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70 tracks releases 2018

In 2018 we left dozens of interesting albums. We took one song out of 70 releases that we remember, and put them into one large 4.5-hour playlist.

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10 albums of which were remembered

Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Before the year 2018 in the discography of Arctic Monkeys suffered an unprecedented break in five years: after Release AM with a bundle stadium hits the group went into a lull, and the participants were engaged in other work projects. In 2018, Turner returned with the album stands out among the rest of the band. Guitar riffs replaced the piano, simple melodies - more intricate and rock energy - kindness and delicacy.

There are almost no stadium hits and not so many songs that are pleasant to drive on repite, but there is depth, aristocracy and the author's desire to open themselves to the music again. Arctic Monkeys - one of the most popular bands in the world and not everyone frontman Band

this level It will be decided fully to reset the project to change the vector and do something completely different. In the case of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino prank seems to succeed.

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Soccer Mommy - Clean

Mostly acoustic first studio album Soccer Mommy - a revelation 20-year-old Sophie Allison love, recognition and complexes. In music - indie pop with fragile girlish voice, Beautiful melodies and a large amount of air. The texts - laconic and succinct lines, haunting from the first listen.

Clean - peaceful, sad and very honest album. A Soccer Mommy - one of the major discoveries of the year, which we will hear more accurately.

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Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts

One of the most important releases of the year - the duo's debut album hip-hop artist Kid Kadi and the main musical visionary and TREND-Setter of the century Kanye West. For this album the musicians brought the history of long-term and complicated friendship. Perhaps, therefore, the statement of the tandem participants was particularly convincing. Kanye is made primarily as a sound producer, giving a major role Cady.

This album is about a public reprimand, drugs, Self-blame and fear. Album biting and concise, with the best sound and strong drama. And yet there is sovmestka with Pusha T, which in 2018 released a great album Daytona. We recommend it too listen.

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MewithoutYou - Untitled (LP)

Of all the post-hardcore zero recall almost no one wants afloat almost no one is left to the 2018 th, and interesting music continue to write one. MewithoutYou - Philadelphia group that already stood out among the dozens Bend varying degrees of similarity. Her music - is always experimenting, nontrivial guitar and philosophical texts with lots of references and semantic accretions.

This year the group published two releases with the name Untitled, and if the mini-album is pretty washed-out, the full-length - just wonderful. One gets the feeling that MewithoutYou accumulated all his previous experience, got rid of all the excess and set a goal to release a release without a single passage of the track. So it is, in general, it happened. Everyone who misses the emotional zero with Alexisonfire, Thursday and As Cities Burn, be sure to listen.

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Peter Bjorn and John - Darker Days

There are albums that are unanimously recognized as significant. Become loud statement, create a genre or change the rules of the existing ones. Album Darker Days just pleasant to listen to, and do with it what you want.

Peter Bjorn and John - the Stockholm trio, which is about to celebrate the twentieth anniversary. They still consider a group of one song: Young Folks with the most recognizable in the world of whistling got into all sorts of soundtracks and has become one of the iconic songs of indie pop zero. After more than a decade rather anadromous and for some reason, experimental releases of Peter, Bjorn and John back to the recipe of success of 2006 and recorded a good and a little cloying melodic pop record. The critics were rating, ignored it out of habit, but we will not. This release can hardly recall a couple of years, but to listen to it here and now nice - recommend.

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IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance

From the first notes of the album interlude Colossus British postpankerov IDLES holds and does not give any respite brain or extremities.

"Fun as an act of resistance" - a very accurate name for this release. It begins with a high claims - some absolutely fatal interlude Colossus, which is its end turns into a rollicking punk benger. And listen to the entire album. he often seems frivolous, ironic, risible, and sometimes only texts give that laugh, this is actually hysterical, barely hiding the pain and anger. Each song from the album, whether the anthem immigrants Danny Nedelko, a manifesto against toxic Samaritans masculinity or dedication stillborn daughter June, - strong emotion and the present experience.

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Iceage - Beyondless

Iceage - band from Denmark that combines the creative features of punk rock, post-punk and art rock, whatever that meant. The main thing is that you can hear all the color bleak cold of music from Joy Division to Nick Cave.

The band's discography Beyondless stands out as some kind of Do not just pop Release: Iceage does not hesitate to combine the expressive riffs with catchy melodies, and now her even more love on Pitchfork and called on KEXP, and guest participation on the album was marked by rock diva 2010s Sky Ferreira.

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Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.

Classic Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins almost like in the 90s. Old fans were pleased with the release of new - got a great versatile release for easy entry into the swing of things.

Album terribly complicated name only lasts half an hour, but so much the better. He was bright and skontsentirovannym, and almost every track from it can be a long time left in the Playlist. If you do not know about the Smashing Pumpkins, it is recommended to listen - after all it is one of the greatest rock bands the past 30 years. First, the new album, and then the classics - released in 1993, Siamese Dream or, for example, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1995 release.

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Nothing - Dance on the Blacktop

Dance on the Blacktop - traumatic and painful release with difficult backgrounds. If the first album Dominic Palermo singer talked about the prison, and the second - recovered after the attack, but now he is trying to live with chronic traumatic encephalopathy - a progressive degeneration of brain cells, which can lead to dementia.

This gloomy release talking about tragic things both text and music - nine songs that exist at the intersection of shoegaze and post-rock. These albums will never cheer up, but for some reason most often remembered and become important.

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Jungle - For Ever

Jungle - a duo of British Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, fulfilling a sunny and a bit sad pop-funk. As the musicians say, For Ever - is that in the post-apocalyptic sounds radio stationsThat non-stop twists songs about parting.

If any collection must be summer, easy, and no non-binding release - let it be the Jungle album.

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