2018 Listening.


Here are the albums from 2018 I listened to, along with their ratings as given by me.

  • The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (8/10)
  • 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood (6/10)
  • A Perfect Circle – Eat the Elephant (7/10)
  • Abbe May – Fruit (7.5/10)
  • Action Bronson – White Bronco (7.5/10)
  • Amy Shark – Love Monster (7/10)
  • Anderson .Paak – Oxnard (8/10)
  • Andrew W.K.  – You’re Not Alone (7/10)
  • Animal Collective – Tangerine Reef (6.5/10)
  • Anthony Green – Would You Still Be in Love (7/10)
  • Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino (3.5/10)
  • Ariana Grande – sweetener (8/10)
  • Art Brut – Wham! Bam! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! (7/10)
  • Ash – Islands (2/10)
  • Ashley McBryde – Girl Going Nowhere (8/10)
  • Augie March – Bootikins (5/10)
  • Aunty Donna – The Album (7.5/10)
  • Ball Park Music – GOOD MOOD (7.5/10)
  • Basement – Beside Myself (7.5/10)
  • Beach House – 7 (7/10)
  • The Bennies – Natural Born Chillers (7.5/10)
  • The Beths – Future Me Hates Me (8/10)
  • Big White – Street Talk (7.5/10)
  • Bilby – Shade (7.5/10)
  • Birds in Row – We Already Lost the World (8/10)
  • Bleeding Knees Club – Fade the Hammer (7/10)
  • Blood Orange – Negro Swan (6.5/10)
  • Bloods – Feelings (7/10)
  • Boat Show – Unbelievable (7.5/10)
  • The Breeders – All Nerve (7.5/10)
  • BROCKHAMPTON – iridescence (8/10)
  • BRONCHO – Bad Behavior (7/10)
  • Camp Cope – How to Socialise and Make Friends (8/10)
  • Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves (6.5/10)
  • carb on carb – For Ages (8/10)
  • The Carters – EVERYTHING IS LOVE (8/10)
  • Cash Savage and the Last Drinks – Good Citizens (8/10)
  • Cat Heaven – Living Room (8/10)
  • Charlie Puth – Voicenotes (8/10)
  • CHVRCHES – Love is Dead (7.5/10)
  • Clare Bowen – Clare Bowen (6/10)
  • Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning (8/10)
  • Colter Wall – Songs of the Plains (8/10)
  • Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People (7.5/10)
  • Cosmic Psychos – Loudmouth Soup (7/10)
  • Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (8/10)
  • Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird – Electric Brown (7/10)
  • Craig David – The Time is Now (5.5/10)
  • Culture Abuse – Bay Dream (7/10)
  • cupcakKe – Ephorize (7/10)
  • Dan Mangan – More or Less (7.5/10)
  • Daphne & Celeste – Daphne & Celeste Save the World (8/10)
  • Dark Times – Tell Me What I Need (7.5/10)
  • Darren Middleton – Tides (7/10)
  • Darwin Deez – 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me with My Stupid Heart (7.5/10)
  • Datarock – Face the Brutality (5/10)
  • David Byrne – American Utopia (8/10)
  • Dead Letter Circus – Dead Letter Circus (7.5/10)
  • Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (8.5/10)
  • Death Cab for Cutie – Thank You for Today (8/10)
  • The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl (8/10)
  • Dessa – Chime (8/10)
  • The Dirty Nil – Master Volume (8/10)
  • Dispossessed – Warpath Never Ended (8/10)
  • Disturbed – Evolution (6/10)
  • Divide and Dissolve – Abomination (7.5/10)
  • Don’t Stop or We’ll Die – Dazzle Me (7.5/10)
  • Don’t Worry – Who Cares Anyway? (7.5/10)
  • Drake – Scorpion (7/10)
  • Dream Wife – Dream Wife (6/10)
  • The Drink [********] – ******** [The Drink] (7/10)
  • Drug Church – Cheer (7/10)
  • Ducking Punches – Alamort (6/10)
  • DZ Deathrays – Bloody Lovely (8/10)
  • Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs (5/10)
  • East Brunswick All Girls Choir – Teddywaddy (8/10)
  • Editors – Violence (7.5/10)
  • Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound (6.5/10)
  • Emma Davis – Demons (7.5/10)
  • Endless Heights – Vicious Pleasure (8/10)
  • Evelyn Ida Morris – Evelyn Ida Morris (8/10)
  • Fiddlehead – Springtime and Blind (7.5/10)
  • Field Music – Open Here (8/10)
