170ish albums / EPs you should have bought in 2018.
Well, as you have come to expect from this dying, once-per-yearly updated Tumblr page (Now with 100% less pornography), below is a list of every record I’ve checked out this year that I believe is worth your time. 2018 was particularly fruitful in the new discoveries department, with many newer bands or groups that have flown under my radar, making their first appearance on this list. I’m also documenting my listening habits via Spotify. So, follow me there for monthly playlists, not without buying something physical from the musicians, hitting minimum wage on streams is not easy. Have a good Crimbus and a pretty okay new year!
-Ross
January
01/01 Jeff Rosenstock - POST- (Quote Unquote / Polyvinyl / Specialist Subject) 05/01 Lizzy Farrall - All I Said Was Never Heard 08/01 Listener - Being Empty : Being Filled Vol. IV (Sounds of Subterranea) 12/01 Hussey - Hitchens (Equal Vision) 12/01 Joe Satriani - What Happens Next (Sony) 19/01 Terrible Love - Doubt Mines (Big Scary Monsters) 26/01 Tiny Moving Parts - Swell (Triple Crown / Big Scary Monsters)
February
02/02 The Bennies - Natural Born Chillers (Poolhouse / Uncle M) 02/02 Joliette / Frameworks - Live Session (Light & Noise / Deathwish, Inc.) 02/02 Lemuria - Recreational Hate [Physical release] (Big Scary Monsters) 09/02 Harker - No Discordance (Fond Of Live / Shield Recordings / Disconnect Disconnect / Wiretap / Fixing A Hole / Future Void) 09/02 MGMT - Little Dark Age (Columbia) 16/02 American Nightmare - American Nightmare (Rise) 16/02 American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this (Run For Cover) 16/02 Ducking Punches - Alamort (Xtra Mile) 16/02 Endless Heights - Vicious Love (Cooking Vinyl) 16/02 Happy Accidents - Everything But The Here and Now (Alcopop! Records) 16/02 Loathe / Holding Absence - This Is As One (Sharptone) 16/02 Pianos Become The Teeth - Wait For Love (Epitaph) 23/02 Milestones - Red Lights (Fearless) 23/02 Turnstile - time & space (Roadrunner) 27/02 Everything Everything - A Deeper Sea (RCA)
March
02/03 Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone (Red / Sony) 02/03 The Breeders - All Nerve (4AD) 02/03 Camp Cope - How To Socialize & Make Friends (Run For Cover) 02/03 Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (Holy Roar) 09/03 Conjurer - Mire (Holy Roar) 09/03 Nervus - Everything Dies (Big Scary Monsters) 16/03 Bearfoot Beware - Sea Magnolia (Superstar Destroyer) 16/03 Black Foxxes - Reiði (Spinefarm) 16/03 Casey - Where I Go When I Am Sleeping (Hassle) 23/03 THE FEVER 333 - Made an America (Roadrunner / 333 Wreckords Crew) 23/03 Forever Came Calling - Retro Future (Self-Released) 23/03 Mono Club - Sky High and Submarine (LGM) 23/03 Preoccupations - New Material (Flemish Eye / Jagjaguwar) 30/03 Big Neil - Never a Full Moment (Something Wicked) 30/03 Czarface & MF DOOM - Czarface Meets Metal Face (Get On Down) 30/03 Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything’s Fine (Mello Music Group) 30/03 Press To MECO - Here’s To The Fatigue (Marshall) 30/03 Spanish Love Songs - Shmaltz (Uncle M)
April
