2018 Albums • Page 15

July

136. Now, Now - saved +
137. Tancred - nightstand +
138. Petal - magic gone +
139. McCafferty - yarn +
140. Hotel New Tokyo - Bison EP +
141. MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS - no new world ++
142. Daichi Miura - Kyutai ++
143. guitarsisyo - a day in the girls life ++
144. Plot Scraps - vital signs +
145. CY8ER - hello new generation +
146. Mikako Komatsu - personal terminal +
147. ZOMBIE-CHANG - petit petit petit +
148. tio - tiny island orchestra ++
149. callme - please callme! -20152018- +
150. WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Galapagos ++

 

July update! This year has really shaped up to be a great year in music for me.

 

July was good, not much along the lines of records I was highly anticipating and nothing really jumps out as anything I truly LOVE, but a good month nontheless. August has a loooooot of (hopefully) great stuff coming. Foxing, Interpol, Nothing, Wild Nothing, AK3, ERRA, and more.

 

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63. Denzel Curry - TA13OO ++
64. Nef The Pharaoh & 03 Greedo - Porter 2 Grape ++
65. 03 Greedo - God Level +
66. Mozzy & Kae One - Run It Up Activities +
67. Orchards - Lovers/Losers ++
68. Vein - Errorzone ++
69. Shootergang Kony - March Madness
70. 03 Greedo - 03 Rappa ++
71. worlds greatest dad - get well soon ++
72. Freddie Gibbs - Freddie ++
73. Mouthbreather - Dollmeat +
74. Converge - Beautiful Ruin ++
75. The Penske File - Salvation ++
76. Birds In Row - We Already Lost The World ++
77. Mayday Parade - Sunnyland +
78. Good Looking Friends - Settle In, Decay +
79. Don't Worry - Who Cares Anyway? +
80. Retirement Party - Somewhat Literate +
81. P-LO - PRIME +

 

July. Highlights for me are Years & Years, Wet, and Punch Brothers

 

225. GIVERS - Movin On (2018)

 

July in Review:
It's 92 degrees outside tonight as we climb the final crest of summer, and I am astounded how fast the season moves. I suppose it's the same meta distancing that everyone does these days, as if calling it out will make it less so. Tonight I'm listening to one of my favorite albums of the month, Lori McKenna's The Tree -- specifically the song "People Get Old", which puts the cyclical nature of life into matter-of-fact terms that somehow render aging both fatalistic and comforting at the same time. I'm truly not sure how she managed to find the words, but that's the magic of good songwriting.

New York has been brimming with life since we got here, and plenty of music has brought a little extra movement to the days and nights of this summer. And yet, again, this month added even more. You can feel it in the way Future and Meek Mill and The Voidz barrel through crowded sidewalks, or how Wild Pink and Wet match the hazy crawl of underground congestion. Aside from Lori McKenna, I've been particularly into Rayland Baxter's incredibly vibrant album Wide Awake, which feels like the Beatles took some psychedelics with Dead and Company before a songwriting class in Nashville. I can't recommend it enough, and it's clearly among my favorites of the year.

In the midst of all this beautiful, beautiful noise, The 1975 have put out another song that to me stands with their best. "Love It If We Made It" is structured like a Twitter feed, as if a stream-of-consciousness summation of bile and virality is the only way to properly capture the daily mayhem of 2018. If you emphasize the "WE", the titular refrain of "I'd love it if we made it" can be taken as a sort of defense mechanism, the rallying cry of an online mob that will blindly hold up their own worst impulses in the name of factional solidarity. Or you can do what they do in the song: emphasize the "MADE IT" and yell to the heavens like we're going to find our way out of this storm. In a way, it makes complete sense that the band had to push their release date back to November, when our country and the world at large might shift wildly based on the outcome of the midterm elections. But the way time's moving these days, that movement feels less like a delay and more like an inevitable start of something new.

Top 2018 albums of the month:
Rayland Baxter, Lori McKenna, Let's Eat Grandma

Recommended Songs I discovered this month:
Rayland Baxter - "Amelia Baker"
Lori McKenna - "Young and Angry Again"
Kady Rain - "R.A.D. Moves"
Mac Miller - "What's The Use?"
Insecure Men - "Cliff Has Left The Building"

 

Just wanted to say you're awesome dude. Picking out my music to listen to based on your recs because no way I have the time to dig through that haha. Keep doing good work. After small samples I'm going to be rocking:

Hot Mulligan, Soccer Mommy, Deafheaven, Real Friends, Brandi Carlile, Kacey Musgraves, Love Me Electric, For The Fallen Dreams, Hayley Kiyoko, nothing,nowhere., fickle friends, heavy things, Mainland, Airport, Like Pacific, Save Face, Point North, The Hunna, The Carters, Between You and Me

Still so partial to that taking back sunday/fall out boy/brand new/underoath sound I grew up on. Grateful for the recs!

