Your Favorite Albums of 2018.

[Omar]

It's that time again.

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Top 60

Arndales - Shops (In The Red)
BB and The Blips - Shame Job (Thrilling Living)
Beta Boys - Late Nite Acts (Feel It)
BODEGA - Endless Scroll (What's Your Rupture?)
Borzoi - A Prayer for War (12XU)
Brandy - Laugh Track (Monofonus Press)
Candy - Good To Feel (Triple-B Records)
Charles Albright - Everything Went Charles Albright (Sacramento Records)
Constant Mongrel - Living in Excellence (ANTI FADE/LVEUM/La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
David Nance Group - Peaced And Slightly Pulverized (Trouble in Mind)
Dead Tenants - LP II (Already Dead Tapes and Records)
Deaf Wish - Lithium Zion (Sub Pop)
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (ANTI-)
Drug Church - Cheer (Pure Noise Records)
En Attendant Ana - Lost and Found (Trouble in Mind)
Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams (Merge)
Ghost - Prequelle (Loma Vista)
Goggs - Pre Strike Sweep (In The Red)
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar (Deathwish)
Guided By Voices - Space Gun (GBV, Inc.)
Hank Wood And The Hammerheads - Hank Wood And The Hammerheads (Toxic State Records)
Horrendous - Idol (Dark Descent)
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens (Sub Pop)
Judas Priest - Firepower (Epic)
KEN MODE - Loved (Season of Mist/New Damage)
Khemmis - Desolation (20 Buck Spin/Nuclear Blast)
Lié - Hounds (Monofonus Press/Mint)
Lithics - Mating Surfaces (Kill Rock Stars)
Low - Double Negative (Sub Pop)
Marbled Eye - Leisure (Digital Regress/Erste Theke Tonträger)
Mindforce - Excalibur (Triple-B Records)
Negative Scanner - Nose Picker (Trouble in Mind)
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser (Castle Face)
Olden Yolk - Olden Yolk (Trouble in Mind)
Part Chimp - Cheap Thriller (Chart Pimp Records)
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage (Relapse)
Rata Negra - Justicia Cósmica (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
Salad Boys - This Is Glue (Trouble in Mind)
Sauna Youth - Deaths (Upset the Rhythm!)
Screaming Females - All At Once (Don Giovanni)
Shepparton Airplane - Almurta (Wing Sing)
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light (Prosthetic)
Special Interest - Spiraling (Raw Sugar Records)
Super Unison - Stella (Deathwish)
Superchunk - What A Time To Be Alive (Merge)
Swearin' - Fall into the Sun (Merge)
Tancred - Nightstand (Polyvinyl)
The Beths - The Future Hates Me (Carpark)
The Breeders - All Nerve (4AD)
The Cats - At Polanka Park (self-released)
The Messthetics - The Messthetics (Dischord)
The Sueves - R.I.P. Clearance Event (HoZac)
Tim and the Boys - Growing (Meatspin/Thrilling Living)
Tribulation - Down Below (Century Media)
Twisted Thing - Lucky 7s Demo (self-released)
Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin (Drag City)
Voivod - The Wake (Century Media)
War On Women - Capture The Flag (Bridge Nine Records)
Wax Chattels – s/t (Captured Tracks)
YOB - Our Raw Heart (Relapse)

