Songs of the Year 2018
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10 Great Ones
FIDLAR: Too Real
Dawn Landes: Traveling
Sudan Archives: Nont For Sale
Courtney Barnett: Need a Little Time
Buddy: Trouble on Central
Chastity: Children
AJ Tracey: Doing It
Amanda Shires: Parking Lot Pirouette
Childish Gambino: This is America
Brandi Carlile: The Joke
Albums of the Year – top 10:
Turnstile: Time & Space
(Roadrunner)

Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is a Reptile
(Impulse!)

Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour
(MCA Nashville)

Brandi Carlile: By The Way, I Forgive You
(Elektra)

Low: Double Negative
(Sub Pop)

Pusha T: DAYTONA
(G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)

Rosalía: El Mal Querer
(Sony)

IDLES: Joy As An Act Of Resistance
(Partisan)

Jon Hopkins: Singularity
(Domino)

Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer

≈≈≈Bubbling Below≈≈≈

Khruangbin
Khruangbin: Con Todo El Mundo
Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever: Hope Downs
Parquet Courts: Wide Awake
Lucy Dacus: Historian
Nothing: Dance on the Blacktop
John Prine: The Tree of Forgiveness
Tony Molina: Kill the Lights
Kali Uchis: Isolation
DJ Koze: Knock Knock
Caitlyn Smith: Starfire

Amanda Shires
Amanda Shire: To the Sunset
U.S. Girls: In Poem Unlimited
Tribulation: Down Below
The Decemberists: I’ll Be Your Girl
Noname: Room 25
Shame: Songs of Praise
Natalie Prass: The Future and the Past
Ben Howard: Noonday Dream
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams: Vanished Gardens
Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel

Fatoumata Diawara
A$ap Rocky: TESTING
Fatoumata Diawara: Fenfo
Mary Gauthier: Rifles & Rosary Beads
Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy (Face to Face)
Kamasi Washington: Heaven and Earth
Ruby Boots: Don’t Talk About It
Ought: Room Inside the World
Ambrose Akinmusire: Origami Harvest
Vince Staples: FM!
Park Jiha: Communion

Amgala Temple
Mitski: Be the Cowboy
Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy
Jonathan Wilson: Rare Birds
Amgala Temple: Invisible Airships
Superchunk: What a Time to Be Alive
Frøkedal: How We Made It
George FitzGerald: All That Must Be
Crippled Black Phoenix: Great Escape
Ashley McBryde: Girl Going Nowhere
Ben Lamar Gay: Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun

Israel Nash
Geir Sundstøl: Brødløs
Nils Frahm: All Melody
Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain
Yo La Tengo: There’s A Riot Going On
Laura Gibson: Goners
Israel Nash: Rolling On
Snail Mail: Lush
Kurt Vile: Bottle It In
King Tuff: The Other

Haley Heynderickx
Soccer Mommy: Clean
Blood Orange: Negro Swan
Father John Misty: God’s Favorite Customer
SOPHIE: Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Haley Heynderickx: I Need to Start a Garden
Tierra Whack: Whack World
Hailu Mergia: Lala Belu
Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman
Yves Tumor: Safe In The Hands Of Love
Alejandro Escovedo: The Crossing

Caroline Rose
The Beths: Future Me Hates Me
Møster!: States of Minds
Caroline Rose: LONER
Damagers: s/t
Boygenius: s/t
Leon Vynehall: Nothing Is Still
Hookworms: Microshift
Windhand: Eternal Return
Thou: Magus
Hot Snakes: Jericho Sirens

Jess Williamson
All Them Witches: ATW
The Internet: Hive Mind
YOB: Our Raw Heart
Cecile McLorin Salvant: The Window
Zhu: RINGOS DESERT
KEN Mode: Loved
Daniel Bachman: The Morning Star
Jess Williamson: Cosmic Wink
Sleep: The Sciences
The Nude Party: s/t
Daniel Avery: Songs For Alpha
Preoccupations: New Material
Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar
Buddy: Harlan & Alondra
Jeff Rosenstock: -POST
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Sparkle Hard
cupcakKE: Ephorize
Anbessa Orchestra: Negestat
iceage: Beyondless
Ryley Walker: Deafman Glance
BEST REISSUES/HISTORICAL ALBUMS OF 2018
Songs: Ohia: Love & Work: The Lioness Sessions
(Secretly Canadian)

John Coltrane: Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
(Impulse)

The Beatles: The Beatles And Esher Demos: 50th Anniversary Edition
(Apple/Universal)

Giant Sand: Returns to Valley of Rain
(Fire)

VA: Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground
(Numero)

Bobbie Gentry: The Girl From Chickasaw County – The Complete Capitol Masters
(Capitol)

Prince: Piano and a Microphone1983
(Warner/Rhino)

Los-Angeles based Ruby Force is the musical brainchild of Erin McLaughin, who’s just dropped her debut album Evolutionary War. A stunning collection of tunes transcending country and Americana, indie and pop, the LP is a rather flawless and personal journey that takes its listener from the vast fields of her Southwestern upbringing to the fluorescent streets of urban cityscapes.
Før Kacey Musgraves ga oss Same Trailer Different Park (2013) hadde hun tre selvutgitte album bak seg, vært deltaker i talentkonkurransen Nashville Star (en country-variant av Idol), og skrevet låter for Miranda Lambert og Martina McBride.
Men det var først med major label debuten Same Trailer Different Park at det virkelig tok av for supertalentet fra Sulphur Springs, Texas. 12 glitrende countrylåter og et sett vittige, rørende og ikke minst skarpe observasjoner sentrert rundt småbylivets gode og dårligere sider er nøkkelen til at Kacey Musgraves kan regnes blant dagens store countrystemmer. Skiva gikk rett inn på andreplass på Billboard (#1 på countrylistene), er nominert til det som er av countrypriser i hjemlandet og med en påfølgende turné på begge sider av havet.