  • The Finks – Rolly Nice (7.5/10)
  • First Aid Kit – Ruins (6.5/10)
  • Fischerspooner – Sir (4/10)
  • Florence + The Machine – High as Hope (8/10)
  • Frank Turner – Be More Kind (7/10)
  • Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending (4/10)
  • Fraser A. Gorman – Easy Dazy (7/10)
  • The Fratellis – In Your Own Sweet Time (7/10)
  • Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (8/10)
  • Gaelynn Lea – Learning How to Stay (7.5/10)
  • Ghost – Prequelle (6.5/10)
  • Gin Blossoms – Mixed Reality (5/10)
  • The Go! Team – SEMICIRCLE (7/10)
  • Gorillaz – The Now Now (7.5/10)
  • Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (8/10)
  • GRMLN – Afraid Of… (6/10)
  • Gurrumul – Djarririmi (Child of the Rainbow) (7.5/10)
  • Half Waif – Lavender (7/10)
  • Hana Vu – How Many Times Have You Driven By (7.5/10)
  • The Hard Aches – Mess (7.5/10)
  • Harm’s Way – Posthuman (7/10)
  • Harmony – Double Negative (8/10)
  • High Tension – PURGE (8/10)
  • Hockey Dad – Blend Inn (8/10)
  • Homesick – Terra Nullius (7.5/10)
  • Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog (7.5/10)
  • Horror My Friend – Home Life (7.5/10)
  • Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens (7.5/10)
  • Iceage – Beyondless (7.5/10)
  • IDLES – Joy as An Act of Resistance (8/10)
  • Ill Natured – Twisted Visions (7/10)
  • Infinite Void – Endless Waves (8/10)
  • Interpol – Marauder (7.5/10)
  • Isaac Graham – Calendar Year (6.5/10)
  • itoldyouiwouldeatyou – Oh Dearism (7.5/10)
  • Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders – Blue Poles (7.5/10)
  • Jacob – Show Me Some Passion (7.5/10)
  • James Bay – Electric Light (7/10)
  • Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer (7/10)
  • Jeff Rosenstock – POST- (8/10)
  • Jesus Piece – Only Self (8/10)
  • Joan as Police Woman – Damned Devotion (6.5/10)
  • John Coltrane – Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (8/10)
  • Joyce Manor – Million Dollars to Kill Me (8/10)
  • Justin Courtney Pierre – In the Drink (7.5/10)
  • Justin Timberlake – Man of the Woods (4.5/10)
  • Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour (8/10)
  • Kanye West – ye (8/10)
  • Kasey Chambers and the Fireside Disciples – Campfire (6/10)
  • Kate Nash – Yesterday Was Forever (7/10)
  • Kendrick Lamar – Black Panther The Album, Music From and Inspired By (7/10)
  • KIDS SEE GHOSTS – KIDS SEE GHOSTS (6.5/10)
  • Kississippi – Sunset Blush (7.5/10)
  • The Kite String Tangle – The Kite String Tangle Presents: In a Desperate Moment (7.5/10)
  • Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers – Bought to Rot (7.5/10) 
  • Laura Jean – Devotion (8/10)
  • Laurence Pike – Distant Early Warning (7.5/10)
  • The Living End – Wunderbar (7/10)
  • Low – Double Negative (8/10)
  • Luca Brasi – Stay (8/10)
  • Lucy Dacus – Historian (7.5/10)
  • Mac Miller – Swimming (8/10)
  • Madball – For the Cause (7/10)
  • Manor – How to Live with You (7/10)
  • Marmozets – Knowing What You Know Now (7/10)
  • Math and Physics Club – Lived Here Before (7/10)
  • MeanGirls – Is This Me Forever? (7/10)
  • MGMT – Little Dark Age (7.5/10)
  • Mia Dyson – If I Only Said So Far I Take It Back (7/10)
  • Mitski – Be the Cowboy (8.5/10)
  • MOD CON – Modern Convenience (7.5/10)
  • Mojo Juju – Native Tongue (7.5/10)
  • Mountain Man – Magic Ship (8/10)
  • Mt. Joy – Mt. Joy (7/10)
  • Muncie Girls – Fixed Ideals (7.5/10)
  • Naif – the fall and decline of Naif (7.5/10)
  • Nas – NASIR (8/10)
  • Neko Case – Hell-On (8/10)
  • Nils Frahm – All Melody (7.5/10)
  • Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch (8/10)
  • Obscura Hail – Pallbearer (7.5/10)
  • The Ocean Party – IBO (7/10)
  • Pagan – Black Wash (7.5/10)
  • Palm (USA) – Rock Island (7.5/10)
  • Panic! at the Disco – Pray for the Wicked (4/10)
  • The Paper Kites – On the Train Ride Home (6/10)
  • Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! (7/10)
  • Passenger – Runaway (7/10)
  • Paul Kelly – Nature (7.5/10)
  • Paul McCartney – Egypt Station (7/10)
  • Phantastic Ferniture  – Phantastic Ferniture (7/10)
  • Pianos Become the Teeth – Wait for Love (8.5/10)
  • Pinegrove – Skylight (8/10)
  • Pistol Annies – Interstate Gospel (7.5/10)
  • P.O.D. – Circles (5.5/10)
  • Post Malone – Beerbongs & Bentleys (7/10)
  • The Presets – HI VIZ (8.5/10)
  • Press Club – Late Teens (7.5/10)
  • Pusha T – DAYTONA (7.5/10)
  • Quiet Slang – Everything Matters But No One is Listening (6.5/10)
  • Razorbumps – Hellrazors (7.5/10)
  • Recovery Room – Wallflower (7.5/10)
  • Regurgitator – HEADROXX (6.5/10)
  • Rejjie Snow – Dear Annie (7.5/10)
  • Restorations – LP5000 (8/10)
  • Rich Brian – Amen (7/10)
  • Robyn – Honey (5/10)
  • Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (7.5/10)
  • RÜFÜS DU SOL – Solace (7.5/10) 
  • S. Carey – Hundred Acres (7.5/10)
  • Sarah Blasko – Depth of Field (7/10)
  • Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Years (8/10)
  • Say Hi – Caterpillar Centipede (6/10)
  • Say Sue Me – Where We Were Together (7.5/10)
  • Screaming Females – All at Once (6.5/10)
  • Self Defense Family – Have You Considered Punk Music (6.5/10)
  • Shannen Moser – I’ll Sing (7.5/10)
  • Shinedown – Attention Attention (6.5/10)
  • Shopping – The Official Body (8/10)
  • The Sidekicks – Happiness Hours (8/10)
  • Skegss – My Own Mess (7.5/10)
  • Slowly, Slowly – St. Leonards (7.5/10)
  • Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (5/10)
  • Snape – Always (8/10)
  • Snow Patrol – Wildness (5/10)
  • Soccer Mommy – Clean (7.5/10)
  • SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES (7.5/10)
  • Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse (7.5/10)
  • Spike Vincent – Spike Vincent (7/10)
  • The Spook School – Could It Be Different? (7.5/10)
  • Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks – Sparkle Hard (6.5/10)
  • Sting & Shaggy – 44/876 (6/10)
  • Stonefield – Far from Earth (7/10)
  • The Story So Far – Proper Dose (7.5/10)
  • Stryper – God Damn Evil (6.5/10)
  • Super Duper – Super Duper (7.5/10)
  • Swearin’ – Fall Into the Sun (7.5/10)
  • teddy<3 – LilyAnna (7.5/10)
  • Teyana Taylor – K.T.S.E. (7/10)
  • They Might Be Giants – I Like Fun (7/10)
  • Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) (7.5/10)
  • Tierra Whack – Whack World (8/10)
  • Tiny Little Houses – Idiot Proverbs (4.5/10)
  • Tiny Moving Parts – Swell (7.5/10)
  • Tom Lyngcoln – Doming Home (8/10)
  • Tonight Alive – Underworld (7.5/10)
  • Totally Mild – Her (6.5/10)
  • Trampled by Turtles – Life is Good on the Open Road (7/10)
  • Travis Scott – ASTROWORLD (7.5/10)
  • Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace (8/10)
  • Troye Sivan – Bloom (8/10)
  • tUnE-yArDs – I can feel you creep into my private life (5.5/10)
  • Tunng – Songs You Make at Night (7.5/10)
  • Turnstile – Time and Space (8/10)
  • Twitching Tongues – Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred (7/10)
  • Underoath – Erase Me (7/10)
  • Uniform – The Long Walk (7.5/10)
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food (7.5/10)
  • U.S. Girls – U.S. Girls in A Poem Unlimited (6.5/10)
  • Usher – “A” (6.5/10)
  • Vacationer – Mindset (6.5/10)
  • Vacations – Changes (7.5/10)
  • Vein – Errorzone (8/10)
  • Vertical Horizon – The Lost Mile (6.5/10)
  • Vince Staples – FM! (7/10)
  • The Vines – In Miracle Land (6.5/10)
  • War on Women – Capture the Flag (8/10)
  • West Thebarton – Different Beings Being Different (7.5/10)
  • The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (6/10)
  • worlds greatest dad – Get Well Soon (7.5/10)
  • Xylouris White – Mother (7/10)
  • You Me at Six – VI (7.5/10)
  • Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar (7.5/10)
  • Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (7.5/10)