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The Best Albums Of 2018

If you want to see a full review of any specific album on this list, or are wondering why a particular album did or didn’t make the top 10, or are wondering why an album you like from the year in question isn’t on this list at all, send me an ask about it and I’ll try and respond!

The Top 10

Room 25 by Noname

Invasion Of Privacy by Cardi B

A Laughing Death In Meatspace by Tropical Fuck Storm

Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts

Whack World by Tierra Whack

Superorganism by Superorganism

Transangelic Exodus by Ezra Furman

Be The Cowboy by Mitski

Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides by SOPHIE

Três by Thiago Nassif

The Rest

Care For Me by Saba

Conexão EP by Amber Mark

DAYTONA by Pusha T

Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae

Ephorize by CupcakKe

Foreign Ororo by Riton + Kah-Lo

Guatemaya by Doctor Nativo

Hive Mind by The Internet

I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life by tUnE-yArDs

Interstate Gospels by The Pistol Annies

Queen by Nicki Minaj

Quite A Life by Lyrics Born

Record by Tracey Thorn

Snares Like A Haircut by No Age

Streams Of Thought Vol. 1 by Black Thought

Tantabara by Tal National

Temet by Imarhan

The Terror End Of Beauty by Harriet Tubman

DROGAS WAVE by Lupe Fiasco

There’s A Riot Going On by Yo La Tengo

Things Have Changed by Bettye LaVette

Twerp Verse by Speedy Ortiz

Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest

Un Autre Blanc by Salif Keita

What A Time To Be Alive by Superchunk

What Happens When I Try To Relax by Open Mike Eagle

Your Queen Is A Reptile by Sons Of Kemet

Coming off of a previous year I described as lackluster, this is more like it. 38 albums in total, but more importantly, I had a particularly difficult time picking the top 10 for this year. The top 3-4 proved especially difficult – I was pretty certain after a while that Noname’s “Room 25”, perhaps the peak of what one can accomplish with the “personal is political” mantra, was going to take the top spot, but was I prepared to admit that Cardi B’s pop triumph “Invasion Of Privacy” was better than Parquet Courts’ best album yet? And so, apparently, was Tropical Fuck Storm’s unrelenting “A Laughing Death In Meatspace”? It hurt me to rank some of these things the way I did, but because of this, I’m fairly confident that you could pull any of the top 10 albums at random and have a great time regardless. Just make sure to watch the videos for Tierra Whack’s album, too, since they’re a whole work of art in themselves (it’s 15 minutes of your life for one of the most creative hip-hop visual spectacles of the century so far, come on, just do it).

What’s more, typing out the rest of the list made me realize what an awesome year this was simply by how many I realized I was sad to have to leave out of the top 10. Let me tell you, in any number of weaker years (like the last, or perhaps the next one, as you’ll see), contributions by Speedy Ortiz, Superchunk, Open Mike Eagle, Harriet Tubman, No Age, The Pistol Annies, Saba, Amber Mark and more would have made it into that upper tier. It’s a true testament to the strength of this year’s releases that they didn’t; I would strongly recommend checking out much of the second-tier list as well if you’re looking for the outstanding accomplishments in hip-hop, country, indie rock, desert rock and believe it or not, avant-garde jazz (Sons Of Kemet deserve a shout-out here, too, for their unique brass band approach).

One strange quirk I’ve noticed about this year is that it features several artists who seem either to have peaked here, releasing a lesser follow-up in the next few years, or who have yet to release a follow-up at all. Parquet Courts, No Age, Noname, Nicki Minaj, Pusha T, The Internet, Cardi B, Tierra Whack, Mitski, Superorganism and sadly even Tropical Fuck Storm and the aforementioned Sons Of Kemet all fall into these categories to varying extents. Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong in some way on at least a few of those soon, but even if they don’t bounce back, many of those artists can rest easy knowing they’ve created at least one masterpiece, which is more than most can say.

Speaking specifically to a few trends I noticed from the previous year, I will acknowledge that “mainstream”-leaning pop remains under-represented here, though I think this may just be my general bias as a critic to ignore most of it or even to recognize that the stuff that makes it on to my radar as interesting enough to write about is still too inconsistent to make a year-end list in terms of quality. Then again, I put Cardi B, breakout pop-star of the year, at #2, so you can’t complain too much there. Second, I should clarify that while I said in the previous year’s essay that I was ready to re-listen to Mount Eerie’s follow-up grieving-process album “Now Only”, I ultimately felt that it couldn’t hold its own against the other albums I selected for this year’s list. Which, again, is just an indication of how good 2018 was; nothing against “Now Only”, it’s still a very good album and you should listen to it if you...enjoyed(?) “A Crow Looked At Me”.

Finally, I’m glad to see a bit more music from outside the “western” pop sphere sneaking onto this year’s list as well. Thiago Nassif’s Tom Zé-like “Três” made the very end of the top 10, but you’ll find Guatemala’s Doctor Nativo, Nigeria’s Kah-Lo, Niger’s Tal National, Algeria’s Imarhan and Mali’s Salif Keita elsewhere on the list, each of which is worth checking out and each of which brings their own unique sound to the table. And on a sadder note, it’s still hard for me to believe SOPHIE is no longer with us after releasing such a final masterwork as “Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides”. We truly lost a once-in-a-generation talent with her.

