The #12 Looks Like Sniff -18
A list dominated by end of the year list stuff. -18 stuff only as usual.
1352 albums jammed from this year. A number I don't plan to match next year. I also plan on changing the theme of the monthly list for the next year. Stay tuned friends. |
| 1 |  | Raime
We Can't Be That Far From The Beginning
4.0 [dark soundscapes] back at it. This owns |
| 2 |  | Mass Prod
Ear In My Eyes
4.0 [deep house] HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE? |
| 3 |  | Throwing Snow
Trébucher
4.0 [house?] it's a not so new anymore ep focusing on doing more of the good parts from Embers |
| 4 |  | Posthuman
Mutant City Acid
4.0 [acid house] that owns obviously |
| 5 |  | Locomotora
Vuodet, vuoret
4.0 [post rock] crescendocore is not dead yet |
| 6 |  | Josephine Davies
In the Corners of Clouds
4.0 [jazz] fun and playful and lively and milf |
| 7 |  | Keto
Blackened Pool
4.0 [indie folk] slight ERR to be found |
| 8 |  | Kerretta
Exiscens
4.0 [post rock] new Kerretta = good day |
| 9 |  | Closet Witch
Closet Witch
4.0 [grind] sick fucking grind |
| 10 |  | X/319
Effekt
4.0-3.5 [techno] very interesting album, 4 song ep worthy of your time for sure |
| 11 |  | Erland Cooper
Solan Goose
4.0-3.5 [post rock, classical] pretty sounds are pretty |
| 12 |  | Hearts and Minds
Electroradiance
4.0-3.5 [jazz] fun and lively |
| 13 |  | Have The Moskovik
Papier Vinyle
4.0-3.5 [post rock] well i'm a sucker for post rock with violin and samples |
| 14 |  | Fischerle
groove 7
4.0-3.5 [ambient techno] do i hear chilled juke? |
| 15 |  | Sonance
To Possess You Entirely
4.0-3.5 [post metal] a little bit of post rock and screamo too. Sorta Black Sheep Wall Kowloon Walled City stuff. |
| 16 |  | Dirge (FR)
Lost Empyrean
3.5-4.0 [industrial metal, post metal] THE REAL DIRGE IS BACK |
| 17 |  | AL-90
Murmansk-60
3.5-4.0 [lo-fi house] hazy vibes |
| 18 |  | Juan Ibarra Quinteto
NauMay
3.5-4.0 [jazz] when it's good it's really good |
| 19 |  | Rolling Trio
New Devices
3.5-4.0 [jazz] playful take on modern jazz |
| 20 |  | Anguish
Anguish
3.5 [free jazz, rap] Dälek and Fire! and Faust makes for a trippy free jazz, spoken word, rap trip. |
| 21 |  | Songs: Ohia
Love & Work: The Lioness Sessions
3.5 [folk] Just finished reading Riding With the Ghost. It's farily tragic what happened to say the least |
| 22 |  | Foodman
Moriyama
3.5 [deconstructed club] pretty chill for a white guy |
| 23 |  | Mass Grave
Our Due Descent
3.5 [crust] Swedish Massgrav is better but this is a fine crust effort |
| 24 |  | mcconville
mcconville
3.5 [ambient] pretty and short ambient ep |
| 25 |  | Manni Dee
The Residue
3.5 [industrial techno] with a twist |
| 26 |  | Throwing Snow
Loma
3.5 [house stuff?] Gotta love the artwork stuff |
| 27 |  | Dj Different
Permission 2 Dance
3.5 [broken techno] some dnb and breakbeat but a lot of techno |
| 28 |  | Mad God
Grotesque and Inexorable
3.5 [sludgedoomstoner] Do I hear some Electric Wizard? |
| 29 |  | Thomas Ragsdale
Self Zero
3.5 [ambient techno, darkwave] ventures awful close to darkwave at times but is as good as Wanderwelle at others |
| 30 |  | Ciel
Hundred Flowers
3.5 [house, techno] drifting in and out with that 4/4 on some ambient techno soundscapes |
| 31 |  | Barker
Debiasing
