#spesh

Yimeny

Alien

Here we go: favorite albums of the year. I like to make my lists every year and let me be very clear that these? Are just my favorites. Are they the best albums of the year? Who the fuck knows. Maybe some are, some aren’t. How do you even decide that? Useless rubric. I picked out a couple favorite songs from each album and posted youtube links, or, you can listen to them all on one youtube playlist HERE.

favorite albums of 2018, in alphabetical order:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures (listen: Echo, Ninth Configuration) (also, I can’t NOT include this acoustic version of Echo from their KEXP session earlier this year.)

Born Ruffians - Uncle, Duke & the Chief (listen: Forget Me, Fade to Black)

Faustina Masigat - Faustina Masigat  (listen: Colored Glass, Willie Nelson)

The Glands - Double Coda (listen: So High, A Boy Without a Head)

Hey Ocean - The Hurt of Happiness (listen: Can’t Let Go, Mama Said)

Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer (listen: Crazy Classic Life, Make Me Feel)

Laura Gibson - Goners (listen: I Carry Water, I Don’t Want Your Voice to Move Me)

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - With Animals (listen: Save Me, L.A. Blue)

Mastersystem - Dance Music (listen: Peaks & Troughs & Graves, Bird is Bored of Flying)

Mitski - Be the Cowboy (listen: Geyser, Come into the Water)

Naaz - Bits of Naaz (listen: Someday, Pretty)

Neko Case - Hell-On (listen: Halls of Sarah, Oracle of the Maritimes)

Now Now - Saved (listen: Holy Water, Drive)

Parker Gispert - Sunlight Tonight (listen: Through the Canvas, Magnolia Sunrise)

Spesh - Famous World (listen: Candy Legs, Orange Man)