MCCh 2018 (19) October 31
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:34 am
The best albums of 2018 (update October 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:
The Field: Infinite Moment
Field Music: Open Here
100 - Daniel Avery: Song For Alpha - 74,4 (75,8 / 17)
Highlights: Projector - Slow Fade - Citizen//Nowhere
Ambient Techno
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99 - Florence + The Machine: High As Hope - 74,5 (72,5 / 27)
Highlights: Big God - Hunger - Sky Full of Song
Art Pop
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98 - Anna Von Hausswolff: Dead Magic - 74,5 (76,5 / 15)
Highlights: T Ugly and Vengeful - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra - The Truth, the Glow, the Fall
Darkwave
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97 - Rolo Tomassi: Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It - 74,6 (79,3 / 7)
Highlights: Aftermath - The Hollow Hour - Contretemps
Mathcore
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96 - Gwenno: Le Kov - 74,6 (79,3 / 7)
Highlights: Tir Ha Mor - Eus Keus? - Hy a Skoellyas Lyf a Dhagrow
Indieronica
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95 - Villagers: The Art Of Pretending To Swim - 74,7 (75,4 / 19)
Highlights: Fool - Long Time Waiting - A Trick of the Light
Indie Folk
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94 - Everything Is Recorded: Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell - 74,9 (78,2 / 11)
Highlights: Close But Not Quite - Mountains of Gold - Cane
Alternative R&B
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93 - Tirzah: Devotion - 74,9 (76,2 / 17)
Highlights: Gladly - Holding On - Go Now
Art Pop
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92 - Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning - 75 (75,6 / 19)
Highlights: Dissolution - Leave Him Now - So Right So Clean
Indie Rock
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91 - Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog - 75,2 (76,8 / 16)
Highlights: How Simple - Prior Things - The Fox in Motion
Indie Rock
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90 - Tony Molina: Kill the Lights - 75,2 (79,2 / 9)
Highlights: Nothing I Can Say - Jasper's Theme - When She Leaves
Indie Rock
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89 - Damien Jurado: The Horizon Just Laughed – 75,3 (77,3 / 15)
Highlights: The Last Great Washington State - 1973 - Lou-Jean
Singer-Songwriter
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88 - Grouper - Grid of Points – 75,3 (76,3 / 18)
Highlights: Parking Lot - Breathing - Thanksgiving Song
Ambient
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87 - Confidence Man: Confident Music For Confident People – 75,3 (79,0 / 10)
Highlights: Boyfriend (Repeat) - Don't You Know I'm in a Band - Out the Window
Alternative Dance
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86 - Lump: Lump – 75,3 (77,0 / 16)
Highlights: Curse of the Contemporary - Late To The Flight - May I Be the Light
Indie Folk
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85 - Tracyanne & Danny: Tracyanne & Danny – 75,3 (79,3 / 9)
Highlights: Alabama - Cellophane Girl - It Can't Be Love Unless It Hurts
Indie Pop
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84 - Gas: Rausch - 75,4 (78,4 / 12)
Highlights: Rausch 2 - Rausch 5 - Rausch 3
Ambient Techno
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83 - John Carpenter: Halloween OST - 75,5 (79,4 / 9)
Highlights: Halloween Theme - Ray's Goodbye - Prison Montage
Stage & Screen
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82 - Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On - 75,5 (74,2 / 25)
Highlights: For You Too - Shades of Blue - You Are Here
Ambient Pop
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81 - Neneh Cherry: Broken Politics – 75,5 (75,9 / 20)
Highlights: Kong - Natural Skin Deep - Faster Than the Truth
Art Pop
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80 - The Beths: Future Me Hates Me - 75,5 (79,2 / 10)
Highlights: Great No One - Happy Unhappy - Future Me Hates Me
Indie Rock
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79 - Superchunk: What A Time To Be Alive – 75,7 (76,4 / 19)
Highlights: What a Time to Be Alive - Erasure - Black Thread
Indie Rock
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78 - Anna Calvi: Hunter - 75,8 (75,2 / 23)
Highlights: Indies or Paradise - Chain - Hunter
Art Rock
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77 - Adrianne Lenker: Abysskiss – 76,2 (78,2 / 15)
Highlights: Terminal Paradise - 10 Miles - Cradle
Indie Folk
