Narrowed down my top 10 albums (in no particular order):
**All Hands On Jane – Animal Worship **Mandates – Dead In The Face **Preoccupations – New Material *Expanda Fuzz – Cotton Candy Jet Engine *Sloan – Sloan 12 Bat Fangs – Bat Fangs Orange Peels – Trespassing Outrageous Cherry – Meet You In The Shadows Porcupine – What You’ve Heard Isn’t Real Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers- Years
Cowboy Junkies- All That Reckoning
Amanda Shires- To the Sunset
Buffalo Tom- Quiet and Peace
Murder By Death- The Other Shore
Tomberlin- At Weddings
Sloan- 12
American Aquarium- Things Change
Erika Wennerstrom- Sweet Unknown
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood- With Animals
Honorable mentions:
Neko Case-Hell-On
Jeff Tweedy- Warm
Midnight Oil- Armistice Day: Live in Sydney (urgent, powerful, and just so f'n good. It's like they never left)
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The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Buffalo Tom - Quiet and Peace
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Hot Snakes - Jerico Sirens
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Jeff Rosenstock - POST-
Mitski - Be the Cowboy
Neko Case - Hell-On
Sloan - 12
Superchunk - What a Time to be Alive
Another 10
Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of E-mail
Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs
Beach House - 7
BROCKHAMPTON - iridescence
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
Frank Turner - Be More Kind
Kurt Vile - Bottle It On
Noname - Room 25
Screaming Females - All At Once
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My top 10:
1) IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
2) Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
3) Shame - Songs of Praise
4) Pile - Odds and Ends
5) Fallers - Get In, Loser
6) Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
7) Mastersystem - Dance Music
8) A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
9) Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
10) Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
Honourable Mentions:
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
The Goon Sax- We Can't Win
Clean - Soccer Mommy
Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
Preoccupations - New Material
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
Viagra Boys - Street Worms
Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs
Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
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1. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers
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3. Frank Turner - Be More Kind
4. Jeff Rosenstock - Post-
5. Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers - Bought to Rot
6. Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds - Keep Walkin’ Pal
7. Restorations - LP5000
8. The Dirty Nil - Master Volume
9. Fire Next Time - Knives
10. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love in the Time of Email
I wanted so badly to put Paul McCartney’s album on here but it had a bit too much filler on it for my liking. Still spawned some awesome singles though.
Lots of my favourite artists released albums this year so it was a good year. Still, I don’t think it was quite as good as 2017 was. That Menzingers album still blows me away.
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**Miesha & The Spanks – Girls Girls Girls *Fallers – Get In, Loser Beths – Future Me Hates Me Exit Group – Adverse Habitat Grapetooth – S/T Hatfield, Juliana – Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton John Mudhoney – Digital Garbage Ohmme – Parts Savak – Beg Your Pardon Upper Wilds - Mars
Favorite albums of the year in no particular order:
Father John Misty-God's Favorite Customer
Mitski-Be The Cowboy
Hop Along-Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Beach House-7 (How is this not on anyone else's list?)
Neko Case-Hell-On
Dirty Projectors-Lamp Lit Prose
Honorable mention to Boygenius' EP
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10: Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love
9: Tierra Whack – Whack World
8: Low – Double Negative
7: Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
6: Rosalía – El mal querer
5: Snail Mail – Lush
4: Robyn – Honey
3: DJ Koze – Knock Knock
2: Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
1: Mitski – Be the Cowboy
MAGNET’s Matt Ryan picks the best hard-rock releases of the year 1 Orange GoblinThe Wolf Bites Back (Candlelight) 2 Uncle Acid & The DeadbeatsWasteland (Rise Above) 3 River CultHalcyon Daze (Magnetic Eye) 4 EarthlessBlack Heaven (Nuclear Blast) 5 ASGSurvive Sunrise (Relapse) 6 Fu ManchuClone Of The Universe (At the Dojo) 7 WindhandEternal Return (Relapse) 8 PlainrideLife On Ares (Ripple) 9 SundrifterVisitations (Small Stone) 10 Monster MagnetMind####er (Napalm)
I know we are pretty much into year in review territory, but I wanted to post this about my favorite band, The Wood Brothers. They were recently nominated for a Grammy for best Americana album with the 2018 release, One Drop of Truth. Here is a music video for one of the songs:
I have been following these guys for over a decade. I first saw them in a club with a dozen or so people. And while the last few times I have seen them they have packed some decent sized venues, it's great to see them get that Grammy nomination that will hopefully get them even more exposure.
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1. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
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4. Low - Double Negative
5. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
6. Pusha T - Daytona
7. Robyn - Honey
8. IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
9. Christine and the Queens - Chris
10. Ariana Grande - Sweetener
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MAGNET’s Tim Stegall picks the best punk releases of the year 1 The CavemenThe Cavemen (Dirty Water) 2 MudhoneyDigital Garbage (Sub Pop) 3 AdolescentsCropduster (Concrete Jungle) 4 Joe StrummerJoe Strummer 001 (Ignition) 5 D.O.A.Fight Back (Sudden Death) 6 Sharp/ShockYouth Club (Ganz) 7 Pocket FishRmenThe Greatest Story Ever Told (Saustex Media) 8 The GearsRockin’ At Ground Zero (Munster) 9 Walter Lure And The WaldosWacka Lacka Loom Bop A Loom Bam Boo (Cleopatra) 10 The Germs(GI) (Slash/Rhino)