 

10. Frank Turner - Be More Kind +
11. Mastersystem - Dance Music +
12. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel ++
13. Now, Now - Saved ++
14. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs +
15. The Pauses - Unbuilding
16. Lydia - Liquor /

 

226. Jason Mraz - Know. (2018)
227. Nicki Minaj - Queen (2018)
228. New Order - Technique (1989)
229. Don Henley - The End of Innocence (1989)
230. Bad Rabbits - Mimi (2018)
231. H.E.R. - I Used To Know Her: The Prelude (2018)
232. Meg Myers - Take Me To The Disco (2018)
233. Meiko - Playing Favorites (2018)
234. Jake Shears - Jake Shears (2018)
235. Bad Religion - No Control (1989)
236. Ariana Grande - Sweetener (2018)
237. Death Cab For Cutie - Thank You For Today (2018)
238. Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming...Of Days Long Past (2018)
239. Aminé - ONEPOINTFIVE (2018)
240. Sigur Rós - Route One (2018)
241. Animal Collective - Tangerine Reef (2018)
242. Denzel Curry - 13 (2017)
243. Fall Out Boy - Lake Effect Kid (2018)
244. HONNE - Love Me / Love Me Not (2018)
245. mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p. (2018)
246. Third Eye Blind - Thanks For Everything (2018)
247. Dave Melillo - You've Got Potential (2018)

 

Recommended albums of 2018:

Bjӧrk - Utopia (late 2017 release) 11/21/17
Jeff Rosenstock - POST- 1/1/18
CupcakKe - Ephorize 1/5/18
BØRNS - Blue Madonna 1/12/18
First Aid Kit - Ruins 1/19/18
tUnE-yArDs - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 1/19/18
Portal - ION 1/26/18
MGMT - Little Dark Age 2/9/18
Cozz - Effected 2/13/18
Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap 2/16/18
A.A.L. - 2012-2017 2/16/18
U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited 2/16/18
Loma - S/T 2/16/18
Pianos Become the Teeth - Wait for Love 2/16/18
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy 2/16/18
Miracle - The Strife of Love in a Dream 2/16/18
SOB X RBE - GANGIN 2/23/18
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic 3/2/18
Soccer Mommy - Clean 3/2/18
Superorganism - S/T 3/2/18
Lucy Dacus - Historian 3/2/18
Remo Drive - Pop Music EP 3/9/18
of Montreal - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood 3/9/18
Mount Eerie - Now Only 3/16/18
The Sword - Used Future 3/23/18
*Jean Grae x Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine* 3/30/18
The Voidz - Virtue 3/30/18
Amen Dunes - Freedom 3/30/18
Frankie Cosmos - Vessel 3/30/18
Kali Uchis - Isolation 4/6/18
Hinds - I Don't Run 4/6/18
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog 4/6/18
J. Cole - KOD 4/20/18
Sleep - The Sciences 4/20/18
Half Waif - Lavender 4/27/18
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 4/27/18
Middle Kids - Lost Friends 5/4/18
Jon Hopkins - Singularity 5/4/18
DJ Koze - Knock Knock 5/4/18
*Beach House - 7* 5/11/18
Ski Mask the Slump God - Beware the Book of Eli 5/11/18
Big Ups - Two Parts Together 5/18/18
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel 5/18/18
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! 5/18/18
Pusha T - DAYTONA 5/25/18
Jenny Hval - The Long Sleep EP 5/25/18
LUMP - Self-Titled 6/1/18
Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer 6/1/18
Ghost - Prequelle 6/1/18
Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson - Apart EP 6/1/18
*KIDS SEE GHOSTS - S/T* 6/8/18
Gobbinjr - ocala wick 6/8/18
Snail Mail - Lush 6/8/18
SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Uninsides 6/15/18
Rico Nasty - Nasty 6/15/18
Yuno - Moodie EP 6/15/18
Code Orange - The Hurt Will Go On 6/21/18
Death Grips - Year of the Snitch 6/22/18
Vein - Errorzone 6/22/18
Lotic - Power 7/13/18
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 7/13/18
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 7/13/18
Obscura - Diluvium 7/13/18
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light 7/20/18
*Denzel Curry - TA13OO* 7/27/18
Mac Miller - Swimming 8/3/18
Iglooghost - Clear Tamei 8/8/18
*Foxing - Nearer My God* 8/10/18
Moses Sumney - Black in Deep Red EP 8/10/18
*Mitski - Be the Cowboy* 8/18/18
Blood Orange - Negro Swan 8/24/18
Anna Calvi - Hunter 8/31/18
Big Red Machine - S/T 8/31/18
Iron & Wine - Weed Garden EP 8/31/18
*Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love* 9/5/18
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt 9/7/18
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage 9/7/18
Guerilla Toss - Twisted Crystal 9/14/18
Noname - Room 25 9/14/18
BROCKHAMPTON - Iridescence 9/21/18