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76 - Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch – 76,3 (76,3 / 21)
Highlights: God Break Down the Door - Shit Mirror - Over and Out
Experimental Rock
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75 - Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall – 76,3 (80,0 / 10)
Highlights: Everything Is Floating - Nothing Left But Their Names - We Learn to Speak Yet Another Language
Modern Classical
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74 - First Aid Kit: Ruins - 76,4 (74,1 / 28)
Highlights: It's a Shame - Hem of Her Dress - Rebel Heart
Indie Folk
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73 - Nao: Saturn - 76,5 (80,9 / 8)
Highlights: Another Lifetime - If You Ever - Orbit
Alternative R&B
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72 - The Breeders: All Nerve – 76,6 (74,0 / 29)
Highlights: Wait in the Car - All Nerve - MetaGoth
Alternative Rock
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71 - Amanda Shires: To The Sunset - 76,7 (81,0 / 8)
Highlights: Break Out the Champagne - Leave It Alone - Take on the Dark
Americana
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70 - Kurt Vile: Bottle It In – 76,7 (74,1 / 29)
Highlights: Bassackwards - Loading Zones - One Trick Ponies
Folk Rock
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69 - Oneohtrix Point Never: Age Of - 76,8 (76,1 / 23)
Highlights: Same - The Station - Still Stuff That Doesn’t Happen
Progressive Electronic
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68 - Saba: Care For Me - 76,8 (81,4 / 7)
Highlights: Life - Logout - Prom/King
Hip Hop
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67 - tUnE-YaRdS: I Can feel You Creep Into My Private Life – 76,8 (75,5 / 25)
Highlights: Heart Attack - ABC 123 - Look at Your Hands
Art Pop
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66 - No Age: Snares Like a Haircut – 76,9 (78,2 / 17)
Highlights: Send Me - Cruise Control - Soft Collar Fad /b]
Noise Pop
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65 - Serpentwithfeet: Soil – 76,9 (78.9 / 15)
Highlights: Bless Ur Heart - Whisper - Wrong Tree
Alternative R&B
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64- Ezra Furman: Transangelic Exodus – 77.0 (78,6 / 16)
Highlights: Suck the Blood from My Wound - Maraschino-Red Dress $ 8.99 at Goodwill - Love You So Bad
Indie Rock
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63 - MGMT: Little Dark Age – 77,0 (76,0 / 24)
Highlights: Little Dark Age - When You Die - Me and Michael
Synthpop
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62 - Helena Hauff: Qualm – 77,0 (78,0 / 18)
Highlights: Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg - Lifestyle Guru - No Qualms
Electro
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61 - Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman – 77,0 (79,7 / 13)
Highlights: Work It - So Right - Day Dreaming
Tech House
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60 - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Hope Downs – 77,1 (78,4 / 17)
Highlights: An Air Conditioned Man - Bellarine - Talking Straight
Indie Rock
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59 - Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose – 77,1 (74,8 / 28)
Highlights: Right Now - That's a Lifestyle - I Feel Energy
Art Pop
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58 - Screaming Females: All At Once - 77,3 (80,6 / 10)
Highlights: Black Moon - Agnes Martin - Deeply
Indie Rock
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57 - Dream Wife: Dream Wife – 77,6 (78,9 / 17)
Highlights: Let's Make Out - Hey! Heartbreaker - Fire
Alternative Rock
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56 - Kids See Ghosts: Kids See Ghosts – 77,7 (77,0 / 23)
Highlights: Feel the Love - Freee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2) - 4th Dimension
Experimental Hip Hop
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55 - Marlon Williams: Make Way for Love – 77,8 (78,1 / 20)
Highlights: Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore - Love Is a Terrible Thing - Come to Me
Chamber Folk
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54- Cat Power: Wanderer – 77,9 (75,3 / 29)
Highlights: Woman - Stay - In Your Face
Singer- Songwriter
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53 - Ought: Room Inside The World – 78,0 (78,4 / 20)
Highlights: Desire - Disaffectation - Disgraced in America
Post-Punk
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52 - Travis Scott: Astroworld – 78,1 (78,7 / 19)
Highlights: Stargazing - Sicko mode - Coffee Bean
Trap Rap
