Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2018 • Page 9

Exactly. I have two EPs, Boygenius and the Wallows, on my top 10 because I enjoyed them more than full albums.

 

Dude thanks, had no clue about Hussey. Getting that immediately. Also digging the others I haven't listened to before, Direct Hit! and We Are the Union.

 

For EPs I would have AFI - The Missing Man and Minus the Bear - Fair Enough. Still have to listen to Boygenius.

 

If you like Amy Shark I'd definitely give Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco a listen if you haven't already. Seen a handful of Meg fans on social media praising her album so they seem to share some fans.

 

left some things out for the sake of correcting for good things that are overrated vs. good things people highkey overlook. think it’s obvious from this list I also have a highly personal and specific taste

1. Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy
2. Reol - Jijitsujo
3. Pastel Ghost - Ethereality
4. Javiera Mena - Espejo
5. Zanias - Into the All
6. Wednesday Campanella - Galapagos
7. Chvrches - Love Is Dead
8. Kilo Kish - Mothe
9. Perfume - Future Pop
10. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
11. Daoko - Shitekiryoko
12. Metric - Art of Doubt
13. Allie X - Super Sunset
14. Meg Myers - Take Me to the Disco
15. Garnidelia - G.R.N.D.
16. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Japamyu
17. The Ting Tings - The Black Light
18. Molly Nilsson - Twenty Twenty
19. Esben and the Witch - Nowhere
20. Pedro - Zoozoosea
21. Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
22. Soap&Skin - From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend
23. Blood Orange - Negro Swan
24. Fishbach - À ta Merci
25. Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep
26. Julia Holter - Aviary
27. Aurora - Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1)
28. Ic3peak - Skazka
29. White Ring - Gate of Grief
30. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
31. Princess Nokia - Metallic Butterfly
32. Velvetears - Pins & Needles
33. OmenXIII - Hacker
34. Band-Maid - World Domination
35. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Spider Web
36. Iamddb - Flightmode Vol. 4
37. Fifth Dawn - Duality
38. Dyzphoria - Dyzphoria Vol. 01
39. Son Lux - Brighter Wounds
40. Kali Uchis - Isolation
42. Kailee Morgue - Medusa
43. Emika - Falling in Love with Sadness
44. Negative Gemini - Bad Baby
45. Deadcrow - III
46. Mø - Forever Neverland
47. Au/Ra - X Games
48. Dream State - Recovery
49. Nicole Dollanganger - Heart Shaped Bed
50. Simian Mobile Disco - Murmurations

 

1. Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog

2. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
3. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
4. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry
5. Tierra Whack –Whack World
6. Nickelus F - Stuck
7. American Pleasure Club – a whole fucking lifetime of this
8. Amen Dunes – Freedom
9. Julia Holter – Aviary
10. Quiet Friends – Quiet Friends

This is arbitrarily ranked and after the first 4 or so it could be in any order at all.

Honorable Mentions:
Post Malone – Beer Bongs & Bentleys
Haley Heynderickx - I Need to Start a Garden
Illuminati hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Tirzah - Devotion
Noname - Room 25
Joey Purp - Quarterthing
It Looks Sad - Sky Lake
Emily Brown - Bee Eater

 

I thought long and hard about this for several weeks. Without further ado...

Top 15

1. Foxing – "Nearer My God"
2. Kacey Musgraves – "Golden Hour"
3. The Wonder Years – "Sister Cities"
4. boygenius - "boygenius (EP)"
5. Mitski - "Be the Cowboy"
6. The 1975 – "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships"
7. Lori McKenna – "The Tree"
8. Tiny Moving Parts – "Swell"
9. Brandi Carlile – "By The Way, I Forgive You"
10. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – "Upside Down Flowers"
11. Now, Now – "Saved"
12. The Story So Far – "Proper Dose"
13. Panic! At the Disco – "Pray for the Wicked"
14. Fall Out Boy – "MANIA"
15. Real Friends – "Composure"

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Chrvches – “Love is Dead”
Dierks Bentley – “The Mountain”
Meg Myers – “Take Me to the Disco”
As It Is – “The Great Depression”
Cole Swindell – “All of It”
Twenty One Pilots – “Trench”
Muse – “Simulation Theory”
Kenny Chesney – “Songs for the Saints”
Petal – “Magic Gone”
Soccer Mommy – “Clean”
State Champs – “Living Proof”
Brian Fallon – “Sleepwalkers”
The Front Bottoms – “Ann (EP)”
Rise Against – “The Ghost Note Symphonies, Vol. 1"

 

My biggest regret is doing my list before I listened to this Pool Kids album

 

Quickly put together a "top 15", outside of the first couple they aren't necessarily in order.

