20 Dec Gene’s Best Albums of 2018
This year will be forever remembered as THE year that the holidays traumatized me…Thanksgiving by itself was something worthy of a John Hughes film – substituting the (now) politically incorrect humor (racial stereotypes? rapey boyfriends?) with just plain hostility. Sooo, music was more important than ever – and some really good headphones…
- Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
- Blood Orange – Negro Swan
- Gruff Rhys – Babelsburg
- Richard Swift – The Hex
- Field Music – Open Here
- Prince – Piano and a Microphone (1983)…damn I miss Prince…
- Dirty Projectors – Lamplit Prose
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Food and Sex
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Sparkle Hard
- Shame – Songs of Praise
- Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
- Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base and Casino
- YOB – Our Raw Heart
- Julia Holter – Aviary
- Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams
- Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures
- Iceage – Beyondless
- Anderson Paak – Oxnard
- Grouper – Grid of Points
- Alela Diane – Cusp
- The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl
- Black Moth Super Rainbow – Panic Blooms
- Frog Eyes – Violet Psalms
- Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On
- Low – Double Negative
- Soccer Mommy – Clean
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