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2018 Album of the Year nominations


Rubin Farr

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Ok. Here be my list. Ones on top are the ones not/rarely mentioned yet.

 

Milieu & Coppice Halifax - Sun Cast

Die Erzeugung - Sedierung

Mark Van Hoen - The Seeker

Norwell - Interkosmos

M//R - Among The Methods

Lowfish - Hypersensitivity

Kuldaboli - Storukeppni Vio Guo

Container - LP

Akrenaut - Love Me Like Your Phone

Hologram - Tesseract

Kilchofer - The Book Room

Snack Master - My Inner World

NN - Cave Of The Birdbath King

Yimino - AENg

Last Faith Studio (David Last) - Constructions Vol. 1

Cathode Ray Tube - Invisible Soundtracks

AIWA - Proofless Arithmatic

Sam Haar - Lumes

Elusive Man - SpaceTime

Colin Dyer - 16E8C02

Acrelid - Illegal Rave Tapes Series (so far)

Ostrowski - Primary Fluctuation

Roman Flugel - Themes

East Side Ancients - Buried Legends

SUSS - Ghost Box

Mono Peninsula - Metro/Pol

The Horn - Escapes

Ectomorph - Stalker

BEAST - Ens

Cygnus - Neo Geo

 

Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois

Djrum - Portrait With Firewood

Jodey Kendrick - EDM K

Orbital - Monsters Exist

Aphex Twin - Collapse

Rolando Simmons - qrth-phyl

Demdike Stare - Passion

Forma - Semblance

Meat Beat Manifesto - Impossible Star

Steven Rutter - Brain Fog

Morphology - Traveller

Thomas Fehlmann - Los Lagos

Dunal - Chronicles II

Objekt - Cocoon Crush

Richard Devine - Sort/Lave

Autechre - NTS

Aleksi Perala - Colundi 17 Box

+

 

Bjarki - Oli Gumm

Rings Around Saturn - (S.T.)

 

hey dude can you do a dr lopez style quality breakdown? thanks - dr lopez

 

Ok.  Using your labels:

 

Exceedingly good:

 

Meat Beat Manifesto - Impossible Star

Morphology - Traveller

Rings Around Saturn - (S.T.)

Milieu + Coppice Halifax - Sun Cast

Yimino - AEng

Die Erzeugung - Sidierung

 

+ Aphex and AE of course

+ Dunal and Aleksi SD card from 17

 

Good with projected listening past 2018:

 

The rest listed above. 

 

Let down: The Orb 

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not been the most amazing year for new stuff, I've mostly been listening to 70s/80s japanese music, but in a roughish order:

 

jim o'rourke - sleep like it's winter

aleksi perala - sunshine 2, the colundi sequence 17 & 17.5

eod - named
afx - collapse

ae - nts

dunal - dunal II, surplus
ambulance - combover
hieroglyphic being - the language of strings. vol. 1 & 2 (not heard the rest, probably also great)
the necks - body
steven julien - bloodline
mr fingers - cerebral hemispheres
dorian concept - the nature of immitation
ceephax - camelot arcade
geo rip - u​-udios 2
cygnus - rainy days, ne0 ge0
the bad plus - never stop II
kamasi washington - heaven and earth
kamaal williams - the return
opn - age of...
zoid - nebulous concrete
thomas fehlmann - los lagos
 
saw dabrye 3/3 mentioned a few times, can't believe I forgot about that, must check it out. also never got around to the Snares and Daniel Lanois thing, nor the new Mouse on Mars...
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I also quite liked the Amhain 2018 sampler album, but haven't had time to dig into the individual albums yet, there's too much stuff and it's hard to know where to start. I'm guessing I'd pick a few from that to include too.

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Albums:

1. Robyn - Honey

2. Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4

^also my #1 and #2 for the decade, go 2018!

 

3. Neil Young - Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live

4. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

5. TT - Lovelaws

HM: Arctic Monkeys, Courtney Barnett, Anna Calvi

 

EP / single:

1. Yaporigami - Xinri A / Xinri B (12")

2. Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss (Remixes EP)

HM: God's Plan

1. Robyn - Honey

2. Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4

3. Yaporigami - Xinri

4. Neil Young - Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live

5. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

6. TT - Lovelaws

7. Rings Around Saturn - S/T

8. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino

9. Courtney Barnett - Tell me how you really feel

10. Anna Calvi - Hunter

 

2018 has been magnificent. That's my best top 10 since 2010-11, and still in November, without years of catching up.

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Gonna have to toss a nomination to Vessel's "Queen of Golden Dogs", just came out but it's a REALLY strong late comer this year... Great stuff.

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Agree been listening to this one all week and defo now in my top 2018 listing

 

https://amhain.bandcamp.com/album/3-eg-x-8xd

 

Sure most his other stuff from this year will make the grade as well but still need to digest it all!

 

Yep one of my faves from the recent stuff too

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this is the list

dear god do i hate all the other lists....used to get excited waiting for them....now theyre just boring

 

I'll go for:

 

Aphex - Collapse

NTS

Mark Knopfler - Down the Road Wherever 

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Thom Yorke - Suspiria OST

Pellegrino - Zodyaco

James Shinra - Vital Heat

Various - Napoli Segreta Volume 1

RP Boo - I'll Tell You What!

Francoise Hardy - Personne D'Autre

Dylan Carlson - Conquistador

Space Afrika -Somewhere Decent To Live

Gabor Lazar - Unfold

L'Imperatrice - Matahari

The Ex - 27 Passports

Eastman - Red, White & Zero

Wolf Muller & Niklas Wandt - Instrumentalmusik Von Der Mitte Der World

 

Dylan Carlson probably my album of the year. Check the Napoli Segreta comp of 70's/80's italian stuff it's lush.

 

Yves Tumour worst.

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ae - ntss

aphex - collapse

low - double negative

parquet courts - wide awake

rolando simmons - qrth phyl

leon vynehall - nothing is still

thomas fehlmann - los lagos

dj koze - knock knock

the fear ratio - live ep

A.A.L - 2012-2017

p1nkf1re - parts 1 + 2

valerio moscatelli

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mattheis - thin sections

segue - pacifica (reissue)

answer code request - gens

va - air tevture vol vi

vainquer - reductions 95-97 

eod - named

idles - brutalism

thomas fehlmann - los lagos

heinrich mueller - false vacuum

soft as snow - deep wave

 

eps

 

shackleton - furnace of guts

aphex - collapse

karel - life

ambassade - wat voel je nou (reissue)

claudio prc - volumi dinamici

kasra v - akasa

slowglide - reigi

morah - the vessels of the blood

dollkraut - fetish

echodroides - glowing in the dark

 

so much stuff i haven't heard yet in this thread, looking forward to digging through it on a rainy sunday.

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EOD - Named

Morphology - Traveller

Ross From Friends - Family Portrait

Skee Mask - Compro

Vril - Anima Mundi

James Shinra - Vital Heat

Vester Koza - Loader Mither

Gabor Lazar - Unfold

Autechre - NTS Sessions

Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

Aphex Twin - Collapse

Objekt - Cocoon Crush

DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose

Prime Minister Of Doom - Mudshadow Propaganda

Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet

Aleksi Perälä - Starlight 1 & 2 / Sunshine 1 & 2

Primal Code - La Via Della Seta

Demdike Stare - Passion

Ceephax - Camelot Arcade

Thomas Fehlman - Los Lagos

Wanderwelle - Gathering Of The Ancient Spirits

Martyn - Voids

Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still

SW:SVN - SW:SVN

Panda Bear - A Day With The Homies

Terekke - Improvisational Loops

 

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