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#best_of_2018 : Wire, Pitchfork, Uncut, Mojo, Q, AllMusic, Stereogum, Noisey, Echoes And Dust, Under the Radar, Gorilla vs. Bear, The Line of Best Fit

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#postmetal2018 : CVLT Nation, arcticdrones, bandcamp, Decibel, Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, Kerrang!, The A.V. Club




The Wire Rewind 2018: Releases of the year
+magazine's staff and contributors

1. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
2. ZULI - Terminal
3. Ben LaMar Gay - Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
4. Guttersnipe - My Mother The Vent
5. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
6. Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
7. Senyawa - Sujud
8. Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
9. Body/Head - The Switch
10. Low - Double Negative
11. Jerusalem In My Heart - Daqa'iq Tudaiq
12. Julia Holter - Aviary
13. Eli Keszler - Stadium
14. Proc Fiskal - Insula
15. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
16. Tyshawn Sorey - Pillars
17. Lea Bertucci - Metal Aether
18. Pusha-T - Daytona
19. Eartheater - IRISIRI
20. Nordra - Pylon II
21. Tirzah - Devotion
22. Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Brace Up!
23. Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
24. Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
25. Hannah Silva - Talk in a bit
26. Kate NV - для FOR
27. Josephine Foster - Faithful Fairy Harmony
28. Agnarkea - Black Helicopters
29. Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
30. Jim O'Rourke - Sleep Like It's Winter
31. Anne Guthrie - Brass Orchids
32. Eiko Ishibashi - The Dream My Bones Dream
33. Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
34. Cucina Povera - Hilja
35. Kamaal Williams - The Return
36. Vessel - Queen of Golden Dogs
37. Embassador Dulgoon - Hydrorion Remnants
38. Noname - Room 25
39. Jlin - Autobiography
40. Grouper - Grid of Points
41. Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On
42. Helena Hauff - Qualm
43. Nkisi - The Dark Orchestra
44. Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
45. Gaye Su Akyol - İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir,
46. Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Vol. 1)
47. Ipek Gorgun - Ecce Homo
48. Park Jiha - Communion
49. Musarc & Neil Luck - Bloody Sirens
50. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love

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The Wire Rewind 2018: Noise & industrial

1. Nordra - Pylon II (2016)
2. Hekla - Á
3. Ekin Fil - Maps
4. Fosil Sangiran - Pasar Fosil
5. Bonnie Baxter - Ask Me How Satan Started
6. Geneva Skeen - A Parallel Array of Horses

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The Wire Rewind 2018: Jazz & improv

1. Tyshawn Sorey - Pillars
2. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp - Oneness
3. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret - The Other Side Of Air
4. Aruán Ortiz & Don Byron - Random Dances And (A)tonalities
5. Mary Halvorson - Code Girl
6. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg - Dirt... And More Dirt
7. William Parker - Voices Fall From the Sky
8. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile
9. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio - D’Agala

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The Wire Rewind 2018: Avant rock

1. Guttersnipe - My Mother the Vent
2. The HIRS Collective & Thou - I Have Become Your Pupil
3. Sunwatchers - II
4. GELD - Perfect Texture
5. Dead Rider Trio - Dead Rider Trio feat. Mr. Paul Williams
6. Cucina Povera - Hilja
7. Ricarda Cometa - Ricarda Cometa 2
8. Gwenifer Raymond - You Never Were Much of a Dancer

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The Wire Rewind 2018: Modern composition

1. Chaines - The King
2. Eva-Maria Houben - Breath For Organ
3. Mary Jane Leach - (f)lute songs
4. Linda Catlin Smith performed by Apartment House under Jack Sheen - Wanderer

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2018

1. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
2. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
3. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
4. Robyn - Honey
5. Snail Mail - Lush
6. Rosalía - El Mal Querer
7. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
8. Low - Double Negative
9. Tierra Whack - Whack World
10. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
11. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
12. cupcakKe - Ephorize
13. Tirzah - Devotion
14. Amen Dunes - Freedom
15. Noname - Room 25
16. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
17. Pusha T - Daytona
18. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
19. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
20. Beach House - 7
21. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
22. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
23. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD
24. Julia Holter - Aviary
25. Playboi Carti - Die Lit
26. Vince Staples - FM!
27. Soccer Mommy - Clean
28. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
29. boygenius - boygenius
30. Christine and the Queens - Chris
31. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
32. Let's Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
33. Sheck Wes - Mudboy
34. Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
35. Against All Logic - 2012-2017
36. Rico Nasty - Nasty
37. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
38. Kali Uchis - Isolation
39. The Internet - Hive Mind
40. Iceage - Beyondless
41. Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign - MIH-TY
42. Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
43. Sleep - The Sciences
44. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
45. Cat Power - Wanderer
46. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
47. Skee Mask - Compro
48. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
49. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload
50. SOB X RBE - Gangin

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Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2018

1. Low - Double Negative
2. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
3. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin
4. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
5. Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On
6. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
7. Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
8. Beak> - >>>
9. Christine and the Queens - Chris
10. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile
11. Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers
12. Neko Case - Hell-On
13. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
14. Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son
15. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
16. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
17. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
18. The Breeders - All Nerve
19. Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
20. Jack White - Boarding House Reach
21. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
22. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
23. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
24. Paul Weller - True Meanings
25. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain
26. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
27. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
28. Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
29. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
30. Mélissa Laveaux - Radyo siwèl
31. Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
32. Gwenno - Le Kov
33. Connan Mockasin - Jassbusters
34. Hookworms - Microshift
35. Go-Kart - Mozart’s Mini-Mart
36. The Lemon Twigs - Go to School
37. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard
38. Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us
39. Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
40. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
41. Cat Power - Wanderer
42. Melody’s Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
43. Tracey Thorn - Record
44. Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
45. Anna Calvi - Hunter
46. Kathryn Joseph - From When I Wake the Want Is
47. Julia Holter - Aviary
48. Laura Veirs - The Lookout
49. Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
50. The Necks - Body
51. Gwenifer Raymond - You Never Were Much of a Dancer
52. Willie Nelson - Last Man Standing
53. David Byrne - American Utopia
54. Tune-Yards - I can feel you creep into my private life
55. Jess Williamson - Cosmic Wink
56. Dawn Landes - Meet Me at the River
57. Elephant Micah - Genericana
58. Mary Gauthier - Rifles and Rosary Beads
59. Stick in the Wheel - Follow Them True
60. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
61. Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall
62. Angélique Kidjo - Remain in Light
63. Israel Nash - Lifted
64. Suede - The Blue Hour
65. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
66. Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang - The Heights of the Reeds
67. Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie
68. Richard Swift - The Hex
69. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
70. Harmony Rockets - Lachesis / Clotho / Atropos
71. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
72. Olivia Chaney - Shelter
73. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
74. Beach House - 7
75. Fatoumata Diawara - Fenfo

