2018 Favorites

Top Albums
1. Saba- Care For Me
2. YOB- Our Raw Heart
3. Mitski- Be The Cowboy
4. Pusha T- Daytona 
5. Kraus- Path
6. Respire- Dénouement
7. Daughters- You Won't Get What You Want
8. The Armed- Only Love
9. IDLES- Joy As An Act of Resistance
10. Noname- Room 25
11. George Clanton- Slide
12. Jeff Rosenstock- POST-
13. Earl Sweatshirt- Some Rap Songs
14. Gulfer- Dogbless
15. Xinlisupreme- I Am Not Shinzo Abe
16. Kids See Ghosts- Kids See Ghosts
17. Haru Nemuri- From Haru To Shura
18. Foxing-Nearer My God
19. Mount Eerie- Now Only
20. Hermit and the Recluse- Orpheus vs. The Sirens
21. Sleep- The Sciences
22. Birds in Row- We Already Lost The War
23. Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer
24. Mid-Air Thief- Crumbling
25. Grouper- Grid of Points
26. ASUNOJOKEI- Awakening
27. Deafheaven- Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
28. Jorja Smith- Lost and Found
29. MGMT- Little Dark Age
30. Flora- A Sword of Holly
31. Iceage- Beyondless
32. Zeal and Ardor- Stranger Fruit
33. Lala Lala- The Lamb
34. Julia Holter- Aviary
35. Freddie Gibbs- Freddie
36. Joey Purp- QUARTERTHING
37. Ostraca- Enemy
38. Judas Priest- Firepower
39. Park Jiha- Philos
40. Anna Von Hauswolff- Dead Magic

Honorable Mentions:
Sigh- Heir to Despair 
Park Jiha- Communion
Death Grips- Year of the Snitch
Candy- Good To Feel
C.H.E.W.- Feeding Frenzy
Grapetooth- Grapetooth
Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

EPs
1. HYUKOH- 24: How to Find True Love and Happiness
2. Spielbergs- Distant Star 
3. boygenius-boygenius
4. Raven Lenae- Crush
5. Stars Hollow- Happy Again 
6. Aphex Twin- Collapse
7. Brian Eno & Kevin Shields- The Weight of History/Only Once Away My Son

Songs
1. Saba- Prom/King 
2. IDLES- Danny Nedelko
3. Kraus- Bum
4. The 1975- Love It If We Made It
5. Pusha T- If You Know, You Know 
6. Lala Lala- Destroyer
7. Childish Gambino- This is America
8. IDLES- Samaritans
9. Grapetooth- Trouble
10. Death Grips- Death Grips Is Online
11. Sheck Wes- Mo Bomba
12. Valee- Womp Womp
13. Daughters- Satan In The Wait
14. Mitski- A Pearl
15. YOB- Beauty in Falling Leaves
16. MGMT- Little Dark Age
17. Anderson Paak- Bubblin'
18. Julia Holter- I Shall Love 2
19. Travis Scott- Sicko Mode
20. Janelle Monae- Make Me Feel
21. Kanye West, Kid CuDi, 070 Shake- Ghost Town
22. Jorja Smith- Where Did I Go? 
23. Cardi B- I Like It
24. Noname- Self
25. Jeff Rosenstock- U.S.A. 

Best Albums of 2017

Top Albums of 2017

1. Elder- Reflections of a Floating World

2. Julie Byrne- Not Even Happiness

3. Tyler, The Creator- Flower Boy

4. Mount Eerie- A Crow Looked At Me

5. Planning For Burial- Below The House

6. Japanese Breakfast- Soft Sounds From Another Planet

7. Sorority Noise- You’re Not As ____ As You Think

8. Julien Baker- Turn Out The Lights

9. Slowdive- Slowdive

10. Converge- The Dusk In Us

11. King Woman- Created In The Image Of Suffering

12. Milo- Who Told You To Think?

13. SZA- CTRL

14. BROCKHAMPTON- Saturation I/II/III

15. Power Trip- Nightmare Logic

16. RAGANA- YOU TAKE NOTHING

17. Phoebe Bridgers- Stranger In The Alps

18. Idles- Brutalism

19. Kendrick Lamar- DAMN

20. Tchornobog- Tchornobog

21. St. Vincent- MASSEDUCTION

22. Hundred Waters- Communicating

23. Ratboys- GN

24. Rainer Maria- Rainer Maria

25. Jonwayne- Rap Album II

26. Succumb- Succumb

27. Sannhet- So Numb

28. Xiu Xiu- Forget

29. Yellow Eyes- Immersion Trench Reverie

30. Bjork- Utopia 

Honorable Mentions:

