best music 2018

by HellHammer • 15 Dec 2018, 00:07 • Journals
Here's to 100 more years of ET and spamming journals on CF.

  1. United States of AmericaDaughters - You Won't Get What You Want (noise/industrial rock)
  2. United KingdomAutechre - NTS Sessions (IDM)
  3. United States of AmericaJulia Holter - Aviary (experimental/art pop)
  4. United States of AmericaAgainst All Logic - 2012 - 2017 (house)
  5. United KingdomBinker & Moses - Alive in the East? (avant-garde jazz)
  6. United States of AmericaLow - Double Negative (ambient/glitch pop)
  7. United States of AmericaParquet Courts - Wide Awaaaaake! (art punk)
  8. DenmarkAnna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic (darkwave)
  9. United KingdomJonny Greenwood - Phantom Thread (modern classical)
  10. United States of AmericaMGMT - Little Dark Age (synth pop/psychedelia)
  11. CanadaTim Hecker - Konoyo (ambient)
  12. IcelandSvartidaudi - Revelations of the Red Sword (black metal)
  13. DenmarkKasper Bjørke Quartet - The Fifty Eleven Project (ambient/drone)
  14. NorwayObliteration - Cenotaph Obscure (death metal)
  15. United States of AmericaBeach House - 7 (dream pop)
  16. United KingdomIDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance (post-punk)
  17. New ZealandAvantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club (jazz rap)
  18. United States of America/Sweden/GermanyAnguish - Anguish (industrial hip hop/avant-garde jazz)
  19. United States of AmericaHorrendous - Idol (death metal)
  20. United KingdomJudas Priest - Firepower (heavy metal)
  21. PolandPejzaż - Ostatni Dzień Lata (plunderphonics)
  22. AustraliaTropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace (art punk)
  23. Korea, Republic ofMid-Air Thief - Crumbling (psychedelic pop)
  24. CanadaTomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms (death metal)
  25. GermanyNils Frahm - All Melody (electronic/post minimalism)
  26. RussiaAL-90 - Murmansk​-​60 (house)
  27. BrazilClau Aniz - Filha de mil mulheres (art pop/rock)
  28. BelgiumWolvennest - Void (psychedelic rock/doom metal)
  29. United States of AmericaImperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury (avant-garde metal)
  30. United States of AmericaSleep - The Sciences (stoner metal)
  31. United KingdomJon Hopkins - Singularity (microhouse)
  32. United KingdomRival Consoles - Persona (IDM/house)
  33. United States of Americacv313 - analogue oceans (ambient techno)
  34. NorwayImmortal - Northern Chaos Gods (black metal)
  35. DenmarkMythic Sunship - Another Shape of Psychedelic Music (jam band)
  36. United States of AmericaPanopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (black metal/folk)
  37. United States of AmericamewithoutYou - Untitled (indie rock)
  38. NetherlandsUrfaust - The Constellatory Practice (black/doom metal)
  39. United States of AmericaDeceased…- Ghostly White (thrash/death)
  40. United States of AmericaLupe Fiasco - Drogas Wave (hip hop)
  41. ItalyMessa - Feast for Water (doom metal)
  42. United States of AmericaNine Inch Nails - Bad Witch (industrial rock)
  43. United States of AmericaDeafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (blackgaze)
  44. United States of AmericaThem Are Us Too - Amends (dream pop)
  45. PolandRiverside - Wasteland (progressive rock)
  46. United States of AmericaToby Driver - They are the Shield (art rock/pop)
  47. United States of AmericaThe Voidz - Virtue (art rock/pop)
  48. GermanyThe Ocean Collective - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (atmospheric sludge metal)
  49. NetherlandsThe Ex - 27 Passports (art punk)
  50. United States of AmericaCloud Nothings - Last Building Burning (post-hardcore)


12 years of music journals, in retrospect:

2007: United States of AmericaThe Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand (shoegaze/doom metal)
2008: United States of AmericaHave a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (post-punk/shoegaze)
2009: United States of AmericaMastodon - Crack the Skye (progressive metal)
2010: FranceDeathspell Omega - Paracletus (black metal)
2011: United States of AmericaGiles Corey - Giles Corey (slowcore)
2012: AustraliaNe Obliviscaris - Portal of I (progressive metal)
2013: CanadaTim Hecker - Virgins (ambient/drone)
2014: United States of AmericaSwans - To Be Kind (experimental rock)
2015: United States of AmericaLil Ugly Mane - Three Sided Tape Volume Three (experimental hip hop)
2016: United KingdomAutechre - elseq (IDM)
2017: United States of AmericaFleet Foxes - Crack-Up (progressive folk)
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Homer 15 Dec 2018, 00:21
HH delivers
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deact_34587843 15 Dec 2018, 12:32
Such a lovely playlist, this time many of them hits home - great choice especially with 7, 20 (saw them live this year for the first time, I never was huge fan of JP but they were on fire and I loved it), 36 (this is great even though I'm not into growling, need to look more at folk metal) and 49.

My most played songs in 2018 are:

Mustasch - Lawbreaker and their whole new album Silent Killer
Suede - Animal Nitrate
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Lee Fields - My World (FULL ALBUM)
Eloy - Time To Turn

Plus some Bob Dylan, a lot of The Kooks (never enough of those two for me) and Lorn (Remnant album is a must)

Two recent favs:

Theophilus London ft. Tame Impala - Only You
Brendan Gleeson - The Unfortunate Lad

Two finnish oldies:

Paul Oxley´s Unit - Spanish Bars
Hurriganes - Bourbon street

And for the last, the most hated, the WORST COVER EVER
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Panda 20 Dec 2018, 19:23
My favourite post of the year is back! Will check the list out over Christmas and report back! Cheers Jimmyboi
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HellHammer 21 Dec 2018, 19:21
I kinda missed the new Dirge and Sulphur Aeon albums (very late releases this year), they would likely end up in my top 50.
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