Top 26 Music Albums of 2018 by 
johnner 
Tracks Of The Year:
1. Samaritans - Idles
2. Television - Idles
3. Danny Nedelko - Idles
4. I’m Scum - Idles
5. Great - Idles
6. Colossus - Idles
7. Everlastingly Yours - Piroshka
8. Fly tipping - Suede
9. International Blue - Manic Street Preachers
10. Wake The Dead - The Third Eye Foundation
11. Life Is Golden - Suede
12. Not A Priority - Blancmange
13. Mistress - Suede
14. Free-bird II - Parquet Courts
15. Tenderness - Parquet Courts
16. Distant Colours - Manic Street Preachers
17. Gun To The Head - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
18. All The Wild Places - Suede
19. Little Dark Age - MGMT
20. All Women Love Me - Insecure Men
- Chart updated: 10/17/2021 17:45
- (Created: 01/02/2018 22:57).
- Chart size: 26 albums.
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“As time goes by it becomes more and more apparent how Suede were one, if not THE most important band of the nineties. So after a few dodgy lps, it’s with some relief to report how this new album finds a re-energised, more vital Suede.
Although the tunes are not as instant as before, a pop heart still strongly beats within even if this is a more mature, wiser, darker Suede than ever. There’s even a return to some of the art-rock madness of Dog Man Star - and if that isn’t cause for celebration, I don’t know what is.
Simply put this is the best Suede have sounded since their heyday and no one can hold a candle to them when they’re on this form” September 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/19/2018]
Although the tunes are not as instant as before, a pop heart still strongly beats within even if this is a more mature, wiser, darker Suede than ever. There’s even a return to some of the art-rock madness of Dog Man Star - and if that isn’t cause for celebration, I don’t know what is.
Simply put this is the best Suede have sounded since their heyday and no one can hold a candle to them when they’re on this form” September 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/19/2018]
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“Throughout this decade I’ve been moaning about how bad a state rock’n’roll is in. How it seems to be in irreversible decline, how it appears to be dying. No more, IDLES not only resurrect punk rock but breathe new life in to rock’n’roll. Anger of the phlegmatic kind is the tone, Snowflake Oi is the charge - less a flurry and more an avalanche.
If you hate how the 2010’s have turned out, you need this record, IDLES are an oasis of common-sense in a world slowly but surely going to pot.” August 2019 [First added to this chart: 10/17/2021]
If you hate how the 2010’s have turned out, you need this record, IDLES are an oasis of common-sense in a world slowly but surely going to pot.” August 2019 [First added to this chart: 10/17/2021]
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”And so the Manics continue to make great albums. Lung-busting anthems (International Blue), songs that champion fighting in the face of adversity (Liverpool Revisited), and music that swells and surges with every emotion the lyrics evoke (Distant Colours), this is a welcome return to the big music of Motorcycle Emptiness and A Design For Life.
The heart to Futurology’s brain, Resistance Is Futile is more than anyone could expect from a band this late into their career. It is brilliant.." April 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/02/2018]
The heart to Futurology’s brain, Resistance Is Futile is more than anyone could expect from a band this late into their career. It is brilliant.." April 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/02/2018]
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"This is the first Franz Ferdinand album without Nick McCarthy, it is also the first one to feature a palpable change since the debut. With a more synthesised, electronic sound pushed to fore, the songs are more looser, less hard-hitting/direct than before. So it's different but Franz Ferdinand's reputation for delivering incisive, pop songs sure to buzz around your cranium remains intact." February 2018
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“Believe it or not but Blancmange’s latest is a synth-pop album the way they used to make ‘em. There are doff’s of the hat to Moroder, Depeche Mode, especially Depeche Mode, with the synths making more than a passing resemblance to the Violator era, there’s even a song called “In Your Room”!!!
