Looking back on the music that was released on 2018 conjures up a lot of mixed emotions. While there wasn't a particularly high number of records or songs that I'll be cherishing for years to come, the amount of disappointments and blood-boiling piles of garbage I was exposed to were very minimal compared to the past couple of years-which is a trade-off I'm more than willing to live with. Below you'll find a collection of retrospective lists from this respectable auditory year including my picks for the biggest surprises/letdowns, top 50 songs and a ranking of every LP and EP I heard from worst to best. Here's to hoping that 2019 does the improbable by delivering more phenomenal material while also retaining the low dud rate.
EP's:
9.2 Chainz-The Play Don't Care Who Makes It (B-) (Favorite Track: "Ok Bitch")
8.Fall Out Boy-Lake Effect Kid (B) (Favorite Track: "Lake Effect Kid")
7.Drake-Scary Hours (B) (Favorite Track: "God's Plan")
6.The Weeknd-My Dear Melancholy, (B) (Favorite Track: "Call Out My Name")
5.2 Chainz-Hot Wings are a Girl's Best Friend (B+) (Favorite Track: "Hot Wings")
4.Young Thug-On the Rvn (B+) (Favorite Track: "Climax")
3.Counterparts-Private Room (B+) (Favorite Track: "Selfishly I Sink")
2.Converge-Beautiful Ruin (B+) (Favorite Track: "Permanent Blue")
1.Young Thug-Hear No Evil (A-) (Favorite Track: "Anybody")
LP's:
107.Eminem-Kamikaze (D) (Favorite Track: N/A)
106.Kanye West-ye (D+) (Favorite Track: "Yikes")
105.Lil Yachty-Lil Boat 2 (D+) (Favorite Track: "Self-Made")
104.Tropical Fuck Storm-A Laughing Death in Meat Space (C-) (Favorite Track: "Chameleon Paint")
103.Machine Head-Catharsis (C-) (Favorite Track: "Volatile")
102.Jack White-Boarding House Reach (C-) (Favorite Track: "Over and Over and Over")
101.Alkaline Trio-Is Thing Cursed? (C-) (Favorite Track: "Blackbird")
100.Kodak Black-Heartbreak Kodak (C) (Favorite Track: ""Codeine Dreaming")
99.Sting and Shaggy-44/776 (C) (Favorite Track: "Waiting for the Break of Day")
98.Parkway Drive-Reverence (C) (Favorite Track: "Wishing Wells")
97.Vince Staples-FM! (C) (Favorite Track: "Feels Like Summer")
96.Lil Wayne-Tha Carter V (C) (Favorite Track: "Can't Be Broken")
95.Lykke Li-so sad so sexy (C) (Favorite Track: "so sad so sexy")
94.Kids See Ghosts-Kids See Ghosts (C) (Favorite Track: "Cudi Montage")
93.Logic-Bobby Tarantino II (C+) (Favorite Track: "Warm It Up")
92.State Champs-Living Proof (C+) (Favorite Track: "Frozen")
91.Famous Dex-Dex Meets Dexter (C+) (Favorite Track: ""Deadpool")
90.Young Thug-Slime Language (C+) (Favorite Track: "Tsunami")
89.XXXTENTACION-? (C+) (Favorite Track: "SAD!")
88.Nekrogoblikon-Welcome to Bonkers (C+) (Favorite Track: "The Skin Thief")
87.Good Tiger-We Will All Be Gone (C+) (Favorite Track: "Blueshift")
86.Juice WRLD-Goodbye & Good Riddance (C+) (Favorite Track: "Lean Wit Me')
85.Architects-Holy Hell (C+) (Favorite Track: "Dying to Heal")
84.Fall Out Boy-MANIA (C+) (Favorite Track: "Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea")
83.Earl Sweatshirt-Some Rap Songs (C+) (Favorite Track: "Azucar")
82.Various Artists-Black Panther: The Album-Music from and Inspired
by (B-) (Favorite Track: "Big Shot")
81.The Carters-EVERYTHING IS LOVE (B-) (Favorite Track: "APESHIT")
80.Swae Lee-Swaecation (B-) (Favorite Track: "Offshore")
79.Nicki Minaj-Queen (B-) (Favorite Track: "Ganja Burn")
78.Teyana Taylor-K.T.S.E. (B-) (Favorite Track: "Rose in Harlem")
77.The Story So Far-Proper Dose (B-) (Favorite Track: "Keep This Up")
76.Crossfaith-EX_MACHINA (B-) (Favorite Track: "The Perfect Nightmare")