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51 - Let's Eat Grandma: I'm All Ears – 78,2 (76,5 / 26)
Highlights: Falling Into Me - Hot Pink - Donnie Darko
Art Pop
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50 - Gazelle Twin: Pastoral – 78,2 (82,2 / 9)
Highlights: Glory - Little Lambs - Better In My Day
Post-Industrial
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49 - Father John Misty: God's Favorite Customer – 78,3 (75,6 / 29)
Highlights: Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All - Hangout at the Gallows - Just Dumb Enough to Try
Chamber Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 425415.jpg[/imgsize]
48 - DJ Koze: Knock Knock - 78,4 (79,4 / 18)
Highlights: Pick Up - Bonfire - Lord Knows
Deep House
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47 - Julia Holter: Aviary - 78,4 (78,4 / 21)
Highlights: I Shall Love 2 - Les Jeux to You - Turn the Light On
Progressive Pop
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46 - Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy – 78,6 (78,2 / 22)
Highlights: Bodak Yellow - I Do - I Like It
Trap Rap
[imgsize 200x200]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 876603.jpg[/imgsize]
45 - Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks: Sparkle Hard – 78,6 (76,6 / 27)
Highlights: Bike Lane - Middle America - Solid Silk
Indie Rock
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44 - The Internet: Hive Mind – 78,6 (77,3 / 25)
Highlights: Come Over - Roll (Burbank Funk) - La Di La
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 200x200]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 899229.jpg[/imgsize]
43 - Troye Sivan: Bloom – 78,7 (79,3 / 18)
Highlights: My My My! - The Good Side - Bloom
Electropop
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42 - Amen Dunes: Freedom - 78,7 (79,4 / 14)
Highlights: Blue Rose - Believe - Miki Dora
Neo-Psychedelia
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41 - Rival Consoles: Persona – 78,8 (81,8 / 12)
Highlights: Persona - Hidden - Phantom Grip
Microhouse
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40 - Snail Mail: Lush – 79,0 (77,6 / 25)
Highlights: Pristine - Heat Wave - Let's Find an Out
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://exclaim.ca//images/snail_2.jpg[/imgsize]
39 - Hookworms: Microshift – 79,1 (79,7 / 19)
Highlights: Negative Space - Static Resistance - Ullswater
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373676.jpg[/imgsize]
38 - Lucy Dacus: Historian – 79,2 (79,5 / 20)
Highlights: Addictions - Night Shift - Nonbeliever
Singer-Songwriter
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37- Nils Frahm: All Melody – 79,3 (78,3 / 24)
Highlights: Sunson - Kaleidoscope - My Friend the Forest
Ambient
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36 - Aphex Twin: Collapse - 79,3 (80,3 / 18)
Highlights: abundance10edit [2 R8's, FZ20m & a 909] - T69 vollapse - MT1 t29r2
IDM
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 483130.jpg[/imgsize]
35 - Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel – 79,3 (76,6 / 29)
Highlights: Need a Little Time - Nameless, Faceless - Charity
Indie Rock
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34 - Yves Tumor: Safe In The Hands Of Love – 79,3 (83,3 / 9)
Highlights: Lifetime - Noid - Licking an Orchid
Post-Industrial
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33 - Tim Hecker: Konoyo – 79,4 (81,4 / 15)
Highlights: In Mother Earth Phase - This Life - Keyed Out
Ambient
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32 - Angelique Kidjo: Remain In Light – 79,5 (83,9 / 8)
Highlights: Once in a Lifetime - The Great Curve - Listening Wind
Global
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31 - Ty Segall: Freedom's Goblin – 79,7 (79,0 / 23)
Highlights: My Lady's on Fire - Fanny Dog - She
Garage Rock
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30 - Shame: Songs Of Praise – 79,8 (78,8 / 24)
Highlights: Tasteless - Concrete - One Rizla
Post-Punk
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29 - Kendrick Lamar: Black Panther: The Album OST – 79,9 (80,5 / 19)
Highlights: All the Stars - King’s Dead - Pray for Me
Hip Hop
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28 - Jon Hopkins: Singularity – 80,1 (78,5 / 26)
Highlights: Emerald Rush - Everything Connected - Singularity
Microhouse
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 415396.jpg[/imgsize]
27 - Iceage: Beyondless – 80,3 (79,9 / 22)
Highlights: Catch It - Pain Killer - Beyondless
Post-Punk
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 415107.jpg[/imgsize]
