Our 2018 end-of-year lists are in!
Before we get all in-depth about which releases we loved this year in a follow-up piece, here are all of our end-of-year lists for 2018. Some of us picked out 20 whereas others just had 10, & a couple of us couldn't even decide on what their faves were. Have a look for yourself below. What releases did you love this year?
Alex Sievers:
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Owen Morawitz:
- Southeast Desert Metal - 'Break The Silence'
- The Comfort - 'What It Is To Be'
- Don Broco - 'Technology'
- Drug Church - 'Cheer'
- Funeral Chic - 'Superstition'
- Future Corpse - 'Culture Ruins Everything Around Me'
- Genocide Pact - 'Order of Torment'
- Gunship - 'Dark All Day'
- Homesick - 'Terra Nullius'
- Hopesfall - 'Arbiter'
- Luca Brasi - 'Stay'
- Now, Now - 'Saved'
- Pagan - 'Black Wash'
- Psycroptic - 'As The Kingdom Drowns'
- Shame - 'Songs of Praise'
- Svalbard - 'It's Hard To Have Hope'
- Tapestry - 'Ghost Of Me' EP
- Trophy Eyes - 'The American Dream'
- Unravel - 'Eras Of Forfeit'
- Vein - 'errorzone'
Jonty Cornford:
The Hard Aches – MessBehemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
Silent Planet – When The End Began
The Story So Far – Proper Dose
Pianos Become The Teeth – Wait For Love
Slowly Slowly – St Leonards
Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Thornhill - Butterfly
Jeff Rosenstock – POST-
Pagan – Black Wash
Underoath – Erase Me
Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
Thrice – Palms
Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
Foxing – Nearer My God
Camp Cope – How To Socialise & Make Friends
Basement – Beside Myself
La Dispute - 'Somewhere at the Bottom of the River between Vega and Altair' 10th anniversary
Anderson .Paak – Oxnard
Limbs – Father’s Son
Alasdair Belling:
Christopher Wallace:
1. FM! - Vincent Staples2. Daytona - Pusha T3. Trident Wolf Eclipse - Watain4. Vicious Pleasure - Endless Heights5. Twisted Visions - Ill Natured6. Good To Feel - Candy7. Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt8. Self titled - Bonechurch9. High as Hope - Florence and the Machine10. I Have Fought Against It But I Can’t Any Longer - The Body11. Hive Mind - The Internet12. The Color Of You - Alina Baraz13. Down Below - Tribulation14. Victory Lap - Nipsey Hussle15. Sunblushed - Bloom Parade16. Snow Turns Red - Judas Wolf17. De Doden Hebben Het Goed III - Wiegedood18. Women of The Wand - Potion19. Humanity Plague - Burn in Hell20. Sever The Ties - Excarnate
JP Pallias:
Hunter Hewgley:
Peyton Bernhardt:
1. Lily Allen - No Shame2. Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me
3. Saba - Care for Me
4. They.- Fireside
5. Iceage - Beyondless
6. Blaise Moore - Temporary Her
7. Architects - Holy Hell
8. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
9. Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
10. Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy
11. Fall Out Boy - Mania
12. Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
13. Lido - Spacesuit
14. Yungblud - 21st Century Liability
15. Logic - YSIV
16. Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
17. Jon Bellion - Glory Sound Prep
18. Vic Mensa - Hooligans
19. Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys
20. Logic - Bobby Tarantino II
Owen Jones (photographer):
Megan Langley:
1. As It Is - The Great Depression2. Five Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood
3. SHADED - A Familiar Love
4. From Ashes To New - The Future
5. Waterparks - Entertainment
6. Stand Atlantic - Skinny Dipping
7. Boys Of Fall - Better Moments
8. AMOR - Love Vs. Logic
9. Mae Krell - Anabasis 10.
Trophy Eyes - The American Dream
11. Lovelytheband - Finding It Hard To Smile
12. Trash Boat - Crown Shyness
13. Beartooth - Disease
14. THRILLCHASER - A Lot Like Love
15. Tiny Moving Parts - Swell
16. Goldview - Until Morning Comes
17. Boxford - Facade
18. Tonight Alive - Underworld
19. 18th & Addison - Vultures
20.Modern Maps - hope you’re happy.
Bill Peel:
1. Daughters - You Won't Get What you want
2. Tropical Fuck Storm - a laughing death in Meatspace
3. Uniform - The Long walk
4. IDLES - Joy as an act of resistance
5. Confidence man - Confident Music for confident people
6. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
7. Bosse de Nage - Further Still
8. Uada - Cult of the dying sun 9.
Kanye West - Ye 10.
HMLTD - Hate music last time delete