2018: DJ Top Tens

Yob “Our Raw Heart” Relapse
Sleep “The Sciences” Third Man
Marissa Nadler “For My Crimes” Sacred Bones
Bob Dylan “more blood, more tracks” Legacy
Charles Bradley “Black Velvet” Daptone
Parquet Courts “Wide Awake!” Rough Trade
High on Fire “Electric Messiah” eOne
Various Artists “Technicolor Paradise:Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights” Numero Group
Neil Young “Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live” Reprise
Marisa Anderson “Cloud Corner” Thrill Jockey

Krimewatch – Krimewatch
Fucked and Bound – Suffrage
Soul Power – The Low End Fury
Riña – Aquí no eres nadie
Red Arkade – We Don’t Sing Too Pretty EP
Minority Threat – Minority Threat
Material Support – Terror Prone Nation
Fireburn – Shine b/w Controller
Alice Bag – Blueprint
P.M.S. – EP

Angelique Kidjo – Once In A Lifetime, Remain In Light
Bombino – Imajghane, Deran
Brownout – Shut Em Down, Fear Of A Brown Planet
Chancha Via Circuito – Ilaló (feat. Mateo Kingman), Bienaventuranza
Femi Kuti – One People One World, One People One World
Imarhan – Azzaman, Temet
Jupiter & Okwess – Musonsu, Kin Sonic
El Mundo Khruangbin – Como Me Quieres, Con Todo
Orquesta Akokán – Mambo Rapidito, Orquesta Akokán’
Thievery Corporation – Voyage Libre (feat. LouLou Ghelichkhani), ‘Treasures From the Temple’ (ESL Music)

All Them Witches – ATW
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures
Clutch – Book of Bad Decisions
Earthless – Black Heaven
Forming The Void – Rift
Greenleaf – Hear The Rivers
King Buffalo – Longing to be the Mountain/Repeater
Nothing – Dance on the Blacktop
Sleep – The Sciences
Windhand – Eternal Reward

Third Realm – Dystopian Society
VNV Nation – Noire
In Strict Confidence – Hate2Love
C-Lekktor – Animals
Psy’ Aviah – Looking for the Sun EP (Honestly I couldn’t get enough of this EP)
Caustic – American Carrion
Solar Fake – You Win. Who Cares?
M.I.N.E – Unexpected Truth Within
De/Vision – Citybeats EP
Funker Vogt – Wastelands

Adrian Younge – Adrian Younge: Presents Voices of Gamma
Charles Bradley – Black Velvet
Ural Thomas and The Pain – The Right Time
Ben Pirani – How Do I Talk To My Brother?
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
Aphex Twin – Collapse EP
Kelly Moran – Ultra Violet
Lala Lala – The Lamb
Medium – Flumen
Orgone – Undercover Mixtape

Kudzu-Defeated
Lithics-Mating Surfaces
Exit Group-Adverse Habitat
The Vivids-999&13
Preoccupations-New Material
Miracle-The Strife of Love in a Dream
Sashcloth&Axes-M.A.R.K.-13
The Soft Moon-Criminal
Qual-The Ultimate Climax
Hide-Castration Anxiety

Kendrick Lamar – DAMN
Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick
Dungen – Haxan
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Tell the Devil I’m Getting There as fast as I can
Mt. Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
Kikagaku Moyo -Stone Garden
St. Vincent – Masseduction
Luna – A Sentimental Education
Slowdive – Slowdive

Anna & Elizabeth – The Invisible Comes o Us
Kaia Kater – Grenades
Dom Flemons – Black Cowboys
Los Texmaniacs – Cruzando Borders
Hermanos Herrera – Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más
Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz
Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles – Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles
Rahim Alhaj – One Sky
Various – Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey
Barbara Dane – Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs

Irv Teibel – Environments (Numero Group/Syntonics Research) RE
Little Mazarn – Little Mazarn (Self Sabotage)
Katamari Damacy Original Video Game Soundtrack (Mondo)
Nite Jewel – On Your Own/The Joke’s On You EP (Gloriette)
Treepeople – No Mouth Pipetting (Treepeople) RE
Juliana Hatfield – Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John (American Laundromat)
Music From The Motion Picture “Popeye”—The Harry Nilsson Demos (Varese Sarabande)
Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
Eurythmics – 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother) (RCA) RE
The Sundays – Reading, Writing And Arithmetic (Geffen/Universal) RE

Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing
Loretta Lynn – Wouldn’t It Be Great
JD McPherson – Socks
Pinto Bennett – The Last Saturday Night
Bob Dylan – More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14
Holly Golightly – Do the Get Along
Charles Bradley – Black Velvet
Buck Owens – Country Singer’s Prayer
Doc Watson – Live at Club 47
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Sing Me Back Home: The DC tapes 1965-1969

Great Lake Swimmers – The Waves, the Wake
Juliana Hatfield – Juliana Hatfield sings Olivia Newton John
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Distant Sky
Alice Bag – Blueprint
Yo La Tengo – There’s a Riot Going On
The Breeders – All Nerve
Thom Yorke – Suspiria
Cat Power- Wanderer
Lana Del Rey- Mariner’s Apartment Complex

King Black Acid – I’m In Love With A Girl b/w Superstar (Cavity Search / Mazinga)
Miracle – The Strife Of Love In A Dream (Relapse)
Night Club – Scary World (Gato Blanco)
Electric Citizen – Helltown (RidingEasy)
Author & Punisher – Beastland (Relapse)
Stonerpop – Physical Business (self-released)
Jollymon – Void Walker (self-released)
Arabrot – Who Do You Love (Pelagic)
Slasher Dave – Frights (20 Buck Spin)
Manes – Slow Motion Death Sequence (Debetur Morti)

Anat Cohen & Fred Hersch – Live In Healdsburg
Kobie Watkins Grouptet – Movement
Mike Clark & Delbert Bump – Retro Report
Christian Sands – Facing Dragons
McClenty Hunter Jr. – The Groove Hunter
Kandace Springs – Indigo
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Glitter Wolf
Kenny Barron Quintet – Concentric Circles
Amanda Gardier – Empathy
Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: the Bootleg Series Vol. 6

Earth Girl Helen Brown Four Satellites, Volume 1
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
Mona Haydar – Barbarican
Field Medic – Little Place
Waxahatchee – Little Thunder
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Michelle Gurevich – Exciting Times
Jeff Tweedy – Warm
Iggy Pop, Underworld – Teatime Dub Encounters
US Girls – In a Poem Unlimited

The Breeders – All Nerve (4AD)
Vowws – Under the World (Anti-Language Records)
Surfbort – Friendship Music (Cult/Fat Possum)
Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains (Suicide Squeeze)
Joe Evett – Happy Joe Lucky: An Audio Romance 1989-2001 (Screamin’ Fez)
Ural Thomas & the Pain – The Right Time (Tender Loving Empire)
Lithics – Mating Surfaces (Kill Rock Stars)
HIDE – Castration Anxiety (Dais Records)
Pill – Soft Hell (Mexican Summer)
Spiny Normen (Ridingeasy Records)

Rostam – In A River
Born Ruffians – Side Tracked
Khruangbin – Maria Tambien (album of the year!)
Maribou State – Slow Heat
Lord Huron – When the Night is Over
The Knocks – Ride or Die
Generationals-It May Get Bad When You’re Lonely and Cold
White Denim – Performance
Kurt Vile – Loading Zones
Yuno- No Going Back

The Decemberists – Severed (Capitol Records LLC)
Pale Honey – Replace Me (Instant Records Inc)
Hotel – Perfecto (Highland Park)
The Vines – In Miracle Land (Wicked Nature Music)
Hinds – The Club (Mom+Pop)
The Wombats – Lemon to a Knife Fight (The Wombats)
Varsity – Isolation (Babe City Records)
Acid Dad – 2Ci (Greenway Records)
Suuns – Baseline (Secretly Canadian)
Dungen, Woods – Turn Around (Mexican Summer)