75.Ski Mask the Slump God-Stokely (B-) (Favorite Track: "Nuketown")
74.Bury Tomorrow-Black Flame (B-) (Favorite Track: "Knife of Gold")
73.Clutch-Book of Bad Decisions (B-) (Favorite Track: "In Walks Barbarella")
72.JPEGMAFIA-Veteran (B-) (Favorite Track: "Real Nega")
71.Slim Jxmmi-Jxmtro (B-) (Favorite Track: "Juggling Biddies")
70.The Wonder Years-Sister Cities (B-) (Favorite Track: "Sister Cities")
69.$uicideboy$-I Want to Die in New Orleans (B-) (Favorite Track: "King Tulip")
68.Takeoff-The Last Rocket (B-) (Favorite Track: "Last Memory")
67.Maxo Kream-Punken (B-) (Favorite Track: "Roaches")
66.ERRA-Neon (B-) (Favorite Track: "Valhalla")
65.Quavo-Quavo Huncho (B-) (Favorite Track: "Pass Out")
64.Mac Miller-Swimming (B-) (Favorite Track: "Ladders")
63.Ski Mask the Slump God-BEWARE THE BOOK OF ELI (B-) (Favorite Track: "Run")
62.Trippie Redd-A Love Letter to You 3 (B-) (Favorite Track: "Topanga")
61.Lil Baby and Gunna-Drip Harder (B-) (Favorite Track: "Never Recover")
60.Kacey Musgraves-Golden Hour (B-) (Favorite Track: "Golden Hour")
59.Turnstile-Time & Space (B-) (Favorite Track: "Come Back for More/H.O.Y")
58.Migos-Culture II (B-) (Favorite Track: "Stir Fry")
57.Trippie Redd-Life's a Trip (B) (Favorite Track: "Dark Knight Dummo")
56.Pusha T-Daytona (B) (Favorite Track: "If You Know You Know")
55.Greta Van Fleet-Anthem of the Peaceful Army (B) (Favorite Track: "Mountain of the Sun")
54.Augury-Illusive Golden Age (B) (Favorite Track: "Maritime")
53.Obscura-Diluvium (B) (Favorite Track: "Mortification of the Vulgar Sun")
52.Kyle-Light of Mine (B) (Favorite Track: "Games")
51.Drake-Scorpion (B) (Favorite Track: "Nice for What")
50.The Agony Scene-Tormentor (B) (Favorite Track: "Serpent's Tongue")
49.Anderson.Paak-Oxnard (B) (Favorite Track: "Brother's Keeper")
48.Extinction A.D.-Decimation Treaty (B) (Favorite Track: "Decimation Treaty")
47.Camila Cabello-Camila (B) (Favorite Track: "In the Dark")
46.Noname-Room 25 (B) (Favorite Track: "Don't Forget About Me")
45.Action Bronson-White Bronco (B) (Favorite Track: "Ring Ring")
44.Rae Sremmurd-SR3MM (B) (Favorite Track: "Powerglide")
43.Horrendous-Idol (B) (Favorite Track: "Divine Anhedonia")
42.Janelle Monae-Dirty Computer (B) (Favorite Track: "Crazy, Classic, Life")
41.The Ocean-Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (B) (Favorite Track: "Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence")
40.Kodak Black-Dying to Live (B) (Favorite Track: "MoshPit")
39.J.I.D.-DiCaprio 2 (B) (Favorite Track: "Slick Talk")
38.Florence+the Machine-High as Hope (B) (Favorite Track: "Big God")
37.Jorja Smith-Lost and Found (B) (Favorite Track: "Blue Lights")
36.TesseracT-Sonder (B) (Favorite Track: "Smile")
35.BROCKHAMPTON-iridescence (B) (Favorite Track: "NEW ORLEANS")
34.A$AP Rocky-Testing (B) (Favorite Track: "Fukk Sleep")
33.Kimbra-Primal Heart (B) (Favorite Track: "Black Sky")
32.Post Malone-beerbongs & Bentleys (B) (Favorite Track: "92 Explorer")
31.High on Fire-Electric Messiah (B) (Favorite Track: "Freebooter")
30.Ariana Grande-Sweetener (B) (Favorite Track: "no tears left to cry")
29.Mitski-Be the Cowboy (B) (Favorite Track: "Geyser")
28.Alterbeast-Feast (B) (Favorite Track: "The Maggot's Ascension")
27.Cardi B-Invasion of Privacy (B) (Favorite Track: "Money Bag")
26.Death Grips-Year of the Snitch (B) (Favorite Track: "Black Paint")
25.Future-BEASTMODE2 (B) (Favorite Track: "31 Days")
24.Flatbush Zombies-Vacation in Hell (B) (Favorite Track: "Big Shrimp")
23.Unearth-Extinction(s) (B+) (Favorite Track: "Cultivation of Infection")
22.Monuments-Phronesis (B+) (Favorite Track: "A.W.O.L.")
