Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2018

Good albums:

Delicate Features - Pure
Still Corners - Slow Air
Shakarchi and Stranéus - Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God
Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas
Mårble - Diego
Gwenifer Raymond - You Never Were Much Of A Dancer
Various Artists - Onda De Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were (1984-94)
Arp - Zebra
Seán Mac Erlaine - Music For Empty Ears
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Sauvage Formes
Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo

I promise I'm only going to plug this once: I've started a new-music newsletter, with album and track picks going out every Friday morning with tidal/spotify/apple streaming links for all of 'em (with the singles gathered as a playlist). you can sign up here.

the gwenifer raymond album makes me nostalgic for 2004

Recent(ish) favs

Petal - Magic Gone
Noname - Room 25
Chris Crack - Being Woke Ain't Fun
Cut Worms - Hollow Ground
Wild Pink - Yolk in the Fur
Hermit & The Recluse - Orpheus vs. The Sirens
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Wild Nothing - Indigo
Mitski - Be The Cowboy
Popcaan - Forever

albums

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me
Bombino - Deran
The Breeders - All Nerve
Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Jon Hassell - Listening to Pictures
Low - Double Negative
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Sparkle Hard
Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism
Die Nerven - Fake
Trygve Seim - Helsinki Songs

EPs!

(and mini LPs)

After a slow start in 2018, there's been loads of great ones lately. Here's 20 I've not previously mentioned on this thread.

Red Velvet - Summer Magic: Summer Mini Album
Neil Scrivin - Geek Upmanship
Deerful - tell me I can fix this on my own
Red Velvet - #CookieJar
AGF - ENfys nEST
Zooey - Inspiration Information 1
FEMM - dollhouse
YMCK - MAGICAL GALAXY TOUR
The Twelve Hour Foundation - Bunch of Fives
KNIGHTSTOWN - Keep

Tokyo Elvis - Good News
Wojciech Golczewski - End of Transmission 2
Le SuperHomard - The Pomegranate Tree
No Joy / Sonic Boom - s/t
TWICE - What Is Love?
Emma-Jean Thackray - Ley Lines
Moses Sumney - Black in Deep Red, 2014
mewithoutYou - (untitled)
OH MY GIRL BANHANA - Banana Allergy Monkey
LOOΠΔ yyxy - beauty&thebeat

A few additions since May:

Khanus - Flammarion
Vital Idles - Left Hand
KEN Mode - Loved
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness
Ghost - Prequelle

Albums/EPs I've liked/loved this year (tops with an *) up through today:

Noname - Room 25*
Low - Double Negative**
Knife Knights - 1 Time Garage
Ady Suleiman - Memories
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Starchild & The New Romantic - Language
Blood Orange - Negro Swan*
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
The Internet - Hive Mind
Miguel - War & Leisure
Moses Sumney - Black in Deep Red, 2014 EP*
Kamaal Williams - The Return
La Luz - Floating Features
Lotic - Power
Mock Identity - Paradise
The Midnight Hour (Adrian Younge) - The Midnight Hour*
Witch Prophet -The Golden Octave*
Hilary Woods - Colt
Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
Virginia Wing - Ecastatic Arrow
Saba - Care For Me**
Sudan Archives - Sink EP
Serpentwithfeet - Soil**
Melo-Zed - Eleven
Lithics - Mating Surfaces
Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On
Shopping - The Official Body
Ought - Room Inside the World

Saba and Serpentwithfeet and Low are my absolute favorites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTMvh8fI4I

every time i say this is going to be the last fucked up record i'm going to listen to, that it's about time their sonic experimentalism combined with shouting punk singer got old for me. nah, it doesn't.

Their most recent single is fantastic.

Hey, Pitchfork just reviewed the latest Aphex Twin ep.. it's high time we started talking about it. Those Fenix Funk 5-esque melodies on the latter half of "MT1 t29r2", my god

September. No AFX.

Shadow Party - Reverse the Curse (ACR:MCR Rework Extended)
I Am Robot and Proud - A Dot In Air
Dawn Richard - Jealousy
Mariah Carey - GTFO
TOMAGA - The Dancer In The Lake
Low - Always Trying To Work It Out
Orbital - Hoo Hoo Ha Ha
David Guetta ft. Jess Glynne & Stefflon Don - She Knows How To Love Me
Kero Kero Bonito - Make Believe
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Enka Natorium (演歌ナトリウム)
Yasutaka Nakata ft. Charli XCX & Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Crazy Crazy
Charli XCX - Focus (Yaeji remix)
Robyn - Honey
She Makes War - London Bites
Broadcast - Petal Alphabet (demo)
Christine and the Queens - Follarse [aka Damn (what must a woman do)]
Ellen Allien - Flying Objects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOWrfLlxcPE&t=50s

oh, boo-HOO.... AFX made a good ep. Tracks 1, 2, and 3 are favorites

this is from 1987, but apparently it's being reissued this year? Stephane Sévérac - Hold On

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

good stuff, george michael vibe

xp The original 12 inch mix is fantastic.

I think it was supposed to have been reissued last year on Pacific Beach Vinyl but never seemed to materialise.

Made with alarmingly obsessive attention to detail, one for Brits and Anglophiles of a certain age…

http://www.acidjazz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/MattBThemesPackshot3000.jpeg

Our Girl supported Bill Ryder Jones on his recent tour. Their album has been out since the summer 'Stranger Today'. They were great live and the album hits some Lush spots in parts.

My favourites from Q3: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/178694896312/q3-2018-faves

October (a busy month)

Candi Staton - Confidence
Tokyo Elvis ft. Hatsune Mitsuko - Fetish
Sigrid - Sucker Punch (original / Four Tet remix)
Kero Kero Bonito - If I’d Known
Kristin Hersh - Gin
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Calibro 35 ft. Elisa Zoot - Travelers, Explorers
Piney Gir - Dreamcatcher
The Heartwood Institute - Barsham Faire
Saint Etienne - Little Chef
Chris Carter - Bongo Glow; Blissters (Radiophonic Workshop remix)
Halo Maud - Baptism; Surprise
Listening Center - Clarion of the Collapsed Complex
Esperanza Spalding - Touch in Mine
Spencer Zahn ft. Dawn Richard - Cyanotype
Terje Torkellsen - Sean
Let’s Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me (patten remix)
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Mannequin Metric
Silk City & Dua Lipa ft. Diplo & Mark Ronson - Electricity
Cher Lloyd - None of My Business
Uffie - Papercuts
Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life
AURORA - Forgotten Love (Claptone remix)
Robyn - Because It’s In The Music
Noname ft. Ravyn Lenae - Montego Bae
Cardi B - Money
Julia Holter - Colligere; Words I Heard
Oneohtrix Point Never - Love in the Time of Lexapro
Riton + Kah-Lo - Bad Boy
Sone Institute - Winter Is Dead; Justice… As Is
Nao - A Life Like This

My new favorite thing is Bon Voyage Organisation's 'Jungle? Quelle Jungle?'

Exquisite funky disco goodness.

I like that new Oneohtrix track more than anything on the album.

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.