#Music Criticism #Music #2018 #Best of project #Albums #Pop Music #Albums of the year #Best of 2018

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20. an album with no skips?

kid a by radiohead, crystal castles' self-titled album (but pirating that shit so that ethan doesn't reap any of the benefits of a stream), or oil of every pearl's un-insides by SOPHIE

21. where do you most want to travel?

i really want to travel to south america, my friend has family in mexico and she was having the time of her damn life LMFAO. if i do travel there, i at least would have a place to stay at which is such a plus

22. future career/career plans?

famous graphic design artist specializing in album art/dj fliers. or getting on payroll just to be sexy and have fun somewhere

23. do you like kids?

sorry, not a fan

24. whats one weird thing about you?

i was born without wisdom teeth

25. what did you want to be when you were younger?

astronaut!!!!

26. whats your favorite ship?

me x getting this monay

27. whats the first show/movie that made you cry?

star trek LOL. i cant watch TNG's "the offspring" without crying

28. what do you eat for breakfast?

vanilla-flavored coconut milk yogurt with fruit and different granolas i pick up from either trader joe's or target, whichever one i have left and havent yet run out of. i know that sounds so high maintenance but i like to think it's a healthy breakfast option and will cancel out the cigarettes i smoke in the evenings

29. what’s one of your fondest memories?

when i went to hawaii on a family vacation and went on a kid's daycare trip thing from the resort and there was a girl there who only spoke japanese. i remember asking the counselors to translate for me like my name and to ask her if she wanted to be friends w me LOL. that day the field trip was to the aquarium, and this girl and i couldn't understand each other, but we were holding hands walking around the museum pointing at the fish and stuff, and it makes me so happy that despite not being able to communicate with each other, we still got to spend time with each other and connect. i was too young to be like "yo whats your snap" (this was like 2009) so i never got to keep in touch with her but hopefully she looks back fondly on that random time w me. THIS SOUNDS LIKE A FAKE STORY LMFAOO i promise it's real. it was so comforting, as a child to share a human moment with someone. i swear my consciousness was gained on that trip

#asks #50 questions #guys we're running out of questions uh oh

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multimoulinette · 6 years

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“This is an album for myself, my friends, and all of the sweet people that have supported me and inspired me, I love you. Let’s celebrate.” — SOPHIE

1. It’s Okay To Cry 2. Ponyboy 3. Faceshopping 4. Is It Cold In The Water? 5. Infatuation 6. Not Okay 7. Pretending 8. Immaterial 9. Whole New World/Pretend World

#SOPHIE #music #streaming #pride #pride month #Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides #Faceshopping

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someguysmusic · 6 years

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#today #sophie #oil of every pearl's un-insides #stream #electronic #bubblegum bass #pop

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sunkentreasurecove · 6 years

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#SOPHIE #OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES #full #album #stream #music

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🔥 music for the topic

i don't really like the fact that music is seen as something marketable & that a lot of mainstream music intends to capitalize off of that marketability because to me music is a form of art that is so essential to expression and to have it be something that's able to be monetized easily by making an industry out of it. and that's not me saying don't pay artists for their work at all but when capitalism has an entire industry based around selling music.... 😐

also more varied opinions abt music ❤

- SOPHIE deserves so much more respect than she's given by the cis ppl in her fanbase also stream OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES for clear skin

- kim petras' music isn't good enough to defend her working with dr luke and i'm tired of seeing her, especially when people use her transness to defend streaming her music. there are so many trans women who make pop music please pick a struggle

- ayesha erotica deserved so much better and i hate her current fanbase cause its a bunch of cis men who think they're regina george and get off on feeling "cunty" its so gross to me

- shea diamond that's it that's the tweet please listen to her music especially if you're looking for trans artists to listen to 😊

thank you for the ask!!

#cigarettepack #ask games

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jmsa1287 · 5 years

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A Year in Review: The 15 Best Albums of 2018

More than the past few years, 2018 proved to be a year of consensus when it comes to music. There were a handful of artists who released must-hear albums, many of which were lauded. Ariana Grande, Troye Sivan, Drake, Beyonce and Jay Z, Kanye West and many more dropped albums we all had to stop and listen to. Some of those records appear on the list below, some don't.

I’ve never had this short of a list in the 11 years I’ve been thinking and writing about music. Maybe it’s due to my age but despite a handful of gems, the landscape has been pretty dreadful over the past few years.

15. MGMT - Little Dark Age

14. Beach House - 7

13. Now, Now, - Saved

12. Rita Ora - Phoenix

11. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

10. Cat Power - Wanderer

Six years after her last album, singer-songwriter Chan Marshall a.k.a. Cat Power returned this year with the stripped down, raw and politically charged album "Wanderer." It's an effortless album that finds Marshall at her most minimal while she makes some of her biggest swings. The whispery "Woman," which features cooing from Lana Del Rey, is a hauntingly confidant song where their two voices create powerful layered sound. Marshall also adds Rihanna's ballad "Stay" to her lineup of covers and her take on the track is one Marshall's best takes on a pop song she's ever done.

09. Yumi Zouma - EP III

Although their newest EP only has four songs, Yumi Zouma's latest effort, aptly titled "EP III," is one of the year's best collection of songs. The New Zealand band have put a steady stream of their brand of shimmering dream pop. Single "In Camera" is a dazzling disco thumper that finds Yumi Zouma at the top of their craft. "Powder Blue / Cascine Park" is another highlight, a cool and slinky jam that comes with a soaring chorus. Yumi Zouma have two LPs under their belt but they seem to function best with EPs, offering small bursts of blissful musical sunshine.

08. Troye Sivan - Bloom

Troye Sivan's sophomore album "Bloom" is a radical shift for the out singer. It signaled a more mature and sophisticated sound, which fans noticed with his first single, the George Michael inspired "My My My!" a confidant explosion of love. The album's title track is radical queer expression — one not really heard in pop music before. Bluntly put, it's about bottoming, so says Sivan. More than that, it's a catchy bop. The same goes for the electrifying "Lucky Strike" and "Dance to This," which features Ariana Grande. "Bloom" also tender moments like the stellar "The Good Side" and the moving ballad "Postcard," featuring Gordi.