26 - Mount Eerie: Now Only – 80,3 (81,3 / 18)
Highlights: Now Only - Tintin in Tibet - Distortion
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 398274.jpg[/imgsize]
25 - Kali Uchis: Isolation - 80,3 (80,9 / 19)
Highlights: After the Storm - Miami - Tyrant
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_4 ... 407863.jpg[/imgsize]
24 - Jeff Rosenstock: Post- - 80,3 (83,3 / 12)
Highlights: USA - Let Them Win - TV Stars
Power Pop
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 355833.jpg[/imgsize]
23 - Neko Case: Hell-On - 80,5 (80,1 / 22)
Highlights: Curse of the 1-5 Corridor - Sleep All Summer - Winnie
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 425029.jpg[/imgsize]
22 - Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour – 80,6 (84,3 / 10)
Highlights: High Horse - Space Cowboy - Slow Burn
Country Pop
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 391880.jpg[/imgsize]
21 - Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy – 80,7 (79,7 / 24)
Highlights: Beach Life-in-Death - Cute Thing - Nervous Young Inhumans
Indie Rock
[imgsize 220x220]https://exclaim.ca//images/CarTF.jpg[/imgsize]
20 - Hot Snakes: Jericho Sirens – 80,8 (82,5 / 16)
Highlights: Death Camp Fantasy - I Need a Doctor - Six Wave Hold-Down
Garage Punk
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373874.jpg[/imgsize]
19 - U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited – 81,0 (80,3 / 23)
Highlights: Velvet 4 Sale - M.A.H. - Rosebud
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 380754.jpg[/imgsize]
18 - Beach House: 7 – 81,1 (78,4 / 29)
Highlights: Dive - Lemon Glow - Dark Spring
Dream Pop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 405033.jpg[/imgsize]
17 - Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar – 81,1 (80,4 / 23)
Highlights: In My View - Toy - Wow
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 379264.jpg[/imgsize]
16 - Christine and the Queens: Chris - 81,4 (79,7 / 26)
Highlights: Girlfriend - The Walker - Doesn’t Matter
Synthpop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 481078.jpg[/imgsize]
15 - Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt - 81,5 (79,1 / 28)
Highlights: A Perfect Miracle - The Morning After - Let’s Dance
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 450363.jpg[/imgsize]
14 - Pusha T: Daytona – 81,8 (82,4 / 19)
Highlights: If You Know You Know - Infrared - The Games We Play
Hip Hop
[imgsize 260x260]https://exclaim.ca//images/PushaDaytona.jpg[/imgsize]
13 - Low: Double Negative – 81,9 (80,9 / 24)
Highlights: Disarray - Always Up - Dancing and Blood
Ambient Pop
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 471396.jpg[/imgsize]
12 - Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love – 82,0 (80,0 / 27)
Highlights: Honeycomb - Canary Yellow - Glint
Blackgaze
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 411536.jpg[/imgsize]
11 - Mitski: Be The Cowboy – 82,4 (79,6 / 28)
Highlights: Nobody - Geyser - Two Slow Dancers
Indie Rock
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 450836.jpg[/imgsize]
10 - Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams – 82,1 (82,4 / 20)
Highlights: None of Your Business Man - I Don't Wanna Live in This World Anymore - Normal People
Art Punk
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 477450.jpg[/imgsize]
09 - Blood Orange: Negro Swan – 82,4 (80,4 / 27)
Highlights: Charcoal Baby - Chewing Gum - Nappy Wonder
Alternative R&B
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 471385.jpg[/imgsize]
08 - Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! – 82,6 (81,3 / 25)
Highlights: Freebird II - Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience - Total Football
Art Punk
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 409986.jpg[/imgsize]
07 - Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer – 83,1 (81,1 / 27)
Highlights: PYNK - Make Me Feel - I Like That
Art Pop
[imgsize 280x280]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 395225.jpg[/imgsize]
06 - Robyn: Honey - 83,8 (83,4 / 22)
Highlights: Missing U - Honey - Ever Again
Electropop
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05 - Noname: Room 25 – 83,9 (86,9 / 12)
Highlights: Montego Bae - Don’t Forget About Me - Blaxploitation
Hip Hop
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04 - Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want - 84,5 (88,9 / 8)
Highlights: Satan in the Wait - Less Sex - Daughter
Noise Rock
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03 - Sophie: Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides – 84,8 (85,1 / 20)
Highlights: Faceshopping - Immaterial - Is It Cold in the Water?
