Top 100 Albums of the Month

December 2018

  1. Charles Bradley | Black Velvet (Dunham)
  2. Various Artists | Something Weird Greatest Hits (Modern Harmonic)
  3. Dead Can Dance | Dionysus (S/R)
  4. Sha La Das | Love in the Wind (Dunham)
  5. Zoe Boekbinder | Shadow (S/R)
  6. Chuck Johnson | Blood Moon Boulder (Scissor Tail Editions)
  7. Marissa Nadler | For My Crimes (Sacred Bones)
  8. Insolito Universo | La Candela del Rio (Olindo Records)
  9. Peel Dream Magazine | Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland)
  10. Whateverglades | Knock Knock (No Egrets)
  11. Blood Orange | Negro Swan (Domino)
  12. Jon Spencer | Spencer Sings The Hits (In The Red)
  13. Kikagaku Moyo | Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
  14. Fenne Lily | On Hold (S/R)
  15. Various Artists | Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip (RidingEasy)
  16. Dire Wolves | Paradisiacal Mind (Feeding Tube)
  17. Mountain Man | Magic Ship (Nonesuch)
  18. Jr. Thomas & The Volcanos | Rockstone (Colemine Records)
  19. Julia Holter | Aviary (Domino)
  20. Various Artists | Switched-On Eugene (Numero Group)
  21. Bicicletas Por La Paz | Surfeando Un Cometa (S/R)
  22. Masta Ace & Marco Polo | A Breukelen Story (Fat Beats)
  23. Coil | Time Machines (Dais)
  24. LTF | Jazz Echo (Content (L)abel)
  25. Kill Emil | Ghost Diary (Postpartum)
  26. Exit Group | Adverse Habitat (Castle Face)
  27. Beak> | >>> (Invada)
  28. Feeling Kreyol | Las Pale (Strut)
  29. Various Artists | Brainfeeder X (Brainfeeder)
  30. Paupiere | A Jamais Prive De Responses (Lisbon Lux)
  31. Carbonas | Your Moral Superior (Goner Records)
  32. BEAST | Ens (Thrill Jockey Records)
  33. Jessica Moss | Entanglement (Constellation)
  34. Rose Droll | Your Dog (Father/Daughter)
  35. Emma Ruth Rundle | On Dark Horses (Sargent House)
  36. Jonathan Richman | SA (Blue Arrow)
  37. Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Look Now (Concord)
  38. All Them Witches | ATW (New West)
  39. Redd Kross | Teen Babes from Monsanto (Merge)
  40. Marcus Strickland Twi-Life | People of the Sun (Blue Note)
  41. Low | Double Negative (Sub Pop)
  42. Aver | Dressed for CCTV (Village Live)
  43. Imiuswi Aborigine | Lost Angels Found (Beady Beats)
  44. Tim Hecker | Konoyo (Kranky)
  45. Swearin' | Fall Into The Sun (Merge)
  46. Various Artists | Something Shocking From The Stocking (JoZee)
  47. Lala Lala | The Lamb (Hardly Art)
  48. Madeline Kenney | Perfect Shapes (Carpark)
  49. Munya | Delmano (Luminelle)
  50. Superhuman Happiness | Beacon (Yeggs)
  51. Bad Sports | Constant Stimulation (Dirtnap)
  52. Papercuts | Parallel Universe Blues (Slumberland)
  53. Crooked Jades | Empathy Moves the Water (Jade Note Music)
  54. Banzai Cliff | Hypothetical Love (Tank Beach)
  55. Les Halles | Zephyr (Not Not Fun)
  56. Night Birds | Roll Credits (Fat Wreck Chords)
  57. Rosanne Cash | She Remembers Everything (Blue Note)
  58. Open Mike Eagle | What Happens When I Try To Relax (Auto Reverse)
  59. Anna Calvi | Hunter (AAA)
  60. Young Jesus | The Whole Thing Is Just There (Saddle Creek)
  61. Swamp Dogg | Love, Loss, and Auto-tune (Joyful Noise)
  62. Bjollukor Tonlistarskoli Reykjanesbaejar | Klukk - Sigur Ros In Bells (Krunk)
  63. Calvin Johnson | A Wonderful Beast (K)
  64. Underground System | What Are You (Soul Clap)
  65. Tirzah | Devotion (Domino)
  66. Part Time | Spell #6 (Burger)
  67. Smokers | Falling Backwards (Mouth Magazine)
  68. AddisAbabaBand | Alive (S/R)
  69. IDLES | Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Partisan)
  70. WildCat Rose | WildCat Rose (S/R)
  71. Death Valley Girls | Darkness Rains (Shine On)
  72. My Brightest Diamond | A MIllion And One (Rhyme & Reason)
  73. Jerusalem in My Heart | Daqa'iq Tudaiq (Constellation)
  74. Chris Butler | Got It Togehter! (Future Fossil)
  75. Mr Twin Sister | Salt (Twin Group)
  76. LakeCube | Beta Sclips (S/R)
  77. Miserable | Loverboy/Dog Days (Sargent House)
  78. Robohands | Green (Village Live)
  79. Charlie Parr | Dog (Red House)
  80. Gwenifer Raymond | You Never Were Much of a Dancer (Tompkins Square)
  81. Brutalists | Brutalists (Cleopatra)
  82. Lumerians | Call of the Void (Fuzz Club)
  83. Molly Burch | First Flower (Captured Tracks)
  84. Tropa Magica | Tropa Magica (Tropi)
  85. Bodega | Endless Scroll (What's Your Rupture?)
  86. Tapes and Topographies | Insomnia Drones (Simulacra)
  87. Roy Montgomery | Suffuse (Grapefruit)
  88. Afro-Cuban All Stars | A Toda Cuba Le Gusta (World Circuit)
  89. Goon Sax | We're Not Talking (Wichita)
  90. Miya Folick | Premonitions (Terrible)
  91. Mitski | Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
  92. Motrik | Safety Copy (Jealous Butcher)
  93. Joe Magnarelli Quintet | If You Could See Me Now (Cellar Live)
  94. Debutantes | The Debutantes (Beat Rocket)
  95. Jerry Paper | Like a Baby (Stones Throw)
  96. Cobra Man | Toxic Planet (Goner)
  97. Chris Pepe | Remote Viewer (Tinkerbox Music)
  98. Connan Mockasin | Jassbusters (Mexican Summer)
  99. Dirty Nil | Master Volume (Dine Alone)
  100. Cat Power | Wanderer (Domino)