21.Skeletonwitch-Devouring Radiant Light (B+) (Favorite Track: "Fen of Shadows")
20.Night Verses-From the Gallery of Sleep (B+) (Favorite Track: "Vantablonde")
19.Coheed and Cambria-Unheavenly Creatures (B+) (Favorite Track: "The Dark Sentencer")
18.City Morgue-Vol.1: Hell or High Water (B+) (Favorite Track: "33rd Blakk Glass")
17.Behemoth-I Loved You at Your Darkest (B+) (Favorite Track: "Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica")
16.21 Savage-I Am>I Was (B+) (Favorite Track: "all my friends")
15.Vein-Errorzone (B+) (Favorite Track: "End Eternal")
14.Inferi-Revenant (B+) (Favorite Track: "Thy Menacing Gaze")
13.Rolo Tomassi-Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (B+) (Favorite Track: "Alma Mater")
12.Metro Boomin-NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES (B+) (Favorite Track: "10 Freaky Girls")
11.Slugdge-Esoteric Malacology (B+) (Favorite Track: "Transylvanian Fungus")
10.Playboi Carti-Die Lit (A-) (Favorite Track: "R.I.P.")
9.Between the Buried and Me-Automata I (A-) (Favorite Track: "Blot")
8.Greyhaven-Empty Black (A-) (Favorite Track: "Blemish")
7.Denzel Curry-Tab13oo (A-) (Favorite Track: "Black Balloons")
6.Kali Uchis-Isolation (A-) (Favorite Track: "Tyrant")
5.Dance Gavin Dance-Artificial Selection (A-) (Favorite Track: "Count Bassy")
4.Between the Buried and Me-Automata II (A) (Favorite Track: "Voice of Trespass")
3.Revocation-The Outer Ones (A) (Favorite Track: "Blood Atonement")
2.Travis Scott-ASTROWORLD (A) (Favorite Track: "YOSEMITE")
1.Rivers of Nihil-Where Owls Know My Name (A) (Favorite Track: "A Home")
Biggest Surprises:
1.Between the Buried and Me-Automata I/II
2.Skeletonwitch-Devouring Radiant Light
3.Cardi B-Invasion of Privacy
4.Post Malone-beerbongs & bentleys
5.Camila Cabello-Camila
Biggest Letdowns:
1.Machine Head-Catharsis
2.Vince Staples-FM!
3.Obscura-Diluvium
4.The Story So Far-Proper Dose
5.Migos-Culture II
Most Underrated:
1.Metro Boomin-NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES
2.Future-BEASTMODE2
3.Post Malone-beerbongs & Bentleys
4.A$AP Rocky-Testing
5.Jorja Smith-Lost & Found
Most Overrated:
1.Pusha T-Daytona
2.Obscura-Diluvium
3.JPEGMAFIA-Veteran
4.Various Artists-Black Panther-The Album: Music from and Inspired by
5.Architects-Holy Hell
Top Discoveries:
1.Kali Uchis
2.Greyhaven
3.Slugdge
4.Rolo Tomassi
5.Vein
Top 50 Songs (in alphabetical order by artist):
Ariana Grande-no tears left to cry
A$AP Rocky-Fukk Sleep (feat. FKA Twigs)
Behemoth-Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica
Between the Buried and Me-Blot
Between the Buried and Me-The Proverbial Bellow
Between the Buried and Me-Voice of Trespass
BROCKHAMPTON-NEW ORLEANS
City Morgue-33rd Blakk Glass
Coheed and Cambria-The Dark Sentencer
Dance Gavin Dance-Count Bassy
Dance Gavin-Suspended in this Disaster
Death Grips-Black Paint
Denzel Curry-Black Balloons (feat. Twelve'Len and GoldLink)
Denzel Curry-Vengeance (feat. JPEGMAFIA and ZillaKami)
Drake-Nice for What
Flatbush Zombies-Big Shrimp
Greyhaven-Blemish
Greyhaven-Mortality Rate
Inferi-Thy Menacing Gaze
Jorja Smith-Blue Lights
Kali Uchis-Dead to Me
Kali Uchis-Your Teeth in My Neck
Kimbra-Black Sky
Kyle-Games
Lana Del Rey-Mariners Apartment Complex
Metro Boomin-10 Freaky Girls (feat. 21 Savage)
Metro Boomin-Space Cadet (feat. Gunna)
Migos-Narcos
Mitski-Geyser
Monuments-A.W.O.L.
Night Verses-Vantablonde
Playboi Carti-R.I.P.
Playboi Carti-Shoota (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)
Post Malone-92 Explorer
Revocation-Blood Atonement
Revocation-Fathomless Catacombs
Rivers of Nihil-A Home
Rivers of Nihil-Hollow
Rivers of Nihil-Subtle Change (Including the Forest of Transition and Dissatisfaction Dance)
Rolo Tomassi-Alma Mater
Skeletonwitch-Fen of Shadows
Slugdge-Transylvanian Fungus
TesseracT-Smile
Travis Scott-ASTOTHUNDER
Travis Scott-STOP TRYING TO BE GOD (feat. James Blake)
Travis Scott-YOSEMITE (feat. Gunna and Nav)
Unearth-Cultivation of Infection
Vein-End Eternal
The Weeknd-Call Out My Name
Young Thug-Anybody (feat. Nicki Minaj)
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