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7. Beach House - 7 An album called 7 is at number 7. Seven-ception! Anyway, Beach House's latest album 7 takes their usual shoegaze sound and adds some psychedelic elements to it. While most of the lyrics involve issues caused during serious relationships, there’s also some nice, breath-taking imagery presented in songs like Dark Spring and Lose Your Smile, complete with outstanding production.

So hyped for this

8. Anna Calvi - Hunter A marvellous exploration of gender and identity, with a 90’s rock style reminiscent of PJ Harvey’s early material. Almost every single track is amazing, with a few of my favourites being Indies or Paradise and Don't Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy. Here's to hoping this album continues Calvi's streak of Mercury noms.

9. Parquet Courts - Wide Awaaaaake! Really digging this indie punk sound, reminds me of Kaiser Chiefs mixed with The Strokes. The album feels more punky in contrast to the laidback Human Performance, and there’s some great jabs at society as found in tracks like Violence.

10. John Grant - Love Is Magic The album I was referring to in the clue was Grant's 2015 album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, which previously made it to my 2015 EOY. Grant's latest album Love Is Magic explores the pains of intimacy, as well as the bleak reality of our world, complete with some of the depressive downbeat characteristics found on Grant’s previous album Grey Tickles Black Pressure, such as enchanting synths and haunting harmonies. Not all of it is doom and gloom! Album opener Metamorphosis has Grant putting on a fun, over-the-top voice while blurting out peculiar images and Tempest takes a look at nostalgia with some mentions of a few Atari games from the 80’s.

Thanks Doctor Blind, it's nice to see another user who likes these two. Keep your eyes peeled for my Top 10 picks. Thanks serge. I actually own the first two on CD. I also went to see Arctics live and they were great, and I went to a Boarding House Reach listening party where I got to hear the album before its release.

The Top 10 of the albums will start tomorrow. While you're waiting, I have given some clues relating to each one. 10. One of his albums starts with this spoken intro "Love is patient, love is kind". 9. A raw slice of American indie. 8. Her first two albums have both been previously nominated for the Mercury Prize. 7. The answer lies somewhere within this line. 6. Dreamy indie pop from London. 5. It's an album that focuses on Brexit, and has a man who was in two well-known musical groups. 4. Contains one of my favourite album openers of the year, and has an aggressive punk sound. 3. A melancholy album dealing with the pains of unhealthy relationships. 2. I am absolutely amazed by the marvellous poetry of this band's material. 1. One word. Jazz.

ALBUMS 25-11 25. Gengahr - Where Wildness Grows 24. Confidence Man - Confident Music For Confident People 23. Jack White - Boarding House Reach 22. Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha 21. Low - Double Negative 20. Hookworms - Microshift 19. Shame - Songs Of Praise 18. Martyn - Voids 17. Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man 16. Father John Misty - God's Favourite Customer 15. The Drobs - Xibalba (Not available on Spotify, but you can find it on Bandcamp or order a vinyl of the album on Discogs) 14. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar 13. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 12. Jon Hopkins - Singularity 11. Gwenno - Le Kov

Thanks PeteFromLeeds! Glad you like these two. Jerry is a nice heart-felt song.

Both of these are pretty solid. I have heard the mention of Waterparks quite a lot of times on ARTV's videos. I might want to check them out someday.

ALBUMS 50-26 50. The Orielles - Silver Dollar Moment 49. Superorganism - Superorganism 48. Denzel Curry - TA13OO 47. Anderson .Paak - Oxnard 46. Slaves - Acts Of Fear And Love 45. Boy Azooga - 1, 2 Kung Fu! 44. Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch 43. Django Django - Marble Skies 42. J Cole - KOD 41. Tom Misch - Geography 40. Goat Girl - Goat Girl 39. Christine And The Queens - Chris 38. Brockhampton - Iridescence 37. Black Honey - Black Honey 36. Years & Years - Palo Santo 35. Jordan O'Shea - This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things 34. Jorja Smith - Lost & Found 33. Pusha T - Daytona 32. Blood Orange - Negro Swan 31. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel 30. MGMT - Little Dark Age 29. George Fitzgerald - All That Must Be 28. Jungle - For Ever 27. The Prodigy - No Tourists 26. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food