Post-Industrial
[imgsize 300x300]https://exclaim.ca//images/sophie_4.jpg[/imgsize]
02 - Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth – 85,3 (83,9 / 25)
Highlights: Fists of Fury - Will You Sing - The Invincible Youth
Jazz Fusion
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01 - Idles: Joy as an Act of Resistance – 85,6 (84,6 / 24)
Highlights: Colossus - Television - Danny Nedelko
Post-Punk
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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:
The Field: Infinite Moment
Field Music: Open Here
100 - Daniel Avery: Song For Alpha - 74,4 (75,8 / 17)
Highlights: Projector - Slow Fade - Citizen//Nowhere
Ambient Techno
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99 - Florence + The Machine: High As Hope - 74,5 (72,5 / 27)
Highlights: Big God - Hunger - Sky Full of Song
Art Pop
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98 - Anna Von Hausswolff: Dead Magic - 74,5 (76,5 / 15)
Highlights: T Ugly and Vengeful - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra - The Truth, the Glow, the Fall
Darkwave
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97 - Rolo Tomassi: Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It - 74,6 (79,3 / 7)
Highlights: Aftermath - The Hollow Hour - Contretemps
Mathcore
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96 - Gwenno: Le Kov - 74,6 (79,3 / 7)
Highlights: Tir Ha Mor - Eus Keus? - Hy a Skoellyas Lyf a Dhagrow
Indieronica
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95 - Villagers: The Art Of Pretending To Swim - 74,7 (75,4 / 19)
Highlights: Fool - Long Time Waiting - A Trick of the Light
Indie Folk
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94 - Everything Is Recorded: Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell - 74,9 (78,2 / 11)
Highlights: Close But Not Quite - Mountains of Gold - Cane
Alternative R&B
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93 - Tirzah: Devotion - 74,9 (76,2 / 17)
Highlights: Gladly - Holding On - Go Now
Art Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 470079.jpg[/imgsize]
92 - Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning - 75 (75,6 / 19)
Highlights: Dissolution - Leave Him Now - So Right So Clean
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 483124.jpg[/imgsize]
91 - Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog - 75,2 (76,8 / 16)
Highlights: How Simple - Prior Things - The Fox in Motion
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 392266.jpg[/imgsize]
90 - Tony Molina: Kill the Lights - 75,2 (79,2 / 9)
Highlights: Nothing I Can Say - Jasper's Theme - When She Leaves
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://exclaim.ca//images/MolinaLights.jpg[/imgsize]
89 - Damien Jurado: The Horizon Just Laughed – 75,3 (77,3 / 15)
Highlights: The Last Great Washington State - 1973 - Lou-Jean
Singer-Songwriter
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88 - Grouper - Grid of Points – 75,3 (76,3 / 18)
Highlights: Parking Lot - Breathing - Thanksgiving Song
Ambient
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87 - Confidence Man: Confident Music For Confident People – 75,3 (79,0 / 10)
Highlights: Boyfriend (Repeat) - Don't You Know I'm in a Band - Out the Window
Alternative Dance
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 408761.jpg[/imgsize]
86 - Lump: Lump – 75,3 (77,0 / 16)
Highlights: Curse of the Contemporary - Late To The Flight - May I Be the Light
Indie Folk
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 424977.jpg[/imgsize]
85 - Tracyanne & Danny: Tracyanne & Danny – 75,3 (79,3 / 9)
Highlights: Alabama - Cellophane Girl - It Can't Be Love Unless It Hurts
Indie Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 409941.jpg[/imgsize]
84 - Gas: Rausch - 75,4 (78,4 / 12)
Highlights: Rausch 2 - Rausch 5 - Rausch 3
Ambient Techno
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83 - John Carpenter: Halloween OST - 75,5 (79,4 / 9)
Highlights: Halloween Theme - Ray's Goodbye - Prison Montage
Stage & Screen
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82 - Yo La Tengo: There's a Riot Going On - 75,5 (74,2 / 25)
Highlights: For You Too - Shades of Blue - You Are Here
Ambient Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373872.jpg[/imgsize]
81 - Neneh Cherry: Broken Politics – 75,5 (75,9 / 20)
Highlights: Kong - Natural Skin Deep - Faster Than the Truth
Art Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 497297.jpg[/imgsize]
80 - The Beths: Future Me Hates Me - 75,5 (79,2 / 10)
Highlights: Great No One - Happy Unhappy - Future Me Hates Me
Indie Rock
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79 - 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 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 380783.jpg[/imgsize]
78 - Anna Calvi: Hunter - 75,8 (75,2 / 23)
Highlights: Indies or Paradise - Chain - Hunter
Art Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 471898.jpg[/imgsize]
77 - Adrianne Lenker: Abysskiss – 76,2 (78,2 / 15)
