Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2018

There’s some amazing songs I hadn’t seen anywhere else on that JF.

That has 33 more tracks than my tracks list! My albums list is just:

Various Artists - Pantsula! The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa 1988-1990 [sounds like shangaan x Italo x early house everyone should love this]
Fire! - The Hands [free jazz good times]
Weirdest Dream - White Worms [yr standard analog synth explorations always a treat]

yeh this pantsula comp rules

Here's my rolling 'tracks I'm discovering and enjoying in 2018' list if anyone's interested. https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/4OUN4DPAXPu5Uo8mFpuc4M <-new and old stuff in here but a lot of it is up to date

Another fan of that Pantsula comp here

We seem to be in a golden age of African music compilations right now. I'll need to give the Pantsula a good listen. I am also really really enjoying the 'Sweet As Broken Dates' comp of Somalian music on Ostinato at the moment.

that Fire! track is nice, like their combination of heavy grooves and free spirits

favorite albums so far

Ilyas Ahmed - Closer to Stranger
https://vimeo.com/235687424

Dean McPhee - Four Stones
https://deanmcphee.bandcamp.com/album/four-stones

Future Museums - Rosewater Ceremony
https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rosewater-ceremony-hd044

Swoop and Cross - Stories of Disintegration
https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/album/stories-of-disintegration

Soho Rezanejad - Six Archetypes
https://siliconerecords.bandcamp.com/album/six-archetypes

I just heard the Rae Morris album, and I'm just going to call it that it'll make the top ten in ilx's 2018 poll.

mmmmmmaybe it'll place

I just heard the Rae Morris album, and I'm just going to call it that it'll make the top ten in ilx's 2018 poll.

― President Keyes,

It's definitely winning 2018 for me right now.

Johnny fever please don’t leak the results

I really like Atletico but the first couple of tracks of the album proper weren't really doing it for me. I'm convinced to give it another go.

Getting really addicted to Mor Mor - Heaven’s Only Wishful
I have a soft spot for songs that are sung continously low key and monotonic until the end where the singer starts sing-shouts. Selena Gomez Bad Liar did this too.

This Rae Morris album is wallpaper.

don't get the rae morris love. the single do it was heavy handed

digging the new half waif. beautifully layered vocals, rich bed of synthetic sounds.

"Keep It Out": https://youtu.be/Iou7N2oJq3A

The two Helena Deland singles and the two Amen Dunes singles released so far are great. I think those two + US Girls are pointing out to be my favorite albums in the first quarter of 2018.

"Dark Oscillations" by Loma is pretty trippy-- spacious production, choral effects, almost proggy feeling. I think younger Hunt3r would deem this cheesy, but not now. Entire album is beautifully assembled.

That Loma album is great. Recommend you to listen the albums from the bands forming it: Cross Record and Shearwater. The former in particular (wabi sabi) is amazing.

thx! i'm psyched to check that Cross Record album.

monthly update:

The year is still young but I highly doubt anything will beat this one, or even come close: Camp Cope - How to Socialise & Make Friends
https://campcope.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-socialise-make-friends-2

Alela Diane - Cusp
https://open.spotify.com/album/6jGsKEUE3weS6QBs5tR2M4

Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner
https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-corner

Marisa Anderson reminds me of Adrian Legg a little bit, w/o all the fucking around with the tuning knobs.

Favourite albums:

Mgmt - little dark age
Ionnalee - everyone afraid to be forgotten
First aid kit - ruins
Us girls new one

Year feels young but four great albums by march isn't bad

Six of my faves thus far

https://i.imgur.com/DYILbV5.jpg

Sarah Klang - Love In The Milky Way
Tracey Thorn - Record
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Starchild & The New Romantic - Language
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
Grace Vonderkuhn - Reveries

love the Khruangbin album

I'm not sure how much anyone cares about French music around here but I really like the new album by this band called Feu! Chatterton. It's kind of hard to describe, it fits the nouvelle chanson française descriptor I guess, sounds a bit Gainsbourg-y in a few places, singer kinda overdoes the romantic/sad Parisian poet thing at times but I don't mind. Here's "Souvenir", give it a shot:
https://youtu.be/qunnzffFTj0

