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MY FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2018 (***all lists in no particular order)

TOP 20 RECORDS

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Hope Downs (Sub Pop)

The Chills- Snowbound (Fire Records)

Ethers- S/T  (Trouble in Mind)

Papercuts- Parallel Universe Blues (Slumberland)

The Goon Sax-  We’re Not Talking (Wichita)

Anna Burch- Quit the Curse (Polyvinyl)

Ruby Boots- Don’t Talk About it (Bloodshot)

Jermey Messersmith- Late Stage Capitalism (Glass Note)

School Damage- A to X (Chapter Music)

Charnel Ground- ST (12XU)

Dot Dash- Proto Retro (The Beautiful Music)

Thalia Zedek- Fighting Season (Thrill Jockey)

The Beths- Future Me Hates Me (Carpark)

Lucy Dacus- Historian- (Matador)

Soft Science- Maps (Test Pattern)

The Treasures of Mexico- Everything Sparks Joy (Shelflife)

Smokescreens- Used to Yesterday (Slumberland)

Perry Serpa- Wherefore Art Thou?  Songs Inspired by Nick Hornby’s ‘Juliet, Naked’ (Schoolkids)

The Orange Peels- Trespassing- (Minty Fresh/Mystery Lawn Music)

The Innocence Mission- Sun on the Square (Badman)

 WAIT…….HERE’S 20 MORE

La Luz – Floating Features (Hardly Art)

Salad Boys- This is Glue (Trouble in Mind)

Tony Molina- Kill the Lights (Slumberland)

The Essex Green- Hardly Electronic (Merge)

Bad Sports – Constant Stimulation (Dirtnap)

The Last Detail- S/T (Elefant)

Great Lakes – Dreaming Too Close to the Edge (Loose Trucks)

The Well Wishers- A View From Above  (self released)

Mudhoney- Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)

Blues Lawyer- Guess Work (Emotional Response)

Peach Kelli Pop- Gentle Leader (Mint)

Dentist- Night Swimming (Cleopatra)

The Moles- Code Word (Super Secret)

The Persian Leaps- Pop That Goes Crunch (Land Ski)

Dumptruck- Wrecked- Rae Dell/ School Kids)

Beach House- 7 (Sub Pop)

Borzoi – A Prayer for War (12XU)

Bird Streets- S/T (Omnivore Recordings)

Lovebirds- In the Lover’s Corner (Trouble in Mind)

The Spook School- Could It Be Different? (Slumberland)

  I also really liked records by …..Superchunk, Traceyanne & Danny, Fred Thomas, Tracey Thorn, Rays, Snail Mail, Shopping, Kevin Hairs, The Persian Leaps, The Dirty Sidewalks, The Wolfhounds, Swearin’, Peel Dream Magazine. The Ar-Kaics, Papernut Calbridge,  Ryan Auffenberg, Front Person, Hater, Tommy and the Commies, Alpaca Sports, Cullen Omori, Willie Nile, J. Mascis, Spider Bags,  Golden Teardrops, Peter Holsapple, Negative Scanner, Bart & the Bedazzled,  Special Pillow, Simon Love, Hamish Kilgour, Ryan Martin, Connections, Orange Peels, Nik Freitas, Keep Left Signs, Chris Richards and the Subtractions , Hinds , Archie and the Bunkers, DA Stern, Mike Uva,  A Hawk and a Hacksaw,  Wreckless Eric, Elk City, Hot Snakes, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, The Hangabouts,  The Cavemen, Monochrome Set, Buffalo Tom, Amy Rigby, Super 8, Jm White, Pete Astor, Math and Physics Club, Tres Oui,  Club 8, Shame,  Proud Parents,  Frankie Cosmos, etc. etc. 

 MY 15 FAVORITE REISSUES/COLLECTIONS

Yung Wu- Shore Leave (Bar-None)

Yum Yum- Dan Loves Patti (Omnivore)

God’s Children- Music is the Answer: The Complete Collection (Minky Records)

Permanent Green Light – Hallucinations (Omnivore Recordings)

The Quick- Mondo Deco (Real Gone )

The Action - Shadows and Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1964-1968 (Grapefruit/Cherry Red)

Even as We Speak- Feral Pop Frenzy (Emotional Response)

Action Painting- Trial Cuts- 1989-’95 (Emotional Response)

Liz Phair- From Girlysound to Guyville- the 25th Anniversary Box (Matador)

The Bobby Fuller Four – Magic Touch: The Complete Mustang Singles (Omnivore)

NRBQ- All Hopped Up (Omnivore)

The Posies- Frosting on the Beater  (Omnivore)

Gene Clark - Gene Clark Sings for You (Omnivore)

Down/Downmf - Critically Acclaimed (Loch Alpine Records)

Marked Men - On the Other Side (Dirtnap)

I haven't heard the Bobbie Gentry, Wire or Bob Dylan ones yet but I’m sure they’d be on here if I did.

 My Favorite EPs/ singles

Missing Pages- Long Way Down (12XU)

Tears Ring Rings- Somewhere (Deep Space/Shelflife)

Dead Soft- New Emotion  (Arts & Crafts)

Rocket 808- Billboard (12XU)

Hot Nun- Born to Blaze (self released)

Red Sleeping Beauty- Always On Your Side (Sunday Records)

Nah…- Summer’s Failing (Fadeawayradiate Records)

Dark Blue- “Fight to Love” (12XU)

Boygenius- S/T Matador)

Gary Olson- The Old Twin (Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten)

  MY 15 FAVORITE LIVE BANDS I SAW IN 2018

Belle & Sebastian

The Goon Sax

Protomartyr

Ruby Boots

Killing Joke

Hot Snakes

Spook School

Girl Ray

Escondido

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Priests

Anna Burch

Smokescreens

Kolars

All of the bands I saw at Cropped Out and Kalamashoegazer

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