Highlights: Terminal Paradise - 10 Miles - Cradle
Indie Folk
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76 - Nine Inch Nails: Bad Witch – 76,3 (76,3 / 21)
Highlights: God Break Down the Door - Shit Mirror - Over and Out
Experimental Rock
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75 - Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall – 76,3 (80,0 / 10)
Highlights: Everything Is Floating - Nothing Left But Their Names - We Learn to Speak Yet Another Language
Modern Classical
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74 - First Aid Kit: Ruins - 76,4 (74,1 / 28)
Highlights: It's a Shame - Hem of Her Dress - Rebel Heart
Indie Folk
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73 - Nao: Saturn - 76,5 (80,9 / 8)
Highlights: Another Lifetime - If You Ever - Orbit
Alternative R&B
[imgsize 200x200]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 947907.jpg[/imgsize]
72 - The Breeders: All Nerve – 76,6 (74,0 / 29)
Highlights: Wait in the Car - All Nerve - MetaGoth
Alternative Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 388857.jpg[/imgsize]
71 - Amanda Shires: To The Sunset - 76,7 (81,0 / 8)
Highlights: Break Out the Champagne - Leave It Alone - Take on the Dark
Americana
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 430999.jpg[/imgsize]
70 - Kurt Vile: Bottle It In – 76,7 (74,1 / 29)
Highlights: Bassackwards - Loading Zones - One Trick Ponies
Folk Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 481219.jpg[/imgsize]
69 - Oneohtrix Point Never: Age Of - 76,8 (76,1 / 23)
Highlights: Same - The Station - Still Stuff That Doesn’t Happen
Progressive Electronic
[imgsize 200x200]https://exclaim.ca//images/AgeOfOPN.jpg[/imgsize]
68 - Saba: Care For Me - 76,8 (81,4 / 7)
Highlights: Life - Logout - Prom/King
Hip Hop
[imgsize 200x200]https://exclaim.ca//images/Saba.jpg[/imgsize]
67 - tUnE-YaRdS: I Can feel You Creep Into My Private Life – 76,8 (75,5 / 25)
Highlights: Heart Attack - ABC 123 - Look at Your Hands
Art Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 332487.jpg[/imgsize]
66 - No Age: Snares Like a Haircut – 76,9 (78,2 / 17)
Highlights: Send Me - Cruise Control - Soft Collar Fad /b]
Noise Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 357019.jpg[/imgsize]
65 - Serpentwithfeet: Soil – 76,9 (78.9 / 15)
Highlights: Bless Ur Heart - Whisper - Wrong Tree
Alternative R&B
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 430296.jpg[/imgsize]
64- Ezra Furman: Transangelic Exodus – 77.0 (78,6 / 16)
Highlights: Suck the Blood from My Wound - Maraschino-Red Dress $ 8.99 at Goodwill - Love You So Bad
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 357202.jpg[/imgsize]
63 - MGMT: Little Dark Age – 77,0 (76,0 / 24)
Highlights: Little Dark Age - When You Die - Me and Michael
Synthpop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 843664.jpg[/imgsize]
62 - Helena Hauff: Qualm – 77,0 (78,0 / 18)
Highlights: Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg - Lifestyle Guru - No Qualms
Electro
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 467303.jpg[/imgsize]
61 - Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman – 77,0 (79,7 / 13)
Highlights: Work It - So Right - Day Dreaming
Tech House
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 491297.jpg[/imgsize]
60 - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Hope Downs – 77,1 (78,4 / 17)
Highlights: An Air Conditioned Man - Bellarine - Talking Straight
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 435052.jpg[/imgsize]
59 - Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose – 77,1 (74,8 / 28)
Highlights: Right Now - That's a Lifestyle - I Feel Energy
Art Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 455262.jpg[/imgsize]
58 - Screaming Females: All At Once - 77,3 (80,6 / 10)
Highlights: Black Moon - Agnes Martin - Deeply
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 385324.jpg[/imgsize]
57 - Dream Wife: Dream Wife – 77,6 (78,9 / 17)
Highlights: Let's Make Out - Hey! Heartbreaker - Fire
Alternative Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 359022.jpg[/imgsize]
56 - Kids See Ghosts: Kids See Ghosts – 77,7 (77,0 / 23)
Highlights: Feel the Love - Freee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2) - 4th Dimension
Experimental Hip Hop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 433620.jpg[/imgsize]
55 - Marlon Williams: Make Way for Love – 77,8 (78,1 / 20)
Highlights: Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore - Love Is a Terrible Thing - Come to Me
Chamber Folk
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 359120.jpg[/imgsize]
54- Cat Power: Wanderer – 77,9 (75,3 / 29)
Highlights: Woman - Stay - In Your Face
Singer- Songwriter
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 492767.jpg[/imgsize]
53 - Ought: Room Inside The World – 78,0 (78,4 / 20)
Highlights: Desire - Disaffectation - Disgraced in America
Post-Punk
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 353780.jpg[/imgsize]
52 - Travis Scott: Astroworld – 78,1 (78,7 / 19)
