Jan 19, 2021
The Kuhronic Top 50 Albums of 2018
Originally “published” February 6th, 2019
I suppose I should start off with an apology, since 2013 I have shared my best album list on either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Various factors conspired to make that unfeasible, most notably the three month major renovation we did on our house over the summer. A lot of good work completed in November and December meant that I probably could have finished on time, but at what cost? Would rushing it’s completion for a self-imposed deadline really benefit anyone? Of course the answer is no, so I forged on into 2019 to finish this list as it should be. Thank you for your patience and understanding music lovers and curious onlookers.
I’ve already started on 2019’s list, as the immortal Ozzy Osbourne once said in the cocaine and alcohol glazed 1980's, no rest for the wicked…
Love always,
Dave E. Kuhronic
50. The Messthetics — The Messthetics
49. Preoccupations — New Material
48. Lord Huron — Vide Noir
47. Anderson .Paak — Oxnard
46. Interpol — Marauder
45. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Wrong Creatures
44. Wild Nothing — Indigo
43. Blood Orange — Negro Swan
42. Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
41. Ohgr — Tricks!
40. Superchunk — What a Time To Be Alive
39. Ryan Porter — The Optimist
38. Robyn — Honey
37. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
36. The Prodigy — No Tourists
35. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
34. Christine and the Queens — Chris
33. Ice Cube — Everythangs Corrupt
32. Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
31. Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
30. Snail Mail — Lush
29. Pusha-T — Daytona
28. DJ Koze — Knock Knock
27. Idles — Joy As An Act of Resistance
26. Gogo Penguin — A Humdrum Star
25. Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
24. Cowboy Junkies — All That Reckoning
23. Noname — Room 25
22. Vince Staples — FM!
21. Courtney Barnett — Tell Me How You Really Feel
20. Iceage — Beyondless
19. Sloan — 12
18. Czarface and MF Doom — Czarface Meets Metal Face
17. Beach House — 7
16. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever — Hope Downs
15. Actors — It Will Come to You
14. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
13. Shame — Songs of Praise
12. Parquet Courts — Wide Awake
11. Cloud Nothings — Last Building Burning
10. Beak> — >>>
09. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
08. U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
07. Father John Misty — God’s Favourite Customer
06. Johnny Marr — Call the Comet
05. Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
04. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
03. Hot Snakes — Jericho Sirens
02. Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
01. Suede — The Blue Hour
Almost Made It’s:
Brix & the Extricated — Breaking State
Cut Chemist — Die Cut
Elvis Costello — Look Now
Dilly Dally — Heaven
The Dirty Nil — Master Volume
Editors — Violence
Gazelle Twin — Pastoral
The Good, The Bad & The Queen — Merrie Land
James — Living in Extraordinary Times
The KVB — Only Now Forever
Lykke Li — So Sad So Sexy
Makaya McCraven — Universal Beings
MGMT — Little Dark Age
Ought — Room Inside the World
Santigold — I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions
Shad — A Short Story About a War
Spesh — Famous World
Sons of Kemet — Your Queen is a Reptile
Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-insides
Young Fathers — Cocoa Sugar
Best Live Album:
City and Colour — Guide Me Back Home