Also enjoying the new Eric Chenaux album which is available to stream over at The Quietus:
http://thequietus.com/articles/24164-eric-chenaux-new-album-stream

Again this get modified throughout the year and I have a self imposed rule to not repeat songs from same albums/eps so not a definite list but here's my top 60 songs so far:

A.A.L (Against All Logic) - I Never Dream
Air Waves - Blue Fire
Amen Dunes - Blue Rose
Anemone - Baby Only You & I
Avalon - Deadbeat Boy
Barrie - Canyons
Beach House - Dive
Bekon - Mama Olivia
Buzzy Lee - Coolhand
Caroline Says - I Tried
Caroline Rose - Jeannie Becomes a Mom
Chris Dave and The Drumhedz, Anderson .Paak - Black Hole
DJ Koze - Seeing Aliens
Dungen, Woods - Turn Around
Durand Jones & The Indications - Is It Any Wonder?
Eleanor Friedberger - In Between Stars
George Clanton - Make It Forever
Great News - You're Mine
Gundelach, ARY - Past the Building
Gundelach, ARY, Prins Thomas - Games - Prins Thomas Diskomiks
Gwenno - Tir Ha Mor
Half Waif - Keep It Out
Hana Vu - Crying on the Subway
Helena Deland - Take It All
HOLY - premonition / it shines through
Hop Along - How Simple
Jay Som - Pirouette
Jon Hopkins - Emerald Rush - Edit
Kate Teague - Low Life
Leyya - Heat
Luby Sparks - Thursday
Major Murphy - One Day
Maria Usbeck - Bosque De Bambú
Marlon Williams - Come to Me
Men I Trust - Show Me How
MGMT - Me and Michael
Morabeza Tobacco - TTYL
MorMor - Heaven's Only Wishful
NADINE - Pews
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Negative Gemini - Infin Path
Nilüfer Yanya - Thanks 4 Nothing
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) - Edit
Purr - Painted Memory
PYNKIE - Dew <3 - Lo-Fi Version
Rhye - Waste
SALES - Off and On
Smerz - Worth It
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog
Sun June - Young
The Go! Team - Chain Link Fence
The Green Child - Her Majesty II
The James Hunter Six - Whatever It Takes
The Limiñanas - The Gift (feat. Peter Hook)
The Mauskovic Dance Band - Down in the Basement
The Shacks - Follow Me
True Blue - Tell Me Texas
U.S. Girls - Incidental Boogie
Westerman - Confirmation
Young Galaxy - Under My Wing

As for albums:

A.A.L. (Against All Logic) - 2012 - 2017
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
US Girls - In a Poem Unlimited

This have yet to be released but based on how I've loved every song they've released this year I'm sure I'll love them:

Helena Deland
Amen Dunes
Beach House

There seems to be an error on my song lists Khruangbin - Evan Finds the Third Room should be in there and Caroline Rose ended up being removed :p

Ah yes link again : https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/4G8vQwgf0H6hDomIeFT3C4?si=D_ckFgWPRoy9Uo5ewronmg

Into this Jordanna Sweet Tooth EP — DIY Voodoo-like.

https://m.soundcloud.com/jordannachicago

Better sound quality here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3FJctLzbUr0DFq6EiN1VrR

With the new album, I think Young Fathers have now moved into my all-time top 200 artists.
They're so primitive, so lo-fi, and yet so stylish and layered and lush.
Not mind blowing, just consistently fine.