3.5 [techno] give me that peeled off techoecho feel |
| 32 |  | Doug Perkins and Karl Larson
An Economy of Means
3.5 [classical] jam it now |
| 33 |  | Nazar
Enclave
3.5 [noise experimental electronics] new year new me soon |
| 34 |  | Jarboe
The Cut Of The Warrior
3.5 [starnge] she still got it |
| 35 |  | Trio HLK
Standard Time
3.5 [jazz] with guests for that full jazz feel |
| 36 |  | Vril
Haus
3.5 [ambient techno} three song ep that goes softer then harder then softer again |
| 37 |  | Myra Melford's Snowy Egret
The Other Side Of Air
3.5 [jazz] cool piano jazz that goes in cool directions in parts |
| 38 |  | Ricardo Donoso
Calibrate
3.5 [industrial techno, ambient techno] I hear a lot of Ben Frost in this |
| 39 |  | Disrule
Sleep In Your Honour
3.5 [stoner rock] riff o clock |
| 40 |  | Kaschalot
Whale Songs
3.5 [math rock] As I Watch you From Afar worship |
| 41 |  | Richard Skelton
Front Variations (One & Two)
3.5 [classical, drone] blends pretty with background noise |
| 42 |  | Laubrock/Halvorson/Davis/Wooley
Contemporary Chaos Practices
3.5 [classical, jazz] chaos reigns |
| 43 |  | No Data Available
The Night
3.5 ["tracks for the rave"] look at that album cover! |
| 44 |  | Fucked and Bound
Suffrage
3.5 [grind, hardcore, crust] mostly ownage tbh |
| 45 |  | Joseph Shabason
Anne
3.5 [ambient jazz ish] Paddy McAloon? |
| 46 |  | 1099
Blindpassasjer
3.5 [post rock] standard but good |
| 47 |  | Urin
Demo
3.5 [crust] shitlife crust |
| 48 |  | Line Of Sight
Dissent
3.5 [hardcore] short and frantic ep ffo: Fury |
| 49 |  | Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
I Carry My Awareness of Defeat like a Banner of Vi
3.5 [sludge] New Thou who dis? |
| 50 |  | City Girl
Neon Impasse
3.5 [chillhop] ambient beats time frens |
| 51 |  | Feed Me To The Waves
Before This Wilderness Consumes Us
3.5 [post rock] cool swedish post rock for fans of the genre |
| 52 |  | Rezzett
Rezzett
3.5 [house, techno] pretty standard-ish but still good |
| 53 |  | Winds of Promise
Winds of Promise
3.5 [post-hardcore] FFO: Fugazi |
| 54 |  | Raime
Am I Using Content Or Is Content Using Me?
3.5 [electronic fuckery] "a little bit of both I recon" |
| 55 |  | Blocks and Escher
Something Blue
3.5 [dnb] could grow to a 4 |
| 56 |  | Knowmadic
strays
3.5 [beats] downtempo and a bit darker than his other work from this year |
| 57 |  | Juliana Daugherty
Light
3.5 [indie folk] marissa nadler stuff from atari |
| 58 |  | Anton Belov
Piano Works I
3.5 [piano ambient post rock n stuff] feels and cheesy feels |
| 59 |  | Viagra Boys
Street Worms
3.5 [noise rock, post punk] ofc gotta listen to a band where the frontman describes Brainbombs as very charming |
| 60 |  | Guttersnipe (UK)
My Mother The Vent
3.5 [noise rock] All-encompassing tumultuous opposite of background music // bandcamp user |
| 61 |  | Black Barrel
Last Frontier
3.5 [drum and bass] that good dnb stuff |
| 62 |  | Filthy Young Impalers
Pattern Blue
3.5 [tech death] chaos reigns |
| 63 |  | Somni
Bloom
3.5 [beats] very engaging listen |
| 64 |  | Vril
Omniverse
3.5 [industrial techno] it's great music for great you |
| 65 |  | Jim O'Rourke with Oren Ambarchi
Hence
3.5 [drone] DRONE |
| 66 |  | Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt
Brace Up!
