2018 Albums • Page 9

Seems like a better way to keep track of what I've listened to as opposed to my notes app lol

++ - Excellent/+ - Good/* - Neutral/- - Dislike/-- - Not for me

2018 Q1 Albums

January

1. Jeff Rosenstock - POST- ++
2. Author - IIFOIIC +
3. awakebutstillinbed - What People Call Low Self-Esteem... ++
4. Fall Out Boy - MANIA ++
5. Typhoon - Offerings +
6. Hussey - Hitchens +
7. Umphrey's McGee - It's Not Us *
8. The XCERTS - Hold on to Your Heart *
9. Speak Low If You Speak Love - Nearsighted -
10. Porches - The House -
11. Marmozets - Knowing What You Know Now +
12. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell -
13. No Age - Snares Like a Haircut -
14. Waterparks - Entertainment *

February

15. Rhye - Blood -
16. Anna Burch - Quit the Curse +
17. Field Music - Open Here +
18. Hookworms - Microshift +
19. Palm - Rock Island -
20. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers +
21. The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life +
22. Hockey Dad - Blend Inn *
23. MGMT - Little Dark Age *
24. Cecil Frena - The Gridlock ++
25. Long Neck - Will This Do? ++
26. The Dangerous Summer - The Dangerous Summer -
27. U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited +
28. Runaway Brother - New Pocket ++
29. Brandi Carlile - By The Way, I Forgive You *
30. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love ++
31. Kendrick Lamar & TDE - Black Panther The Album *
32. American Pleasure Club - A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This *
33. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy ++
34. Hovvdy - Cranberry *
35. Hurry - Every Little Thought *
36. SUPERTEEN - Over Everything *
37. Caroline Rose - LONER ++
38. Dessa - Chime +
39. SOB X RBE - GANGIN *
40. Towkio - .WWW -
41. Vundabar - Smell Smoke -

March

42. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends ++
43. Lucy Dacus - Historian ++
44. Soccer Mommy - Clean ++
45. Moaning - Moaning -
46. Quiet Friend - Quiet Friend -
47. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus +
48. Black Foxxes - Reioi ++
49. Mount Eerie - Now Only +
50. Grayhaven - Empty Black +
51. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else +
52. Nervus - Everything Dies -
53. Three Man Cannon - Three Man Cannon +
54. Bonny Doon - Longwave +
55. Field Report - Summertime Songs +
56. Jack White - Boarding House Reach -
57. Preoccupations - New Material -
58. Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue *
59. Matthew Politoski - 8 Emanations --
60. Amen Dunes - Freedom +
61. Frankie Cosmos - Vessel +
62. Lifted Bells - Minor Tantrums *
63. The Republic of Wolves - Shrine +
64. Bobby Barnett - Steady Ache +
65. The Voidz - Virtue +
66. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour ++
67. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz +
68. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy (EP) +
69. Cavalier - Private Stock *

 

Split for length

Non-2018 Albums

January

1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style *
2. Chris Stapleton - From A Room: Volume 1 & 2 +
3. Shame, Shame - Dr. Dog *
4. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound +
5. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound +
6. Jam Som - Everybody Works *
7. Sidney Gish - Ed Buys Houses ++
8. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead +
9. SZA - Ctrl ++

February

10. Alvvays - Antisocialites *
11. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else +
12. Frank Ocean - Channel ORANGE ++
13. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed ++
14. Vince Staples - Summertime '06 +

March

15. Bon Iver - Bon Iver ++
16. Anderson .Paak - Malibu +
17. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit +
18. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice +
19. Death Cab for Cutie - Translanticism ++
20. The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About +
21. Japandroids - Near To the Wild Heart of Life *
22. Kanye West - The College Dropout +
23. Kanye West - Late Registration +
24. Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak ++
25. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism +
26. The National - Boxer ++
27. Pedro the Lion - Control +
28. Pedro the Lion - Achiles' Heel +
29. Perfume Genius - No Shape *
30. Pond - The Weather +
31. Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again -
32. Slowdive - Slowdive +
33. Spoon - They Want My Soul ++
34. Thundercat - Drunk *
35. TV on the Radio - Seeds *
36. Wye Oak - Shriek +

