Their extended odes boast very sick solos and repetitious bass that burrows deep into your skull. They go big, as on the frenzied, endlessly ascending jam “One of One,” and deep, with an elongated meditation on the Brill Building gem “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” The dizzying trip navigates hybrid terrain that includes shimmering exotica and slinky G-funk grooves, moving from the bodily pleasures of soul jazz and funk to the spiritual and cerebral ecstasies of gospel and psychedelia. Gangin plays like a cartoon fight cloud set to music: At any given moment, you can snap your fingers or a neck. Pitchfork 50 Best Albums of 2018. Is there any good punk in there? The album is bookended by death: Its specter ripples through both the opening and closing songs, though the softness of Lenker’s voice belies the starkness and even severity of her imagery—an earthy menagerie shot through with wild animals, forests, and other kaleidoscopic fragments of the sublime. –Jason King. All rights reserved. Now the future of the group is uncertain, but perhaps that, too, is par for the course. Poised between escapism and self-examination, the album welcomes the dispossessed and extends tender, melancholy encouragement to take up space in the world. –Andy Beta, Pity the jazz artist whose work garners major acclaim across genre lines—usually, whether they asked for it or not, a responsibility for the entire art form will be hefted onto his or her shoulders. Beach House have characterized the vibe of 7, the band’s seventh record, as “pre-apocalyptic,” which also feels like a fitting way to describe the various devastations and dark omens of 2018. Like all great producers, he knows that a song’s impact is only as great as its dynamic arc. –Amanda Petrusich. Elsewhere, the record renders SOPHIE’s world in bold pops of color and mercurial transitions, from the serrated, post-club squeals of the dom-sub fantasy “Ponyboy” and the beauty complex-defying “Faceshopping” to the stirring, stripped-back atmospherics of “Is It Cold in the Water?” SOPHIE’s willful deconstruction of self and form, tearing away at expectations and norms with cacophony and ambience alike, makes OIL a startling, moving experience. The Best Metal Albums of 2018. MihTy frees the two unshowy showmen to indulge in the tropes of ’90s R&B, a style there isn’t much room for on the charts these days. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Condé Nast. The heavy-hitters of pop and hip-hop returned, but many disappointed; in fact, sometimes, they were just confounding (cough Kanye cough). It is a triumph of quiet introspection and musical restraint, a spellbinding record that works its magic by sleight of hand. On her third album, Ephorize, her prickles have sharpened and her introspection has gotten more vivid: It’s like watching a flowering cactus grow tall and bloom. Entropy is enabling until it isn’t. Aside from a new drummer (and Pike’s hair), not much has changed for the band. Jon Hopkins is a master sound manipulator: a bass technician, a texture craftsman, and a pastoral abstractionist. –Stuart Berman. Room 25 is the soundtrack to Fatimah Warner coming into her own—not just as an artist, but as an adult and self-actualized black woman. Wanderer’s warm-hearted sound is all soft vocal strokes, muted guitar, and hushed piano. The beats are smooth but fleet, complementing and contrasting the group's harried delivery. But the restlessly creative and bountiful artist has also had a remarkable solo career—and Overload, her 17th album in 12 years, is her best one yet. A sea change was underway, the borders eroded—and music was better for it. The title track finds Maq breezing along on her bike with no hands on the handlebar, thriving, humming a mantra: “I can see myself living without you.” It’s one lifesaving sentiment on an album full of them. There are so many moments of catchy ecstasy on Sweetener, like the one-two punch of “everytime” followed by “breathin.” But beneath the soft edges and the streaming-friendly pop sheen, there’s also a deep sense of grace, growth, and self-expression. Here are the best albums of the year. It began as a blog that developed during Schreiber's teenage years working at a record store. 