Next 140

Alice Bag - Blueprint (Don Giovanni)
ANMLS    - ANMLS    (Slovenly)
Apostille - Choose Life (Upset the Rhythm!)
Aquarium - Aquarium (Lumpy)
Arse - Primitive Species (Grupo/Erste Theke Tonträger)
Azusa - Heavy Yoke (Indie Recordings/Solid State)
Bad Sports - Constant Stimulation (Dirtnap)
Bambara - Shadow On Everything (Wharf Cat)
Bat Fangs - Bat Fangs (Don Giovanni)
Beta Blockers - Stiff Prescription (Static Shock)
Bikini Cops - Three EP (Televised Suicide Records/Drunken Sailor Records)
BiteMarks - Sucia (Belladonna Records)
Blades of Joy - Blades of Joy (Melters)
Blood Pressure - Surrounded (Beach Impediment Records)
Blues Lawyer - Guess Work (Emotional Response)
Booji Boys - Unknown Pleathers EP (Sewercide Records)
Bubble Boys - Sticky Sitch (Godless America)
C Average - III (Adult Fantasy Records)
Casual Hex - Zig Zag Lady Illusion (Water Wing Records)
Cat Power - Wanderer (Domino)
Chastity - Death Lust (Captured Tracks)
Citric Dummies - The Kids Are Alt-Right (Erste Theke Tonträger)
Civic - New Vietnam (ANTI FADE)
Collate - Liminal Concerns (self-released)
Connections - Foreign Affairs (Trouble in Mind)
Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown (Nuclear Blast)
Cremalleras - Mercado Negro (Thrilling Living)
Criminal Code - 2534 (Deranged)
D.U.D.S. - Immediate (Red Wig/Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu?/Opal Tapes)
Datenight (US) - Comin Atcha' 100MPH (Drop Medium)
Deceased - Ghostly White (Hell's Headbangers)
Desahuciados - Desahuciados (Slovenly)
Dry Cleaning - Sweet Princess (self-released)
E - Negative Work (Thrill Jockey)
Earth Girl Helen Brown - Four Satellites Vol. 1 (In The Red/Empty Cellar)
Erik Nervous - Assorted Anxieties (Drunken Sailor/Neck Chop)
Estuarine - Sic Erat Scriptum (self-released)
Ethers - Ethers (Trouble in Mind)
Exit Group - Adverse Habitat (Castle Face)
FACS - Negative Houses (Trouble in Mind)
Faux Depart - Au Pied Du Mur (Super Cocktail/Tocsin Records/Loses And The Caves/Colilla Records/Doomtown Records/Mutant/Roll Mops/18 Wheeler/Panzerfaust)
Fiddlehead - Springtime and Blind (Run For Cover)
Freak Genes - Qwak Qwak (Drunken Sailor)
Gee Tee - Gee Tee (Goodbye Boozy/Slime Street)
Giving Up - Garner Cardinals (Sophomore Lounge)
Gnod - Chapel Perilous (Rocket Recordings)
Governess - Zero (Sister Polygon)
Harlan T. Bobo - A History of Violence (Goner)
Heavy Metal - Heavy Metal EP(Total Punk)
Homeboy Sandman & Edan - Humble Pi EP (Stones Throw Records)
Honey Bucket - Furniture Days (See My Friends)
ISS - ISS EP (Sorry State)
Itchy Bugger - Done One (Low Company)
Jean Grae X Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine (Mellow Music Group)
Jeff Rosenstock - POST- (Polyvinyl)
Jesus Piece - Only Self (Southern Lord)
Jon Spencer - Spencer Sings The Hits (In The Red)
Juliana Hatfield - Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John (American Laundromat Records)
Just Mustard - Wednesday (Pizza Pizza Records)
KHôRADA - Salt (Prophecy
Landing - Bells In New Towns (El Paraiso Records)
Landline - Landline (Discontinuous Innovation Inc.)
Lavender Flu - Mow The Glass (In The Red)
Lewsberg - Lewsberg (self-released)
Lime Crush - Sub Divide (Fettkakao)
Little Ugly Girls - Little Ugly Girls (Chapter Music)
Lucifer - Lucifer II (Century Media)
Marisa Nadler - For My Crimes (Sacred Bones)
Metal Church - Damned If You Do (Rat Pak Records)
Mind Spiders - Furies (Dirtnap)
Mitraille - Schroot (Belly Button Records)
Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
Moaning - Moaning (Sub Pop)
Mock Identity - Paradise    (Scam Likely Records)
Modern Convenience - So So Modern (What's For Breakfast? Records)
Monster Magnet - Mindfucker (Napalm Records)
Mope Grooves x2 - Vanished & The Waves (See My Friends)
Mourn - Sorpresa Familia (Captured Tracks)
Mudhoney - Digital Garbage (Sub Pop)
New Vogue - New Vogue (self-released)
