Year-End Lists

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

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