Highlights: Stargazing - Sicko mode - Coffee Bean
Trap Rap
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 469405.jpg[/imgsize]
51 - Let's Eat Grandma: I'm All Ears – 78,2 (76,5 / 26)
Highlights: Falling Into Me - Hot Pink - Donnie Darko
Art Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 420168.jpg[/imgsize]
50 - Gazelle Twin: Pastoral – 78,2 (82,2 / 9)
Highlights: Glory - Little Lambs - Better In My Day
Post-Industrial
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 475785.jpg[/imgsize]
49 - Father John Misty: God's Favorite Customer – 78,3 (75,6 / 29)
Highlights: Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All - Hangout at the Gallows - Just Dumb Enough to Try
Chamber Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 425415.jpg[/imgsize]
48 - DJ Koze: Knock Knock - 78,4 (79,4 / 18)
Highlights: Pick Up - Bonfire - Lord Knows
Deep House
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 415111.jpg[/imgsize]
47 - Julia Holter: Aviary - 78,4 (78,4 / 21)
Highlights: I Shall Love 2 - Les Jeux to You - Turn the Light On
Progressive Pop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 498036.jpg[/imgsize]
46 - Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy – 78,6 (78,2 / 22)
Highlights: Bodak Yellow - I Do - I Like It
Trap Rap
[imgsize 200x200]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 876603.jpg[/imgsize]
45 - Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks: Sparkle Hard – 78,6 (76,6 / 27)
Highlights: Bike Lane - Middle America - Solid Silk
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 420818.jpg[/imgsize]
44 - The Internet: Hive Mind – 78,6 (77,3 / 25)
Highlights: Come Over - Roll (Burbank Funk) - La Di La
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 200x200]https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-cov ... 899229.jpg[/imgsize]
43 - Troye Sivan: Bloom – 78,7 (79,3 / 18)
Highlights: My My My! - The Good Side - Bloom
Electropop
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 437496.jpg[/imgsize]
42 - Amen Dunes: Freedom - 78,7 (79,4 / 14)
Highlights: Blue Rose - Believe - Miki Dora
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 403193.jpg[/imgsize]
41 - Rival Consoles: Persona – 78,8 (81,8 / 12)
Highlights: Persona - Hidden - Phantom Grip
Microhouse
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 408733.jpg[/imgsize]
40 - Snail Mail: Lush – 79,0 (77,6 / 25)
Highlights: Pristine - Heat Wave - Let's Find an Out
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://exclaim.ca//images/snail_2.jpg[/imgsize]
39 - Hookworms: Microshift – 79,1 (79,7 / 19)
Highlights: Negative Space - Static Resistance - Ullswater
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373676.jpg[/imgsize]
38 - Lucy Dacus: Historian – 79,2 (79,5 / 20)
Highlights: Addictions - Night Shift - Nonbeliever
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 388819.jpg[/imgsize]
37- Nils Frahm: All Melody – 79,3 (78,3 / 24)
Highlights: Sunson - Kaleidoscope - My Friend the Forest
Ambient
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 370292.jpg[/imgsize]
36 - Aphex Twin: Collapse - 79,3 (80,3 / 18)
Highlights: abundance10edit [2 R8's, FZ20m & a 909] - T69 vollapse - MT1 t29r2
IDM
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 483130.jpg[/imgsize]
35 - Courtney Barnett: Tell Me How You Really Feel – 79,3 (76,6 / 29)
Highlights: Need a Little Time - Nameless, Faceless - Charity
Indie Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 420803.jpg[/imgsize]
34 - Yves Tumor: Safe In The Hands Of Love – 79,3 (83,3 / 9)
Highlights: Lifetime - Noid - Licking an Orchid
Post-Industrial
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 482663.jpg[/imgsize]
33 - Tim Hecker: Konoyo – 79,4 (81,4 / 15)
Highlights: In Mother Earth Phase - This Life - Keyed Out
Ambient
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 488459.jpg[/imgsize]
32 - Angelique Kidjo: Remain In Light – 79,5 (83,9 / 8)
Highlights: Once in a Lifetime - The Great Curve - Listening Wind
Global
[imgsize 200x200]http://dis.resized.images.s3.amazonaws. ... 05642.jpeg[/imgsize]
31 - Ty Segall: Freedom's Goblin – 79,7 (79,0 / 23)
Highlights: My Lady's on Fire - Fanny Dog - She
Garage Rock
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 370319.jpg[/imgsize]
30 - Shame: Songs Of Praise – 79,8 (78,8 / 24)
Highlights: Tasteless - Concrete - One Rizla
Post-Punk
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 346066.jpg[/imgsize]
29 - 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 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 379895.jpg[/imgsize]
28 - Jon Hopkins: Singularity – 80,1 (78,5 / 26)
Highlights: Emerald Rush - Everything Connected - Singularity
Microhouse
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 415396.jpg[/imgsize]
27 - Iceage: Beyondless – 80,3 (79,9 / 22)
Highlights: Catch It - Pain Killer - Beyondless
Post-Punk
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 415107.jpg[/imgsize]
26 - Mount Eerie: Now Only – 80,3 (81,3 / 18)
Highlights: Now Only - Tintin in Tibet - Distortion
