtle Skin

Dairyland  – Dairyland

Runner’s Up

Go For Retro – Eclipses EP

IN / VIA – Treading Water EP

Chatham Rise – Meadowsweet

Itch Princess – Everyone’s a Doctor

Clams – The Wet Album

WTF – Viven

City Counselor – The Work That Tools Do

John Saint-Pelvyn – A Clerical Error in Shasta County…

Sister Species – Heavy Things Do Move

Songs

Dua – Kickflip (prod: Psymum)

Iceblink – Wisht

Smellkin Ernesto – Now Wait

Jennie Lawless – I Want To Believe

Sass – Spoiled By Rotten

Bailey “26” Cogan – Capacity

Jacob Pavek – Moss

Catbath – Scuttlebutt

FREEWIFI – Took Off

Astralblak – Dues

Black Market Brass Band – War Games

Lunch Duchess – Ride or Die

Dua Saleh  – Warm Pants

Finesse – Waiting Game

Felted – Unwound II

Josh

Album

IE – Pome

2. Astralblak – Seeds

3. Marijuana Deathsquads – Tuff Guy Electronics

4. Justin C. Meyers – Struggle Artist

5. MMYYKK – Trouvaille

6. Dizzy Fae – Free Form Mixtape

7. Uranium Club – Live for the Very First Time (in Italy)

8. V/A – Solar System (Comets Ov Cupid, Falcon Arrow, Milan and RYKYGNYZR)

9. Kitten Forever – Semi-Permanent

10. Ness Nite – Dream Girl

10-21 (unranked): Royal Brat – Eyesore; The Controversial New Skinny Pill – Traffic & Weather; Waveless – As One More Folded Paper Crane ; Diie – Diiemetrics; Itch Princess – Everyone’s a Doctor; IN / VIA – Treading Water; Dairyland  – Dairyland; Maria Isa – Sasa; Gully Boys – Not So Brave; Cathbath Glitterbox; Lady Midnight – Countdown 2 to Sunrise

Best comp: Drone Not Drones

Songs (unranked)

Friendless Passenger – Your House

Dua – Kickflip (prod: Psymum)

Finesse – Waiting Game

Lunch Dutchess – Ride or Die

Black Market Brass Band – War Games

Strange Names – Into Me

Straya – Leach

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