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I never manage to listen to music as it comes out, but of the few albums out this year I did hear, I really enjoyed:
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Pusha T - Daytona
Skee Mask - Compro
Tim Hecker - Konoyo

I never found the time to listen to NTS Sessions by Autechre but I'm assuming it'll be on this list once I do.

Edit: Just finished the NTS Sessions and yup

Taboo/Ta13oo by Denzel Curry and New Levels New Devils by Polyphia for me.

EDIT: I FUCKING FORGOT THE SOPHIE ALBUM WAS OUT THIS YEAR, THAT IS FOR SURE UP THERE.

in no order : OXNARD , KOD and NASIR

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recently made a lil list of some good 2018 albums i enjoyed, another great year of music.

Kanye West & Kid Cudi - Kids See Ghosts
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
Denzel Curry - TA13OO
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resitence.
MGMT - Little Dark Age
Ghost - Prequelle

soul on fire

Aminé - ONEPOINTFIVE

mac miller - swimming

+ everything rekuso listed

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Everyone already mentioned my favorite albums but I would throw these albums into the mix as well:

Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling
Black Thought - Stream of Thoughts Vol 1 & 2
Machine Girl - The Ugly Art
Kali Uchis - Isolation
Sons of Kermit - Your Queen is a Reptile
Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Low - Double Negative
Guerilla Toss - Twisted Crystal

These aren't my favorite albums of this year (a lot of amazing albums this year) but they definitely deserve some attention.

Here are some more I forgot:

Open Mike Eagle - What Happens When I Try To Relax
Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
Mount Eerie - Now Only
Lucy Dacus - Historian
LUMP - LUMP
serpentwithfeet - soil
High On Fire - Electric Messiah
Ex:Re - Ex:Re

surprised nobody mentioned budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies yet, just because the man who controls all your music tastes gave it a 6 doesn't mean u aren't allowed to like it

double negative, 7, konoyo, infinite moment, the new sleep album, singularity, nothing 2 loose, knock knock, murmansk-60, the eiko ishibashi album and crumbling by mid-air thief

didn't listen to much new stuff this year though

is this thing cursed? is probably my favorite of the year

Not the AOTY but Post Animal - When I Think Of You In A Castle is a great psych rock album

think ive seen 80% of those albums get 7-10s by Fantano this year aha

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino - Arctic Monkeys

sophie - oil of every peral's un-sides
oneohtrix point never - age of
autechre - nts sessions
aphex twin - collapse ep
car seat headrest - twin fantasy (face to face)
death grips - year of the snitch

theres probably lots of other good ones i just havent listened to yet

Denzel Curry - TA13OO
CITY MORGUE VOL 1: HELL OR HIGH WATER
Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD
Ski Mask - Stokeley

https://fourfists.bandcamp.com/album/6666

in no particular order, just what ive revisited the most over the year

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taboo, some rap songs, stokely/beware the book of eli

to pimp a butterfly is also one of the best albums of 2018 even though it came out in 2015

stokely, iridescence, and dicaprio 2 were my favorites

best:
A.A.L. - 2012-2017
AL-90 - murmansk-60
the voidz - virtue
kanye west - ye
fricky - aqua aura ep
unreqvited - stars wept to the sea

d33j - infinity 33
iglooghost - clear tamei/steel mogu
roland jones - 199x lost tape
slugabed - pandæmonium
tsuruda - unlimited data
woolymammoth - filling spots

my personal list is

vulfpeck - hill climber
jack stauber - hilo
parquet courts - wide awake!
father john misty - god's favorite customer
lawrence - living room
mgmt - little dark age

either joy as an act of resistance by Idles or die lit by playboi carti

haken - vector
tesseract - sonder

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