25. The Sciences, the band’s first album in more than a decade, dropped by surprise on the international marijuana holiday, April 20, and while that’s cute and all, it’s a good listen all year round. With its unvarnished loops and disarmingly blunt lyrics, Devotion dreams up a unique space somewhere between the lo-fi cello epiphanies of Arthur Russell and the digital pop futurism of Kelela. Shocking… Listen to selections from this list on our Spotify playlist and Apple Music playlist. Tirzah’s debut EP, 2013’s I’m Not Dancing, turns out to have been prophetically titled. –Alex Frank. At her most low-voiced and vulnerable on “Total,” CupcakKe starts examining mediocre relationships via their opportunity cost. The record often feels limitless and unbound; the members appear on songs in unpredictable order, sometimes alone, other times as a trio or duo. 1.4m members in the indieheads community. The understated textures on songs like “Nothing Really Matters” and the Rihanna cover “Stay” feel like a whisper in the ear or a nap under a tree, deliciously simple pleasures that linger. Thread starter kitchenmotors; Start date Dec 11 ... No complaints there. All albums awarded with Pitchfork: Best New Music to download and stream in high quality. On “Don’t Forget About Me,” she exposes her own hurt and insecurity while finding strength in vulnerability. More than ever, song felt like a testing field where newest, exciting artists were sharing the discussion with the veterans, if not taking it over outright. Pusha-T’s long-awaited third solo album also happens to be the most accomplished release of Kanye West’s high-concept 2018 albums series produced in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. CN Entertainment. After topping our list of 2018's best debut albums a few weeks ago, Noname's self-released studio debut Room 25 has repeated the honor on our list of all of 2018's albums, besting better known artists like Robyn, Kacey Musgraves, Janelle Monáe, and more. At least Earl and Low are in the top 10. behOemoth. What is it about the soaring quality of Grande’s voice that sounds so much like eyes-closed, fists-clenched freedom? 0:47 "It's outrageous. [1 That sense of range also transfers to her exploration of genre, as she expertly flips between boogaloo-inspired Latin trap, Southern hip-hop twerk anthems, tender R&B jams, and neck-snapping freestyles. OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES is a vivid artistic statement made by a musician finally prepared to step into the spotlight, a fact made manifest on opener “It’s Okay to Cry.” It finds SOPHIE singing her own lyrics for the first time, delicate yet unerringly passionate. –Matthew Schnipper, Adrianne Lenker’s abysskiss is a hushed but intense affair for acoustic guitar and voice. The best culture of 2018; Tell us: what was your album of 2018? The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Condé Nast. Across Daytona’s lean 21 minutes, Pusha’s elocution-deliberate, quasi-malevolent midtempo flow jumps out of the speakers, offering up snarling lyrics about street life and clapbacks to Lil Wayne, Birdman, Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and his nemesis, Drake. Your California Privacy Rights. She provided yin to Dudley Perkins’ yang, dropped Roberta Flack rose petals on Mos Def, crafted loopy old soul with Madlib, and teamed with fellow priestess Erykah Badu to bring the notion to “stay woke” to the world at large. Irisiri. And yet Ariana Grande fully ascended to Mount Olympus with Sweetener, an album filled with barnburners but also tremendous personality and even pathos. Playboi Carti has released his long-awaited new album Whole Lotta Red. Pitchfork's Best Jazz Albums of 2018. –Noah Yoo. SONG ALBUM TIME Story. Throw your vape in the trash, call your dealer, and crank it. –Stephen Kearse. 3:22 PREVIEW Peripheral. A list of Pitchfork's best music of 2018. Pitchfork é um website estadunidense que publica críticas, comentários e notícias sobre música e entrevistas a músicos.Foca-se na música independente, sobretudo música electrónica, pop, hip hop, indie rock, metal, r&b, folk, jazz, e música experimental, mas também cobre diversos outros gêneros e sub-gêneros musicais. If her 2016 mixtape Telefone was the introduction to Noname’s talent, Room 25 is the proof that she’s arrived. On Devotion, Tirzah’s debut full-length and latest team-up with Levi, she again pursues a sparse, sketch-like approach that is beautifully made, though not for the dancefloor. She relishes in piercing hypocrisies, often to establish her standards. If you like Punk you should at the very least be acquainted with Iceage. — SAM SMITH. “Post Pic” praises the timesaving joys of a sexting-only arrangement, with fun, gear-shifting swerves. Verses are packed toe-to-toe, the ideas firing too quickly to pause. Related Videos. But the duo’s forward-looking producers ensure this isn’t just an exercise in nostalgia. Words tumble, somersault, and stick landings in a style that owes its swagger to rap and its cadence to spoken-word poetry. The production straddles genre lines as well, with producer and multi-instrumentalist Phoelix providing sonic backdrops replete with live instrumentation that are part jazz, part neo-soul, and all grounded in hip-hop. All of Muldrow’s powers as