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AllMusic 2018: Favorite Indie Pop and Indie Rock Albums (alphabetically)

Alice Bag - Blueprint
Beach House - 7
Cat Power - Wanderer
Chai - Pink
Clearance - At Your Leisure
Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
Django Django - Marble Skies
Ethers - Ethers
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
Field Music - Open Here
Fred Thomas - Aftering
Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
Guided by Voices - Space Gun
Iceage - Beyondless
Julia Holter - Aviary
Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
Low - Double Negative
Matchess - Sacracorpa
Melody's Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
Mind Spiders - Furies
Mint Field - Pasar de las Luces
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Nap Eyes - I'm Bad Now
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Ovlov - Tru
Public Access T.V. - Street Safari
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
Say Sue Me - Where We Were Together
Shopping - The Official Body
Snail Mail - Lush
Soccer Mommy - Clean
St. Lenox - Ten Fables of Young Ambition and Passionate Love
Stephen Malkmus / Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive
Superorganism - Superorganism
Teleman - Family of Aliens
Thalia Zedek - Fighting Season
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
The Breeders - All Nerve
The Dodos - Certainty Waves
The Joy Formidable - AAARTH
The Orielles - Silver Dollar Moment
The Shifters - Have a Cunning Plan
Totally Mild - Her
tUnE-yArDs - i can feel you creep into my private life
Virginia Wing - Ecstatic Arrow
Warm Drag - Warm Drag
Whyte Horses - Empty Words
Wussy - What Heaven Is Like

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AllMusic 2018: Favorite Pop Albums (alphabetically)

Ariana Grande - Sweetener
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born [Soundtrack]
BTS - Love Yourself: Answer
Camila Cabello - Camila
Capital Cities - Solarize
Christine and the Queens - Chris
Clean Bandit - What Is Love?
Confidence Man - Confident Music for Confident People
Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save the World
David Guetta - 7
Dita Von Teese - Dita Von Teese
Dreams - No One Defeats Us
Hearts Hearts - Goods/Gods
James Bay - Electric Light
Kimbra - Primal Heart
Little Mix - LM5
Panic! At the Disco - Pray for the Wicked
Perfume - Future Pop
Rae Morris - Someone Out There
Rita Ora - Phoenix
Robyn - Honey
Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes
The Neighbourhood - The Neighbourhood
Troye Sivan - Bloom
Years & Years - Palo Santo

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AllMusic 2018: Favorite Electronic Albums (alphabetically)

Against All Logic - 2012-2017
Adult. - This Behavior
Aphex Twin - Collapse
Arp - Zebra
Autechre - NTS Sessions
Bjørn Torske - Byen
Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry
Chrome Sparks - Chrome Sparks
Container - LP [2018]
Daniel Avery - Song for Alpha
Daniel Lanois, Venetian Snares - Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Demdike Stare - Passion
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
DJ Taye - Still Trippin'
Dorian Concept - The Nature of Imitation
Fire-Toolz - Skinless X-1
Gas - Rausch
Geotic - Traversa
Helena Hauff - Qualm
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes
Jlin - Autobiography
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Lotic - Power
Maribou State - Kingdoms in Colour
Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
Martyn - Voids
MGUN - Axiom
Miss Red - K.O.
Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt
Niklas Paschburg - Oceanic
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Profligate - Somewhere Else
Rival Consoles - Persona
Ross from Friends - Family Portrait
RP Boo - I'll Tell You What!
Shorelights - Ancient Lights
Shy Layers - Midnight Marker
Sinjin Hawke, Zora Jones - Vicious Circles
Skee Mask - Compro
Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi
System - Plus
Thomas Fehlmann - Los Lagos
Throwing Snow - Loma
Tim Hecker - Konoyo
TWINS - That Which Is Not Said
Martyn, Steffi - Air Texture Volume VI
Various Artists - In Death's Dream Kingdom
X-Altera - X-Altera

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Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2018

1. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
2. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
4. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
5. Christine and the Queens - Chris
6. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
7. Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
9. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
10. The Breeders - All Nerve
11. Fatoumata Diawara - Fenfo
12. Pusha T - Daytona
13. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
14. Paul Weller - True Meanings
15. Tracey Thorn - Record
16. Cypress Hill - Elephants on Acid
17. Gaz Coombes - World’s Strongest Man
18. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
19. Low - Double Negative
20. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
21. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
22. Field Music - Open Here
23. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
24. Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
25. Cat Power - Wanderer
26. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
27. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
28. Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
29. Gwenno - Le Kov
30. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
31. Anna Calvi - Hunter
32. Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
33. Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son
34. Insecure Men - Insecure Men
35. Suede - The Blue Hour
36. Sleep - The Sciences
37. The Goon Sax - We’re Not Talking
38. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin
39. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard
40. Maisha - There Is a Place
41. Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers
42. Prince - Piano & a Microphone 1983
43. Chris Carter - Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
44. Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On
45. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
46. Binker and Moses - Alive in the East?
47. Imarhan - Temet
48. Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie
49. Villagers - The Art of Pretending to Swim
50. Hookworms - Microshift
51. Belle and Sebastian - How to Solve Our Human Problems
52. Confidence Man - Confident Music For Confident People
53. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain
54. Go-Kart - Mozart’s Mini-Mart
55. Mudhoney - Digital Garbage
56. Swamp Dogg - Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune
57. John Grant - Love is Magic
58. Laura Veirs - The Lookout
59. Cedric Burnside - Benton County Relic
60. Jon Hassell - Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. 1)
61. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
62. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
63. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile
64. Jim James - Uniform Distortion
65. Björk - Utopia
66. Lump - Lump
67. Willie Nelson - Last Man Standing
68. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet
69. Jungle - For Ever
70. Neil Young & Promise of the Real - The Visitor
71. Shame - Songs of Praise
72. Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
73. Jack White - Boarding House Reach
74. Candi Staton - Unstoppable
75. Gorillaz - The Now Now

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Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2018