Honorable mentions (the ones that just missed the Top 75): The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Eminem - Kamikaze Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life Kanye West - Ye ALBUMS 75-51 75. Kylie Minogue - Golden 74. Lily Allen - No Shame 73. Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD 72. Ariana Grande - Sweetener 71. Andrea Bocelli - Si 70. Fickle Friends - You Are Someone Else 69. Jess Glynne - Always In Between 68. Michael Bubble - Love 67. Tune-Yards - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 66. Novelist - Novelist Guy 65. The Go! Team - Semicircle 64. Muse - Simulation Theory 63. Field Music - Open Here 62. The Magic Gang - The Magic Gang 61. Gorillaz - The Now Now 60. George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's 59. Nas - Nasir 58. Vince Staples - FM! (though I hope the surprise album gimmick doesn't become too overused) 57. First Aid Kit - Ruins 56. Mac Miller - Swimming (RIP) 55. Kids See Ghosts - Kid See Ghosts 54. Everything Is Recorded By Richard Russell - Everything Is Recorded 53. Miles Kane - Coup De Grace 52. Blossoms - Cool Like You 51. Bodega - Endless Scroll

Artists to follow in 2019 Ella Mai Slowthai Flohio Sea Girls Mahalia Rosalia TVAM Sam Fender Little Simz Fontaines DC Alice Merton Pip Blom

Before we start with the Top 75 Albums of 2018, let's go through two sections first Favourite Soundtrack Album of 2018: Thom Yorke - Suspria Honorable mentions: Kendrick Lamar (and Various Artists) - Black Panther Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born Favourite EPs of 2018: Honorable mentions: Premium Leisure - Plug The Leads In, Max Blansjaar - Spit It Out, Willie J Healey - 666 Kill (the first three were the ones I forgot about around the time I made this list), Young Paint - Young Paint, The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy 5. Sleaford Mods - Sleaford Mods EP 4. Hozier - Nina Cried Power EP 3. Underworld & Iggy Pop - Teatime Dub Encounters 2. Little Dragon - Lover Chanting 1. Aphex Twin - Collapse EP Hall Of Fame: 2016: Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit 2017: David Bowie - No Plan 2018: Aphex Twin - Collapse

+5 Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart [94] +4 Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower [93] +3 Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho [92] +2 George Ezra - Shotgun [91] +1 Kodak Black feat. Travis Scott & Offest - ZEZE [76] -1 Ariana Grande - thank u, next [75] -2 James Arthur & Anne Marie - Rewrite The Stars [67] -3 Post Malone - Wow [66] -4 Pinkfong - Baby Shark [66] -5 Zara Larsson - Ruin My Life [64]

Tell Me You Love Me is a great song and one of my favourites from Demi, along with the tear-jerking Sober

Promises: Not as good as One Kiss, but still a brilliant tune Ring Ring: Solid tune. Taste: This one's okay. Love the spine-chilling beat with those woah-oh-ohs sounding like Charlie Puth

My faves: 99 Superorganism - Everybody Wants To Be Famous 98 Wolf Alice - Formidable Cool 89 Theophilius London feat. Tame Impala - Only You 88 The Coral - Sweet Release 85 Jon Hopkins - Everything Connected 82 Muse - Thought Contagion 78 The Carters - Apeshit 75 The xx - Lips 73 Mogwai - We're Not Done (End Title) 72 Dream Wife - Fire 71 Teleman - Song for a Seagull (reminds me of Future Islands) 70 Soulwax - Essential Four 68 Slaves - Cut and Run (If you like this song, I recommend you check out Here Are The Young Men And Uncle Peanut. They're punk with a bit of a comedic edge) 65 Haley - Bratt 64 Lil Peep - Cry Alone 59 Miles Kane - Cry on My Guitar (I saw him perform live this year) 58 Robyn - Missing U 55 George FitzGerald feat. Lil Silva - Roll Back 48 Pusha T - If You Know You Know 47 St. Vincent - Pills 46 Hookworms - Ullswater (was shocked to hear about the lead singer, and the allegations leading to the band's split) 45 Young Fathers - Border Girl 42 The 1975 - TooTimeTooTimeTooTime 40 Dave - Hangman (Very deep rap song and one of my faves from Dave.) 35 Karen O feat. Michael Kiwunaka - Yo! My Saint (I saw Kiwanuka perform live in 2016) 34 DJ Koze - Pick Up 33 Christine and the Queens - Doesn’t Matter 28 Dream Wife - Hey Heartbreaker 27 George Ezra - Paradise 24 Wolf Alice - Space & Time 22 George FitzGerald feat. Hudson Scott - Nobody But You 19 The Vaccines - I Can't Quit (English Grafitti was one of the first albums I got on vinyl) 18 Robyn - Honey 13 Ben Howard - Nica Libres at Dusk 11 Slaves - Chokehold 10 Death Cab for Cutie - Gold Rush (Reminds me of One Day Like This by Elbow) 02 Young Fathers - In My View (I have their new album on blue vinyl and it's great.)

