Year-End Lists

Sasha Frere-Jones: Music I Enjoyed in 2018, organized chronologically

[see also 2022 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Sekundenschlaf
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• Ymfees
  Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs
• The Urmuz Epigrams
  John Zorn
• Make Me Know You Sweet
  Pendant
• D'agala
  Sylvie Courvoisier Trio
• Snares Like a Haircut
  No Age
• Lenz
  Blood Room & TANS
• Ghost Box
  Suss
• White On White
  Primitive World
• Álbum Desconhecido
  P. Adrix
• I Did Right
  Jjakub
• Fallen
  Taylor Deupree
• Semnal
  Cosmin Nicolae
• Unieqav
  Alva Noto
• Breakers Yard
  Blood Room
• At the Still Point of the Turning World
  Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes
• Isolation
  Kali Uchis
• Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
  Sarah Davachi
• The Sciences
  Sleep
• Parallel
  Warmth
• Dialoghi Nel Vuoto
  Maurizio Abate & Riccardo Sinigaglia
• NTS Sessions 1-4
  Autechre
• Anticlines
  Lucrecia Dalt
• Sway
  Tove Styrke
• Failed Celestial Creatures
  David Grubbs & Taku Unami
• Exit Future Heart
  Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa + Good Willsmith
• Struggle Artist
  Meyers
• Daytona
  Pusha T
• The Hole in the Landscape
  Tsembla
• Lageos
  Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra
• Young Ox Restraint
  Gdfx
• Magic & Machines
  Vanishing Twin
• The Originals.
  Tobe Nwigwe
• Age Of
  Oneohtrix Point Never
• Shape Memory
  Marcus Fischer / Simon Scott
• Face Time
  Oren Ambarchi / Kassel Jaeger / James Rushford
• June Spill
  Kevin Drumm
• Sleep Like It's Winter
  Jim O’Rourke
• Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One)
  Jon Hassell
• Ophold
  Rasmus Juncker
• Theirs
  Thumbscrew
• Topdown Dialectic
  Topdown Dialectic
• Intra
  Mark Fell
• Shunter
  Driftmachine
• Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations
  Kukuruz Quartet
• Cloud Corner
  Marisa Anderson
• Redemption
  Jay Rock
• Zebra
  Arp
• Blinks
  Toxe
• Volume 1
  Bogie Kaufman Mann
• Blue Dream
  The Jamie Saft Quartet
• Divine Weight
  Alex Zhang Hungtai
• A Heart From Your Shadow
  Michael Beharie & Teddy Rankin-Parker
• Desire Loop
  Lori Scacco
• Raw Silk Uncut Wood
  Laurel Halo
• Ensley
  Pink Siifu
• The Maid With the Flaxen Hair: A Tribute to Johnny Smith
  Mary Halvorson + Bill Frisell
• Culture II
  Migos
• Fragments II — Collected Refrains From Lost Thoughts
  Kassel Jaeger
• Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk
  Miles Okazaki
• Träden
  Träden & Träd Gräs och Stenar
• A Noise, A Sound
  Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta
• New Hymn to Freedom
  Szun Waves
• Plegnic
  Jay Glass Dubs
• Influence of Buildings on Musical Tone
  Thrainn Hjalmarsson
• Foras
  Siavash Amini
• STENOGRAMME, zweite Folge
  Asmus Tietchens
• Selected Early Keyboard Works
  Catherine Christer Hennix
• Collapse
  Aphex Twin
• Apologia
  Niagara
• No Sympathy
  Basic House & Wanda Group
• Piano & a Microphone 1983
  Prince
• FRKWYS Vol. 14 - Nue
  Tashi Wada & Yoshi Wada & Friends
• Care
  Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner
• Tha Carter V
  Lil Wayne
• Wanderer
  Cat Power
• Fadechase Marathon
  Babe, Terror
• Multum in Parvo
  Todd Barton
• Stadium
  Eli Keszler
• Scale
  various artists
• A Parallel Array of Horses
  Geneva Skeen
• Universal Beings
  Makaya McCraven
• Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall
  Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi
• Passion
  Demdike Stare
• Brace Up!
  Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt
• Born Under a Bad One
  Lol K
• Paris to Calcutta: Men And Music on the Desert Road
  Deben Bhattacharya
• To Catch a Ghost: Field Recordings from Madagascar
  various artists
• Hence
  Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke, and U-zhaan
• Atlas Electric
  Moulay Ahmed El Hassani
• El Mal Querer
  Rosalía
• Ultraviolet
  Kelly Moran
• Ke I Te Ki
  Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda
• FM!
  Vince Staples
• Œuvres électroniques
  Eliane Radigue
• My East Is Your West
  Sarathy Korwar
• Cocoon Crush
  Objekt
• From the Dirt
  Waajeed
• The Dream My Bones Dream
  Eiko Ishibashi
• The Pyre: versions distilled to stereo
  KTL
• The Last Days Of Reality
  Lionel Marchetti + Cat Hope (Performed by Decibel)
• Aghori
  abu AMA
• Some Rap Songs
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Stokeley
  Ski Mask the Slump God
• Among The Never Setting Stars
  Matthew Shaw