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Best albums of 2018

The Year in Music
IDLES
Bristol UK punk band IDLES played the Rickshaw Theatre on Oct. 4 as part of a North American tour in support of their latest Partisan Records release, Joy as an Act of Resistance. Hands down one of the great albums of 2018.

Lukas Henne: Top 10 Albums

1. IDLES: Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)

2. Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth (Young Turks)

3. Black Thought: Streams of Thought Vol. 2 (Passyunk Productions / Human Re Sources)

4. Colter Wall: Songs of the Plains (Young Mary’s Record Co.)

5. Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)

6. Ty Segall: Freedom’s Goblin (Drag City)

7. Kikagaku Moyo: Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)

8. Hot Snakes: Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop)

9. Jeff Rosenstock: POST- (Polyvinyl)

10. Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar (Ninja Tune)

IDLES
Joy as an Act of Resistance, the second album from UK punk band IDLES, was released Aug. 31 on Partisan Records. - Supplied

 

Liam Starnes: Top 10 Albums

1. IDLES: Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)

2. Shame: Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans Records)

3. U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited (4AD)

4. Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth (Young Turks)

5. Iceage: Beyondless (Matador)

6. Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! (Rough Trade)

7. Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) (Matador)

8. Boygenius: Boygenius EP (Matador)

9. Mount Eerie: Now Only (P.W. Elverum & Sun)

10. Mitski: Be the Cowboy (Dead Oceans)

 

 

Eli Teed: Top 10 Albums

1. IDLES: Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)

2. Daughters: You Won’t Get What You Want (Ipecac)

3. Iceage: Beyondless (Matador)

4. Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth (Young Turks)

5. Blood Orange: Negro Swan (Domino)

6. Ought: Room Inside the World (Merge)

7. Preoccupations: New Material (Jagjaguwar)

8. Shame: Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans Records)

9. Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning (Carpark Records)

10. Jeff Rosenstock: POST- (Polyvinyl)

Kamasi Washington
Kamasi Washington released Heaven and Earth via Young Turks on June 22, the same week he performed at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre as part of this year's TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. - Supplied

 

John Goodman: Top 10 Albums

1. Elizabeth Shepherd: MONtréal (Pinwheel Music)

2. Rosalía: El mal querer (Sony)

3. Tim Hecker: Konoyo (Kranky)

4. Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse! Records)

5. Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante: Vivaldi – Concerti per violino VI “La boemia” (Naïve Classique/The Vivaldi Edition)

6. Soccer Mommy: Clean (Fat Possum)

7. Rich Hope : I’m All Yours (Planned Obsolescence)

8. Helena Hauff: Qualm (Ninja Tune)

9. Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs (Tan Cressida/Columbia)

10. Low: Double Negative (Sub Pop)

 

 

John Goodman: Favourite Reissues/Archival Recordings

1. Big Star: Live At Lafayette’s Music Room (Omnivore Recordings)

2. Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet Remastered (ABKCO)

3. The Beatles: The Beatles White Album (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) (Apple)

4. Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (Warner Bros.)

5. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica (Reprise/Straight)

6. John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse! Records)

7. Ali Touré “Farka”: Special biennale du Mali: Le jeune chansonnier du Mali (Sonafric)

8. Jackie DeShannon: Stone Cold Soul: The Complete Capitol Recordings (Real Gone Music)

9. Thelonious Monk: Mønk (Gearbox)

10. Prince: Piano and a Microphone 1983 (Warner Bros.)

 

Big Star
Omnivore Recordings released Big Star's Live At Lafayette’s Music Room on Jan. 12. The 20-track double album documents a live show the band did in 1973 opening for Archie Bell & the Drells. - Supplied