02/04 Triple Sundae - Peace of Mind (Umlaut) 05/04 Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy (Atlantic) 06/04 Coldbones - Where It All Began (Crooked Noise) 06/04 Palm Reader - Braille (Silent Cult) 06/04 The Wonder Years - Sister Cities (Hopeless) 09/04 Camcorder - Suck! (Weather Girl) 13/04 Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind (Run For Cover) 13/04 Gender Roles - Lazer Rush (Big Scary Monsters) 13/04 The Hard Aches - Mess (Anchorhead) 13/04 Kermes - We Choose Pretty Names (Robot Needs Home) 13/04 Not Scientists - Golden Staples (Kidnap Music / Rookie) 13/04 Rough Hands - Moral Terror (Venn) 13/04 Slowlines - This Feels Like the End (Self-Released) 14/04 Lost Avenue - Fears (Little Rocket) 20/04 Melvins - Pinkus Abortion Technician (Ipecac) 20/04 Shields - Life In Exhile (Long Branch) 21/04 Anywhere - Anywhere II (ORG Music) 27/04 EAT DIRT. - Welcome To Shithouse On Sea (Umlaut) 27/04 Eva Plats Dead - The Fix (Playing Dead) 27/04 Guillotine - Weakness (Failure By Design) 27/04 Royal Coda - Royal Coda (Blue Swan) 27/04 Sectioned - Annihilated (Self-Released) 27/04 Tiny Mind - Equals Closed Parentheses (Self-Released) 27/04 We Are Scientists - Megaplex (100%) 29/04 Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys (Republic)
May
02/05 Dead Cross - Dead Cross EP (Ipecac) 04/05 Layover - Your Laughter Never Leaves (Fox) 04/05 Woes - Self Help (UNFD) 18/05 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (Milk!) 18/05 The Front Bottoms - Ann (Wuakaskole / Fueled by Ramen) 18/05 Red Hare - Little Acts of Destruction (Dischord) 18/05 The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours (Epitaph) 25/05 Claw The Thin Ice - Wanderlust of Venus (Hanger) 25/05 Columbus - A Hot Take On Heartbreak (UNFD) 25/05 Pet Symmetry - Reflection (Self-Released) 25/05 Pusha T - Daytona (GOOD Music / Def Jam) 25/05 Split Cranium - I’m the Devil and I’m OK (Ipecac) 27/07 Weakdaze - Haunt Your Every Memory (Self-Released)
June
01/06 Father John Misty - God’s Favourite Customer (Bella Union) 01/06 Gatherers - We Are Alive Beyond Repair (Triple Crown) 01/06 Kanye West - ye (GOOD MUSIC / Def Jam) 01/06 The Presets - HI VIS (Modular Recordings) 02/06 Led By Lanterns - Ashes (Self-Released) 05/06 Traits - Illuminate (Our) 08/06 Busdriver - electricity is on our side (Temporary Whatever) 08/06 Dance Gavin Dance - Artificial Selection (Rise) 08/06 KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS (GOOD MUSIC / Def Jam) 08/06 Modern Life Is War - Tribulation Worksongs Vol. 1 (Deathwish, Inc.) 08/06 Warm Thoughts - I Went Swimming Alone (Asian Man / Deathwish, Inc.) 13/06 Ballpeen - Loose Knot (Serial Bowl) 14/06 Gun Shy - Last Transmission (Self-Released) 15/06 Culture Abuse - Bay Dream (Epitaph) 15/06 Petal - Magic Gone (Run For Cover) 15/06 The Carters - EVERYTHING IS LOVE (Parkwood / Sony / S.C / Roc Nation) 22/06 Astpai - True Capacity (Shield Recordings) 22/06 Death Grips - Year of the Snitch (Third Worlds / Harvest) 22/06 Don’t Worry - Who Cares Anyway? (Specialist Subject) 22/06 Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Young Turks) 22/06 Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch (Null Corporation) 22/06 Vein - errorzone (Closed Casket Activities) 22/06 You Know The Drill - Selfhood (Scylla) 29/06 Anthony Green - Would You Still Be In Love (Memory Music) 29/06 Badger - Seize Warfare (Self-Released) 29/06 Converge - Beautiful Ruin (Epitaph) 29/06 Gorillaz - The Now Now (Parlophone) 29/06 Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music (Run For Cover) 29/06 Youth Man - Five Songs (Alcopop!)