All I Want To Hear You Say is a good one and Nineties is decent. And since you mentioned Night Driver, I have listened to On What You're On and the bassline in this song reminds me of Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd. I didn't really like Come Out To LA, mainly because I wasn't fond of the pop rock chorus suddenly transitioning to really heavy rock. Although there's some other Broco songs I heard that I like, such as Let's Go Back To School.

Ring is decent and Done For Me is one of my favourites from Puth, shame this didn't crack the Top 40 The only time Kehlani cracked the UK Top 40 so far was in 2017 when she was featured on the Stormzy song "Cigarettes & Cush", and that only charted due to an album bomb.

That Nightmares song sounds very good. Reminds me of Jamie T. Really like Say Something, it has that traditional country feel.

Doctor Who (Watched every episode of the Nu Who run) Gavin And Stacey Cleverman (Series 2. Excellent series) Mr. Robot Brooklyn Nine-Nine Strike: Career Of Evil Miranda Mock The Week Not Going Out Pointless Impossible Have I Got News For You The Simpsons BoJack Horseman (I'm so glad that I got into this show. Ended up watching all five seasons and liked them all) Disenchantment Big Mouth Rick And Morty Mrs. Brown's Boys All Round To Mrs. Brown Tracey Breaks The News Top Of The Pops The Year In The Life Of A Year 2018 The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2018 Gareth Malone's Music Quiz that aired on September The Button (I think I might have seen an episode of this) The Durrells (Series 3) Dynasties (I now appreciate David Attenborough more as a journalist) Regular Show (Managed to finish this show. Had a marvellous finale) Adventure Time The Amazing World Of Gumball We Bare Bears SpongeBob SquarePants Need to see Bodyguard when I have the chance to do so