April

37. Carly Rae Jepsen - E-MO-TION +
38. Tash Sultana - Notion (EP) ++
39. Papadosio - Extras In a Movie +
40. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake +
41. Hop Along - Get Disowned ++
42. Jeff Rosenstock - I Look Like Shit ++

May

43. Algiers - The Underside of Power +

June

44. Snail Mail - Habit (EP) +
45. Volcano Choir - Repave +

July

46. twenty one pilots - Vessel +
47. fun. - Aim and Ignite +
48. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs *
49. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You? ++
50. Kevin Abstract - American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story ++

August

51. Odd Future - The OF Tape, Vol. 2 +
52. Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm +
53. Antarctigo Vespucci - Leavin' La Vida Loca +
54. DUCKWRTH - An XTRA UUGLY Mixtape ++

September

55. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die +

 

Favourite Q1 releases have been bolded

 

March:

12. Alma - Heavy Rules EP ++
13. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else +
14. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy, EP ++
15. Frankie Cosmos -Vessel +
16. Kate Nash - Yesterday Was Forever +

 

Update:

42. True Love - The Pact ++
43. Ecostrike - Voice of Strength ++
44. Casey - Where I Go When I'm Sleeping +
45. Screech Bats - Wish You Were Her ++
46. Tangled Hair - We Do What We Can +
47. Stars Hollow - Happy Again +
48. The Fever 333 - Made An America --
49. Saweetie - High Maintenance +

 

March update. Some really good stuff so far this year.

 

Edited February to add Cecil Frena

March
Soccer Mommy - Clean ++
Lucy Dacus - Historian +
Of Montreal - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood +
David Byrne - American Utopia +
The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl *
1st Vows - The Tens +
The Republic of Wolves - Shrine +

 

*Soccer Mommy - Clean++

 

Damn it. I have all of it in a spreadsheet and messed up lol

 

- last year around November I realized I had a number repeated in like February. Had to go back and fix hundreds of wrongly numbered entries.

 

Everything new I listened to in March...

1.) "Lost Whispers" by Evanescence
2.) "Junun" by Shye Ben Tzur, Johnny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express
3.) "Shapeshifter" by Knuckle Puck
4.) "Synthesis" by Evanescence
5.) "The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett" by Eels
6.) "Nomad" by Kublai Khan
7.) "Royal Albert Hall" by Eels
8.) "(I Am) Origami, Pt. 1 - The Universal Sigh" by John Van Deusen
9.) "Pablo Honey" by Radiohead
10.) "Never Happy, Ever After" by As It Is
11.) "Nothing I Write You Can Change What You've Been Through" by Trash Boat
12.) "I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore" by Moose Blood
13.) "Post Traumatic" by Mike Shinoda
14.) "Stranger in the Alps" by Phoebe Bridgers
15.) "The Bends" by Radiohead
16.) "...And All That Could Have Been" by Nine Inch Nails
17.) "Headspace" by Issues
18.) "Prison Boxing" by Cataldo
19.) "Digimon: The Movie" by Various Artists
20.) "The Vans Warped Tour 15th Anniversary Celebration" by Various Artists
21.) "Hard to Swallow" by Vanilla Ice
22.) "Talon of the Hawk" by The Front Bottoms
23.) "O.K. Computer" by Radiohead
24.) "Gilded Oldies" by Cataldo
25.) "Only in Amerika" by (hed) p.e.
26.) "Feel Something" by Movements
27.) "Keepers" by Cataldo
28.) "Almost Here" by The Academy Is...
29.) "The 1975" by The 1975
30.) "Kid A" by Radiohead
31.) "Everything in Transit" by Jack's Mannequin

 

109. Chloe x Halle -The Kids Are Alright (2018)
110. Lissie - Castles (2018)

 

I'm out here wondering how people churn through so many albums haha.

