startin today bucko

 

BEST EPs

 

 

1 Hatchie ~ Sugar & Spice

2 LPX ~ Bolt In The Blue

3 Iglooghost ~ Steel Mogu

4 Nothing But Thieves ~ What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way

5 Ellis ~ The Fuzz

6 Kero Kero Bonito ~ TOTEP

7 Aphex Twin ~ Collapse

8 Boy Pablo ~ Soy Pablo

 

 

 

Agree with you on Collapse.

I've heard a few songs from those EPs but not the EPs themselves! Giving the Hatchie song a listen now, quite a nice smooth-flowing guitar piece!

Hatchie was a great discovery from this year- “Sure” was probably my favourite from the EP too!

 

Looking forward to this, you're bound to have included a lot of tracks that I've overlooked, and as ever, I'm intrigued to find out what your absolute favourites were.

LPX :wub: Slide especially is bloody brilliant.

^ cheers for the comments so far! let's finally get back to this

 

BEST ALBUMS

 

 

#40 Jack Stauber "HiLo"

faves: Dead Weight, John & Nancy, Coconut Ranger

 

#39 Puce Mary "The Drought"

faves: Red Desert, To Possess Is To Be In Control

 

#38 Jon Hopkins "Singularity"

faves: Emerald Rush, Neon Pattern Drum

 

#37 Years & Years "Palo Santo"

faves: Karma, All For You, Sanctify

 

#36 The 1975 "A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships"

faves: It's Not Living (If It's Not with You), Love It If We Made It, I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)

 

#35 Louis Cole "Time"

faves: When You're Ugly, Weird Part of the Night, Tunnels in the Air

 

#34 Rae Morris "Someone Out There"

faves: Do It, Rose Garden, Atletico

 

#33 Soap&Skin "From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend"

faves: Italy, Heal, Surrounded

 

#32 Sofi Tukker "Treehouse"

faves: Fuck They, Energia, Best Friend

 

#31 Tove Styrke "Sway"

faves: Sway, Changed My Mind, Say My Name

 

 

 

#30 Django Django "Marble Skies"

faves: Tic Tac Toe, Marble Skies, In Your Beat

 

#29 Mitski "Be The Cowboy"

faves: Geyser, Washing Machine Heart, Nobody

 

#28 Ezra Furman "Transangelic Exodus"

faves: Suck The Blood From My Wound, Driving Down To L.A., No Place

 

#27 Gazelle Twin "Pastoral"

faves: Little Lambs, Hobby Horse, Better in My Day

 

#26 Cosmo Sheldrake "The Much Much How How And I"

faves: Wriggle, Egg and Soldiers, Axolotl

 

#25 Parquet Courts "Wide Awake"

faves: Almost Had To Start a Fight, Total Football, Violence

 

#24 Kurt Vile "Bottle It In"

faves: Loading Zones, Bassackwards, Rollin With The Flow

 

#23 CHVRCHES "Love Is Dead"

faves: Graffiti, Get Out, My Enemy

 

#22 Kacey Musgraves "Golden Hour"

faves: Slow Burn, High Horse, Love Is A Wild Thing, Butterflies

 

#21 twenty one pilots "Trench"

faves: Jumpsuit, Levitate, The Hype, My Blood

 

 

 

 

Giving Egg and Soldiers a listen now because I really liked Wriggle - definitely quite different but I can see it growing! Slow Burn is a nice piece as well.

The ones from this list I've heard:

 

Palo Santo

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Marble Skies (I have that album on marbled vinyl)

Wide Awake

Love Is Dead

 

I like them all.

Edited January 2, 20196 yr by DalekTurret32

Favourite album so far would have to be Jon Hopkins! “Emerald Rush” clearly the highlight but the whole thing is wonderful really. Also great to see Django Django, Mitski and Parquet Courts here. I finally got properly into Parquet Courts this year after years of trying. I think “Total Football” and “Freebird II” were my favourites.

Giving Egg and Soldiers a listen now because I really liked Wriggle - definitely quite different but I can see it growing! Slow Burn is a nice piece as well.