1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2. Snail Mail - Lush
3. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
4. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
5. Beach House - 7
6. Flasher - Constant Image
7. Soccer Mommy - Clean
8. Low - Double Negative
9. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
10. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
11. Pusha-T - Daytona
12. Robyn - Honey
13. Lucy Dacus - Historian
14. Vince Staples - FM!
15. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
16. Brockhampton - iridescence
17. Half Waif - Lavender
18. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
19. illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
20. Tomberlin - At Weddings
21. Rosalía - El Mal Querer
22. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
23. Noname - Room 25
24. Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur
25. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
26. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
27. Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
28. Kali Uchis - Isolation
29. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.
30. Iceage - Beyondless
31. The Armed - Only Love
32. Tirzah - Devotion
33. Dear Nora - Skulls Example
34. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
35. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
36. Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
37. Birds In Row - We Already Lost The World
38. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
39. MGMT - Little Dark Age
40. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

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Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2018

1. Tierra Whack - Whack World
2. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
3. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
4. Snail Mail - Lush
5. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
6. Robyn - Honey
7. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD
8. The Armed - Only Love
9. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
10. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This
11. Pusha T - Daytona
12. Thou - Magus
13. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
14. Julia Holter - Aviary
15. 03 Greedo - God Level
16. Black Dresses - WASTEISOLATION
17. Noname - Room 25
18. Mac Miller - Swimming
19. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
20. Lil Baby - Harder Than Ever
21. Iceage - Beyondless
22. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
23. Playboi Carti - Die Lit
24. Tirzah - Devotion
25. Portrayal of Guilt - Let Pain Be Your Guide
26. The Internet - Hive Mind
27. Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
28. City Girls - PERIOD
29. Octavian - SPACEMAN
30. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
31. Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
32. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop
33. The HIRS Collective - Friends. Lovers. Favorites.
34. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
35. Vile Creature - Cast of Static & Smoke
36. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
37. Rico Nasty - Nasty
38. DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
39. Vince Staples - FM!
40. Svalbard - It's Hard To Have Hope
41. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
42. Frankie Cosmos - Vessel
43. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
44. Future - BEASTMODE 2
45. Soccer Mommy - Clean
46. Kali Uchis - Isolation
47. Shame - Songs of Praise
48. Freddie Gibbs - Freddie
49. YOB - Our Raw Heart
50. Mount Eerie - Now Only
51. Kids See Ghosts - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
52. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
53. Mozzy - Gangland Landlord
54. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
55. Yovel - Hɪðəˈtu
56. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
57. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
58. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
59. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
60. Lucy Dacus - Historian
61. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
62. Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings
63. Amen Dunes - Freedom
64. Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
65. Popcaan - Forever
66. Ryan Playground - 16/17
67. Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017
68. Brockhampton - iridescence
69. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
70. Ilsa - Corpse Fortress
71. Beach House - 7
72. Cat Power - Wanderer
73. Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
74. Dödsrit - Spirit Crusher
75. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
76. Mastersystem - Dance Music
77. Grouper - Grid of Points
78. Birds In Row - We Already Lost The World
79. Trouble & Mike WiLL Made It - Edgewood
80. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
81. Smino - Noir
82. Beta Librae - Sanguine Bond
83. J Balvin - Vibras
84. Tentenko - Tentenko
85. Maxo Kream - Punken
86. Machine Girl - The Ugly Art
87. Racetraitor - 2042
88. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
89. Gaika - Basic Volume
90. Foodman - Aru Otoko No Densetsu
91. Metro Boomin - Not All Heroes Wear Capes
92. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Corinthiax
93. Thin Lips - Chosen Family
94. Prison Religion - O fucc Im on the wrong planet
95. Necros Christos - Domedon Doxomedon
96. The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking
97. Daniel Aged - Daniel Aged
98. Grapetooth - Grapetooth
99. Miserable - Loverboy / Dog Days
100. BTS - Love Yourself 轉 Tear

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gorilla vs. bear's albums of 2018

1. Tirzah - Devotion
2. Helena Deland - From the Series of Songs Altogether Unaccompanied I-IV
3. Rosalía - El Mal Querer
4. Amen Dunes - Freedom
5. Robyn - Honey
6. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
7. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
8. Grouper - Grid of Points
9. Bella Boo - Fire
10. Caroline Says - No Fool Like an Old Fool
11. Tess Roby - Beacon
12. Julia Holter - Aviary
13. DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
14. Channel Tres - Channel Tres
15. Cindy Lee - Model Express
16. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
17. Mr Twin Sister - Salt
18. Tierra Whack - Whack World
19. Sun June - Years
20. Playboi Carti - Die Lit
21. The Samps - Breakfast
22. Smerz - Have fun
23. Lena Raine - Celeste Soundtrack
24. Nu Guinea - Nuova Napoli
25. Beach House - 7

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The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2018

1. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
2. Tirzah - Devotion
3. Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
4. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
5. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
6. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
7. Rosalía - El Mal Querer
8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
9. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears
10. Gia Margaret - There's Always Glimmer
11. Shame - Songs of Praise
12. Brockhampton - iridescence
13. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
14. Christine and the Queens - Chris
15. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
16. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
17. Robyn - Honey
18. Low - Double Negative
19. Jorja Smith - Lost & Found
20. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
21. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
22. Snail Mail - Lush
23. Nao - Saturn
24. Tomberlin - At Weddings
25. The Internet - Hive Mind
26. Troye Sivan - Bloom
27. Kids See Ghosts - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
28. Hinds - I Don't Run
29. Amen Dunes - Freedom
30. Soccer Mommy - Clean
31. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
32. 6LACK - East Atlanta Love Letter
33. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
34. Years & Years - Palo Santo
35. boygenius - boygenius EP
36. Dream Wife - Dream Wife
37. Ólafur Arnalds - re:member
38. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
39. Neko Case - Hell-On
40. Noname - Room 25
41. AURORA - Infections Of A Different Kind - Step I
42. How to Dress Well - The Anteroom
43. John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
44. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
45. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
46. Tove Styrke - Sway
47. Gaika - Basic Volume
48. Lucy Dacus - Historian
49. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
50. David Byrne - American Utopia

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Q Magazine: The Top 50 Albums of 2018