July
13/07 Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti-) 20/07 Adolescents - Cropduster (Concrete Jungle) 20/07 Trash Boat - Crown Shyness (Hopeless) 27/07 Denzel Curry - TA13OO (PH / Loma Vista) 27/07 Fair Do’s - Leopards (Lockjaw) 27/07 Frontierer - Unloved (Self-Released) 27/07 Like Pacific - In Spite of Me (Pure Noise) 27/07 The Murderburgers - Shitty People & Toothache (Asian Man) 27/07 Thin Lips - Chosen Family (Lame-O)
August
03/08 Eat Defeat - I Think We’ll Be Okay (Bearded Punk) 03/08 The New Tusk - The Big Drag (Hanger) 03/03 Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD (Cactus Jacks / Epic / Grand Hustle) 10/08 As It Is - The Great Depression (Fearless) 10/08 Foxing - Nearer My God (Triple Crown) 17/08 Homebound - More to Me Than Misery (Rude) 17/08 mewithoutYou - [untitled] e.p. (Run For Cover) 24/08 Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog (BMG) 24/08 Leeched - You Took The Sun When You Left (Prosthetic) 24/08 Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop (Relapse) 31/08 Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? (Epitaph) 31/08 IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan) 31/08 Muncie Girls - Fixed Ideals (Specialist Subject / Buzz / Lost Boy / Waterslide) 31/08 WSTR - Identity Crisis (Hopeless)
September
07/09 Boston Manor - Welcome To The Neighbourhood (Pure Noise) 07/07 Empire - Glue (Silent Cult) 14/09 Aphex Twin - Collapse (Warp) 14/09 The Dirty Nil - Master Volume (Dine Alone) 14/09 Fizzy Blood - Pink Magic (Killing Moon / Ayla) 14/09 Modern Life Is War - Tribulation Worksongs Vol. 2 (Deathwish, Inc.) 14/09 Petrol Girls - The Future Is Dark (Hassle) 14/09 Thrice - Palms (Epitaph) 21/09 BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence (RCA / Question Everything, Inc.) 21/09 Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me (Epitaph) 21/09 Smokey Brights - Different Windows (Freakout) 21/09 The Story So Far - Proper Dose (Pure Noise) 24/09 cheerbleederz - faceplant (Alcopop!) 28/09 Candy - Good To Feel (Triple B) 28/09 Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar (Deathwish, Inc.) 28/09 Tilian - The Skeptic (Rise)
October
05/10 Atmosphere - Mi Vida Local (Rhymesayers) 05/10 Black Peaks - All That Divides (Rise) 05/10 Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (Roadrunner) 05/10 Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams (Nerve) 05/10 mewithoutYou - [Untitled] (Run For Cover) 12/10 Kurt Vile - Bottle It In (Matador) 12/10 Basement - Beside Myself (Fueled By Ramen) 19/10 Minus The Bear - Fair Enough (Suicide Squeeze) 19/10 Steady Hands - Truth In Comedy (Lame-O) 26/10 Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-Mail (Polyvinyl / Big Scary Monsters) 26/10 Coast To Coast - The World Doesn’t Work (Fox) 26/10 Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want (Ipecac) 26/10 Joji - BALLADS 1 (88Rising / 12Tone) 26/10 Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping (Hopeless) 26/10 Superunison - Stella (Deathwish, Inc.) 31/10 Never - Never | 2018 (Self-Released)
November
02/11 All Get Out - No Bouquet (Equal Vision) 02/11 Drug Church - Cheer (Pure Noise) 02/11 Napoleon - Epiphany (Basick) 09/11 Cult Leader - A Patient Man (Deathwish, Inc.) 09/11 Shvpes - Greater Than (Spinefarm) 16/11 Can’t Swim - This Too Won’t Pass (Pure Noise) 16/11 Catch Fire - Karma Owes Me a Lifetime of Happiness (Rude) 16/11 itoldyouiwouldeatyou - Oh Dearism (Alcopop! / Failure By Design) 23/11 Planet B - Planet B (Ipecac / Three One G) 30/11 Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs (Tan Cressida / Columbia)
December
01/12 Cubs - Cubs (Self-Released) 11/12 Self Defense Family - WORKING PEOPLE (PART ONE) (Run For Cover) 14/12 Princess Nokia - Metallic Butterfly (Expanded reissue) (Rough Trade)
Best New Podcasts of 2018: Amelia & Patrick Attempt The Kama Sutra, Axe To Grind Podcast, Bathroom Break Podcast with Raab Himself, Intrigue: The Ratline, Worst Possible Timeline.