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 200x200]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 398274.jpg[/imgsize]
25 - Kali Uchis: Isolation - 80,3 (80,9 / 19)
Highlights: After the Storm - Miami - Tyrant
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_4 ... 407863.jpg[/imgsize]
24 - Jeff Rosenstock: Post- - 80,3 (83,3 / 12)
Highlights: USA - Let Them Win - TV Stars
Power Pop
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 355833.jpg[/imgsize]
23 - Neko Case: Hell-On - 80,5 (80,1 / 22)
Highlights: Curse of the 1-5 Corridor - Sleep All Summer - Winnie
Singer-Songwriter
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_5 ... 425029.jpg[/imgsize]
22 - Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour – 80,6 (84,3 / 10)
Highlights: High Horse - Space Cowboy - Slow Burn
Country Pop
[imgsize 220x220]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 391880.jpg[/imgsize]
21 - Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy – 80,7 (79,7 / 24)
Highlights: Beach Life-in-Death - Cute Thing - Nervous Young Inhumans
Indie Rock
[imgsize 220x220]https://exclaim.ca//images/CarTF.jpg[/imgsize]
20 - Hot Snakes: Jericho Sirens – 80,8 (82,5 / 16)
Highlights: Death Camp Fantasy - I Need a Doctor - Six Wave Hold-Down
Garage Punk
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 373874.jpg[/imgsize]
19 - U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited – 81,0 (80,3 / 23)
Highlights: Velvet 4 Sale - M.A.H. - Rosebud
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 380754.jpg[/imgsize]
18 - Beach House: 7 – 81,1 (78,4 / 29)
Highlights: Dive - Lemon Glow - Dark Spring
Dream Pop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 405033.jpg[/imgsize]
17 - Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar – 81,1 (80,4 / 23)
Highlights: In My View - Toy - Wow
Neo-Soul
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 379264.jpg[/imgsize]
16 - Christine and the Queens: Chris - 81,4 (79,7 / 26)
Highlights: Girlfriend - The Walker - Doesn’t Matter
Synthpop
[imgsize 240x240]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 481078.jpg[/imgsize]
15 - Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt - 81,5 (79,1 / 28)
Highlights: A Perfect Miracle - The Morning After - Let’s Dance
Neo-Psychedelia
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 450363.jpg[/imgsize]
14 - Pusha T: Daytona – 81,8 (82,4 / 19)
Highlights: If You Know You Know - Infrared - The Games We Play
Hip Hop
[imgsize 260x260]https://exclaim.ca//images/PushaDaytona.jpg[/imgsize]
13 - Low: Double Negative – 81,9 (80,9 / 24)
Highlights: Disarray - Always Up - Dancing and Blood
Ambient Pop
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 471396.jpg[/imgsize]
12 - Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love – 82,0 (80,0 / 27)
Highlights: Honeycomb - Canary Yellow - Glint
Blackgaze
[imgsize 260x260]https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1 ... 411536.jpg[/imgsize]
11 - Mitski: Be The Cowboy – 82,4 (79,6 / 28)
Highlights: Nobody - Geyser - Two Slow Dancers
Indie Rock
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10 - Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams – 82,1 (82,4 / 20)
Highlights: None of Your Business Man - I Don't Wanna Live in This World Anymore - Normal People
Art Punk
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09 - Blood Orange: Negro Swan – 82,4 (80,4 / 27)
Highlights: Charcoal Baby - Chewing Gum - Nappy Wonder
Alternative R&B
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08 - Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! – 82,6 (81,3 / 25)
Highlights: Freebird II - Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience - Total Football
Art Punk
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07 - Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer – 83,1 (81,1 / 27)
Highlights: PYNK - Make Me Feel - I Like That
Art Pop
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06 - Robyn: Honey - 83,8 (83,4 / 22)
Highlights: Missing U - Honey - Ever Again
Electropop
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05 - Noname: Room 25 – 83,9 (86,9 / 12)
Highlights: Montego Bae - Don’t Forget About Me - Blaxploitation
Hip Hop
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04 - Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want - 84,5 (88,9 / 8)
Highlights: Satan in the Wait - Less Sex - Daughter
Noise Rock
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03 - Sophie: Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides – 84,8 (85,1 / 20)
Highlights: Faceshopping - Immaterial - Is It Cold in the Water?
Post-Industrial
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02 - Kamasi Washington: Heaven & Earth – 85,3 (83,9 / 25)
Highlights: Fists of Fury - Will You Sing - The Invincible Youth
Jazz Fusion
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01 - Idles: Joy as an Act of Resistance – 85,6 (84,6 / 24)
Highlights: Colossus - Television - Danny Nedelko
Post-Punk
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