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KVSC’s Top 88 Albums of 2018 Rank Artist Album 1 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel 2 Hippo Campus Bambi 3 Kurt Vile Bottle It In 4 KenDrick Lamar Black Panther OST 5 WooDen Shjips V. 6 deM atlaS Bad Actress 7 Bad Bad Hats Lightning RounD 8 Denzel Curry TA1300 9 Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog 10 Tokyo Police Club TPC 11 Arthur Buck Arthur Buck 12 Snail Mail Lush 13 San Holo album1 14 Remo Drive Pop Music 15 Caroline Rose Loner 16 Low Double Negative 17 Big ReD Machine S/T 18 Father John Misty GoD's Favorite Customer 19 Devotchka This Night Falls Forever 20 Ryan ADams Prisoner 21 Weezer Black Album 22 Mint FielD Pasar De las Luces 23 Leon BriDges GooD Thing 24 BROCKHAMPTON iridescence 25 Wye Oak The LouDer I Call, The Faster It Runs 26 The Jayhawks Backroads anD AbanDoneD Motels 27 DeaD Can Dance Dionysus 28 Robyn Honey 29 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs 30 The Ophelias Almost 31 Kevin Krauter Toss Up 32 RicharD Russell Everything Is RecorDeD 33 The Kooks Let's Go Sunshine 34 Iron & Wine WeeD GarDen 35 John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness 36 SpiritualizeD AnD Nothing Hurt 37 Glitterati In PasaDena 38 Neko Case Hell-On 39 The Decemberists I'll Be Your Girl 40 Soccer Mommy Clean KVSC’s Top 88 Albums of 2018 41 Foxing Nearer My GoD 42 The Essex Green HarDly Electronic 43 TranscenDental Strangers? Strange TranscenDance 44 Phoebe BriDgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker Boygenius 45 BranDi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You 46 Valley Maker RhoDoDenDron 47 King Princess Make My BeD 48 Beach House 7 49 Phosphorescent C'est La Vie 50 Halloween, Alaska Le Centre 51 Foxwarren S/T 52 Donny McCaslin Blow 53 The Beths Future Me Hates Me 54 Enjoy Small Car Big Wheels 55 Grapetooth S/T 56 Nothing Dance on the Blacktop 57 Peter, Bjorn anD John Darker Days 58 Jeff Rosenstock POST- 59 J. Cole KOD 60 Dr. Dog Critical Equation 61 Kikagaku Moyo Masana Temples 62 Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For ToDay 63 Car Seat HeaDrest Twin Fantasy 64 Freewifi ConnecteD 65 Genital Panic P•ssygrabber 66 AlejanDro EscoveDo The Crossing 67 Dungen & WooDs Myths 003 68 Porches House 69 Mitski Be the Cowboy 70 The Rock*A*Teens Sixth House 71 Gregory Alan Isakov Evening Machines 72 Dessa Chime 73 St. Vincent MassEDucation 74 Saintseneca Pillar of Na 75 Gorillaz The Now Now 76 BlooD Orange Negro Swan 77 Now, Now SaveD 78 Tightwire Six Feet Deep 79 Charles BraDley Black Velvet 80 Waxahatchee Great ThunDer 81 Skeggs My Own Mess KVSC’s Top 88 Albums of 2018 82 Xuan Have Some Fun 83 Sam FenDer DeaD Boys 84 Adrienne Lenker Abysskiss 85 Dirty Projectors Lamp Lit Prose 86 Dawes PassworDs 87 Idles Joy as an Act of Resistance 88 Heaters SuspenDeD Youth .

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Fast Jackal’s Lucky 7 2018: Our countdown list of picks for Best Record of the Year with key tracks, album reviews and ratings. Record #7: “All at Once” by the Screaming Females – unique, precision guitar heavy instrumentals. Screaming Females returned this year with their seventh record, “All at Once”. Writing new music has the habit of becoming simply a routine for many musicians at this stage in their career, but there is nothing routine about this particular record. With Marissa Paternoster leading as vocalist and guitarist, this three piece band recorded their most developed and overall best album to date towards the beginning of 2018. This record shines incredibly brightly among the others in their sprawling catalogue, and sets itself apart in unique and surprising ways. “All at Once” is composed of precise guitar work, which builds on itself throughout each song while simultaneously driving its listeners senses to the edges of their seats and beyond. This lively and altogether inviting guitar work plays in combination with vocal performances that rival top performers in a varied handful of genres: garage rock, punk, and punk inspired music everywhere. Our Rating: 8.5/10 Key Tracks: I’ll Make You Sorry, Black Moon, Soft Domination, Glass House, Fantasy Lens Record #6: “Young & Dangerous” by The Struts – commanding high energy attention. The Struts, “Young and Dangerous” proved to listeners this year that the band isn’t just a rock n’ roll novelty act. Demanding to be taken seriously, The Struts released an album that commanded the attention of 2018, long-time and new listeners alike.
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