damn solid year this year

Albums
Snail Mail- Lush
Parquet Courts- Wide Awake
Ty Segall- Freedom’s Goblin
Mitski- Be The Cowboy
Beach House- 7
Swearin’- Fall into the Sun
Thee Oh Sees- Smote Reverser
Wye Oak- The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Lucy Dacus- Historian
Superchunk- What A Time To Be Alive
Bat Fangs- S/T
Pusha T- Daytona
Middle Kids- S/T
Flasher- Constant Image
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat- Riddles
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks- Sparkle Hard

Songs
Parquet Courts- “Almost Had To Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience”
Mitski- “Nobody”
Snail Mail-“Pristine”
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks- “Middle America”
Lucy Dacus- “Addictions”
Flasher-“Who’s Got Time?”
Phosphorescent- “New Birth in New England”
Beach House- “Lemon Glow”
Kurt Vile- “Loading Zones”
Deerhunter- “Death in Midsummer”
MGMT- “Little Dark Age”
LCD Soundsystem- “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Grove Thing
Metric- “Dark Saturday”
Pusha T- “If You Know You Know”
Swearin’- “Grow into a Ghost”

12/2/2018 1:42:37 PM

Your musical taste is bad.

12/2/2018 6:50:16 PM

hell yea good year for a lot of my favorite bands. some of my favorites include:

Station 4 - Prints
Becca Dufresne - Here and There
Mick B - Trivial Pursuit
Phenomenal - What's Necessary
Lucas Kane and the Fallen - Once Again
Wormy - S/T
Brokenbox - Carbondale
Flagstone - First Things First

12/2/2018 8:25:13 PM

Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

12/2/2018 9:58:41 PM

^^^ I’m sure you listened to everything listed to make that call

12/2/2018 11:04:25 PM

Definitely Parquet Courts - Wide Awake, that's my favorite album in quite a while.

I haven't listened to many others you mentioned, but also second Ty Segall, Superchunk and Malkmus's new albums.

I'd also add:
Courtney Barnett - Tell me How YOu Really Feel
Legend of the Seagull Men
David Byrne - American Utopia
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
Jeff Rosenstock - POST-

There's some others I'm not remembering right now...

12/3/2018 10:48:00 AM

I'll echo the praise for Parquet Courts - Wide Awake.

I wasn't a huge fan of their album Human Performance, but Wide Awake has made me want to revisit that album as soon as I've checked out all that 2018 has had to offer.


Jeff Rosenstock - POST- has made me want to go back and visit some of his earlier material, as well.

12/3/2018 12:18:50 PM

^If you haven't, you should also check Andrew Savage's (PQ lead singer) 2017 solo album Thawing Dawn, I really dig it too.


(I also forgot to add FJ Misty - God's Farvorite Customer)

[Edited on December 3, 2018 at 1:15 PM. Reason : ]

12/3/2018 1:10:31 PM

that was my favorite album from last year and I feel like it didn’t get nearly the recognition it deserved

12/3/2018 1:29:34 PM

Quote :

"Your musical taste is bad."

let's see your list

12/3/2018 4:02:26 PM

^^^ Thawing Dawn might be what opened me to Wide Awake. "Winter in the South" was the standout track to me on that album.

12/3/2018 6:12:24 PM

Yeah, I might like Thawing Dawn more than Wide Awake... it's a toss-up.

12/4/2018 12:56:55 PM

Iceage - Beyondless has been a favorite of mine, I need to give the Parquet Courts album another shot because it didn’t suck me in after the first listen

12/4/2018 3:30:06 PM

just now realizing that I left out one of my top 3 favorite songs of the year

Tyler, the Creator and A$ap Rocky- “Potato Salad”

12/6/2018 1:27:04 PM

albums:
beach house - 7
deafheaven - ordinary corrupt human love
father john misty - god's favorite customer
car seat headrest - twin fantasy
iceage - beyondless
no age - snares like a haircut
parquet courts - wide awake
fucked up - dose your dreams
cloud nothings - last burning building
wye oak - the louder i call, the faster it runs

12/6/2018 7:39:25 PM

^move mitski towards the top of my list

12/18/2018 10:25:57 PM

Here's a list of my favorite albums this year; I'm sure that I'll want to add more to the list within the next few months or so:

U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
Lucy Dacus - Historian
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Beach House - 7
Pusha T - Daytona
Snail Mail - Lush
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Caroline Says - No Fool Like An Old Fool
Forth Wanderers - S/T
Tierra Whack - Whack World
Beyonce & JAY-Z - Everything Is Love
Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth

Here are some songs that stood out to me this year, as well:

U.S. Girls - "Rosebud"
Beach House - "Woo"
Amen Dunes - "Blue Rose"
Soccer Mommy - "Your Dog"
Iceage - "Thieves Like us"
Middle Kids - "Maryland"
Pusha T - "The Games We Play"
Wye Oak - "It Was Not Natural"
Parquet Courts - "Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience"
Forth Wanderers - "New Face"
Jeff Rosenstock - "TV Stars"
Frankie Cosmos - "Jesse"

[Edited on December 31, 2018 at 12:55 PM. Reason : ]

12/31/2018 12:45:48 PM

That Middle Kids album is solid. I'm kicking myself for missing them at the Pour House this summer.

12/31/2018 2:41:45 PM

very upset at myself for not knowing they played Pour House last summer

12/31/2018 5:14:28 PM

I really enjoyed John Prine's album

[Edited on January 13, 2019 at 11:13 PM. Reason : And Pusha T's]

1/13/2019 11:11:42 PM

I've had Hiss Golden Messenger on pretty heavy rotation the past few weeks. Thought it might be up the alley for some of you people

1/14/2019 12:29:24 PM

^^i keep meaning to listen

^yeah. Hallelujah Anyhow was pretty good, but it was 2017

1/14/2019 12:31:58 PM

I'm actually talking about "Virgo Fool", which was released in late 2018. I'll take a listen to Hallelujah Anyhow. Good new find.

1/14/2019 12:46:43 PM

I finally bought into the Yves Tumor album Safe In the Hands of Love, specifically, the track "Lifetime."

2/8/2019 12:07:08 PM

I've been stuck on Zeal & Ardor's Stranger Fruit album. Good Shit

2/8/2019 1:50:19 PM

Didn’t discover it until recently, but The Beths - Future Me Hates Me is an awesome 2018 record.

4/1/2019 3:15:58 PM

damn good

4/1/2019 3:27:38 PM

"Lifetime" by Yves Tumor should have made my list of standout songs from last year.

Haha, I just realized that I already posted this. I apparently can't stop going back to it.

Carry on.

[Edited on May 2, 2019 at 2:02 PM. Reason : ]

5/2/2019 2:00:54 PM