07. Ariana Grande - Sweetener

No doubt that Ariana Grande ruled 2018, easily one of the most talked about celebs thanks to her whirlwind engagement and breakup with "Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson, the tragic death of her ex-boyfriend rapper Mac Miller and, of course, "Sweetener," her fourth album. Though her most successful song of the year, "Thank U, Next," is from her upcoming fifth album, "Sweetener" is a powerful and emotional journey. It finds Grande working through her emotions about the Manchester Arena Bombing, her relationship with Miller and the highs of her romance with Davidson. With top-line producers (Pharrell, Max Martin, Hit-Boy and more), "Sweetener" has the confessionalism of a Taylor Swift album but the soul of Grande.

06. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Sophie's debut album "Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides" is a departure of sorts. The producer and musician previously released amped up pop songs — so sugary it would instantly give you a toothache. That glossy pop sound that sounds like music processed through a whacky funhouse mirror is found rarely found on Sophie's album. Instead, it's a deeply personal experimental effort that finds Sophie at her most venerable, like the raw balled "It's Okay to Cry," a queer anthem about self-acceptance. "Is It Cold in the Water?" is an atmospheric and painful ballad that flows and erupts with anger. "Ponyboy" is Sophie's sexiest song and the intense "Faceshopping" is another powerful song about identity. "Oil..." is an album that defies expectations and is incredibly rewarding.

05. Let’s Eat Grandma - I’m All Ears

The British duo Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton made one of the most vibrant and impressive albums of the year. Under the name Let's Eat Grandma, "I'm All Ears" is a fantastical experimental record, that's both playful and fascinating. Skewering pop music with electrifying songs like "Hot Pink," "Falling into Me" and LP highlight "It's Not Just Me." Closing the album is the stirring ambient ballad "Ava" and the 11-minute "Donnie Darko," bonkers and epic synthy ride that solidifies Let's Eat Grandma as the future of pop music.

04. Mariah Carey - Caution

Mariah Carey's 15th album "Caution" may be her worst-selling albums since "Glitter," but it happens to be one of her best efforts in years. The compact 10-track album (a departure for most pop stars who usually offer an exhausting 15-20 tracks) is solid from front-to-back. Working with fresh producers, ranging from Poo Bear, DJ Mustard, Ninteen85, Blood Orange and even Skrillex, and veterans (Timbaland!), "Caution" is a sexy R&B album that finds Carey, who gets writing and producing credits on every track, figuring out the latest phase of her career. She never strains her vocals or even bothers for those iconic high-range Mimi notes: "GTFO" is a hilarious and sultry breakup song, "A No No" is another sexy and funny standout as is "The Distance," featuring Ty Dolla $ign.

03. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The British band the 1975's third album "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships" is their most ambitious and sprawling offering yet. Though it takes on a number of heavy topics, like lead singer Matty Healy's rehab and addiction as well as global issues like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, the death of Lil Peep and so much more, "A Brief Inquiry" is beautifully positive; a glowing piece of music that offers hope in a chaotic and messed up world. The band does this while drawing on some of the best music ever made ranging from Radiohead's "acoustic" album "The Bends," the sophistipop U.K. band the Blue Nile, Kanye West, electro dubstep musician Burial, the Talking Heads, Justin Bieber, Michael Bolton and so much more. "I Love it if We Made it" is a hopeful anthem for a generation and the thesis of "A Brief Inquiry," an album that tells us the world is shit but there's still light at the end of the tunnel.

02. Robyn - Honey

Robyn's last album "Body Talk" from 2010 contained some of the best music of the 21st century, namely "Dancing On My Own." There were plenty of other highlights ("Hang with Me," "Call Your Girlfriend") but looking back eight years later, it's a flawed album. "Honey" is the inverse of "Body Talk." From start to finish there isn't one skippable song. The highs are higher on "Body Talk" and Robyn doesn't even bother trying to top "DONMO." Instead, the Swedish pop star unleashed a beautiful dance album that's sexy and emotional. On "Body Talk," she told fans she was a femmebot. On "Honey," she's a "Human Being" — a stunning and hypnotic song finding Robyn at her most personal. Elsewhere, "Because it's in the Music" is a shimmering nu-disco banger about a broken romance, "Beach 2k20" is a novelty song that sounds like it's the theme for a TV show about a cruise ship that sails across the universe. Closer "Ever Again" is a pulsating and glittery jazzercize-like jam where Robyn is at her most venerable and confessional: "Never gonna be brokenhearted / Ever again / (That shit's out the door) / I'm only gonna sing about love / Ever again."

01. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves' third album "Golden Hour" finds the country singer at her peak. Always a clever songwriter, Musgraves outdid herself here, penning some of the best songs of her career, including the breakup ballad "Space Cowboy" and the disco-country bop "High Horse." "Golden Hour" is a record, that sounds like it was inspired by Beck's iconic breakup album "Sea Change," that finds Musgraves going big and small, contemplating life, love and her relationships. The melancholy "Lonely Weekend" strums along until she hits you with the lyric: "I got a million things to do, but I haven't done a single one, no / And if my sister lived in town, I know that we'd be doin' something fun." The interlude "Mother," is a small devastating song that packs the biggest punch on "Golden Hour." "I'm just sitting here thinking 'bout the time that's slipping / And missing my mother, mother / And she's probably sitting there / Thinking 'bout the time that's slipping / And missing her mother, mother." Still, she makes room on the album to sing about drinking, doing drugs but infuses every second on "Golden Hour" with humanity that's earth-shatteringly touching.