Ruston Kelly - Dying Star
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
Field Report - Summertime Songs
Caitlyn Smith - Starfire
The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
Donovan Woods - Both Ways
Michigan Rattlers - Evergreen
Real Friends - Composure
Richard Edwards - Verdugo
Brandi Carlile - By The Way, I Forgive You
Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love
William Clark Green - Hebert Island
Like Pacific - In Spite of Me

 

Had to make a lot of cuts to get this down to 20; this year was pretty fantastic. I could write an entire goddamn novel about my top 3 and how important they are and are going to be for years to come.

20. Justin Courtney Pierre - In the Drink
19. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
18. Real Friends - Composure
17. All Get Out - No Bouquet
16. The Dangerous Summer - TDS
15. The Story So Far - Proper Dose
14. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
13. Runaway Brother - New Pocket
12. Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus
11. Turnstile - Time & Space
10. Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love
9. Restorations - LP5000
8. Thrice - Palms
7. Retirement Party - Somewhat Literate
6. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
5. Basement - Beside Myself
4. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
3. Foxing - Nearer My God
2. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
1. mewithoutYou - Untitled

 

I thought the Front Bottoms EP was better than their entire last album. Was not a fan of that one.

 

I enjoyed both, personally, but i get where you're coming from.

 

All get out
The Beths
Challenger Deep (single)
Covet
Delta sleep
El Ten Eleven
Greeting Committee
Gulfer
Hellogoobye
Hop Along
LITE
Mineral (single)
Orchards
Plini
TTNG
World's Greatest Dad

in no particular order. I just liked them all.

 

So much good music this year.

2018

1. Coheed & Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures
2. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
3. Foxing - Nearer My God
4. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
5.Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
6. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
7. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
8. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
9. Now, Now - Saved
10. Richard Edwards - Verdugo
11. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
12. Camp Cope - How to Socialise and Make Friends
13. Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz
14. The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours
15. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
16. Cursive - Vitriola
17. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
18. Ghost - Prequelle
19. Gorillaz - The Now Now
20. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-Mail

 

Anyone have thoughts on the inclusion of archival releases? I've been really torn between Neil Young's Hitchhiker last year and the Prince record this year.

 

I included a previously unreleased Sinatra live performance that was part of a box set this year. Seems appropriate to me.

 

1. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
2. Now, Now - Saved
3. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
4. Charmer - Charmer
5. The Story so Far - Proper Dose
6. Beach House - 7
7. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
8. Boygenius - Boygenius
9. Greyhaven - Empty Black
10. Vein - Errorzone
11. Soccer Mommy - Clean
12. Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait for Love
13. Idles - Joy as an act of Resistance
14. Frontierer - Unloved
15. Cursive - Vitriola
16. mewithoutYou - [untitled]
17. Vince Staples - FM!
18. The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
19. Saintseneca - Pillar of Na
20. Sectioned - Annihilated

 

1. Beach House - 7
2. Low - Double Negative
3. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
4. Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Look Now
5. Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains
6. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
7. Grouper - Grid of Points
8. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
9. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

I'm going to cheat and give the #10 slot to all of Kanye's projects from the summer -- I have a hard time separating them, especially because they all came out more or less at once and took over my listening accordingly, and as such they feel incomplete to me when separated out.

Overall, kind of a weird year for me -- plenty of stuff I enjoyed, but not a clear frontrunner, which is unusual for me. This was the first year in 6-7 years where I really didn't feel like I discovered much -- I sampled from some of the year-end lists last week and once again found myself more or less left cold by so much of what made the rounds this year. A lot of the indie-rock/pop stuff (Snail Mail, Soccer Mommy, Car Seat Headrest, even Mitski to an extent) just feels so redundant to other music in my collection that scratches the same itch -- I think this is just a format that I've had my fill of, lo-fi g/b/d stuff documenting the everyday neuroses of people in their early twenties. And I really struggle to relate to what's been happening in rap these last few years, at least in terms of up-and-comers -- a lot of it just feels paper-thin to me, musically and lyrically. I do still need to check out Earl Sweatshirt's album.

 

Albums and EP’s

1.Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

2. Thrice - Palms
3. The Republic Of Wolves - Shrine

And I listened to:

Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed?
Frank Turner - Be More Kind
All Get Out - No Boquet
Gang Of Youths - MTV Unplugged
Bayside - Acoustic Volume 2
Ryan Key - EP’s
Souveneer - Strange Artifacts EP
Dangerous Summer
Face To Face - Hold Fast Acoustic album
MXPX

Boy Genius EP
Justin Courtney Pierre - In The Drink

... Among other things.

