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2018 Jams: A Running List

with some standout tracks
1Sangre de Muerdago
Noite

dark folk / 4.5
2Haley Heynderickx
I Need to Start a Garden

indie folk / 4.3 (Oom Sha La La, Show You a Body)
3Amanda Shires
To the Sunset

alt country/pop — 4
4MxPx
MxPx

nostalgic 90s-esque pop-punk — 4 (Let’s Ride)
5Gia Margaret
There's Always Glimmer

indie folk/lo-fi — 3.8 (In Normal Ways)
6Mary Lattimore
Hundreds of Days

ambient/instrumental harp — 4.1
7Spanish Love Songs
Schmaltz

cathartic punk/emo — 4.8 (Bellyache)
8Winterfylleth
The Hallowing of Heirdom

dark folk — 4.5 (title track)
9Jennifer Castle
Angels of Death

folk/country — 4
10The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
While We're At It

ska — 3.7 (yeah this fucking rules. What's with these oldschool bands dropping little hidden gems this year)
11Lori McKenna
The Tree

country/singer-songwriter — 3.5
12Mom Jeans.
Puppy Love

emo — 3.4 (Closing Track)
13Elder Brother
Stay Inside

alt rock/emo — 3.9
14Courtney Barnett
Tell Me How You Really Feel

indie rock/pop — 3.8
15Panopticon
The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness

black metal/folk/Americana — 4.2 (Snow Burdened Branches)
16Steep Canyon Rangers
Out in the Open

bluegrass/country — 3.8
17Lucy Dacus
Historian

indie folk — 3.3
18Brandi Carlile
By the Way, I Forgive You

country/singer-songwriter — 3.8
19Sojourner
The Shadowed Road

epic metal/doom/black — 3.7
20Judicator
The Last Emperor

power metal — 3.5
21Hop Along
Bark Your Head Off, Dog

indie rock/folk — 4
22Laura Veirs
The Lookout

Irish singer-songwriter — 3.7
23Night Flowers
Wild Notion

dream pop — 3.9
24Wayfarer
World's Blood

black metal/ ambient — 3.3
25soccer mommy
Clean

indie folk/dream pop — 4 (Scorpio Rising)
26Caitlin Canty
Motel Bouquet

americana/singer-songwriter — 4 (Motel)
27Jenny Hval
The Long Sleep

art pop — 4
28Allelic
Reverberations

black metal/experimental — 4
29Neko Case
Hell-On

singer-songwriter — 3.2
30Kacey Musgraves
Golden Hour

country pop — 3.7 (Mother)
31Aisha Burns
Argonauta

Indie folk — 3.7
32Frank Turner
Be More Kind

folk/singer-songwriter — 3.4
33Brigid Mae Power
The Two Worlds

Irish songwriter/drone — 4
34Alela Diane
Cusp

More songwriter — 3.7 ( Ether and Wood)
35Johanna Warren
Gemini II

ambient/songwriter/dark folk — 4.1 (Hopelessness Has Done Nothing for Me)
36Rota Fortunae
Solstice

neofolk — 4
37Judas Priest
Firepower

Classic heavy metal — 3.7
38Gulfer
Dog Bless

emo / 3.5
39Liza Anne
Fine But Dying

rock/songwriter — 3.3
40Ulvesang
The Hunt

dark folk / 3.2
41Courtney Marie Andrews
May Your Kindness Remain

country / 3.5 ( Kindness of Strangers)
42Frankie Cosmos
Vessel

Indie folk/pop — 3
43Rosehall
The First Requisite Is Life

Sputcore / 4
44Grouper
Grid of Points

ambient + piano / 3.5
45Rachael Sage
Myopia

art pop / 3.5
46The Front Bottoms
Ann

emo / 3.7
47Juliana Daugherty
Light

Indie folk / 3.8
48Trophy Eyes
The American Dream

alt rock/emo — 2.7
49Trash Boat
Crown Shyness

pop punk/hardcore — 3.5
50Wild Pink
Yolk in the Fur

indie folk — 4 ( Burger Hill)
51Mikaela Davis
Delivery

harp/indie folk + pop — 3.7
52Amy Shark
Love Monster

mainstream pop — 3.3
53The Ophelias (USA, OH)
Almost

indie pop — 3.4
54The Innocence Mission
Sun on the Square

indie folk/mood music — 3.5
55Sun June
Years

indie folk / 3.5
56Alkaline Trio
Is This Thing Cursed?

Prediction: 4/5. This is going to be their best album in a long time
57Olivia Chaney
Shelter

singer-songwriter —3.8
58Trampled By Turtles
Life Is Good On The Open Road

Country/Bluegrass — 4
59Tomberlin
At Weddings

indie folk/soul searching — 4 (I’m Not Scared)
60Petal
Magic Gone

Indie songwriter — 3.7
61Mayday Parade
Sunnyland

pop-punk — 3.7
62Natalie Prass
The Future and the Past

indie pop — 3.5
63Maribou State
Kingdoms In Colour

downtempo --- 3.8
64Shannen Moser
I'll Sing

folk/indie rock --- 4.6
65Yves Tumor
Safe in the Hands of Love

experimental rock/ambient --- 4
66Muncie Girls
Fixed Ideals

indie rock/punk --- 3.5
67Iron And Wine
Weed Garden

indie folk --- 3.8
68Swingin' Utters
Peace and Love

fun punk rock --- 4
69Gabriel Kahane
Book of Travelers

singer-songwriter --- 4
70Devon Welsh
Dream Songs

folk/singer-songwriter --- 4
71Dawn Landes
Meet Me at the River

country --- 3.3
72The Beths
Future Me Hates Me

indie rock --- 3.8
73Shakey Graves
Can't Wake Up

indie folk/americana --- 3.5
74Owane
yeah whatever

jazz fusion --- 3.5
75Elise Davis
Cactus

country pop --- 4.2
76Un
Sentiment

doom metal/death/sludge ---- 4
77Outer Heaven
Realms Of Eternal Decay

death metal --- 4
78Scorched (USA-DE)
Ecliptic Butchery

death metal --- 4
79Varathron
Patriarchs of Evil

black metal ---- 3.5
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