*.* Cosmo's stuff is so weird and whimsical, it's a sound you don't hear often

 

 

#20 Oh Sees "Smote Reverser"

another solid sees record, even if it's not as all-around strong as their last three. very grateful for this crazed band and their restlessness though

faves: Overthrown, Sentient Oona, C

 

#19 Hampshire & Foat "The Honeybear"

i am at one with nature, i am the man of the woods

faves: Call of the Forest, Winter Bound, Honey Dreams

 

#18 Fickle Friends "You Are Someone Else"

slick, high gloss indie pop from this lot who finally got an album out after about ten single releases!

faves: Hello Hello, Say No More, Glue, Bite

 

#17 Christine And The Queens "Chris"

chris~ this girl sounds great on just about anything *.*

faves: Doesn't matter, Girlfriend, Comme Si, 5 Dollars

 

#16 Daniel Avery "Song For Alpha"

a slight left turn after his breakthrough record, to these icy cold industrial beats, still a lovely listen

faves: Projector, Slow Fade, Diminuendo

 

#15 Kids See Ghosts "Kids See Ghosts"

an absolute triumph for both artists, rattling through a number of memorable tracks in just 25 minutes. highlights include Cudi's humming on Reborn, and Kanye channeling Big Shaq

faves: Freeee, Feel The Love, Reborn

 

#14 U.S. Girls "In a Poem Unlimited"

fantastically lush and jazzy production this, probably what it'd sound like if Kylie went political art pop

faves: Rosebud, Incidental Boogie, Velvet 4 Sale, M.A.H.

 

#13 Poppy "Am I A Girl?"

^ we might never know the answer to that but we do know that Poppy delivered the best batch of slightly-detached but infectious bubblegum tracks this year

faves: Play Destroy, Aristocrat, Iconic, Hard Feelings

 

#12 Zeal & Ardor "Stranger Fruit"

a heavy, brutal blues rock/metal sound, delicious

faves: Servants, Don't You Dare, Row Row, You Ain't Coming Back

 

#11 SOPHIE "Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides"

'Product' was one of my favourites from a few years ago, it was great to hear that bubblegum bass sound expanded here in mind bending ways. a fabulous evolution *.*

faves: Faceshopping, Immaterial, Ponyboy, It's Okay to Cry

 

GOLDEN HOUR YAAAAAAAS :wub: What a bloody album. Slow Burn and High Horse are definitely my top 2 too.

 

A few great albums here actually, SOPHIE/Rae/Tove/TOP/Poppy esepcially!

Chris, Song For Alpha and Kids See Ghosts are brilliant records

I've heard quite a few Fickle Friends singles (I'm assuming they're all on the album?), a band with lots of potential!

Kacey Musgraves :heart:

 

#10 Confidence Man "Confident Music For Confident People"

this oddball Australian band delivered a treat with their LCD Soundsystem-esque nu disco grooves and playful tracks. no serious thought required, give it a spin~

faves: Boyfriend, Don't You Know I'm In a Band, Bubblegum, Try Your Luck

 

 

#9 Troye Sivan "Bloom"

Blue Neighbourhood was solid but Bloom felt like a big step up, a more concise record with each song properly hitting the mark, whether it be the spicier danceable cuts like the title track, to the melancholic and sensual on Animal or Seventeen

faves: Bloom, The Good Side, My My My, Animal

 

 

#8 Superorganism "Superorganism"

This cryptic group caught my ear last year with tracks like Something For Your M.I.N.D, and this debut record is a straightforward showcase of their unique, glitchy indie pop sound. really interested to see how they follow this up!

faves: Everybody Wants To Be Famous, Something For Your M.I.N.D., It's All Good, Night Time

 

 

#7 Idles "Joy As An Act Of Resistance"

another helping of biting and passionate punk rock from this rising band, refreshing to hear performances this intense and the tunes are top notch!

faves: Danny Nedelko, Colossus, Samaritans, Love Song

 

 

#6 Kero Kero Bonito "Time 'n' Place"

Bonito Generation was so brimmed with bubbly-to-the-point-of-parody pop that you'd be hard pressed to take it any further. Thus they immediately pivot to this edgier, rockier sound, while keeping that twee pop core that made them essential <3

faves: Only Acting, Make Believe, Dear Future Self, Flyway

 

 

 

A few I'm liking there, Superorganism and Confidence Man continue to grow on me!

Great to see IDLES and Superorganism in your Top 10, both firm favourites for me last year. : )

Troye we STAN