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Robyn - Honey
5. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
6. Christine and the Queens - Chris
7. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
8. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
9. Paul Weller - True Meanings
10. Anna Calvi - Hunter
11. Interpol - Marauder
12. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
13. Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
14. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
15. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
16. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
17. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin
18. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
19. Pusha T - Daytona
20. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
21. Low - Double Negative
22. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
23. Tracey Thorn - Record
24. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now
25. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
26. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
27. Daniel Avery - Song for Alpha
28. Neko Case - Hell-On
29. Gaz Coombes - World’s Strongest Man
30. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
31. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope
32. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard
33. Shame - Songs of Praise
34. Go-Kart Mozart - Mozart’s Mini-Mart
35. Julia Holter - Aviary
36. Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
37. Beach House - 7
38. Bill Ryder-Jones - Yawn
39. Cat Power - Wanderer
40. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
41. Lykke Li - so sad so sexy
42. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
43. Everything Is Recorded - Everything Is Recorded
44. Panic! At the Disco - Pray For the Wicked
45. Mac Miller - Swimming
46. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
47. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land
48. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
49. Manic Street Preachers - Resistance Is Futile
50. The Orielles - Silver Dollar Moment

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Echoes And Dust

1. Throw Down Bones - Two
2. GoGo Penguin - Humdrum Star
3. Band Whose Name Is A Symbol - Droneverdose
4. The Final Age - s/t
5. Submotion Orchestra - Kites
6. Estuary Blacks - s/t
7. Psychic Lemon - Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay
8. Hundred Year Old Man - Breaching
9. Mien - s/t
10. Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
11. Vodun - Ascend
12. Les Big Byrd - Iran Iraq Ikea
13. Cave - Allways
14. Anna Calvi - Hunter
15. Medicine Boy - Lower
16. Movement of Static - Naegleria
17. Pijn - Loss
18. Mythic Sunship - Another Shape of Psychedelic Music
19. Ah! Kosmos - Beautiful Swamp
20. The Oscillation - Wasted Space
21. Beak - >>>
22. InFictions - Vanity Project
23. Public Memory - Demolition
24. Bong Ra - Antediluvian
25. The Ocean - Phanerozoic

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Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2018

1. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
2. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
3. boygenius - boygenius
4. Low - Double Negative
5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
6. Beach House - 7
7. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
8. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
9. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
10. Julia Holter - Aviary
11. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
12. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
13. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
14. Lump - Lump
15. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past
16. Loma - Loma
17. MGMT - Little Dark Age
18. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears
19. Wild Nothing - Indigo
20. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
21. John Grant - Love is Magic
22. Tracyanne & Danny - Tracyanne & Danny
23. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
24. Mount Eerie - Now Only
25. Snail Mail - Lush
26. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
27. Caroline Rose - LONER
28. Gaz Coombes - World’s Strongest Man
29. Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
30. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
31. Shame - Songs of Praise
32. Christine and the Queens - Chris
33. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard
34. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
35. Soccer Mommy - Clean
36. Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
37. Gwenno - Le Kov
38. Phosphorescent - C’est La Vie
39. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
40. Iceage - Beyondless
41. Ought - Room Inside the World
42. Anna Calvi - Hunter
43. Lucy Dacus - Historian
44. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
45. Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
46. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat - Riddles
47. Yo La Tengo - There’s a Riot Going On
48. Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
49. Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
50. Superorganism - Superorganism
51. Belle and Sebastian - How to Solve Our Human Problems
52. Noname - Room 25
53. Marlon Williams - Make Way for Love
54. Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
55. Amen Dunes - Freedom
56. Nils Frahm - All Melody
57. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope
58. Jeff Rosenstock - Post-
59. Still Corners - Slow Air
60. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending
61. Tune-Yards - I can feel you creep into my private life
62. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land
63. Neko Case - Hell-On
64. Lala Lala - The Lamb
65. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile
66. Black Belt Eagle Scout - Mother of My Children
67. serpentwithfeet - soil
68. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
69. Robyn - Honey
70. Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
71. Mastersystem - Dance Music
72. Beak> - >>>
73. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes
74. Jess Williamson - Cosmic Wink
75. Moonface - This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet
76. Cat Power - Wanderer
77. Flasher - Constant Image
78. Field Music - Open Here
79. Suede - The Blue Hour
80. Frontperson - Frontrunner
81. Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
82. Parcels - Parcels
83. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
84. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
85. Thom Yorke - Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
86. We Were Promised Jetpacks - The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
87. Chvrches - Love Is Dead
88. of Montreal - White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood
89. Young Jesus - The Whole Thing Is Just There
90. Melody’s Echo Chamber - Bon Voyage
91. Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Out of Touch
92. The Goon Sax - We’re Not Talking
93. Anna Burch - Quit the Curse
94. Django Django - Marble Skies
95. Goat Girl - Goat Girl
96. Tim Hecker - Konoyo
97. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
98. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
99. Tunng - Songs You Make at Night
100. Villagers - The Art of Pretending to Swim

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PopMatters: The 10 Best Ambient/Instrumental Albums of 2018

1. Sam Wilkes - Wilkes
2. Gigi Masin - Kite
3. Suss - Ghost Box [Expanded]
4. Lubomyr Melnyk - Fallen Trees
5. Warmth - Parallel
6. Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
7. Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic
8. M. Geddes Gengras - Light Pipe
9. Mansur Brown - Shiroi
10. Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations

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PopMatters: The Best Shoegaze and Dream Pop of 2018

1. Beach House - 7
2. Film School - Bright to Death
3. Lowtide - Southern Mind
4. MINT FIELD - Pasar de las Luces
5. Spesh - Famous World
6. The Daysleepers - Creation
7. Wild Nothing - Indigo
8. Waveless - As One More Folded Paper Crane
9. Tanukichan - Sundays
10. In Her Eye - Change
11. Echo Ladies - Pink Noise
12. Soft Science - Maps

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Resident Advisor: 2018's Best Albums

1. Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
2. Julia Holter - Aviary
3. Fatima - And Yet It's All Love
4. Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
5. Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
6. Various Artists - 15 Years of The Bunker New York
7. Varg (Jonas Rönnberg) - Nordic Flora Series Pt.5: Crush
8. Sarah Davachi - Gave In Rest
9. Nina Kraviz - VA: Don’t You Mess with Cupid, 'cause Cupid Ain’t Stupid
10. Robyn (Robin Carlsson) - Honey
11. serpentwithfeet (Josiah Wise) - soil
12. Christoph De Babalon - If You're Into It I'm Out of It
13. Demdike Stare - Passion
14. Anthony Naples - Take Me With You
15. Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) - Autobiography
16. Silvia Kastel - Air Lows
17. Martyn (Martijn Deijkers) - Voids
18. Pendant (Brian Leeds aka Huerco S) - Make Me Know You Sweet
19. Yves Tumor (Sean Bowie) - Safe in the Hands of Love
20. Surgeon (Anthony Child) - Luminosity Device
21. Grouper (Liz Harris) - Grid of Points
22. DJ Healer (Traumprinz) [anon] - Nothing 2 Loose
23. Prime Minister of Doom (DJ Healer) [anon] - Mudshadow Propaganda
24. Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
25. De Leon [anon]- De Leon
26. Blawan (Jamie Roberts) - Wet Will Always Dry
27. Sophie [Xeon] (Samuel Long) - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
28. Hunee (Hun Choi) - Hunchin' All Night
29. DJ Koze (Stefan Kozalla) - Knock Knock
30. Tirzah (Tirzah Mastin) - Devotion
31. Shinichi Atobe - Heat
32. Specter (Andres Ordonez) - Built to Last
33. Objekt (Timothy Hertz) - Cocoon Crush
34. Borusiade (Miruna Boruzescu) - A Body
35. JK Flesh (Justin Broadrick) - New Horizon
36. Tim Hecker - Konoyo
37. Various Artists - Kulør 001 [Copenhagen techno]
38. Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar
39. HVL (Gigi Jikia) - Ostati
40. Skee Mask (Bryan Müller) - Compro

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можно заметить немало широко известных в узких кругах субъектов: Autechre, Grouper, Julia Holter, Sarah Davachi, Robyn, Marie Davidson, Sophie, Jlin, Objekt, Hecker, Demdike Stare, DJ Koze, или очередную компиляцию от Nina Kraviz в первой 10-ке - Biogen, он же Sigurbjörn Þórgrímsson именно оттуда,

внезапно у них засветился и Justin K Broadrick (Jesu / Godflesh / Napalm Death),

есть и парочка совершенно анонимных персонажей (и это в наши-то дни): DJ Healer (он же Prime Minister of Doom, он же Traumprinz) с загадочного лейбла Giegling, а также некий De Leon и все они из Германии, совпадение? #highlylikely да!

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Pitchfork: The Best Electronic Music of 2018 (alphabetically)

Against All Logic - 2012-2017
Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse
Bambounou - VVVVV (represented by Parametr Perkusja)
Beta Librae - Sanguine Bond
Ciel - Hundred Flowers
DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
DJ Koze - knock knock
DJ Nigga Fox - Crânio
Eris Drew & Octo Octa - Devotion
Gacha Bakradze - Word Color
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg (represented by Qualm)
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Loidis - A Parade, in the Place I Sit, the Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)
Machine Woman - Residency Tape 2: Machine Woman
Mr. Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
Objekt - Cocoon Crush
Overmono - Whities 019
Pavel Milyakov - Eastern Strike
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
RAMZi - Phobiza "Amor Fati": Vol. 3
Rezzett - Rezzett LP
rRoxymore - Thoughts of an Introvert Part 2
Skee Mask - Compro
Slikback - Lasakaneku
SMX / Koehler - (Whities Blue 02)
Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
тпсб - Sekundenschlaf
Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic
Yaeji - One More

они всё-таки не включили пластинку Kate NV, несмотря на позитивную рецензию и оценку 8.1, но отметили релиз Pavel Milyakov - Eastern Strike,

и ещё один привет из России: тпсб - Sekundenschlaf, это Фёдор Серволенко (Fedor Servolenko from a little town in west Russia),

Mr. Fingers совсем недавно отыграл на Present Perfect 2018, Helena Hauff можно было заценить на PPF2016,

интересно, что «Гопкинс мой друг, по имени Самба» в смысле Jon Hopkins, играл и на Primavera Sound 2018,2015, и на Flow 2017,2014 - но я их пропустил, мало того, в начале карьеры его затащили на SKIF-2010 (где я был, но только в первый день с Dat Politics и Circle) - кажется так и не видел его.

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Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018

1. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
2. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
3. Lolina - The Smoke
4. Charli XCX - Pop 2
5. Tirzah - Devotion
6. Elysia Crampton - Elysia Crampton
7. Low - Double Negative
8. Pusha T - Daytona
9. Grouper - Grid of Points
10. Shygirl - Cruel Practice
11. Eli Keszler - Stadium
12. Julia Holter - Aviary
13. Mount Eerie - Now Only
14. Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
15. Bamba Pana - Poaa
16. Playboi Carti - Die Lit
17. Barrio Sur - बड़ा शोक (heart break)
18. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
19. Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
20. serpentwithfeet - soil
21. Tim Hecker - Konoyo
22. RP Boo - I'll Tell You What!
23. Kanye West - ye
24. Eartheater - IRISIRI
25. Tierra Whack - Whack World
26. The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 4
27. Simple Affections - Simple Affections
28. Fire-Toolz - Skinless X-1
29. DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
30. [tie] Prime Minister of Doom - Mudshadow Propaganda
31. Klein - CC
32. Rosalía - El Mal Querer
33. Armand Hammer - Paraffin
34. Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood
35. Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
36. Seth Graham - Gasp
37. Teyana Taylor - K.T.S.E.
38. Beach House - 7
39. Roc Marciano - Behold a Dark Horse
40. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
41. Perfume - Future Pop
42. Delroy Edwards - Rio Grande
43. Matthew Revert/Vanessa Rossetto - Everyone Needs A Plan
44. Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. The Sirens
45. Jeff Witscher - Approximately 1,000 Beers
46. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
47. Gas - Rausch
48. JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
49. Amen Dunes - Freedom
50. Satoshi Nakamoto - dOPENet [NYPD Records Volume 2]
51. Sheck Wes - Mudboy

внезапно в первой тройке Lolina (Alina Astrova, она же Inga Copeland), а Sophie параллельно продюсирует Charli XCX.

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PopMatters: The 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2018

многие в этом году отметили финов Amnesia Scanner, которые совсем недавно играли в СПб на Электромеханике 2018, Daniel Avery приезжал на PPF2017, Objekt засветился на Present Perfect 2018.