3.5 [noise rock, match rock, improv] sorta storm and stress y |
| 67 |  | Drew McDowall
The Third Helix
3.5 [drone, ambient] mostly drone |
| 68 |  | 0edit
0edit
3.5 [idm, wavestuff] well thi exists now |
| 69 |  | Jean-Michel Blais
Eviction Sessions
3.5 [classical] ambient piano works [2] |
| 70 |  | Secret Cutter
Quantum Eraser
3.5 [sludge, hardcore grind] maximum filthy modern take on heavy music |
| 71 |  | Capitol K
Goatherder
3.5 [nu-disco] actually very good and playful in genre with some cool jazz overtones |
| 72 |  | Lubomyr Melnyk
Fallen Trees
3.5 [classical] back at it with the ultrafast piano playing frens |
| 73 |  | Laura Cannell and André Bosman
Reckonings
3.5 [classical] pretty neat strings duo |
| 74 |  | Camp X-Ray
Hard Time Killin Floor Blues
3.5 [hardcore punk] pretty "brötig" hardcore punk |
| 75 |  | Pleiades
For the Future
3.5 [post rock] I swear to god I'm 1ing the next album that samples the dictator speech |
| 76 |  | Amor (Scot)
Sinking Into A Miracle
3.5 [electronic indie rock stuff] sometimes sounds like hot chip, sometimes sounds like talking heads. |
| 77 |  | Corpsessed
Impetus of Death
3.5 [death doom] decent chunk of finndeathdoom courtesy of dark descent records |
| 78 |  | Minsk and Zatokrev
Bigod
3.5 [post metal] sports some thicc riffage |
| 79 |  | Emily A. Sprague
Mount Vision
3.5 [piano, ambient] soothing stuff |
| 80 |  | Emily and the Orgasm Addicts
Animator
Sneaking this in here cos damn what a good band name |
| 81 |  | John Tilbury / Keith Rowe / Kjell Bjorgeengen
Sissel
3.5 [eai] coolio mark |
| 82 |  | Hated
Breathless Art
3.5 [death metal] shameless and somewhat childish death rip-off |
| 83 |  | standards
standards
3.5 [math rock] pretty standardish math rock but good |
| 84 |  | Fluisteraars/Turia
De Oord
3.5 [post black metal] split with two great bands |
| 85 |  | Atka
Untitled Album 1
3.5 [prog grind] owns when it sounds like gridlink, not so much when it progs |
| 86 |  | Terrible Love (UK)
Doubt Mines
3.5 [post hardcore, screamo stuff] raw and emotional much like my face |
| 87 |  | Suffering Quota
Life In Disgust
3.5 [grind] good 2018 grind for sure |
| 88 |  | Rik And The Pigs
A Child's Gator
3.5 [punk] 80's punk rock in the vein of Dead Kennedys |
| 89 |  | Scrap Brain
Unhappy Hardcore
3.5 [punk] pretty raw and emotional punkstuff |
| 90 |  | Galya Bisengalieva
One
3.5 [contemporary classical n drone] playing around with them strings |
| 91 |  | Convenience
Stop Pretending
3.5 [hardcore punk] banging 7¨ |
| 92 |  | A Film in Color
They March in Endless Circles
3.5 [post rock] FFO: This Will Destroy You |
| 93 |  | Deena Abdelwahed
Khonnar
3.5 [electronic, noisy grime, techno] a weird trip through abrasive electronic land |
| 94 |  | Modsdive
Four Wet Hands
3.5 [post rock] fairly good but fairly you've heard it before-y |
| 95 |  | Anthony Shadduck
Anthony Shadduck Quartet / Double Quartet
3.5 [jazz] pretty stanradish but still coolios |
| 96 |  | Marc Cuevas
Carta Blanca
3.5 [jazz] Marc Cuevas contrabaixista de llarga trajectòria, sideman en multitud de projectes, obre la porta a l'electrònica en aquest primer disc com a líder. QUE??? |
| 97 |  | Booker Stardrum
Temporary etc.
3.5-3.0 [electronic acoustic] acoustic drums and ambient and electronic washes |
| 98 |  | Single Mothers
Through A Wall
3.0-3.5 [punk] filled to the brim with attitude and cool music |
| 99 |  | James Ferraro
Four Pieces For Mirai
3.0-3.5 [advanced ambient] very big brain stuff |
| 100 |  | P. Adrix
Álbum Desconhecido
3.0-3.5 [batida?, jungle, grime, dnb, bass] ADRIX! |
| 101 |  | Of Feather and Bone
Bestial Hymns of Perversion
3.0-3.5 [death metal] filthy osdm ish. Riffs. |
|
