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Another year end, another Top 50 “best of” list. Keep in mind this is based solely on my personal preference/enjoyment, so it’s more of a “favourites” list than an objective ranking in quality. Additionally, don’t take the numbering too seriously, it’s super hard to pit one album against another, so the actual order is fairly relative. This list only contains full-length albums, thus no EP’s are included. Let me know what your favourite albums from 2018 were, how terrible mine are, etc. Thank you guys for continuing to check out this blog, I’ve got one last post coming for this year, enjoy the holidays, and I’ll see you in 2019.
Honorable Mentions:
Messes – The Ever Closing Door
Cloud District – Dont’ Give Up, Skeleton
Pool Kids – Music To Practice Safe Sex To
Gulfer – Dog Bless
Infant Island – Infant Island
50
Night Birds – Roll Credits
36
Antarctigo Vespucci – Love In The Time Of E-Mail
25
awakebutstillinbed – what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you
13
Beach House – 7
Death Grips – Year Of The Snitch
1
Brian Fallon – Sleepwalkers
So there ya go. I drove myself up the wall trying to pick these out, because so much good material came out this year (some I had to unfortunately exclude). Coming up with the ranks for the final few albums was especially excruciating, because I love them all for different reasons. On a side note I’m sure nobody cares about, I spent almost this entire year telling myself I was not going to make Brian’s new album my #1 pick, because I did that in 2016 and 2014 (with TGA) and later regretted both. Not because they’re bad albums, but looking back there were better, more definitive albums that should have taken those spots (Atrocity Exhibition and Negative Qualities, for the 1 person who was wondering). So even though Sleepwalkers is a fantastic album, I didn’t want to let my fanboyism get in the way again. But lo and behold, when it came down to making this list, I couldn’t place it anywhere else but #1. It’s probably my most-listened to release this year, one that I’ll probably always associate with 2018, and in two years time I’ll look back and regret it all over again. I don’t know, I found that to be a funny factoid that I’m sure is only amusing to myself. If someone is still reading this, please do let me know what your top albums of this year were, I’m super curious to hear what you’ve been digging for the last 365 days.