Mercury Rev feat. Margo Price - SermonTheophilus London feat. Tame Impala - Only YouMark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A HeartAnderson .Paak feat. Q-Tip - CheersCamelPhat and Cristoph feat. Jem Cooke - Breathe(Cid Rim feat. Denai Moore - Control) [LM]IDLES - Samaritans(Friendly Fires - Heaven Let Me In) [LM](Little Dragon - Lover Chanting) [RE]Thom Yorke - UnmadeThe Orielles - Bobbi’s Second WorldRoisin Murphy - The RumbleChristine And The Queens - The WalkerSub Focus and Dimension - DesireYoung Fathers - Border GirlDeerhunter - Death in MidsummerThe Prodigy - Timebomb ZoneJohn Grant - Preppy BoyJulia Jacklin - Head AloneChrome Sparks - In2 Your LoveYoung Fathers - Cocoa SugarShy FX feat. Stamina MC and Lily Allen - Roll The DiceStealing Sheep - Jokin’ MeLos Unidades and Pharrell Williams feat. Jozzy - E-LoThundercat feat. BADBADNOTGOOD and Flying Lotus - King Of The HillFUR - Angel EyesAdelphi Music Factory - Javelin (Calling Out Your Name)Planningtorock - Beulah Loves DancingSlowthai feat. Mura Masa - DoormanEminem feat. Joyner Lucas - Lucky YouJax Jones feat. Years & Years - Play(Erol Alkan - Silver Echoes) [LM]FIDLAR - Can’t You SeeToro y Moi - Ordinary PleasureCat Power - You GetJorja Smith - The OneSwindle feat. Kojey Radical - Coming HomePizzagirl - Blossom At My Feet, FlowerGaika - Seven Churches For St. JudeKOKOKO! - Azo TokeVillagers - Sweet SaviourJade Bird - Love Has All Been Done BeforeRAY BLK - MamaDermot Kennedy - Power Over MeLow - DisarrayAdrianne Lenker - blue and red horsesSelf Help - Get On With ItMahalia feat. Kojey Radical - One Night OnlyJulia Holter - WhetherLittle Dragon - TimothyEx:Re - CrushingHER - Carried AwayThe Vaccines - All My Friends Are Falling In LoveRoisin Murphy - World’s CrazyGucci Mane, Bruno Mars & Kodak Black - Wake Up In The SkyYou Me At Six - Straight To Your HeadSteve Mason - Walking Away From LoveThe Orielles - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)Sundara Karma - One Last Night On EarthThe Streets feat. Chip and Grim Sickers - Call Me In The Morning - Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) (RIP Pete Shelley)Buzzcocks - Everybody’s Happy NowadaysBuzzcocks - Harmony In My HeadBuzzcocks - What Do I Get?Buzzcocks - BoredomMSTRKRFT - Street JusticePulp - Do You Remember The First TimeTerence Trent D’Arby - Sign Your NameSugar - A Good IdeaVulfpeck - Conscious ClubM83 - MirrorFoals - This OrientThe xx - CrystallisedSparks - This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of UsRoyal Blood - HoleThom Yorke - FeelingpulledapartbyhorsesHitstatic vs. Tonyttt31 - Kyoob (shoutout to Colm)Big Boi feat. Cutty - ShutterbuggCybotron - ClearJaydee - Plastic Dreams - (BONUS CHRISTMAS SONGS) Slade - Merry Xmas EverybodyThe Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New YorkMariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is YouShakin’ Stevens - Merry Christmas EveryoneBob Dylan - Must Be SantaChris Rea - Driving Home For ChristmasBrenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The ChristmasMichael Buble - Santa Claus Is Coming To TownRun-DMC - Christmas In HollisBob Helms - Jingle Bell RockColdplay - Christmas LightsBob Rivers - 12 Pains Of ChristmasMr. Plow - The Greatest Christmas Ever SeenKurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin’Run The Jewels - A Christmas F*cking Miracle

My favourites from this list: In My View (I have Cocoa Sugar on blue vinyl) Emerald Rush Rank & File Make Me Feel Danny Nedelko Boogie Oh Baby Boys Let It Burn How Did This Happen Burns Doesn't Matter Honey Trigger Bang This Is America I'm Desperate If You Know You Know Bunny's Dream Dive Thanks 4 Nothing Neutron Dance Don't Beat The Girl Out Of My Boy (sounds powerful) It Was Not Natural Tiny Foldable Cities Roll (Burbank Funk) Love Like Waves Fast Slow Disco Blame Fire Love Is Magic Roll Back Everybody Wants To Be Famous Heaven Let Me In Like Sugar These Are Not Your Memories Everything Connected American Guilt My My My Deadly Valentine Holy Ghost Great Sky Full Of Song Power Missing U Tints In Your Beat Song For A Seagull Biscuit Town It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) (The Orielles did a great cover of this) Cut And Run Fists Of Fury Cocoa Sugar The Cut Girl Toy Four Out Of Five Yo Mae Leh 1999 Water Baby Night Time Before Sunrise Girlfriend Nice For What

My favourites from this list: Breathe Nothing Breaks Like A Heart Boo'd Up Storm (shame that this didn't reach higher than 20 in the Eurovision results) No Roots Flames Honey (it's interesting to see that Robyn originally started as one of those artists that had a quite big international hit [show Me Love], along with some minor hits in 1997 before fading to obscurity, but then had a massive career comeback in the mid-00's with With Every Heartbeat catapulting her to number one) Youngblood (probably my fave from 5SOS) Strangers Promises Hold My Girl Missing U (the opening synths on this, as well as the ones used in the chorus, are absolutely fantastic) Always Remember Us This Way I'll Be There Paradise Music's Too Sad Without You I'll Never Love Again Fuego Sweet But Psycho No Tears Left To Cry Electricity Girlfriend In My Mind Shotgun Shallow One Kiss Lost Without You