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imagine thinking youre oppressed on tumblr because 15-16 yr olds make fun of you for liking moomins/animal crossing when youre almost 20 anyways lets all stream OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES Remix Album (NON STOP) by SOPHIE!

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011011100011000101110100011010 · 5 years

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“Infatuation Who are you? Deep down I wanna know

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Without my legs or my hair Without my genes or my blood With no name and with no type of story Where do I live? Tell me, where do I exist?

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I'm real when I shop my face Artificial bloom Hydroponic skin Chemical release Synthesise the real Plastic surgery Social dialect Positive results Documents of life”

- Sophie

“As capital commodifies such technologies for the mass market, biotechnical enhancements will proffer a concrete way to radically decode the human organism altogether not just in socio-cultural, but also bio-organic ways as the homo sapiens gives way to the techno sapiens. Whereas standard commodity production encourages new looks, identities and desires by selling fashionable clothes, cars and other accessories, biotechnical products sell different ways of altering our very basic cognitive capabilities and physical biochemistry as we take intelligence-augmenting drugs, add gills so that we can swim, wings so we can fly, or new x-ray vision eyeballs. While all of these examples might sound as if they mark augmentations of the human organism, they do not so much improve us as show our human intelligence to be a regional, inferior instantiation of a vaster, posthuman reservoir of cyberpositivity. Certainly, traditional body mods such as piercing and tattooing are normally viewed as permitting us to take control of our body and change it in permanent or semi-permanent ways to express how our minds see ourselves. It is no wonder that body mods were so frequent in savage social machines as a way to encode bodies with religious beliefs, social roles, tribal allegiances and familial relations. While biotechnical enhancements are often seen in the same way as traditional body mods as the ability to take control of our own body and enhance our human faculties, by reaching new heights of intelligence and strength through the fusion with future technology, we will no longer look at things as humans are biologically and genetically equipped to do so. Instead, we will witness a whole new reality in which we shall no longer recognize our former countenance as the Outside literally breaks through the barrier of the skin to infect our insides with its machinic delirium. ... Behind this seeming reterritorialization as we technologically alter our own skin to satiate our erotic desires lies a primary thanathropic drive which seeks to open up the organism and remove its parts so as to map a literal Body without Organs, or at least a Body with Modified Organs. When all is said and done, cybernetic body mods do not so much hark back to the savage territorialization of bodies as they do to epidemic shamanism’s self-mutilations as a gateway to the sacred truth of an abstract (and artificial) God.

If biotechnology functions like a nihilistic vortex sucking all human values, beliefs and meanings into its sublime death-core, it is because it shows that the future promises to radically decode our very intelligence, skin and even our insides, treating none of it as too sacred to recode in monstrously inhuman ways. Future biotechnology harbours nothing less than the frightening dystopian extermination of the human species in an unprecedented deterritorialization that is not even conceivable in principle, because it indexes the dissolution of our concepts of reason into nano-molecular grey-goo. What body mods attest to is that the human body is a contingent genetic code which can be decoded and rewritten on end. So, we will not really be enhancing our human body, but rather destroying it by merging with the machinic as we come to perceive in new techno-virtual ways. We are not so much fortifying the human body as per primitive rules and regulations as we are transgressing its taboos by cannibalizing ourselves through technological monstrosities of our making. Here as with VR, body mods do not affirm an idealistic, virtual realm beyond the physical body. On the contrary, they critique that very idealist pretention to synthesize all things through our categories of understanding. Rather than submerging us deeper into a hallucination, such biochemical technics demonstrate that our so-called real perception was always-already a transcendental illusion.”

- El Tnecniv, Unknown Lands

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best of 2018.

These are all the best movies, television, music, performances, distractions, inspirations, and reasons to create from the last year. It was a long one and I don’t have to say too much about it for you to remember, so I won’t say anymore. Without further ado, here they are:

MOVIES

Black Panther

Sorry to Bother You / Blindspotting (tie)

Roma

If Beale Street Could Talk

A Star Is Born

Isle of Dogs

BlacKkKlansman

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Widows

Madeline’s Madeline

Shirkers

The Favourite

First Reformed

Minding the Gap

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Burning

Annihilation

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Wildlife

TV SHOWS

Atlanta: Robbin’ Season

Killing Eve

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Sharp Objects

Homecoming

The Good Place

The Americans

Salt Fat Acid Heat

Barry

Bodyguard

Big Mouth

The End of the Fucking World

G.L.O.W.

BoJack Horseman

Wild Wild Country

Saturday Night Live

MUSIC - albums

Dirty Computer // Janelle Monaé

Daytona // Pusha T

Saturn // Nao

Con Todo El Mundo // Khruangbin

Be the Cowboy // Mitski

Sweetener // Ariana Grande

Kids See Ghosts // Kids See Ghosts

Everything Is Love // The Carters

Room 25 // Noname

Boarding House Reach // Jack White

2012-2017 // Against All Logic

Everything Is Recorded // Richard Russell

Negro Swan // Blood Orange

Ventriloquism // Meshell Ngedeochello

Veteran // JPEGMAFIA

Lost & Found // Jorja Smith

Honey // Robyn

FM! // Vince Staples

El Mal Querer // Rosalia

Cocoa Sugar // Young Fathers

Black Panther: The Album // Kendrick Lamar (f/various artists)

The Return // Kamaal Williams

Whack World // Tierra Whack

OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES // Sophie

Everything’s Fine // Jean Grae & Quelle Chris

Streams of Thought, Vols. 1 & 2 // Black Thought

Caution // Mariah Carey

Overload // Georgia Anne Muldrow

7 // Beach House

TA13OO // Denzel Curry

MUSIC - songs

Spotify playlist

“This As America” // Childish Gambino

“Make Me Feel” // Janelle Monaé

“If You Know You Know” // Pusha T

“Freee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)” // Kids See Ghosts

“Nice For What” // Drake

“1539 N. Calvert” // JPEGMAFIA

“Potato Salad” // Tyler, the Creator & A$AP Rocky

“Immaterial” // Sophie

“Ace” // Noname (f/Saba & Smino)