1. George FitzGerald - All That Must Be
2. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love
3. Rival Consoles - Persona
4. Elysia Crampton - Elysia Crampton
5. Vessel - Queen of Golden Dogs
6. Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
7. Lotic - Power
8. Ital Tek - Bodied
9. Maribou State - Kingdoms In Colour
10. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
11. Objekt - Cocoon Crush
12. Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
13. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
14. Kelly Moran - Ultraviolet
15. Okzharp & Manthe Ribane - Closer Apart
16. Helena Hauff - Qualm
17. Eartheater - IRISIRI
18. Proc Fiskal - Insula
19. Inja - Blank Pages
20. Tim Hecker - Konoyo
21. RP Boo - I'll Tell You What!
22. Gas - Rausch
23. Mefjus - Manifest
24. Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
25. Great Dane - Gamma Ray

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XLR8R's Best of 2018: Releases (alphabetically)

Albrecht La'Brooy - Tidal River
Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Barker - Debiasing
Bruce - Sonder Somatic
Christina Vantzou - No. 4
DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Djrum - Portrait With Firewood
Farai - Rebirth
Francis Harris - Trivial Occupations
Gacha Bakradze - Word Color
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Kasper Bjørke - The Fifty Eleven Project
Low - Double Negative
Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
Mary Lattimore - Hundreds of Days
Mutant Beat Dance - Mutant Beat Dance
Nils Frahm - All Melody
Objekt - Cocoon Crush
Raime - Am I Using Content Or Is Content Using Me?
Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program - Stargate Music
Rival Consoles - Persona
SIT - Invisibility
Skee Mask - Compro
Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Space Afrika - Somewhere Decent To Live
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 4, 5
The Field - Infinite Moment
Various - XLR8R+003
Various - 15 Years Of The Bunker
Various - In Death's Dream Kingdom
William Basinski + Lawrence English - Selva Oscura
Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love

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Irregular Crates: Best Albums Of 2018

1. Ólafur Arnalds - re:member
2. Ian Hawgood - 光
3. James Stephen Finn - Three Months
4. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream
5. Magnétophonique - Une Cartographie Idéale
6. Grouper - Grid of Points
7. Luis Miehlich - Silences
8. Federico Durand - Pequeñas Melodías
9. Luton - Black Box Animals
10. The Gentleman Losers - Make We Here Our Camp of Winter
11. Snorri Hallgrímsson - Orbit
12. Northerner - End Of The Holiday
13. The Green Kingdom - Seen and Unseen
14. Max Ananyev - Water Atlas
15. Gavin Miller - Meander Scars
16. Shuta Yasukochi - Leaving
17. Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott - Shape Memory
18. Endless Melancholy - Fragments of Scattered Whispers
19. Taylor Deupree - Fallen
20. Mansur Brown - Shiroi

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DJ Mag's Top 50 Albums of 2018

1. Sophie - Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
2. Skee Mask - Compro
3. Pariah - Here From Where We Are
4. Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart
5. Blocks & Escher - Something Blue
6. Shlømo - Mercurial Skin
7. Martyn - Voids
8. Helena Hauff - Qualm
9. Djrum - Portrait With Firewood
10. Max Cooper - One Hundred Billion Sparks
11. Objekt - Cocoon Crush
12. Lotic - Power
13. Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar
14. Jensen Interceptor - Mother
15. Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
16. Russell E.L. Butler - The Home I'd Build For Myself And All My Friends
17. Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry
18. Nils Frahm - All Melody
19. Bruce - Sonder Somatic
20. Clouds - Heavy The Eclipse
21. Aïsha Devi - DNA Feelings
22. Surgeon - Luminosity Device
23. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
24. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
25. Etch - Ups & Downs
26. Wen - EPHEM:ERA
27. Demdike Stare - Passion
28. Mariel Ito - 2000-2005
29. Gábor Lázár - Unfold
30. Bliss Signal - Bliss Signal
31. Jlin - Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor's Autobiography)
32. Kamaal Williams - The Return
33. Appleblim - Life in a Laser
34. Mr. Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
35. EOD - Named
36. Ital Tek - Bodied
37. Ivy Lab - Death Don't Always Taste Good
38. The Mover - Undetected Act From the Gloom Chamber
39. Marquis Hawkes - The Marquis of Hawkes
40. dBridge - A Love I Can't Explain
41. Orbital - Monsters Exist
42. Big Miz - Build / Destroy
43. Cult Of The Damned - Part Deux: Brick Pelican Posse Crew Gang Syndicate
44. Peder Mannerfelt - Daily Routine
45. Miss Red - K.O.
46. Silvia Kastel - Air Lows
47. Chris Liebing - Burn Slow
48. Dax J - Offending Public Morality
49. D Double E - Jackuum
50. Eli Escobar - Shout

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и наконец, Wire: Electronics

из всего вышеизложенного эти прекрасные люди отобрали в свой Electronics Top только 6 релизов, хаха, Lucrecia Dalt только что отыграла в СПб 🔥 Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) приезжал к нам 🚀 ещё в 2011 и тоже на Электромеханику - кто там был тот я

«Sophie» долго работала в тени, с парой людей типа Charli XCX, или Vince Staples в Big Fish Theory, плюс пара хитов (Hot Pink и It's Not Just Me) для модных Let's Eat Grandma 💟 тоже её рук дело.

1. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
2. Lucrecia Dalt - Anticlines
3. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
4. felicita - hej!
5. Iku - Body Horror
6. Chunyin - Pseudo Promitto

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arcticdrones: Post-Rock & Post-Metal: The 50 Best Releases Of 2018

1. A Film In Color - They March in Endless Circles
2. Autumn Creatures - Funeral Garden
3. Cataya - Firn
4. Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape
5. Epic45 - Through Broken Summer
6. Hundred Year Old Man - Breaching
7. Ingrina - Etter Lys
8. ISON - Andromeda Skyline
9. Jyocho - the beautiful cycle of terminal
10. Kaschalot - Whale Songs
11. Mass Culture - Primal | Ephemeral
12. Minsk & Zatokrev - Bigod
13. Respire - Dénouement
14. Sinistro - Sangue cássia
15. Soldat Hans - Es Taut
16. Sonance - To Possess You Entirely
17. The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
18. Toundra - Vortex
19. Trna - Earthcult
20. world's end girlfriend - MEGURI
21. 1099 - Blindpassasjer
22. Below A Silent Sky - A View From Afar
23. Bound - No Beyond
24. Celestial Wolves - Call Of The Void
25. Degree of Arc - Raptures
26. El Ten Eleven - Banker's Hill
27. Feed Me To The Waves - Before This Wilderness Consumes Us
28. God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph
29. Hammock - Universalis
30. Holy Fawn - Death Spells
31. Hyedra - Hyedra
32. Kiova - An End In Motion
33. le_mol - Heads Heads Heads
34. Locomotora - Vuodet, vuoret
35. Long Distance Calling - Boundless
36. Modsdive - Four Wet Hands
37. Movement Of Static - Naegleria
38. Ocean Districts - Doomtowns
39. Pleiades(昴宿) - 致未來 For the future
40. Raum Kingdom - Everything & Nothing
41. Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet - II
42. Winterlight - The Longest Sleep Through the Darkest Days

