2018 was a really great year for music.\u00a0 I had a hard time sorting out the order for a lot of these, but mostly I suspect people read these kinds of lists just to see how many albums they know show up, so maybe the order doesn’t actually matter.\u00a0 Like most years I’m going to list my favourite 15 albums from the past year in ascending order.\u00a0 I’ll include a link to one song I think you should check out if you’re not familiar with the band.\u00a0 There’s a lot less metal this year than in most other recent years.\u00a0 I don’t know if that’s because I missed out on a bunch of great metal albums or if there just wasn’t as much good heavy music this year, but whatever the reason this list tends more towards the indie rock end of my tastes.\u00a0 But all the albums here are really good, or I wouldn’t suggest they’re worth your time.<\/p>\n
All of these records are available on Bandcamp, both to purchase and to listen to in full even if you haven’t purchased them.\u00a0 Bandcamp is much better for artists than other platforms (they only take a 10% cut of sales, whereas services like Spotify pay artists virtually nothing) and I think it’s better for listeners too, because you can usually listen to entire albums for free before deciding if you want to pay for them.\u00a0 So I’m linking to Bandcamp for all of these albums, which means you can usually click through and listen to more music by that artists if your interest is piqued.<\/p>\n
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15. Grid of Points<\/em> by Grouper<\/p>\n