“All the Stars” // Kendrick Lamar & SZA

“Space Cowboy” // Kacey Musgraves

“Why Didn’t You Stop Me?” // Mitski

“I Like That” // Janelle Monaé

“Shallow” // Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga

“Corporation” // Jack White

“Thank U, Next” // Ariana Grande

“Make It Out Alive” // NAO (f/SiR)

“BLACK EFFECT” // The Carters

“We Appreciate Power” // Grimes

“Catch the Loop” // Kammal Williams

“1999” // Charli XCX (f/Troye Sivan)

“MALAMENTE (Cap. 1: Augurio)” // ROSALÍA

“Cute Thing” // Car Seat Headrest

“Dostoyevsky” // Black Thought (f/Rapsody)

“Praise The Lord (Da Shine)” // A$AP Rocky (f/Skepta)

“Wide Awake” // Parquet Courts

“Forever” // CHVRCHES

“Me and Michael” // MGMT

“Anna Wintour” // Azealia Banks

“Bubblin” // Anderson .Paak

“I Like It” // Cardi B (f/Bad Bunny & J Balvin)

“What I Need” // Hayley Kiyoko (f/Kehlani)

“Street Fighter Mas” // Kamasi Washington

“Pet Cemetery” // Tierra Whack

“J’OUVERT” // BROCKHAMPTON

“Honey” // Robyn

“Best Hugs” // DRAM

“Bet Ain’t Worth the Hand” // Leon Bridges

“Everybody Wants To Be Famous” // Superorganism

“February 3rd” // Jorja Smith

“Fast Slow Disco” // St. Vincent

“Nameless, Faceless” // Courtney Barnett

“MOOO!” // Doja Cat

“Art of Doubt” // Metric

“Bad Luck” // Neko Case

“The Man Who Has Everything” // Chance the Rapper

“Cherry” // Rina Sawayama

“Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” // Miley Cyrus & Mark Ronson

“Ghost Town” // Kanye West

“The Distance” // Mariah Carey (f/Ty Dolla $ign)

PERFORMANCES (not in order)

Amandla Stenberg & Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give

Patricia Clarkson on Sharp Objects

Bryan Tyree Henry on Atlanta, If Beale Street Could Talk & Widows

Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, & Olivia Coleman in The Favourite

Sandra Oh & Jodie Comer on Killing Eve

Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal in Blindspotting

Lady Gaga in A Star is Born

Bill Hader & Henry Winkler on Barry

D’Arcy Carden on The Good Place

Cecily Strong & Kenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live

Carey Mulligan in Wildlife

Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Keri Russell on The Americans

Helena Howard in Madeline’s Madeline

Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody

#music #movies #tv #actors #albums #songs #Best Of #Best of 2018

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End of Year Wrap-Up 24/12/2018

Happy Merry to all you readers!

I’ve had a great year but all us music fans have had an even better one! Streaming services mean that now more than ever we can experience the musical output from all corners of the globe (though overwhelmingly the English-speaking parts of it) to understand different points of view, learn of the goings on in other parts of the world and most importantly indulge ourselves in a bit of a boogie. All the moods, genres and feels you could think of are out there, so over the holiday period perhaps try and listen to something new. Who knows it might break the tension with that younger/older relative round the xmas table when you find they also happen to like k-pop/jazz-funk/grindcore or at the very least you can bicker about the tragedy of the current album charts (Greatest Showman: 21 weeks!). To aid you in your quest for knowledge/excitement/small-talk I have spent almost 30 minutes curating a best-of for both albums and singles in the year of 2018.

(NB even with my album-a-day policy, there’s no way I can get through everything I want to within the 365, so if your fave appears ignored, let it be known that I probably haven’t heard it yet. The full list of everything I’ve listened to this year is at the bottom)

So in no particular order:

Albums

Jinx Lennon- Grow A Pair!!!

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me

The Pistol Annies- Interstate Gospel

Travis Scott- ASTROWORLD

Mount Eerie- Now Only

Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The Aces- When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Singles

Confidence Man- Out The Window

Cardi B- I Like It

Janelle Monae ft. Grimes- Pynk

Lori McKenna- People Get Old

SOPHIE- Immaterial

Marie Davidson- Work It

Car Seat Headrest- Stop Smoking (We Love You)

BLACKPINK- AS IF IT’S YOUR LAST

The 1975- It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)

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Have a great festive period and I’ll see you in 2019 :D

2018 Albums what I listened to

Floating Points- Reflections – Mojave Desert

James Elkington- Wintres Woma

Miguel- War & Leisure

Ride- Weather Diaries

Sidney Gish- No Dogs Allowed

Emperor X- The Orlando Sentinel, Oversleepers International

Broken Social Scene- Hug of Thunder

MC5- Kick Out The Jams (Live)

Public Service Broadcasting- Every Valley

JJ Doom- Key to the Kuffs

HAIM- Something To Tell You

Camila Cabello- Camila

Sheer Mag- Need To Feel Your Love

Taylor Swift- reputation

Shabazz Palaces- Quazarz vs The Jealous Machines

This Is The Kit- Moonshine Freeze

Japanese Breakfast- Soft Sounds From Another Planet

Tune-Yards- I can feel you creep into my private life

Jupiter & Okwess- Kin Sonic

Various Artists- The Passion Of Charlie Parker

Waxahatchee- Out In The Storm, Great Thunder

Offa Rex- The Queen Of Hearts

Dizzee Rascal- Raskit

Alvvays- Antisocialites

Childhood- Universal High

Marmozets- Knowing What You Know Now

Declan McKenna- What Do You Think About the Car?