No Babies - Someone to Watch Over Me (Upset the Rhythm!)
Nø Man - Devils Cast Long Shadows (Quilt Life)
Nun - The Dome    (Aarght! Records)
Nutrition - Nutrition (Neon Taste Records)
Obnox x2 - Bang Messiah (Smog Veil) & Templo del Sonido (Monofonus Press/Astral Spirits)   
Ovlov - TRU (Exploding In Sound)
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (I and II) (Nordvis Produktion/Bindrune Recordings)
Patois Counselors - Proper Release (ever/never)
Peach Kelli Pop - Gentle Leader + Which Witch EP (Mint)
Perverts Again - Friday Night Light (Total Punk)
Pinch Points - Mechanical Injury EP (Roolette Records/Six Tonnes De Chair Records)
Pious Faults - Old Thread (Feel It)
Portal - Ion (Profound Lore)
The Poster Children - Grand Bargain! (Lotuspool Records)
Primals - All Love Is True Love (Southern Lord)
Primo! - Primo Amici (Upset the Rhythm!)
Priors - New Pleasure (Slovenly)
Protomartyr - Consolation EP (Domino)
Pusha T - Daytona (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)
Rays - You Can Get There From Here (Trouble in Mind)
Red Hare - Little Acts Of Destruction (Dischord)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs (Sub Pop/Ivy League Records)
Rose Mercie - Rose Mercie (Monofonus Press/SDZ Records/Jelodanti)
Rotten Blossom - Let's Hang Out EP (Smoked Cheese Records)
Royal Brat - Eyesore (Moniker)
Self Defense Family - Have You Considered Punk Music? (Run For Cover)
Shame - Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans)
Shopping - The Official Body (Fatcat)
Sick Thoughts - Sick Thoughts (Goner)
Sleep - The Sciences (Third Man)
Soft Kill - Savior (Profound Lore)
Spider Bags - Someday Everything Will Be Fine (Merge)
St. Lenox - Ten Fables About Young Ambition And Passionate Love (Anyway)
Stove - Stove's Favorite Friend (Exploding In Sound)
Stryper - God Damn Evil (Frontiers Music)
Surfbort - Friendship Music (Cult Records/Fat Possum)
Switzerlands - Anthology 2016-18 (self-released)
Table Sugar - Collected Acknowledgments (Water Wing Records/Stucco)
Terry - I'm Terry (Upset the Rhythm!)
Thalia Zedek Band - Fighting Season (Thrill Jockey)
The Ex - 27 Passports (Ex Records)
The Fritz - The Fritz (Drunken Sailor)
The Goon Sax - We're Not Talking (Chapter Music/Wichita)
The Long Hots - Monday Night Raw EP (self-released)
The Love-Birds - In The Lover's Corner (Trouble in Mind)
The Ocean Party - The Oddfellows Hall (Emotional Response/Spunk) [RIP Zac Denton]
The Royal They - Foreign Being (King Pizza Records)
The Shifters - Have A Cunning Plan (Trouble in Mind)
Thou - Magus (Sacred Bones)
Ubik - Ubik EP (Aarght Records/Symphony of Destruction) +Ubik/Cold Meat Split EP (Helta Skelta Records/Lost in Fog)
Ultra Beauty - Ultra Beauty EP (Sister Polygon)
Uniform - The Long Walk (Sacred Bones)
Vanilla Poppers - I Like Your Band EP (Drunken Sailor/Feel It)
Vital Idles - Left Hand (Upset the Rhythm!)
Warm Bodies - Warm Bodies (Lumpy)
Warp Transmission - The Process Ultra (Creepy Crawl)
Weakened Friends - Common Blah (Don Giovanni)
Windhand - Eternal Return (Relapse)
Wingtip Sloat - Purge And Swell/Lost Decade (VHF Records)
Wrong - Feel Great (Relapse)
Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs (Merge)

Five Comp/Live

Burn The Priest - Legion XX (Epic) [Covers: The Accüsed, Melvins, Big Black, SOD, Bad Brains, Sliang Laos, Ministry, AF, Quicksand, Cro-Mags]

Carbonas - Your Moral Superiors: Singles And Rarities (Goner)

Fastbacks - If You Want To Slow Down, Step On The Gas (No Threes Records) [Compiles songs recorded 1985-1990, and not previously on LP]

Intelligence - Live in San Francisco (Castle Face)

Uranium Club - Live at Arci Taun (Castle Face)

[Joe Rogaine]

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[fonpr]

It's that time again.

When you make me feel like I wasn't paying any attention.

[Vinyl.Score]

That's a lot of new albums to listen to from one year! I'm still catching up on 1967.