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bandcamp: The Best Metal Albums of 2018

1. Ails - The Unraveling
2. Evoken - Hypnagogia
3. Fister - No Spirit Within
4. Haunt - Haunt
5. Horrendous - Idol
6. Judicator - The Last Emperor
7. Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
8. Panegyrist - Hierurgy
9. Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I and II
10. Portal - ION
11. Summoning - With Doom We Come
12. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
13. Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil
14. Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath
15. Windhand - Eternal Return

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CVLT Nation’s top 10 avant-garde releases of 2018

1. Barst - The Endeavour
2. Hide - Castration Anxiety
3. Joe Cardamone - The Holy War
4. Mirrors For Psychic Warfare - I See What I Became
5. Miserable - Loverboy / Dog Days
6. Silent Servant - Shadows Of Death And Desire
7. Tårne Spirer - Varmblod
8. Statiqbloom - Ersatz Gaze
9. Nothing - Dance On The Blacktop
10. Insect Ark - Marrow Hymns

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CVLT Nation’s top sludge releases of 2018

1. Thou - Magnus
2. Abstracter - Cinereous Incarnate
3. Cult Of Occult - Anti Life
4. Moloch - A Bad Place
5. Fister - No Spirit Within
6. Leechfeast - Neon Crosses
7. Dopethrone - Transcanadian Anger
8. Brainoil - Singularity To Extinction
9. Forn - Rites Of Despair
10. Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean - I Carry My Awareness Of Defeat Like A Banner Of Victory
11. Body Void - I Live Inside A Burning House
12. Yarrow - Rebirth
13. Oryx - Stolen Absolution

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CVLT Nation’s top 15 death metal releases of 2018

1. Dakhma - Hamkar Atonement
2. Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure
3. Petrification - Hollow Of The Void
4. Our Place Of Worship Is Silence - With Inexorable Suffering
5. Torture Rack - Malefic Humiliation
6. Ritual Necromancy - Disinterred Horror
7. Of Feather And Bone - Bestial Hymns Of Perversion
8. Abyssous - Mesa
9. Act Of Impalement - Perdition Cult
10. Nosse Rot - The Creeping Unknown
11. Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
12. Question - S/T
13. Genocide Pact - Order Of Torment
14. Siege Column - Inferno Deathpassion
15. Legion Of Andromeda - Fistful Of Hate

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CVLT Nation’s top 13 black death releases of 2018

1. Knelt Rote - Alterity
2. Infernal Coil - Within A World Forgotten
3. Cult Of Extinction - Black Nuclear Magick Attack
4. Malthusian - Across Deaths
5. Vessel Of Iniquity - S/T
6. Dagger Lust - Siege Bondage Adverse To The Godhead
7. Serum Dreg - Lustful Vengeance
8. Hissing - Permanent Destitution
9. Temple Desecration - Whirlwinds Of Fathomless Chaos
10. Psyche - Een Pathologie Van De Geneesheer
11. Valdrin - Two Carrion Talismans
12. Dearth - Of Martyrdom And Polluted Faith
13. Necroracle - MMXVIII

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CVLT Nation’s top 15 black metal releases of 2018

1. Gevurah - Sulphur Soul
2. Craft - White Noise And Black Metal
3. Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence
4. Wiegedood - III
5. Solar Temple - Fertile Descent
6. Slavehouse - Taste In Pain
7. Nyredolk - Demo
8. Hwwauoch - Hwwauoch
9. Pa Vesh En - Church Of Bones
10. Negativa - 03
11. Serpents Lair - Perpetual Hunger By
12. Rites Of Thy Degringolade - The Blade Philosophical
13. Vilkacis - Beyond The Mortal Gate
14. Svartidauði - Revelations Of The Red Sword
15. Ultha - The Inextricable Wandering

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CVLT Nation’s top 13 doom releases of 2018

1. Drug Cult - S/T
2. Windhand - Eternal Return
3. Bongripper - Terminal
4. Huata - Lux Initiatrix Terrae
5. Beastmaker - EP's
6. Potion - Women Of The Wand
7. Cloven - Blackened Wings
8. Bismuth - The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef
9. Bong - Thought And Existence
10. Ommadon - End Times
11. Domkraft - Flood
12. Hipoxia - Ruinae Ira, Creans Ruina Eo Tempore Est Monumentum Ab Khaos II

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CVLT Nation’s top hardcore punk releases of 2018

1. Cadaver Dog - Dying Breed
2. Suburbanite - S/T
3. Warthog - S/T
4. Vile Gash - Nightmare In A Damaged Brain
5. Krimewatch - S/T
6. Blood Pressure - Surrounded
7. Skeleton - Pyramid Of Skull
8. Rashōmon - 病原菌X “Pathogen X”
9. Lace - Human Condition
10. Zodd - Operationally Ready Dead

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CVLT Nation’s top post-punk releases of 2018

1. Actors - It Will Come To You
2. Deth Crux - Mutant Flesh
3. Temple Of Angels - Foiled
4. Modern Heaven - Midnight Cowboy
5. Soft Kill - Savior
6. Wax Idols - Happy Ending
7. Primitive Knot - Decanting The Dream-Gore
8. Srsq - Unreality
9. Buzz Kull - New Kind Of Cross
10. Lié - Hounds
11. Trashlight - Honey Insulation

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CVLT Nation’s 2018 albums of the year

1. Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
2. Death Karma - The History Of Death & Burial Rituals Part II
3. Tribulation - Down Below
4. City Hunter - Deep Blood
5. Megaton Leviathan - Mage
6. Sumac - Love In Shadow
7. Yob - Our Raw Heart
8. Chrch - Light Will Consume Us All
9. Dark Buddha Rising - II
10. B (Bert Libeert), Chve, Syndrome - Reworks

