Let's get this over with, Albums of the Year 2018, definitive and comprehensive lists. (1 Viewer)

My 20 favourite music releases of 2018 (new music, reissues and vault releases all rolled into one list).

In no particular order:
Julia Holter - Aviary (2xLP; Domino Records)
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile (2xLP; Impulse! Records)
Eliane Radigue - L’Œuvre Électronique (14xCD; INA GRM)
Drew McDowell - The Third Helix (LP; Dais Records)
Hiro Kone - Pure Expenditure (LP; Dais Records)
Low - Double Negative (LP; Sub Pop Records)
Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Nue (LP; Rvng Intl.)
UUUU - UUUU (12”; Editions Mego)
Neil Young - Roxy Tonight’s the Night Live (2xLP; Reprise)
Neil Young - Songs for Judy (2xLP; Shakey Pictures Records)
La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights (DVD; Just Dreams)
Current 93 - The Light Is Leaving Us All (LP; The Spheres)
Konstrukt + Keiji Haino - A Philosopy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire (LP; Karlrecords)
Keiji Haino + Sumac - American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways. You’re Too Hideous to Look at Face On (CD; Thrill Jockey Records)
John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (2xLP; Impulse! Records)
Steven Stapleton and David Tibet - The Threats of Memories (2xLP; United Dirter)
Jon Mueller - The House on the Borderland (CD; Swan River Press)
High Rise - II (LP; Black Editions)
Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 (2xLP; Aguirre Records)


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Distant Sky (12”; Bad Seed)
 
Right so- that was that. Loads of great new music last year IMO and some phenomonal reissues/compilations. Some favrits from the Just A Blip radio show (Archive here) :

Albums
Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood (more like an EP? Still- probably my no 1 for the year)
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Eleventeen Eston - At the Water
Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
Marie Davidson - Working Class Girl
Somadrone - Wellpark Avenue
Caterina Barbieri - Born Again In The Voltage
Blank Realm - Last Seen
The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 4/5


Comps/Reissues
The Nightcrawlers - Biophonic Boombox Recordings
Uneven Paths / Deviant Pop from Europe 1980-1991
Stano - Content to Write In I Dine Weathercraft
Quare Groove Vol 1
Tommy Mandel - Mello Magic
Mary Jane Leach - (f)lute songs

12"
Jay Glass Dubs - Plegniac & Safest Dub EPs
Shackleton - Furnace of Guts
Reckonwrong - Paris is Melting
Quirke - Vatied City
O$VMV$M - Lion
Ossia - Dub Hell / Devil's Dance
Rian Treanor - RAVEDIT


Roll on 2019...
 
I tried to look and see what releases from this year I'd bought,but the few things I did buy were mostly used or reissues.

I listened to this on Spotify enough that I would buy it if I saw it.

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A "dull, drab and unengaging" album made it into the end of year best of!

I'm not doing mine for another 6 months or so, I'm not ready, I haven't processed 2018 yet.
 
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RE: the long list. I contacted bandcamp before xmas for a list of Irish releases in 2018. They were all like customer service is fucking class but here is no list.
 

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