January
Underworld - Tonight Alive +
MANIA - Fall Out Boy +
Idiot Proverbs - Tiny Little Houses ++

February
Sleepwalkers - Brian Fallon ++
Natural Born Chillers - The Bennies +
Bloody Lovely - DZ Deathrays +
Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Lives - The Wombats +
Crooked Shadows - Dashboard Confessional *
Blend Inn - Hockey Dad +
Black Panther Soundtrack - Various ++
Good Mood - Ball Park Music ++

March
How to Socialise & Make Friends - Camp Cope +++

Haven't had a chance to listen to yet
You Are Someone Else - Fickle Friends
My Dear Melancholy, - The Weeknd

 

March
Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends -
Andrew W.K. - You're Not Alone -
Moose Blood - I don't Think I Can Do This Anymore -
Red City Radio - Sky Tigers -
The Neighborhood - S/T +
Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else +
Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus +
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour +++
Scott Sellers - The Judge +++

 

Quarter 2 2018

April

70. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities ++
71. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog ++
72. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs +
73. Kississippi - Sunset Blush +
74. Saba - CARE FOR ME ++
75. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food *
76. Hinds - I Don’t Run +
77. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy *
78. Animal Flag - Void Ripper +
79. Princess Nokia - A Girl Cried Red +
80. nothing, nowhere. - ruiner +
81. Many Rooms - There is a Presence Here *
82. King Tuff - The Other +
83. The Hard Aches - Mess +
84. The Hirs Collective - Friends. Lovers. Favorites. --
85. The Longshot - Love Is for Losers *
86. Lume - Wrung Out -
87. Lord Huron - Vide Noir *
88. Half Waif - Lavender +
89. Forth Wanderers - Forth Wanderers +
90. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer +
91. Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys +
92. The Armed - Only Love *
93. Grouper - Grid of Points *
94. Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse *

May

95. Frank Turner - Be More Kind *
96. Tove Styrke - Sway +
97. Trampled By Turtles - Life Is Good on the Open Road *
98. Leon Bridges - Good Thing *
99. Middle Kids - Lost Friends +
100. Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies ++
101. Nickelus F - Stuck *
102. Strung Out - Black Out the Sky +
103. World's Greatest Dad - Get Well Soon +
104. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino *
105. Beach House - 7 +
106. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel +
107. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours ++
108. The Front Bottoms - Ann (EP) +
109. Now, Now - Saved ++
110. Elder Brother - Stay Inside +
111. DJDS - Big Wave More Fire +
112. CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead *
113. Pusha T - DAYTONA *
114. A$AP Rocky - TESTING *
115. William Ryan Key - Thirteen (EP) *
116. Tierra Whack - Whack World +

June

117. Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer ++
118. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be in Love +
119. Kanye West - ye -
120. Natalie Prass - The Future and the Past +
121. Richard Edwards - Verdugo *
122. Snail Mail - Lush ++
123. serpentwithfeet - soil +
124. Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone +
125. Flasher - Constant Image *
126. Lykke Li - so sad so sexy *
127. Pllush - Stranger to the Pain +
128. Chromeo - Head Over Heels +
129. Mayday Parade - Sunnyland +
130. Petal - Magic Gone +
131. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides ++
132. Mike Shinoda - Post Traumatic +
133. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs +
134. Jay Rock - Redemption *
135. The Carters - EVERYTHING IS LOVE +
136. Panic! At the Disco - Pray For The Wicked ++
137. Vacationer - Mindset - +
138. Westside Gunn - Supreme Bilentele *
139. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch *
140. This Wild Life - Petaluma *
141. Bebe Rexha - Expectations +
142. The Gorrilaz - The Now Now *
143. Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music *
144. Let's Eat Grandma - I'm All Ears ++

 

March in Review:
Now we're getting into the good stuff. March brought in no less than 3 albums that I'm relatively confident will be in my top 10 at the end of the year. (I've included my Q1 Top Ten List at the bottom of this post.)

This month was bookended by the new Lucy Dacus and Kacey Musgraves albums, both of which bowled me over by pursuing entirely different narratives than I expected, given their prior work. Lucy Dacus' Historian jump-starts with lead single and song of the year candidate "Night Shift", before turning away from romantic relationships to taking in the fuller picture of her life. The songs are dense and beautifully textured with a number of different instruments, but Dacus' voice is front and center to deliver lines that drip with sharp, matter-of-fact humor and deceptively strong hooks.

Conversely, every note of Musgraves' Golden Hour sounds like it has been filtered through pure sunshine, with songs that largely expand on the warm romance of "Late To The Party" from her last album. Lyrically, the open-ended platitudes to love are a bit of an about-face from the tightly constructed, winking couplets of her previous work. Yet there's a soft sonic cohesiveness here that belies just how many chances she's taking with her songwriting. It makes me want to sway and hold someone.