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Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2018

1. Yob - Our Raw Heart
2. Tribulation - Down Below
3. Uada - Cult Of A Dying Sun
4. Evoken - Hypnagogia
5. Judas Priest - Firepower
6. Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
7. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
8. Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
9. Khemmis - Desolation
10. Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
11. At The Gates - To Drink from the Night Itself
12. Haunt - Burst Into Flames
13. Voïvod - The Wake
14. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
15. Chapel Of Disease - …And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye
16. Satan - Cruel Magic
17. Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
18. The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir
19. Varathron - Patriarchs Of Evil
20. Outer Heaven - Realms Of Eternal Decay
21. Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
22. Sleep - The Sciences
23. Mournful Congregation - The Incubus Of Karma
24. Portal - Ion
25. Mortuous - Through Wilderness
26. Visigoth - Conqueror’s Oath
27. Abhorrence - Megalohydrothalassophobic
28. Horrendous - Idol
29. Svalbard - It’s Hard To Have Hope
30. Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror
31. Corrosion Of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
32. Devouring Star - The Arteries Of Heresy
33. Zeal And Ardor - Stranger Fruit
34. Thou - Magus
35. Wake - Misery Rites
36. Monster Magnet - Mindfucker
37. KEN mode - Loved
38. Cosmic Church - Tattymys
39. Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands
40. Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness I And II

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Rolling Stone: 20 Best Metal Albums of 2018

1. Sleep - The Sciences
2. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
3. Judas Priest - Firepower
4. Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Dictator
5. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
6. Vein - Errorzone
7. Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
8. Voïvod - The Wake
9. Turnstile - Time & Space
10. Uniform - The Long Walk
11. Haunt - Burst Into Flames
12. Windhand - Eternal Return
13. Portal - Ion
14. Yob - Our Raw Heart
15. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
16. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
17. Frontierer - Unloved
18. At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself
19. Deceased - Ghostly White
20. The Armed - Only Love

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Consequence of Sound: Top 25 Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2018

1. Yob - Our Raw Heart
2. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
3. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
4. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
5. Judas Priest - Firepower
6. Sleep - The Sciences
7. Turnstile - Time & Space
8. Voïvod - The Wake
9. Vein - Errorzone
10. Ghost - Prequelle
11. Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit
12. Khemmis - Desolation
13. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
14. Amigo the Devil - Everything is Fine
15. Tribulation - Down Below
16. Halestorm - Vicious
17. Monotheist - Scourge
18. Windhand - Eternal Return
19. Cult Leader - A Patient Man
20. High on Fire - Electric Messiah
21. Ministry - AmeriKKKant
22. Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
23. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
24. Portal - Ion
25. Pig Destroyer - Head Cage

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Kerrang! The 50 Albums That Shook 2018

1. Turnstile - Time & Space
2. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
3. Architects - Holy Hell
4. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
5. Ghost - Prequelle
6. Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop
7. Culture Abuse - Bay Dream
8. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
9. Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
10. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
11. Judas Priest - Firepower
12. The Xcerts - Hold on to Your Heart
13. Marmozets - Knowing What You Know Now
14. Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
15. Svalbard - It's Hard To Have Hope
16. Drug Church - Cheer
17. Møl - JORD
18. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
19. Conjurer - Mire
20. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
21. Twenty One Pilots - Trench
22. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
23. The Interrupters - Fight the Good Fight
24. Single Mothers - Through a Wall
25. Carpenter Brut - Leather Teeth
26. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
27. Parkway Drive - Reverence
28. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
29. Panic! at the Disco - Pray For The Wicked
30. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch
31. Greta Van Fleet - Anthem of the Peaceful Army
32. Pagan - Black Wash
33. Don Broco - Technology
34. The Struts - YOUNG & DANGEROUS
35. Fall Out Boy - M A N I A
36. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
37. Thrice - Palms
38. High on Fire - Electric Messiah
39. Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic
40. You Me At Six - VI
41. The Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
42. Boston Manor - Welcome to the Neighbourhood
43. Muse - Simulation Theory
44. Vein - Errorzone
45. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
46. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
47. Slash - Living the Dream
48. The Black Queen - Infinite Games
49. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
50. Can't Swim - This Too Won't Pass

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The A.V. Club: The best metal albums of 2018

1. Churchburn - None Shall Live... The Hymns of Misery
2. High on Fire - Electric Messiah
3. Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
4. Primal Rite - Dirge of Escapism
5. Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
6. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
7. Thou - Magus
8. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
9. Windhand - Eternal Return
10. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
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Anicon - Entropy Mantra
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer
Bone Sickness - Theater of Morbidity
Bosse-de-Nage - Further Still
Conjurer - Mire
Glorior Belli - The Apostates
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness I and II
Revocation - The Outer Ones
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Tribulation - Down Below

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Pitchfork: The Best Metal Albums of 2018 (alphabetically)

The Armed - Only Love
Black Viper - Hellions of Fire
The Body - I Have Fought Against It, but I Can't Any Longer
Convulsing - Grievous
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Dödsrit - Spirit Crusher
Ghastly - Death Velour
Horrendous - Idol
Ilsa - Corpse Fortress
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
Portal - ION
Rebel Wizard - Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Sleep - The Sciences
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
Ragana & Thou - Let Our Names Be Forgotten
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
Vein - Errorzone
Voïvod - The Wake
Yob - Our Raw Heart

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PopMatters: The Best Metal of 2018

1. Yob - Our Raw Heart
2. Sumac - Love in Shadow
3. Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
4. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
5. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
6. Sleep - The Sciences
7. Chaos Echoes - Mouvement
8. Agrimonia - Awaken
9. Boss Keloid - Melted On the Inch
10. Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
11. Horrendous - Idol
12. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
13. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
14. Tribulation - Down Below
15. Ghost - Prequelle
16. Portal - Ion
17. Slaves BC - Lo, and I Am Burning
18. Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
19. Thou - Magus
20. Vein - Errorzone

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PopMatters: The Best Progressive Rock/Metal of 2018

1. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I,II
2. Amorphis - Queen of Time
3. Phideaux - Infernal
4. Horrendous - Idol
5. Riverside - Wasteland
6. Haken - Vector
7. Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly - Friendship
8. Gazpacho - Soyuz
9. Kevin Hufnagel - Messages to the Past
10. Voïvod - The Wake

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