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
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