singer, songwriter, and producer are on display here. In 2018, it felt hard to reach consensus on anything—including music. Ad Choices. See which albums are sitting at the top of this year's charts. Within the 35 minutes of her second record as Noname, she gives us the full range of who she has become: a confident rapper, a passionate lover, a survivor of heartbreak, and a reluctant public figure. Here are the 10 best albums of 2018 Read the full list → http://p4k.in/JKKAJz4 –Jazz Monroe, Chan Marshall pulled off one of the year’s great conjuring tricks on Wanderer, her first album in six years. The Best Experimental Albums of 2018 Pitchfork Preview Editors’ Notes Including records by Jenny Hval, Amnesia Scanner, Kelly Moran, and more. Maq’s biting delivery here carries throughout all of How to Socialise: She turns single syllables into triumphs. Kelsey Lu at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2018 (Kimberley Ross) Kelsey Lu and ... Find out where Heaven to a Tortured Mind landed on Pitchfork’s “The 50 Best Albums of 2020. Her songwriting is also at its most generous, attending to her own insecurities on “Self Interview” and giving a messy group-hug to queerdom on “Crayons.”, But it’s not all wholesome, thank God: There is sex aplenty on Ephorize, and CupcakKe has not receded from her role as a character annihilator. Rarely has music this well constructed sounded so utterly effortless, as if blown along by the wind rather than stitched together in the studio. What’s This Playlist All About? The 10 Best Albums of 2018 video In 2018, it felt hard to reach consensus on anything—including song. They continually introduce sly, contemporary twists on these classic sounds, especially lead architect Hitmaka, whose plush, pillowy inversions of trap provide the singers a backdrop every bit as sumptuous as their voices. –Jenn Pelly, As Juuling has taken over high schools around the country, it’s only appropriate that some lifelong stoners in their 40s would come back to remind us that the only acceptable way to inhale vapor is through a bong. Sleep started when its members were teenagers; back then, their now-legendary guitarist Matt Pike had white dreads that flopped around as his guitar solos ascended to heaven. Ad Choices. Luckily, the most recently anointed, California tenor saxophonist and bandleader Kamasi Washington, has an omnivorous creative ambition that continues to expand. How does a person keep on, knowing that the present path could very well end in ruin? Stacker compiled data on the top 100 albums from 2020, according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and performance on editorial and data-based charts, e.g., Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, and so on. –Evan Rytlewski, Listen: Ty Dolla $ign / Jeremih, “Ride It”. –Alison Fensterstock, Techno doesn’t get more sensual, tactile, or inviting than Compro. CN Entertainment. From Snail Mail to CupcakKe, Earl Sweatshirt to Jon Hopkins, these are the very best albums of the year It's so dramatic." The most exciting and important new albums being released today Mitski photo by Savanna Ruedy, Earl Sweatshirt photo by Steven Taylor, Snail Mail photo by Sisilia Piring, Playboi Carti photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images, Ariana Grande photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage, Robyn photo by Heji Shin, SOPHIE photo by Charlotte Wales, Matty Healy photo by Magdalena Wosinska, CupcakKe photo by J. Kempin/Getty Images, Rosalía photo by Berta Pfirsich. A sea change was underway, the borders eroded—and music… Everything Indie Music related; from the newest releases and news, to discussion … In 2018, it felt hard to reach consensus on anything—including music. Pitchfork. 1 Christine and the Queens – Chris. Wanderer is so low-key that it could easily pass you by, but this delicacy is also its charm. In lieu of ad-libs or layered vocals, there’s constant fluidity. It's not often that a debut album lands at #1 on our year-end chart—depending on how you define \"debut,\" it last happened in 2012 or 2007—but that is the case this year. I literally recognize just 2 names: Beach House and Arctic Monkeys. Including records by YOB, Deafheaven, Skeletonwitch, and more. 403 votes, 242 comments. This double album is a conceptual trip through outer and inner space, stacked with an ace ensemble cast of players. On “Blaxploitation,” she expresses a consciousness of her blackness and its meaning in the world without veering into performative wokeness; her personhood isn’t couched in bravado as much as it is steeped in self-awareness. As Skee Mask, Munich producer Bryan Müller uses his mix of analog and digital equipment to conjure a boggy landscape out of which all kinds of sumptuous notes emerge. We