From the previous album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJGmaea5nc

From the new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtH6iDtBJ3I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnt_yL2f99A

I am 54 songs behind Moka, my trax list so far looks like this:

Mother of Mars - Hera in the Valley
Janelle Monáe - Make me Feel
Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Perfume - Mugenmirai
Keyakizaka46 - Moumorihekaerouka?
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Out of Time

here's me https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/2NhmISp1s6hdu4kpo72zt7

is there a way I can c/p the tracklist from spotify?

btw yesss that four tet remix is great!

ooh, Keyakizaka46 are on Spotify finally. Will start delving…

In the meantime, I have been enjoying this morning the new EP by Japanese experimental vocalist Hatis Noit:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7rwsbhgMy3fzdATXuxp4dZ?si=dP3rxJSuRNutYsylpge7kg

Superorganism s/t owns imo

re: is there a way I can c/p the tracklist from spotify?

Niels, yes you can do this by following these instructions:

1. First, make your Playlist Public on Spotify.

2. Sign up for a free account on SpotOnTrack (this only takes 10 seconds) - create a new username / password. then verify account via email.
http://www.spotontrack.com
SpotOnTrack uses a Spotify API for Spotify Data.

This site is not affiliated with or part of Spotify.

3. Wait 24? to 48 Hours? for your playlist to be indexed on SpotOnTrack. maybe the API retrieves data sooner?

4. Find your playlist, either by playlist search (this can be very slow as there are currently 3,008,564 playlists, so give your playlist a unique name) or by search for an artist then track that is included on your playlist (pick an obscure artist / track so that you can find your playlist easily)

5. When your playlist has been displayed, highlight the text you need from the bottom upwards with your mouse, right click copy - then use a text editor like Notepad on Windows 10 to paste the text to.

e.g forksclovetofu's 2018 Keepers playlist on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5F4O9GGhAEY5zYDDakpCuB
has 280 tracks at the mo, 9 followers

on SpotOnTrack
http://www.spotontrack.com/playlists/2681487#tab-tracks
(you need to be logged in to see this)
data is grouped 100 entries / per page

and this is an example of the copy / paste to notepad (i have only included the first track)

data elements:
track title
artist
date added to playlist
BPM
Music Key

Added on
1 All The Stars (with SZA)
SZA, Kendrick Lamar 2018-01-05 BPM 97
Key G#

it's not perfect, so you may need to do some manually reformatting in your text editor / Word Processor e.g Artist - Track

alright, thanks for sharing - a bit more troublesome than I had hoped, but it's always cool to see people are using the API to do stuff like that (recently found another one that lets you automatically follow all artists in your library)

debut track from 17 year old singer from Nottingham, lovely vocals (found via Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music)

Camille Christel - Copenhagen
https://camillechristel.bandcamp.com/releases
spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1yngKYJEAy4OXjLDP1R2wS?si=RRNiZEHVSQCPoqr-JDUIKg

slowcore ethereal art-pop

holy cow new yamantaka sonic titan :D
loads of other great tunes itt, really liking hatis noit

wow @ "yandere"

yessss

vying with awk in the album of the year so far stakes

Feb and March trax:

The Emperor Machine - Material
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs; Lifer
Kero Kero Bonito - The One True Path
Julia Michaels - Are You
Hailee Steinfeld with BloodPop® - Capital Letters
Natalie Prass - Short Court Style
Mr. Fingers - Electron
Sade - Flower of the Universe
Red Velvet - Bad Boy
Mouse on Mars ft. Amanda Blank & Zach Condon - Foul Mouth
Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu
Neko Case - Hell-On
The JuJu Exchange - Jubilee
Hatis Noit - Illogical Lullaby (Matmos edit)
Blanck Mass - The Rat (Gazelle Twin Remix)
ZHU and Tame Impala - My Life
Let’s Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn; High Horse
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Outerzone Jazs; Automatic Morning
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms; A.L.T.O.
Billie Eilish - bitches broken hearts
Kylie Minogue - Raining Glitter
WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Three Mystic Apes
Beautify Junkyards - Cabeça-Flor

Oh that Daphne & Celeste album is great!