Paul Heaton- Crooked Calypso

Lana Del Rey- Lust For Life

Charles Lloyd New Quartet- Passin’ Thru (Live)

Rip Rig & Panic- Circa Rip Rig + Panic

Avey Tare- Eucalyptus

Justin Timberlake- Man Of The Woods

Rio Mira- Marimba del Pacifico

Oddisee- The Iceberg

Aimee Mann- Mental Illness

Katie Von Schleicher- Shitty Hits

Arcade Fire- Everything Now

Girl Ray- Earl Grey

Ezra Furman- Transangelic Exodus

Randy Newman- Dark Matter

Dead Cross- Dead Cross

Chronixx- Chronology

Mondo Cozmo- Plastic Soul

Kesha- Rainbow

Lal & Mike Waterson- Bright Phoebus

Steve Reich- Pulse / Quartet

Orchestra Baobab- Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng

Ratboy- SCUM

Prince- Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain, Parade, Sign ‘O’ The Times

Stanley Cowell- No Illusions

Oneohtrix Point Never- Good Time Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Downtown Boys- Cost Of Living

Screaming Females- All At Once

Rob Luft- Riser

Sibusile Xaba- Open Letter To Adoniah

Jen Cloher- Jen Cloher

Everything Everything- Fever Dream

Grizzly Bear- Painted Ruins

Bob’s Burgers- The Bob’s Burgers Music Album

Superorganism- Superorganism

Maren Morris- HERO

Courtney Marie Andrews- Honest Life, May Your Kindness Remain

Stefflon Don- Real Ting Mixtape

Ghostpoet- Dark Days + Canapés

Young Fathers- White Men Are Black Men Too, Cocoa Sugar

Queens Of The Stone Age- Songs For The Deaf

Thurst- Cut to the Chafe

John Moreland- Big Bad Luv

Aruan Ortiz- Cub(an)ism [Piano Solo]

Mount Eerie- Now Only

The War On Drugs- A Deeper Understanding

Various Artists- Pop Makossa

Liane Carroll- The Right to Love

Fickle Friends- You Are Someone Else

Nadine Shah- Holiday Destination

Various Artists- Howsla

George Ezra- Staying at Tamara’s

The Doors- The Doors

Filthy Friends- Invitation

Susanne Sundfør- Music For People In Trouble

LCD Soundsystem- LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, American Dream

Mogwai- Every Country’s Sun

Kacey Musgraves- Golden Hour

The National- High Violet, Sleep Well Beast

The Klezmatics- Wonder Wheel

Hercules & Love Affair- Omnion

Mount Kimbie- Love What Survives

The Aces- When My Heart Felt Volcanic

Matthew Bourne- Isotach

Finished- Cum Inside Me Bro

Forced Into Femininity- I’m Making Progress

Heron Oblivion- Heron Oblivion

Hamell On Trial- TACKLE BOX

Confidence Man- Confident Music For Confident People

Swet Shop Boys- Cashmere

Princess Nokia- 1992 Deluxe, A Girl Cried Red

Steely Dan- The Royal Scam, Aja

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Nonagon Infinity

Sparks- Hippopotamus

J. Cole- KOD

Fat Tony- Macgregor Park

L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae- The Night Took Us In Like Family

Little Simz- Stillness In Wonderland

Lady Leshurr- Queen’s Speech

RAY BLK- Durt

Brand New- Science Fiction

Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Talk Tight

Fred Thomas- Changer

Myra Davies- Sirens

Laraaji- Sun Gong

The Killers- Wonderful Wonderful

Descendents- Milo Goes To College

Frank Turner- Be More Kind

The Horrors- V

Moses Sumney- Aromanticism

Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People…, AM, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Oxbow- Thin Black Duke

Dee Byrne’s Entropi- Moment Frozen

Mike Stern- Trip

The Vampires- The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke

Gogol Bordello- Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Super Taranta!, Seekers And Finders

Umphrey’s McGee- Zonkey

Hard Working Americans- We’re All in This Together

Courtney Barnett- Tell Me How You Really Feel

Jllin- Black Origami

Various Artists- Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa

Wolf Alice- Visions Of A Life

The Young’uns- Strangers

Fever Ray- Fever Ray, Plunge

CHVRCHES- Love Is Dead

Oumou Sangaré- Oumou, Mogoya

Charlotte Gainsbourg- Rest

Daniel Avery- Song For Alpha

Daphni- Joli Mai

Kanye West- ye

Cécile McLorin Salvant- Dreams and Daggers

Trio Da Kali, Kronos Quartet- Ladilikan

Kelela- Take Me Apart

Bob Dylan- The Times.., Another.., Bringing.., Highway.., Blond.., John.., Nashville.., New.., Blood..

Lily Allen- Alright(,) Still, It’s Not Me(,) It’s You, Sheezus, No Shame

Fanfare Ciocarlia- 20

Wolf Parade- Cry Cry Cry

SOPHIE- OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES

Zara McFarlane- Arise

St. Vincent- MASSEDUCTION

Margo Price- All American Made

Bebe Rexha- Expectations

Motörhead- Under Cöver

Orchestre Les Mangelepa- Last Band Standing

Drake- Scorpion

Various Artists- Gentle Giants: The Songs Of Don Williams

Noga Erez- Off The Radar

Baxter Dury- Prince of Tears

John Maus- Screen Memories

Lankum- Between the Earth and Sky

Shamir- Revelations

Years & Years- Palo Santo

Converge- The Dusk In Us

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino- Canzoniere

Fred Hersch- Open Book

A. Savage- Thawing Dawn

Big Thief- Capacity

Kelly Clarkson- Meaning Of Life

Dirty Projectors- Lamp Lit Prose

Robt Sarazin Blake- Recitative

Shed Seven- Instant Pleasures

Spinning Coin- Permo

Call Super- Arpo

Laura Perrudin- Poisons & antidotes

Ellen Andrea Wang- Blank Out

Lori McKenna- The Tree

Wu-Tang Clan- Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Lee Ronaldo- Electric Trim

Deer Tick- Vol. 2

The Paranoid Style- Underworld U.S.A.

