SZA – Kill Bill [from SOS]
Flume – Shooting Stars – triple j Like A Version (feat. Toro y Moi) [single]
The Go! Team – Whammy-O (feat. Nitty Scott) [single]
The Operator – Words [single]
SZA – Kill Bill [from SOS]
Flume – Shooting Stars – triple j Like A Version (feat. Toro y Moi) [single]
The Go! Team – Whammy-O (feat. Nitty Scott) [single]
The Operator – Words [single]
5, 6, 5, 6, 7, 8
All these beats
Working up the streets
Jumping, jacking
Funk to the back
We always stick around it’s a-ok
And if we punk around
We’re here to stay
Banging on the door
‘Cause we can’t hear a thing
Keep shutting down the power
‘Cause we can always sing
The Go! Team – Huddle Formation [from Thunder, Lightning, Strike]
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
Anna Burch – Your Heart May Be Heavy [single]
Porridge Radio – The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas) [single]
The Go! Team – Look Outside (A New Year’s Coming) [from Lost Christmas: A Festive Memphis Industries Selection Box]
Haley Blais – Auld Lang Syne [single]
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE.
♩ Les Bicyclettes de Belsize – Under The Mistletoe [from 12 Days of Christmas]
[lesbicyclettesdebelsize.bandcamp.com]
♩ Kishi Bashi – All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey cover, feat. Ohmme & Thor Harris ) [from Joyful Noise Recordings Holiday Party, Vol. 2]
[kishibashi.com]
♩ The Go! Team – The Ice Storm (2018 Rework) [single]
[thegoteam.co.uk]
♩ Figure – Christmas Eve of 1992 [from Parakalein]
[saunacool.bandcamp.com]
2018 was the year of the surprise. I never expected some of these releases to show up on this list, but I’m very happy they did.
These are the fifteen albums I have enjoyed and recommended the most to family, friends, readers, and complete strangers over the year…basically anybody that will entertain my musical musings.
My number one album of the year? I honestly don’t know. I can’t decide between Andrew W.K.’s uplifting You’re Not Alone, Beach House’s gorgeous 7, and Rhye’s intimate Blood. All three are worth of the number one spot and have been on constant rotation all year.
So without further ado, please enjoy my favorite LPs of 2018 (in alphabetical order) below. And if you haven’t done so already, be sure to take a look at my favorite EPs of 2018 when you’re done here.
Cheers.
Andrew W.K.//You’re Not Alone

♩ Music is Worth Living For
[andrewwk.com]
Beach House//7

♩ L’Inconnue
[beachhousebaltimore.com]
Cardi B//Invasion of Privacy
Dark Times//Tell Me What I Need

♩ Take It In
[darktimes.bandcamp.com]
Exitmusic//The Recognitions

♩ I’ll Never Know
[exitmusic.bandcamp.com]
The Go! Team//SEMICIRCLE

♩ All the Way Live
[thegoteam.co.uk]
Lucy Dacus//Historian
Miya Folick//Premonitions

♩ Stock Image
[miyafolick.com]
Pusha T//DAYTONA
Quivers//We’ll Go Riding On The Hearses

♩Pigeons
[quiversss.bandcamp.com]
Rhye//Blood

♩ Feel Your Weight
[rhyemusic.com]
Robyn//Honey
Superorganism//Superorganism

♩ SPRORGNSM
[wearesuperorganism.com]
Twin Shadow//Caer

♩ Saturdays (feat. Haim)
[twinshadow.net]
Wye Oak//The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

♩ Lifer
[wyeoakmusic.com]