Boris- Dear

Immolation- Atonement

Laurel Halo- Dust

Bing & Ruth- No Home of the Mind

Best Songs of 2017

1. Sorority Noise- No Halo

2. Sampha- No One Knows Me Like the Piano

3. BROCKHAMPTON- GOLD

4. Idles- Mother

5. Power Trip- Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)

6. Phoebe Bridgers- Funeral

7. BROCKHAMPTON- STAR

8. Japandroids- Near to the Wild Heart of Life

9. Julie Byrne- I Live Now As A Singer

10. Frank Ocean- Chanel

11. Kendrick Lamar- Humble

12. LCD Soundsystem- Call the Police / American Dream

13. Tigers Jaw- Guardian

14. Jay-Z- The Story of OJ

15. Tyler, The Creator- Boredom

16. (Sandy) Alex G- Bobby

17. Cardi B- Bodak Yellow

18. IU- Last Night Story

19. Playboi Carti- Magnolia

20. Bjork- Arisen My Senses

21. Trevor De Brauw- From The Black Soil Poetry and Song Sprang

22. Drake- Passionfruit

23. Ratboys- Elvis Is In the Freezer

24. Xiu Xiu- Wondering

25. St. Vincent- New York

Best Albums of 2016: 

1. Touche Amore- Stage Four 

2. Frank Ocean- Blonde 

3. David Bowie- Blackstar 

4. 40 Watt Sun- Wider Than The Sky 

5. Kanye West- The Life of Pablo

6. Angel Olsen- My Woman

7. Deakin- Sleep Cycle

8. JANK- Versace Summer 

9. Zeal and Ardor- Devil is Fine 

10. Alcest- Kodama

11. Joey Purp- iiiDrops 

12. Death Grips- Bottomless Pit

13. Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool 

14. Vektor- Charging the Void 

15. Jeff Rosenstock- WORRY 

16. Mitski- Puberty 2 

17. Miserable- Uncontrollable 

18. PUP- The Dream is Over 

19. Sumerlands- Sumerlands

20. Swain- The Long Dark Blue  

21. Danny Brown- Atrocity Exhibition 

22. Cobalt- Slow Forever 

23. Kinko Teikoku- 愛のゆくえ
24. Solange- A Seat at The Table

25. The Hotelier- Goodness

26. Anderson Paak- Malibu 

27. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Skeleton Tree

28. Cult of Luna/Julie Christmas- Mariner 

29. Blowout!- No Beer, No Dad 

30. Whitney- Light Upon The Lake

31. Leonard Cohen- You Wanted It Darker

32. The Body and Full of Hell- You Will Never Ache Like I Ache 

33. Boris With Merzbow- Gensho

34. Denzel Curry- Imperial 

35. Nails- You Will Never Be One of Us

36. Oozing Wound- Whatever Forever

37. Ornassi Pazuzu- Värähtelijä

38. Oathbreaker- Rheia 

39. Yeesh- Confirmation Bias 

40. Swans- The Glowing Man 

 

Best Songs 2016: 

 

1. Mitski- Your Best American Girl

2. Kanye West- Ultralight Beam 

3. Angel Olsen- Shut Up Kiss Me 

4. JANK- Versace Summer 

5. PUP- If This Tour Doesn't Kill You/DVP 

6. D.R.A.M.- Broccoli ft. Lil Yachty

7. Frank Ocean- White Ferrari

8. Rae Sremmurd- Black Beatles 

9. Rihanna- Work 

10. Anderson Paak- Heart Don't Stand A Chance

11. Solange- Cranes in the Sky

12. David Bowie- I Can't Give Everything Away

13. Carla Dal Forno- What You Gonna Do Now? 

14. Weezer- Jacked Up

15. The Avalanches- Because I'm Me