Youssou N’Dour- Set, Joko- From Village To Town, Nothing’s In Vain, Seeni Valeurs

Gaika- BASIC VOLUME

Kasai Allstars- Around Felicite

Carly Rae Jepsen- Emotion

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds- Who Built The Moon?

Anna Ternheim- All the Way to Rio

U2- Songs of Experience

Mônica Vasconcelos- The São Paulo Tapes

Travis Scott- ASTROWORLD

Nabihah Iqbal- Weighing of the Heart

Van Morrison- Versatile

Jim James- Tribute to 2

Criolo- Espiral de Ilusão

Maciej Obara Quartet- Unloved

N.E.R.D- NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me

Maryam Saleh- Lekhfa

Naomi Bedford- Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me

Jens Lekman- Night Over Kortedala

The Spirit of the Beehive- pleasure suck

Tom Rogerson- Finding Shore

Paul Jacobs- Pictures(,) Movies and Apartments

Ariana Grande- sweetener

Rina Sawayama- RINA

Marcel Khalife- Andalusia of Love

Gunter Hampel- Bounce (Live at Theater Gütersloh)

BAYNK- Someone’s EP

Omar Souleyman- To Syria(,) With Love

Blood Orange- Negro Swan

Open Mike Eagle- Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

First Aid Kit- Ruins

Shame- Songs of Praise

Homeboy Sandman- Veins

Playboi Carti- Playboi Carti

Eminem- Kamikaze

Troye Sivan- Blue Neighbourhood, BLOOM

Joey Bada$$- ALL AMERIKKKAN BADA$$

Priests- Nothing Feels Natural

Rhiannon Giddens- Freedom Highway

King Krule- The OOZ

Django Django- Marble Skies

Bon Iver- For Emma(,) Forever Ago

Calexico- The Thread That Keeps Us

Mary Gauthier- Rifles & Rosary Beads

Hookworms- Microshift

Aphex Twin- Collapse EP

Rae Morris- Someone Out There

Field Music- Open Here

Rhye- Blood

Shopping- The Official Body

MGMT- Little Dark Age

Christine and the Queens- Chris

Alela Diane- Cusp

Sonic Youth- Sister

Brigid Mae Power- The Two Worlds

Deafheaven- Sunbather

Various Artists- American Epic: The Collection Disc 1, 2, 3

Rich Krueger- Life Ain’t That Long

Lil Wayne- Tha Carter V

Modern Mal- The Misanthrope Family Album

Rejjie Snow- Dear Annie

U.S. Girls- In a Poem Unlimited

The Orielles- Silver Dollar Moment

Tal National- Tantabara

Marie Davidson- Working Class Woman

Superchunk- What a Time to Be Alive

Brandi Carlile- By The Way(,) I Forgive You

Car Seat Headrest- Twin Fantasy

Loma- Loma

Quavo- QUAVO HUNCHO

Marlon Williams- Make Way For Love

Nipsey Hussle- Victory Lap

Insecure Men- Insecure Men

Kendrick Lamar- Black Panther

Rapsody- Lalia’s Wisdom

Khalid- Suncity

Tracey Thorn- Record

Anna von Hausswolff- Dead Magic

Jinx Lennon- Grow a Pair!!!

Gwenno- Le Kov

Judas Priest- Stained Class, FIREPOWER

Robyn- Robyn, Body Talk, Honey

The Magic Gang- The Magic Gang

Essaie Pas- New Path

Bob Dylan and The Band- The Basement Tapes

The Decemberists- I’ll Be Your Girl

Pistol Annies- Interstate Gospel

BCUC- Emakhosini (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)

Jack White- Boarding House Reach

Yo La Tengo- There’s A Riot Going On

Sidi Touré- Toubalbero

Lil Peep- Come Over When You’re Sober(,) Pt. 2

The Breeders- All Nerve

The Vaccines- Combat Sports

CZARFACE- Czarface Meets Metal Face

Laurence Pike- Distant Early Warning

Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band- Bone Reader

Leo Kalyan- The Edge

Hayley Kyoko- Expectations

Tristen- Sneaker Waves

Thelonious Monk- Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana- Mehliana: Taming The Dragon

Amy Rigby- Til The Wheels Fall Off, Little Fugitive, The Old Guys

BLACKPINK- BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREA

Rose Cousins- Natural Conclusion

Nora Jane Struthers- Champion

Lilly Hiatt- Trinity Lane

The Rolling Stones- The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones No. 2, Out of Our Heads, Aftermath

MAST- Thelonious Sphere Monk

The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Jhene Aiko- Trip

Don Bryant- Don’t Give up on Love

EMA- Exile in the Outer Ring

Small Believer- Anna Tivel

Vera Sola- Shades

Cardi B- Invasion of Privacy

Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers- Years

Goat Girl- Goat Girl

Vic Mensa- HOOLIGANS

Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Sex & Food

Alasdair Roberts, Amble Scuse & David McGuiness- What News

Kali Uchis- Isolation

Wye Oak- The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

Migos- Culture II

Hinds- I Don’t Run

DRINKS- Hippo Lite

Alexis Taylor- Beautiful Thing

Jenny Wilson- EXORCISM

#music 2018 #music #best of #christmas

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Analysis of the collective PC Music as a Music Business

