The Best Records of 2018

Bill Bode
4 min readDec 3, 2018

25. Amen Dunes, Freedom

Essentials: Blue Rose, Mika Dora, Freedom

24. Vince Staples, FM!

Essentials: FUN!, No Bleedin, Outside!

23. Pinkshinyultrablast, Miserable Miracles

Essentials: Dance A.M., Eray, Taleidoscope

22. Illuminati Hotties, Kiss Yr Frenmies

Essentials: (You’re Better) Than Ever, Patience, Paying Off The Happiness

21. Everything Is Recorded, Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell

Essentials: Wet Looking Road, Close But Not Quite, Mountains Of Gold

20. DJ Koze, Knock Knock

Essentials: Pick Up, Bonfire, Music On My Teeth

19. Ought, Room Inside The World

Essentials: Desire, These 3 Things, Disgraced In America

18. Kamasi Washington, Heaven And Earth

Essentials: Street Fighter Mas, Fists Of Fury, Will You Sing

17. U.S. Girls, In A Poem Unlimited

Essentials: Poem, Rosebud, Incidental Boogie

16. Dirty Projectors, Lamp Lit Prose

Essentials: Right Now, That’s A Lifestyle, I Feel Energy

15. Foxing, Nearer My God

Essentials: Nearer My God, Bastardizer, Slapstick

14. Natalie Prass, The Future and The Past

Essentials: Oh My, Lost, The Fire

13. Jon Hopkins, Singularity

Essentials: Feel First Life, Luminous Beings, Singularity

12. Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour

Essentials: Slow Burn, Golden Hour, High Horse

11. Against All Logic, 2012–2017

Essentials: I Never Dream, Now U Got Me Hooked, Some Kind Of Game

10. IDLES, Joy As An Act Of Resistance

Essentials: Danny Nedelko, Colossus, Samaritans

9. BROCKHAMPTON, Iridescence

Essentials: WEIGHT, THUG LIFE, SAN MARCOS

8. Big Red Machine, Big Red Machine

Essentials: I Won’t Run From It, Deep Green, Gratitude

7. Beach House, 7

Essentials: Pay No Mind, Drunk in LA, Dive

6. Let’s Eat Grandma, I’m All Ears

Essentials: It’s Not Just Me, Hot Pink, Falling Into Me

5. Parquet Courts, Wide Awake!

Essentials: Freebird II, Tenderness, Total Football

4. Lucy Dacus, Historian

Essentials: Addictions, Night Shift, Next Of Kin

3. Father John Misty, God’s Favorite Customer

Essentials: Me And Michael, Little Dark Age, When You Die

  1. The 1975, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

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Bill Bode

Tech Comms guy in PDX. Music nerd, Baltimore native, really likes mac and cheese.