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MCCh 2018 (05) March 31

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The best albums of 2018 (update March 31)

The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 31 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.

The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: DIY; Drowned In Sound; The Guardian; Music OMH; NME; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny; The 405
USA + Canada: Allmusic; AV Club; Consequence Of Sound; Earbuddy; Exclaim!; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Under The Radar

Highlights: These are the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, Beardfood, BostonGlobe, Nowtoronto, Entertainment Weekly, etc…

New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score

Out:
Camp Cope: How To Socialise & Make Friends

30 - Everything Is Recorded: Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell - 74,3 (78,0 / 10)
Highlights: Close But Not Quite - Mountains of Gold - Cane
Alternative R&B
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 359040.jpg[/imgsize]


29 - Anna Von Hausswolff: Dead Magic - 74,5 (76,5 / 15)
Highlights: Ugly and Vengeful - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra - The Truth, the Glow, the Fall
Darkwave
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 388837.jpg[/imgsize]


28 - Rae Morris: Someone Out There - 74,5 (78,9 / 8)
Highlights: Do It - Atletico (The Only One) - Reborn
Electropop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 369302.jpg[/imgsize]


27 - Rolo Tomassi: Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It - 74,6 (79,3 / 7)
Highlights: Aftermath - The Hollow Hour - Contretemps
Mathcore
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 348883.jpg[/imgsize]


26 - Gwenno: Le Kov - 74,6 (79,3 / 7)
Highlights: Tir Ha Mor - Eus Keus? - Hy a Skoellyas Lyf a Dhagrow
Indieronica
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 363060.jpg[/imgsize]


25 - Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On - 75,5 (74,5 / 24)
Highlights: For You Too - Shades of Blue - You Are Here
Ambient Pop
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373872.jpg[/imgsize]


24 - Superchunk: What A Time To Be Alive – 75,7 (76,4 / 19)
Highlights: What a Time to Be Alive - Erasure - Black Thread
Indie Rock
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 380783.jpg[/imgsize]


23 - The Breeders: All Nerve – 76,0 (74,0 / 27)
Highlights: Wait in the Car - All Nerve - MetaGoth
Alternative Rock
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 388857.jpg[/imgsize]


22 - Ezra Furman: Transangelic Exodus - 76,4 (78,4 / 15)
Highlights: Maraschino-Red Dress $ 8.99 at Goodwill - Suck the Blood from My Wound - Compulsive Liar
Indie Rock
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 357202.jpg[/imgsize]


21 - First Aid Kit: Ruins - 76,4 (74,1 / 28)
Highlights: It's a Shame - Hem of Her Dress - Rebel Heart
Indie Folk
[imgsize 220x220]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 812584.jpg[/imgsize]


20 - tUnE-YaRdS: I Can feel You Creep Into My Private Life – 76,8 (75,8 / 24)
Highlights: Heart Attack - ABC 123 - Look at Your Hands
Art Pop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 332487.jpg[/imgsize]


19 - No Age: Snares Like a Haircut – 76,9 (78,2 / 17)
Highlights: Send Me - Cruise Control - Soft Collar Fad /b]
Noise Pop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 357019.jpg[/imgsize]


18 - MGMT: Little Dark Age – 77,0 (76,0 / 24)
Highlights: Little Dark Age - When You Die - Me and Michael
Synthpop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 843664.jpg[/imgsize]


17 - Screaming Females: All At Once - 77,3 (80,6 / 10)
Highlights: Black Moon - Agnes Martin - Deeply
Indie Rock
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 385324.jpg[/imgsize]


16 - Dream Wife: Dream Wife – 77,6 (78,9 / 17)
Highlights: Let's Make Out - Hey! Heartbreaker - Fire
Alternative Rock
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 359022.jpg[/imgsize]


15 - Marlon Williams: Make Way for Love – 77,9 (78,5 / 19)
Highlights: Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore - Love Is a Terrible Thing - Come to Me
Chamber Folk
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 359120.jpg[/imgsize]


14 - Ought: Room Inside The World – 78,0 (78,4 / 20)
Highlights: Desire - Disaffectation - Disgraced in America
Post-Punk
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 353780.jpg[/imgsize]


13 - Amen Dunes: Freedom - 78,3 (82,6 / 8)
Highlights: Blue Rose - Believe - Miki Dora
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 403193.jpg[/imgsize]


12 - Lucy Dacus: Historian - 78,9 (79,9 / 18)
Highlights: Addictions - Night Shift - Nonbeliever
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 388819.jpg[/imgsize]


11 - Hookworms: Microshift – 79,1 (79,7 / 19)
Highlights: Negative Space - Static Resistance - Ullswater
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373676.jpg[/imgsize]


10- Nils Frahm: All Melody – 79,3 (78,3 / 24)
Highlights: Sunson - Kaleidoscope - My Friend the Forest
Ambient
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 370292.jpg[/imgsize]


09 - Shame: Songs Of Praise – 79,4 (78,7 / 23)
Highlights: Concrete - One Rizla - Tasteless
Post-Punk
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 346066.jpg[/imgsize]


08 - Ty Segall: Freedom's Goblin – 79,7 (79,0 / 23)
Highlights: My Lady's on Fire - Fanny Dog - She
Garage Rock
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 370319.jpg[/imgsize]


07 - Kendrick Lamar: Black Panther: The Album OST – 79,9 (80,5 / 19)
Highlights: All the Stars - King’s Dead - Pray for Me
Hip Hop
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 379895.jpg[/imgsize]