But that’s only half the story with classily, seductive pop songs and thought-provoking lyrics vying for your attention. If you think Blancmange’s story ended in the mid-80’s, you couldn’t be more wrong.“ October 2018 [First added to this chart: 10/31/2018]
But that’s only half the story with classily, seductive pop songs and thought-provoking lyrics vying for your attention. If you think Blancmange’s story ended in the mid-80’s, you couldn’t be more wrong.“ October 2018 [First added to this chart: 10/31/2018]
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"It's nice to know this kind of indie hasn't died out, even if it is delivered in the form of sarcastic synth-pop with a nice line in disturbing but blackly comic lyrics - not forgetting the surreal, Hawaiian lounge-pop theme floating around.
Right now, only the (re-invigorated) MGMT are giving these guys competition for this kind of thing and that's a good thing." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/07/2018]
Right now, only the (re-invigorated) MGMT are giving these guys competition for this kind of thing and that's a good thing." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/07/2018]
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"Matt Elliott's Third Eye Foundation exists on it's own, it's mournful, resigned dub-step is unlikely to become highly fashionable. This music is a bit deeper than that, more humanist to ever fit in.
The second return to his post-rock alias this decade, Wake The Dead lets in more light, more hope than The Dark, but is obviously from the same author. It paints a world that owes very little to escapism but is more interested in holding a mirror up to the filth, the sadness and the destruction. So it's heavy going, but it is Punk Fucking Rock." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/10/2018]
The second return to his post-rock alias this decade, Wake The Dead lets in more light, more hope than The Dark, but is obviously from the same author. It paints a world that owes very little to escapism but is more interested in holding a mirror up to the filth, the sadness and the destruction. So it's heavy going, but it is Punk Fucking Rock." February 2018 [First added to this chart: 02/10/2018]
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"With it being his first solo release in 17 years, the album collates a large number of tracks (25 in total), often bringing to mind the ambient/trance boom of the mid-90's and that’s despite the restlessness of it all.
An ethereal/Enya-like quality even finds time to creep in, especially those featuring the vocal manipulation Carter worked on with his former TG associate, Sleazy." March 2018 [First added to this chart: 01/11/2018]
An ethereal/Enya-like quality even finds time to creep in, especially those featuring the vocal manipulation Carter worked on with his former TG associate, Sleazy." March 2018 [First added to this chart: 01/11/2018]
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“Out of all the shoegazers, the Kitchens of Distinction were the most quixotic and Patrick Fitzgerald’s latest project with ex-Wonky Alice Yves Altana shows no let up sonically. Let’s just say conventionality is binned, meaning the songs occupy a unique space that is as queer as every left-turn the music continuously makes. So be prepared for a perverse, ear-bending but adventurous excursion that has no intention of resting on it’s laurels.” October 2018
[First added to this chart: 10/29/2018]
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“Re-worked and expanded edition of the original 2017 release, it still remains quite the compliment as these lo-fi, rinky-dink, synth-pop renditions pay their, er, dues.
Saul still sounds like he’s ready to collapse before the songs end and it’s hard to figure out if the originals are being grievously insulted or celebrated. It’s desperate, it’s puerile, but I like it.” October 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/19/2018]
Saul still sounds like he’s ready to collapse before the songs end and it’s hard to figure out if the originals are being grievously insulted or celebrated. It’s desperate, it’s puerile, but I like it.” October 2018 [First added to this chart: 09/19/2018]
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Top 26 Music Albums of 2018 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Various Artists | 3 | 12% | |
| Insecure Men | 2 | 8% | |
| Chris Carter | 2 | 8% | |
| Beach House | 1 | 4% | |
| Brian Eno With Kevin Shields | 1 | 4% | |
| The Third Eye Foundation | 1 | 4% | |
| Jamie Stewart | 1 | 4% | |
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Top 26 Music Albums of 2018 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 6 from 12th to 6thAlways Ascending by Franz Ferdinand |
| Up 2 from 19th to 17th Degenerate Art by Oskar’s Drum |
| Up 2 from 5th to 3rd Resistance Is Futile by Manic Street Preachers |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 7 from 3rd to 10th Wake The Dead by The Third Eye Foundation |
| Down 6 from 14th to 20th 7 by Beach House |
| Down 2 from 11th to 13th The Sound Of Music by Laibach |
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