Caroline Rose– Loner
The Beths–Future Me Hates Me
We Were Promised Jetpacks–The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
Courtney Barnett–Tell me How You Really Feel
Hippo Campu–Bambi
Let’s Eat Grandma–I’m All Ears
Jenn Champion–Single Rider
Hop Along–Bark Your Head Off Dog
Rubblebucket–Sun Machine
Wye Oak–The Louder I Call the Faster it Runs

Cumulus – Comfort World (Trans Records)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Tearing At The Seams (Stax)
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Close But No Cigar (Colemine Records)
The Love Bunch – From The Gutter To The Grave (The Love Bunch)
Caroline Rose – Loner (New West Records)
Thunderpussy – Thunderpussy (Stardog Records)
King Tuff – The Other (SubPop)
The James Hunter Six – Whatever It Takes (Daptone Records)
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Young Sick Camellia (RECORDS LLC)
Leon Bridges – Good Thing (Columbia)

Buddy Guy – The Blues is Alive and Well
Whitney Shay – A Woman Rules The World
Casey Hensley – Live featuring Laura Chavez
The Original Blues Brothers Band – The Last Shade Of Blue Before Black
Mississippi Marshall – Jesus Tone
Vanessa Collier – Honey Up
Too Slim & The Taildraggers – High Desert Heat
Shemekia Copeland – America’s Child
Southern Avenue – Southern Avenue
Elvin Bishop Trio – Something Smells Funky ‘Round Here

Alma Cook – Hearsay [single] (Hear Alma)
Epic Beard Men – Season 1 (Strange Famous Records)
Flex Mathews & Damu The Fudgemunk – Dreams & Vibrations (ReDefinition Records)
Henry Canyons – Cool Side of the Pillow (Backwoodz Studioz)
Ivy Sole – Overgrown (Ivy Sole self released)
Lyrics Born – Quite a Life (Mobile Home)
Open Mike Eagle – What Happens When I Try to Relax (Auto Reverse Records)
Phonte – No News Is Good News (Foreign Exchange Music)
SUM – S U M (SUM Music)
The Off Daze – Couple’s Skate (The Off Daze self released)

The Interrupters – Fight the Good Fight (Hellcat)
Cat Power – Wanderer (Matador Records)
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom + Pop Records)
Screaming Females – All at Once (Don Giovanni Records)
Camp Cope – How to Socialise & Make Friends (Run For Cover Records, LLC)
Mirah – Understanding (K Records)
First Aid Kit – Ruins (Columbia)
Anna Burch – Quit the Curse (Polyvinyl Record Co)
Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Saddle Creek)
La Luz – Floating Features (Hardly Art)

Traden – Traden
Dire Wolves – Paradisiacal Mind
Cheer-Accident – Fade
Grand Veymont – Route du Vertige
Nest Egg – Nothingness is Not a Curse
48 Chairs – 70% Paranoid
Nightcrawlers – The Biophonic Boombox Recordings
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes – Ame Debout, Paiz, No 2
Sandra Bell – Net
The Goon Sax – We’re Not Talking

DeJ Loaf, Leon Bridges – Liberated, Single
Vacationer – Being Here, Mindset
DeLux – Cause for Concern, More Disco Songs About Love
Chaka Khan – Like Sugar, Single
SG Lewis – Aura (feat. J Warner), Single
Disclosure – Ultimatum (feat. Fatoumata Diawara) [Edit], Single
DJ Koze – Pick Up, Knock Knock
79.5 – Terrorize My Heart (Disco Dub), Single
Matthew Dear – Modafinil Blues, Bunny
Cut Chemist – You Want It, I Got It, Die Cut