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2018 Album of the Year nominations


Rubin Farr

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Shortlist from my 2018 folder which is currently nearly 200 albums deep - yikes.

 

The Allegorist - Hybrid Dimension I

Anklepants - Pollen

Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

Aphex Twin - Collapse

AE - NTS

Beast - Ens

Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends

Caterina Barbieri - Born Again in the Voltage

Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Cruel Diagonals - Disambiguation

Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Dunal - Dunal Chronicles II

Eartheater - Irisiri

Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses

EOD - Named

Flown - Awry

Hiro Kone - Pure Expenditure

Lost Girls - Feeling

Low - Double Negative

Milieu & Coppice Halifax - Sun Cast

Mopfunk - Red Dancer

Mouse on Mars - Dimensional People

Nadia Struiwigh - WHRRu

RAMZi - Phobiza "Amor Fati" Vol. 3

Robyn - Honey

Rolando Simmons - qrth-phyl

Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It

Rook - Shed Blood

SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard

Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi

Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

Zoë Mc Pherson - String Figures

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Based on my listening habits - local radio, spotify, etc. and the general scope and vibe of releases this year I'll have a hard time narrowing it down - plethora of a great albums but only a handful are def inclusions. Otherwise it's a long ass list of songs I've dug.

 

I can say my favorite album and band discovery is...

 

Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo

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The Heartwood Institute - Secret Rites

 

Meat Beat Manifesto - Impossible Star

 

The Wyrding Module - Nine Dimensional Synod of Oblique Pleasures

 

LOR - Lunar Orbit Rendezvous

 

Trevor Jackson - System

 

Snowbeasts - Survival

 

Tomorrow Syndicate - Future Tense

 

John Carpenter - Halloween (2018)

 

Cathode Ray Tube - Invisible Soundtracks

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In no particular order the albums I enjoyed most this year:

 

 

Richard Devine - sort/lave

aphex twin  - collapse

eod - named

demdike stare - passion

ceeys - waende

george clanton - slide

death grips - year of the snitch

Jlin - autobiography

lorn - remnant

oneohtrix point never - age of

the new james shinra album whenever that comes out

orbital - monsters exist

iglooghost stuff

 

dunno I didn't really listen to too much stuff this year I can't remember all I listened to either but 

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For those coming to my mind without thinking and checking anything:

 

Appleblim - Life in a Laser

Gabor Lazar - Unfold

Autechre - NTS

DJ Koze - Knock Knock

Low - Double Negative

Skee Mask - Compro

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Caterina Barbieri - Born Again in the Voltage

Jlin - Autobiography

Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

 

And it seems it's getting a bit unoticed here, but Cypress Hill released their best album in ages...

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death grips - year of the snitch

 

Not trying to shit on your enjoyment, but if i could nominate this for worst album of the year, or give it an un-nomination for best of the year, i would

 

 

I'm kinda new to death grips but I got REALLY into it for a few weeks and started listening to a bunch of other death grips stuff because I used to think it sounded trash and somehow I changed my taste. Thought it was pretty good. Lot's of interesting production and cool beats and rock and roll sort of style mixing and production with cool use of samples and scratching and pretty weird lyrics.

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Gabor Lazar - Unfold

Autechre - NTS

Collapse

Amnesia Scanner

 

I forgot:

Alva Noto - Unieqav

Barker - Debiasing

Chevel - Always yours / In a rush and Mercurial

 

Quite excited about upcoming Objekt's LP, might end in that list too.

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inpo...

Albums
Lorn - Remnant
Djrum - Portrait with Firewood
Vera Spektor - Liminal Clash Console
Terminal 11 - Harmless Chaos

Punch Cards - espers
The Caretaker - Stages 4 & 5

darriechungsform - eptrer-hewq-nosqL-bioi-0m
Kjostad - Environment Electronics
Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois - s/t
Ceephax - Camelot Arcade
Ruby My Dear - Brame

Worm Monolith - Worm Monolith

Zaimph - Rhizomatic Gaze
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4

Oberman Knocks - Trilate Shift


EPs / Singles
Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
SHXCXCHCXSH - SHULULULU
Nathan Fake - Sunder

UKAEA / Basic Vanilla - Split EP

Phase Phatale - Reverse Fall

Joy O & Ben Vince - Transition 2 / Systems Align
The Fear Ratio - Live EP

 

 

Compilations

Touched Music - Cover 3

Live in Tokyo - John Digweed

Fabric 99 - Sasha

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