have time to treat each other well, Ephorize tells us, and still make it to all our dick appointments. Between a terrorist bombing and breakups, here is a woman who has had a trying and, at times, terrifying few years; she puts it all in her music. Pitchfork is an American online music publication launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber. Adjacent seats, matching hats, shared cul-de-sacs—any random moment of connection can be the beginning of a lifelong bond. –Michelle Kim, Graduating from the glossy, cyborg music crafted with her PC Music collaborators to a dynamic world of lurching machinery, heavily distorted pop, and uncanny beauty, SOPHIE came into her own on her auspicious debut album. Rap dominated the charts, and young guns like Troye Sivan, Billie Eilish, and Normani didn’t cross the “household name” threshold; many of the heavyweights, the Katys and Rihannas and Biebers, didn’t do much. In some ways, big-budget pop was stuck in purgatory in 2018. See which albums are sitting at the top of this year's charts. My tastes obviously don't align real well with these lists. The full complexity of her Cardi-ness is on display here. –Jayson Greene. If not, go listen to their first two albums now :p If Sweetener was not quite enough to lift all of pop in 2018, it was—for those of us who seek our own salvation within the genre—a much-needed sugar rush. Within each song—and the album as a whole—Hopkins paints enormous sonic cliffs and valleys worthy of the psychedelic California desert adventures that inspired the record. What was your favorite album this year? Confident and flexing, Daytona is Pusha-T’s most compelling solo album; who says hip-hop MCs can’t do their best work after age 40? Lists & Guides. It’s some of the most astonishing and alive electronic music of the year; it thrashes, it seethes, it wails, it breathes. She’s just as charismatic while flashing her vulnerable side on “Be Careful,” when she warns a cheating partner that he’s on his last strike, and spills out words of gratitude on the wholesome “Best Life” with Chance the Rapper. Tracks like “Emerald Rush” and “Everything Connected” are designed to translate in peak hours at the club and in meditative headphone sessions alike; songs like “Echo Dissolve” and “Recovery” display Hopkins’ penchant for raw piano, blending his performances with field recordings and digital noise. It’s not so much a question anymore whether you like Cardi or not: it’s which Cardi you like most. Eartheater. © 2018 Condé Nast. It was first based in suburban Minneapolis, then Chicago, later moved to Greenpoint, is currently in One World Trade Center, and is owned by Condé Nast.. A hundred years of the African-American pop vernacular are, too: Astral jazz wafts through pop confections, boom-bap turns into soul-quaking confessionals, and Muldrow daydreams Stevie Wonder doing a second-line strut. Fri 21 Dec 2018 06.02 EST. Sleep are still dedicated freaks and effortless doom metal masters who use their skill to write praise songs to the sweet leaf. Collaborating with her longtime friend Mica Levi—the visionary, Oscar-nominated film score composer and Micachu and the Shapes mastermind—the London singer-songwriter offered a rough-hewn take on dance-pop that the pair would sharpen on 2014’s No Romance EP. –Ben Cardew. Negro Swan is indulgent in the best way, like a loner showing you around their obsessively decorated bedroom: It has glimmers of angsty Prince, petty Marvin Gaye, desolate psychedelia, bluesy mysticism. The project cements her evolution from self-described “stripper hoe” to bonafide rap star, without losing any of the infectious personality that made her a cultural beacon in the first place. Get Hot Links. Blood Orange’s Negro Swan opens the door to a more appealing universe—somewhere without requirement to shrink yourself in order “to quote-unquote belong,” as the transgender writer/activist Janet Mock puts it in an interlude here. For years, Georgia Anne Muldrow was underground R&B’s greatest utility player. –Eric Torres, Pusha-T’s long-awaited third solo album also happens to be the most accomplished release of Kanye West’s high-concept 2018 albums series produced in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Turning away from club-ready UK grime and garage sounds, Devotion redirects Tirzah’s grainy vocals and Levi’s destabilizing production into an extraordinary set of pared-down and scuffed-up R&B reflections on adult love. While some heavy hitters in pop and hip-hop returned, there were many new comers. But with her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, she didn’t just meet expectations: She soared over them. On “The Opener,” the album’s first track and its rallying thesis, Maq sarcastically stitches together a selection of the belittling comments that music industry men have made to Camp Cope since they formed in 2015—undervaluing their abilities, equating their success with their gender. Tags New Releases Audio Playboi Carti. What other female country artist could possibly make the list? Your California Privacy Rights. After breaking out last year with “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B had a lot to live up to. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21). Victoria Legrand’s wispy-but-menacing vocals express some vague melancholy, but they’re filled with hope, too—nobody knows, after all, what might happen next, and in those dusky moments, anything is still possible. As producer, West serves up a seven-track array of finely diced ’n’ sliced, gritty soul samples, showcasing head-bopping, hooky production on opener “If You Know You Know” and chilling forlornness on “Santeria,” a track about Pusha’s murdered road manager. How to Socialise & Make Friends spins a bracing narrative of feminist solidarity and self-sufficiency in the face of toxic men, and it offers empathy in response to the havoc they wreak. Dev Hynes’ inquiry into black depression exhumes his trauma and insecurities, school bullying encounters, and early thoughts of death, delivering diary entries in a yearning tone sometimes reminiscent of Elliott Smith—too tired to shout, too exhausted to keep quiet. More than ever, music felt like a playing field where new, exciting artists were sharing the discussion with the veterans, if not taking it over outright. It proves to be an unsubtle advertisement for the music contained within, as the Brooklyn singer-songwriter emerges from the psych-folk sprawl of 2014’s Love with a newfound clarity and concision; where he once let his voice drone and decay into the haze, McMahon delivers Freedom’s meditations on survival and faith with a confession-booth candor. Flows are passed along and riffed. She teams up with fellow boss-bitch SZA on “I Do,” where she deploys brash one-liners about not needing a man for anything. It’s this understanding, combined with his earnest quest for spiritual catharsis, that informs every sternum-rattling drop and wistful synthesizer expanse on Singularity. ... Hi-Res Distinctions Pitchfork: Best New Music - Qobuzissime ... (2018), the iconic compilation album from Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label which united the big names on the contemporary scene. But even as his songs adopt the ebullient rhythms of ’80s Paul Simon and liberally quote Phil Collins hits, McMahon is still chasing transcendence through hypnotic, shape-shifting arrangements and wandering melodies that gradually become unglued from their established structures. All rights reserved. 11 December 2018 Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2018 [see also 2010s, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011] Mitski — Be the Cowboy; Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour; DJ Koze — Knock Knock; Robyn — Honey; Snail Mail — Lush; Rosalía — El Mal Querer; I only have three of those: Kamasi Washington, Jon Hopkins, and A.A.L (Against All Logic). The album’s standout, the magnificent “Duck Duck Goose,” is a playground of sloppy, bodily thrills. Lul G, Yhung T.O., DaBoii, and Slimmy B make ruffian rap that bruises and bounces in equal measure; their record is a marvel of perpetual motion and brotherhood. © 2018 Condé Nast. Pitchfork.tv is dedicated to documenting independent music as it happens. Check out Pitchfork’s “The 50 Best Albums of 2018,” featuring Die Lit at No. “We play religious music/Don’t think you’d understand, man,” he sings atop the ethereal funk of “Blue Rose,” but it proves to be less a word of warning than an invitation to get lost. Ephorize is busy and porny, but the deep current of the album asks us to be good to one another. The tastemaking site compiles its annual collection of bests, prefaced with this rather orotund description: “More than ever, music felt like a playing field where new, exciting artists were sharing the discussion with the veterans, if not taking it over outright. Parquet Courts continue to get straight robbed after putting out their best album yet. Aggressively layered synthesizers and guitars build a wall of sound that’s both forceful and enveloping. “no tears left to cry” is a classic, convincing diva ode to resilience, and a song like “pete davidson” chronicles her personal life so closely, it’s basically a chapter in her memoir. The album varies impressively within its distinct niche, finding room for crunching distortion, sad-robot vocal textures, and gritty drum shards. Devotion truly is like a prayer, a hushed offering from Tirzah’s private world. 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