Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2018
by Admin
published: 4 / 2 / 2019
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Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of the year.
CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. John Coltrane/Both Directions At Once- The Lost Album 2. Courtney Barnett/Tell Me How You Really Feel 3. Magpie Salute/High Water I 4. Cowboy Junkies/All That Reckoning 5. Kurt Vile/Bottle It In 6. Parquet Courts/Wide Awake! 7. Beach House/7 Gig of the Year: Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra, Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, 18/8/2018 KIMBERLY BRIGHT 1. Simon Love/Sincerely, S. Love x 2. Sharks/Ready Set Go 3. Burning Ferns/Public Mono 4. Brothers Osborne/Port Saint Joe 5. Greta Van Fleet/Anthem of the Peaceful Army 6. Paul McCartney/Egypt Station 7. SLUG/HiggledyPiggledy 8. Confidence Man/Confident Music for Confident People 9. Toby Hay/The Longest Day 10.Eliza Shaddad/Future Gig of the Year: Whitesnake with Foreigner and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening, Clarkston, Michigan, 15/7/2018 MALCOLM CARTER 1. Michelle Lewis/All That’s Left 2. Israel Nash/Lifted 3. Louise Aubrie When I Don’t Love You I’ll Let You Know 4. Zoe Wren/Gold & Smoke 5. Olivia Chaney/Shelter 6. Tony Molina/Kill the Lights 7. Dodson & Fogg/Awake 8. Kurt Vile/Bottle It In 9. Nova Amor/Birthplace 10.Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids/An Angel Fell JOHN CLARKSON 1. Tomorrow We Sail/The Shadows 2. Willard Grant Conspiracy/Untethered 3. Curse of Lono/As I Fell 4. Drew Morrison and the Darkwood/Electric Notes Wild 5. Bromide/I Woke Up 6. Vinny Peculiar/Return of the Native 7. Eastern Swell/Hand Rolled Halo 8. James/Living in Extraordinary Times 9. Hipsway/Smoke and Deams 10.Volunteered/We Don't Listen EP Gig of the Year: Pennyblackmusic 20th Anniversary Gig with the Bitter Springs, Idiot Son, Oldfield Youth Club and Raf and O (in memory of Robert Fisher, Mary O'Meara and Anthony Strutt) ADAM COXON (In no particular order) 1. Rita Coolidge/Safe in the Arms of Time 2. Rick Ford/Across the Border/Trouble 3. Peabo Bryson/Stand for Love 4. Russell Thompkins Jr/Between Love Songs 5. David Crosby/Here If You Listen Gig of the Year: David Crosby, Palace Theatre, Manchester, 16/3/2018 DASTARDLY 1. Ghost Music/I Was Hoping You'd Pass By Here Gig of the Year: Kristin Hersh, Rough Trade East, London, 25/10/2018 DIXIE ERNILL 1. Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans/Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans 2. Goon Sax/We're Not Talking 3. Bradford/30 Years of Shouting Quietly 4. Total Rejection/Wrapping Yourself In Silver Foil Won't Save You From The Blast 5. Laish/Time Elastic 6. Tracyanne & Danny/Tracyanne & Danny 7. City Calm Down/Echoes in Blue 8. Rolling Blackouts C F/Hope Downs 9. Perfect English Weather/Don't You Wanna Feel The Rain? 10.Interpol/Marauder Gig of the Year: Pete Fij and Terry Bickers, Trades Club, Hebden Bridge 31/1/2018 DAVE GOODWIN 1. Slow Readers Club/Build a Tower 2. James/Living in Extraordinary Times 3. Decemberists/I'll Be Your Girl 4. Death and the Maiden/Wisteria 5. Suede/The Blue Hour 6. Editors/Violence 7. Shame/Songs of Praise 8. Luxury Stranger/Darkness Falls Upon the Light 9. Lois/Guns of the Governor 10.Eminem/Kamikaze Gig of the Year: Decemberists, Rock City, Nottingham, 11/11/2018 MARIE HAZELWOOD 1. Arctic Monkeys/Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino Gig of the Year: Arctic Monkeys, Arena, Manchester, 7/9/2018 KEITH HOW 1. Rowan: Morrison/In the Sunshine We Rode the Horses 2. Hilde Marie Holsen/Lazuli 3. Olafur Arnalds/Re Member 4. Tenderlonius/The Shakedown 5. Echo Collective/Amnesiac 6. Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay/Hawksworth Grove Sessions 7. Dollboy/Rites and Rituals 8. Splashgirl/Sixth Sense 9. Tim Garland/Weatherwalker 10.Emma Tricca/St.Peter BEN HOWARTH 1. David Ford/Animal Spirits 2. Jack Hayter/Abbey Wood 3. Let’s Eat Grandma/I’m All Ears 4. Sweet Billy Pilgrim/Wapentak 5. Joy Formidable/Aaarth 6. Marmozets/Knowing What You Know Now 7. Eric Bachman/No Recover 8. Manic Street Preachers/Resistance is Futile 9. Jackie Oates/The Joy of Living 10.Wave Pictures/Look Inside Your Heart Gig of the Year: Frightened Rabbit, The Forum, London, 16/3/2018 (in memory of Scott Hutchison) ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Fucked Up/Dose Your Dreams 2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Wrong Creatures 3. Conan/Existential Void Guardian 4. Dopethrone/Transcanadian Anger 5. Sleep/The Sciences 6. Lucero/Among The Ghosts 7. Idles/Joy as an Act of Resistance 8. From the Bogs of the Aughiska/Mineral Bearing Vein 9. Thou/Rhea Sylvia 10.Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs/King of Cowards Gig of the Year: Bossk, The Cluny, Newcastle, 13/10/2018 ADRIAN JANES (In no particular order) 1. Stuart Anthony and Larry Beckett/Love & Trial 2. Moon Relay/IMI 3. Tekstu TV-666/Aidattu Tulevaisuus 4. Buffalo Tom – Quiet and Peace 5. Miniatures/Jessamines 6. Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker Reissue STEVE KINRADE 1 Robb Johnson/Ordinary Giants 2. Nick Ellis/Speakers Corner 3. Winter Wilson/Far Off On The Horizon Gig of the Year: Emilio Pinchi, 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool, 13/11/2018 RICHARD LEWIS 1. Wye Oak/The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs 2. Pinkshinyultrablast/Miserable Miracles 3. Echo Ladies/Pink Noise 4. Juniore/Magnifique 5. Mark Peters/Innerland 6. Basement Revolver/Heavy Eyes 7. Spiritualized/And Nothing Hurt 8. Lucid Dream/Actualisation 9. Death Valley Girls/Darkness Rains 10.James/Living in Extraordinary Times Gig of the Year: Roger Waters, Echo Arena, Liverpool, 2/7/2018 MARK ROWLAND 1. Courtney Barnett/Tell Me How You Really Feel 2. Noname/Room 25 3. Zeal and Ardor/Stranger Fruit 4. Young Scum/Young Scum 5. Johann Johannsson/Mandy OST MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. No Age/Snares Like a Haircut 2. Laurence Pike/Distant Early Warning 3. Orchestre Les Mangelepa/Last Band Standing 4. Bad Pelicans/Best Of 5. Bégayer /Terrain à mire . Une maison rétive . Contrainte par le toit 6. Half Man Half Biscuit/No-one Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your F*8kin' Hedge Cut 7. Julia Kent & Jean D.L./The Great Lake Swallows 8. Kammerflimmer Kollektief/There are Actions Which We Have Neglected and Which Never Cease to Call Us 9. Wild Hares/Dose 10. Slift/La Planète Inexplorée LISA TOREM (In no particular order) 1. Rita Coolidge/Safe in the Arms of Time 2. Ashley Reaks/The Earth Swan Sings Again 3. Struts/Young and Dangerous 4. Mud Morganfield/They Call Me Mud 5. Paul McCartney/Egypt Station Gig of the Year: Struts, House of Blues, Chicago, 24/11/2018 ANDREW TWAMBLEY Gig of the Year: Gary Numan, Blue Dot Festival, Cheshire, 18/7/2018 PAUL WALLER 1. Courtney Barnett/Tell Me How You Really Feel 2. Marmozets/Knowing What You Know Now 3. Interrupters/Fight the Good Fight 4. Sophie/Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides 5. Gost/Possessor 6. Wrong/Feel Great 7. Hardcore Anal Hydrogen/Hypercut 8. Witchsorrow/Hexenhammer 9. Anaal Nathrakh/A New Kind Of Horror 10.MGMT/Little Dark Age CILA WARNCKE 1. Brandi Carlile/By the Way, I Forgive You 2. Courtney Marie Andrews/May Your Kindness Remain 3. Johnny Marr/Call the Comet 4. The War & Treaty/Healing Tide 5. Jenny Wilson/Exorcisms 6. Gold Star/Uppers & Downers 7. Lost Brothers/Halfway Towards a Healing DENZIL WATSON 1. Patrick Duff/Leaving My Father’s House 2. Cabbage /Nihilistic Glamour 3. Arctic Monkeys/Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino 4. Insecure Men/Insecure Men 5. Hugh Cornwell/Monster 6. Warmduscher/Whale City 7. Echo & The Bunnymen/The Stars, the Ocean and the Moon 8. Damian O’Neill and the Monotones/Refit Revise Reprise 9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Wrong Animals 10.Luke Haines/I Sometimes Dream of Glue
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