"Lala Belu" from the album of the same name by Hailu Mergia is currently my favorite track of 2018
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UiIkqFIInNtTGxbOzPmJ7?si=HxFTk4IQQlORGuXTZz5ZVw

albums:

Pulse Emitter – Meditative Music 5
https://open.spotify.com/album/3MWbUaP0SjUauXumHJrXlY

Sarah Davachi – Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
https://open.spotify.com/album/2HGLGnjsMnsGfnoSyGzFnO

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Glass
excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJIocGu3DuI

Pascal Contet & Joëlle Léandre – Pascal Contet & Joëlle Léandre
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Zyv1DO9eConYUfvOCCO2F

Matthew Shipp – Zero
https://open.spotify.com/album/6wEXQaARdkDFR7z2lIAs3f

Rafael Anton Irisarri – Sirimiri
https://open.spotify.com/album/26w50tVD56dNWE4WGHUucj

Vanessa Amara – Manos
https://open.spotify.com/album/6BqzsMOpoDM26LDORkPRAM

Lee Noble – Ashenden
https://open.spotify.com/album/5iA8wG1rkqsvDNuNZJdraI

Amen Dunes – Freedom
https://open.spotify.com/album/2H4G8AGta9p8yjgjVI9nZd

Jonas Reinhardt – Conclave Surge
https://open.spotify.com/album/5mtgYBzIpv8m3GBWkc6Ti7

Essaie Pas – New Path
https://open.spotify.com/album/73hRd4ul7485857HO6sxCj

Posting here because there's no 2018 shambhala thread and because it's a favourite track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIYM7in1Tcs

Not Pop Not Indie Shambhala 2018 Thread

That's nice though!

Shout out to a September album release that I just caught up with but was an insta-buy: the latest Tokyo Elvis LP "Nice & Pleasant". As ever with him, the words are mostly sung by a vocaloid software voicebank persona that you'll either love or hate but there's unexpected depths in the writing. Possibly my favourite pure pop LP of the year. Listen here: http://tokyoelvis.bandcamp.com/album/nice-pleasant

November monsters

Dirty Projectors ft. Dear Nora - (I Wanna) Feel It All (Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith remix)
Ariana Grande - thank u, next
Kölsch - Emoticon
I Am Robot And Proud - Imaginary Gadgets; Lucky Static
TWICE - Say You Love Me
Calibro 35 - Stingray (instrumental)
Dawn Richard - new breed
Mariah Carey ft. Slick Rick & Blood Orange - Giving Me Life
Barbara Morgenstern - Angel’s Whisper
Gemma Ray - Blossom Crawls
The Japanese House - Follow My Girl
Emerson Kitamura - Rock Your Baby
WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA ft. yahyei - Survive Tokyo
Le SuperHomard - Springtime
Tokyo Elvis ft. Hatsune Miku - Hello, Hello; Dance Off-Time
Pye Corner Audio - Deep Space Probe
Faten Kanaan - Folksong; Foxes
Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru
Grimes ft. HANA - We Appreciate Power
Aly & AJ - With You

Charlotte Gainsbourg making a late charge with the brilliant 'Take 2' EP!

December songs (and a few sweep-ups from earlier in 2018)

Caterina Barbieri - We Access Only A Fraction
APRIL - Oh-e-Oh
Girls’ Generation-Oh!GG - Lil’ Touch
Red Velvet - Sassy Me
Simmy ft. S-Tone - Incwadi Encane
Anuel Aa feat. Bantu & Nicki Minaj - Familia
Bantu & Jonas Blue ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie - Roll With Me (Team Salut remix)
JPEGMAFIA - Baby I’m Bleeding
Holly Herndon, Jlin & Spawn - Godmother
Princess Nokia - Dragons
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Such A Remarkable Day
D. Rothon - The Years Fall Away
SHY FX ft. Stamina MC & Lily Allen - Roll the Dice
Youth Team - Glisten
Pye Corner Audio - Satan’s Little Helper
Tokyo Elvis - Yuki Boshi
MNEK ft. Hailee Steinfeld - Colour
Hailee Steinfeld - Back to Life

I think jazz is fast approaching 50% of my listening time.
Pretty much replaced me trying to find new electronic albums to get into.