2018 New Music

[Quark]

22 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Half-listmas. Oh noes.

You knew it was coming sooner or later Dental

[Guest]

Got a definite top 5. In no particular order:

Cocoa Sugar - Young Fathers
Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) - Car Seat Headrest
Songs of Praise - Shame
Confident Music For Confident People - Confidence Man
Bark Your Head Off, Dog - Hop Along

[Quark]

Shame were an honourable mention.

Not listened to Hop Along or Confidence Man, will give them a try

[Badlands]

Listened to loads more new stuff this year - probably a bit too early for lists but I already cannot see past Kali Uchis for album of the year.

Whilst it's production and guest list list ticks all the boxes for the chin strokers, it's just a cracking album of pop, soul and RnB.

[Quark]

2 minutes ago, Badlands said:

probably a bit too early for lists

This is efests, it's never too early for a list.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

This is efests, it's never too early for a list.

Spare a thought for Spoon, whose album last year was the most popular on here at some point early in the year when people did their lists, and completely forgotten about by the end of the year.

[Quark]

Forgotten albums of 2018.

Number 17 will SHOCK you

[Badlands]

6 minutes ago, Quark said:

This is efests, it's never too early for a list.

Ok, based on my Last.FM account (which isn't all encompassing), the most listened to albums released in 2018 are:

• Isolation
• Tranquility Base
• Dirty Computer
• Ye
• Daytona
• Cocoa Sugar
• No Shame
• Ruins
• Singularity
• Babelsgerg

Special shout outs to Saturation III and Ctrl which I only got into this year. 

[priest17]

Off the top of my head in no order I'd imagine it would look something like this.

Boy Azooga

Ty Segall

Parquet Courts

Hinds 

Goat Girl

The Voidz

Ezra Furman

Dream Wife

Lovely Eggs

Confidence Man

Although I can't be bothered ordering them PC definitely top. I feel like Death Grips should be in there but I've only had it a few hours.

[Gucci Piggy]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

A gorgeous Friday when we should all be on the farm, clearly getting not a lot done at work.  Instead my mind turns to creating order out of chaos, and no better way to do it than creating a list.  Specifically 15 albums of 2018 thus far...

Given my carefully trained ear, technical understanding of the recording process, and deep lyrical insights, it's based on the detailed and thought-through criteria of "stuff I like to have in my ears". Basically just albums I've been coming back to since hearing them. No particular order.

Little Dark Age - MGMT

The Magic Gang - The Magic Gang

Sky High and Submarine - Mono Club

Singularity - Jon Hopkins

Illusion of Perfection - Spencer Brown

Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts

Tell Me How You Really Feel - Courtney Barnett

Resistance Is Futile - Manic Street Preachers

1, 2, Kung Fu! - Boy Azooga

Hope Downs - Rolling Blackout CF

Have at it...

You are not very good at counting.

[Winslow Leach]

Off the top of my head:

SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides

Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

Various - We Out Here

Kali Uchis - Isolation

DJ Koze - Knock Knock

Gwenno - Le Kov

Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose

[Winslow Leach]

Jesus what happened to the font size there 

[Quark]

22 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

You are not very good at counting.

It started as 15, but I realised that was weird.  But then I forgot to change the number at the top.

I'll not lie, any work I've done today is going to be checked on Monday morning for errors

[Amy Lawn]

If you've not put Young Fathers on your list, get back to your happy meal and leave the lists to adults.

[Mash011]

does Mash have a year middle top-10? you fuckin bet he does.

• Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
• Confidence Man - Confident Music for Confident People
• Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
• Superorganism - Superorganism
• Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food
• Hinds - I Don't Run
• Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
• MGMT - Little Dark Age
• The Voidz - Virtue

[priest17]

45 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

If you've not put Young Fathers on your list, get back to your happy meal and leave the lists to adults.

Comes with a free broken little toy.

[FloorFiller]

Oh go on then (in the order I remember them):

Snail Mail - Lush
Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Saba - Care For Me
Pusha T - Daytona
DJ Koze - Knock Knock
Iceage - Beyondless
Amen Dunes - Freedom
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin

Probably forgotten a bunch but those were the ones off the top of my head.

[Mash011]

Also: despite having prematurely dunked on it a bit I've actually come away fairly positive from that Gorillaz album. Much better than Humanz on first impression - it's very much a Damon solo album but tbh I should've realised that was something I needed, and it's probably a better Damon solo album than Everyday Robots was anyway. It's not earth shattering or anything but it's a nice little collection of mostly good Damon songs and that does it for me.

[Guy Incognito]

Its been a very, very good year so far:

Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

Ought - Room Inside The World

Pusha T - Daytona

Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer

Hookworms - Microshift

Daniel Avery - Songs For Alpha

U.S Girls - In A Poem Unlimited

Skee Mask - Compro

Fatamouta Diawara - Fenfo

Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch

Snail Mail - Lush

Nils Frahm - Melody

 

Beach House , Shame, Goat Girl, Jean Grey & Quelle Chris, Nas, Kamaal Williams

[FloorFiller]

6 minutes ago, rhg_99 said:

Its been a very, very good year so far:

Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

Ought - Room Inside The World

Pusha T - Daytona

Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer

Hookworms - Microshift

Daniel Avery - Songs For Alpha

U.S Girls - In A Poem Unlimited

Skee Mask - Compro

Fatamouta Diawara - Fenfo

Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch

Snail Mail - Lush

Nils Frahm - Melody

 

Beach House , Shame, Goat Girl, Jean Grey & Quelle Chris, Nas, Kamaal Williams

Fuck forgot all about Ought, Hookworms, U.S. Girls and Skee Mask. Mine might need revising. Death Grips is probably in mine tbh but felt a bit premature putting it there with my first listen being today.

[Quark]

5 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

If you've not put Young Fathers on your list, get back to your happy meal and leave the lists to adults.

As this is eFests it's also never too early to be condescending

Lots in here that deserve honourable mentions for mine - Ought, Hookworms, DJ Koze, Shame, Superorganism, Young Fathers, Nakhane, Jorja Smith, Father John Misty all up there.

Agree with @rhg_99, a very good year so far. Genuinely reignited my new music mojo this year.

[Gucci Piggy]

Think you've all forgotten about Saba.

[dentalplan]

16 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Think you've all forgotten about Saba.

You’re right. It was rather forgettable.

[priest17]

4 hours ago, rhg_99 said:

Its been a very, very good year so far:

Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

Ought - Room Inside The World

Pusha T - Daytona

Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer

Hookworms - Microshift

Daniel Avery - Songs For Alpha

U.S Girls - In A Poem Unlimited

Skee Mask - Compro

Fatamouta Diawara - Fenfo

Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch

Snail Mail - Lush

Nils Frahm - Melody

 

Beach House , Shame, Goat Girl, Jean Grey & Quelle Chris, Nas, Kamaal Williams

I admire you for putting Death Grips in there, I sort of thought of that as a layer year album but at this rate it's got a top 10 spot fer sher. Here's hoping they tour. (And headline 2019)

[Winslow Leach]

14 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

Fuck forgot all about Ought, Hookworms, U.S. Girls and Skee Mask. Mine might need revising. Death Grips is probably in mine tbh but felt a bit premature putting it there with my first listen being today.

Mate I whacked Kamasi Washington in my list year same day it came out.