Bold denotes 'best album'
* denotes 'essential album'


Need to listen to:
Suede
Christine and the Queens/
Beak>
Voivod
The Story so Far
BROCKHAMPTON
Liars
Metric
The Field

Updated: 9/24

 

Thank you! I’m fortunate to have a job where I can literally listen to music all day so the list will keep growing!

 

August

151. Perfume - future pop ++
152. Negicco - my color ++
153. Shinsei Kamatte-chan - tsun x dere ++
154. BRADIO - YES +
155. BILLIE IDLE - BILLIed IDLE 2.0 +
156. AAA - color a life +
157. DE DE MOUSE - be yourself +
158. Sumire Uesaka - no future vacances ++
159. Kudo-chan - kimi to ita heya +
160. yule - symbol ++
161. O'CHAWANZ - EPISODE V +
162. Seiko Omori - kusokawa party ++

 

248. Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? (2018)

 

So I am on only the 2nd track on the new Eminem album, but holy crap its so good!

Is it 1999 again?

 

Don't think I'm going to get to anything else today, so here's August. Foxing is the big highlight.

 

August:

74. YG - Stay Dangerous +
75. Mac Miller - Swimming *
76. WENS - That Really Long Night EP +
77. Kitten - Pink Champagne EP +
78. Nicki Minaj - Queen *
79. Foxing - Nearer My God +
80. Ariana Grande - Sweetener *
81. Bad Rabbits - Mimi +
82. Aminé - ONEPOINTFIVE +
83. Mitski - Be the Cowboy ++
84. Tierra Whack - Whack World +
85. Young Thug - Slime Language +
86. Blood Orange - Negro Swan +
87. Saintseneca - Pillar of Na +
88. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine +

 

Everything new I listened to in August...

1.) "Dictator" by Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway
2.) "This Adultery is Ripe" by The Blood Brothers
3.) "In Spite of Me" by Like Pacific
4.) "Concrete & Gold" by Foo Fighters
5.) "I Infest, Therefore I Am" by The Bell Jar
6.) "The Ghost Note Symphonies, Vol. 1" by Rise Against
7.) "March on, Electric Children" by The Blood Brothers
8.) "Be Nothing." by Boston Manor
9.) "Dead Eyes" by Strangers
10.) "Protection" by Face to Face
11.) "Thousands of Miles Between Us" by Converge
12.) "Fifteen Years" by The Early November
13.) "Live from the Prairie Rose" by Cloud Crest
14.) "Cool Patrol" by Ninja Sex Party
15.) "Crimes" by The Blood Brothers
16.) "I Hope You're Happy" by Blue October
17.) "Live from Astoria" by Less Than Jake
18.) "These are Jokes" by Demetri Martin
19.) "Lake Effect Kid" by Fall Out Boy
20.) "Thank You for Today" by Death Cab for Cutie
21.) "Thanks for Everything" by Third Eye Blind
22.) "Standup Comedian" by Demetri Martin
23.) "Love" by Aaron Carter
24.) "Volume One" by Sleep
25.) "Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album" by Reel Big Fish
26.) "Avenue Q" Original Cast Recording
27.) "Constellations" by August Burns Red
28.) "Sleep's Holy Mountain" by Sleep

 

august

 

249. Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine (2018)
250. Troye Sivan - Bloom (2018)
251. Blood Orange - Negro Swan (2018)
252. Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes - Wind Up Bird (2018)

 

August update.

 

updated

 

I'm listening to a group from Korea. The latest song they released is: Idol ringtone - BTS

 

253. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me (2018)
254. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station (2018)