Singles/Non album work:

The Menzingers - Toy Soldiers/The Freaks
Bad Religion - Sanity/Profane Rignts Of Man
Kevin Devine - Devinyl Splits
Manchester Orchestra - I Know How To Speak

Also late on:
Gang of Youths - Go Farther Into Lightness

I forgot add Wonder Years Sister Cities and half of Dashbord Confessional’s Crooked Shadows.

 

1. Troye Sivan - Bloom
2. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
3. DJDS - Big Wave More Fire
4. Tove Styrke - Sway
5. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
6. MØ - Forever Neverland
7. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked
8. Camila Cabello - Camila
9. HONNE - Love Me / Love Me Not
10. Lykke Li - So Sad So Sexy
11. Wet - Still Run
12. Coheed & Cambria- Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
13. Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
14. Hayley Kiyoko - Expectations
15. Saves The Day - 9
16. Empress Of - Us
17. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
18. Black Panther: The Album
19. Christine and the Queens - Chris
20. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be In Love

 

Top 20. Gonna separate my list into tiers because I'm annoying.

Tier I:
1. Circa Survive - The Amulet (Deluxe Edition) am I allowed to include this? No? Fine I'll cross it out
1. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It

Tier II:
2. Aesthesys - Achromata
3. MØL - Jord
4. Whale Fall - Sondersongs

Tier III:
5. Autumn Creatures - Funeral Garden
6. mewithoutYou - [Untitled]
7. Mesozoic - Earth Alone
8. Trna - Earthcult

Tier IV:
9. Anthony Green - Would You Still Be In Love?
10. Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection
11. Feed Me to the Waves - Before This Wilderness Consumes Us

Tier V:
12. Chvrches - Love Is Dead
13. Hail the Sun - Mental Knife
14. Tides of Man - Every Nothing

Tier VI:
15. Leech - For Better or for Worse
16. Bells - Colouring In the Sun
17. Widek - Dream Reflection
18. Sectioned - Annihilated
19. Pray for Sound - Waiting Room
20. Paraphon Tree - Aura

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Honourable Mentions and EPs:

Azusa - Heavy Yoke
Coldbones - Where It All Began
Kaschalot - Whale Songs
Makari - Hyperreal
Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
Sarah Longfield - Collapse // Expand
Sarah Longfield - Disparity
Shadow Universe - Speaking for Clouds
TTNG - Animals (Acoustic)
Violet Cold - Sommermorgen, Pt I: Innocence
Violet Cold - Sommermorgen, Pt II: Joy
Violet Cold - Sommermorgen, Pt III: Nostalgia
Unreqvited - Stars Wept to the Sea
Unreqvited - Mosaic I: L'amour Et L'ardeur
AFI - The Missing Man (EP)
mewithoutYou - [untitled] (EP)
Musatov Brothers - Existential Crisis (EP)
My Epic - Ultraviolet (EP)
Plini - Sunhead (EP)
Portal Hex - Veridical Dreams (EP)

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The placement of some entries here suffered due to having found them way too late in the year to spend sufficient time with them.

 

Can't get as comprehensive as ranking full albums, so I do a Top 10 Tracks list every year, and this year I've had to comb through more tracks than ever; my 2018 list on Spotify has over 700. Was really hard paring it down to just 10, but I'm extremely happy with this list. I really, really like the new 1975 album, but even none of those songs made it onto this list


1. Phoebe Bridgers & Noah Gunderson - "Killer" + "The Sound"
2. De Joie - "All Around Me"
3. Glades - "Better Love"
4. Matt Corby - "Miracle Love"
5. LANY - "Thick and Thin"
6. The Paper Kites - "Mess We Made"
7. Wanderer - "California Looks Good On You"
8. Tony Anderson - "Finding Your Heart"
9. Hayley Kiyoko - "Sleepover"
10. The Midnight - "America 2"

 

Alright I thiiink this is it:

1) Foxing- Nearer My God
2) Pianos Become The Teeth- Wait For Love
3) Freddie Gibbs- Freddie
4) Coheed and Cambria- Unheavanly Creatures
5) Nick F- Stuck
6) mewithoutYou- Untitled
7) The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
8) Mitski- Be The Cowboy
9) Denzel Curry- TABOO
10) TGE- Black Panther
11) Now,Now- Saved
12) Cloud Nothings- Last Building Burning
13) The Sidekicks- Happiness Hours
14) Skeletonwitch- Devouring Radiant Light
15) Nostrum Grocers- s/t
16) Oneothrix Point Never- Age Of
17) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks- Sparkle Hard
18) Kraus- Path
19) Thou- Magus
20) Dance Gavin Dance- Artificial Selection

Honorable Mentions:
Cardi B
Night Verses
Swae Lee
Deafheaven
Slow Crush
Thrice
Joyce Manor
The Dirty Nil
Black Milk
Jeff Rosestock
Artic Monkeys
Hooded Menace