PC Music are a self-defined Record Label and Art Collective based in London, consisting of around 20 consistent members and collaborators, founded by producer A.G Cook in 2013. Their signature sound revolves around an unusual blend of industrial, jarring, pounding instrumentals and sugary sweet, high pitch altered pop production, reminiscent of modern k-pop, as oppose to the conventional current western world’s take on pop music. At first, it may be hard to tell whether it’s a parody of popular music, due to its common themes of consumerism and celebrity culture. For example, one of its artist’s ‘QT’ has no experience in making music, but rather having a background in chemistry and product design and has used her music to advertise a made up energy drink that has somehow become part of her brand, even being handed out at PC Music shows, despite never existing and never being available to buy.

Despite the odd fact that they have never actually signed an artist to the label and only have a handful of purchasable releases, the intensity surrounding the buzz around PC Music has increased rapidly in the past year, partly due to the sheer number of releases the collective pump out, high status collaborators such as Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen, as well as the critical success of certain releases under the PC Music umbrella, such as 2018’s bombastic “Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” by Scottish electronic producer SOPHIE. The collective have around 58 complete releases that are available on streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify, none of their own merchandise (just collaborators), and two ‘PC Music Vol.1/2’ compilations showcasing some of the standalone songs from some of the artist’s Soundcloud accounts. What comes to mind when taking all that information in is commonly confusion, and lots of questions.

PC Music as a collective are offering a way to dip our feet into accessible nostalgia, characterised by the modern age of technology- internet slang, parodies (GFOTY’s cartoonish “Mysterious GFOTY” Peter Andre remake comes to mind) and pop culture. Contrary to the classic connotations of the typical market for the poppy sound of the music PC Music brings out, their main audience consists of those who have grown up going out in big cities like London, typically around the ages 18-25. This is partly due to the fact that it’s deeply associated with events by businesses and venues such as Boiler Room and London’s Fabric, and celebrates the idealistic desire of big city nightlife and experimentation, and perhaps this links into the fact that you can’t really buy PC Music- it’s not as black and white as just being one thing, it branches out in a way that is uncommon in pop music, and that’s what makes it exciting. It rejects typical industry blueprints and advertising models, celebrating the purity of inexperience and a desire for fun, rather than perfection and success.

There are singers, DJs , photographers, marketing professionals and videographers in the collective, and I wouldn’t say it’s an overstatement to say they’re revolutionising the British electronic scene right now, countering the typical quiet, unknown, faceless artists we’re used to and throwing in eccentric, exuberant, and prolific faces- bringing a new lease of personal interaction and life into it, creating music in harmony with personality like one big ongoing art installation. In 2015, the collective announced a partnership with major label Columbia, allowing a creative and financial push which inspired an avalanche of releases, as well as the pursuit towards ‘PC Music Presents…’ live shows, bringing the online group to life with their live SXSW debut. This came with great response, being dubbed as the label of the year by FACT Magazine shortly after and honoured by publications such as Pitchfork, Vice and The Guardian as “Dominating the year” and “Producing some of the most challenging, catchy and, most importantly, funny pop and dance music around.” The collective lead on from this with a sold-out event hosted by the Red Bull Music Academy, titled “Pop Cube”- which was practically a live blend of a live show, reality show and an art instillation decorated as a Hollywood premiere- red carpets, limos, fake paparazzi, fake interviewers, nicknamed as a “multimedia reality network” night. Cameras showed the artists mimed and synced along to pre-recorded sets, with A.G Cook satirically ‘playing’ his piano in an extremely over-dramatic fashion whilst winking at the camera in acknowledgment, as well as overhead speakers with robotic voices instructing the crowds when to move on into the next room for the next part of the night. It’s a take on commercialism, capitalism and celebrity culture, but not necessarily shunning it. It celebrates the bubblegum-pop world of y2k fashion, myspace era aesthetics and the obvious statement of how ‘plastic’ everything is, but how fun that can be when we realise that art doesn’t have to equal a deep meaning, or mystery, to make us feel things- a “high-concept extravaganza”, said the New York Times.

The commercial relationship it holds with iconic venues, the leading streaming services, major labels and major label artists all are a catalyst for revolutionising the modern idea of what pop music really is, and breaking the typical codes and conventions of how a music business ‘should work’. You should have to follow the formula of having experience in music, signing artists, selling music and playing straight-forward gigs, which are all things that the aforementioned list typically conform to and buy into. Therefore, the acceptance of PC Music and it being allowed to grow is important to those of whom see art as a cathartic, necessary part of their life, not just an extension of their interests- be it the consumer in the crowd or the artist behind the DJ controllers, bringing something new. Additionally, part of PC Music’s image is celebrating ultimate celebration of the human form- everything is accepted.

Hyper masculinity, objectification and prejudice is nowhere to be seen within the collective. Being a majority female collective, including a transgender woman and no lack of LGBT+ representation, femininity is celebrated, sexuality and experimentation are explored openly and gender isn’t defined by archaic beliefs, showing a clear progressive value in an ever-changing world of music. This is important because, undeniably, there is an internalised bias into what our ideal ‘role models’ and pop-stars should look like, who they should be, what they should and shouldn’t talk about, and any groups who counter this and bring back the spark of what pop music means, the childhood innocence-like feeling of nothing mattering but being yourself and being happy, is important and should be explored, acknowledged and saluted.

#pc music #Charli xcx #sophie #ag cook #carly rae jepsen #sophie msmsmsm

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