I guess anticipation is a dangerous thing, because Field Report's Summertime Songs is another March album that went down entirely different when I was finally able to dive pass the appetizer into the full meal. It's a chilly, redemptive song cycle that feels miles away from the wide-open-road escapism of its lead single and album title. Yet the album's rewarding in its own right, a collection of emotionally raw but fully fleshed-out folk rock stories with lyrics that I want to read over and over. It's the best album-length storytelling I've heard in a very long time, and I've been listening constantly to better piece together the latest chapter of Christopher Porterfield's life. (Man, "Field Report" is such a great name for this band.)

I've already seen some great concerts this year, but nothing compares to Bruce Springsteen's one man show "Bruce on Broadway". I'm still thinking about how it felt, sitting quietly in the presence of a rock legend who is literally exposing every facet of his life in the name of connection. The show was filled with acoustic performances that forced listeners to focus on Bruce's words, with monologues from his autobiography that brought them into new context. If Springsteen shows are typically big tent revivals, this is more like a confessional, stark and intimate. Go see it if you can.

Top 2018 albums of the month:
Kacey Musgraves, Lucy Dacus, Field Report, Fickle Friends

Recommended Songs I discovered this month:
Field Report - "Blind Spot"
Lucy Dacus - "Addictions"
NoMBe - "Wait"
pronoun - "run"
Mt. Joy - "Astrovan"

Favorite Albums of Q1
1. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
2. Field Report - Summertime Songs
3. Lucy Dacus - Historian
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4. Soccer Mommy - Clean
5. Caroline Rose - LONER
6. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
7. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else
8. Bahamas - Earthtones
9. Camp Cope - How To Socialise & Make Friends
10. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,

 

March Update:

March
39. Sorority Noise - YNAAYT [+++]
40. Andrew W.K. - You're Not Alone [++]
41. Barely Civil - We Can Live Here Forever [+++]
42. Donovan Wolfington - Waves [++]
43. Gulfer - Dog Bless [++]
44. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends [++]
45. Soccer Mommy - Clean [+]
46. Titus Andronicus - A Productive Cough [+]
47. Nervus - Everything Dies [+++]
48. Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 2 [++]
49. Logic - Bobby Tarantino II [+]
50. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus [+++]
51. Remo Drive - Pop Music EP [+++]
52. Black Foxxes - reiði [+]
53. Wale - It's Complicated EP [*]
54. Stuck Out - You Won't Come Home EP [+]
55. Hot Mulligan - Pilot [+++]
56. McCafferty - Yarn [+]
57. The Republic of Wolves - shrine [+++]
58. The Weekend - My Dear Melancholy, EP [+]

Running Top Ten (as of 4/6/18)
1. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
2. The Republic of Wolves - shrine
3. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait For Love
4. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus
5. Hot Mulligan - Pilot
6. Barely Civil - We Can Live Here Forever
7. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
8. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
9. Bleed American - It Probably Isn't
10. Nervus - Everything Dies

 

March

Dove into Fela Kuti for the first time who are sorta the best band ever?

 

111. George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's (2018)
112. Kali Uchis - Isolation (2018)
113. Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations (2018)
114. Underøath - Erase Me (2018)
115. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities (2018)
116. Alina Baraz - The Color Of You (2018)
117. Snakehips - STAY HOME TAPES (= --__-- =) (2018)

 

April

37. Hop Along - bark your head off, dog +
38. The Dangerous Summer - s/t +
39. Pianos Become The Teeth - wait for love +
40. The Republic of Wolves - shrine +
41. Andrew W.K. - you're not alone +

 

3. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers ++
4. Frankie Cosmos - Vessel +

 

January
1. Jeff Rosenstock- POST- ++
2. Lizzy Farrall- All I Said Was Never heard EP +
3. Camila Cabello- Camila *
4. Hussey- Hitchens +
5. Fall Out Boy- Mania +
6. Tiny Moving Parts- Swell +

February
1. Justin Timberlake- Man of the Woods -

March
1. Brian Fallon- Sleepwalkers+
2. Dashboard Confessional- Crooked Shadows -

April
1. Underoath- Erase me +
2. The Wonder Years- Sister Cities +

 

update. ive given up on tracking old albums im listening to way too much old shit lately to keep up with it

 

i'm so late and so behind on this shit. frustrated at my slow pace. march

 

Catching up on a few.