2018 HALFWAY POINT Post Your Top 5 so far

#1

im feeling

  1. Skee Mask - Compro
  2. Demdike Stare x Il Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - The Feed-Back Loop
  3. Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
  4. DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Loose
  5. SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
#2
  • Steven Julien - Bloodline
  • Autechre - NTS 1-4
  • O$VMV$M - O$VMV$M
  • Jonny Nash & Lindsay Todd - Fauna Mapping
  • V/A - Patina Echoes
#3
  • Proc Fiskal - Insula
  • Westside Gunn - Supreme Blientele
  • Playboi Carti - Die Lit/Swae Lee - Swaecation
  • Blocks & Escher - Something Blue
  • Space Afrika - Somewhere Decent to Live

My pure top 5 in terms of time spent listening would probably be all rap, so this is a wider look at a variety of sounds that have captured my ears.

#4




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[EDIT: gonna have to add that new Elysia Crampton self-titled release]

#5

Can I just say the leaked Playboi Carti album is better than the official release.

#6
  1. Rezzett - Rezzett
  2. Dedekind Cut - Tahoe
  3. Palmbomen II - Memories of Cindy
  4. Dasychira - Haptics
  5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
#7

In all honesty I’ve been listening to more old music than new, cause I haven’t been feeling much albums from this year.

No Order

  • JPEGMafia - Veteran
  • Skee Mask - Compro
  • Daniel Avery - Song for Alpha
#8

been a bit of a lacklustre year so far TBH (clearly - 2 of these are technically reissues)

Keysha - Stop It
Khruangbin - Con Todo del Mundo
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Omar S - That’s Me
Katamari Damacy soundtrack

things that were in this list that then got deleted to make it 5: Funkee C/Livin Proof EP; Peggy Gou - Itgehane

#9

Oh I’ve been meaning to check that out, I love that original album.

Mine so far, tho there’s a bunch of others that I think are really excellent:

Daphne & Celeste - Daphne & Celeste Save The World
Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
Simone Forti - Al Di La
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music

#10

Skee Mask- Compro
DJ Koze- Knock Knock
DJ Healer- Nothing 2 Loose
Autechre- NTS 1-4
Serpentwithfeet- Soil

That 5th one could be anything right now though. A lot of stuff I’ve been looking forward to came out too recently for me to say top 5. Also been listening to a lot of music outside of the sort of stuff discussed here. For example, the new Mournful Congregation record is easily top 5 for me. Even though it’s slow as anything, the melodies are so deep and rich that it remains captivating the whole time. And when the composition does progress it is always like a wave breaking.

#11

Appleblim - Life In A Laser
Skee Mask - Compro
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Jerry Quickley - (american) FOOL
East Man - Red, White & Zero

#12

Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
Kilchofer – The Book Room
Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES
DJ Koze – Knock Knock
Kanye West – ye

#13

Casisdead - Pats Earrings
Jay Rock - Win
Night Slugs Allstars X Compilation (in particular Cooly G - Digitally Higher, Uninamise - Rise of the Wolves and Bok Bok & Sweyn J - Meteorology)
Oklou - Friendless
Club Late Music - Machine Gun Compilation
Dinamarca - Sol de mi Vida

#14

Off the top of my head

Simon Haydo - The Illusion of an Alternative Choice
Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
Christina Vantzou No. 4
CV & JAB — Zin Taylor - Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface
Galloway - Hallogalloway

If we put the two CV albums together, 200% Galcher might edge in there. I duno.

#15

Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End The Day

Princess Nokia - A Girl Cried Red

Chaines - The King

Old Tower - Stellary Wisdom

Gábor Lázár - Unfold

#16

excellent choices all around inere

this forum definitely showing itself to have good taste

namean

#17

That Janelle Monae record is pretty much flawless. The only track I’m lukewarm on is the Pharell one, but even that’s grown on me. Yes it wears its influences on its sleeve but she has so much personality that it’s definitely her own record. I absolutely love it.

#18

yep, same here, not real big on the Pharrell track…it’s but a small price to pay for an otherwise perfect record :slight_smile:

#19

ya ya forums getting good this will be a fun list to listen through

reminding me i need to give that janelle monae a few more listens, liked what i heard but it didnt quite stick, got washed away in the flood of streams

skee mask compro
j.cole KOD
dj healer nothing 2 loose
7 tracks on a spotify playlist made from the 4 kanye produced albums
dabrye three/three

#20

I can hardly manage a top 3 giving I am at least 2 years behind and still checking out 2015-16 releases.

I do, however, recommend the recent Jon Hassell album “Listening to pictures”. Perhaps also the Topdown Dialectic album, though I am still on the fence about that one.