Had much less time for music this past year, but here are my favorites …
Albums:
1. Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
2. Tim Hecker – Konoyo
3. Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
4. Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is a Reptile
5. Jenny Wilson – EXORCISM
6. Ben Lamar Gay – Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
7. Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love
8. A.A.L (Against All Logic) – 2012-2017
9. Mythic Sunship – Another Shape of Psychedelic Music
10. Nils Frahm – All Melody
11. Beach House – 7
12. Pusha T – Daytona
13. The Cure – Torn Down
14. U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
15. Iceage – Beyondless
16. Low – Double Negative
17. Hooverphonic – Looking for Stars
18. Senyawa – Sujud
19. Lotic – Power
20. Julia Holter – Aviary
21. Kelly Moran – Ultraviolet
22. Mary Halvorson – Code Girl
23. Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens
24. Mount Eerie – Now Only
25. Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace
26. Gazelle Twin – Pastoral
27. Neko Case – Hell-On
28. Gurrumul – Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)
29. Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
30. SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
31. Rival Consoles – Persona
32. Christine and the Queens – Chris
33. Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
34. Jon Hopkins – Singularity
35. Kali Uchis – Isolation
36. Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
37. IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
38. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
39. Haley Heynderickx – I Need to Start a Garden
40. Rosalia – El mal querer
Songs:
1. Klergy x Valerie Broussard – The Beginning of the End
2. Chromatics – Black Walls
3. GUNSHIP F/ Tim Cappello and Indiana – Dark All Day
4. Anna von Hausswolff – Ugly and Vengeful
5. Lonnie Holley – I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America
6. Beach House – Black Car
7. Everything Everything – Breadwinner
8. Tim Hecker – This life
9. Yves Tumor F/ Oxhy & Puce Mary – Hope in Suffering (Escaping Oblivion & Overcoming Powerlessness)
10. Nils Frahm – Kaleidoscope
11. Beach House – Lemon Glow
12. Jenny Wilson – RAPIN*
13. Gazelle Twin – Hobby Horse
14. Lotic – Resilience
15. Timecop1983 F/ The Midnight – Static
16. Mythic Sunship – Resolution
17. Sons of Kemet – My Queen Is Anna Julia Cooper
18. The Cure – Just One Kiss (Remember Mix 2018)
19. Neko Case – Oracle of the Maritimes
20. Chromatics – Blue Girl
21. Vi3son – Spent
22. The Weeknd – Call Out My Name
23. Kendrick Lamar & SZA – All the Stars
24. Kamasi Washington – Fists of Fury
25. Kelly Moran – Helix
26. Julia Holter – I Would Rather See
27. Low – Rome (Always in the Dark)
28. Ben Lamar Gay – Kunni
29. Kane Brown – Lose It
30. Low – Poor Sucker
31. The Weeknd F/ Kendrick Lamar – Pray for Me
32. The Cure – M (Attack Mix 2018)
33. U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates
34. A.A.L (Against All Logic) – Some Kind of Game
35. CupcakKe – Crayons
36. Senyawa – Sujud (prostration)
37. Cascadeur – Turn to Dust
38. Anna von Hausswolff – The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra (2017)
39. Pusha T – The Games We Play
40. The Cure – The Drowning Man (Bright Birds Mix 2018)
41. Makaya McCraven – Mantra
42. Nils Frahm – All Melody
43. Kali Uchis – Tomorrow
44. Kamasi Washington – Will You Sing
45. Neko Case – Hell-On
46. Beach House – Drunk in LA
47. Christine and the Queens – What’s-her-face
48. Gazelle Twin – Glory
49. Gurrumul – Ngarrpiya (Octopus)
50. Ben Lamar Gay – Galveston
51. Sons of Kemet – My Queen Is Angela Davis
52. Mary Halvorson – Storm Cloud
53. Hooverphonic – Paranoid Affair
54. Ariana Grande – breathin
55. Still Corners – The Message
56. Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid – Eastside
57. 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood
58. Eminem – Fall
59. Gwenno – Tir Ha Mor
60. Shame – Dust on Trial
61. IDLES – June
62. Iceage – Plead the fifth
63. Hot Snakes – Death of a Sportsman
64. Childish Gambino – This Is America
65. Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
66. Parquet Courts – Violence
67. Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams
68. Let’s Eat Grandma – Falling into Me
69. Jenny Wilson – FOREVER IS A LONG TIME
70. Low – Dancing and Blood
71. Kadhja Bonet – Joy
72. Justin Timberlake F/ Chris Stapleton – Say Something
73. Kimbra – Human
74. ionnalee F/ Jamie Irrepressible – Dunes of Sand
75. Mount Eerie – Tintin in Tibet
76. The Decemberists – Severed
77. Jenny Wilson – DISRESPECT IS UNIVERSAL
78. Eels – Rusty Pipes
79. A.A.L (Against All Logic) – Cityfade
80. Gwenno – Hi a Skoellyas Liv a Dhagrow
81. Ben Lamar Gay – Muhal
82. Ezra Furman – Driving Down to L.A.
83. Pusha T F/ Rick Ross – Hard Piano
84. Moby – A Dark Cloud Is Coming
85. Rival Consoles – Phantom Grip
86. Tim Hecker – In Death Valley
87. SOPHIE – Is It Cold in the Water?
88. Natalia Lafourcade – Que la Vida Vale
89. Marshmello & Bastille – Happier
90. Jeanne Added – Radiate
91. Jon Hopkins – Singularity
92. Lea Bertucci – Accumulations
93. Mythic Sunship – Backyard Ritual
94. Anna von Hausswolff – The Truth, the Glow, the Fall
95. Kamasi Washington – Street Fighter Mas
96. Young Fathers – Wow
97. The Crystal Method F/ Franky Perez – There’s a Difference
98. Grimes – We Appreciate Power
99. Lucy Dacus – Timefighter
100. Gwenifer Raymond – Off to See the Hangman, Pt. II