06 - Mount Eerie: Now Only – 80,0 (81,4 / 17)
Highlights: Now Only - Tintin in Tibet - Distortion
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 398274.jpg[/imgsize]


05 - Jeff Rosenstock: Post- - 80,3 (83,3 / 12)
Highlights: USA - Let Them Win - TV Stars
Power Pop
[imgsize 300x300]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 355833.jpg[/imgsize]


04 - Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy – 80,7 (79,7 / 24)
Highlights: Beach Life-in-Death - Cute Thing - Nervous Young Inhumans
Indie Rock
[imgsize 300x300]https://exclaim.ca//images/CarTF.jpg[/imgsize]


03 - Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar – 80,8 (80,5 / 22)
Highlights: In My View - Toy - Wow
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 300x300]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 379264.jpg[/imgsize]


02 - U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited – 81,0 (80,3 / 23)
Highlights: Velvet 4 Sale - M.A.H. - Rosebud
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 300x300]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 380754.jpg[/imgsize]


01 - Hot Snakes: Jericho Sirens - 81,6 (83,9 / 14)
Highlights: Death Camp Fantasy - I Need a Doctor - Six Wave Hold-Down
Garage Punk
[imgsize 300x300]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373874.jpg[/imgsize]
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Bang Jan wrote:I'll just ask for above 70 albums before anyone else does again...
31 - Camp Cope: How To Socialise & Make Friends - 74,3 (77,6 / 11)
32 - Khruangbin: Con todo el mundo - 74,1 (77,5 / 11)
33 - Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall - 74,0 (78,4 / 8)
34 - Soccer Mommy: Clean - 74,0 (75,7 / 16)
35 - Field Music: Open Here - 73,8 (76,8 / 12)
36 - Joan As Police Woman: Damned Devotion - 73,8 (75,4 / 16)
37 - Jonny Greenwood: Phantom Thread OST - 73,8 (78,4 / 7)
38 - Tracey Thorn: Record - 73,5 (74,5 / 18)
39 - Essaie Pas: New Path - 73,4 (76,4 / 12)
40 - Superorganism: Superorganism - 73,4 (73,0 / 22)
41 - The Soft Moon: Criminal - 73,0 (74,0 / 18)
42 - Son Lux: Brighter Wounds - 72,7 (76,0 / 11)
43 - The Spook School: Could It Be Different? - 72,3 (76,6 / 8)
44 - Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain - 71,9 (76,6 / 7)
45 - Jack White: Boarding House Reach - 71,7 (69,7 / 27)
46 - Rhye: Blood - 71,6 (70,6 / 24)
47 - Haley Heynderickx: I Need to Start a Garden - 71,5 (76,1 / 7)
48 - Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats: - 71,3 (74,3 / 12)
49 - Django Django: Marble Skies - 70,8 (69,2 / 26)
50 - Shopping: The Official Body - 70,8 (73,8 / 12)
51 - The Go! Team: Semicircle - 70,2 (69,9 / 22)
52 - Frankie Cosmos: Vessel - 70,2 (73,9 / 10)
53 - Loma: Loma - 70,2 (74,2 / 9)
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Hello, Rob

Changes in Jeff Rosenstock highlights
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Now Only is illustrated with the cover of the Camp Cope album.

Also, shouldn't the Black Panther album technically be credited to Various Artists, not to Kendrick Lamar?

Very interesting changes this time around. I knew Hot Snakes would debut high but wasn't expecting #1. Did Jeff Rosenstock's rank and number of reviews shoot up because the physical CD was finally released last week?
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13/30 (43%) of the albums were recorded by female artists or bands featuring females. Not bad. Sadly only of them on the Top 10.
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Was expecting a lot higher for Boarding House Reach. It's much riskier (and hence IMO more rewarding) than either Blunderbuss or Lazaretto, both which got higher McCh scores. Fantano loves it but he doesn't do enough reviews to get counted here :p
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Yes people, the moment has finally come: Drag City has allowed some albums on Spotify. This includes the two albums ranked here. This means that we finally have a complete Spotify playlist! You see, sometimes dream do come true.

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I'm shocked Kacey Musgraves didn't crack the top 53. It has a 90 on metacritic and is ranked fifth for the year on Any Decent Music - even above the number two album here.
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Future Critic wrote:I'm shocked Kacey Musgraves didn't crack the top 53. It has a 90 on metacritic and is ranked fifth for the year on Any Decent Music - even above the number two album here.


I'm assuming its reviews came out a little bit late for this update.
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BleuPanda wrote:
Future Critic wrote:I'm shocked Kacey Musgraves didn't crack the top 53. It has a 90 on metacritic and is ranked fifth for the year on Any Decent Music - even above the number two album here.
I'm assuming its reviews came out a little bit late for this update.
I'd certainly expect it to debut pretty high in the next update (April 15).
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Rob wrote:Yes people, the moment has finally come: Drag City has allowed some albums on Spotify. This includes the two albums ranked here. This means that we finally have a complete Spotify playlist! You see, sometimes dream do come true.

fantastic news....thanks for sharing this !
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BleuPanda wrote:
Future Critic wrote:I'm shocked Kacey Musgraves didn't crack the top 53. It has a 90 on metacritic and is ranked fifth for the year on Any Decent Music - even above the number two album here.


I'm assuming its reviews came out a little bit late for this update.
Indeed, this is quite common for MegaCritic.
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